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Candidate For Master. Among the candidates' announce ments this week will be found that of J. II. Cautelou, Esq., for tho office of master in equity of Edge field county. Mr. Can tel on needs no introduction to the Edge field peo ple. His sterling qualities and fit ness for this office are also well known. No better man could be se lected for tbs place, and if elected Mr. Cantelou will render faithful and conscientious service. Stands at The Top. Tho friends of Mr. Allen Samuel will be pleased tn learn that he has for several mon'hs healed the io l of honor among the South Carolina salesman of the American Tobacco Company, which large corporation he has been connected with for some months, his headquarters be ing in Sumter. Mr. Samuel is.ambi tious and energetic, two elements or qualities that are essential to suc cess in any line of business. Quiet Election Notwithstanding the fact that the) -candidates and many of their friends were intensely inte-ested, the muni cipal flection which was held Tues day passed off very quietly Ot the 192 votes cast for mayor Dr. A. H. Corley received 110 and W. P. Cal houn, Esq., received 82/ The fol lowing were elected wardens: 1st. Tvard, R. C. Padgett: 2nd ward, C. M. Thomas; 3rd ward, L. L. 31 ip-j pard: 4th ward, George W. Adams; 5th ward. C. H. Key. and Gib ward, R. L. Dunovant. Mr. A. E. Pad gett was re-elected a member of the .board of public work. Edgefield Receipt Book. This is the title of a book that is being printed in The Advertiser's job depaitrnent for the ladies of the Baptist church who will sell the book wlvn off the press for the benefit of 'lie church. It has been compiled hy Mrs. W. B. Cogborn, Mrs. Fannie Tompkins? and Mrs. M. A. Taylor from recipes that have been used by Edgefield ladies. Each recipe is signed by its author. This book will be of great value to every housewife, as it is no doubt the best collection of recipes ever com piled. We say this because Edge ""^.??f'w'?meh-t?t-both > town and county) are tie- best cooks in the voi ld and these recipes have their stamp o? approval after being re peatedly tried in their own homes. Thc Advertiser will announce when the books are ready and a copy can ? then be obtained from either of the above named ladies for the small sum of 50 cents. And our word for it, it is easily worth twice the price. Killing at Shaw's Creek Church. Sunday afternoon about one o'clock a row occurred at Shaw's Creek church in which knives, pis tola, razors, sticks and other "weep ons" too numerous to mention were used. After sulphurous fumes, dust and smoke of batt!-; had clear ed away it was discovered that one negro, Jesse Curry, had been mor tally stabbed over the heart with a pocket knife by Milo Simmons, an other negro. Sheriff S wear in gen we;it down Monday morning and had an inquest held in accordance with the law. Up to this time Milo Simmons has not been found but it is believed that he will soon be lodged in jail. The negro whom j he killed is said to have fired upon ; him three times before being stabb ed. This statement is borne out by j the three empty chambers in his pis- ? toi. Shaw's Creek church has been J noted for years for its disorder and ' rowdy crowds. The representative!" colored people who compose this j" church owe it to their church and :, their race to .see that such lawk ness is stopped. Winthrop College Scholarship J t and Entrance Examination, j, The examination for the award | of vacant scholarships in Winthrop j j College and for the admission of L new students will he held at the1 county court house on Friday, July it, at 9 a. ra. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July a they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examination foi scholar ship blanks. Scholarships are worth Si00 aud free tuition. The next session will open September 16, 1914. For further information and catalog, address President D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. Call From County Chairman. The County Executive Commit tee of the Democratic party of Edgefield county are hereby called to meet at the Court House at Edge fieid on Munday, June 1st, 1014, at 10 o'clock a. m. Every member is urged to be present, as business of the utmost importance is to be attended to under the new tules adopted by the Convention. B. E. NICHOLSON, County Chan man. Mav ii?".. 1914. Negro Died in Jail. George Broadnax who was at the I time serving a tenn "ti the chain gang had his leg broken the latter part of April. He was in charge of one of the road machines and the mules became frightened at a pac ing automobile, causing George to fall beneath the machine. As the ?wound failed to heal his leg was amputated in jail Saturday to pre vent blood poisoning. He died early Mondav morning. Prof. John G. Clinkscales. Tomorrow (Thursday) evening Prof. John G. Clinkscales, a mem ber of the faculty of Wotford col lege and a candidate for governor, will deliver the literary address be fore the Edgeiield schools in the High School auditorium. Prof. Clinkscales is a very entertaining speaker and we feel confident that the people of Edgefield will greet him in large numbers. Remember the time-8:45 o'clock Thursday evening. Picnic For Sunbeams. Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman, leader | of the Sunbeams of the baptist j church, assisted by Mrs. Fannie Tompkins, arranged a picnic for) the members of the band Saturday. Early in the forenoon about 50 gathered in the picturesque woods in the northern edge of town and engaged m outdoor games until the shadows lengthened in the after noon. At the noon hoar they enjoy ed the bountiful picnic dinner that was spread upon the ground where all could partake freely. This was followed by ice cream. The half a hundred fairies had a frolicsome dav in the wilds of the woods. The Death of an Aged Lady, Miss Betsy White. On Sunday evening May 17, the angel of heaven came down and took Aunt Betsy from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pick White, where she has been living for many years and calle.l h?T borne. Miss White was well known by a host of friends and relatives, as "Aunt Betsy." Death followed the effects of meas les, which she had about three weeks ago, though her health has been gradually declining for a long time. She leaves one sister, Miss Patsy White, who has been helpless and blind for many years. Aunt Betsy was 108 years old, and how hard it is for us to give her up after these many years. But she saw the angels beckoning her to come to the heavenly home np pon der where there's no sickness, no ?orrow nor death, but al' is perfect peace and happiness. With loving hands and aching hearts, they laid her form to rest at Bethany cemetery. Her saintly spirit we loved so well has now ione to rest. Amid our tears and torrow our hearts are eased of pain when we think whit an inspiration, ier life has always been. On earth ve'll see her face no more, but the reckoning hands from the other dio re, say, we can meet her there. Written by a Friend, Union Meeting. The union meeting o? the 2nd| li vision of the Edgefield Baptist issociation will meet with Red Hill ;hurch Mav 30-3 1. Devotional exercises conducted >y Rev. J T Littlejohn. At roll call {delegates to make verbal reports of their churches. 1st Query: Do members of fra er- ities feel more bound to each >ther than Christians if si? wbv? Wallace Prescott. C E Flinn, 'Med ock. ._'!:.! Query; Prayer and the means >y w i ich it is made effectual. Wal er Carpenter, J O Atkinson. * 3rd ? Mierv: To what extent may ill evangelical churches work to rether. CM Mellichamp, Rev. J T jittlejohn. 4th Query: The ideal life. G W Wedlock, H L Bunch. Sunday services to be provided or. P. B. Lanham, For committee. il5.OOO special suits, all wool icely made $25.50 values. We ave marked our goods down at the tart, we can save you from $3.00 o $7.50 on a suit. Spend $15.00 ave $5.0u. F. G. Mertins, Augusta, Ga. OUR GEORGIA LETTER. I "Uncle" Iv Tells of Crops. Fish J Stories, Visit From Parks ville Friends and Mr. Cheatham's Bees. Hello Advertiser: Now, what's up? Any rain .vet down here? No, well how are the crops looking? Cotton that had a good deal of guano put under it is growing f?ist, also the corn, hut where but little fertilizers were used before planting corn nor cotton is growing much. It has a good color so just watch out later on and see the difference two months from now when the next and next application of guano j is put around both cotton and corn. Sonic have* already put the first ap plication tn corn bujt it has beer, so very dr-, th.it yon can see but little of its effect yet. But just let it get a good rain and the roots begin to suck in their feed from the manure and will wonder how it will grow. A gond many in 'he neighborhood have not. done any work in their crops this week, having just hoed and plowed both corn and cotton. Next week should it rain you will hear the plow boy ?oon and late, and if it does'nt rain they will go over their cotton with the hoe and get the few bunches of grass left uncovered by the plow. They will also thin cotton where left too thick. This is in the month of May and if I am not very much mistaken we never till about the middle of Jone get the dirt to our cotton. Sothel crops down here are at least a month ahead of the crops on the clay lands up where we came from. The oat crop, especially that sown since Christmas, is but little account, except for forage. Watermelons are being laid by and strange to say during all *'iis dry spell the vines have kept green and growiog right along. In a letter from one of my chil dren in South Carolina he said ii was being reported around that my family and I are not at all satisfied. Just let me correct that report by saying, we are and have been satis fied, and there is no truth in the report. I notice Flat Rock correspondent likes to read rn}- nonsense. No more so than I like to read the letters of every correspondent to your paper from the town of Johnston on the East to Plu:n Branch ou the West and from every section of Edge field couuty. Yes, I love the Edge field people and ever will. I can't help it anil don't try to help it; nor do ? care who knows that I love the people of my home countv where I was born and grew np. I would be an ingrate if I did'nt. I am still a lover of children and ever expect to be, I can't help lov ing them. Do I love the bad chil dren too*' Why of course I do. They are the oues that need our love most, for if we don't love them we are sure not going to put forth much effort to help them. And don't yon know that love begets love? Now I don't want to be mis understood, I don't like the bad 'uns, but the boy or girl that fails to respond to love I have never met. Now for the boys and girls I propose to tell some strange truths about down here in Georgia. Hogs fishing, cows coming home hefore night. How does the hog do its fishing, you ask? Weli, just at this time nearly all the streams have about dried up, and the hog just waies about in the holes of wa ter and sticks his head under up to his ears and woe to the crawfish fish or tadpole that he corners, and it is seldom he lifts his