Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 15, 1919, Page THREE, Image 3
industria! Woman's Service Club
Brings Home to Girls in New
Factory Ccmmuniiy.
BLUE TRIANGLE MEANS CHEER
Club Stands for Hot Lunches, Clean
Towels, Comfortable Cots, Parties,
Games and Recreation to
Girl Workers.
Katherine Holland Brown.
((jL irY name ls May Isabel Carna
1.VX 'ian* 1 ?"" e'snteen v,''"'s
old. and I work in a big fac
tory in Michigan. More than four
hundred other girls work there too.
I don't aim to tell you about our jobs.
You can read about our work in the
labor department reports. But I do
aim to tell you about our Dig Sister
ami of the things she has done for us.
"To begin with, our factory town
isn't a town at al!. It's a huge barn
of buildings stuck down in the country'
nineteen miles from nowhere. There
is a railroad siding, a station the size
Of a dry fronds box. seven farmhouses
and one general store and postoffice
combined-it's pretty near as bl/ as a
hot tamale stand. And that's all. No
* Main street, no banks nor stores, no
Ice-cream parlors, not one solitary
movie show, in nil those nineteen
miles. Lonesome? It's the raised
edge of desolation, that's what it is.
"I was ono of the first carload of
forty girls that was shipped up from
Chicago. The factory was swarming
with workmen putting In tho machin
ery, and we girls couldn't begin work
for a day or so, so we began hunting
places to eat and sleep. That was a
trille that the employment folks hadn't
thought of. The workmen were sleep
ing and eatinp in thf curs that had
brought them there, hacked on the
Siding. Our only chance for beds and
food was with those seven farmhouses,
so we marched straight to Hie farmers'
wives and asked for board and room.
Farmers' Wives Hospitable.
"* "I will say thai thoseworaen were kind
and hospitable. They fixed it tip be
tween them to feed us forty girls, and
they pave us pood food too. But for
rooms, that was the question. They
could each spare one room. That
meant sleep five or six In a room. But
right then along came the boss of thc
factory and told us the machinery wai
ready and he'd expect us pirls to wort
double shifts, night and day.
'.Ile wanted to make use of overj
minute, you see. But that pave us oin
chance as to sleeping. We fixed ?t ur
witii the farm folks that we'd wort
double shifts and sleep double shiftt
too.
w "So we planned it. Three pirli
would use a room from eipbt at niphi
till six the next morning. Then they'c
bustle over to the factory, and tin
three pirls who'd {.cen working al'
night would take thc room and sleej
till afternoon. It wasn't any luxurl
Otis slumber, believe me. The fa rn
women laid so few sheets and pillow
cases that most of tis went without
And towels were scarce ns diamond!
on blackberry bushes. As io soap
well, the general store kept yellow bai
pon??, that kind that is so fuli of rosir
you could usc lt to calk a ship. Bu'
we made out till the next three car
loads of pirN came rolling in. The*
we went 'most distracted. Those pool
girls had to sleep in tenis and in th?
cars thai the workmen had abandoned
by this time, and they were lucky il
they got a straw tick and a blanket
By ibis time it had 'turned raw cold
and maybe you know what late au
tumn nights in Michigan feel like. Tr
cap the climax the farm folks cut
down on food, and for a week it was
potatoes and beans and mighty few
beans at that.
Along Came a Miracle.
"But. right when we were abott'
ready to (put our jobs and beat it foi
home, along came a miracle. Tw?:
quiet, businesslike women climbed
down from the eastbound train otii
morning. With them came eight work,
men, a carload of scantling and tai
paper, another carload (d' cols ami
blankets and pillows and sheets and
towels -brand new blankets and beds
-think of the glory of that!-am!
bushels of dishes and rolls of oilcloth
and enough burlap to carpet the coun
try. You won't believe me when I tell
you that in ten days their workmen
hail a scantling-nnd-tar-paper shack
put up and burlap tacked over the
walls, and the Y. W. C. A. secretarj
and her helper bad set up board table?
ami coffee kettles and were serving us
the grandest hot lunches every day.
