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$?si ffewsp aper in ?pEib (tofe EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1916 NO. 25 JOHNSTON LETTER. Baraca and Philathea Picnic. Miss Bean NarrowlyEscaped Drowning. Mrs. Marsh Entertained. The Baraca class of the Baptist church gave their annual picnic on last Wednesday, inviting to join with them the members of the Fi delis class. The day was a pleasant one and cars and wagons conveyed the crowds out to Yonce pond where the picnic was to be held. The morning passed pleasantly with va rious pastimes and about one o'clock a regular feast of good things was served. The afternoon had been planned for bathing, the waters of , the pond proving very tempting, but this came near ending in a tragedy. The bottom of the pond has many deep places in it and one of the young ladies, Miss Bessie Bean, who could not swim but was wading came unexpectedly to a deep place and being a little dis tance from the rest, help did not reach her immediately. Mr. Julian Bland who was on the bank saw her sink and gave the alarm. The near est to her were Messrs. Wallace . Turner and Archie Lewis. Mr. Tur ner swam quickly to her, but she was sinking a second time, so he dived for her and supporting ber Mr. Lewis lifted her above the wa ter and she was soon to the banks. M iss Bean received no injuries other than the shock cf the water. , Mrs. M. M. Stewart has returned f to Chester after a visit to her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kneece and ? children spent the week-end in the home of Mr. M. W. Clark. Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Brooke re turned on i'Friday from Greenville where they attended the Baptist as sembly, A most interesting account of this meeting was told by Mr. Brooke on Wednesday evening at the prayer service. Protracted services are being held , this week at Philippi church at ll and 2 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. A. - C. Baker, being assisted bv Rev. W. S. Brooke. Mrs. Hilliary Wright of Mace , Ga., spent a few days of the p st week here with relatives. Mrs. Wilmot Ouzts has returned from a visit to her parents at Te nille, Ga. The afternoon party of last Thursday which Mrs. J. W. Marsh gave for her sisters, Mrs. lsom and and Miss Fleming was delightful in ? each detail. This home is beautiful and spacious and long since has had a reputation for such sweet and cordial hospitality, so at any of the social functions held here there is scarcely ever an absentee. Mrs. Marsh was assisted by her mother, Mrs. Pedrick, in receiving her friends and soon all were gaily chatting. Places were found by the score cards on thc- tables and an hour or more was spent with pro ? gressive rook the game proving very pleasant. Music was enjoyed after the game. Lovely centerpieces were spread on the tables and a most delicious repast of salads, sandwiches, pickle, crackers, toma toes lilied with mayonnaise, and iced tea. The beautiful china and cut glass gave a pretty touch to the tables. Miss Sara Simmons of Newber ry is visiting Miss Helen Lewis. ? Mr. James White has gone to Chimney Rock, N. C., where his wife and daughter, Miss Hallie White have been staying. After the flood he became much alarmed and being unable to hear from them de cided to go. On the evening before . he departed a communication from Mrs. White stated that they were safe but that no traveling could be dee within 20 miles of Chimney Rock only by walking. It was his intention to go as far as ho could by conveyance and then walk the . rest of the way. At an early (Ute a vote for wa ter works will be again taken a pe tition going the rounds last week to find out the sentiment of ail and enable the vote to be taken. Miss Ethel Cullum of Batesburg is spendiug this week with Miss Bessie Ford Turner. Messrs. Mark Toney and Powell Harrison spent hst week at Olar with the former's sister, Mrs. Hamp ton Kirkland. Misses Sallie Dozier and Ruth Harris are visiting Miss Christine Kinard at Ninety Six. The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marsh has within it this week a house party of relatives. Mrs. Ped rick, Mrs. Isora and Miss Theora Fleming of Gainesville, Fla., mother and sisters of Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Lou Jones and Misses Willie and Olinthia Jones of Laurens, Miss Emmie Lou Washington and Mr. Benedict Meer of Newberry. Miss Maud Nickerson will leave I in a few day days to spend awhile in the mountains of North Carolina. Mrs. Sammon of Macon, Ga., is the guest of her daughter, ?Mrs. Jo seph Wright. Mrs. Dorn of Spartanburg is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Dobey. Mrs. A. P. Lewis