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Ssiafaluihr? 1335. ?. J. L. MIMS,_Editor. <r ? II-.?i. iiiiii III 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 pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, August 28. The voters of South Carolina broke the "Hindenburg line" Tues day. Th? Allies will parcel out Turkey by Christmas or maybe Thanksgiv ing. Well, let's forsake the ways of politics and concentrate again upon winning the war. The election of Mr. Dial and Mr. Cooper will put Laurens on the map in bold characters. The Advertiser is more than dee lighted at the way Hon. John E. Swearingen went "over the top" in Edgefield county. The papers tell us that the Allies are making slow but continued pro gress. That's all right. The progress our boys are making toward Berlin is more satisfactory than the dash the Huns made for Paris. South Carolina Press Associa tion. The 44th annual session of the South Carolina Press Association will be held in Gaffney Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, September 18, 19 and 20. Owing to war conditions, at appeared that it would probably be unwise to attempt to hold the meeting at Gaffney as originally plan ned. In order to ascertain whether or not a sufficient number would at tend to warrant completing arrange ments for the meeting, J. L. Mims, the president of the association, sent out a number of inquiries to the ed itors' and publishers over the State. A sufficient number of affirmative replies to assure the success of the meeting were received. An interesting programme is be ing arranged and elaborate plans are being made by E. H. De Camp and the people of Gaffney for the entertainment of the members of the Fourth Estate. The association met in Gaffney 10 years ago and those who attended then remember, as if it were yesterday, the big things that were done by Ed. DeCamp for their entertainment. These who were ir. Gaffney in 1908 will not have to be urged to attend the approaching ses sion. At first it was arranged to hold the meeting only two days but in a let ter received this morning from Mr. DeCamp he urges that a third day be added for pleasure. On Friday, September 20, thc newspaper folk will be taken on an auto <trip to ? Chimney Reek and Bat Cave, North Carolina, stopping at Chimney Rock for lunch. All of the members of the asso ciation .-ire urged to attend the meet ing at Gaffney. After the close of the campaign those who have been continuously at their desks through the summer need a short period of relaxation, and there is no better time cr place for this relaxation than the meeting of the Press association. Marriage of Miss Gary and Dr. Briggs. The following account of the wed ding in Abbeville of Miss Eliza Tus ten Gary, daughter of Judge Gary, to Dr. W. T. Briggs of North Augus ta, will be of interest all over the State, where the two young people are well known and popular: "The home of Chief Justice Eu gene B. Gary was the scene of an in teresting marriage ceremony Satur day neon, when Miss Eliza Tusten Gary, daughter of the chief justice, became the bride of Dr. William Traylor Briggs of North Augusta. "Dr. Geo. W. Swope officiated at the service, which was marked with impressive simplicity. The bride was attractively attired in a brown travel ing suit. Only the family and imme diate relatives were present. Private Eugene Gary, Jr., succeeded in reach ing the city, after an eleventh hour trip from Columbia. "Following the ceremony, the young couple left immediately on a bridal tour. They will make their home in North Augusta where Dr. Briggs is a practiefcg physician." To ths Baptists of the Edge fieid Association. Dear Bretheren: The Baptists of South Carolina are planning: for a great drive for education this fall. During Septem ber, October and November of this year they propose to cover the state with a hand to hand icanvass for three hundred and fifty thousand dol lars to cover the indebtedness of their institutions and to add to their endowment. The Baptist denomina tion which aggregates about one hundred and sixty thousand mem bers in this state is operating five colleges and five academies. These properties together with their en dowments are worth one million, eight hundred and sixty two thous and, seven hundred and seventy dol lars! This is no small investment for one denomination to make in educa tion in this state! It will be seen, therefore that the total indebtedness of two hundred and ten thousand is only a little over ten