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Establish 1B35. J. L. MIMS,_-Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year Sn advance. Entered as second class matter at int postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Hes itations and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, August 6. . Finally nicotine will go the "way of alcohol. High h^els are a strong ally of the hospitals. Without big dinners big meetin's Wouldn't be so big. ' Oh, for a brief stay in Greenland's dey mountains! A nickle is an obsolete coin in the watermelon market. Words easy to write but .hard to comply with are "I promise to pay." The decanter will soon become as great curiosity as the old spihning wheel. The trouble with most minute men is their minutes have more than sixty seconds. A man may have his temper well under control and yet get hot in the collar these days. . The Charleston-American is a po litical organ of the pipe organ class, its strains being loud and long. The man who hoards money is ! about as worthless to a community as is the improvident spend-thrift. . It is not longer considered a mis fortune to have just one foot to buy shoes for. A pair will soon cost $20. A man may be in fairly good cir cumstances but if he has many daugh ter to buy shoes for he will not stay "weel heeled" long. The motto of some Edgefield peo ple seems to be: "Make all you can and keep all you make." A greater i mistake was never made. We wouldn't mind so much going to jail if we were preceded by a brass band like that Memphis editor who is serving a ten days' sentence for con tempt. With raw cotton dropping two cents and raw corn slumping thirty cents a bushel in a day, there should be a lowering of the cost of living somewhere. Would that the cost of living would drop two hundred points in a day like cotton! Then we might occasionally catch things down and "stock up" on some of, the pantry staples. Let's hope the old adage, "a good beginning makes a bad ending," will not apply to the cotton market, as the first new bale sold in Savannah for forty cents. Some people seem to be up in the ! air because Edgefield real estate is soaring, forgetting that, in the main, Edgefield prices are just now getting on the leve' o? other towns. We read in the papers tha t many big distilleries are being found around Asheville. Wonder if that ac counts for so many persons peeking the mountain ozone at this season? Do you suppose Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Prince of Wales who is enroute to America could tell his name right off the bat, without a moment's re flection? We doubt it. Don't bank too heavily on this gov ernment agitation to lower the cost of living. It can't be done, except in a very limited way, by legislation. Let every man produce as much as pos sible and economize as,much as possi ble in his own household. That is the only remedy that can be effectively applied. Two mora weeks of political war fare, gorilla warfare that, in Char leston. It's a pity, great pity, that thousands of good people in Charles ton are subjected to such humiliating experiences. The statement that China is about four hundred years behmd times is all a mistake. The papers say that a strike is now o'n among the Chinese railway employees, showing that they are right up to date. - The greatest profiteer of which we know anything about is the ordinary, every-day, ignorant, unskilled, corn field hand who asks three dollars a day for his labor. This is a two-hun dred-per-cent price for fifty per-cent service. A vast majority of the business in terests and the people generally are demanding a return of the railroads to their original owners and the or ganized railway employees are de manding government ownership; It will be interesting to watch the out come. We predict the return of the roads to their rightful owners. ' Richland Sett? Good Example. Richland county, in which is locat-, ed the capital city and the seat of j government, has made a tremendous forward stride in providing for mod ern public highways. By a vote of two to one a $2,000,000 bond issue was carried in an election in Richland j county Tuesday. Thus Richland and Columbia have set other portions of j South Carolina a good example, one worthy of emulation. The people of Richland need and want goodjroads, | and the result of yesterday's election shows unmistakably that they are wil- | ling to pay for them. Badly Out of Adjustment. A year ago the war held first place as a favorite topic among speakers, writers and conversationalists, but now the high cost of living