And back behind the burlap screens
were set those rows of clean cots, with
enouph cover to keep you warm thc
coldest night that ever blew, and a
towel apiece for every single girl. Dc
you wonder that we all felt, as on?
girl put it. Til wager the Fritz-Carle
ton has nothinp on this!'
"Who were tl ise women? Why.
Y. W. C. A. secretaries, of course. I'd
think you'd know that without beinp
told. All over the country wherevei
we girls have pitched in to make aero
plane cloth or overalls or munitions 01
canned goods yon'M find a Y. W. C. A
secretary working harder than any
body else to make the girls comfort
able and to keep them happy and well
Sometimes they haven't money enougl
to pet till that we really need. But al
ways they stretch every cent to mak?
lt do Iis level best for us. Do you won
der that we girl workers have lenrnei
to call the Y. W. C. A. our Big Sistei
- the very best Big Sister ol' all?
Mastering E.
FRENCH FACTORY GIRLST?
CONDUCTED BY THE Y.W.C.A
FOYERS IN FRANCE.
Four departments of Hie French1
Government have asked the American
Y. W. C. A*, to open social and recrea
tion centers for girls employed by
them-Finance, Commerce, War und
Lahor.
Lieutenant Poncet of the Ministry
of Lahor recently requested that this
X. W. C. A. work he begun for girls in
his offices alter seeing the social and
recreation centers which had ln?en
opened at the request of the Ministry
of War. Sixteen centers of this kind
are operated in six cities in France.
Three of them are in Paris.
Tlie last of these Foyers des Alli?es
is for girls who ase working in the De
partment of Lahor. It is far down the
tocino, .under the shadow of tho Eiffel
Tower, and overlooks th" QlUti d'Orsay.
The rooms are bright and cheerful,
with chintz hangings and cushions,
comfortable chairs, reading and writ
ing tables and a fireplace. A kitchen
has equipment so that girls can pre
pare meals for themselves. They gc
to the foyer for their two hour lunch*
eon time, for social evenings ami for
classes in English.
400,000 YANKS ARE
Y. W. C. A. VISITORS
1 Four hundred thousand persons and
more served in tho cafeteria in on?
year is tho record of tho Y. W. C. A.
Hostess House at Camp Lewis, Amer
ican Lake. Wash.
The majority nf the -100.000 diners
were mothers, wives, sweethearts ami
friends win? wenr to the camp to visit
, their soldiers. Tbi' remainder wore
soldiers themselves who broke the mo
notony of "chow" with home cooked
meals. In addition to all these guests.
2.3,000 little children wore eared for in
the nursery and the rest room serve?!
70,000 tired wives and mothers.
Tho workers at tho information
! desk received and answered 07.00C
questions varying from how lo get the
hes! connections to n destination clear
across the continent, the rates of soi
diers' insurance ami the kimi of ere
, tonne a girl brido should have in hoi
living room now that Private John is
i coming homo from Franco. Eleven
, thousand of thes? ?pieries required rel
jcphone conversations with various
! company commanders relativ?; to hunt
i lng up a soldier whose parents had ar
' rived unexpectedly.
Y. W. C. A. CAFETERIA
IN PORTO RICC
Porto Rien lias a cafeteria. Il is tin
.first one established on tho island, and'
when it was opened in Tho Y. W. C. A. i
Hostess House at "ump Las ?'asas the I
natives crowded around, much amused,
at tlie innovai ion. They insisted upon;
having American dishes.
Tlie house became very well known
in a short lime, and a group of women
from San Juan volunteered to go out
every week to mend socks ami sew on
butions for the soldiers.
I RUSSIAN PRINCESSES
LEARN TO TRIM HATS
Y. W. C. A. Saves Wife of General
From Becoming Charwoman.
