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------ rf Mg VOL. 82 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1917 NO.23 JOHNSTON LETTER. Business Meeting of Church Planned. Miss Padgett En tertained Thursday With P. Rook Party. On Sunday morning at the Bap tist church plans were made for the second annual business meeting, which will be had the second Sun day in September. It was decided to have an all day affair with dinner on the grounds. The last meeting was a splendid occasion and every one enjoyed hearing of the work of the church for the year, and the various reports of the different de partments. It is hoped that every member will endeavor to be present to an swer to the church roll call which will be held in the morning. The Ridge Association will be held this lyear with Rocky Creek church, and the annual meeting of the W. M. U., will meet with the Ward Baptist church. Mrs. "Wingate, with Bernice and James, have gone to the Isle of Palms to spend awhile. Mrs. Rufus Dorn of Meeting Street, spent a part of last week here with relatives. Misses Ethel and Mary Cullum of Batesburg, are the guests of Miss Elise Mobley. Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Black and children and Mrs. Fannie Jefferson attended services at Rocky Creek church on Sunday. Mr. W. S. Stokes of Blackville, spent last week here with his family. Miss Hortense Padgett entertain ed in a most pleasant manner one afternoon of the past week in com pliment to Misses Glover of Beech Island. Progressive Rook occupied the time, and while chatting deli cious ices and cake was served. A telegram was received by rela tives here on Sunday afternoon stating the death of Mr. F. Graham Payne, which occurred at a hos pital in Atlanta- lie had been operated on for appendicitis, and had returned from the hospital, but further complications set in caus ing a second operation, from which death resulted. Greenwood nor the county had more popular or beloved young citizen than he. He had served as County Treasurer for eight years, and last year was elected Clerk of Court of Greenwood county. He is pleasantly remembered not only here, but by many friends in Edgefield. He has often visited here in the home of his uncle, Mr. John W. Payne. He was a young man of unusual capabilities, and his genial manner and bouyant spirit made him everybody's friend. He leaves a widow, who was Miss Mary K. Durst of Greenwood, and a little son and three brothers, Messrs. Richard Payne of Florida, William Payne of Atlanta, and Dr. John Wallace Payne of Green wood; and two sisters, Mesdames W. P. B. Kinard of Greenwood, and Mrs. Calvin Curry of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Dobey visit ed last week at Parksville in the home of the former's brother who is critically ill. His physician has given up every hope of his recovery. Miss May Watson has gone to Americus, Ga., to visit her sister, Mrs. Luther Lott. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Boatwright entertained with an enjoyable din ning last week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cox. Miss Lucile Norris who has a position as stenographer in Union, is spending her vacation here in the home of her father, Mr. M. J. Nor ris. Mrs. Lucinda xv right has been quite sick but is now much improv ed and able to be up. She is now in her 82nd year, and is one of the "mothers in Israel," a noble, Chris tian woman, of whom many rise up to call her blessed. Mr. W. W. Satcher has returned from a two weeks visit to Glenn Springs. Rev. W. S. Brooke is assisting the pastor in the revival at Rocky Springs church this week. During the past week he conducted the meeting at Horn's Creek church, making a daily trip in his car. At the prayer meeting service Wednes day evening, he told something of the meeting aud also trave some very interesting historical points of Horn's Creek church. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Walker and children have gone to Greenville to Revival Meeting at Red Oak Grove Church. The series of meetings at Red Oak Grove beginning last fifth Sun day embracing the week except Sat urday, having two services each day, was more like a Bible school. Rev. Abiah Bussey of Martin, Ga., son of our honored pastor, Rev. G. W. Bnssey, was our instructor or help er. The services each day were so earnest and plain that it was not easy for one to go away unbenefited, for the scripture was explained and reasoned out, that to each life it was oracticably applicable. That our young brother was the son of our beloved pastor made us appreciate him, and then for the many manifestations of bis genuine ness of heart and purpose, made many deep impressions on his hear ers, beautifully touching incidents occurred to many of us during the meeting. We extend greetings to our young friend, praying an im provement of health, all things be ing asked in Jesus' name and for His glory. Rev. G. W. Bussey will hold a meeting at Modoc this week, Dr. Pendleton Jones of Edgefield, as sisting. Already many of our people have heard Dr. Jones who anticipate enjoying the services this week. Sergt. W. D. Allen. Mr. Wad D. Allen was received last week into Company F, of the second regiment, better known as the Governor's Guards. This his toric company is commanded by Capt. W. M. Carter, another Edge field man. The Advertiser con gratulates Mr. Allen upon being promoted to the rank of sergeant soon after his enlistment. He will not only make a valuable member of the company but we predict that he will make a brilliant record as a soldier. Sergt. Allen came home on a furlough of several days and has been rendering valuable assistance to the County Exemption Board in making the physical