is accord ed first place. Economic conditions that make the cost of living so high should receive due consideration to the end that a normal status be re- i stored, but that is not the only fea ture of the war.'s aftermath that must be readjusted. One does not have to go to large cities to find that there is another adjustment of conditions that is needed. It appears now that a premium has .been placed on brawn and brains placed at a discount. In not a few instances one finds unlet tered laborers receiving more for their work than does the man who has spent years of toil, as well as a considerable sum of money, in equip ping himself for some particular field of endeavor. The following taken from a dispatch sent out from New York illustrates effectively what we have in mind: "A large contracting firm telephon ed to Major Warren Bigelow, direc tor of the bureau, for a gang of la borers to be paid $37.20 a week each. "A minute later the president of a college telephoned for a professor of mathmatics at a salary of $1,000 a year, which is $19.23 a week. "Poor downtrodden' laborer, get ting $17.97 a week more than the man who devoted the best years of his life to study and who probably for mulated the philosophy by which the "man who toils" considers himself the 'salt of the earth.' " Why should men who handle a trowel on a rough brick wall, not do- j ing finished work, mark you, or men who shovel coal into a locomotive, re ceive much larger compensation than theachers, school superintendents and even some bank officials? Yet one does not have to go far to find such conditions existing. The war has jostled things badly out of adjust ment which in time must be read justed. FOR RENT: One/ and two-horse farms. Apply to / v MRS. A. F. OUZTS, Route 3, Edgefield, S. C. 8-6- 4tpd. A Great Remedy. The merits of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy are well known and appreciated, but there is occasionally a man who had no ac quaintance with them and should read the following by F. H. Dear, a hotel man at Dupuyer, Mont. "Four years ago I used Chamberlain's. Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with such wonder ful results that I have since recom mended it to my friends." NOTICE All persons holding claims against the estate of Miss Martha Corley, de ceased, will present the same duly probated, to the undersigned at the Judge of Probate's office, Edgefield, ?. C., on or before August 26, 1919, or be forever thereafter barred. W. H. NICHOLSON, Administrator C. T. A. Woman's Missionary Union. Auxiliary to Edgefield Baptist As sociation Stevens Creek church, August 27-2S. The first session will begin Wednesday morning at 11:00 o'clock Program. -> Woman's Mission Society Session. Song-"Jesus Calls Us." Devotions^Mrs. J. N. Talbert, Bethany. Greetings-Miss Ruby Ransom. -Response-Mrs. T. M. Arringtpn, Mountain Creek. Review of Woman's Societies. The societies will be seated by di visions, and those who have been se lected by their society to make the re ports will be invited to take the front seats during singing of the first hymn. Each one will be expected to answer three questions: (1) Have you met apportionment? (2) Total amount of gifts? (3) Are you on the Honor Roll? Each society is expected to appoint their representative at their last August meeting, so that they will know in time to make preparation for thc meeting. Introductipn of Visitors. Reports: (a) Secretary, Miss Ruth Salter, (b) Treasurer, Miss Kellar Fair'; (c) Presidents of Division: 1st. Mrs. W. B. Cogburn, 2nd Mrs. Henry Medlock, 3rd Mrs. J. M. Bussey. Report of chairman of Mission Study, Mrs. B..L. Mims. Message of Superintendent, Mrs. J. L. Mims. Achievements of South Carolina Union in relation to Southern Union, Mrs. Donald Smith, Antioch. Baptist $75,000,000 Campaign, Mrs. J R. Fizer. Planning Campaign for Royal Ser vice subscriptions, signatures to Stewards-hip and Emergency Pledge Cards and enlistment for service week. Reading Associational Policy by secretary, Miss Ruth Salter. Offering for Edisto Academy. Thanksgiving for year's blessings. Adjourn. Afternon session in charge of Miss Lanham, Associate Superintendent of Young Woman's and Girls' Auxili aries and Royal Ambassadors. Song-"O, Zion Haste." Twenty-third Psalm in concert. Sentence prayers by Y. W. A.'s Review of Y. W. A.'s and G. A.'s Report of Y. W. A. Superinten dent, Miss Emmie Lanham. Relating the College Girls' talents, to the W. M. U., Miss Florence Mims. Special song^ message, Miss Mar garet May. Report on Training School, Miss Lucile Culbreath. Plans for Young Peoples' Mission