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Office No 61 Residence, No. 17 Wednesday October 2 LOCAL AND, PERSONAL, Miss Sunie Talbert has returned from a visit to friends in Atlanta and Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Manly Dobson spent the week-end with their mother, Mrs. Emma Dobson. Mrs. L. S .Buddington of Green Cove Springs, Fla., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. C. A. Wells. Miss Lydia Brunson has gone to Atlanta to take a business course, and will be away most of the fall and winter. Miss Grace Dobson has gone to Greensboro, N. C. to visit her brother, Mr. Charles Dobson for several months. Rev. Robert G. Lee has accepted the call from the Baptist church and will probably enter upon his duties the second Sunday. Valuable real' estate will be sold by J. H. Cantelou, master in equity, nex,t Monday, the 1st Monday. Now is a good time to buy Edgefield coun ty dirt. Mr. Rubenstein announces his an nual fall opening this week. Read his full page advertisement in this issue, in which he announces some special bargains. An important conference of the members of the Baptist church will be held Sunday morning immediately after Sunday school. All members of the church are urged to come. Have you secured your lyceum tickets for the season? Better get one at once. The first entertainment of the season will be held in the opera house Thursday night October 10. Do not miss it. Little Miss Anna Tompkins, the ? sweet little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Tompkins, is here spending some time with her aunt, Mrs. Mag gie Hill, while her mother is in the hospital in Columbia. Mrs. Frank Warren entertained a party of friends and relatives from Florida this week. They were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hainey, Misses Mary Rob inson and Shailey Montague, Mr. and Mrs. Bogue and Mr. Robert Morrow. Rev. J. T. Littlejohn and Mr. and Mrs. Meyers of Scranton came over in their car and spent several days in Edgefield, Mr. Littlejohn attending the union meeting at Republican on Sunday. Ex-Gov. John C. Sheppard Avas in vited to make an address at a patri otic rally that was held in Sumter Friday night. After the address the sum of $443,000 was subscribed for liberty bonds. There are three separate sales of land advertised in this issue. The Da vis Realty Company will have an auc tion sale of land October 10 and the Newberry Realty and Auction Com pany will conduct sales October 10 and 12. Look up these advertisements in this issue. The latest addition to Mr. Willie Glover's home-circle is a fine boy and sweet little girl, twins. Some one has suggested tjiat they be named Wood row Wilson and Florence Nightingale and The Advertiser endo ses the sug gestion most heartily. Miss Ellen Prescott left on Mon day morning in company with Rev. J. T. Littlejohn, and Mr. and Mrs. Myers, formerly Miss Ruth Long, by auto to Scranton, where she will enter the High school of which Mr. Wallace Prescott is now principal. Mr. W. H. Harling spent Saturday night and Sunday in Greenville where he went to see his daughter, Miss Eileen, who is a student there. He went up unexpectedly to see her, which made her enjoyment at seeing him the more accentuated. Mr. Har ling reports that the girls of Edge field at the Greenville Woman's col lege are delighted with the pleasing environment to be found there. Miss Marie Abney's friends will regret to learn that she has been in disposed for some time now and on this account the concert which she had planned for October 4 will again have to be postponed. Miss Abney ?tili expects to give this entertain ment for the Edgefield library but she probably will not be able to do so until some time in November. At thft time she will expect all those who promised before, to help her. Mrs. John Fitzmaurice, Mrs. Mc Intyre, Misses Mary Ethel and Kath erine Fitzmaurice of Columbia and Lieuts. Shaver and Grant' of Camp Jackson spent the week-end with Dr. and Mrs. Jas. 'S. Byrd. Miss Ouida Pattison has been a student at Anderson college for sev eral weeks since the opening of the session and her ability is being rec ognized. She has been elected a teacher in one of the mission Sunday schools of Anderson and also leader of a Mission Study class. At a facul ty meeting recently, she was selected to help in the training of Freshman English students who are delinquent. We are always glad to see the talents of our Edgefield girls recognized and rewarded. Miss Mary Lillie Fisher who spent a large part of her childhood in Edge field and who even at that early age won the hearts of all who knew her, was the guest of Mrs. P. P. Blalock, Jr., for several days recently. Miss Fisher is a charming young woman and was the recipient of much atten tion while in her former home of Edgefield where perhaps her happiest days were spent with her devoted father and mother who are now no more. She is preparing herself to do canteen service overseas. They Do Not Object. We find that instead of objecting to the raise in subscription price of The Advertiser from $1.50 to $2.00, the people rather expected the raise. Already we have listed five new sub scribers since the 1st of October at $2.00. The paid-in-advance policy will be rigidly adhered to hereafter, being forced to act under government orders. Please do not ask us to send the paper ,even for a week, without the cash. Government Order. Must Be Obeyed. We are grateful to the subscribers who have come in and paid up their subscriptions in advance as required by the War Industries Board. There are a good many, however, who have not paid in advance and we were compelled this week to drop their names from our list. We find that a large majority of our subscribers are greatly pleased that this order has been issued, as they piefer to renew their paper when the subscription expires, instead of continuing the. old way. Hereafter, The Advertiser will be compelled to collect all subscrip tions in advance. But we wilJ notify each subscriber at least 10 days be fore ?the expiration so the subscrip tion can be renewed without missing an issue. Please watch your label from week to week. We will be called upon for a sworn statement of our circulation from time to time and will therefore be compelled to en force the pay-in-advance order. County Service Flag. The