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' VOL.83 . EDGSFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4.1D?3 T?O. 40 If' . * JOHNSTON LETTER. Invitation Extended to State W*. M. U. Forty Red Cross Christmas Boxes Forwarded At the recent meeting of the Bap tist 3Iissionary Society, it was deci ded to extend an invitation to the State Executive Board, W. M. U., to hold the Annual Meeting here in May. There will be between thirty and forty present. On last Saturday, 40 Christmas I boxes were mailed to the soldiers over seas from the Red Cross Rooms' These boxes were filled by mothers and sisters of the boys, the articles put in were just what they especially wanted. Many Christmas bags are be ing made and ready'to fill. Dr. J. A. Dobey has been appoint ed local chairman of the Christmas Roll Call. News has come of the marriage of Miss Bernice Sammon to Lieut. Carl E. Shoenhots, which took place on Nov. 14, at Macon, Ga., at the home of the bride's father. The bride is pleasantly remembered here having frequently visited her sister Mrs. Joe Wright. Mrs. Mattie Toney is at home from a visit to her sister inCharles ton. Mrs.O. Israel of Philadelphia, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Abrams. Mr. F. M. Boyd has returned to Paris Island after a visit to his fam- 1 iliy. ! Rev. J. H. Thacker, pastor of the |J Methodist Church here, has been IJ transferred to the charge at Lancas-T ter, and Rev. Kellar,with his wife 1 and four little ones are expected to ^ arrive here soon- . . 1 Rev. Thacker has been here four ' years, he and his estimable family 1 are loved, not only by his flock, but 3 by every one here, it is regretted, 1 flmr- J-Jli^Jdnn2. f>>i?.: fnn-.^o---1-^ come. The best wishes and prayers will follow him where ever he goes. Mrs. Luther Oxner of Gaff,Ga., is J1 visiting her cousin Mrs. Herbert Eid son. Mrs. Paul Perry and Mary Caro-;1 line, are guests of Mrs. Alice Cox. J Miss Louelle Norris of Columbia, has been a visitor with the home folk j Mrs. lone Quattlebaum Owdom is ^ now making her home here with her j ' parents. j. Miss Hallie White has returned to her sc'ool duties at Leesville, after! a week's sickness Every one in the home of Mrs. A. .' P. Lewis is sick with influenza-Mrs; Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lewis, and Annie Lamar. Mrs. Lewis' daughter, Mrs. Landrum, is visiting her and is looking after them and, the household. Miss Alma Woodward has gone to Raleigh, N. C., to make her home with her sister Mrs. Henry Whitaker, j The Woodward Hotel will be in charge of Mrs. Whittle after the 15. j Mrs. Lou Crouch of Trenton, was | a visitor here last week with rela tives. Miss Mary Waters of Converse Col lege, has returned to her home here on account of the epidemic there. Mesdames H. W. Crouch and L. S. Maxwell visited Mrs. Ernest Mor gan in Augusta last week. Mrs. Gus Smith of Mullins, has been for a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Earl Crouch. Miss Lillian Mobley has been visit ing her sister, Miiss Ella Mobley in Columbia. Mr's. Mary George and her daugh ter, Miss Geneva George, of Aiken, visited Mrs. Clarence Woodward last week. Mrs; Suber of Saluda has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Crouch. Mr. Willie Pearce Stevens is the chief engine man on the "George Washington,," that carried President Wilson across the seas. Miss Caroline Fleming of Laurens and Miss Sara Frances Green of Greer, spent the week end with Mrs. J. W. Marsh. Miss Martha Reese of Columbia is visiting Mrs. T. R. Denney. Red Cross Address. It was announced on Sunday morning at the Baptist Church that Mr. McNally, of the firm of Rand, McNally and Co., will address an audience at the Baptist Church next Sunday night in the interest of the Red Cross membership drvie. Beautiful Letter From Warren Hill's Captain to His Mother. . * December 3, 1918. Mrs. Sadie Hill, Johnston, S. C. My dear Mrs Hill: I know how futile any word of mine may be which would tend to assist in comforting and sustaining you through these sad hours. One cannot quite realize what the loss of those, who are very near and dear to them mean, unless they have them selves, personally passed through such a calamity, and I have, there fore I feel that I understand and can sympathize a little