Work, Mrs. R. G. Lee. Song, "The King's Business," Edga field Royal Ambassadors. Report of R. A. Chapt:r. Making the Missionary Appeal a':-. tractive to our boys, Mrs. E S. '. Rive?. Pageant. Edgefield Girls' Auxiliary, in charge of Mrs. R. G. Lee. Thursday, August 28. Sunbeam session in charge of Mrs. Tillman. Opening song, "From Greenland's [cy Mountains." Rainbow Program. Processional of Children. Devotional, Promises of God. Prayer by Red Oak Grove Sun beams. Lake Sunbeam Song. The colors of the Rainbow, exercise >y seven girls. Bands in Review. Honor Roll bands. Report of Associate Superinten ient of bands, Mrs. Tillman. Story-Telling, Miss Florence Mims. Distribut.jn of Rainbow Charts, ind Recommendations. Presentation of Banner. Lucile Chapman Bed, Maizie Kemp. Mr. W. H. Nixon of the Connie Maxwell Orphanage will be present ind tell about the Orphanage, bring vith him a group of children from :he Orphanage. The Woman's Missionary Union as [ see it-Mr. O. Sheppard. Morris College-Mrs. S. T. Adams jf Clark's Hill. Memorial Service for our boys and Dbituary Report, Mrs. T. B. Cul areath. Hymn-"Shall We gather at the River." Afternoon Session. Music. Reports: Personal Service, Mrs. tV. G. Wells* of Republican. Margaret Fund, Mrs. W. A. Stephens jf Hardy's. Literature, Mrs. T. J. Briggs, Hardy's. Aged Ministers, Mrs. W. O. Whatley, Colliers. One-minute Talks by pastors of the Association. $75,000,000 Campaign, Dr. R. G. ', Lee, associational organizer. Election of officers. Report of committee on Time and Place and resolutions. . Some People Get Rich making their money work for them. You can put your quarter to work for you if you will come in and see what we have to oifer for it. We are going to fill up the west window with articles worth up to $2.50 to go at 15 cents each. Now is your chance to make your quar ter work for you. We still haye a few bargains left over from the sales. Come in and see them. Another shipment of Worthmore waists justin. The Comer Store Adoption of Policy. Appointment of standing commil eees. Adjournment. NOTICE. "The Union Brothers of Lov Charitable Society will apply to th Secretary of State for a certificat if Incorporation three days afte: he publication of this notice to in ;orporate as a Religious, Education il, Social, Fraternal, Charitable an( Eleemosynary Society," with head juarters in Meriwether Township Cdgefield County, S. C., Postoffice tforth Augusta, S. C. Signed GEORGE THOMAS, President. Willie Britton, Secretary. MEDICINE in Her Mother's Home, Says Tbif Georgia Lady, Regarding Black Dranghi. Relief From Head ache, Malaria, Chills, Etc Rlnggold, Ga.- Mrs. Chas Gastos, Df tills place, writes: "I am a user of Thedford's Black-Draught; in fact, lt was one of our family medicines. Also in my mother's home, when I was a child. When any of us child ren complained of headache, usually caused by constipation, she gave us a dose of Black-Draught, which would rectify the trouble. Often in the Bering, we would have malaria and chills, or troubles of this kind, we would take Black-Draught pretty reg ular until the liver acted well, and we would soon be tip and around again. We would not be without it, for lt certainly has saved us lots of doctor bills. Just a dose of Black Draught when not so well saves a lot of days in bed." Thedford's Black-Draught has been In use for many years in the treat ment of stomach, liver and bowel troubles, and the popularity which lt DOW enjoys Is proof of its merit If your liver Is not doing its duty, yon will suffer from such disagree able symptoms as headache, bilious ness, constipation, indigestion, etc., and unless something is done, serious trouble may result Thedford's - Black-Draught has been found a valuable remedy for these troubles. It is purely vegetable, and acts In a prompt and natural way, regulating the liver to its proper ! functions and cleansing the bowels of I Impurities. Try it Insist on Thed* Kora's, the origlfl&l wad genuine, fi 78 1 OT TORE CAFE 226 JACKSON ST. AUGUSTA, GA. We have purchased the lease on the store adjoining the New York Cafe, formerly occupied by Busbia & Dennis, and are extensively enlarging our Culinary Department. We are installing the most modern and efficient cooking devicies obtainable, and will have the finest kitchen in the city, and second to none in the country, which will enable us to serve our patrons in a more efficient manner. m AUGUSTA A!ATTHE NEW YORK CAFE Our reputation has been established and maintained for over ten years. BARRETT & COMPANY g (INCORPORATED) g COTTON FACTORS ? Augusta.Georgia S