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?ai?bl?j?hr?i 1035. ?J_. . '_ i** ". - J. L. MIMS,_Editor. ?g -1 " Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year Sn advance. Entered as second class matter at Sie postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub ?fahed unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub fished at advertising rates. Wednesday, January 29. Santa Claus has already resolved that he will not purchase any "Made j in Oermany" toys for the world's lit tle children in 1919. The Spurtanburg man who j brought suit for 810,000 and was a-1 warded a verdict of $10 probably I blamed it on his lawyer instead of realizing that he had a very lame case in chancery. As three million more women than men voted in Germany the other day, j th-jre h yet hope for thc Huns. The hand that rocks the cradle is a mighty pood hand to be ruled by-except when it brandishes a rolling-pin. Is it right to put your automobile in a dry. rain-proof house and put your faithful horse in a leaky, wet stall? Let's apply the golden rule in a measure at least to the dumb brutes as well as to our fellow man. Have you ever thought of giving thanks for the improvement in the food and fuel situation as compared witii a year ago? Everybody has been weii supplied this winter. On Febru ary 1 .iii restrictions applying to the sale of coal will be removed. Some of the Solons are adepts at i merry-making as well as law-making, j Occasionally between the acts, Rep- j resentative Moss of Cherokee, will i "hist"' a hymn or some other song ! and a score or more members of the I house will make the historic old hall resound with their voices. The bankers of the State are standing squarely behind the farmers in tneir efforts to stay the constant- I ly falling price of cotton. The farm- j ers of the South and the bankers of : the South are a combination that j should be able to break the "Hinden- , burg line" of "bear' speculators. __ "_ Wha : the cotton situation needs is! about a score of ships like the one . that ieft New Orleans Wednesday,1 for France loaded with 2f>,2G8 bales.! This one ship sailed with about as : mud: cotton aboard as all the farm- j ors in Edgefield county raise in one ; year. Your "Uncle Sam" is just a bit : shortsighted, from a business stand- i point. He .--hcjuld have held the price j of cotton up until he sold all of his j second-hand cantonment mules. Mule : flesh slumps along with cotton. If there is r.o reduction in the price per j capita, there will be !es.= demand and | fewer sold. A Trousseau Fund. There is always something new, in spite of the sameness of this old world. One of the new things is said to be the setting aside.of a trousseau '? fund by a father who has a marriage- i able daughter, corresponding some- 1 what to the sinking fund of a bond issue, lt may be said to be a fund 5 for retiring your daughter on. The : father who has all boys may congrat ulate himself that he is relieved of providing a trousseau fund, but in lieu thereof, he generally has to buy cigarettes for his boys and candy for some other father's girls. So every thing about evens-up in this old world anyway. Real Estate Changing Hands. Doubtless the public records of the county will show tnat more real es tate, particularly farm lands, has changed hands in Edgefield county during the past four or five months than for a like period at any time in the past. Boys have left the parental roof and set up house-keeping for themselves, or neighbor has sold to neighbor and moved away to another community upon a newly purchased farm or. better still, some newcomer has purchased an Edgefield farm and cast his lot among us. We are always especially glad when the real estate transfer is of the latter character, for one of the greatest needs of Edge field county is an influx of a thrifty, home-owning population. Thousands und ten1? of thousands of acres of Edgefield land are practically idle, or at least poorly cultivated, needing someone from beyond the borders of the county with pluck and energy and frugality to settle upon it. We are always delighted to hear of a transfer of real estate, for it general ly means an improvement of condi tion on that farm, but we are partic ularly pleased when the purchaser is a new acquisition to our citizenship. May the number of real estate transfers, especially farm land sales continue to increase. TRIBUTE TO SENATOR B. E. NICHOLSON. Dear Advertiser: After spending the week-end at home, I