entertained with a dinner party on Thursday for Mrs. Dorn. Mr. V. E. Edwards has returned from a business trip to Chicago. Miss Loise Boyd v.as hostess for a very pleasant afternoon party last Tuesday the honorees being Misses Ruth Harris, and Nellie Vera Bai ley. Progressive rook was the chief diversion and after the game, which was an animated one, the hostess as sisted by her mother, Mrs. F. M. Boyd, and Miss Marion Boyd serv ed refreshing ices and cake. Thursday evening was delightful ly spent by the younger set, the oc casion being a party given by Miss Lizzie Kate Anderson in compli ment to her visitor, Miss Juanita Woodson of Augusta. There were about twenty couples present and after all had arrived the chief part of the evening was spent in pro gressive . conversation and later, frozen cream with pound cake was enjoyed. Forty Acres of Velvet Beans. During the past few years much has been written on velvet beans as a substitute for peas in this section. Quite a number of farmers have experimented with them in a small way but only a few have planted largely of velvet beans. Last year Mr. James R. Cantelou, a practical, observing man and one of our most successful farmers, planted a small quantity of velvet beans by way of experiment. He was so well pleased with the results obtained that he purchased five bushels this year, half of the Chinese variety and half of the early speckle velvet i beans, and planted them in a forty acre field of corn. The beans were dropped among the 20m when it was about waist high, one bean at a place six feet apart in the drill. Mr. Cantelou has almost a perfect stand, the distance between the beans be ing something like ii by 0 feet. The corn was laid by several weeks ago and the beans are beginning to climb the stalks. Where the corn is not a perfect stand the beans are more advanced and have almost covered the ground. There are several points in favor of velvet beans as compared with peas. They are less expensive in that a peck will plant considerably more than an acre, while nearly two bushels of peas are required to the acre to cover the ground broadcast. It is chimed also that beans will store away as much nitrogen in the soil as peas and will in addition produce a ranker growth, leaving more vegetable matter on the ground. If we remember correctly, Mr. Cantelou planted the forty acres of beans among the corn at a cost ol' about 20 cents per acre. We hope to visit this field of very fine corn, the entire 40 acres averaging weil, in the fall and see for our selves what the beans have done, and will then report it through The Advertiser Jfor the benefit of the farmers over the county. Thus far we are decidedly of the opinion that velvet beans are just THE thing for our farmers. Miss Ida Foik"? Entertains. On last Friday evening Miss Ida Folk entertained a group of young people, three tables of rook being the charming amusement. Tally cards were given the guests as they entered so that they might record Hie amount made. The evening was greatly enjoyed as rook is a popuiar game. Delight ful pineapple cream and cake were served, after which the. prize was presented to Miss Gladys Bell. This consisted of blue stationery. The guests enjoyed the game and re luctantly left. HARDY'S HAPPENINGS. Floods Have Descended. Meri wether Barbecue Largely Attended. Meeting at Sweetwater Church. Rain, Rain, rain, we are having: lots of it and too much too. It be gan raining Sunday morning at 5 o'clock and poured until half past 9, then held up a half hour and started again for the rest of the day. Monday morning it began at 8 o'clock and is still busy. The farm ers are very blue. The crops being young, are growing fast making weeds and need work and sunshine U# make fruit. The Meriwether club barbecue was largely attended and very much enjoyed, notwithstanding the rain and mud. The roads down this way are badly washed and some very deep mud which stalled the automo biles down by the Misses Lanier. The road through toward Sweet water and Corryton from the Mar tintown out by Misses Laniers, Barker and Bunches is almost im passable. I think we deserve good roads as well as in other parts of the county. Mrs. George Townes has been spending some time with her moth er, Mrs. E. J. Barker. Mr. George Townes spent Sunday with his moth er, Mrs. Julia Townee. He returned to Aiken in the afternoon. Mrs. T. L. Harley spent Satur day and Sunday with Mrs. Georgia ivlcKie, returning home in the rain Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Baxley and children returned home Saturday from a ve?y pleasant visit to Mrs. P. M. Markert of