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SHiabiisI?r? 1335. /. L. MI MS,.Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at he postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published anless accompanied by the writer's name. ' Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, Jan. 3. The express messengers are enjoy ing the calm after the storm. Plain old-field pine burns mighty good when coal is SS. 50 per ton. Florida now has a Catts for governor but his name ?snot "Thomas." .7 Baby carnage dealers in Edgefield -report a good business outlook fof 1917. "On with the war! let slaughter be unconfined,"' say the belligerents. The legislature will begin to lay down new laws to us next Tuesday. The price of rubber shoes is also elasti: and has stretched upward con siderably. Some people have troubles thrust upon them but auto troubles are as sumed voluntarily. One brave South Carolina boy is worth more than all the teeming millions in Mexico. Don't worry over the liquor ship ments of the past. Let's look to their curtailment in the future. It appears that Villa's New Year resolution is to raise more h-1 in Mexico than ever before. . Gentlemen of the General Assembly, curtail our "rights" further. We are getting entirely too much "licker." As 40,000 dressmakers are on a strike in Nsw York, some of the women folk may be forced to wear some of last spring's carried-over garments. It is said that a murder occurs in Chicago every other day. We want to select the olf-day when we visit the "Windy City." It appears that Germany will not gel out of the war as easy as she got in ?o it. The Allies say they ar? in it to a finish-Germany's finish. Cotton, iii: the doubie-nii.x-cd ma.:, is unstable in all of us ways. Before one can fully enjoy the h.ill of an ad vance in price, he is chided by a de cline. Make at Least One Resolution. It is well to make resolutions, when made seriously at:d in good fai! Ii, even if subsequently they are disregarded. It is worth while when one, af.er de liberate thought, realizes the weak places and attempts to strengthen them through a determined resolve or a supreme effort of will. The resolu tion may be broken in some unguarded moment but the realization that the weak place or shortcoming exists will cause one to be more constantly on the alert for improvement. The ONE resolution that The Adver tiser would have all make, is to resolve to KEEP SWEET throughout the en tire year of 1917. The happiness of many a home, even homes of affluence and culture, are marred bj' the ill na ture of some member of the home-cir cle. Their biting words and the sharp corners of their nature are constantly pricking those with whom they hourly meet. It is just as easy to scatter sweet smiles, kindly words and thought ful deeds along the way as it is to make life miserable for those about us. Any way, it is the "small, sweet courtesies of life" that make living worth while. Don'.t make many resolutions, lest they be lightly regarded, but in the few you make, one should be a firm re .solve to KEEP SWEET. Mail Order Houses. The volume of business of mail order houses is steadily increasir/g. They have been astute enough to use, in every possible way, the parcel post to sweli the volume of their business. In o?e day, just prior -to the holidays, one mail order house alone of Chicago turn ed over to the post office of that city 16,000 sacks of mail, paying thereon $26,000 in postage, This large sum was pa'd however by the patrons of the house all over the country and not hythe mercantile establishment itself. The consumer always pays the freight in one form or another. The secret of the success of mail or-1 .?der houses is advertising. All of them sre large advertisers, using religious, agricultural and other journals, sup plementing these with catelogues and circulars. Every dollar that is sent away to the distant city decreases the volume of business of some local mar chant. However, the same means of bringing about an increase, that of ad vertising, is open to him just as to the big mail order house. If the local merchan', fails to ii 'ess the consu mers in his field, or section from which he draws his business, with the fact that he not only sells certain lines of merchandise but sells merchandise of quality and at reasonable prices, then he has no one but himself to blame if the out-of-town merchants gets his bu siness. The Advertiser has always practiced and preached trading at home. Every dollar kept in the community is a ben efit not alone to the local merchant but to the entire community. However, in this day of progress and