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JOHNSTON LETTER. (Continued from Page 1.) tist Hospital, on Wednesday in Col umbia. Mrs. O. S. Wertz has gone to Green wood to visit her daughter, Mrs. Tay lor Goodwyn. Miss Bertha Stahn of Chester is visiting Mrs. F. M. Boyd. Little Bn*"-<dl Boatwright was car ried to tr - City hospital in Columbia last week for an operation, there be ing an abscess on one of his lungs. The little fellow is improving as I much as possible, considering the na ture of the operation. Miss Yeomans of Fairfax has been "visiting her sister, Mrs. Joseph Cox. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leavell of Newberry spent the week-end here with relatives. Mrs. LaFayette Dorn has been vis iting Mrs. Henry Dobey. Mr. Brice Feagle spent last week week here in the home of his grand father, Mr. W. N. Satcher, this being nis last visit before going to France. Mrs. Childress and children of Greer are spending a while in the home of the former's sister, Mrs. W. D. Ready. The Emily Geiger Chapter met with Mrs. J. H. White on Monday afternoon, Mrs. W. S. Mobley, the regent, presiding. A box of jelly had been sent from the chapter to the Base Hospital, Camp Jackson, a sim ilar box having been sent two months ago. It was decided to have pictures taken of the chapter members en gaged in Red Cross work, and this will be done as soon as practical. A large package of old kid gloves and fur pieces were handed in and these will be sent to the State collector, Mrs. Hfcklin of Chester who will for ward same to have them made into chest protectors for the soldiers who will be exposed to the cold. The matter of camping at Tomas see School as suggested on last Sun day's State club page was consider ed, and later on there may be a party to go from here, from plans laid. The fact that the school dormitory is not all furnished was discussed and a nucleus went from this chapter to start a State fund to complete the furnishing of these rooms. A commit tee was to be appointed to present the matter to all the members. The Chapter decided to hold the June and July meetings on July 4th, con solidating the two. The program for the afternoon had as its subject, "Patriotic Music," and Mrs. White, as leader, had a good program. Officers for the next year were all re-elected : Regent, Mrs. W. S. Mobley; vice-regent, Mrs. J. Neil Lottr rec. secretary, Mrs. C- P Corn; cor. secretary, Miss Zena Payne; treasurer,' Mrs. W. E. La Grone; historian, Mrs. 0. D. Black; registrar, Mrs. John WTright; auditor, Mrs. Bessie Bean. The New Century club met with Mrs. A. D. Kenny on Tuesday after noon, Mrs. H. D. Grant presiding. A communication was read from Mrs. Margaret L. Bostick, asking that the resolutions adopted at the State Fed ration, concerning food conservation "be read, hoping that the members would adopt it. The resolution was read and adopted and the secretary took the names of all who would con scientiously carry it out. Mr Hooyer's "no wheat" appeal was then read. A communication concerning patriotic work by the children was read. The club voted to meet monthly next year and thus enable the mem bers to engage in more Red Cross work. The subject for the afternoon was, "Southern Orators" and a very informing program was carried out. Later, the hostess served a refresh ing repast, assisted by Mrs. J. How ard Payne and Miss Helen Lewis. Mr. William Lott has been elected Scout Master and on last Tuesday at an executive meeting of the Red Cross, he offered the services of the 20 scouts under his charge. These Scouts were ready for any call, to run errands, or to do just anything and their offer was gladly accepted. Mr. Lott will take the Scouts on a hike this week and they will camp .ver night. The Furman Glee Club will come here on the ll, under the auspices cf the Red Cross. This club is control led by the director of music of the Greenville Woman's College, who ac companies them. A musical treat is in store. Miss Ida Penny, a former teacher in the High School here, visited Mrs. J. A. Lott the first of the week. She has been teaching in the Sumter High School. Her many friends and for mer pupils were delighted to see her. Mr. and Mrs. George Golphin of Ninety Six attended commencement here and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Lott. The Angeline Bacon Chapter, C. .f C. held a fine meeting Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Sadie Lee Bruce. Mrs. P. B. Wates is director. During the business meeting conducted by Miss Mary Wates, the president, the chapter gave $10.00 to the Red Cross and $5.00 to the Citadel Scholarship. The members will do Red Cross work Our Weekly Letter of Much 1 terest From Hardy's. We were all so sorry to hear Mr. H. H. Scott, Sr's. store bui inp; down Saturday, June 1. AI Mr. John Scott's house burnin They both lost every thing, I he which is a terrible blow to thei We hear it caught from the sto pipe in some way. It was a h loss to them and we sincerely syi p?thize with them. Have not hea whether they intend re-building not. The dry, hot whether is hittii us hard, and making the garde burn np so fast. The pastures ah the branches are drying np so t cattle can't get drinking water. VI certainly need rain very badly ai hope soon to have some. Grain 8 around is needing to be cut so ba ly, but can't get cutters. If we d will have to pay two prices, at feed them, for half time and ve triffling work. Speaking of the n gro reminds me of the food que tion. Things are very unevenly c vided up. Here we are, stintir aud saving in every way, aud usir corn meal to save flour, while tl