Whey the war work of Hie Y. W. C. I
A. in Russia luis all been told one of,
the most interesting stories will lie in J
the establishment ol' die first Women':
I Co-operative Association at Moscow.
Then? day after day princesses work
side by side with peasant girls, wives
of high Russian ofiicials make dresses
or trim liais nt long tables with simple,
unlettered women, and the money is
used for self support of these prin
cesses and notable women as well as
for the peasant classer.
The need and suffering throughout
all Russia was so groat at thc time
the Association was established that
It was a problem to find where the
money would help tlie greatest num
ber of people. It was thought best to
expend it to help capitalize organiza
tions for giving work and permanent
opportunities to families and individu
als to earn their own living.
The women bring their handiwork
to the Association for sale or take or
ders to do dressmaking, millinery, etc.,
In the rooms of tho society or at homo.
Suitable work was fourni just in time
not long ago to koop tho wife of one of
Russia's greatest: generals from going
out as a charwoman to earn bread for
her husband, who was 1U.
m
ARNING ENGLISH ?N A CLASS
* *
* MESSAGE TO Y. V/. C. A. FROM ?
* FRANCE. *
* - *
* I must oxpres> to you tho k
.k very grout satisfaction and most *
.*? sincere gratitude of the French *
Government for tho service ren- *
* dered to the women working in *
* Government factories through *
* the establish nient of Y. W. C. A. *
* Foyers des Alli?es (clubrooms -k
.k for raunitioncttes). *
.k These foyers have been an ex- *
* cellent means for bettering the *
.k physical conditions and the mo- *
* rule of our workers. They have -k
?k been constantly used by the wo- *
* men workers, who have found *
TV there new elements of dignity ?*
* and social education. *
* I must thank you for bringing iV
* this lo pass, and I hope that *
* Y. W. C. A. work will not disap- *
-k pear with the war, birt will be ?
?*. carried on in order to develop -k
k the principies of social solidar- *
* ?ty which it has inspired. *
* (Signed) M. LOUCHER, *
?k Minister of Arms and Muni- -k
k lions Manufacture. *
* *
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NURSES PRODUCE WILD
WEST PICTURE SHOW
Entertain Roumanian Countess at
American Show in France.
Picture shows are being put on In
France without cameras, scenery or
any of Ibo necessary propert3<?*"j*afe>
cording to reports reaching the Na
tional Y. W. C. A. from a Y. W. C. A.
nurses' hut In a Base Hospital.
Having no film or camera, the
nurses at Base decided lo put on a
living picture show and invited a
group of nurses from a nearby hos
pital to be the audience, lr was a
real thriller, one of the wild and wool?
ly west variety, with bucking bron
choes and wild rides on broom and
mop horses.
Imagination supplied the scenery,
with the exception of placards, which
announced "thc sun'' when it was sup
posed to lie shining or "cacti" when
the cow punchers rode across the
desert.
Countess Yararosra of Roumatiia,
who had been talking to the nurses on
conditions in tho German courts at tlie
time she was lady-in-waiting to the
Queen of Roumnnin, was the most ap
preciative of all the guests.
INSIGNIA, CURTAINS,
MADE FROM SKIRTS
Blue broadcloth skirts used for op?
gaulzation insignia and plaid summer
dresses reconstructed into window cur*
tains are after war economies of the
nine Y. YV. C. A. secretaries in Arch
angel, Russia.
These secretaries have just succeed
ed, in the face of food and cloth short
ages. In opening a V. YV. G. A. Hostess
House for American tmops stationed
in Archangel, a town behind the allied
lines. It was necessary to hunt nj? a
voile summer dress which one of the
secretaries hail discarded for heavy
winier clothes in order to have cur
tains nt the windows. They live on
regulation army rations.
Archangel is the fourth city in Rus
sia where tin; Y. W. G. A. has estab
lished work. Gemers were opened
first in Petrograd and Moscow and
then in Samara, 900 miles eastward
from Moscow.
