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D. A. R. Meeting. AU ladies who are interested in the formation of a D. A. R. Chap ter in Edgefield will please meet at the Library on Saturday the 16tb, at 5 o'clock, p. m. Those who have blanks are requested to bring them. Mrs. Agatha A. Woodson. Erlgerield Gun Club, Shoot Held August 8. S. E. Morgan..28 0. P. Bright.19 M. P. Wells.-.1% B. M. Eppea.-18 J. W. Stewart. 14 S. M. Smith._19 Duplicates of Names. One never sees a replica of a face but the duplicate of a name is quite frequent. For example, yes terday while looking over a Char leston paper we noticed that a Mr. Herbert A. Smith resides in that city, being prominent in Knights of Pythias circles, and a Mr. W. W. F'uller is the superintendent of the Charleston-Isle of Palms Trac tion iCompany. These being such familiar names, for the moment we thought we were reading one of the Edgefield papers. Y. W. A. Meeting. The Y. W. A. will meet with Miss Nell Jones Monday afternoon August 18, at 5 o'clock. Subject, Africa. Song, "Let us crown Him." Bible lesson, 100th psalm. A plea for Africa, Royal Peak. Reading by president. God's share of our money, May Roper. The importance of prayer. Current events, Edwardina Bla lock. Minutes. Roll cali and collection. Busine?. Song, O'. Zion haste. Closing ?. ray er. Sudden Death of Mr. Powell. Mr. A. S. Powell died very sud denly from an attack of acute indi gestion on the afternoon of Thurs day the 7th ins:. The death of Mr. Powell was a g*eat shock to his nu merous friends throughout the county. He was a Confed erate veteran, and was a starling citizen. Mr. Powell went to the home of his son, Mr. R. W. Powell, near Johnston on Thursday after noon to look after a building which he was having erected near his son's home. He was suddenly taken with acute indigestion, and died in a few minutes before med' al aid could be obtained. He left .surviving him his widow, Mrs. Addie Powell, and the following childreu: R. W. Powell,Y. M. Powell, Mrs. Maggie Oibson, Mrs. Effie Holmes, George T. Powell, Gus Powell, Lawton Powell, and Misses Bessie Powell, Nannie Powell and Earline Powell. Mr. Powell took 3n aciive interest in all matters concerning the public welfare, and by his industry and good management, accumulated a substantial property. He was a Ma son, and was a faithful member of Concordia lodge No. 50 A. F. M. at Edgefield, S. C. The death of Mr. Powell is not only a great loss to the members of his family, but to his county and state. Death of Mrs. Bussey. On last Tuesday morning Au gust 5, the death angel entered the home of Rev. P. H. BuBsey, pastor of Gum Branch Baptist church and took from it his devoted wife. Mrs. Bussey had been a patient sufferer for a mouth and all that medical skill and loving bands oould do, was done but to no avail. Death is always sai but thib one is peculiar ly sad in that she was a bride of less than a year. She was preceded to the grave just one week by her infant daughter ?Eva Elizabeth. Mrs. Bussey before her marriage was Miss Eileen Ouzts, eldest daughter of Mr. J. P. Ouzts of Edgefield. Bc "des her devoted and grief stricken husband she leaves father, mother, sister and four brothers to mourn her loss. Mrs. Bussey has always been a very earnest and devoted church worker. Before her marriage she was leader of the Y. W. A.'s of Edgefield. Since coming into this community she has followed up this work very faithfully and in this little circie she will be greatly missed. Though having lived here but a short while she has endeared herself to all. Not only will she be missed in the church but by all who knew her for to know her was love her. It is hard to understand why she was taken but God works in a mysterious way and some day we will understand.-Hart? vii le Mes senger. Intensive Layer in Spite of Hot Weather. Oar friend Ed Byrd of the Pleas ant Lane section has a hen that layed two eggs one day last week. Soon after the hen was placed in a coop early in the morning an egg was found in the coop and later in the day another egg was taken from the coop. We aie expecting Mr. Byrd to haye as many orders for this hen's eggs as Dr. Prescott has for the Fulghum oat3. Fulghum Oats for Sale. Dr. W. E. Prescott advertises his Fulghum oats in this issue. He has on ly a limited supply and prefers selling them to Edgefield farmers to shipping them elsewhere. He has already filled some orders which were received from Georgia and has other orders on hand. Dr. Prescott sowed six bushels last fall and threshed 186 bushels, so it is needless to say that he is highly pleas ed with the results obtained. Card of Thanks. I I take this means of thank ing my friends for the loyal support given me in the election last Satur day. I take this as a strong endorse ment of my past two years of ser vice as cotton weigher which will encourage me to try even harder to do my duty in the future. Again I thank you one and all, pledging the same faithful service for the future that I have endeavored to give in the past. J. G. Byr Three Horses Killed by Light ning. The annual picnic of the Edge field Hussars which was held at Lanham Spring last Thursday was largely attended and the only thing that marred the day was the killing of three valuable horses by light ning in the afternoon. Early after dinner a terrific electric storm came up, lightning striking three horses belonging to Mr. Warren Fair of tbe-Horn'8 Creek section, and to Mr. Ouzts and Mr. Jester of the Kirksey section of Greenwood coun ty. Instead of being near large trees, the horses were tied to small trees that were not over ?JO feet tall. Will Board Girls for High School. Misses Sophie and Marie Abney have arranged with the