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Office No. 61. Residence, No. 17. m WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1912 ^??????iiiiBiiaisiiBiiiiiiiiuuiiBia^ ? ? f LOCAL & PERSONAL f ? ? S 5 ?UnBBBBBBBaaBBBBBflSBflBBflBBBBBBBmSBB? Hon. J. C. Sheppard spent Bever 3l days in Asheville last week with his son, Mr. J. C. Sheppard, Jr. The next step toward city airs in Edgefield will be electric signs. Who will be the first to take this step? You can catch the eyes and ears of the people of the county by plac ing your advertisements in the col umns of The Advertiser. Mrs. J. C. Walker, accompanied by her little son, .Tack, is spending some time here with her eldest son, Mr. J. Bean Walker. I can hereafter be found at the office of Thurmond & Nicholson, having moved my office from the room over the Bank of Edgefield. O. B. Anderson. The Advertiser find.s no pleasure in making this sad announcement to the candidates, but "they say" the chicken crop in the county this year is below the average. The Advertiser contains new ad vertisements every week. The fact that this newspaper is read by near ly 8,000 persons every week causes its space to be sought by those who want to reach the people. Large assortment of trunks, bags, snit cases, etc, at reasonable prices. . Ramsey & Jones. Miss Burda Long of Walhalla spent last week in Edgefield as the guest of her cousin, Miss Lillian Smith. Miss Long is a graduate of the S. C.\ C. I. and made many friends while -she was a student. Fresh shipment of Ferry's garden seed just received at B. Timmons. Photographs made in newest styles. See specimens. Miss Eliza M. Mims. FOR SALE-The Oliver type writer. $5 down brings you the machine and ?5 per month or 17c per day. 0. P. Bright, Local Agent' Dr. M. D. Jeffries will fill his regular appointment at Horn's Creek next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The subject of Dr.M. D. Jeffries' sermon at the Baptist church, next Snnday morning will be ''Man's contract with God." Look around your office and* see if you do not need some printing of some kind. The Advertiser job office guarantees satisfaction on fcyery job it sends out. We have now in stock a line of cut glass and cbinaware suitable for wedding presents. We invite your inspection. W. E. Lynch & Co. Large shipment of cut glass, ster ling silver and jewelry by express. Sterling silver in sets or single pieces for weddings. Beautiful plush boxes for each piece. Ramsey & Jones. Mrs. W. A. Strom is in Atlanta visiting her brother, Mr. Charles JR. Dobson. Mahogany, walnut and oak bed room suits from 81S up to 8175. Ramsey & Jones. Mrs. Emma Dobson and Mrs. Ida Boatwright have just returned from Atlanta where they spent two weeks with Mr. Charles R. Dobson. Full stock of matting and mat ting art squares, all new and up-to date patterns. Full stock of rugs and art squares. Ramsey & Jones. Miss Maud Rives has returned home after spending some time in Greenville and Columbia. Her friends gladly welcome her back. Mrs. Maggie Hill left yesterday to visit friends in Greenwood. She will probably go to the mountains for a stay of several weeks before returning to Edgetield. Full supply of baseball goods at B. Timmons. Don't put off your orders fer Hand Painted China, for wedding presents. Wjhite and gold with .Monogram, a specialty. Miss Eliza M. Mims. Rub-My-Tism will cure you. Capt. E. S. Mi ms of Augusta spent last week in Edgefield wit relatives. Mr. J. W. Stewart is in Charle ton attending the annual conventio of the hardware dealers of Sout Carolina. Dr. R. A. Marsh, accompanie by Mrs. Marsh and their childrei is spending this week in Washing ton, D. C. The Byefield Rifles will go 1 Anniston, Ala., on July 25th fe their annual encampment of te days. Large shipment of ice tea glas es, jelly tumblers and fruit jar rul bers. Penn & Holstein. Mr. L. W. Cheatham and Re^ and Mrs. R. G. Sbannonhouse ai in Spartanburg attending the annu al meeting of the South Carolin Press Association. Come to us for paints of all kind for both inside and outside work. B. Timmons. The scarcity and high price o peas will probably curtail the avei age this year. It pays to sow pea even at a cost of $2.50 per bushel. Rub-Mj'-Tism will cure you. Our prices on wire screen door and windows is very reasonable See us before buying. Stewart cfc Kernaghan. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break am case of Chills & Fever; it acts or the liver better than Calomel, anc does not gripe or sicken. 25c. Mr. Julian R. Strother drove hi valuable brood-mare to town Satur day, and along with him came ai fine two-mouths-old mule colt ai I has ever been seen in ?dgefield Mr. Strother makes stock raisint 'pay. Large stock of wire screen doon aod windows just received. Stewart & Kernaghan. The annual Baptist Sunday school convention of the Edgefield associa tion will meet this year at Hardy't church the latter part of July. The program and exact date will be published later. FOR SALE: 5 full blood collie pups, and 4 full blood Essex Pigs. L. R. Brimson, "X^leora, S. C. The Knight of Pythias hall in The Advertiser building has been wired, and hereafter instead of dim kerosene lamps the hall will be ablaze with electric lights, when the meetings of the lodges are held. Not many towns in the state sur pass Edgeiield in the appearance of the store fronts. That of >Ramsey ?s Jones is especially attractive. Fresh shipment of Harris Lithia Water and Ginger Ale, at B. Timmons. There is some talk about paving the sidewalks leading from the de pot to the public square. We be lieve in progress but the cost must be considered in taking advance steps. >t The delay in turning on the electric lights will not be of long duration. Very SOOJ Edgefield will have a plant that is not excelled by any towu of its size in the 6tate. We find Buncombe sufficiently mountainous for these cool June days. Unless the weather man sends more favorable weather, the tide mountainword will be below normal this year. The grain crop, [especially that which was sown early, has been good. The acreage*, however, has been small on account of the con tinued rain last fall and during the early sining. At the regular meeting of Butler lodge, I. O. 0. F., last evening the following officers were elected: Rev. P. P. Blalock, noble grand; J. S. Smith, vice grand; R. L. Dunovant, secretary treasurer. The chaplain and her appointive officers will be announced later. The officers will be regularly installed at the next meeting. Edgefield friends and relatives rejoiced to see Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Timmons as visitors to our town last week and this week Mr. Timmons returning to his home in Ashburn, Ga. Accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Timmons in their hand some new car were the two sons, Earle and Mims, almost grown to manhood, and the pretty little daughter Catherine, a baby when they left Edgefield. Mrs. Timmons is now in Augusta, but will proba bly return to Edgefield to spend several weeks later. ?n Invitation. We invite advertisers to call at our office and inspect our subscrip tion list. See what a large and rep resentative portion of the purchas ing public you can reach through The Advertiser columns. Second Election. As the result of a tie vote in the municipal election of the 30th ulti mo, a second election was. held Monday for the 5th ward. The offi cial count showed 28 votes for Mr. J. 17. Rives and 25 votes for Mr. A. T. Samuel, the former being de clared elected. Lanham Spring Picnic. In response to the call of Capt. H. L. Bunch the'.Edgefield Hussars met last Saturday at Lanham Spring and arranged for the holding of their annual picnic at that place on Thurday, the 1st of August. The barbecue dinner will be cooked by candidates A. A. Edmunds and R. J. Moultrie, which means that it will be a feast tit for the gods. Bearden's band will be engaged to furnish music for the occasion. The Earth Quaked. Ac 5:30 o'clock this morning, about the time that the sun had perched itself upon Mr. Nicholson's barn, an earthquake occurred in Edgefield. The shock was felt so perceptibly by so many people that there is no doubt that the erstwhile terra firma underwent for the time some kind of convulsion. One young lady, either by fritrht or by the quake, was almost thrown out of bed and Mr. Joe Eve Minis said the floor of his domicile trembled orjvibrated or oscillated or scintillat ed or prevaricated or otherw ise be haved itself unseemly. A colored man, like the 'little pot that is soon bot," declared "before