Miss Elizabeth Boies, head of Rus
sian work and one of the few Ameri
cans who remained in that country
throughout the revolution, is rr rout?
to America hy way of England to re
cruit workers for Russia.
A second Y. W. C. A. Hostess House,
for wives and children of soldiers, is
soon to be opened at Cast nor, Cahu,
Hawaiian Islands, to care for the over
flow of women and children from the
first house, which opened some months
ago In answer to a rall from the coni
j mandlng officer of the ramp.
During If) days in November li.152
visitors were entertained at the house,
including women and children, of the
following rationalities; Philipplno, Ha
waiian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian
Porto Rican, Korean, Jupanese and
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AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
All persons owning; property of
any kind whatsoever, or in any ca
pacity, as husband, guardian, execu
tor, administrator or trustees are re
quired to make returns of the same
to the Auditor under oath within the
j time mentioned below and the Audi
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alty of 50 per cent to all property
that is not returned on or before the
i 20th day of February in any year.
All male citizens between the ages
,of 21 and GO years except those ex
empt by law are deemed taxable polls
The 50 per cent penalty will be added
for failure to make returns.
For thc convenience of tax payers,
I or my representative will be at the
j following appointed places on the
I dates mentioned to receive tax re
j turns.
Ropers-Wednesday, January 15,
,1919.
Meriwether-(At Joe Thurmond's
?Store) Thursday, January 16th.
Collier- Friday, January 17th.
Hod Hill-Saturday, January 18th.
W. R. E. Winn's Store-Monday,
January 20th.
Cleora-Tuesday, January 21st.
Pleasant Lane-Wednesday, Jan
uary 22nd.
Meeting Street-Thursday, Jan
uary 23rd. ,.
Johnston-Friday, January 24th.
Herrin's Store-Saturday, January
25th.
Trenton-Monday, January 27th.
The oilice will he open to receive
returns from the first day of January
till the 20th day of Feb. 19 i9, as pre
scribed by law.
? J. R. TIM M ERM AN,
Auditor, E. C. S. C.
Dec. 17-1918.
FURS WANTED.
i
I am in the market for
Hides and Furs
snell as mink, muskrat, Coon
and foxes.
Highest prices paid.
LOUIS TUCKER.
Edffcheld, S. C.
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Citation.
State of South Carolina, /
County of Ddgetield. \
By W. T. Kinnaird, Enquire,
Probate Judge.
Whereas, Thoa. Jefferson Briggs
made suit to me, to grant bim Let
ters of Administration of the estate
of and effects of William Traylor
Briggs.
These are Therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors of the said Wil
liam Traylor Briggs, deceased, that
they be and appear before me, in
the Court of Probate, to be held at
Edgefield C. H., S. C., at my office
on 18th of January next after pub
lication thereof, at ll o'clock in the
forenoon, to show cause, if any they
have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand, this 1st
day of January, Anno Domini 1919.
W. T. KINNAIRD,
Probate Judge, E. C., S. C.
/ Published on the 1st, 8th and
loth days or January, 1919. in The
Edgefield Advertiser.
GIN NOTICE
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ginnery
Wednesday
Thursday
and Friday
of each, week throughout
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Abbeville-Greenwood Mu
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Remember, we are prepared to
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Our Association is now licensed
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The officers are: Gen. J. Frase?
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DIRECTORS.
A. 0. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C.
J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C.
Jno. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C.
A. W. Youngblood, Hodges, s/c.
S. P. Morrah, Willington.S. C.
L. N. Chamberlain, McCormick S. C.
R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C.
F. L. Timmerman, Pln't Lane, S. C.
J. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C.
W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C.
J. R. BLAKE,
GEN. AGT.
Greenwood, S. C.
BRICK FOR SALE.
We will soon begin the
tearing away of thc oil mill
buildings and will offer second
hand brick for sale at $5.00
per thousand. Now is your
opportunity to buy good
brick at almost half prices.
ADDISON MILL.
T. A. H IG H TOWER.
Supt.