board of trustees to take girls and young la dies to board in the graded school building. This will give young la dies from all parts of the county an opportunity to attend the High School at a minimum of cost. They will haye the quietude and all of the advantages of a private home at a minimum of expense and yet be near the school. Those who desire ts. aL; the High School, to which absolutely no tuition is charg ed, should communicate w;*h the Misses Abney at once. Court Proceedings. The regular summer term of the court of general sessions convened Monday morning at the usual hour, with the Hon. H. F. Rice of Aiken as the presiding judge. All of the court officials were piomptly in their places but the actual work of the court was delayed until the af ternoon on account of the tempora ry indisposition of Solicitor George Bell Timraerman. Bj tile afternoon he had sufficiently recovered to re sume his regular duties. The following indictments have been passed upon by the grand jury: Willie Jackson violating the dis pensary law, true bill. Chester Walker, murder, no bill. Walter Hill, Clarisa Hill, Aaron Hill and John Davis, assault and battery with intent to kill, true bills as to all except Clarisa Hill, against whom the charge was an nulled. Joe Grant, murder, true bill. James Williams, assault and bat tery with iutent to kill, true bill. Marshall Curry, violating the dispensary law, no bili. General Toney, violating the fish and ^rame law no bill. M:HS Bessie Davis, murder, true bill. Mu ody Lowman, murder, true bill. The first case called Monday af ternoon was that against Mr. W. G. Wo.ii for alleged assault and battery with intent to kill. Mr. Wood waa represented by B. E. Nichols .in, Esq., and the state by thesolicoor. A verdict of simple assault was rendered Tuesday. Mr. H. B. Moultrie was found guilty U'i'ler the charge of oppres sion in o iii ce and was recommended by the jury to the mercy of the court. Mr. Moultrie appeared in his own behai i and the solicitor repre sented the state. This, Wednesday, morning the eourt is engaged with the trial of Mr. Clifton Abney who is indicted for murder. He is being defended by Tompkins & Wells and the state is represented by the solicitor. Mr. P. N. Lott Made Instructive Address at Greenville Farm era' Institute. The farmers' Institutes over the state are being more largely attend ed than they were several years ago. We hope this will be true of the institute which is to be held at Har mony, this county, on August 21. At an institute which was held last week in Greenville county, Mr. P. N. Lott of Johnston, the county demonstration agent was one of the principal speakers. The Greenville News mide the following reference to Mr. Lott's address in its report of the meeting: "The first speaker introduced was Mr. P. N. Lott of Johnston, Edge field county, who represents the farm demonstration work of the United States department of agri culture and of Clemson college in that county. The subject assigned him was "Soil Building." His text was: "It is a sin to starve your soil." Mr. Lott's talk dealt principally with the value of winter cover crops for building up and preserving the healthfulness of the soil. Said he in beginning: I believe the soil in Greenville coun ty will produce, with proper man agement, as abundantly and profit ably as any other land in this lati tude." The strategic position oc cupied by the former in the fabric of human society he stressed with telling force. At the very basis of intelligent and buccessful farming he stated, had to be a good soil. The speaker then took up the sub ject of soil building. Commercial fertilizers, he stated, would not build up soil but would only act as an auxiliary in producing a crop. "If you use 500'pounds of fertil izers this year to produce a bale of cotton," he declared, "you will have to use seven or eight hundred pounds next year to produce a bale." How winter cover crops would con serve the strength of the soil after crops have been gathered and built it up was explained in an interest ing and intelligent manner. Let ting lands lie idle during the win ter months and deteriorate in' strength, when the planting of these cover crops would enrich the j soil, he characterized as a sin a9< great as one starving his mule, his cow or his pig. "In Greenville county, he said, he had observed a regrettable state of affairs in the manner in which cot ton was planted-the rows being entirely too close together and the' plant too close together in the drill. Thousands of acres of cotton with rows 30 inches apart when they should be four and six feet, be said he had seen in this county. The planting of cotton in rows this wide apart, he said, would result bene-) ficially in three days, he stated, aa follows: (l) will give room for the| planting of winter cover crops j while the cotton is maturing, (2) will make a better grade of cotton and (3) will result in a bigger yialdj of the staple. Cotton, he explain-1 ed, is essentially a sun plant and,the! quality of the staple depends upon the amount of sun light that gets to the growing cotton. He drove j home the truth of his statement by citing a farm in Saluda county where a farmer sold a tract of land because he could not make a living off it. This laud was purchused by another farmer who planted cntton upon it in rows seven feet apart. Last year, be stated, this farmer made two bales of cotton to the acre on this land. "The latter half of Mr. Lott's talk was given over to the answer ing of questions from the audience as to the planting of winter cover crops. The scores of questions put to him by members of the audience the many farmers who recited briefly their experiences with win ter cover