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(Mast gitwspaptt M jlmrtb dmv?m EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUKE 14, 1916 NO. 19 JOHNSTON LETTER. W. C. T. -U. Meeting Watson [ Bland Wedding. New Cen-H tury Club Met. Mission ary Meeting. The last meeting "of the W. C. T. U. was a full one and with a good attendance, the meeting being held in the home of Mrs. O. D. Black. Mrs. Mattie Denny conduct ed the meeting and several business matters were attended to the chief of which was the celebration of Jennie Cassedy's birthday, June 9. Jennie Cassedy originated the flow er mission which department is such a means for promoting prohibition. It has been the custom of this union to unite with other unions and cele brate the day by a visit to the Coun ty Home and making a happy day for the inmates. Flans were made for the picnic dinner and each in mate of the County Home was to have a bouquet of dowers with an appropriate card. The program for this a'ternoon was in charge of IVIrs. O. D. Black who has charge of the flower mission and after she had read appropriate scripture Mrs. Hattie Parrish offered a prayer that God would use this ??department to His glory. Mrs. W. J. Hatcher read the story of Jennie Cassedy's hie. She told of having visited her grave in Louisville, Ky., and spoke of her substantial monument over the grave. At the time of her visit to Louisville, she was stopping next door to the home of Jennie Cassedy and had the pleasure of going in it. Out on the lawn was a peach tree she h id planted and it was the in tention of having it perpetuated by planting the seeds. A paper, "Lights and shadows of W. C. T. U. flower mission" was read by Miss Zena Payne. Mrs. Black gave some thoughts concerning the work.After sweet songs the meeting closed with prayer by Mrs. Hatcher. Awhile was spent socially and during the time a variety of sandwiches and i iced tea was served. Hon. J. L. Walker has gone to St. Louis, Mo,, to attend the nation al convention being a state delegate. A wedding that was beautiful in every detail was that of Mr. Avery Bland and Miss Martha Watson, the happy event taking place on last Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Watson. The wed ding was a quiet one, being witness ed only by a few, but was a sweet and solemn one. The home was prettily decorated and tiie arriving guests were greeted by Mr. and Mrs. J. Neil Lott and were directed to the parlor by Misses Maud Kick ersoo^and Virgie Courtney. This ?was the wedding room and was decorated in white and green. Promptly at 0 o'clock the wedding mardi began, played by Prof. John ' Waters and as the notes of .Men delssohn's march rang out, old, but ever sweet and new, tiie happy pair entered, unattended, and the solemn words that bound these two, '*so long as you both shall live," were spoken by Kev. W. S. Brook. The bride was attired in a traveling suit of blue taffeta, and carried a lovely shower-bouquet. After congratula tions all were seated at dinner, this being served in two courses and in the dining room, everything was all in pink decorations. About seven o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Bland left in an automobile for Columbia, where the}' were to proceed to Black Moun tain, X. C., to spend their honey moon. Sincere and cordial interest has centered in this marriage foi both of these young people are popular and the best of good wishes of every one are wafted to them. On last Sunday Rev. Brook ap pointed Messrs. Joseph Wright and J. A Lolt as head ushers in the Bap'.i?t church, their chief duty being to welcome all, he stating that a cordial handshake to a stran ger as he entered a church, was worth more than six, as he departed. These two were to select four ushers to serve for a month and those for Sunday were ([Messrs. W. P. Cas sell, O. D. Black, Chud Lott and J. ll. Wright. Friends and relatives here have received invitations to the marriage of Dr. Frank Taylor Lewis to Miss Ollie Booker of Leesville, La., this to take place on June -?1. Dr. Lewis was reared here and there will be (Continued on Eighth Page.) W. C. T. U. Picnic at County Home. Friday June ??. is the day that the Edgeneld county W. C. T. U- has selected as the occasion for the an nual picnic at the County Home, this being the birthday of Jennie Casseday the founder of the Flower Mission. Friday was a lovely day, and there was the largest number in at tendance that we have ever pre viously had on these occasions. Representatives from the Johnston, Trenton and Edgetield Unions were present. We missed the Harmony and Philippi representation, but supposed they were unavoidably detained, as they are always there when it is possible. The dinner was served at 12 o'clock to the seventeen inmates, and to all who came. Mr. and Mrs. Scurry showed most kindly hospi tality, and after abundant provision had been made for those for whom the day was prepared, we partook of the remaining feast together. Ice lemonade and iced tea was served as well as fruit and candy, besides the picnic dinner. After the dinner had been served there was still an abundance left which resembled the widow's cruise, in that the more we took away the more remained. This was sent in large boxes to the camp where the convicts are stationed, and was enough for two good meals for hungry men. This was carried by Mrs. J. D. Mathis and Mrs. J. F. Atkins of the Trenton Union. Mrs. J. H. White of Johnston had conceived the plan of bringing some growing plants for those who loved flowers, already planted in jars and growing with a white rib j bon card attached. Mrs. Mathis brought fans for each one and quilt pieces for the women. Before going to the chapel for the religious service those who who were present enjoyed a season of s .half hour in singing, accom panied by Mr. Scurry's tine tenor and Mr. Henry Dobey and Gordon Warren. The chapel was nearly filled with the visitors and inmates and Mr. J. K. Allen was invited to conduct the exercises, which he did very graciously and happily. Miss Miriam Norris and Mrs. J. H. White sang solos and the -little Scurry girls sang a duett, the whole congregation joining in several songs together. Altogether the occasion was a* delightful one, Mrs. Ida Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. J. Iv. Allen and Miss Lena Stevens and Miss Mary Lewis were there from the Meeting Street community. The Farmer Who Was Too Late. Do you know him-the man who is always too late? We dare say he ! lives in your neighborhood, and maybe his farm actually adjoins your own. He is usually not bard to tin J, this man isn't; in fact you can usually tell bis farm the moment you come in sight of it. It is likely the first sight to offend your order-loving sensibilities will be a crooked fence row with a ten foot fringe of bushes and briers bor j dering it, that Mr. Slow-Coach, be cause of getting behind with his work, bas found it inconvenient to ?clean up. Then this time of the year ; there'll probably be a patch of ? something with a greenish, bilious least that closer inspection will show j to be oats heading out at an average height of exactly ten inches. You see, he got behind with the cotton picking last fall and for this reason it was impossible for him to insure his oat crop by planting it in Sep tember or October. Farther on there's a field that looks just like a great mass of hard clods, and, in fact, thatls about what it is. You see, he didn't have time to harrow the hud right after he plowed it, ; and now about the only way the clods can be broken is with a sledge hammer. Later in the summer this field will be adorned with the va riety of cotton known as "bumble bee"-another of the fruits of being behind time. Of course, we don't suppose there is anything that ?'an be done for jgucb a fellow-his ways are "sot;" but it does seem a pity for him to set sucli an example to our boys and girls-the farmers and farm women to be, doesn't .it?-Progressive Farmer. THE PRESS MEETING. Forty-Second Annual Meeting in York Pleasant and Profi table. Beautiful Hospi tality Abounded. Some writer has said "AU earth ly delights are sweeter in expecta tion than in enjoyment." Bu; thia is not always true. Knowing that the town of York had its founding in the good old primeval days and that its culture, refinement and in tellectual life are unsurpassed, the newspaper makers of South Caroli na expected to be graciously receiv ed and entertained in princely fash ion. But however pleasant this an ticipation, the realization was far more delightful. The newspaper folk from the eastern, southern and central por tions of the Slate were met at Ches ter Wednesday afternoon by a com mittee of representative business men from York and when we ar rived at the station we found all of the people of the town there to meet and greet us. All of the homes were thrown open and as many more visitors could have been entertained with ease. The attendance upon the 1916 meeting of the Press association was the largest in several years. The first session was held in the opera house Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock, when a formal welcome was extended to the visitors by Mr. J. C. Wilborn, the mayor. Upon re quest of President William Banks, J. L. Mima responded to the address of welcome. This was followed by a practical talk by Mr. J. C. Mc Auliffe, business manager of the Augusta Chronicle. An