am again here in the dis charge of my legislative duties, but it was with a heavy heart and sorely depressed spirit that I boarded the train for Columbia yesterday. I miss my departed friend and co-worker, Senator B. E. Nicholson, even more here than in Edgefiekl. From the time we came, at the opening of the ses sion, until he was stricken and left for his home, we occupied a roo.n to gether here in the hotel and always sat at the same table in th? Jiaing room. The last time I saw my beloved friend was Thursday morning just a week preceding his death, when I bade him good-bye as I left our room for the House, after I made all neces sary preparations for his going home. Although suffering much from a dreadful ?-old, accompanied by high fever, he*was bright, cheerful, hope ful, stating that he would return with me to Columbia the following Mon day. That Monday, and still another has come and gone, and my friend is not here. In my abject moments I feel like exclaiming with Tennyson, '"Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still." I Aboard the train, in the hotel lob by, c>n thc streets of Columbia and in the halls of the House and Senate, almost continuously since I left home, people have expressed pro found admiration for Senator Nich olson, expressed sincere sympathy for his bereaved loved ones and also for the people of Edgefield county in their irreparable loss. Senator Nich olson had thoroughly established him self in the affection and confidence of his fellow senators, so much so, in fact that the older men of the body j who were more mature in years and experience deferred to him and learn- j to lean upon him. His ability, cour age, h'gh ideals, persistent and painstaking efforts, together with his unswerving purpose and rectitude of character, made him one of the lead ers of the upper House, Everybody has a kind, complimentary word to i say of Edgefield's young statesman, honored alike at home and abroad. I recall that Dr. Stoddard in one of his celebrated lectures says Almighty God has set a special imprint of di vinity on certain portions of our globe, referring particularly to the j Alps, the Pyrenees, the grandeur of 1 Norwegian fjords, thc Sacred Moun- j tains of Japan and other favored j places. Just as God has placed his ( special imprint upon these rare spots, ; petting them apart as objects of sur- j passing beauty and admiration, so has he placed the imprint of divinity upon some choice spirits, both men ', v.r.? women, Senator Nicholson being, one of these. He needs no eulogy in j eloquent words or flowery phrase. His life and works speak louder than words and his influence among his fellows shall live longer than any ' marble shaft that may be erected to j perpetuate his memory. Senator Nicholson is not dead. To i such as he "death is but a gate of ' life." True his frail form now rests eternally but his great soul has been wafted to the God who gave it to us, the people among whom he lived, for forty-four years. To such as Ben Nicholson "There is no death ! the stars go | down j To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jewelled ' crown They shine forever more." J. L. Mims. Columbia, S. C. Your bicycle can be driven by a ' light two-cylinder motor that will do away with your pedaling. Something entirely new but altogether satisfac tory. Come in to see it. Stewart & Kernaghan. FOR SALE: One young mule and one young horse, both home raised, also four Essex pigs. Lee Gibson, Edgefield. S. C., R. F. D. ?5. WANTED: Tenants for several ( good farms. Apply to Mrs.M. J. Norris. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. To the Commissioners of Elections for the County of Edgefield. Whereas B. E. Nicholson who, at the General Election held in Novem ber 191G, was chosen a member of the Senate for the Election District of Edgefield County, to serve for four years, has since said election died And whereas the Constitution of the State of South Carolina directs that in such case a writ of Election shall be issued by the President of the Senate for the purpose of filling the vacancy thus occasioned for the remainder of the term for wh:ch the member so dying was elected to serve : Now, Therefore, You and each of you are hereby required, after due advertisement, and with strict regard to all the provisions of the Constitu tion and Laws of the said State touching your duty in such case, to hold an election for a Member of the Senate, for the Election District aforesaid, to serve