crops and the general round table discussion indulged in in a highly intelligent manner, was evidence positive that the speaker's had not been utteied in vain." Paint There are two good reasons for painting often enough or even too often. One to look prosperous: two, to be so. Nothing does one more credit or gives one more credit than paint, supplemented of course by what goes with it; and paint costs noth ing. True, the first cost is $5 or $6 a gallon put-on; but it saves more than that in the property; saves it from slow going down-not always slow-it drops with a jump when water gets in on wood and iron. Dry wood and iron cost nothing, kept dry by paint. Better paint when it needs it. Paint never goes down in the sense of being more profitable next year. Stewart & Kernaghan sells it. For Weakness and Los? of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tome, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria and buiida up the system. A trite tonia and si're Anoot?cr. For adulta aad children. 90c. News From Home About the Electric Railroad. From The Charlotte Observer. Much interest throughout this section centers in the plans of the Augusta & Edgefield Railway for the construction of an electric line from Augusta, Ga., via North Au gusta, Ropers, Fdgefield. Pleasant Lane and Kirksey, Lo Greenwood, a distance of fifty-five miles, where connection will be made with the Greenville, Spartanburg & Ander son road, which is a part of the Piedmont Traction Company, as a vital part. Mr. C. W. Requarth,of this city, president of the Requarth Con struction Company, will have charge of the survey and obtaining rights of-way, according to the prelimina ry announcements. It is expected that the survey will be completed in the fall when contracts for grading, track-laying, bridges, etc., will be let. There will be two bridges.one over the Sa vannah River, at Augusta, and the other over Turkey Creek; also ter minal stations, way stations and a power plant. From The Abbeville Medium. It seems that the people of Edge field are determined to build a trol ley line from Augusta via Edge field, to some point north, Green wood being, the suggested terminus. We believe if the people of Abbe ville would take up the question of building a line from Donalds, as suggested by The Medium, and join .with the Edgefield people they would be perfectly willing to have the line come this way. Such a line would give Abbeville direct connection with the Interurban, Donalds, Due West, the Bellevue section and McCormick. The In terurban will soon be extended to Charlotte, and it is believed it will eventually be extended to Washing ton. Abbeville needs transporta tion facilities to as many county towns as possible, and that would be a fine beginning. It is doubtful if the proposition would pay any dividends for a number of years, but the indirect benefit to Abbe ville would amount to considerable. We hope to see the matter taken up by the people of Abbeville and investigated, and if feasible, see it put through. Costly Treatment. "I was troubled with constipa tion and indigestion and spent hun dreds of dollars for medicine and treatment," writes C H Hinee, of Whitlow, Ark. I went to a St. Louis hospital, also to a hospital in New Orleans, but no cure was effected. On returning home I be gan taking Chamberlain's Tablets, and worked right along. I used them for some time and am BOW all right." Sold by all dealers. The Best Land in the South for the money is in the vicinity of Swains boro, Ga. Prove this to yourself by coming here next Wednesday, the 20, for less than half of reg ular fare from Augusta, with 23rd limit. Train Leaves Augusta at 8:10 a. m. And 7:00 p. m. Don't miss it. Write me for list and perspec tive folders if you can't come. All railway fare paid if you buy. R. T. Colson, Swainsboro, Georgia. Remarkable Cure of Dysenter" "I was attacked with dysentery about July 15, and used the doctor's medicine and other remedies with no relief, only getting worse all the time. I was unable to do anything and my weight dropped from HS to 135 pounds. I suffered for about two months when I was advised to use Chamberlain's colic, cholera anti diarrhoea remedy. I used two bot tles of it and it gave me permanent relief," writes B W Hill of Snow Hill, N: C. For sale by all d?al?rs. "OCT OUT" Go to Bright's and get you a suit, they are made better, look better, wear better, and cost 25 per cent less than elsewhere. Ovei 400 samples to select from. Workman ship and fit guaranteed. O. P. Bright 3 Opposite Depot Edgefiele, S. C. ! (Formerly the S. C. C. I. of Edgefield, S. C.) COL. F. N. K. BAILEY, DR. E. C. JAMES, Superintendent Head Master. A Christian M litary Institution offering instruc tion in classical, scientific and commercial courses. Large new brick buildings, modernly equipped, Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Hot and cold water in every room. If you wish to place your son in a school where his health will be carefully looked after, his mind thoroughly trained, and where he will be. taught habits of obedience, punctuality aud industry, send him to our institution. Here each cadet is under the close personal con trol and watchful care of the teachers from the time he reaches the school until he leaves for home. For Catalogue and all information ADDRESS: Bailey Military Institute, Greenwood, - - South Carolina. -and jack, don't forget; I want a Prophylactic Tooth Brush, A tube of Colgate's Dental Cream, Bottle of Hudnut's Violet Water, Some Writ ing Paper and a Box of NUNNALLY'S You can get ai! cf these at PENN & HOLSTEIN Fine Candie? SI Cures OM Sores, Otter Remedies Won't Cara. 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