Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, July 31, 1918, Page THREE, Image 3
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By MARIAN WEST.
(Copyright, by the Frank Munsey Com
pany.)
Yes. my dear, it is perfectly true,
and we are to be married in six weeks.
You will like Billy, ho is such a dear,
gay, good-looking big thing-though h?
is absurdly young. We are just thc
same age in years, but twenty-eight in
a man ! I have moments of feeling
convicted of child stealing. Just now
I am encouraging him to raise a mus
tache. It's frightfully unbecoming,
but it makes him ?Jook less like my
son. You will coin? to the wedding,
of course. Billy is wild to know you.
He is a dear, truly, Laura. And wait
till you see some of my clothes ! I
am having a
With love, always the same,
Pat
Dear Aunt Flora :
I dare say you have heard rumors,
but I want to tell you myself of my
great happiness. I am going to be
married on the 27th of next month to
Mr. William Courtney Blake, a young
lawyer who has already made him
self felt here in New York. I hope
your health will let you come to the
wedding, for Will ls so anxious to
know you all as soon as possible. I
am sure you will like him-he is very
strong and upright and manly. After
all, it is character that counts, isn't
it? We shall begin life very modestly,
but, I believe, very happily.
With love to everybody,
Affectionately your niece.
Patricia De Witt
Dear Arthur:
I am sorry, very sorry, but It is true.
I am not going to answer your letter.
Some day you will see it differently,
and will write me another. Meanwhile
I am what I have always been,
Your sincere friend,
P. DeW.
I am not nng^y, my dear boy-only
very much grieved over it all.
Dearest Anna:
I want you to be one of the first to
know the beautiful news. Mr. Blake
and I are going to be married next
month. With your own happiness so
very new, you will appreciate what
this means to me. You will like Will,
he has such delicate perceptions, and
is so thoroughly an artist, in spite of
being such a thriving young lawyer.
I understand now why you would not
have a large trousseau, dear Anna. I
do not see how a girl can spend this
time, of all others, in running to the
dressmaker's. I am getting only a few
simple things, and am trying to keep
my mind and spirit unfagged. You
must let me bring Will to see you
some evening, and you.must promise
to sing to him. He is so impatient to
hear you. With love.
Devotedly,
Patricia.
Dear Uncle Mark :
I am going to be married-to the
Mr. Blake you met one day. He is
one of the St. Louis Blakos. and his
mother was a Courtney, so you see
I am not disjrraeini tho family. We
have taken a very decent apartment
it is .inst three doors from the Yan
Hornes'-and you will always find a
.warm welcome and a good glass of
claret when you are, moved to dine
with us. You will l?ke Will-he is a
violent protectionist, and plays excel
lent whist.
Affectionately, your niece,
/ Patricia DeWitt.
Dear Miss Pomeroy:
Your little note bas just come. I
cannot tell you how much it means to
me that Will's friends are pleased
and you especially, his very best friend
of all. I am sorry to hear that you
are not well, and that you are going
away to stay indefinitely. Will will be
de"ply disappointed not to have you al
our wedding. He has talked of you so
much that I was looking forward to
knowing you better, for my own sako
as well as his.
Hoping to see you back soon,
Cordially yours.
Patricia DeWitt.
Dear Jerome:
I have often womb red which of us
would write this news to the other
first. And now, of course, you know
what has happened-or rather, what
is about to happen next month. Do
you remember our promise to keep at
least our perfect frankness? Well,
then, I am offered love under very
pleasant conditions, and I am taking it
gratefully and gladly. I think we shall
make a true success of it. I have put
away certain childish things in the
way of illusions, and I like the reali
ties better. Give me your blessing,
dear Jerome ! I am endlessly glad we
came out of it friends. You would
like Will-he is very simple and gen
erous and big hearted. Come to the
wedding if you want to-not other
wise.
Faithfully,
Patricia.
Billy Beloved:
I have written five billion notes, and
I will not tell another soul. They can
read it in the papers. Oh, dear, it ls
such a bore to pretend to be interested
in anyone but you ! Who cares wheth
er they know or not-stupid things !
Everyone will want to meet you, but
we will "<?>* out of all we can. There
ls no ^e in the world but you and me
-and aren't you glad of it?
Coming tonight?
Yours, P.
This is an invitation to dine with UH
Ht seven. I forgot to mention it
More Popular.
A promising young man is good: but
fr paying oue is better.-Chicago Ncwa,
SPEED GOOD ROADS BUILDING
Federal Supervision of Nation's High
ways Is Being Urged-Military
Value ls Shown.