examinations. Card From "Uncle Iv." Well, as I have just finished taking my medicine, will tell you what it was, two hours working in the garden planting rutabagas. I find about two hours work after break fast is the best medicine for real laziness I have ever taken, and when dinner time comes am ready for a hearty meal. Two of my Cai*' olina children are on a visit to me at this writing and I feel like I have gotten home again. Crops were beginning to need rain, but had two nice showers in tho last two days. Mr. Editor, if you should hear that I have been put in jail, just say, well I am not sur prised for he always would speak what he thought, and sometimes before he thought, '"imes are get ting pretty serious :V?? here and the muttering of the .istant thun der is beginning to be heard, and the clouds getting in sieht. Leave you to guess what 'tis about. Uncle Iv. Harlem, Ga. visit relatives, making the trip in their car. Misses Maude and Gladys Saw yer are at home from a six months visit at Georgetown in the home of their brother, Dr. Olin Sawyer. Mrs. M. T. Turner, Miss Zena Payne, and Miss Grace Turner visit ed Mrs. Harri' 0. Strother last week at Chappells, and upon their return she accompanied them for a visit. Miss Ida Satcher has gone to Florence to visit her sister, Mrs. Charles Early. Rev. and Mrs, George P. W7hite of Union, are spending this week here with relatives. Rev. White is assisting the pastor of Dry Creek church in the protracted services, he h aving helped there in the splen did meeting that was had there this time last year. Mr. and Mrs. Ira C. Carson and children visited last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Stev ens, Mesdames W. W. Satcher and Alice Cox visited in Augusta last week. Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Corn are spending this week in Walhalla with the latter's parents. Miss Janie Bruce has gone to Atlanta to visit relatives. ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO Essay by Miss Ouida Pattison. Won First Prize in State W. C. T. U. Con test. There was a day when people re garded alcohol as an article of ne cessity; a day when, in the hornes [of the rich, the wine bottle could be seen on the side-board, the beer bottle in the refrigerator, and the whiskey flask on the closet shelf. In sickness it was administered as a stimulant; in pleasure as an aid to mirth and happiness. But that day has passed. We no longer take pleasure in adorning our tables with glittering wine glasses because the present generation looks upon them as symbols of evil, wickedness and crime. Tobacco, too, in its every form was kept in the home. The silver cigarette stand and oriented cigar holder were forever present in their seemingly reserved seats on the mantel. In the early history of America tobacco was deemed so precious th it the leaves were used as a source of currency. That time has also passea but yet, although tobacco does not now occupy its ac customed seat of prominence in the home, it still reigns among the men of the world. This is a change, however, and shows progress toward a brighter future. Time has wrought changes in all things, but why this great change with respect to King Alcohol and Tobacco? Scientists have studied the question and have found alcohol and tobacco to be two deadly poisons, two de stroyers of health, happiness, and life. Sir Andrew Clark said: "Al cohol and opium are poisons; so is strychnine, so is arsenic. They rank with these agents and health is always injured by the use of them. There is a cosmic consciousness in the air of coming revolutions and evolutions, which have intense per sonal interest to every individual." This is evident in the changes,' un rest, expectancy, and need of con stant readjustment of our mental and physical relations in every day life. New questions of disease and mortality, new phases of degenera tion appear in every department of social, professional and commercial life- Alcohol and opium are com ing into greater prominence as fac tors in disease and death requiring new study and examination. The physical, mental, moral, and social condition of a man is serious ly injured by the use of alcohol or tobacco in any form or quantity. The first noticeable effects of either are physical. Alcohol slowly eats away the tine tissues, blood vessels, corpuscles, and other delicate mem branes of the body. The heavt is attacked, the blood made impure, and in the end the nervous system is completely destroyed. The ap parent stimulation which alcohol renders is only an irritation, a con vulsive tetanising exhibition of ener gy associated with and followed by depression, diminished vitality, and loss of motor and sense impression. Some people believe that a certain amount of spirits is harmless and may be consumed in the body with little or no danger provided the amount is below a certain limit This is untrue. Alcohol in any form is recognized as a most com plex chemical agent with specific physiological and psychological ef fects on the cells and tissues. These are irritant, depressant, and anes thetic; at the same time corrosive, errosive. Alcohol is the most subtle and dangerous of all drugs impair ing health and longlevity. Dr. W. II. Riley of Colorado Sanitarium, savs: 'Mt has been well known to physicians and scientific men for years that the use of alcohol, even in moderate quantities when long continued produces various diseases of the nervous system such as pa ralysis, insanity, apoplexy. In hundreds and even thousands of cases of those, who have been ad dicted to the use of this poison for any considerable time, severe and distinct organic changes have also been found by post mortem examin ations in the brain and