entire day of pleasure was provided for Friday. The good peo pld of York arranged for an auto mobile excursion to King's Moun tain battle ground and thence to Gastonia, N. C. About nine o'clock, aft jr all had posed for a group pho+ tograph on the steps of the hand some new court house, the visitors and a considerable number of York people boarded about 75 automo biles. These formed a pageant of nearly a mile in- length, there being regular intervals of about 20 paces between the cars. The route select ed was the King's Mountain road which followed the watershed of the Catawba and Broad rivers. In passiug out of York by this route one passes the Episcopal orphanage, the imposing brick buildings of which are among the landmarks of York, having in the early seventies housed the King's Mountain Milita ry Academy which was conducted by Colonel Asbury Coward and General Michael Jenkins. The battle of King's Mountain which was fought October 7, 178'J, marked the turning point in the Revolutionary war. The historic spot upon which it was fought is near the North Carolina line, but on the South Carolina side. Two mas sive granite monuments have been erected, one by the American peo ple and one by the national govern ment. The spot where Capt. Fer guson, the British commander, fell is marked and also his grave down in the ravine. After the party had explored the battleground they as sembled in the pavilion, where Mr. Rion McKissick of the Greenville News, delivered an instructive ad dress on the hattie of King's Moun tain. About the noon hour the pleasure seekers resumed their journey, the objective point now being Gastonia, N. C. At one o'clock a stop was made by the way for dinner at Lin wood college which nestles in the beautiful foot-hills, where the at mosphere is balmy, bracing and ozone laden. The president of the institution told thc.writer that dur ing his administration of fourteen years there had been but little sick uess. For four years a physician was not called for the students who number about 150. The members of York's entertain ment committee, who were always thoughtful and provident, reached Linwood college in advance of the pageant and had spread in the col lege dining roora a royal feast, the like of which, in both abundance and variety, one rarely ever sees. Whether at hone or ou a pleasure excursion, the beautiful hospitality (Continued on Eighth Page.) "UNCLE" IV WRITES. Reader of The Advertiser Sixty Two Years. Down on Mex icans. V/rites of War Times. Dear Advertiser:-I saw in the Southern Cultivator for June where there was a man that has been tak ing that paper continuously for fifty years, and it put me to thinking about how long I had been reading the Edgefield Advertiser. I, if I live to see the tenth day of this mota th, will be seventy-two years old, and my father was taking it when I can first remember, and I can safely say that I have been read ing The Advertiser since I was a ten-year old boy; not regularly, but most of the time for sixty-two years. Well, I am certainly glad to hear front Russell Wright, again, and I would reiterate every word be has to say about mothers. What a blessing to the girl or boy that bas a Christian mother, or a man that has a Christian wife. Must I say it! 'Tis sad, but true sometimes, the sons and daughters do not seem to appreciate the prayers and cares of their mothers as they ought. Write again, Bro. Wright. I also see in the same paper that Jabez Garnett is not dead or even captured by the bandits or a Mexi can widow, but likely to have to go to some other place to live on ac count of a twelve-month drought, but am afraid Pindar (W. J. Ro chelle) is either captured or hid in a swamp or an alligator hole, and I don't blame him if he is hiding, for I certainly think if I was any where:^ Texas I would be looking out for No. 1, for Uncle Sam is cer tainly very slow in teaching those Mexicans a lesson that they would not forget verv soon. Do I want the United States to have war? No, I dou't, but if I h ave ..a corn-on my toe do you think I'wlfca let a fellow stand on it? No, sir; but should he accidently tread on that corn and apoligize, of course I would readily forgive him; but should he turn about and step on that corn again and again I am inclined to think that the time had come where patience would cease to be a virtue, and I would not be sur prised if there would not be some battling on the nose done. But I bear some one say: ' Look here, old man, you are mighty old to talk about battling." That is true, but I am still in the flesh, and am some what like the Indian who went with a missionary to the Southern Bap tist convention, and the missionary was asked if the Indian could rea son, and he (the missionary) asked if any one in the crowd bad a cake of soap about their person, and one of the preachers present banded him a cake of soap, and, it being a nice looking cake, something new to the Indian, the missionary gave it to the Indian and told him to bile it. Ile bit it and made a very .wry face. Ile was told to bite it again, but the Indian shook his head and said: "Too much of a thing was enough," and ibat explains just bow I see the way those Mexicans are doing, and 'tis about time for them to be given to understand that the United States bas had enough of it. I believe Governor Ferguson of Texas sees it that way, too, and if the United Stales will just say to him, we give you the right to put things in ordei in Mexico, it would not be long be fore there would be something do ing across the Rio Grande. Well, really I did not intend writing what I have, but intended giving an incident that took place during the Christmas holidays of 18i>2. (This was given birth by seeing an account of the death of Col. John S. Mobley in the Tri weekly Constitution of Atlanta.) On the 24th of December a good portion of the Second South Carolina Cavalry, with some from every reg iment in Hampton's brigade, broke camp and went with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart across the Rapahan nock river, and was in the enemy's line by the morning of the 25lh, and it was about the 28th before the Yankees knew that Stuart was on a raid within their lines, and we were then near the bead of Ocquan Bay. Col. M. C. Butler was thrown on the extreme left, and as we came near to a piece of woods we saw two yankee videttes in the road ahead of us, and Col. Muller sent Car ter Singleton and Frank Chatham lo Cotton Bloom Received Fror Carolinian in Georgia. Editor The Advertiser:-I am ei closing vou a cotton bloom fror our farm. I am located in Burk county. Georgia, twenty miles sout of Augusta. Mr. Minis, I will sive the cond ti on of the crops in our section The corn crop is h ne. The firs planted is tasselling and silking The cotton crop I don't think is s good. The majority of the crop are in good shape, but some are ver; grassy. The wheat crop down her was very good, but oats were ver peor. We had. I think, the heavies rain I ever saw fall June 3. Wonder where is '"Uncle" T Morgan? I felt confident that would bear from him in the last is sue of The Advertiser, but failed t< find anything. I fear the grass ha got him in prison. And Mr. Ro chelle of Texas-I am anxious t< know something of bim. I fea: that the same sentence is passed ot him that Bro. Iv got. Kow Bro. Iv and Bro. Rochelle, this i< no reflection on either of you, for il my attorney is a hard hitler, I'll re ceive the same sentence. Baoh one of you write a lons: letter to Tin Advertiser, giving the farming con dition of your section. A well wishes to The Advertiser. J. D. White. Hephzibah, Ga. drive them in, and they went for them, but after emptying their pis tols the Yankees still stayed in the road, and Singleton and Chatham fell back, and Col. Butler called to me and a man by the name of John Bull of Company G to follow him, and we charged the videttes and they wheeled their horses and broke, with Col. Butler, Bull and myself in close pursuit, but just ahead was a piece of woods, and as they passed out on the other side of the woods they turned to the left, and Col. Butler and myselfj?ght in behind them (Bull had gotten behind), and as soon as we cleared the woods I saw a batterv of three guns in less than a hundred yards, and a force of Yankees (don'tknow how many, didn't have time to count them; not over two hundred yards from us, and formed in a hollow square with their guns in position of bayonet against cavalry. The Col. and I wheeled, and I seem lo hear him now say 'Run Morgan," and we put spurs to our horses, and we had hardly gotten in the woods before all three pieces of that yankee bat tery called for us to stop, and hav ing tired on us with grape shot the road was strewn with limbs cut oft' by the grape shot, but the Col. and I were on the move to a cooler place, and as we passed a school house (we then had gotten some distance from those cannon) I saw a good looking pistol lying in the road, slowed up my horse and was in the act of dis mounting to pick it up and the Col. called out, what in the h-ll are you doing, and I told him, and with an oath he told me to come on. Yes he would curse you and at the same time he would tl ie for his men. After passing the school house we turned to our right and was then out of sight of the yankees, and the Col. said to me this: "Morgan, you ought to think. I ought not to have cursed you, but that pistol was