negroes are eating flour bread fh times a day and feeding two < three dogs with it. There is a w< man and two 'daughters living in house near here. She tells me the have biscuits'five times a day, thr< meals, and between meals. Thei are five children in the house, an two dogs, and she says they use lu and three 25 lb. sacks of flour week. I asked how they coul they manage to get it. She sayi "Dat'a easy nough." "I gets tw sacks and each of my gals gets sack every week." I asked ho much meal they got to with it "Us don't eat no corn bread, don none of us like it, so us don't bu meal." I said well, you are a breaking the law then, for the lai is we must get meal or some substi tute and use and save flour to sen to the soldiers. "Well us gwine t eat all us wants, us ain't got nc body in de war and ef day wai dem dat tuck um and sent um da must feed um, day needent tell u to save fur dem. Day ain't gwin to know nothin bout it." I askei where she could get flour without substitute. "At any of dem store dar on McKenny St." She wouh not tell which one. Now how cai that be broken up? She said ead one of them claimed to have 6 i eh in family. The . merchant don' know auy better, and just so h< sells his goods, be don't care, bu he is doing wrong to sell the flou without a substitute. It seems t< me unjust to allow the negro t< have two sacks a week, even witl the substitute, but they will g< from store and get one here an< one there, but what they get it, am the same way with sugar. Th< only way would be to require then to have a statemeut from the mai whose place they live on, as to hov many was in family, giving tb< name of each grown person anc each child, and only let the head o the house have this statement, anc wherever they purchase anything let the merchant stat? how mucl they get, and the day of the month and give his name. Then if thej go to another, let him turn then down. I have heard a good man\ white persons say, "corn bread oi anything with meal in it, makct them sick, but they cse it, and oth er substitutes, although they don'i like it. Not so with the negro they are making more money now than ever before. A good many an trying to pretend to be too young t( register for fear of being drafted They are the very ones that shoulc be sent, for they are no gooc around here. They will not work just loaf, and keep those who are pretending to work, from doing so, But they don't fail to charge at exorbitant price, and kill all th< time possible. The farmer is up against a hare problem, and the merchants ar? having some of it also, accordin? to what one told me the other day. Mrs. Bunch and Mrs. Baynard are still feeling very badly, alsc little Ruth has some fever. Mr, H. G. Bunch is a little better o? his cold, Mrs. Harrison is up again, The weather is so hot and dry, il makes us all feel badly. We are sorry to hear of Mr. Toi Glover being so ill again, and Mrs. Glover so broken down. Hope they may soon be better. Mr. L. S. Reese is up helping nurse them. Hardys. FOR SALE-Corn at $2.00 per bushel at mill. T. P. Salter, Trenton. 6-5-2t Pd. STRAYED-From pasture near Ninety Six one medium size iron gray mare mule about four years old, lib eral reward Wire or phone us. Lee and Blake. Greenwood, S. C. and will aid in the making of surgi cal dressings. The program was an interesting one and following this, the hostess, assisted by Miss Jamie Bruce, served dainty refreshments. Report of Flower Mission and Relief Department of the Edgefield W. C. T. U. In the peaceful days of long ago, the work of this department was largely that of distributing flowers and doing Sunshine work in our home Town to the exclusion of the relief feature, but with the advent of the War the Relief work has been stressed and our report of the past years work is largely one of Relief. The year began with the annual Picnic at tha County Home, which wa9 a success and gave pleas ure to the unfortunate inmates. Cash contribution to Door of Hope $4.69 Garments contributed to ueedy $12.00 ' French Ambulance Fund $4.55 Stereomotograph for Soldier Camp $5.00 Electric Fan for base Hos pital $2.30 Hostess House, Columbia $10.00 Typewriter for Hostess House $1.00 Camp Kitchen for Soldiers in France - $5.00 75 bandages sent to National Surgical Dressings Committee New York. 30 garments reported made for Red CrosH, while some made not( been reported. 50 Pillow slips and hospital hand kerchiefs and sponges $15.00 80 Comfort Kits given to soldiers, valued at $98.00 One W. C. T. U. Pin given to Mrs. Pauline Byrd Broadwater, cost $3.50 3 W. C. T. U. Souvenir Spoons given to White Rib bon babies, viz. Buist Wells, John Lovelace Gunter and E, S. Johnson Jr, cost $5.50 20 letters of sympathy to people who were either sick or in distress. 3 Funerel ^designs sent. One bought, cost $3.50 Total amount of money spent in this department $235.04. Respectfully submitted, Mrs. W. L. Dunovant, Mrs. N. M. Jones, Mrs. W. B. Cogburn. . Committee on Flower Mission and Relief. . REMARKABLE CHANGE IN JUST; FEW DAYS. SPARTAN BURG WOMAN RE LATES HER WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES-SHE SUFFERED MUCH. APTER BEING ? IN BED THREE WEEKS, TANLAC HAD HER UP , . Ix JUST THREE DAYS. "I was able to eat a regular meal and do light housework in three days after I began takins Tanlac, though before I started taking it I had stayed in bed three weeks and could not even sit up," said Mrs. J. G. Johnson, of 587 N. Church St., Spartanburg, in ber endorsement of "The National Tonic." "In a week after taking the first dose, I dis charged my cook and began doing all my housework, and I went to