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CSdgcf?d? Redises: Sstafaiisl?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 the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's .name. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, August 29 Work of Local Exemption Board The time for the mobilization of the first increment of the military forces raised through the selective draft system, September 5, is ap proaching and the local board of Edgefield will be ready to comply to the letter to orders already re ceived. At first orders were is sued to the effect that 30 per cent, of the county's quota would be call ed out, but Monday a telegram was received reducing number to 5 percent which will be 10 men. These are to be ali white men, as they are to be utilized in getting everything at Camp JacRSon in Columbia in readiness for the others who are to follow-40 per cent. September 19 and 40 per cent October 3. The remaining 15 per cent, will be ordered later in October. The local board will order the 5 per cent to assemble at Edgefield Wed nesday. September 5, and will place one of the men in charge of the squad who will be responsible for them until' they reach Camp Jackson in Columbia. The govern ment, through the local board, will arrange for their meals and railway passage, the proper vouchers having already been received by the local board. As announced last week, the board has called out S06 men for examination and from this number has secured the county's quota and a sate margin in addition from which to draw men should the army surgeon reject some when re-exam ined after mobilization. On our , front page this week we publish the names of those who Lave been certi fied to the district board by the local board. ''Next week the names of the others who have been accept ed will be published. Mr. Bettis Bouknight who was accepted for military service by the local bonni, ns shown by tho list : published this week, was discharg ed upon occupational or agricultur al grounds by the District Board. As soon as the local board re ceives a certified list from Green wood those who are to compose the five per cent, to be ordered .out September 5 will be officially noti fied. Tbe local board is receiving a number of requests from persons for postponement of mobilization in order that they may assist in harvest ing the crops. The local board has no authority to grant such requests, as this ia entirely in the hands of the district board at Greenwood. Auto Accident. Monday afternoon while Mr. Clyde Hamilton, accompanied by Miss Fearce and Miss Smyer, was gliding along in his Buick car near the home of Mr. Frank Warren, be tween Edgefield and Johnston, his car skidded, turned over and injur ed the three occupants quite pain fully. Their many friends are de lighted that the injuries were not serious. A cow which was tied near the road partly obstructed the highway and in passing around the offending animal the front wheel sank in deep saud causing a near serious accident. As the accident was not due to fast or careless driv ing, no blame is placed upon Mr. Hamilton. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grcve's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents RED OAK GROVE. Ordinance of Baptism Admin istered at Red Hill and Mountain Creek. Circle No. 2 to Meet. The great "war-times'' under which our people are now existing has revealed to me, more interest in Biblical history, while I'm free to a conception of the milleninum, is too far beyond my comprehension. The Captivity of Judah, our last Sunday's lesson was quite in com parison to the present upheaval. We are constrained to believe that our mothers, wives, sisters, sweet hearts and friends ?hould cultivate a spirit of cheerfulness and bravery among the young men; because they must leave us and weean not help it now, but we can encourage them with a happy countenance that is sure to bring comfort and strength to them upon departure, and again in reflective moments; possibly on the battle field. One weakJv but brave little moth er, our neighbor, who has been call ed upon to make up the ranks took this view, ''My boy needs me now, he shall never know how hard the parting is, for now I must be brave, he must go, and I must pray, God was good to give me my boy, now that our land needs him he must go." Could others catch the same spirit, how much bitterness would vanish, heavy hearts would be made light. Military system being adopted over our land in the schools is a method so much needed among our boys to-day, and we rejoice to know of the improvement. Lrit us not complain of the hard ships to much, that may come to us, by the going away of our men lo the front, but may we as indi viduals realize our personal respon sibility, being ready to equip our selves for our share. The little sparrow falleth, not without the knowledge of our dear Heavenly Father, then we, as his children are under his watch-care. We know He is merciful to us, our cross is never more than we can bear, be ing willing to Thy will, O Lord, and not ours. Red Hill has reason to rejoice that on yesterday Rev. P. H. Bus sey baptised 24 converts, among them Mr. Ned Holmes seventy-two years old. We welcome you Mr. Holmes into the ranks. Rev. Mr. Wells of Mt. Creek baptised on yesterday fifteen into his church. Mt. Creek for us shall ever have pleasant memories, for there we were taught our first Sun day schjo! lessons. Our teacher of first recollection being Mrs. Ida Sheppard, now of your town. The deacons or leaders at that time were Messrs J. K. and W. L. Durst, Al fred Bell, James Rambo, and Mala chi