A few days apo a bip government
motortruck snick hard and fast in a
rut on tlie road between Washington
and Baltimore. A commercial truck
tried to get around it from one direc
tion and another government truck
from the other direction. Both of
these also stuck. Soon this over
traveled road, for a mile each way,
was jammed with squawking cars and
trucks* All .traffic was stalled for the
better part of a day, with the result
that war work was delayed, suburb
anites were late to dinner and thirsty
i Washingtonians were unable to reach
the Maryland oasis.
This incident is no special discredit
to the Maryland roaa builders. The
Washington-Baltimore road was not
built for the amount and kind of trailic
it is now bearing. The same is true
of many other highways in all parts of
the country. More and more motor
trucks are taking over what used to
be "short haul" railroad freight. And
the short haul that is accomplished
by motortruck has gradually length
ened from ten or fifteen miles until
now much freight is carried liOO miles
in trucks.
Such facts are the basis of a drive
being made on congress for legisla
tion to empower the federal govern
ment to unify roads of the country into
a comprehensive system aud to spend
the money necessary to make the
roads adequate to meet the new re
quirements. The federal government,
it is claimed by proponents of the
plan, must do the work, because a
central authority is absolutely neces
sary to the perfection of a national
system of roads.
The federal government should
spend the money, they say, because
their military value makes the roads
a great national asset. This military
vj?p ,r cood roads is already shown
by the dependence which the govern
ment is placing upon them for the
moving of troops and supplies. In Eu
rope' it has been even more convinc
ingly demonstrated. It has been said
that good roads saved France and the
lack of them defeated Russia. It is
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Sand and Gravel Piled on Subgrade
Ready for Use on Experimental Con
crete Road, Chevy Chase, Md.
certainly true that the French had
the best roads* in the world when the
war broke out and that the men and
supplies which checked the first Ger
man rush went forward largely by
motor. It is also true that a break
down of all transportation facilities
prevented Itussia from effectually mo
bilizing her tremendous resources.
There is now a federal office of good
roads, operating under the federal
road act, whereby the government, ap
propriates funds for roads, provided
the states in which the roads are to
be built will appropriate a similar
amount This gives the government
the power to recommend the improve
ment or building of. certain roads and
to disapprove the improvement or
building of others. It may exercise a
sort of advisory and mildly compul
sory power toward the establishment
of a unified national system of roads.
But this power, it is argued, is by no
means suilicient in an emergency like
the present. What is needed is the
power to form a definite plan for a
system of national highways, and the
funds to carry that plan into execu
tion as rapidly as possible.
For this new national system of
highways must not only be thorough
ly co-ordinated, but must be radically
different from that .of most of our
present roads. The failure of these
latter is largely due to the fact that
roads which sufficed very well for the
traffic of light pleasure cars and farm
ers' wagons will not stand up under
the strain of heavy truck traffic. A
truck highway, to meet the require
ments now being laid upon it, must be
a paved highway with a concrete base.
Su':h a load is very expensive to
build : it costs from SUO.OUO to $30,000
a mile.
Save Man Power With Horse
Power.
Not long ago we stopped to watch
a huge steam shovel at work on a
Government job. With only two men
?ni charge it was steadily biting away
at a bank of earth, taking a round
ton at a mouthful. A string, of wag
ons moved under the shovel, each re
ceiving its load and moving on.
We could not help contrasting this
example of enormous mechanical
power, moving earth at the rate of
GOO tons in a day of ten hours, with
thc puny efforts of the one-horse far
mer, and the rate at which he moves
the dirt with his pony plow. In the
former we saw how a minimum of
manpower could move hundreds of
tons of earth in a few hours; in the
latter, we have one of our worst ex
amples of present day inefficiency.
Much has been said about the
South's serious labor shortage, but
if the war goes on it is a situation
that will probably get worse before
it gets better. ' There simply is not
enough man power to keep all our
industries and the war too going,
and the industries must feel the
shortage.
In this labor crisis it is the patri
otic duty of every farmer to use
'machinery in every possible way to
save human labor. Two and throe
horses to each breaking plow; four
mules to the binder, instead of one
man with a cradle; one-row and two
row cultivators, instead of twice to
the row in the old-fashioned way;
tractors where they can be advan
tageously used; gasoline engines to
pump the water, cut the wood, run
the washing machine and make lights
-these are some of the labor-savers
that we must adopt.
Replace scarce and high-priced la
bor with horse power.-Progressive
Farmer.
State and Senatorial Campaign
Meetings.
The following is the schedule for
State and Senatorial campaign meet
ings as arranged by the State execu
tive committee:
Senatorial Campaign.
Bamberg, Wednesday. July 31.
Aiken, Thursday, August 1.
Edgefield, Friday, August 2.
Saluda, Saturday, August 3.
Lexington', Tuesday, August 6.
Newberry, Wednesday August 7.
Laurens, Thursday, August 8.
