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t?%;f?d? %kst??Htt. In Loving Remembrance of Mrs W. A. Crawford. In the morning hours of July 16, 1915, the angels visited the home ot Mr. Willie "Crawford, who lives near Plum Branch, and took from him his beloved companion, Maggie, and transplanted her into the beau tiful city of God, where she will be with God and the holy angels to await the home-coming of her loved ones. She was a sweet Christian woman. All who knew her loved her. To the very last she had such a Christ like spirit. She professed faith in Christ in early girlhood, and joined the Plum Branch Baptist church at the age of twelve years, and was fifty-one 3 ears and six months old when she ?died. She has had this dreadful linger ing disease, consumption, for nearly nineteen years, and was confined to her bed ten weeks and a few days when death came. This lady realized her condition a number of years ago, and had her husband and each child a letter written and laid away in her trunk to be read after her death. Her re quest was for her five brothers and Mr. Crawford's one brother to act as pall bearers. Some years ago she requested that the pastor should begin reading at the 11th verse of the 17 th chapter of St. John, and continue reading that chapter at her funeral. This was a very appropriate selection for the occasion. These are the three songs she re quested them to sing at her funeral, ^Nearer My God to Thee,;' "Yield Not to Temptation" and "God Be With You Till We Moet Again." During her last sickness she suf fered much, but there was little or no complaint, she bore her suffering patiently. She spoke several times of being ready and willing to die, and seemed to think deatii would be a sweet re lief. Cousin Maggie leaves a husband and six children, five brothers, two sisters and mother to mourn her death. She clung to her children until they were all g ?-own. The three eldest are married. From the life she lived among us we know where this dear one is, and and we who loved her company here should so live that when sick -ness and conflicts are passed we can meet her where there will be no sickness, no sorrow, no more part ing nor tears. No more will her sweet voice be heard at home. She has left a va cant place there and in our hearts that never can be filled. They will miss her coming foot steps-they'll miss her everywhere. Home will not be what it used to be since this mother has passed away. "One precious to their hearts has gone, A voice they loved is still." But their heart? should be eased of pain when they think of what an inspiration her life has be m. With tenderest care she has guided her] little ones' toddling feet from in- j fancy to womanhood and nnnhood. Her love removed the jagg.-d stones and briars from the way. Those withered hands, how th. y've la bored to make their hearts gay, And smooth the roughness from their way. It is a wonderful thing, a mother. Other folks can love you, but only your mother understands. She works for you, looks after you, loves vou, forgives you of anything you may do-understands you. And the saddest thiug on earth she ever does to you, is to die and leave you. Coreen W White Town, S. C. Miss Talbert Entertains. Miss Mary Talbert entertained very pleasantly last Friday evening at a lawn party in honor of her guest Miss Driskell. The spacious lawn afforded abundant room for the crowd of boys and girls who as sembled. The night was beautiful. Japanese lanterns, the most popular sort of decoration and illumination, were used. A number of visitors from out of town added interest to the occasion. Popular ragtime mu sic during the evening was enjoyed by the young people. The progres sive conversation which takes the place of both games and contest was used. This has come to stay be cause of the power to entertain de lightfully. Delicious cream and cake was served a short time before the departure of the guests. A Guest. We want the public to know that our restaurant is open at all times. Lunches served on short notice. James Velix. Big cut in summer underwear. We can fit you. Mukashy Bargain House. ?. Petit Jury-August Court. Clifford Robertson, Washington, W A Hart, Edgefield, R H Dorn, Elmwood, Cleveland Derrick, Johnston, A H Day, Shaw, E G Bryan, Shaw, J M Wright, Pickens, G- W Holmes, Johnston, J C Seigl er, Hi bier, E W Callison, Hibler, W C Sealer, Moss, J M Swearingen, Shaw, T P Morgan, Moss, J H Cogburn, Elmwood, E A Horne, Ward, L H Enbanks, Collier'*, E M Bledsoe, Elmwood, G S Strom, Moss, J W Munday. Meriwether, Lewis Holmes, Ward, B R Thomas, Moss, S M Watson, Moss, J E Franklin, Shaw, A M Clark, Johnston, N N Fair, Wise, T J Wash, Moss, M B Hamilton, Elmwood, H M Reynolds, Edgefield, J T McDowell, Blocker, M D Lyon, Jr., Edgefield, H E Quarles, Colliers, J E Timmerman, Blocker, J W Stewart, Edgefield, Martin Medlock, Meriwether, James Miller, Shaw, N F Manly, Blocker. White Town Picnic a Great Suc cess. Two Games of Ball, Mr. Editor-: I will send in a few items of the past week from this seotion. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. White, also Misses Nenie and Georgia, their daughters, went on a pleasant visit down in Georgia last Thursday and Friday visiting relatives. They spent Thursday night with Mr. Jim White and family our used-to-be citizens of White Town. Mrs. H. L. Stone of Atlanta spent last week with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Walls. Mr. W. W. Medlock and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jennings last Sunday. Miss Maggie Deal entertained most pleasantly last Thursday in honor of her guests, Misses Louise Shrine, Maggie Medlock, Mesdames H. L. Stone, J. A. Walls, W. W. Medlock and W. T. Reynold?. They reported a nice time. Mr. Quick of Augusta spent the week-end with Mr. F. P. White. Miss Mattie Coleman was the guest of Miss Coreen Walls last Saiurday night and Sunday, Mr. Editor, I must say our picnic was a great success. We had a l?ge orowd and plenty of dinner. All the hash and everything else was sold. Had two baseball games. Plum Branch played White Town in the morning, ending 7 to ll in favor of White Town. Cleora played White Town in the afternoon, ending ll to 32 in favor of White Town. Hur rah for White Town boys! ? C. W. Resolutions on The Death of Mrs- America Rhoden. Beautiful, strong and unselfish was her life. She could not stay with us always nor would she de sire Lo be away from her God whom she loved and tried to follow in his footsteps and she has now received her full reward for the beautiful Christian life which she lived on this earth. She was a faithful, devoted friend, mother and wife, never tiring of doing deeds of love for all. Me think sometimes when she felt feeble and weary (for she was sick several years) that she would ftel the senti ment of this beautiful hymn. I would not live always I ask not to stay Where storm after storm Seems dark o'er my way. If true sympathy could be a com forter we beg to mingle our tears with her beloved husband who was always so kind to her and her de voted children who loved her and were also glad to do some deed of kindness for a sick mother. And her daughter-in-law was also ready to do some loving deed to her and liv ed in the home with her. They all will miss her kind and gentle ad vice. She was a member of Philippi Baptist church where her remains were laid to rest, Dr. A. T. King, her paste, officiating. That a copy of these resolutions be sent the Johnston Times, her bereaved family and a copy be in scribed in our minute book. Mrs. Mary Callum Mrs. Batler Derrick. Mrs. George Scott. "MONEY" The mint makes it and under the terms of the CONTINENTAL MORTGAGE COMPANY you can secure it at 6 per cent, for any legal purpose on approved real estate. Terms easy, tell us your wants and we will co-operate with you. 908-9 MUNSEY BLDG., Baltimore, Maryland. "UNCLE" IV'S LETTER. (Continued from First Page.) a preaching tour through the coun try and took a young: man along with him as a companion, and that the preacher never preached at th< same place, but one time, and hif text was, "Peter's wife's mother laj sick of the fevjr," and everywhert he went he preached from that text, and that after a while he went to a town where there was a bell at the church, and when the bell rans foi the morning service the preacher went into the pulpit and preached from the same text, and he and the youug man went to dinner with one of the church membern, and aftei dinner they were sitting oui on thc porch and the church bell'rang for evening service, and the preacher became somew hat excited and asked the young man if that bell meant preaching again, and the young man told him no he guessed not, but he expected Peter's wife's mother wae dead. So, Mr. Editor, you see that I am surrounded by all sorts of people and beliefs and am now superinten dent of a Sunday school in sight of my home (having given up the Sun day school that I first worked in) and am trying to be of some help to my near neighbors. We meet every Sunday for Sunday school and have preaching twice a month, and our school house which is 16x32 feet will not hold the people that come. Old, middle-aged and young men and women boys and girls come and seem hungry for the truth as taught in God's word and I do feel so weak when I see their needs and realize that I am an old man whose mind is not as clear as it once was, andean now more clearly under stand the need of praying for la borers to work in the fields, for of a truth down here the laborers are very few and far between. I have written the above that my friends in Edgefield county may know how I am surrounded, and pray for me. Now, I want to ask a question. Jabez Garnet says he looks first to see if I have anything in the paper, and the first thing I look for is to see if there is anything from Parks ville, the Grove or Modoo. Failing to see-anything from either of those places I feel disappointed. What is the matter with Parksville, where are Marie Blackwell,Kathleen Parks, Rosada Talbert, Anna McDonald and others? I name those four, why? Well, when I went to Parks ville last October I met those four on the railroad and had a ohat with them, and as I write I can imagine I