de lawd" that it 'most "shuck" the dishes out.of his "cubbard?' And so the reports go, our press hour being too near at hand to record them all. First Meeting of New Council. The first regular meeting of the new council was held in thc coun cil chamber over the Timmons drug store yesterday morning. After the oath of office was administered to the newly elected wardens, E. 3(1 Norris and J. U. Rives, severa! matters of business were disposed of. It was decided to elect two mar shals and a clerk at a meeting to be held on the 11th of July. Applica tions for these places must bi? liled with the clerk, W. H. H.irlit?g, by that date. A called meeting will beheld on the 25th of July lor the transaction of regular business. Ai the meeting yesterday a resolution was passed authorizing a loan of $500, of which amount $375 will be used to pay the semi-annual in terest on the bonds issued for the erection of the school building. At the meeting yesterday Mayor Edwards appointed the following committees: Auditing and Finance: B. L. Jones, L. L. Clippard and E. S. Johnson. Streets: J TJ Rives and E J Nor ris. Licenses: W C Lynch, BL Jones and E S Johnson. Board of Health: W H Earling, H H Sanders, J W Kemp, B F Zimmerman, A T Samuel, R L Dunovant, Dr. J G Tompkins, chairman. Top-Dressing. Results obtained at the South Carolina Experiment JStation show that a top-dressiug with nitrate of soda gives good results on cotton, corn and small trains. The in crease is most marked during a wet year because this nitrogen is already in an immediately available form, while the rotting of the organic sourced does nut proceed as rapidly as usual on account of the excess of moisture in the soil. The amount to apply per acre varies with the fertility of the soil and the previ ous fertilization, but we would sug gest from fifty pounds per acre on poor land up, according to the fer tility of the soil. Early applications are coming in to favor. We recommend that the soda be applied to corn when it is between knee and waist high, to cotton just as the shapes begin to form, and to small grain in March. Care should be taken not to soyv ni trate of soda on wet plants, because it is likely to scald them. It is best to apply it just after a rain, when the moisture has dried off of the leaves of the plants, then culti vate with a mulch forming imple ment as soon as the ground is dry enough to plow. T. E Keitt, Chemist. Clemson College, S. C. May, 18, 1912. Meeting Mrs. Fleming Gerber ls a bachelor. When his bosom friend Fleming suddenly mar ried a girl unknown to Gerber, mar ried without the slightest preliminary warning, Gerber felt hurt. He was in Shanghai when the news reached him. Smothering his feelings, he ca bled his congratulations. Then he wrote, promising to drop in on the Flemings the very first moment he landed in Chicago. Mrs. Fleming was anxious to know Gerber. She had heard all about the old school days, the tricks, the sum mer evening larks, the swimming hole and tne pasture lot athletics. She felt as though she knew Gerber and would instantly recognize him, even though Will had no picture of his chum to show her. Time went on regardless of matri mony and friendship. The business in Shanghai proved long drawn out. When a year and a half had passed Fleming had ceased talking about his boyhood days and Gerber's arrival was a mislaid hope. Fleming put In all his spare time amusing William Fleming, Jr. On the memorable night that Mrs. Fleming,was called away to her mother's, at the other end of the city, Fleming was alone with his son and heir, his pipe and papers and mem ories. The son and heir went to sleep. Fleming's pipe was drawing well and the memories slowly crept out of the years. It was just then that Gerber walked in. The two old friends skimmed brierly over the main events of their history and Gerber was about to begin on his oriental experience when Fleming interrupted him. "Just hold on a minute. I'll tele phone Mildred that you are here She's perfectly crazy to know you." Fleming started for the nearesi drug store to telephone. He no sooner had closed the door behind him than a -fretful murmur from some corner ol the flat caught Gerber's ear. Almost Immediately the fretful murmur be came a wait Gerber, panic-stricken, made on? j jump