for the remain der of the term for which the said |B. E. Nicholson was elected: the Polls to be opened at the various Dis tricts on Tuesday the fourth day of February, 1919, by the various sets of Managers for those places respect ively; and the .counting of the votes feast and the declaration of the result ?of the election to be in accordance ?with the provisions of law providing |for the General Elections and the manner of conducting the same. This Writ, Together with your re turns and all papers pertaining to the Election to be held under it to be ?transmitted to the Secretary of ! State. Witness the Honorable Junius T. ; Liles, Esquire, President of the Sen ate, at Columbia this the 29th day of January in the year of our Lord one [thousand nine hundred and nineteen. Junius T. Liles President of the Senate, j M. M. Mann Clerk of the Senate. ELECTION MANAGERS. The following Managers of Elec tion have been appointed to hold the ?election at the various precincts in the said County: Timmerman-E. L. Scott, Luther Yonce, L. J. Claxton. Trenton-L. C.' Eidson, W. H. Moss, J. M. Long. ^, Johnston-W. L. Derrick, J. Wil bur Yonce, Archie J. Lewis. Edgefield, Pickens-J. W. Reece, W. J. Duncan. J. H. Nicholson. Edgefield, Wise-S. E. Morgan, J. H. Paul, S. B. Mays. Meeting Street-W. M. Ransom, M. A. Watson, G. B. TimmeVtflan. Pleasant Lane-M. B Byrd, Mou zon Dorn, J. Whit Harling. Red Hill-C. L. Mathis, 0. 0. Timmerman, H. E. Quarles. Cheathams Store-R. C. Griffis, T. G. Morgan, L. R. Brunson, Sr. Mathis-I. L. Miller, H. W. Mc Kie, D. T. Mathis. Meriwether Hall-M. L. Bunch, R. W. Glover, H. P. Cooper. Ropers-J. D. Boswell, S. W. Mil ler, F. F. Rainsford. Bacon at Bouknight's Store-W. H. Smith, 0. W. Wright, H. H. Her long. School House near J. 0. Scigler's -Ed Callison,. R. D. Seigler, T. B. Culbreath. The Managers at each precinct named above are requested to dele gate one of their number to secure boxes and blanks for the election on or before Monday, February 3, 1919. J. W. KEMP A. M. CLARK J. B. MINNICK Commissioners of State and County Elections for Edgefield County, S. C. Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders. Complyi-: with instructions of the Board t " Erectors of The Farmers and Me: .K.nts Bank of Johnston, Notice is hereby given that a Special .Meeting of thc Shareholders of the said bank will be held in the building occupied by the bank on Tuesday, February 25th, 1919, at ten o'clock a. m. The object of the meeting will be to consider and pass upon the recommendation of the board of di rectors to increase the Capital Stock of the said, The Farmers and Mer chants Bank of Johnston, from Fifty thousand dollars to One hundred thousand dollars. Shareholders are requested to be present in person, or represented by by proxy. S. J. Watson, President, W. C. Derrick, Cashier. l-27-4t. Notice. This is to inform our friends and th public generally, that I have pur chased from the estate of my forme1, partner, thc late Mr. B. B. Wilson, his interest in Merchandise and Live Stock, and will continue the same ! line of business at the same place. .' Hi.s estate will retain one half in-1 tcrcst in all notes, so parties owing, notes now due and past due will, please call and settle. Bettis Cantelou. | BSDBS aa ress . vi- jw.?^,L.yi, <A?-j*irT7trrrrrs>r&ttAXKx^ ? ----i Y There is a strong, demand at this season of the year for articles to be embroidered. We can furnish you -with stamped arti cles, such as gowns, center pieces, boys* suits, pillow tops, baby ropes, tea sets, combinations, teddies, baby pillows, laun dry bags, collar bags, towels, Billie Burks. Threads in all colors in silks and cottons. Will order at once any shade and quality that we haven't in stock. Ask for color card and let us order for your needs. Tatting and crochet threads in stock, cro chet needles, embroidery hoops, embroid ery needles. If we haven't what you need in a stamped article let us order for you a Pictorial Review Transfer Pattern, you then can select your own design and material, and use it where vou want it. GIVE US A CHANCE TO SERVE YOU The Comer Store PRICE ANNOUNCEMENT The policy of the Ford Motor Company to sell its cars for the lowest possible price, consistent with the de pendable quality, is too well known to require com ment. Therefore, because of present conditions, there can be no change in the prices on Ford cars: Runabout. $500 Touring Car ... . $525 Coupe. $650 Sedan. $775 Truck Chassis . . . $550 DGFEiELD, SOUTH CAROLINA