more keenly than those who have been more fortunate. How I wish there was something that I might do to assuage your grief and cause your sorrow to be less poig nant, however we must be brave du ring these sad hours and trying times, and I know from what Ser geant Hill told me, and he spoke of you to me frequently, that you pos sessed sterling qualities which will aid you through your seige. I knew Sergeant Hill very well in deed, and as his Captain I saw him frequently and I say to you, my dear Mrs. Hill, that I was very fond of him indeed, as every one was who had the pleasure of knowing him, and I could not feel worse if I had lost one of my own, it seems to me. He was invalauble to us and al ways manifested the most cheerful spirit, and he was so .bright, willing ind so much interested in his work, ind always did so well. It was only i few days ago that I saw him and is was my custom always stopped to lave a pleasant chat with him, and I said to him then, "Well Sergeant, I im afraid now that the war is over ;hat we will be losing you soon, and [ hate to think of it because I don't :now who I can get to fill ? your vayT^Vell Captain, I am. of course anxious to get home and also to. : nake more money, which I can in rivil life, but Captain I want you to mow that as long as the Government .equires my services I will stick." \nd that was just him all over. I lever knew a more loyal, more pajri )tic boy than Sergeant Hill was. We ill loved him here, enjoyed so much lis genial, whole souled nature, and felt such a loss when this calamity befell him. You have laid a costly sacrifice on th altar of Liberty, and may God as sist, comfort, and care for you as I know He will. Unfortunately I received orders today directing that I proceed to Washington at once, and nothing else but these definite orders would have prevented my coming to you at this time, but finding this impossible I ani directing Lieutenant Schwarting, the Chief of the Electrical Section, to take my place, and I will remember you, my dear Mrs. Hil!, and if for tune may favor me, and I come at any time near you, I shall certainly come to see you. Sergeant Hill's death has caused a great sadness to fall over the entire Company, and we all feel it very keenly indeed. Accept my heartfelt sympathy for i you and your dear family, and I not only speak for myself, but^for every Officer in and out of the Company. With renewed assurance of my love and sympathy and the honor of having known and ' having served with such a man as Sergeant Hill, our own, dear Sergeant Hill, I remain, Sincerely and sorrowfully yours, F. J. GILLESPIE, Capt., Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A, Miss Florence Mims Writes from Boston. Dear Advertiser: Well, this is the end of a perfect day! Two South Carolinians have been together, and no tie on earth beside that of kinship and love of a common causo is so great as the cameraderie felt toward one to an other nf his native town and State. I had all these thrills to day. I met Ruth Tompkins, and we had lunch together and talked. My! how we talked about homo and family and home again. We walked through the crowded thoroughfares together, and were alone with the loneliness of the crowd, unknown and unknowing. I wondered as I parsed people 1 had never Peen before nor \v> I see again', what we were.ali see! aa we were pushed this way that by the mob of people on * busiest corner of Boston's bu^ street." I don't mean what were looking for, but what v our aims and intentions? If i pie were shopping: for thc r, pleasure of spending because,:mp used for other things was now" leased, the spirit of Christmas i lost! This year tho Christof looms above the horrors of war ? beckons us on to higher ambiti* for the betterment of America. Now that we have kept our he* fires burning for the boys wi they return, some of them brok in body, but more perfect than ei in spirit, we must keep our he; fires bu rn in ir to welcome them to country made great through 1 vision of a sacrifice. I say visk for God saved UH from the reali which Franco has suffered. In tile Thanksgiving seryi which I attended at the Old Son Church Sunday morning, t preacher said that in the past the had been great hosts of peopled ing nothing, and large groups i other people helping