Belvedere. Mr. and Mrs. John DeLaughter from the Red Hill section spent a day or two with the Misses Lanier and attended the cue, returned home the last of the week. Mr. Pick Adams visited Mr. and Mrs. John DeLaughter the tirst of last week. Miss Theresa Bunch has returned horne after an extended and very much enjoyed visit to relatives in Columbia and Fortson, Ga. Miss Beatrice Stevens is home again from her visits to Trenton and Columbia. We were glad to see Miss Sallie DeLaughter so mu oh improved since her operation at the University hos pital. We were glad to hear of the many converts out at the Sweetwa ter protracted meeting. Hope Har dy's may be as successful this Au gust. The clouds are thinner and sun trying to shine. What a welcome sight. Hardy's. Sunbeam Mission Study Meet ing. . On Thursday afternoon at four o'clock several automobiles full of happy children might have been seen on their way toa mission study meeting at the home of Mr. Charles R. Dobson. The spacious lawn was a beautiful back ground for the lit tle children in their many colored ribbons and white dresses and suits. There were several trips made by the three cars bringing in all about fifty children from their homes. The children played drop hand kerchief and other games until a small shower compelled them to come up on the roomy porch. Here the program was carried out, Mrs. Curran Feltham telling the story of the lesson consisting of a travel through the countries of the Orient. As each country was passed in the imagination of the children some child wearing the native costume came out or perhaps some mission ary adde:l her experience. Miss Lois Dobson was dressed as a child widow of India, Miss Gladys Beil represented Mrs. Anne Haseltine Judson of Burma. She wore a cos tume resembling the one that Anne wore and looking much like the noted character. Miss Eleanor Mirna dressed as a Burmese woman. The victrola entertained the other guests during the afternoon. Again the children romped and played on the grass until delight ful peach icecream cones were serv ed. The afternoon was delightfully spent and the children heartily en joyed it. A Guest. COUNTY CAMPAIGN. .First or Series County Campaig \ Meetings Held at Johnston : Saturday. Small At tendance. The first county campaign mee ing? arranged by the Deraocrati executive committee was called t order by County Chairman B. E Nicholson in the opera < house a Johnston Saturdoy morning a 11:30, there being about 100 voter present. Mr. Nicholson read th names of all candidates for offic who have qualified under the rule of the parcy, and after performin this official duty he turned th meering over to the local chairmac Mr. W. Jjee Coleman. Pievious to the meeting the can di dates held a conference and de ciden upon the order in which the: wonM speak and also what tim would be allotted to the candidate for;?the several offices. It wa agreed that the candidates for thi senate were to have 30 minute; eacsha the candidates for the hous< 20 foinutes and the other candi date?' who desired to speak lc minutes. The first speaker presented b.\ Mr. poleman was Mr. M. P. Wells a candidate for the State senate.. Ht stated that the public record ol every; servant of the people was a matter of public interest and could be discussed. He discussed the Laney-Odom insurance law at some length, stating that whatever their intensions were, the legislation''that gavels the law made a mistake. He statet?.that if he is elected he will vote for its repeal and will make it possible fer insurance companies to do brassiness in South Carolina. Mr. Wells favors reducing the legal'irate of interest to 6 per cent. He n?xt attacked the tax commis sion, stating that it was more ex pensive than the former system and less satisfactory. He stated that it h ad dowered the assessed valuation of property ?140,000 in Edgefield cor.:J^ This decrease had been mUt?eTan^ corporations while land remained the' same. He called at tention to the lowering of the as. sessments of the banks while they were making 25 and 30 per cent He said the tax commission had decreased the amount for which Charleston banks were taxed but had raised the assessed valuation, which had been of no real benefit to the people. Mr. Wells jead a list of the amount of taxes paid by the banks of Edgefield county for 1014 and 1915, before and after the reduction of assessments by the tax commission, the amount in the ag gregate for 1915 being about 81, 200 less than 1014. He stated that during the past 2U years the rate of increase of property has been about seven and one-half million dollars a year, while under the tax commis sion the iucrease