enterprise, the local merchant who, to use a com mon expression, goes to siten on the lob, will have out-of-town merchants make large inroads into his business. If he is lacking in the "get-up-and get" spirit, he should blame no ene but himself. "the Youngest Child Taken. The inexpressibly sad death of Edward Homar Blalock, the eleven year-old son of Rev. and Mrs. P. P. Blalock, was a great shock to the community. Several days before Christmas Domar hadan attack-ol' appendicitis and early last week he wa? carried to a hospital in Sumter, where he underwent an operation Wednesday, December 27. The disease had so far advanced, how ever, that the operation failed to save hi>. life. He died Sunday af ternoon about one o'clock and his bodv was brought to Edgeh'eld Monday and interred in the family square in the village cemetery. The funeral w?s held in the Presbyte rian chinch, being conducted by Dr. E. Pendleton Jonets. Domar s parents and his sisters, Mis. Ludy J. Blakelv and Mrs. W. S. Boyd were with him at the hos pita! and accompanied the bodv to ? Edgetield. Everything possible cnown to science ai:d skill was done .o save this young Hie, but for - orne reason, which finite vision can not liscern, God took him out of this ivoild. The Divine plan in his *boit i fe was completed on earth and he .va-i taken to that upper realm. J>o nar was widelv beloved and his leath also cau?fd profound son ow iiiiong the children, boy? and ;,i ls, jf the com m nu? ly, and es- ?ciallv iujoii^ his schoolmate**. When dc?'. I? emovrd thia bright boy Lbe last mild w. ' .ken from the home-cii dc. Being iheonly one ?cfc lo them, he devoted, parents were already eaning upon him despite his leader icaiv Boniar was loe light, the i i fe, the joy of their hearts and of .he home. The beautiful floral ..ioules were silent e..p-iwions of lynipathy from friends, and scores if others share ibe sorrow and min dle teai>. with U?eiu in thia hour ol luctterble giief. Edgelielcl County Teachers Association. The next meeting of the connia eachers association will take place in the auditorium of the school building, Saturday Jan. 13, begin ning promptly at eleven o'clock. 1 he o.licers are trying to make this the best meeting of the year. The program will be entertaining and, instinctive. It is earnestly desired I hat eveiy teacher in the county be p ?sent. There is no reason why Edgetield countv should not stand in the front ranks in the forward mai cb of education. No body can make this association a success but the teachers themselves. It is the duty of every teacher to attend the meetings and to freely express them selves upon all subjects for discus sion. The program will be as follows: 1. (a) Illiteracy in Edgetield county: (b) Its Remedy. (a) Statements of conditions now existing in the county. Leader, Miss Snow Jeffries, Edge held High School. (b) It's Remedy-Leader, Prof. G. F. Long, Harmony High School. The subject will be discussed gen erally by all present. It should ar jieal strongly to every teacher in the county. Address, Dr. W. S. Currell of of theUniversity of South Carolina. Dr. Currell is one of the finest speakers in the South. No teacher can afford to miss this address. We invite all pupils of the High Schools, aud the public generally is urged to be present. T. J. Lyon, Pres. i C. M. Mol Lhamp, Sec. .Do. Teachers Association FOR REN T: 5-room house on Addison Street. Apply to J. H. Allen at TRe Bi uk of Edgetield. Wanted-To buy 7 pounds of goose feathers. State price per pouftd. Mrs. E. H. Crews, Edgefield, S. C. Off For College Again. The college hoys and girls cam*' home and spent a merty ten davs and have resumed their studies. Miss Marion Bailey h,is returned to the Chicora College for Women, Miss Ida Folk, Miss Janice Morgan and Miss Lula Oazts lo Winthrop, Miss Gladys Padgett to the G. W. C., Miss ILdcn Tillman to Hoi lins, Miss Nell Jones to Converse, Misses Helen Dorn, Minnie Lat: ham. Emmie and Alma DeLoach and Miss Florence Mims lo Coker. Clover Tompkins, William and Diomede Hollinasworth, Goode Reel and Walter Mays have velu? ti ed to Clemson, Carroll Rainsfoid and James Thompson to the ci la i el, Waller Camelon and Edgar Si) oth er to the University of South Cata lina, Gill Dun ovan t LO Woffo>d Gus Tompkins lo Davidson ai.ft A - thur Tompkins kio toe law School of vhe University, Rainsford Can telou lo Atlanta College of Pharma cy. Ed gen* eld is very proud of this splendid lot of young ladies and young gentlemen and expects great luin^s of them. Citation. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD. By W. T. Kinnaird, Probate Judge. Whereas, A. A. Edmunds made snit to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of tho Estate and effects of Mrs. Emily Middleton, deceased. These Aie Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and Creditors of the said Mis. Emily Middleton, deceased, t.bat they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Edge?eld, C. H., S. C., in my of iice at ll o'clock on the l'Jth Janu ary, 1917, nest after publication theieof, at ll o:clock in the fore noon, io show cause, if anv they have, why the said Adminisl ration should not oe granted. Given under my Hand, this 2nd day of Januarv A. D., 1017. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Jud^e E. C. Jan. 3 -3t. Almost Lost Hope In Repeated Failures. CHARLESTON MAN DE CLARES HE WAS UP AND DOWN ALL NIGHT LONG-"ALMOST DROVE ME CRAZY. Cha rles! on Railroad Man Dcclai'es That At Last He Has Conquered His Troubles. "Tanlac has done a great deal for me. Since I be au taking it I have gained ten pounds in weight and I do not suffer with any of those dis tressing ailments and I am steadily improving in health and s'reglh." In these words. W. II. Lowis, a Southern Railway sealion foreman, of 44 Drake St., Charleston, sum med up the great relief Tanlac, "The National Tonic,"' had given him. Mr. Lewis' ttatement fol lows: "My system was generally run down and ont of tone before I be gan taking Tanlac. I was a sufferer with indigestion and nervousness. I had contended with indigestion and stomach troubles for about I we n ty-ti ve years and it seemed that nothing I took would take give me permanent relief, and gen erally 1 failed to get relief. I have taken a great many different medi cines and have been treated by phy sicians, but I continued to suffer with my stomach. Gas formed in great quantities on mv stomach and I was troubled a great deal with pains around my heart. At night I was very restless, and my sleep was broken and un-' refreshing, and I was up and down all night. Pains in my abdomen also added to my troubles and dis comforts. "I was subject to severe attacks of nervousness, and when my nerves were in that condition, any noise, if it continued a while, would al most drive me crazy. ^ "The Tnnlac advertising had caught my eye, and finally 1 deci ded to take it, even if so many oth er medicines had proved disappoint ing to me and had done a lot to kill my faith in medicine. But Tanlac proved the exception to this rule. Tanlac has done a great deal for me. I have gained ten pounds in weight and I do uot suffer from any of these distressing ailments as I did. My appetite is goo? and I digest what I eat and I do not have those pains after eating as I once did. "My nerves were quieted by tak ing the Tanlac, and I was also im proved so much that I can sleep well now and I feel much better and i gg. Wishes its many patrons a prosperous and happy new year; and, also, takes this means of thanking them for their continuous loyalty in the past. , We are certainly grateful of the encouragement shown the store in the past, and it will be the policy ?f the store to'be conducted on the same lines as in the past, and hope to hold the confidence of the patrons in the future. THE mm W. H. TURNER ESTATE ar more refreshed in the morning now than I used to. In every way I feel a whole lot belter. "My wife also took Tanlac, and it gave her just as satisfactory re sults as it gave me. I am glad to recommend Tanlac, because of the resal?s it crave ray wife and myself. Tanbie has been of gi eat benefit to both o'f us, and I highly ?ecommend it." Tanbie, the Master Medicine, is sold by EDGEFJ ELD Cor/xTY. Edgefield, Penn cfc Holstein. Cold Surings, II Ernest Qnaries. Edgefield, R F D No 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Com pany. Modoc, G C McDaniel. Parksville, Robertson <fe Com pany. Plum Dranch, J VV Braekuell & Son. Plum branch, RFD No 2, E P Winn cfc Bro. Trenton, (4 W Wise. * f * * NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS I am deeply grateful to the people for the splendid business accorded me in the past, and wish one and all a Happy New Year. I will appreciate a continuance of your patronage L. T. MAY ?I ? t-. ? - * gene The year just closed has been a very satisfactory business year, and we owe much to the people who have so generously patronized us. We take this means of thanking them, and also solicit a contin uance throughout the year 1917, which we hope will be a happy one to all of our friends. V We expect to keep our stock complete in every department in the future and solicit a share of your business, doing at all times our best to merit your confidence. Mukashy Bargain House