see and am talking with them as I did that Sunday evening. Now girls I want some one or all of yon to let me hear ( from Parksville through The Advertiser. It will do the old man good. How about crops down here? Well where they were planted along about the 1st of April and have been worked they are as good as I have ever seen, but it has taken hard work to keep the grass from taking possession. Since the 6th of May I don't remember of ever seeing as much rain fall and the cotton planted from the middle of April to 1st of May got in a bad fix, and some of it is -still in a bad fix. Cotton and grass all came up together, and the rains gave the grass the advantage, in fact in some sections I hear of some that planted over with no better success, and of others that raised the white flag or in other words shouldered their hoes and quit their crops. Fortunately we got our crop up early and eot it worked out before the rains set in regular, and though we have the drills fairly clean there is some grass in some of the middles that have been plowed up three or four times and 'tis still alive, and I guess will stay so until the frost kills it, but those who pass by say we have as good if not the best cotton they have Been, but as I said before it has taken hard and persistent work. Hav'nt had any of our wheat ground into flour yet, but had a bushel ground at the corn mill and we are now eating graham bread and 'tis good too, makes me think of when I was a boy and ate muf fins, waffles and batter-cakes made from shorts or middlings. To give you some idea of whether any wheat was grown down here, I was told one day last week by a thresher-man that at one flour mill there was 1800 bushels of wheat ahead in the mill to be ground and still being'carried there, and unless the fool farmers go crazy again (as they often do) there will be the largest grain crop sown this coming fall that has ever been known in this county. 'Tis laughable some times just to hear some of the old Georgians talk about wheat and oats. To illustrate, living in about one and a half miles of where I do is an old man that claims to be six ty-nine years old. He came across our graiu patch of fifteen or sixteen acres, ard just stopped, took of his hat, scratched his head and told me that it ?vas the biggest grain field he had ever seen, and I told him mm I I have h to chang _ CORNE jg?jj make it store th; ^ will be by those care, an business ant relal THI ?^K^^S wM Pl r ???? ??i? mm i that the only hopes I had for the farmers in this section ever to have anything was to sow more grain, and his reply was, he didn't know this land would make wheat and oats, and he owns his home of something over two hundred acres. So you.see that not only the preach ers don't know about some things, but a lot of other folks are in the same fix. Yes, we are tkrough plowing ex cept a few acres of corn and peas after small grain. Wish you were here to help us eat water and musk melons as there is no sale for them, but the hogs do love to eat them, so we are not fretting as we have the hogs, or rather shoats that will be hogs when they are turned in on the groundpeas this fall,, and we have about twelve acres of corn with them in every middle. So come down now and eat water melons, or next winter and we will parch some pinders for you. Love to all in Edgefield county, once my home but don't think now will ever be again. I am a little uneasy about Jabez for you know he is a widower and there is or will be a lot of those Mexican women widows, and one of them may lasso him. UNCLE IV. Buist's Turnip Seed. Let us supply you with Buist's new crop turnip seed in all the popular varieties: Rutabagas, white globe, seven top, purple top, Aber deen, in fact, we have all of the va rieties that are grown on the cele brated Buist farm. Penn & Holstein. CITY Pressing Club I have opened an up-to-date press ing club in the front room over the store of D uno vant & Co., and are prepared to do cleaning and pressing in the most approved manner. In addition to cleaning and press ing men's suits, we give special at tention to ladies' garments. Give us a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed. We make a Specialty of : Palm Beach Suits H. T. HAMILTON Proprietor / wm ?Bj ?B 'ti I'S. J ??ss to assure my friends and :ons that the new enterprise lunched in Greenwood is not ;e the policy or plans of THE R STORE. We hope to , if possible, even a better an in the past. Your wants looked after in my absence in charge with pains-taking d we hope to,continue this on the same mutually pleas ions as of the past. Sincerely, 2 CORNER STORE W. H. TURNER, Proprietor I m m kd? HM WM WM iMlalli? WM k'M ?lMWM?m? Mowers Mowers We sell McCormick and Dain Mow ers. There is nothing better on the market. We also keep on hand a full supply of repair for McCormick, Deering, Os borne, Champion and Dain Mowers. Stewart & Kernaghan The Buying Public Has confidence in us, and is getting satisfaction here. This is indicated by continued gen erous patronage. Prescrip tions our most particular spe cialty. Get in Line COLLETT & MITCHELL PHARMACY