for his hat, put it on and started to escape. But a blood-curdling roai made him turn desperately toward the noise. A baby! Fleming had a baby! Whal did one do for a dying infant and "where was the fool father? Gerber's knowledge of babies cam? slowly from the comlo pictures in th* newspapers. You picked them up and walked with them. Gerber tried this with shaking hands. It worked like a charm Round and round the flat went Ger ber. On the twenty-second round just as he swung with graceful stride toward the parlor, the door opened and a natty hatted, gowned and gloved young woman stood blinking dazedly at the interior of her home. Gerber surmised that the young woman was Mrs. Fleming. He wa? sure of it when, with flashing eyes she demanded: "What are you doing with my baby?" Gerber stared helplessly. "I heard him crying and I thought i'd pick him up." he explained hesitatingly. "Oh, you thought you'd pick hire up!" cried Mrs. Fleming, her mind one gallery of newspaper headlines, pictures of kidnapers and "blacU hand" murderers. This dark, clive skinned, smooth faced tall man, witt: the soft slouch hat For one awful second Mrs. Flem Ing's heart stopped beating. Ther with lightning swiftness she was al the library table and her hand touched her husband's brand new gun. She pointed it straight at the head of the man. "Put that baby on the couch!" she ordered. Gerber obeyed and then opened his mouth to explain. "Don't move or make a sound. 1*1 fire if you do!" commanded the worn an with the gun. Gerber flushed and stood motion less. Fleming found an interesting tablear, on his return. A rigid Gerber, ? deathly pale wife with a shining new gun rigidly poised and a sweetly slum bering infant. "What the-Mildred! What ir heaven's name are you doing witt that gun? Put lt down! This is Ger ber. Gerber, you know. I went oui to call you up to tell you to come home and meet him. Your mother said you had Just left I stopped lr to get some cigars and-" Gerber began to gurgle something Mrs. Fleming gave a sudden lurch and with a "Weill The baby!" crum pied up on the library table. Fleming gave one look at Gerbet and then at the sleeping Infant. Then he threw up his hands. "Gerber, J clean forgot the kid," he cried. Yes, Indeed. When a married man takes a little gift out to the wife lu the country every time he goes out to spend the week-end and tells her not to worry about him because he is getting along fine, then it is time for her to make a short, unannounced visit In town. Bankrupt's Petition Fdr Discharge. In the District Court of the United States For the district of S. C. In the matter of B. II. Miller, bankrupt. To the Honorable H.A. M.Smitb, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina: B. H. Miller of Trenton in the county of Edgefield and state of S. C. in said District, respectfully rep resents that on the 23 day of Au gust last past he was duly adjudged Bankrupt under the acts of Cong ress relating to Bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered all his prop esty and rights of property, and has fully complied with all the require ments of said acts and of the orders of the Court touching his Bank ruptcy. Wherefore he prays that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts prov able against his estate under said Bankrupt Acts, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge. Dated this 27 day of May, A. D. 1912. B. H. Miller, Bank ru pt. ORDER OF KOTICE THEREON District of S. C.-ss: On this 3 day of June A. D. 1912, on reading the foregoing pe tition, it is Ordered by the Court, that a hearing be had upon the same on the 8 day of July, A. D. 1912, be fore said Court at Charleston, P. C. in said District, at ll u'clvt-k in the forenoon,and that notice the reu f be published in the Edgefield Ad vertiser a newspaper printed in said District, and that ali known credi tors and other persons in interest may appear at the said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why thc prayer of the said petitioner should nut be granted. And it is further Ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to all know ti creditors copies of said petition and this order, ad dressed to them, at their places of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable H. A. M. Smith, Judge of 6aid Court, and thc Seal thereof at Charlestun, S. C. in said District on the 2 of June A. D. 1912. Rich W. Hutson, I Clerk. Present This coupon and $2.50 at Stewart & Kernaghan's and get an auto marie stropper and razor, value S3.35. 