Tim merman, the former men tioned surviving. Yet continuing in faith and helpfulness to his church at Greenwood. Oh for the influence of such Godly lives, for they are far reaching. Circle No. 2, meets 12th of Sep tember at Mrs. Oscar Timmerman's, Mri. Joe Bussey conducting same. We hope to adopt some new meth ods at this meeting, will be pleased lo have with us all that will come. Mrs. Mellie Dorn of Greenwood is guest of Mrs. Will Dow, Mis. Dow is being warmly greeted by her friends here. We hope Red Oak Grove society will be well represented av, Hardy's this week. Those annual gather ings are such an inspiration. Attention! Chairmen of Town ships for the Council of De fense!! Please return your Registration Cards as soon as possible. I must have them by September 8. Try to get every woman to register. S. E. Rainsford, Chairman County Council of De Defense. Card of Thanks From Mr. Strom. Mr. Editor: Permit me through the medium of your paper to express gratitude aud thanks to my friends and neighbors for many kindnesses during the long illness of ray wife, and their tokens of sympathy at her death. While we are broken up, and saddened, there is compensa tion in these tokens of friendship and sympathy, that only those who have passed through similar ones can appreciate. We have friends that we didn't know of all the way from the Sanitarium in which my wife died to our home at dear old Rehoboth. My children join me in this ex pression of thanks and gratitude to one and all. praying God's blessing upon our friends everywhere. Respectfully, C. Strom. Plum Branch, S. C. 8r HjRg's Um Discwerv KiLLS THE COUGH. CURES THE LUNGS. NATUEAI IRON ; TONIC CHEAPEST; TONIC OF ALL. m } HIGHLY CONCENTRATED ACID IRON MINERAL GOES FROM TWO TO SIX TIMES AS FAR. More Powerful, Economical, Than Prepared "Patents." When people lind their appetite off, vitality low, and are sluggish, tired, and worn-out, a short treat ment with just plain, everyday nat ural iron is the wisest course. You can get natural iron, known as Acid Iron Mineral at most drug stores and a fifty-cent bottle goes from two to six times as far as oth er and weaker iron compounds of laboratory and chemist. A dollar bottle will permit a whole family to take it a couple of weeks which in its powerful highly concentrated form is usually suffi cient to increase the family's vitali ty, strength, and appetite in a truly wonderful manner. Acid Iron Mineral has been bot tled, tested, and guaranteed up to its present high standard for thirty years for use in hospitals, surgery, and dental work, and it may now be secured in family sized bottles. Be sure you get the genuine, the trade mark "A-I-M" i* your protec tion. It is non-alcoholic, is not a laxative, and is the product of the only medicinal iron mineral deposit of its kind known to the world, 6c and $1. Bottled by lessors, the Ferrodine Chemical Corp, Roanoke, Va. Note: Acid Iron Mineral con tains such a high percentage of iron, it may be used as an external germicide, antiseptic, and astrin gent. Farmers, surgeons, and den tists use it to stop bleeding, prevent soreness, and as a healing agent. See directions on bottle. The Sunday school teacher had explained very carefully how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs and made the wife of Adam. Little Bobby was deeply impressed with the story, and when he 'vent home he related it to his parents. The next day, after running around a good deal, a pain developed in his side, and when his mother found him he was lying on the bed, sob bing bitterly. "Why, what's the matter with my little boy?', she asked. *'Oh, dear," was the response, "I'm getting a wife."-Philadel phia Ledger. Teachers Wanted. (l) Men for town and country schools $75 to $100. (2) Ladies combining music and common school, unprecedented demand. (3) Grade and high school. Can place all qualified teachers for any the above. Special enrollment? Southern Teachers' Agencv, Colum bia, S. C. OT?TJM State of South Carolina f Court of County of Edtrefield. \ C om mon Pleas. W. Mt Rowland, Plaintiff; vs. Lucy Philpot, Defendant. Notice to Creditors to file and prove claims. All persons having claims against tho Estate of Charit? Philpot, Jr., will please take notice that they are required by Order of Court in above cause to file and prove same before! rae on or before the 1st day of October next, (l9l7), or their claims j will be forever barred thereafter as provided in said Decree, as to any and all funds now in my hands as Master in re the above stated cause. J. H. Cantelou, Master for Edgetield County. Dated July 13, 1917 Notice of Final Dis charge. To All Whom These Presents May Concern: Whereas, L. G. Watson has made application unto this Court for Fi nal Discharge as Administrator in re the Estate of H. C. Watson de ceased, on this the '28th day of July 1917. These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors, or par ties interested, to show cause be fore rae at ray office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the 30th day of August 1917, at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. July 28, 1917. The liest Tonic, BITTERS F?M? METHODS USED BY DIPS VARY Pickpockets of the Higher Grade Werk in Groups in Places Frequented by Prosperous People. As a usual thing, pickpockets vnry their methods to suit circumstances. Only the low-grade dips work in pairs. These are the men who operate on street cars, elevated stations, plat forms, and similar places where they will find crowds of pushed people and have opportunity to escape if detected. One of the pair shoulders a victim roughly while the other does