Greenwood, Friday, August 9.
Abbeville, Saturday, August 10.
McCormick, Tuesday, Auggust 13.
Anderson, Wednesday, August 14
Walhalla, Thursday, August 15.
Pickens, Friday, August 16.
Greenville, Saturday, August '
Union, Wednesday, August 21.
Gaffney, Thursday, August 22.
Spartanburg, Friday, August 23.
State Campaign.
Lancaster, Thursday, July 25.
Chester, Friday July 26.
Winnsboro, Saturday, July 27.
Camden, Tuesday, July 30.
Chesterfield, Wednesday, July 31
Bennettsville, Thursday, August 1.
Darlington, August, 2.
Bishopville, Saturday, August 3.
Sumter, Tuesday, August 6.
Dillon, Wednesday, August 7
Conway, Thursday, August 8.
Marion, Friday, August 9.
Florence, Saturday, August, 10.
Manning, Tuesday, August 13.
Kingstree, Wednesday, August 14.
Georgetown, Thursday, August 15
Monck's Corner, Friday, August
16.
Charleston, Saturday, August 17.
St. George, Tuesday, August 20.
Orangeburg, Wednesday, August
21.
St. Matthews, Thursday, August
22.
Columbia, Friday, August 23.
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Jeter Street in the town of Edgefield
-house has nine rooms and lot near
ly two acres. There are good out
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W. Ouzts.
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CANDIDATES' COLUMN.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
I hereby announce that I am a can
didate /or the House of Representa
tives from Edgefield county and
pledge myself to abide the result of
the Democratic primary election.
S. T. WILLIAMS.
We respectfully announce J. L.
Mims as a candidate for the House
of Representatives, subject to the
rules and regulations of the Demo
cratic party and pledge him to sup
port the nominees of same.
CITIZENS.
To the citizens of Edgefield Coun
ty, having served as one of your
members of the House of Represen
tatives for the past four years, I re
alize that my experience better
equips me for more efficient service
so I respectfully announce that I
am a candidate for re-election and
pledge myself to abide the reuslt of
the Democratic primary.
J. L. Walker.
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE.
I respectfully announce that I am
a candidate for re-election to the
office of probate Judge of Edgefield
county and pledge myself to abide
the result of the primary election.
W. T. Kinnaird.
FOR AUDITOR.
I respectfully announce that I am a
candidate for re-election to the office
of auditor of Edgefield county and
pledge myself to abide the result of
the primary election.
J. R. TIMMERMAN.
^ FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
I respectfully announce that I am a
candidate for the office of County
Treasurer of Edgefield county, and
pledge myself to abide the result of
the Democratic primarv.
JOE LAKE PRINCE.
I hereby announce that lam a candi
date for re-election to the office of
treasurer of Edgefield county, pledging
myself to abide the result of the Dem
ocratic primary.
JAMES T. MIMS.
FOR CORONER.
I hereby announce that I am a
; candidate for re-election to the of
fice of coroner of Edgefield county
and pledge myself to abide the re
sult of the Democratic primary elec
tion.
T. E. Byrd.
^or Magistrate.
' announce that I am
office of magis
agisterial district
y, subject to the
ons of the Demo
crat
J. E. BRYAN.
I hereby announce that I am a
candidate for re-election to the of
fice of magistrate of the 6th district
of Edgefield county and pledge my
self to abide the result of the Dem
ocratic primary.
A. GILCHRIST.
I respectfully announce that I am
a candidate for the office of magis
trate of the first magisterial district
of Edgefield county and pledge my
self to abide the result of the Dem
ocratic Primary election.
N. L. Brunson.
I respectfully announce that I am
a candidate for the office of magis
trate of the second magisterial dis
trict of Edgefield county and pledge
myself to abide the result of the
Democratic primary election.
Wallace W. Wise.
For Congress. _u,t
I hereby announce my candidacy
for election to congress from the
Second Congressional District, pledg
ing to abide by the rules of the
Democratic Party, and to support
the nominees thereof.
T. G. CROFT.
I hereby announce that I am a can
didate for congress from the Second
Congressional District and pledge my
self to abide the result of the Demo
cratic primary.
N. G. EVANS.
I am a candidate for Congress
from the Second Congressional Dis
trict, composing the counties of Sa
luda, Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell,
Bamberg, Hampton, Jasper and Beau
fort, subject to the present and fu
ture rules and laws of the Democrat
ic party. Platform-One Hundred
per cent American.
G. L. TOOLE, Aiken, S. C.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for re-election to Congress, pledging
myself to abide the rules and regu
lations of the Democratic party, and
to support the nominees thereof
JAMES F. BYRNES.
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Optometrist.
Edgefield, S. C.
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I take this'means of letting thc
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