per cent, of the value of their school and college property. These debts were incurred for buildings and improvements made necessary by their growing pa tronage. They do not represent fail ure of these institutions to meet cur rent expenses! Our people need to appreciate the great work the Christian denomina tions are doing in the field of educa tion in this state. There are fourteen colleges supported by the various de nominations in this state-five by the Baptists, three by the Methodists, two by the, Presbyterians, two by the A. R. P.'s, and two by the Lutherans, and these colleges are giving college training to more than half the col lege men and women of the State! j The Baptists alone are providing . college facilities for nearly one-fifth ?of all of our college students. This ?is no small service these denomina tions are rendering to the State of South Carolina! Our people need to understand and appreciate this great work of the church! Efforts like that being put forth by the Baptists this year are both Christian and patriotic services and deserve the greatest success. Our whole population needs to be stirred on the subject of education! South Carolina now has the unenviable dis tinstion of standing at the bottom of the list of all the states in the Union in the matter of literacy! South Car olina has \ to her shame twenty-five per cent, of illiteracy, according to the last Census report, the largest per cent, of illiteracy of any state in the Union! This, means twenty five per cent, of our citizens can nei ther read nor write! This condition constitutes our greatest problem and our gravest peril! Surely every pa triotic and Christian citizen in this state ought to give encouragement to every educational endeavor put forth in this state! In this particu lar movement every Baptist is under obligation to do his best to make this effort a great success! To make the task as easy as pos sible, and in order not to be in con flict with the Government in its sale of Liberty.. Bonds and War Stamps, they are going to accept Liberty Bonds and War Stamps for cash, and will make all notes payable in Liberty Bonds and War Stamps. These bonds will not be put on mar ket during the war! By this method a man can serve a double purpose with his money. If he puts a hundred dollars in Liberty Bonds, it will be worth a hundred dollars to his gov ernment and if he gives this bond to the schools it will be worth a hun dred dollars to them! Hence, the one hundred dollars will do two hundred dollars worth of work! I This great campaign is under the direction of the Baptist Educational Board, of Columbia, S. C., of which Dr. Chas. A. Jones is secretary and treasurer. This effort deserves the greatest success. Now is the time for all good Baptists to come to the aid of their institutions of learning! Let us gladly undertake great things for God, and if we do, we are promis ed great things from Him. 0. Sheppard, Moderator. "Have you taken anything for your complaint?" asked the doctor of a long, lank, hungry-looking man who came to him, complaining of be ing "all run down," his appearance verifying his words. "Well, I ain't been taking much of anything, doc-that is, nothing to speak of. I tuk a couple o' bottles o' Pinkham's bitters a while back, an' a bottle of Quackham's invigorator with a couple o' boxes of Curem's pills and a lot o>' quinine and some dandelion tea my old woman made. I've got a mustard plaster on my back, and a liver pad on, an I'm wearing an 'lectric belt, an taking cod liver oil four times a day,, with a dose or two of ginger ev'ry other day. 'Cepting for that I ain't takin' nothin'." 9f |??R?r5? Riff?r?ffcfMf???* ?B: 3dSU? ._ L-.w'i.J U>???l? Plu&?j IL..? TW! :OU?H. CURES IKE LL-..J Utterances That Will Live. No president ever uttered more remarkable words of wisdom and sin cere appreciation of the ties that bind human beings together than President Wilson. George Washing ton and Abraham Lincoln were in spired by the tremendous import of the causes that led to the wars in which they took so great a part but Washington's cause was National and Lincoln's was partly sectional? President Wilson has been placed by a divine Providence in the midst of an international conflict whose causes and results have shaken the world and will in its finality write chapters in history more significant than any ever written. President Wil son's expressions on the war have been read all over the world and have profoundly impressed other millions than