50c 50c Name... Address 50c 50e Large Purchases. We have just unloaded One solid car of chairs, One solid car of furniture, One solid car of Hackney wagons. One solid car of Hackney bug gies, and are now ready to supply you with everything in these lines. Ramsey <fc Jones. "I don't believe any two words in the English language are synouy muus. " "Oh, I dou't know. What's the matter with 'raise' and'lift'?" "There's a big difference. I 'raise' chickens and have a neighbor who has been known to 'lift' them.*' Philadelphia Ledger. LAUNDRY NOTICE. I have accepted thc agency for the Model Steam Laundry of Au gusta, and solicit a share of your business. My headquarters will be at the store of Smith-Marsh Co. Work sent Tuesday and returned Saturday. J. Glover Tompkins, Jr. NOTICE TOJSTOCK RAISERS My jack will make the spring season at my farm near McKendree. Terms, ?10 to insure. Castrating done by safest and best methods. Dehorning also done. J. C. BUZHARDT, Pleasant Lane, S. C. Special Notices FOR SALE: 100 bushels white shelled corn. T. P. Salter, Trenton, S. C. Brighten the interior of your home by using Alabastine on your walls. B. Timmons. Let us supply you with seed Irish potatoes.- We have them direct from the eastern seed farra, in all the popular varieties, such as Early Rose, Bliss, Irish Cobbler etc. B. Timmons. Hats and Caps the largest selec tion in Augusta. Straw hats $1.00 up. ?8.00 Panama's at $4.75. Stet son and other fine makes $2.25 up. Caps ft full line 22c up. W. Gv Merlins Augusta, Ga. Boys Suits and pants, also Chil drens wash suits a full line prices low: F. G. Mertins, Augusta, Ga. Roasted coffees in bulk from 25 cents up. B. Timmons. Come to us for onion sets, and Land roth's celebrated garden seeds of all kinds. They never fail to give satisfaction. B. Timmons. Keep out the disease-spreading mosquitoes and Hies by getting your windows and doors with wire screens. It will not cost you much. Get our prices. Stewart ?.fc Kernaghan. A large shipment of dynamite just received. Stewart cfc Kernaghan. We always carry a full supply of Glenn Springs and Harris Lithia water. Penn cfc Holstein. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Business College now being conducted at Augu?t3, Ga., under the Draughon name is not- author ized by Draughon's Practical Busi ness College Co. For catalog of IVaughon's Big Chain uf Colleges, address .Ino. F. Draughon, presi dent, Nashville, or Knoxville, Terna. 3 Make the Old Suit Look Nev/ We are better prepared than ever to clo first-class j work in cleaning and press ! ing of all kinds. Make your Iold panta or suit new by let ing us clean and press them. Ladies skirts and suits al so cleaned and pressed. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Edgefield Pressing Club WALLACE HARRIS PROP. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. Whereas, A. V. Bussey and R. J. Parks as executors of testate ot Dr? T. E. Jennings have made applica tion for a final discharge, notice is given that I will pass on said ap plication on June 19, 1012. W. T. Kinnaird. May 21, 1912. J. P. E. C., S. C. Makes The Nation Gasp. The awful list of injuries on a fourth of July staggers humanity. Set over against it, however, is tho wonderful healing, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve, of thousands, who suffered from burns, cuts, bruises, bullet wounds or explosions. Its the (Ulick healer of boils, ulcers, ecze ma, sore lips or piles. 25cts at Penn & Holstein's, W E Lynch ct Co. Mail Schedule. Arrivals and departures of mails at the Edgefield postoftice, effective May 2(1, 1912: Mail Leaves: 9:20 a. m. for all points. 11:10 a. m. for Aiken, 2 p. m., for Tern ton, Aik land north, 6:50 p. m., for south. Mail Arrives: 11:02 a. m., from all points. 1.50 p. m., from Aiken, 4:55 from Aik en and south, 7:40 p. m. Trenton and north. Mails close 3o minutes before leaving time of trains. J. P. Ouzts, P. M. June Weddings. Just received a new stock of ster ling silver and cut glass at factory prices. New and rich designs. Penn cfc Holstein.