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tzL?????hru Iii35. f - J. L. MIMS,.-Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as- second class matter at (he postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. . Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res tlutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, April 30. There" is a building epidemic on in Edgefield and it may continue to spread. - The Victory Loan campaign is lag ging. Is that failure due in part to your failure? Italy does not object to the color ? of our money, having just been grant ed a loan of $50,000,000. Who said there were no Bolshevists in this country? Anyway you'd better open suspicious looking parcel post packages with care. We ar? on the alert for the govern ment report on the blackberry crop! ' Here's hoping that it will be a record- ' breaker especially as Mr. Hoover has . let up on sugar. \ Only 50 per cent of our "A. E. F." jj boys have been brought home. The ' j government needs money from the Victory bonds to bring the other half of the overseas army home. Occupies First Place. The establishment of the League of 1 Nations, corroborates what has been 1 universally conceded for some time- j > that Woodrow Wilson towers head |i and shoulders above any other per- ? < sonality upton the world's stage to- ] day. It proves the scripture, if it needed any proof, that he that is last shall be first and he that is first shall be last. Germany's autocratic ruler by pre- ; cipitating a world war sought first |, place among men and now he is last. Woodrow Wilson sought nothing for ; himself but entered the war as a ', peace-maker, and now he is first. Worldly Glory Empty and Vain. While "the path of glory leads but to the grave," unfortunately for the ex-kaiser, there is unutterable humil- ; Sation before h reaches the grave. Nothing could be more humiliating to an autocrat of Kaiser WU ?am's ir pe than to be arraigned for trial by tho powers he sought to overthrow. / n added misfortune is that he must ' f::^wer for his deeds before a preju- ' .ci.ed tribunal, one by which he has ; 1 ; n prejudged and declared guilty. JV.rthermora, there is no alternative c.; m to him, not even a change of venue, a change to an unprejudiced environment The entire world, with the possible exception of a small por tion of his f ormer realm, i; against H him. Thc man most in need of friends ' and sympathy is without friends* rind 1 has forfeited the respect of mankind. 1 In the tragic death of Major Hen ry E. Bunch, a hero of many battles ^ has fallen. His record for distinguish- * ed service abroad has been an honor j to the nation, to his State, to his county and to the old Edgefield name L which he bore. Yielding to a patriot- jj ic impulse, he went overseas early in |( the war, reporting at once to the front, and was cited several times for bravery and distinguished services. Official'recognition of Major Bunch's1, gallantry has been repeatedly taken . by the government. Great is the pity ; j that so valuable a citizen and so brave j a soldier should have met a tragic ?j death in his homeland after defying^ for many months shot and shell and jj gas from the Germans. j( His body, accompanied by military |, escort, will be brought to his boyhood ,-home at Clark's Hill this afternoon for interment. The memory of Major Henry Bunch will live long in the minds and hearts of the people of both" McCormick and Edgefield coun ties. Reckless Driving Dangerous. The people of Edgefield county deeply deplore the tragic death of Major Henry Bunch, who doubtless would have been alive to-day had it not been for the reckless driving of two chauffeurs, one was driving the car in which Major Bunch was riding and the other was driving the car with which this car collided. Let this deplorable accident b< earning to our people. Up to t time no very serious automobile cident has occurred in Edgefield ci ty. When cars were something o: novelty to our people there was m' more reckless driving than there is present. Let the tendency contii to be toward careful driving rat than toward reckless driving. Pra cally all automobile accidents res from the failure of the driver to h? control of his car. When a car is der control, accidents can genen be averted, but a car is not un control of its driver when going a speed of 50 or 60 miles per hour. A Much-Asked Question. The most mooted question at t time is, "What does it cost to grov pound of cotton?" and there are bout as many answers as there woi be to the question, What does it c to rear a boy? It depends upon w rears the boy, and so it depends \ on who grows the cotton. In thi latter days it costs more to rear so boys than they are worth, be it s< to the discredit of their parents, a the way some people grow cotton costs more than it is worth. But t cost of growing cqtton by everybo< under present conditions, is en< mous, and farmers should receive ?ood price for it. Back on His Native Heath. There is general rejoicing amoi the newspaper folk of South Carolii over the return of Major J. C. Hem hill to his native State. At the clo of 25 years of able editorship of t News and Courier of Charleston, M ?or Hemphill voluntarily severed I connection with that paper to engai in journalism in the North. Howevc much of the time since he left tl State has spent in the national cai tal, where he represented several i the great dailies of the country. T morrow he will assume the editorsh of the Spartanburg Journal and Tl Advertiser joins the pr?ss of Soul Carolina in welcoming most cordial and most heartily Major Hemph; back to South Carolina. Spartanbur the Piedmont section, all South Car lina are to be congratulated upon he ing this able journalist again in tl editorial chair of a leading daily p; per. Historic Cambridge. Dear Advertiser: It would indeed be unfortunate [ thought that with my feeble pen could aptly describe all the extrao: dinary places that are so numeroi in and around Boston, but since w all feel a kinship with the best, in ai and life, you can supply with you imagination what I can only sugges Someone has said that we feel lik newing the landscape of Cambridg< Massachusetts, with anointed eye: for no one section in any part of th United States is thought to be s very wealthy in homes of famou statesmen, poets and scholars and s full of spots and buildings of Rove lutionary and pre-Revolutionary hi? tory as this particular city, and sui rounding:;. Flowing through the cit, is the beautiful Charles River, name< by Capt John Smith. Near the river is the spacious, well preserved home of Henry Wadswortl Longfellow. Thc- home is now occu pied by his daughter, Miss Alio Longfellow. Gen. Washington use? this home for his headquarters whili Lhe British were sieging Boston, an< the tree called the "u*:'>--hi'ifrton Elm' is still to be seen, some distance fron the home, under which he first tool command of the American army. It seemed too good to be true wher ive were ushered into the very hand some old hallway and shown the nany relics associated with the great y loved poet. Among his greatest friends were ;he school children, and in his study [ saw the chair made from the wood )f the Spreading Chestnut Tree pre sented to him by these little friends. \ picture of the chestnut tree was ;here along with many of his books md his desk. In front of the home is i lovely little park which he bought n order that the view toward the riv ?r might never be- obstructed, for Tom the upstairs windows he could raze on an exquisite New England andscape. In this park is a memorial :o him, a bronze bust, and back of it six figures in relief, each the hero or ier ' e of one of his poems. The first *-as Miles Standish, easily recogniza )le by his warrior-like aspect, Sandal ^hon, a symbolic figure, the Village Blacksmith "with strong and sinewy irms," the Spanish student, Evange line and Hiawatha. Perhaps there is r.o other poet so grentl beloved by young and old as thi' idly man. I walked around a bend of the riv ?r and came to the tablet with ai* in scription marking the place where Lief Erickson, ' the Norse explorer had been in the year one thousand. He could not have chosen a more charming bit of landscape to explore. Now a wireless station stands in the city where the Norseman and the early founders of America came, all oblivious to the fact that along this winding river great schools would be built, networks of railways laid and great men write thoughts that would live forever. Florence Mims 56 Gainsboro Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Honor Roll. First Grade. Marie Bussey Helen Dunova-it Mary Holmes Corrie Johnson Elizabeth Nicholson Frances Paul x Second Gr~de. Bertha Bussey William Byrd Mary Cantelou Janie Edwards Elizabeth Kemp William Lynch " Clara Morgan ; Dorothy Marsh i Walton Mims Martha Stewart Mary Lorene Townsend Third Grade. Rebecca Arthur .Fitzmaurice Byrd Carolyn Dorn Rudolph Davis Dorothy Hart Janie Hume Mazie Kemp John Nixon Byrnes Ouzts Geo. Edward Sheppard 'j. R. Timmerman Fourth Grade. Mary Lynch Effie Allen Lott Orlando Morgan June Nicholson Margaret Strom Fifth Grade. Albert Raiusford :Fair Nicholson Sixth Grade. Felicia Mims 'May Rives Seventh Grade. Allen Edwards. ! Isabelle Byrd ! Elizabeth Lott Eighth Grade. Mitchell Wells. George Evans. Clarence Boyd. William Strom. Lillian Pattison. Ninth Grade. Lois Mims. Mattie Timmerman, ^ ?Thelma Jackson. Tenth Grade. : Sara Lyon. ?Ralph Byrd. I Fannie Ouzts. National W. C. T. U. Lecture. j Mrs. Deborah Knox Livingstone, lone of the most distingushed and I charming of all the splendid speakers j of the Woman's Christian Temper jance Union will be in Edgefield on Sunday night, May ll, and will speak in the Baptist Church. Mrs. Living stone is one of.the ten women chosen : by the National W. C. T. U. out of the membership of the National or ganization to present the work of the W. C. T. U. in this Victory year. An ; interesting program will be added to j the address. i Mrs. Livingstone lives in Bangor, I Maine, where her husband is thc Bap tist minister and was assigned to New ? England as her territory, but' the white ribboners of South Carolina on request were permitted to have Mrs. Livingstone for four days, and Edge field is one of the favored places. She will be at Aiken Sunday afternoon, coming over to EdgfieF the night meeting. ? . ? ther nr . ill be given next v.c..:. Victory Lor i Meetings, Sun day, May 4th. Red Oak Grove Church\j5unday morning, ll o'clock. Stevens Creek Church, Sunday morning, ll o'clock. Berea Church, Sunday morning, 11 o'clock. Red Hill Church, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Brunson's School House, Sunday afternoon, 4 o'clock. Harmony Church, Sunday after noon at 4 o'clock. Colored Churches. Jeters Church, Sunday at 12 o' clock. Pleasant Lane Church, Sunday at 12 o'clock. Pastors of each and all churches are hereby earnestly requested to co operate with all Committees and Speakers in behalf of this, our Com mon Cause. J. H. CANTELOU, Co. Chairman. LOST: One Gold Pin set with am ethyst and pearls. Reward to finder. April 23, 1919. - Mrs. M. A. Taylor. Il Let Us Show You Our line of pretty French Gingham? that will make you a pretty and serviceable dress for use durirg the coming warm days. We can also show you some mighty pretty styles in Stripe and Plaid Ginghams suitable for dresses, and striped Ginghams and Percales for boys' shirts and blouses. Have just received a shipment of Ladies' Lawn and Voile Waists, all large sizes. Come and get your pick. When you have anything to be dyed or cleaned, let the Ben-Vonde Co., do it for you, they are the best in the Sleuth along this line. A trial will convince you. We the local agents. They are prepared to clean or dye Hats, Dresses, Suits, Waists, Gloves, Silk and Kid, etc. While on the subject of dying, if there is anything to be dyed that you are going to do yourself, come and get a cake of Aladdin Dye Soap. Just received a ship ment of dark colors and can supply your wants at once. GIVE US A CHANCE TO SERVE YOU The Corner Store mw?^j**w*mMiiJjm p FOR SALE: Sows and gilts ready bred. Apply to I J. E. MIMS. FOR SALE: Plants have been in spected. Ready to ship. Porto Rico, Jerusalem, Triumph, and Pumpkin Yams at $2.00 per thousand. E. A. Williams, Sylvester, Ga. FOR SALE: One hundred bushels of corn in the ear. J. D. MATHIS, Trenton, S. C. Fred was a very precise and cir cumspect young man, and when he came to work one morning with a blackened eye and one cheek swollen to twice its natural size, the other em ployes were considerably mystified. '"It's nothing,' he replied, in ans wer to the many curious looks from his fellow clerks. "It was just a lov er's quarrel, that's all." "But Fred," cried one of them, "you can't possbly mean to tell us that little Alice Reynolds did ali that to you!" "Oh. no." replied Fre ! with reluc tance. "It was Jier other lover." Notice to Stock Raisers I will stand my jack, known as the Julian Strother Jack, at my farm four miles north of Johnston on thc Long Cant* road. G. W. HOLMES. 4-30-2tpd. The season for making a complete change of all gar ments is here, and we wish to inform our friends that we are in a better position to supply the needs of the entire family than we have ever been before. Since moving into our larger quarters we have in creased every department of our stock, Come in and let us show you our large stock of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES CLOTHING, HATS and UNDERWEAR We are in a position to make very close prices. Do not fail to call at our store before purchasing. Next door to Lynch Drug Store