them to c nothing, in fact there was a gre: leisure class-but to-day things ha* changed. Labor has been shorn \ its old prejudices and stands u great medium through which w learn the true values of life. .Ruth ami I stood on the edge $ the Charles river this afternoon an looked across the gray-green sa ace lit by the dyins: day, over t Cambridge, the home of Longfella-, and Emerson. Through the blip gray mist could be seen the pietro! esque arched bridge which seemif to float between earth and sky, aft to the left of it, the Boston schob of Technology, one of the Nej[ E^rjand homes of L?,ghe,L,l^r^i tractions there are in a great city, all according to how one view: them. One could spend the timi in the shops, and come home onlyr devotee Dame Fashion, knowing: only what she taught for a seasoi and then being iv.st aside by bel when ber whims of fancy turned tc other colors and other shapes. Certainly one can be forever ; patron of the great music, the greal paintings, sculpture and ar.-hitec lure, and art will but cherish yoi and lead yon on to greater revela lions of truth and beauty, whicl Keats says are "all we know ant all wo need to know or earth." Even before and above art, though, comes a person': well grounded faith and the foster ing of religion, being a I'ollowei of God first and the arts afterward Art is bul a conscious seeking :v{tei the truth of God and the heart ol humanity. When a person narrow? the source of his inspiration, lu narrows tile art which he is trying to perfect. The nation's heart should go up it: prayer in tho words of Louella C. Poole: "For strength to help the fallen up. For grace to hold the healms: cm: Unto the world's sore need! 'O not in vain the awful price Of this vast human sacrifice The cross 'neath which we plead. If through this bitter, bitter flood Of scalding tears and sweat oi blood, At last though scourged and bruised and tried, Thc nations chastened, purified, Shall closer draw to Thee." There is so much to do and feel here that I think if I had a thous and hearts and minds I could hud still?more to absorb, so I must sift the wheat from the chaff, and grow through the choice of the best. A Bostonian, on being asked where Boston was on the map, re plied that Boston was more a con dition than a situation. That is what I think about Edge field. I have come from the best to one of the next best places. How good to be able to talk lo all the people of my county every week! Shelly, the colored maid, came in my room this afternoon to do some extra cleaning, and asked me where I was from. When I told her "South Carolina," she spoke in the most condescending way of the South, and said she wouldn't deign to livo anywhere south of the Ma son and Dixon line for anything, but said some Southern people were ; very nico, and asked "in if I knew the Tillman's at Trenton. lier motlier lives in Columbia. She ir. Boston, New York arni Washing ton. Withal she was very com forting, and I enjoyed talking to her. I went to tho Angeli Memorial Hospital Monday morning, and told the first person I saw, a lady, Di at I i wanted to go through this unique institution for dumb animals. She procured a guide for me, and I went all over ?he whole place. Here I saw horses, dogs and cats, the op erating rooms and the different places where animals are kept. They bave separate rooms for ani mals with contagious diseases. The place is huge and very nicely I arranged in every way, three veteri nary surgeons being employed. The [Outside is very handsome also, with M. S. P. C. A. (Massachusetts' So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) on the name plate. One room is filled with pictures of people who had contributed to the instiution, and also a framed list of ali names. I registered with my home address on tho book pre pared for that purpose. There are cute pictures of cats hanging on the walls. .When I awoke this morning the ground was covered with a half inch of snow, for the first time since I , came, and yet the weather has buen ( warmer than usual to-day. Recently 1 went to a Symphony ? Concert, supposed to be the great- ] est orchestra in t?ie world, certainly ; the greatest in the United Stales. It was wonderful! When I came j in the room from the concert, a j beautiful black cat had curled upon mv room male's couch, and I just < fe'l on the cat and cried, lt was the most home-like thing I had seen, j. and^.t did not seem to mind it at fill, but let me play with it as much i^Jiked^..J?t_(y?jw_a very Kallq-^ flaring eyes. r "The door bel! rang! A young girl inquired if Florence Minis ? could be lound here. If proved to - be Miriam Lanham of Augusta who is here studying music at the I Boston Conservatory ami visit".! 