Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

f?dgcfidd ^flictfiset, Old 96 District Chapter D. A. R. at Ridge Spring. TheD. A. R. chapter at Edge field were recipients of an invitation to Ridge Spring, through the cour tesy of Mrs. George Strother, Re gent of the Michael Watson chapter at that place which they could not well resist, consequently on Wednes day afternoon a party of ladies left Elgetieldat4 o'clock in the after noon. Mrs. J. R. Cantelou and Mr. C. R. Dobson very kindly used their ca:s to carry the following mem bers: Mrs. J. M. Lawton, Mrs. B E. Nicholson, Mrs. D. B. Hollings worth, Mrs J. L. Mims, Mrs. Ma mie N. Tillman, and besides these there were several other represen tatives from Edgefield, among them Miss Elizabeth Rainsford and Miss Florence Mims. The occasion was a Shakespearian celebration and out-door pageant taken from Midsummer Night's Dream, and was most beautifully carried out. The music was pro vided by Mrs. Strother and Shakes peare was impersonated by Mr. Cal Watson who made a most dignified imitation of the great poet. The dancing and singing by the children, representing lovely pan sies, water lillies, daisies, tiger lil lies, carnations etc., and fairies and Robin Hood's men led by old Friar Tuck was a charming reproduction of the old English May-day festi val. And then to crown the scene were the clowns who came out to counterfeit the beautiful. So wei did these jesters perform that a litl tie dog rushed in from the outside and put some real fun into the oc casion, barking his loudest, and at tacking the clowns as they attempt ed to make merry with their pranks. Miss Elise Carwile whom all Edgefield knows was one. of the participants, and Mrs. Robert Hart who was Maggie Jones and Rena Watson and Louie Jones all known long years ago and loved in Edge field. It was a great pleasure to see Mrs Tilla Jones and her daughters Misses Bessie and Alice Jones, who had been neighbors and playmates in days of yore and Mrs. Anna Shep pard Jones another resident of Edgefield transplanted to Ridge Spring. At the close of the lovely scene, ice cream and cake was served to the people, and the visitors were most bountifully served as guests of the occasion. At the close of the pageant a beautiful United States Fhg was presented to the Ridge Spring school and accepted by the princi pal. An address by Dr. Asb.'ll wa finished when the Edgefield party arrived. Mr. Steadman of the Ridge Spring High School conducted the programme and made a splendid impression by his clear and distinct utterance which is difficult for an out-door audience of such extent as was this one. The exercises were held out in the grove near the handsome new school building on a green knoll specially prepared for the occasion and provided with seats for all the spectators. It was an exceedingly creditable undertaking and a great success un der the direction of the Michael Watson Chapter, Daughters of the Revolution. F. A. M. Letter from a Georgia Friend of The Advertiser. Editor Edgefield Advertiser: Will you please give rae space in your paper to write a few lines. 1 have been a reader of the dear old Advertiser for some time. My father takes it, and I think it is a grand paper. 1 live twenty miles below Augusta, in Burke county. My father lives on a tive-hundred acre farm, and he certainly has a fine corn crop. We had a good rain down here Thursday and a good shower Fri day. Mr. Editor, if I see my letter in print I will write again. A well wisher of the dear old Ad vertiser. Marbie Mae White. Hephzibah, Ga. FOR COUNTY COM .MISSIONER. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for county commissioner of Edgefield county and will abide the re sult of the primary election. WALTER L. HOLMES. DOES SLOAN'S LINIMENT HELP RHEUMATISM? Ask the man who uses it, he knows. "To think I suffered all these years when one 25 cent bottle of Sloan's Liniment cured me," writes one grateful user. If you have Rheumatism or suffer from Neuralgia, Backache, Soreness and Stiffness, don't put off getting a bottle of Sloan's. It will give yoi; such welcome relief. It warms and soothes the sore, stiff painful p)a.cQ> and you feel so much bettor. Bu\ it at any Drug Store, only ??ets. 1 JOHNSTON LETTER. (Continued from First Page.) for a visit to her daughters Mes dames Harry Hamilton and Ollie Hamilton at Middlebrook. Miss Annie Crouch spent last week at Waynesboro, Ga., with a class mate, the occasion being a de lightful house party. Dr. L. S. Maxwell has returned from Walhalla where he visited his parents. Mr. Joe Payne was here this week >n his new touring car. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mobley are here from Auburndale, Fla., for the summer months. Miss Sara Stevens has gone to Hartsville to attend the summer school. A social event most delightful in every way was that of last Thurs day evening when Dr. and Mrs. L. S.Maxwell entertained a party of friends, the occasion being in cele bration of their first wedding an niversary. This lovely home was made more attractive with cut flow ers and ferns and the color motif of pink and blue, as used at their wed ding was carried oui. * Dr. a nd Mrs. Maxwell were assisted in receiving by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crouch, and sweet music was enjoyed as the guests arrived. All were given score cards for progressive rook and after an amimated game the ladies' prize, a dainty fan was won by Mrs. Minis Walker and the gentleman's prize, by Mr. Wilmot Ouzts, the consola tion, a large palmetto fan, tied with the colors, falling to Mrs. J. How ard Payne. An elaborate collection in two courses was served at the ending of the game. Mrs. Carl Richards was hostess for a lovely morning party on Thursday and sixty friends were in vited to enjoy the pleasures arrang ed. The affair was held in the home of her father, Dr. C. F. Strother and she was assisted by her sister, Mrs. Herbert Eidson. The rooms were bright and fragrant with flow ers and numerous tables were about for progressive rook. Partners were gotten with pretty score cards and an hour was happily spent with this pleasant diversion. When the game had concluded the cards were laid aside and on each table a large basket of various kinds of sand wiches was placed and iced tea served, the hostess being assisted by Mesdames W. E. LaGrone and Leon Stansell. The morning was filled with many pleasures and every one was delighted that Mrs. Richards is again in their midst. The last meeting of the New Cen tury club was held with Miss Alma Woodward on Tuesday afternoon and instead of having a regular study hour the time was used in celebration of the centenary of the Bard of the Avon, William Shakes peare. TIIP meeting was presided over by Mrs James Strother and at roll call the members answered with quotations from Shakespeare. The first thing taken up was an account of the reception held in Augusta, given by Mrs. A. H. Brenner, presi dent of city clubs this being held at the country club. Mrs. Brenner is pleasantly remembered, having ad dressed the club at Reciprocity day. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: President, Mrs. H. D. Grant; vice-president, Miss Zena Payne; recording secretary. Miss Eva Rushton; corresponding secretary, Mrs. J. W. Marsh; treas urer, Miss Alma Woodward, critic, Mrs. W. E. LaGrone; librarian, Mrs. H. L. Allen. The program was in charge of Mrs. W. E. LaGrone who gave a few thoughts before this was taken up. A paper on "Shakespeare and his works," was given by Miss Zena Payne; "Sixteenth sonnet" was read by Miss Eva Rushton and Mrs. H. D. Grant read the one hun dred and fiftieth sonnet. After this had concluded, the hostess assisted 1 y Miss Hortense Padgett and Mrs. Henry Whittaker served a tempting salad course with iced tea, each place being adorned with sweet peas. The meeting was greatly en joyed but there was a feeling of tsdness as these twenty members departed having concluded their meeting until the fall. Each one of the twenty meetings has had its va ried pleasures and the course has brought about much profit and re search and social intercourse. The Angeline Bacon chapter children of the Confederacy held their last meeting Saturday after noon with Miss Loise Hoyt and dur ing business their work for the year was concluded. The proposed work of the D. of C., of 'South Carolina, is that they undertake some form of memorial to theboysof sixteen who volunteered during the war between the states. This chapter thought .his a beautiful work to do t and set aside what remained in the reas ury as the first funds to thi8 pur oose so far no chapter yet having started this. The subject for the af ternoon was "Jefferson Davis" and the historian Miss Frances Turner had a most.interestiqe program ar ranged. There were several musical Some Early South Caroli Newspapers-The Advertise the Oldest Now Published. While examining some old do menta not long ago in a desk tl was formerly used by the late Ca L. M. Grist, a member of The I qnirer staff, can e across some wi ten pages in the handwriting of tl veteran printer and publisher tl contain some facts that will prc of some little interest io the your er printers and publishers of tl gener: tum, and pri b ibly also the hir-torian