other parts of the nervous system." As to to bacco, every one knows that it con tains a poison, nicotine, which in small quantities is a nerve irritant under the guise of nerve-quieting. With the false impression ot sooth ing the nerves it sets them on edge producing a condition which de (Continued on Fifth Page.) 1 PARENT AND CHILD. - Lecture by Prof. E. M. Rucker, Law Instructor of the University of South Carolina. Th?9 is the third of a series of lectures by Prof. E. Marion Rucker of ^he law school of the university or. the subject of domestic relations, de?vered before the summer school of Winthrop, the university, North Carolina State Normal and the University of Georgia. The at tempt here, on account of space, is not to reproduce the entire lecture but' to state the general points covered. The law, so far as it deals with the duties of parent to child and child to parent, only recognizes the obUgatious during the minority of the cMld. The relationship auto matically ceases upon the part of bo^? when the child arrives at the age of 21. Though affection and respect continue to keep these duties active for a much longer period, in fact through life, nevertheless, in the eyes of the law, no legal duty exists on the part of either after that time. Norean an action be entertained against the parent to hold-him liable for the support of a cHild who has attained majority nor by the parent for the earnings of such a child. AU children fall within one or two classes. They are either legiti mate or illegitimate, and all are legitimate whose parents were mar ried at any time prior to the birth of the child; the law strongly leans towards holding the children to be legitimate, so much so that it re jects any and all evidence-however strong and convincing it may be tending to show illegitimacy when the husband and wife lived together and the courts will bold, in the ab sence of proof to the contrary, that a marriage had taken place between the parents in order that the child ren ffay b? heid illegitimate. *"' The parents are charged with the discipline or rearing of the children and may inflict such punishment as in their opinion is just, for which punishment under no circumstances are they liable in an action for dam ages to child, even though the pun ishment was unreasonable or even brutal. The law does not permit a rebellions and defiant child to stand in the presence of his parent and to threaten an action for damages for impending chastisement. On the other hand in cases of extreme pun ishment, the parent may be punished in the criminal courts. It is tue duty of the fathers to protect the child-not merely a pas sive right, but an active duty, and in so doing ho may plead self-de fense just as much so as he could to violence offered his own person. Teachers stand in loco parentis and may inflict corporal punish ment, but with this distinction, that they are liable for excessive punish ment. It is the duty of the father to sup port the child; there is no such duty upon the mother as long as the father lives and this is true though the father be poor and the mother rich. The law looks only to him as long as he lives and turns only to her after his death. But in New Hampshire, Yennont, Illinois, New Jersey and Indiana, it has been held that there is no legal duty upon the parent to support the child, that such duty is only moral. This remarkable view, however, has not been adopted in the other states and it is generally accepted in all the other states that the duty is a legal one. Now as to the measure of the support'due by a father to his child, it is tillite different from the duty due by a husband to his wife. In that case the wife is en titled to that kind of support which is compatible with his financial and social standing and provided the purchases she makes for her ap parel are not in excess of this he is liable and can bo forced to pay and this though he may have given no tice that he would not pay, for the reason that he cannot limit his liability, incurred by his marriage contract. But the only duty he owes his child is to furnish it seasonable clothing and wholesome food, and both of these maj* be of the very plainest character and if he does so he has discharged his full leyal duty and it does not lie with some one (Continued on Foutth Page.) Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The August meeting of the W. C. T. U. met on Monday afternoon with Mrs. John Mays, with a very encouraging attendance. The programme was short, but in line with the thought of tho State programme. A paper on ''Temper ance and Child Training" prepared by Mrs. W. W. Fuller, was read by Miss Florence Mims, and another on "Alcohol and Degeneracy, the Heritage of the Drunkard's Off spring," was read by Mrs. Rains ford. Mrs. Peak conducted the de votions. After several matters of business had been discussed, among them the disposition of the comfort bags, and the announcement that a Red Cross box would be forwarded on Tuesday from the Woman's Service League, of which the W. C. T. U. forms a unit, the members took up their work of knitting and sewing. A prize of a bill of yarn was pre sented to Mrs. W, S. Cogburn for the best knitting by Mrs. Beaure gard Timmons, and another to Mrs. J. W. Thurmond for the best speci men of hemming. The hostess, Mrs. Mays, was very gracious and hospitable, and a salad course with iced te* was served in the parlor, followed by another treat of watermelons and Isabella grapes out on the lawn. Mrs. L. H. Prescott was accepted as a member, and ?4.30 was col lected for the hospital ambulance fund to be sent by the W. C. T. ?. to France. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Agatha Woodsoh in Sep tember. Miss Rainsford Appointed to Important Position. Miss Elizabeth Rainsford has been appointed by Mrs. F. Louise Mayes of Greenville, State chairman of the "Woman's Council of Defensoras county chairman of Edgefield county in this vtry necessary and com mendable movement. This is a great opportunity for service at this time, and the prose cution of this organization will mean the saving of hundrets of dol lars in our county. Miss Rainsford has great capacity, and that greatest of all possessions, enthusiasm, and will make a great success of this branch of National service. Her plans and purposes will be published later. The Advertiser is open to any in formation which the organization may desire to publish. A targe and representative meet ing of the State Council of Defense was held in Columbia last week, and was largely attended by many of the most prominent men and wo men of the State. Best Cure for "Fodder Pulling Itch." Are you approaching the time of year when your hands begiu to itch to pull fodder? If you are afflicted with this peculiar disease, then Clemson College has a prescription ready and waiting for you. Clem son College says the thing to do is to scratch your hands when they itch this way, but Keep them abso lutely oft* the corn. On this point a recent press bulletin of Clemson says: "When the lower leaves of the corn begin to turn yellow, and ears begin to look as if they are fairly good sized, the farmer's hands be gin to itch to get into the field and pull the fodder. Instead of stand ing right still and scratching his hands-which is the (jnickest and best way to get rid of the. itching sensation, and as the long headed man will do-hundreds of farmers put all hands to work stripping the corn stalks. Yet, experiments con ducted by Mr. D. R. Coker of Hartsville, S. C., showed that fod der pulling resulted in a reduction of yield of from 10 to 24 per cent, depending upon the ripeness of the fodder,-and the loss from rot is from S to 10 per cent more in the grain from the fodder-pulled corn than it is in the grain from corn that has not been fodder-pulled." The next time you feel the "fod der pulling itch" tickling your hands, read over again the figures from Coker's Farms, and then try the Clemson College prescription for your trouble.-Progressive Farmer. BRIGHT OUTLOOK Crops of Edgefield County Give Promise of Large Harvest. Food Crops In creased. Sunday's issue of The State con tained brief reports from a number of counties throughout the State upon crop conditions, the following being sent from this countjr: "As Edgefield is an agricultural county, the very encouraging out look for a large harvest from all crops is causing the people to be more buoyant in spirits than usual at the midsummer season. As a re sult of the food preparedness agita tion early in thc spring there has been an increase of from 35 to 40 per cent, in the acreage of food crops. More attention has been given to corn in Edgefield county this year than ever before. It is predicted that enough corn will be produced this year to supply the needs of the county without ship ping in a bushel next year from the West. The cotton acreage in the county has been slightly reduced and the stand is not as satifactory as during an average year. How ever, cotton has improved wonder fully during the past two weeks. If rain falls within the next few days all of the early corn will be practically made and all of the old est cotton will be heavily fruited. If the continued high prices prevail in the fall.and the expected harvest is realized, the farmers of this county will handle and deposit more money in bank, as well as buy more automobiles, than they ever have before. The war has not yet affect ed the people of this section to the extent that they feel compelled to economize." Bledsoe-Padgett The marriage of Miss Em mie ^ Bledsoe of Saluda and Mr? Farrell Padgett of Trenton was solemnized on Sunday, Aug. 5, at 19 o'clock at the home of the bride's father, Rev. Johnson from Moun tain Creek officiating. The bride is the oldest daughter of Mr. J. E. Bledsoe and has endeared horself to her many friends by lovable traits of character. The groom is the third son of Mr. E. M. Padgett and is a very prosperous farmer. Among the ont of town guests were Muses Marie and Lilla Mae Padgett, sis lers's of the groom, and Mr. and Mrs. Zonnie Dean. Immediately after the ceremony they retarned to his home in Edge field county, where they will be at home to their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Timmerman spent the week-end with his parents at Pleasant Lane. The many friends of Mrs. F. A. Walker will regret ' to hear of her illness- We hope for her a speedy recovery. Miss Athalia Gunter and Miss Edith Cannada, who have been guests of Marie Padgett have re turned to their home in Severn, Mr. C. M. Horn visited his daughter, Mrs. H. Baynham in Aiken on Suuday last. . And now, Mr. Editor, we saw last week where everybody in Mt. Zion community was asleep, but we are very glad indeed that there is yet a few that is still awake and some are not yet dead. A Friend. Trenton, S. C. Teacher's Announced. At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees the teaching corps for the Edgefield Graded and High School was made complete. The teachers and the assignment to work will be as follows: Superintendent, T. J. Lyon, High School. Mr. L. J. Blakely, High School. Miss Snow Jeffries, High School. Mrs. H. N. Greneker, Seventh Grade. Miss Hortense Padgett, Sixth Grade. Miss Kathrine Mims, Fifth Grade. Miss Gladys Rives, Third and part of fourth. ? Miss Ruth DeLoacb, Second and part of fourth. Miss Julia Rodd}-, First Grade. School will open Monday, Sep tember the 10th.