Americans. An English newspa per speaks of Wilson's war utter ances as follows: The only war-time oratory which has the suggestion of a posterity about it is that of .President Wilson. Such a phrase as "The world must be made safe for democracy" is already merged so completely into our na tional sentiment, has become the common idea of so many millions of allied people, that we have ceased to attribute individual authorship to it, just because it now belongs to every body. It is, of course, President Wil son's phrase, uttered in his address to Congress in April, 1917. And here are a few more of the President's epigrams that are likely to live: "This is no war for amateurs." "What f am opposed to is noit the feeling of pacifists, but their stu pidity." "I believe in the ordinary man." "There is something very fine in the spirit of the volunteer, but deep er than the volunteer spirit is the spirit of obligation." And then of course, there is the notable utterance beginning "Force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit"-perhaps the most majestic and thunderous words ever uttered by a statesman in the midst of a great war.-Greenwood Journal. Ships Are Needed to Trans port Men-Use of Substi tutes Urged. There is no chance for the house wife to relax in regard to the con servation of food. Just as the wheat substitute begins to look brighter though the 50-50 rule is still in effect-she has now to turn her at tention to a more intensive sugar saving program. The food adminis trator says: 0 "The burden of maintainingyihe allies falls on us. There is not enough sugar available for all of us to live in accordance with our peace time habits. You must share with our allies at a common table. Our great war program has reduced our sugar carrying fleet; the sugar require ments of our overseas army are very large; our domestic crop is less than we expect; Germans have destroyed sugar beet fields and factories in Nor thern France and Italy; more than 00,000 pounds of sugar was sent to the bottom of tho seas off our own shores recently. "If by our selfish use of sugar we should force the allies to send to Ja va for 250,000 tons of sugar to piece out their meagre ration for next year it would require ll extra ships. These ll ships would transport and keep 150,000 to 200,000 soldiers in France. Since about 70 per cent of the country's sugai passes through the hands of America's housewives, it is evident that she has a most im portant role to play in its conserva tion. First, it is her part to see that no more than two pounds per person per month comes in th? family lar der. Second, she must make this amount go around. It must cover the table use as well as for cooking. Just as in the use of flour substi: tutes, she will find other means of sweetening. She will also learn how to substitute other fuel giving foods for the sugar she has relied upon in the days of plenty. She will shift from sugar to starchy food. It will be her voluntary contribution to ul timate victory.-The State. GREW DESPONDENT OVER HER TROUBLES. ONCE WAS MOST WRETCHED PERSON, SAYS MRS. GREENE HUT NOW IS NAPPY. GAINED 10 POUNDS AFTER TAKINV, TANLAC AND IMPROVED CONSIDERABLY. "Before I began taking Tanlac I was the most wretched person I ex peet you ever saw, but now I am as happy as I can be over the good that Tanlac [has done me,*" said Mrs. Maggie Greene, of 1219 Ave. A, Ensley, Ala. "For a long time I suffered from Indigestion and stomach trouble," she continued, 'and had groivri so We are now in ; and quality that y In fact the millie it has ever been. Come and see 1 Suits, Dresses and See the new I Threads. Black ? Taffetas, Satin ai excellent for hair Silks that is a tres Our other fall g be glad to show tl weak from loss of energy that I really took no interest in anything. I would suffer for hours from gas on my stomach that made me dizzy and gave me palpitation of the heart. I fell off until I weighed only 95 pounds and was so weak and run down I could not do any work about the house. I was so nerv ous that at times I trembled all over, and I trot EO cross and fretful 1 was not like myself at all and was growing more despondent every day. "Nothing I took seemed to reach my troubles, and I just went from bad to worse. My husband got a bottle of Tan I ac for me, and as soon as 1 began taking ii 1 started to improve and began to eat and my appetite pot better every day. The disagreeable fullness does not trouble me any more after meals, and I just feel line. In fact, I do not know what it is to have a pain now. I sleep like a log at night, have gained ten poapds,. and every one tells me I look like a different woman." Edge-field, Penn *fc Holstein. Cold Springs. H. Ernest Quartes. Edgefield, R. F. D. No. 