as well. The pas were written July 31, 1890, and : though not intended for publii don in the form in which they we lound, their contents are re prod n ed herewith, substantially witho change: "My father was a printer. Whi ?ie caused rae to enter the printii office in May, 1840, it was for t purpose of commencing the pub cation of the Yorkville Compiler, piospecius for which had been : su< d sometime previous. He hi arranged to use a pre*9 that hi been brought to Yorkville abo 1822 for the purpose of printii the lectures of Rev. Wm. C. Dav a learned and able Presbytern minister. The press was what w known as a "Ramage" and w tdruilar in style to that used by Be jamm Franklin, in his day. Tl forms of type were inked by wh were technically known as "balls made of buckskin bags, stuffed wi wood. They were provided wil wooden handles and the ink w; distributed by rubbing the bal together, and then pounding the down lightly on the type, year after this we dispensed wil the balls and instead used a rolle made by stretching a piece of won en blanket over a cylinder and coi ering it with buckskin. We fin commenced to use a compositio roller in 1849. When I went t the case in 1840, the only daily pi pers printed in the state were i Charleston. They were the Chai leston Courier, the Charleston Me cury, the Southern Patriot, and th Charleston Evening Transcrip The Evening Transcript was issu, from the office of the Southern Pa triot. The Courier and Mercur issued tri-weeklies, making them u from the first and fourth pages c two daily issues and sending ther out on each alternate day. Ther was no caption across the pages a at present. Besides the dailies ther were in Charleston the followinj weeklies: Southern Baptist, Cathe lie Missionary. Southern Christia Advocate. In Columbia there wpr three weeklies, as follows: Soutl Carolinian, Southern Chronicle Temperance Advocate. There wer three weekly papers in Ed?efieh county, two at Hamburg and on< at Edgefield courthouse. r! hes were the Edgefield Advertiser, tin Hamburg Journal and the Harnburj Republican. The Edgefield Ad vertiser was published by W. F Derisoe. There was also th? Mountaineer of Greenville, the Com piler of Yorkville, the Journal o Camden, the Messenger of Pendle ton and the Gazette of Chesterfield. To the best of ray recollection then were no other papers in the state There was none in Chester, Winns boro, Newberry, Union. Spartan burg, Abbeville, Anderson, Sumter Orangeburg, Barnwell, Colleton Laurens, Horry, Williamsburg. Th( Edgefield Advertiser and the South ern Christian Advocate are the oui.", papers that have been printed con tinuously under the same name. J lemember the early numbers of all the other papers in the state not mentioned above. The Pioneer wai the first paper published in York ville and the date of the first issue was August 10, 1823. The firsi issue of Tne Yorkville En quirer made its appearance on Jan uary 4, 1855. This was the first South Carolina newspaper outside of Columbia and Charleston to use a machine, press and steam power.' -Yorkville Enquirer. FOR SALE: A seven-eighthe Jersey milch cow, calf one month old. A very fine cow. Apply at The Advertiser office. WANTED: To buy your remante of cotton seed at 50 cents per bushel, immediate deliver-,. R. M. Winn, Plum Branch, S. C. FOR SALE: Five milch cows fresh to pail. Geo. W. Adams. FOR SALE-Overland automo bile, model 83, 2 months old. Can be bought at very low price. Apply to T. R. Henderson, care Hall's Pharmacy Co., Aiken, S. C. 2t. selections besides the readings. The officers elected were, president, Miss Jessie Edwards; vice-preaident, Miss Betti J Waters; recording secretary, Miss Louise Boyd; treasurer, Miss Sadie Lee Bruce; historian, Miss Frances Turner. The hostess assist ed by Miss Annie Holmes Harrison served a variety of sandwiches and iced tea. ....O? . ... N D ntiment m m When you give a Wedding Present you should give a gift that will keep its beauty undimmed as the years go by. WE ARE PREPARED to furnish you just such gifts at this store, and at prices that will please you. A SPECIAL LOT OF WEDDING PRESENTS We have just reeeived a special shipment of Sterling Silver and Cut Glass. Come in and look our stoek over. 7/e will be glad to show you. ?2 THE CORNER STORE PROPRIETOR "Satisfaction Absolutely Guaranteed" m xicsleisKSJ TESL MOWERS AND RAKES Let us sell you a Mower and Rake. We sell the McCormick, Deering-, Osborne, Champion and Dane Mowers. AU are standard machines. We also carry a full assortment of repairs for these mowers. If your old mower needs repairing come to us for new parts. STEWART & KERNAGHAN.