the work and makes a getaway, says the Bo hemian. Arrests are frequent, but con victions rare, because the man cap tured seldom has the loot The higher grade dips also work in such places. The difference is that they work in groups and choose times when prosperous passengers will be in the majority. During the fashionable shopping hours and after the theater at night are considered harvest times. Last winter three dips worked a clever method in Chicago. Garbing them selves in evening clothes, they mingled in fashionable crowds In big cafes, theater exits, and railway stations. One of the party was always hopeless ly drunk and the others, apparently acting the part of Samaritans, were hard-put trying to keep him on his feet. With all their care, however, he would stumble occasionally and fall Into groups of ladies and gentlemen. Invariably the sober companions had apologized and taken the charge away before anyone discovered the loss of valuables. WHERE RATS ARE PROTECTED In Copper Mines of Michigan Rodents Are Regarded as Preventors, Not Carriers, of Disease. There are few places In the world where rats are well thought of, but in the copper mines of Michigan there ro dents, so universally despised, and causing so much danger to health and damage to property everywhere else, are regarded differently. In the shafts of the copper mines hundreds of feet below the surface dwells a species of rat that never sees the light of day and is held In high appreciation by the miners. It is because these under ground rodents are valuable to sanita tion, preventers rather than carriers of disease. They indulge in no depre dations for the reason they exist with in rockbound walls inclosing nothing possible for animals such as they de stroy. The rats are the scavengers of the mines. They keep the workings clear of refuse. They are protected by the men; are often fed from dinner pails and have become so accustomed to the miners that they frisk about the workers wholly unafraid, secure in the apparent realization that, while else where they are hunted and slain as enemies of mankind, underground they are treated as allies and are immune from harm. Wives as Wage Earners. More than one-tenth of the married women of the United States were en gaged in gainful occupations In 1910, according to figures recently given out by the bureau of the census, and over 25 per cent of all women sixteen years old or over were wage earners, business women, etc. Since 1910 the per centages undoubtedly have in creased rather than diminished,-' for the tendency of women in this coun try has been toward greater economic freedom for many years. In 1900 the number of married women in gainful occupations was only 709,000, while in 1910 it was 1.890,000, says Popular Me chanics. The statistics referred to show that the proportion of women married, single and widowed-who are earning their living is greater than ever before, but it is particularly in teresting to find that of all the groups cited, the proportionate Increase in the number of married women Is the greatest Hunter's Moon.. The hunters' moon Is waning, but there has been very little service for lt during the month, except for lovers, says the Columbus (O.) State Journal. The gajme question ls pretty near solved. It. is so different from the old days, when a man oould take his shot gun and go out to the woods and bring in a bag of squirrels and birds in a few hours-enough for the family and a neighbor or two./ Then he asked no favors of the moon. The game was plenty and the days were long in the good old time. In those days we had pigeon pie and squirrel pie and we didn't want the moon to put itself out of the way on our account. In these days the hunters' moon ls a beautiful sentiment, but it makes no pie. How shy sho was last week, when coquet Ing with Jupiter for an evening or two, and then slipped off to the east and re fused to return. The Footwear of Our Daddies. In these days, when shoes cost 81 or more an inch, measured up from the heel, the recollections of a Callaway county pioneer really arp painful. In a letter to the Missouri Telegraph he tells what a simple matter buying shoes once was. Those who wanted shoes lined up with their heels against a wall and the head of the household, armed with a buuch of twigs, took the measurement of each. The twigs were taken to a merchant, who titted the shoo by putting the broken stick Inside lt. One farmer objected to pay ing ?14.S7 for ten pairs of shoes, so he bought leather and hired a shoe maker to make" them at a grand total of $9.15.--Kansas ?ity Times. Warm-Weather Toggery We call the attention of the boys and men to our light-weight, warm weather garments-just what you need during these sweltering July days. Light-weight underwear, light weight suits, light-weight extra trousers, light-weight coats. Also see our stylish oxfords. Everything to help you keep cool at DORN & MIMS BARRETT & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) COTTON FACTORS Augusta ----- Georgia ?MMMM SOME STRIKE IT RICH TO PUTA Ll IN THE BAN EVERY WEEK Conrriabt 1909. br C. P. Zimxxrman C0.--N0. 51 THERE is no doubt about money in the bank, it is sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there is the satisfaction that it is sure. Posi tive in every way, both that it will grow, and that it is safe. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Stoppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. H. Allen ARRINGT0N BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks August a,Ga. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED See our representative, C. E. May.