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Com pany. Modoc, G. C. McDaniel. Parksyille, Robertson & Com pany. Plum Branch, J. W. Bracknell & Son. Plum Branch, R. F. D. No. 2, E. P. Winn & Bro. Trenton, G. W. Wise. Young Soldier Grateful. Mr. J. A. Oheatham thanks the W. C. T. U. for the comfort kit in the following letter to Mrs. L. H. Prescott: Charleston S. C., Aug. 23, '18. Dear Mrs. Prescott: I wish to thank you for the nice comfort kit you sent me, I find it so useful. Not only that,, but it is a reminder of my friends in old Edgefield, extend my thanks to the W. C. T. U. members. 2nd Regiment Navy Training -Camp, Charleston, S. C. THE The store Sincerely, Jno. A. Cheatham. V \ position to show y< rou may wish in get' ?ry department is b( the new styles in B Skirts. ioyal Society Stam md colored Velvets id Plaid Ribbons, bows. Also, plain, ; it to the eye. oods are coming in lem to you. :ORNER 1 that always says, T Master's Sale. Stale of South Carolina, County of Edgefield, Court of Com mon Pleas. lone T. Kirkland, et. al.,- Plain tiff's-against-John S. Moseley Executor, et. al-Defendants. Pursuant to a decree in the above i entitled cause, I shall offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bid der before the Court House, Town of Edgefield. County and State aforesaid, on Salesday in October, 1U18, the hame being the 7th day .of said month, between the legal hours of sale the following describ ed realty, to wit: AU that tract of land, situate,' lying and being in the County and j State aforesaid, containing Four Hundred and Ninety (4U0) -Acres,; mere or less, and bounded aa rV>l- j lows: North by lands of the Estate] of Carson Warren; on the East by lands of M. T. Ward, J. C. Berry,, W. I). Johnson, O. D. Padgett; on I the South by lands ot O. 1). Pad gett and M. Smith; and on the West by the Sixty Kine acre tract which was CUL off from the Bacon ! place and conveyed by Moseley to | the Toneys. This Tract ot land has been cut into Six separate tracts, a descrip tion of each being below set forth. First, the six tracts will be sold (Separately, and then the six tracts will be sold as a whole, and should the purchase bid for the tract as a whole exceed the aggregate bids for the six tracts as sold separately, then the tract as a whole will there by pass to such bidder; if to the contrary the aggregate bid for the six tracts should exceed the bid for the tract as a whole, the various tracts will pass to the respective bidders therefor. Description of the 6 Tracts. Tract No. 1-Same being the Dwelling tract, and lies on , the South side of Public Road to Har mony church, and contains 78 acres, more or less. Tract No. 2-Lies adjacent to above tract No. J , and on this tract is the house occupied by Mr. Chas. Yonce, and it contains 82-2-3 acres, more or less. , Tract No. 3-This tract lies on North side of the above Public ou any style, color ting your fall hat. stter stocked than [ats, Cloaks, Coat ped Designs and , Velvet Ribbons, Plaid ribbons are plaid and stripped daily, and we will STORE hank You Road, heine: the extreme Eastern tract North of Raid Road, and hounds lands of Claude Rhodes, M. T. Ward, Mitchell and others. It fronts said Public Road to a stake in same, little West of Dwell ing, and contains 79 acres, more or less. .Tract No. 4-Lies adjacent to above tract No. 3, fronts said Road to a stake therein West of the Yonce house, and contains SS acres, more or less. Tract No. 5-Lies adjacentl to above tract, No. 4, fronts said Road for 1G 1-2 chains, and contains 80 acres, more or less. Tract No. 6-Is adjacent to tract No. 5 hereof and fronts said Road out to the junction of it and the Bouknigbt Road, and contains 78 acres, more or less. All of the Division lines between said tracts run practically North and South. Terms of Sale Cash: If purchaser at said sale fail to comply with the terms thereof, within ludays from the time of said sale, said premises, upon direction of plaintiff, or his attorney, will be resold on some subsequent Salesday at the risk of the former purchaser. Purchaser to pay fo'r papers and stamps. J. H. CANTELOTJ, Master E. C., S. C. Aug. 12, 1918. #?..*.#**.*?. . . . JA . I Used 4D Years ? The Woman's Tonic rgj Sold Everywhere ? 0 . i r.e *