church five days after I began this treatment," continued Mrs. John son. "I had catarrhal fever and what I think was a light case of the grippe. I was awfully nauseated aud I could not retain even cold water, much less food. I became so weak and nick that I had to stay in bed. W hen I started Tanlac I had been in bed three weeks and unable to sit up. All this time I was under treatment, and I did not seem to be gaining strength. I lost heart in that way of trying to regain my health, and so I threw away all ray medicines and began taking Tanlac. "The Tanlac gave me back my appetite at the start, and I could just feel myself getting stronger right along. I have nevar known any medicine that would make a sick person well so quickly-espe cially one as sick as I was. I took just two bottles. I am feeling fine now and I'm getting stronger. My health is far better than it has been for a year or so. The Tanlac sure ly did make me get well quickly was just wonderful." Edgefield, Penn & Holstein. Cold Springs, H. Ernest Quarles. Edgefield, R: F. D. No. 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Com pany. Modoc, G. C. McDaniel. Parksville, Robertson & Com pany. Plum Branch, J. W. Bracknell I &'Son. Plum Branch, R. F. D. No. 2, E. P. Winn & Bro. Trenton, G. W, Wise. Flesohman's yeast cakes, fresh everv Tuesday's and Friday's at . L. T. May's. Shivor Springs Water, at L. T. May's. Fifteen To Twenty Per Cent Advance In Pianos. Freight Rate Also Advances, And Stools And Scarfs. Buy Now If You Want To Save Money. I give here in a letter just received from The Starr Piano Co., which is full of signifi cance for the prospective piano purchaser: THE STARR PIANO COMPANY Henry Gennett, Pres. Harry Gennett, lat V.-Pres. T. J. Campbell, 2nd V.-Pres. Fred Gennett, Sec. Clarence Gennett, Treas. Richmond, Ind. May 20,1918. Mr. John A. Holland, Greenwood, So. Car. Dear Sin We wish to advise that extraordinary heavy advances during the past few months in the cost of materials and labor have rendered it necessary for us to make a proportionate increase in quotations on pianos and player pianos. This increase is approximately 15 per cent on all styles excepting Remington Players and Grand Pianos, on which it is 20 per cent. We are preparing a revised price list and will see that you are supplied with copies of same soon as this is issued from the press. The new quotations are effective immediately, and any orders now on file which are un shipped June 1 will also take the new prices, as the much heavier cost of manufacturing un der conditions due to the war situation will not permit of filling such orders at the o?d figures. THE STARR FIANO CO. AENMB A. E. Noldy. I am in almost daily receipt of letters speaking of the advance in price and the shortage in pianos owing to the reduction of over thirty per cent. The government has ordered a reduction of thirty per cent and other conditions cut production at least ten per cent more. I have bought about one hundred and fifteen pianos, and nearly all of them were bought before the advance in price. While they last Twill sell upon the basis of the price paid. Call And See My Entire Line Accommodating terms can bc secured: JOHN A. HOLLAND REFERENCE: The Bank of Green, wood, the oldest and strongest bank in Greenwood county. The Greenwood Piano Man, Greenwood, S. C. Saving for a "Rainy Day". The above quotation needs no in troduction and there is no one of us who might not study with profit the ant and her methods of thrift "which having no guide, overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the sum mer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." .Our problems are just about like her problems. Most of us have no-earthly ruler except ourselves, and if we would gather in the harvest, we must take the initiative and be our own ruler just as the ant does. Every ant is free to do as she pleases-but her life in the winter depends on her hab its of industry, thrift and economy in the spring and summer. So it is with men. Youth is the spring of life; then follow summer, autumn, and winter-jus: as these seasons follow each other in the ant's year of life. Man therefore having no guide but himself must gather in the harvest for the winter of life for that part of life when the power to earn is practically exhausted. The thrifty man looks forward to this pe riod of life as one of peace and pleas ure; to the extravagant and thrift less it looms ahead as a calamity. Consider the ant: prepare for the winter of life before it is upon you! -Progressive Farmer. LOST-Saturday, June 1, between Edgefield and the J. B. Tompkins place a lady's double-case gold watch hands and figures on dial were gold, "M. J." was engraved on case. Re ward if returned to J. Carroll Mor gan, Edgefield, S. C. R. F. D. 3. WANTED! To buy your remnants of cottoa seed, provided you will deliver them on or before Monday, June 10. I will make final shipment for this season at that time. R. M. WINN, Plum Branch, S. C. Farmers of Edgefield County We take this means of announcing that we have pur- ? chased the stock of hardware from E. M. Andrews Fur niture Company at 1289 Broad street, and will continue the business at the same stand. We invite the farmers in Edgefield county to come in to see our large stock of Plantation Hardware. In addi tion to plow stocks, plow gears, plow steels, harness, we carry a full line of shop tools of all kinds. Do you contemplate doing any painting? If sp, see us before buying your paint. We have everything the farmer needs. See us when in the city. < Whittle & Plunkett 1289 Broad St. Augusta, tia. E