has been only three and one-half million dollars each year. Mr. Wells referred to a measure introduced by Mr. Nicholson to amend the law relative to public cot ton weigher, stating that while a member of the house he had this amendment repealed. Hon. B. E. Nicholson was next presented and thanked God that he could say that all of.his acts as a leg islator have been in accord with his best judgment and that he had noth ing to conceal, stating that if the criticisms of Mr. Wells were for the public good he was doing his duty, but if for the purpose of elevating himself to the senate then his were unworthy motives. He stated with emphasis that he would vote to re tain the tax commission and give it a chance to work out the tax situa tion. He gave the figures to show that by reducing the banks of Edge field county the commission was merely equalizing the tax burden. The banks of Edgefield county had hitherto been paying on a basis of (JO per cent, of their capital and surplus, while the banks of Marl boro county had been paying only 20 per cent, and banks in Charles ton had been paving less than 30 per cent. The Edgefield banks were lowered and the other banks raised. Concerning the assessments of corporations in Edgefield coun ty, Mr. Nicholson read figures ob tained from the office of the comp troller general showing that while the assessments of the banks had been reduced $44,000 by thc tax commission other property was increased by something over ?39, 000, leaving a net loss to the county of a little more than ?4,000. Mr. Nicholson gave the figures to show what increase had been made in the assessments of banks, cotton mills, electric plants, fertilizer plants, rail roads, and other corporations by the tax commission, all of which aggregated about ?9,000,000.He said the expense ^of the board was a mere bagatelle compared with the great benefits derived through it. Mr. Nicholson said the great need of our people is mo re money with which to develop our resources. The banks are unable to supply the demand. He referred to the excel lent results from legislation which he enacted requiring foreign insu rance companies to make loans within the State. The coming of this money into the State will re sult in farmers being ablt to ob tain loans from insurance compa panies at a low rate of interest. He read a letter from Insurance Com missioner McMaster commending him for securing the passage of the act requiring companies to make investments and loans in South Carolina. Concerning the legal rate of in terest, Mr. Nicholson showed that the rate fixed by law only applies to judgments and other matters of that character. The contract rate, the rate charged by individuals and banks, would not be changed by the law reducing the legal rate. He gave the legal and contract rates of a dozen or more other States to show that South Carolina was no higher than a majority of the States. As to the Laney-Odom bill, Mr. Nicholson stated that in his judg ment some changes should be made in the law and that if re-elected he will work to that end, retaining the good features of the law and elimi nating the objectionable features. He expiaiued his connection with the amendment to the cotton weigh er's law to which Mr. Wells refer red, stating that Mr. Wells made the same mistake, or was guilty of the same oversight,. with reference, to the chaingang of the supervisor's term of office in Edgefield county from two to four years. Mr. Nicholson favors the pen sioning of all veterans and intro duced a bill making that provision at the last session. If re-elected he will press its passage. In refer ring to the condition of Edgefield county, Mr. Nicholson stated that the tax rate for this county will compare favorably with other coun ties of the State, being in fact low er than Union, Anderson, Green ville, Spartanburg and other wealthy counties. Hon. J. Lucas Walker was the fi rsl candidate to sneak for the house of representatives. He said it has been the custom for a number of years for the candidate at whose borne a meeting is held to give the time allotted him to other candi dates and following that cus tom he would make only a few re marks. After welcoming the candidates to Johnston Mr. Walker stated that it is not the members of the house who do the most speaking who ren der the greatest service to their county and State. Some of the lead ing and most useful members are those who do their work in a quiet way in the committee rooms and on the floor of the house. He thanked his home poople for their loyal sup port when he was elected to till the unexpired term of the lamented J. P. DeLa ug h te r. T h e i r 1 oy a 1 ty