1 my home in Kdgefield with the A Malter brothers about two years \ ago. 1 am going oui lo Dorchester Sunday afternoon and stay for din- ] ncr with ber. She said tint every- ] body made 1'nn o?' hur southern at;- 1 cent ami Bbc went into ecstasies ] over hearing il in nie. When 1 said something about millions of peo- ? pie''.when 1 only meant three or ; four, she fairly shouted and said il was ?o homelike to exaggerate and that 11 ie yankees were so cold heart ed. Everybody up herc is extremely efficient and exact in every par ticular. II was most thrilling for me to be with her, and we fairly revelled in each others company. FLORENCE M IMS. ?? Ganisboro St, Boston, Mass. IN MEMORY OF LIEUT. FRANCIS EARL BOAZMAN 1891-1918 In the valley of the eternal rising sun, God is gathering his frowers one, by ^ one ; Transplanted in His garden beyond ; the sky, It pleases God they shall never die. One by one God is gathering Hi? flowers From this storm-tossed world of ours No torrid sun, no frigid snow Where God's flowers ever bloom and grow. - And Jesus is the great warden Over God's sacred, angelic garden; He sendeth Heaven's dew in showers To nourish God's holy, immortal flowers. If life's winters seem long and weary; If storms seem dark and dreary, Life's mortal storms will soon abate-> Let us bow and patiently, reverently wait. By a cousin (of Newberry, S. C.) Lieut. -Boazman was a studet of 'the S. C. C. I. in 1911. NOTICE! Christmas packages for the Coun ty Home will be packed at Mrs. Joe Cantelou's. All persons interested in this lovely work done by the Edge field U. D. C. every year, will please see Chat their gifts are sent in by the 22nd. Eddie Stevens Writes to His Uncle Sam Agner Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala. November 29, 1918 Dear Uncle Sam: Will now take the greatest of pleasure' in answering your most ap preciated letter which I received a few days ago and-sure was glad to know that you were getting on so nicely at that time. This leaves me well and enjoying life to the limit. Well, Uncle Sam, I guess you had a nice time yesterday for it was Thanksgiving Day. I sure did have a good dinner here at the Camp, had a J little of every thing good to eat, only wish you could have been here with me,' I cquld have enjoyed it much bet ter. After dinner some of the boys and myself went to Anniston and we sure did have a good time in town to gether. I truly hope Johnie enjoyed him self yesterday and also hope that he and I will be back home real soon. We are sending home, four hun dred men a day from this Camp, I hope my time will come soon, I'm |v coming up to see you just as soon as I get out of this anny. You asked me if I knew Sallie had a little girl, yes, Uncle Jimmie Ste vens told me about it, he also told me about Aunt Lucy's death, that sure did leave him in an awful fix. Listen Uncle Sam, one of my best friends died this morning here, in tho hospital and five more are sick, but [ hope they will soon be well again. You spoke about the weather be ng so cold well, it certainly is cold 1?re now. Tell Eddie and the rest of them 'hello" for me and that I am having ?Vf i fine time; would sure like to see la! hem all and have a.talk with them. ?Fi Don't know any news this time to ?M vrite, so guess I will haje to close..'w. "rom W. P. Ryan io Geor.re.T. !';-. ._ __ __Sv/earmgen- __ October 29, 191S ;cr Dear Cousin George": , Ira : received your letter one day last j vee!:, you do not know how glad I as vas to hear from you. th I also received a letter from Mama [t is the second letter I have gotten ' from home since I have been across. L, l"ou must write oftener as I enjoy a .otter from aereas thevwaters. li,. How are you getting along gather- ; r, ?Hg the crop? Guess you have about finished now. We arc having some pretty weath er now. There is a big frost every morning; most of the time