dropped there for the purpose of getting some one to stop to ?et it, and I haven't a doubt," says he, "but what that school house was full of yankees, but they did not shoot at von and me because our men were then near enough to have captured them. " Yes Col. Butler could think clearly in the thickest of a fight. We got back into our lines on the evening of the 30th, and our Christ mas frolic was over, but men and horses were tired and hungry, for, with the exception of two nights, we had no sleep, and but little to eat, but we had been all around the yankee army, and when they did get in behind us they gave us a chase, but after we got within our lines there were wagons with food for men and horses, and I remember very well what I had for supper-a few hard crackers and a piece of fat side meat, and I ale it raw. Yes, sir, raw meat svas often eaten, espe cially when on the move. How we went through with what we did is a mystery to me. The cavalry sometimes got into the row and had all the picketing to do during the winier mouths, but HORN'S CREEK ITEMS. Woman's Missionary Society Held Meeting. Farmers Wrest ling With Grass. Visitors In Community. Mr. Editor: Here I come again peeping into your valuble paper. .Since writing you last the Lord has blessed us with plenty of rain. and. I tell yon old General Green is about to get ahead of the cotton. The ladies' Missionary Society held its annual meeting Saturday 10th, at the home of Mrs. S. B. Mays. On account of the clouds only a few members were present, but we had a good meeting. We were glad to have with us at this meeting Mrs. Gussie Roper. Our next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Emmie Fair, July 8. Mrs. Dr. Whitlock and baby spent the week-end with Mrs. Whit lock's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Smith. Mrs. Emmie Fair, who bas"been indisposed for the past two weeks, is able to be out again, to the de light of her many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hammond, of Edgefield, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Yancy Bryan. Miss Gladys Lyou of your town is visiting her cousin, Miss Eliza beth Wells. Mrs. A, A. Wells hat returned home after spending a week among relatives at Colliers. Miss Bennie Bell Sraithis at home from an extended visit to her sister, of Red Hill. Our candidate for Supervisor, Mr. W. G. Wells, dined at the home of his brother Mr. A. A. Wells, on last Thursday en route to Johnston. We were glad to have Sheriff Swearingen and family to worship withins Su nday at Horns' Creek? Also, Mrs. W. H. Moss and Mr. Wallace Wise, of Trenton. m Miss Lila Roper is on a .visitJMt^ her brother Hammond, in Chester,**' whose wife we are sorry learn is in the hospital. Little master Willie Parks, of Edgefield, is visiting his sister Mrs. Alvin Smith. Miss Ella Mays is at home after closing her school for this term. From all reports of the vast num ber of marriages that are soon to take place, the girls have not lost any time of taking advantage of leap year. Horn's Creek. June 12, 101G. The Carolina and Northwestern Railroad. One of the few railroads in the State which is not in some way con nected with the large systems is the Carolina and Northsvestern which is operated between Chester, S. C., and Edgemont, N. C., a total distance of 130 miles. With Col. L. T. Nichols of Chester as general manager, this road is succeeding far above the average railroad. It was first built as a narrow gauge road to Lenoir but. was later made a standard gauge and the mileage in creased. The road traverses a splen did section of country and the volume of business will steadily in crease as this section ?3 further de veloped. It was over the Carolina and Northwestern that the pleasure excursion was given by the York people to the members of the State Press association last Saturday, and everything possible was done hy the officials that would contribute in any manner to the pleasuie of the day. they never knew the hard fighting the infantry did till 1864, when most of the cavalry in Virginia were armed with carbines and fought as infantry a good deal, so I am told by those who were in Virginia in 1864, but the Second South Carolina Cavalry was sent back to South Car olina in March of that year, and in one fight on John's Island Company I lost more men than she had up to that time during the war in killed and wounded. The old soldier I spoke of in my card died last Saturday night, and there is only one other that lives in several miles of me, and he and I were the only old soldiers at his burying, and I feel a little lonesome. Had another good rain Tuesday, farmerSaOn the move in their crops. "Uncle" Iv. Harlem, Ga., June 3, 1916.