Daughters of the American Revolution are making large plans for a patriotic celebration on the 25th of October when, through the ' generous aid and cooperation of the people of the whole crunty a flag will be raised at the court house in hon or of every man who has gone to the front from Edgefield county. The flag and the placing of it will cost about $80.00. This is not a large amount, but the women who are pro jecting it feel that they want every man who has a son in the service to make even a small contribution to ward it so that whenever they look upon the stars of this service flag they will have a proprietorship in it, not only because they have a boy at the front but because they have help ed to honor him. This flag will con tain about 700 stars. Some one in each community will be asked to present this to the citi zens. . . . The Daughters of the American Revolution, and most of the citizen ship of our county, came from Revo lutionary forefathers, will make this one of the most notable and memorable occasions in the history of our county, ^and everybody is in vited. When the flag goes up, there will be one gold star upon it-and that in honor of the first man in Edgefield county who has given his life in this World War for "God and his coun try's sake"-Frank Salter. To the Colored People of Edge field County. The people of America have been called on again to make their fourth Liberty Bond Loan, and I want to beg you to spend every cent you possibly can in buying a Liberty Bond. We have done our duty in this war up to this time. Now, if we lag behind all that we have done will be ruined and we will be called slackers. A. W. Simkins. Lieut. T. B. Greneker at Bi tist Church. On Friday evening at the Bap church the people of Edgefield w the recipients of a great treat, hearing the first soldier from Ed field county from abroad. Lieut ant T. B. Greneker, pr more fai iarly, Benjamin to Edgefield wh we still think of him as a boy, c sented to tell his experiences, hav been invited by the local chapter Daughters of the American Revc tion. The consent of Lieut. Grenel was only secured on Thursday nig so that there was but one day which to make* known this privile to the public. Yet when the ti came for the programme to bej there was -hardly a seat unoccupi It usually takes about two weeks arouse the interest of the people any sort of entertainment. In ? case the announcement that this s of our soil would speak and the : terest were simultaneous. It took persuasion to fill the church in o day's time. Rev. A. L. Gunter presided ov the meeting and read the scripta Rev. P. P. Blalock leading in pray* A vocal solo, "The Soldier Lad Khaki Over There," was sung 1 Miss Miriam Norris. The speaker was introduced 1 Mr. J. L. Mims, who gave a litt history of the enlistment of Liev Greneker. The whole congregation arose this beloved young man stood to ti of his experiences, and listeni throughout with rapt interest and a tention. The story had never hi such a charm when told by any pr vious soldier, for it was related 1 one of our own. There were mar exceedingly thrilling experiences to and the names of some Edgefield bo; were mentioned as l ing now in tl front line of battle, among them tl Griffis boys, as he expressed it, ar Preston Lanham, Claude Lyon ar others. The people were all glad th; he had returned safe and whole, ar when the address was finished M Orlando Sheppard arose and expr?s ed the appreciation of the congreg; tion and assured him .of the prayei and cooperation of all the people, i a way that must have carried coi viction to the soldier, that he was i the home of his friends and suppor ers. A quartette composed of Misse Elizabeth Rainsford and Sadie Mimi and Mr. Mitchell Reynolds and JEto A. L. Gunter sang "The Star Spar gled . Banner," 'and Mrs. Shannor house sang as a solo, "The Marsei luise." The public is greatly indebted t the Daughters of the American Rev olution for arranging ' this excellen programme and notifying the publi of so delightful an opportunity. This organization will soon begh to arrange for the placing of a coun ty flag on the public square in honoi of the more than 700 men now in th< service of our country from Edgefielc county. Notice Concerning Erection and Repair of Buildings. In compliance with the instr nc tiona of the National Board o? Counsel of Defense, the State Coun sel of Defense ha? been ordered to take over the matter of construction of all building in the State during the continuance of the war. The State ?Counsel of Defense has order ed all County ? Chairmen to appoint a board of examiners who can be called together on a moments' no tice to pass on all building and re pairs of buildings during the war. This board will report to the Na tional Board who will Bustain or reverse permits issued. Permits will have to be obtained for all buildings under the rules as herein set forth. Parties who have par tially finished buildings will be re quired to obtain permits. The County Chairman is ex-officio chair man of the Couniy Board and the Secretary of tho County Board will be Secretary of this Board. The following has been appointed by 1 me as the County Board, C. A. Griffin Secretar}', B. B. Jones and Bettis Cantplou. This new ruling puts a different face upon the procedure. The practical result of it is as follows: 1. AlTnew buildings except for farm purposes only, whatever be their cost, are to be passed on by the State Council of Defense. 2., New construction for farm purposes only involving in the ag gregate to a cost not exceeding il,OOO does not have to be passed on. 3. Repairs of or extensions to existing buildings involving in the aggregate a cost not exceeding $?,500 need not be passed on. ' N. G. EVANS, I County Chairman, j Thursday, October 10 I ? (-:?.' -?-AT . I 11:00 A. M. Rain or Shine Brass Band Cash Prizes Big Time. Come and be with the Crowd George W. Wise Land ? 325 Aeres Three miles from Trenton, three miles from Edgefield, and one mile frontage on Dixie Highway. SIX FARMS-One to Suit Everybody We will sell at your price and on easy terms. Ten per cent day of sale, 10 per cent Nov. 15, 20 per cent Jan' 1, and we will carry the rest as long as you j like at 7 per cent. Let us show you l over these tracts before the sale. J DAVIS REALTY CO. EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA