Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE~UN IVER'S A.lLIC A RJ The Ford Model T One Ton Truck is a Little Over Three Years Old, and we have yet ta hear of the first trouble it has given. That's because of the worm drive. Not a bit of the power of the motor is lost through the worm drive. It simply cannot be. Up to the introduction of the Ford Motor Truck, you could only get the worm drive in the highest priced motor trucks. It is too expensive an equipment for ordi nary priced trucks. That's one of the reasons why we put it on the Ford Truck. Quality in materials, scientific application of transmission of power, dependability in service and economy in operation are cardinal virtues in Ford production. These are what made the Ford "The Universal Car," and these are the qualities that will make the Ford One Ton Truck "The Universal Motor Truck." In town, in the city, in village and farm, the Ford Motor Truck is the essential necessity "because it solves the problem of economical transportation. Come in and let us give you a demonstra tion. Let us have a chance to point out the superior merits of the Ford Motor Truck. The Ford Motor Truck sells at $550.00 without the body. Better place your order at once in order to Insure delivery before fall. Ask any of the following Ford Truck nw**T in this section as to their superior qualities: S. F. Logan, F. F. Rainsford, C A. Wells, W. H. Jackson, B. T. Lanham, Milton Parker, B. B. Jones, S^O^S ^^^f Pu^lic Works' W- L Nicholson' L T- May' Forrester Lumber Co" J- D- Bothwell, Hamilton fe Williams, T. Wallace Quarles. YONGE MOTOR COMPANY MAKE OUR PLACE YOUR HEADQUARTERS AND GET FREE AIR AND ICE WATER Office No 61 Residence, No. 17 Wednesday, July 16. LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Misses Julia, Marion and Susie Ma brey of Abbeville are visiting their aunts, Misses Minna and Annie Bee Mrs. P.P. Blalock and Mrs. W. L. Dunovant spent this week and last at Montreal where they attended a Missionary conference. Miss R?sela Parker is visiting friends in Sumter this week and will spend some time at Wrightsville Beach before returning to Edgefield. Mrs. Theodore Quattlebaum and Miss Ruby Glover of Batesburg are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Walter S. Adams. Mr. B. B. Jones is spending this week in Beaufort, where Mrs. Jones and Miss Nelle are occupying a cot tage for the summer. Mrs. Osmond Williams is here with her mother, Mrs. Maggie T. Hill, for a few days, having returned from Co-'fl lumbia where she has been for special treatment. Mr. B. H. Parker who is now mak ing Kansas City, Mo., his headquar ters, is spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Par ker, Sr. y Misses Sophie and Mary Darling ton returned to their home in George town Saturday, being accompanied by their cousins, Miss Kate Mims and Miss Sarah Ready. Edgefield dirt seems to be very high but it is not probable that you will ever see it cheaper. The contin ued high cost of labor and building material will cause all improved j property to command good prices. We take this The quantity of that the shoppin are right at all t values. While this sp ored muslins, m should get all tt prices on dry go your purchases. Mr. anet Mrs. W. W. Miller came ip from Trenton' and spent Sunday 1?re with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Miller. Mr. Hammond Carmichael spent ;he week-end in Edgefield^with rela ives, returning Monday to his home n Kathwood, S. C. Miss Lottie Corley recently return ed- from a very pleasand visit to her ?ister, Mrs. C. C. Timmons of Au gusta. Mr. John K. Aull came over from Columbia this morning to spend the remainder of the week in Edgefield, havin.r joined Mrs. Aull who came a week ago. Messrs. Gill Dunovant and Jule Bland left Sunday on an auto jour ney to Chappell Hill, N. C., to visit Miss Gladys Rives and Miss Snow Jeffries, who are attending a summer school at Chappell Hill. The Epworth League will hold their weekly meeting Friday after noon at the church at 5:30 o'clock, lt will be a special meeting and. the leaders have an interesting program arranged. Everybody is invited. Mr. Horace Cogburn arrived at Camp Jackson Saturday morning and ?viii receive his discharge in a few lays. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cogburn eft early Saturday morning in their ;ar for Columbia and reached Camp lackson before he did. Our soldier and sailor came home ind went to work. Our young friend 21aud Eubanks liked the carpenter's xade which he followed while in the ?avy, and has come home to wield he saw and hammer, being now en raged on the new Tompkins cottage. Mr. Bettis Cantelou and Dr. A. H. borley motored to Greenwood Fri lay on business and they 6tate that he worst roads between here and ireenwood are in Greenwood county. That portion of tho Dixie Highway hat has been completed is very good, ?asten the day when the entire ength of this main thoroughfare will >e completed! method of thanking goods sold during t ig public have learn ;imes; therefore, wh ecial sale closed We iddy blouses and chi te shoes you need n< ods and shoes are a Polite and courts Mr. Clifton Martin of Pendleton, was the week-end guest of Miss Julia Folk. Miss Grace' Dobson is in Bamberg this week attending a house party in the home of Miss Eula Rowell. Mr. E. J. Norris , Miss Miriam Nor ris and Miss Elizabeth Rainsford re turned Monday from a stay of 10 days in Atlantic City and New York. Dr. J. G. Edwards recently pur chased the residence in which he re sides from the Bouknight estate, the consideration being $6,000. Mrs.A. J. Ives of Savannah and Mr. James Boykin of Lincolnton, will be the week-end guests of Mi?ses Marie and Sophie Abney. Mr. Lewis Whitlow of Savannah, was the guest of Miss Grace Dobson Friday. Mr. Whitlow holds a responsi ble position with the shipyard in Sa vannah. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Logan are re ceiving congratulations of their friends over the coming of a little son Sunday morning to be a, permanent guest in their home. Mr. N. M. Jones now owns the store on the corner in which Jones and Son have conducted business for the past thirty years, having purchas ed it from ex-Gov. J. C. Sheppard, the price being $7,500. Mr. Felix Lake, accompanied by his fourteen-year old daughter, Matta lee, spent Monday and Tuesday in Edgefield visiting relatives. He made a business trip to Aiken and stopped over here while en route to Washing ton, where he has been engaged very successfully in the real estate busi ness. Mrs. H.-W. Miller of Bath is here visiting her son, Mr. J. H. Miller. Mr. W. A. Strom told the Adver tiser's representative yesterday that he was offered 35 cents for 225 bales of cotton in Augusta a few days ago. It appears to us that it requires a pretty steady nerve to turn down an offer like that. " . I the many who pal his sale was far bej ed that we handle r ten we advertise a dnesday evening w< iidr?n's dresses at \ 3W while you can g dvancing every day DUS attention to ali. Miss Sarah Evans of Anderson is a house guest of Miss Virginia Addi son this week. Mr. Jasper Talbert has been spend ing some time in Edgefield visiting his mother, Mrs. Lemie Talbert. Mrs. David D. Fant and little son, David, Jr., of Union spent several days last week in the home of Mrs. Emma N. Dobson. She returned to Union the latter part of the week ac companied by her mother, Mrs. Ida Nicholson. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Abney Wood son stopped over in Edgefield Satur day with Mrs. Agatha A. Woodson while en route from Hartsville, where Mr. Woodson resigned a good posi tion with a large fertilizer company, to Macon, Ga., to accept a better po sition. Capt. and Mrs. N. G. Evans went to Beaufort last week to attend the funeral of Mr. Thomas G. White, one of the oldest and most honored citi zens of Beaufort, the father of Mrs. J. Berrien Walker. Mr. Arthur A. Wells has purchased the Edgefield Meat Market from M... Guy Crouch. Mr. Wells is not with out experience in this line of busi ness, having been employed for near ly a year by Mr. J. D. Kemp. Do you know how to account for the broad smiles and high stepping of our friend, Thomas C. Mathis-it's a boy, a fine one too. The Advertiser hopes that he will make as good cit izen as his father. FOR SALE: A first-class milch cow, with young calf. Apply to J. L. MIMS. The first new-crop sweet pota toes which we have seen or heard any-, thing about, were brought to,The Ad vertiser office Saturday afternoon by our friend, J. W. Reese. All red-land cotton this year is booming as well as blooming. It ap pears now that the rough, red-hill sec tion of the county has better cotton thus far this season than has the level ?sand section. ;ronized us so libera rond our expectatio: ?othing but first-clai special sale they 1 3 have decided to co the same prices ths et them at these p \ We only ask tha' Mrs. E. S. Womble, accompanied by her daughters, Misses Elberta and Virginia Womble, of Raleigh, N. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Carrie Hammond who resides in the Colliers section. . Mr. and Mrs W. H. Hammond are spending two weeks at the old home in the Colliers section. Mr. Hammond is a salesman in the J. B. White De partment Store of Augusta and is taking his annual vacation. The Civic League will meet in the Library on Monday afternoon, July 21, at 5:30. Aii members are urged to be present, especially those inter ested in the cleaning up of the cem etery. This work has been begun and we wish to complete it. Two popular Edgefield boys, Cal vin S. Seigler and J. T. McManus, Jr., have just returned home from the navy, having secured honorable dis charges. Both* of these young men have been very cordially welcomed back home and have some interesting experiences to relate. Mrs. C. H. Key is spending this week in Augusta with her daughter, Mrs. Hal Beman, which accounts for the grave-yard expression that "Un cle Charlie" is now wearing. He says every man who is willing to live by himself ought to be electrocuted. (Probably some old maids echo this sentiment.) The. fourth of July proved to be a very pleasant day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Cato near Trenton, S. C. They prepared a good, old-time barbecue dinner and spread it on a long table under the trees in their yard and invited all their near rela tives to partake. More delightful barbecued meats and hash have never been served any where on any occasion. Several" kinds of cakes and pies were served after all had partaken bountifully of the meats. Lemonade was also served all day. There were about 65 present to enjoy the pleasures and the day will be long remembered. / ' Hy during our ten di ns. We attribute t 32 merchandise, and ?now they will get ntinue to sell all lov> it prevailed during rices. Everybody 1 t you give us a trial PANY Mr. E. J. Mims made a business trip to Columbia yesterday. The quarterly statement of the Bank of Edgefield is published in this issue. I Offer your home for sale in Edge field to-morrow morning and, tea chances to one, you will be without a home before night. Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman, Miss Flor- > once Mims and Miss Gladys Lyon, motored to Aiken this morning to at tend a missionary meeting. Attention is directed to the follow ing new advertisements in this issue: The Corner Store, Rubenstein, Smith Marsh Company and the South Atlan tic Realty Company. If you expect to need a Ford truck any time soon, you had better place your order now. The Ford trucks, like Ford cars, are delivered in the order that the order- are filed with the Yonce Motor Company. Mr. Walter Holston went to the hospital in Augusta Monday to spend a week or ten days for special treat ment. His many friends hope that' he will be fully restored to his normal state of health. Mr. and Mrs. J. -B. Kennerly and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rogers mo tored to Augusta yesterday on a shopping expedition. As all of the stores closed for half-holiday just as they reached Broad Street, Mr. Ken nerly said it was the best streak of luck he ever had. Mr. Ernest Quailes was in Edge field this morning and told the Adver tiser's representative that he will leave the latter part of the week for Baltimore and New York to purchase his stock for his new store. His new store will be ready by the middle of August. . the Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor rinsing in head. Remember the full name and look for the signature o? E. W. GROVE. 25c iys' special sale, his to the fact that our prices ; extraordinary j cut shoes, col- g the sale. You mows that the before making,! f^'^S C^*<3 c*:*<3