will encourage him to always do nis best, always yoting for and support ing the measures that will bring the greatest yood to the greatest number. Capt. N. G. Evans was the second speaker. Ile stated that in asking the suffrage of the people for the house he was not without experience as legislator, having served the peo ple in that capacity ouce before. He said he had no special acts to pass and no special hobbies but will render the best service of which he is capable. Capt. Evans said, if elected, he will go to Columbia un trammeled and will do his full duty, pledging the best effort of his heart and hand. The roan who promises lie will do this or that is promising too much, for he is only one of 124 men. One member is only 124th part ul' the body. Capt. Evans approves of the large (Continued on Fifth Page.) CONDITIONS IN TEXAS* Rain Needed. Cotton Gives Promise of Good Yield. Sat isfactory Prices Expect ed in Texas. Dear Advertiser: I will write to let some of my friends know what has become of me. Uncle Iv seems to tbinkl I have either run away or crawled into an alligator hole. I am like he is. I am getting too old to run and to find an alliga tor hole I would have to go too near the Mexicans. So I will stay where I am and if it comes to a fight or run I believe I could put up a better fight than a race. I have seen the time when it was necessary I could make as good a run as the best of them. Uncle Iv says he was seventy-two years old the tenth of J une. I was seventy two years old the seventh of last December, but the discription he gave of himself I am not as old as be is. I see 3S well as I ever did after an object gets three or four feet from me. I can see the stand pipe at the water works at Hubbard city with mv naked eyes and that is twenty miles. That may be hard to believe but when any of you see J. C. Morgan of Parksville ask bim if it is not so. When he was out here I carried him to Millford and from Brandon I showed him the standpipe at Hubbard 20 miles, the stand pipe at Frost 10 miles and the Female college at Milford all from one point and it was not from a high hill either. A fellow can see all around him here and is not hemmed by trees. I will try and answer Mr. White. He wanted me to tell about the crops. Well, we are beginning to need rain, the last we had was about the fifteenth of June.. The corn will not be as heavy as it would have been if we could have had rain two weeks ago but I think it averages forty-five or fifty bushels to the acre and some of it may make a little more. The cotton is doing very .wolLyet but it will not be very long, before it will begin to bloom ap near the top. The ground in the middles is cracking open now. But to tell the the truth about the cot ton you can never tell what it is going to do. It may look like it will make a bale to the acre and you may not get more than a fourth and then it may look like it will not make that much and you may make from three-fourths to a bale it all depends on the seasons from now on. One year the boll worms cut everything off of the stalk and on the fifteenth of September it would not average more than two or three bolls to the stalk and it made three quarters of a bale by the last of Oc tober. The talk out here about the price of cotton this fall is that it may go to fifteen or twenty cents a pound and cotton seed will be worth from fifty to sixty dollars per ton. Some were trying some time ago to aver age cotton at thirteen cents and seed at fifty dollars. If cotton and seed get that high from the outlook now nearly everybody will be riding in automobiles. There are now sixteen hundred and ninety two autos and motor cycles in this county and they ex pect another car load in Hillsboro this week. There will be two gins in Bran don, one of them burned down in February. They are going to re build and put in four eighty saw stand or five seventy. The other gin has ten seventy 'and when the sea son opens up and the weather is good they gin from eighty to one hundred bales a day. Both gins will be run by electricity and all the lat est improved machiuery. W. J. Rochelle, Brandon, Texas. WHEN YOU HAVE A COLD Give it attention, avoid exposure, be regular and careful of your diet, also commence taking Dr. King's New Discovery.lt containsPine-Tar. AntisepticOils and Balsams. Is slight ly laxative. Dr. King's New Dis covery e-:ses your cough, soothes your throat and bronchial tubes, checks your cold, starts to clear your head. In a S? . time your cold is better. lis the standard family cough syrup in use over 40 years. Get a bottle at once. Keep it in the house as a cold insurance. Sold at your druggist. 3