head from the water that lie hasn't something i that suits his appetite from the way , he smacks his mouth. And why do the cows come home before night? To be milked? No, but. to get in 1 Lhe smoke that their owners (not ! ill) have at their cow pens to keep the Hies away. Yes, just across a ! Held in front of the home we live in, about an hour before sunset you f will see a smoke begin lo rise, and I in a little while yon can see the i ?sows making their way to the pen t md there they stand and chew their I jud while their owners milk them ' ind no Hies to bother either cow or t nilker. Their owner told me be 1 iud stools for his cows to sit on \ ?ut he was only joking, the stool 6 vas for himself and daughter to sit i >n while milking. ( Well, who should come driving ] ip to our place of living the other ( lay but W. R., W. P. and Herbert 1 Parks of Parksvilie. Were we glad r 0 see them? Well glad would be c ratting it rather mildly. From ( mr little seven year old girl up to c 1er seventy year old daddy, all r vere certainly glad to see them, and 1 he only regret was the trio could lot stay longer than they did. None s >f us hugged them but this old s ioon felt like he could have dane ' o. But you know I would have r tad to hug one side of Bob at t 1 time, and time was too precious i or that. Did we do any talking? fib Fully appreciates the fact that their friends are more and more realizing the benefit derived from their PRO FIT SHARING SALES Have decided to make Monday June the 8th another of these money saving- events. If you were not among those bene fited by the previous sales ask your more fortunate neighbor about them. The sale will be more fully ex plained in next weeks paper. Watch for the ad. We promise to make it worth the while. Respectfully, W. H. TURNER, Proprietor. JOHNSTON'S CHAUTAUQUA DATES Will Include THE GLORIOUS FOURTH It is possible that the shows will open on July 3rd, but in any ease, there will be a "bis: noise" on the 4th of July, and preparation is bein."; nude for the biggest crowds the town has ever seen. The FULL Chautauqua course has been secured by Johnston, and our engagement will be unusual tor the towns smaller than Columbia and Augusta. An opportuuity will be given the people of enjoying one ol' the best courses the South affords. Arrange to come and spend the week with us. Our people are preparing a big reception lor you. Watch this paper lor further announcements. Well, yes-and could have been talking yet and that was three days igo.? So the next day I stepped over to Sam Cheatham's (yja see I wanted to tell Sam who I liad .seen) and he said well I would like to have seen them too. Guess what Sam was loiner when 1 got there? He was aking honey from his bee gums, fte has a house made bee tight .vhere he takes his boxes ol" honey ;o extract it from th* comb. Sol ,vent in his bee house and there vere a few bees in there, but he ?aid they would not sting. Ile vould just take a bee by the nape if the neck and put it up against a vire screen that was over the win lows of the house, but I wasn't ool enough to take a bee between ny lingers. No, sir, they can han lle their stinging apparatus to quick or me. So I told Sam he could lo the bee catching, and when din ier was announced I showed him hat I wasn't afraid of the honey. I certainly enjoyed The Advers er yesterday, but still there was adness mixed with it, ^George bright's death at Johnston, a good nan gone home to rest. It is sad oo to hear of Mrs. Nick Griftis bo ng sick. I call her husband 'Heavy" (that waa his nick name in the war) time and if I mis take not, your father, Mr. Editor, gave him his nickname. All we beardless boys did love "Heavy" 'and I love him yet, and have for given him long ago for the spankings he used to uivc mc. He had a way of showing we little fellows how he loved ns by laying us across his lap ami giving us a good spanking. I can name but a few of our old company now living, will name them and give their nicknames as far as I can renumber. Heavy (J. N. Griftis), Old Mike (H. E. Meal ing), Huck (Abner Minis), Hooter \V. A. Howie), Little or Devil Iv (E. G. Morgan). If .T. X. Fair, Sam Ilopei or Jim Penn had a nick name I have forgotten it, and if there are any besides those I men tion living I don't know of them. Only eight left of the sixty-eight disbanded at Chester court house. Hugh Scott was left in Virginia when the old 2nd was sent to South Carolina in '64 and let me say just here, a braver boy never lived than Hugh Scott. So nine all told are left and we nine but for a short while longer and we too will an swer our last roll call and go to join our comrades on the other shore. God help us to be ready when the call comes. Love to each one of them from Little Iv. I notice a mistake in my write up ot" last week, thc mistake was that I had not heard a Missionary Baptist preach in ninety-six months, should have read nearly six months, but mistakes often occur worse than that and can never be corrected, mistakes that often times ruin or blast the life ol some one. Such ' i mistakes are serious and should never occur, but sometimes a dip of thc tongue in an unguarded mo ment or a hot word during a heat of passion causes ?rief to some one and wc cannot be too careful of our words or actions, lost wc do some one an harm. May the old Advertiser long liv o to send out its clean sheets to many readers. As Ever, Uncle Iv. The hot weather is here. Let me supply you with light weight underwear. Mukashy Bargain House. One lot 1-piece Dresses in dark and light colors. A big ass rtment to select from at $1.00. Ku be u Bi ein.