it is very cloudy or raining and a day of sun shine feels good. Well, I will tell you about our trip to the trenches-we wore in the front line trenches ii ficen dav.;," and while there heard bombs bursting. We were bombarded twice, there sure was a crowd of scared boys as the first bombs began to burst, but soon got where we didn't mind them so much. We had a little battle that lasted jr one hour-fr omi to 2 A. M. Not many of our boys were hurt badly. One sergeant got a flesh wound by a shrapnel. Do not know whether we killed any Germans or not. We had a dugout with about 30 men in it and some large rats! Our division is called the "Wild Cat" di vision, all of us have a wild cat sew ed on our left coat sle*-e. I haven't seen vcr* iany French girls, some of them are real pretty. I am doing fine, haven't been sick since I have been across. The country is pretty in places, and I sure have seen some high mountains, the roads arc down in the valleys, between them. I am writing on my musket by an electric light. It seems like home to see electric lights. I have written all that will be of interest to you so will close. Write real often please. Your cousin, Pierce Stop, Look, 1 "Miss Fearless & sented by the on Friday, Dee o'clock. This is has been a succt ged, so we guarantv pleasure. Thc admissi Come and bring so. yon. RED OAK GROVE. Red Cross Workers Very Active Circle Met With Mrs. Sam Aerier. The Sunday School lessons are so full of encouragement to us and our childhood memories of the life of Jo seph as it was indelibly impressed upon our minds, brings to memory under whose training, with that of a christian mother your Sunday School reacher. I remember well, being taught the life of Josehp by Mrs. Dr. scott Sheppard. Her husband was )ur beloved physician, how glad I vas when I was able to go to Sunday school and find that my teacher was iis wife. To teachers, both Sunday School and day school, you have won uccess if the children love you. Last week was a busy week for ted Cross workers. Wednesday our irele met with Mrs. Sam Agner tho so graciously received us in her lome. In absence of Mrs. Leila Bus ey, Mrs. Eva Bussey presided Tmd .hile all of the members were not resent, we had a good meeting. Friday afternoon the Red Cross eld their monthly meeting at Mrs. Iamie Bussey's, at which we had th? resence of Mrs. A. B. Young, who. inducted a devotional service for s that encouraged and comforted s to not give up but press the im ortance of a continuation of Red ross werk. At this meeting Miss 'amie Bussey and Kathleen Ken di rendered appreciated service, he former recited ''Doing Your Bit" td the lattfer read a paper on Facts on Red Cross Work." Mr. T. Lamb rendered quite an epjoy de address. riday evening was spent at Mrs. amie Bussey's, holding our first sejily prayer sarvice. Theare was A- . r^aS?.:u^HPrlc/!a^ve attendance, ithered the Sunbe"*> M?f. fannie ano to practice sin^M4^*1 owd chatted and listened to the usic. Miss Lulie Timmermart will have ; her guests next Sunday afternoon ie Young Woman's .Auxiliary. Miss Ruby Deni will be the guest ' Miss Kathleen Kendrick this week ul and ?ttend the Y. W. A. Mrs. Jack Bradley of McCormick is been with her sister, Mrs. George ussey for several days. Mrs. Brad ly will be with her aunt Mrs. Carri? orrest of Johnston this week. Sh? ith her sister Mrs. Bussey, will visit ?eir bother, Mr. Charlie Wates of ugusta before she returns to Me er ni i ck. Mr. and Mrs. John Holland spent art of lase week with the latter's pa ints, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Agner. Mr. Bruce Tim merman is now un er treatment in a sanatorium in Co jmbia. His friends anxiously enquire f him and wish for him speedy res oration to health. Mr. J. B. Timmerman# Jr., of Greenwood, spent the week end with slatives. Mr. Timmerman is a splen [id young man and has many warra riends here and else where. The first annual meeting of tba Sdgefield Chapter, American Red .'ross,, will be held in the opera louse Friday afternoon, December ?Oth, at 3:00 o'clock. Preceding the meeting there >e a large and attractive parade listing of a magnificent ?. lutomobles gaily bedecked md banners, and me' children on march- \ if Peace and Vicf Thc committ* ( ill particiipa Park at 2j00 position pro? r Gran'1 A' ?5