VOL. 84 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1919 JOHNSTON LETTER. Large Attendance at Sunday School. Week of Prayer Observed. The Apol lo Music Club Met. The women of the Baptist church observed the 'week of prayer, each day there being a special object that they made a subject of study and prayer. In this society of over 100 members, there are 7 circles, and in each circle there was held a cottage prayer meeting each after noon except Thursday, which was held at the church, and at this time, the envelopes containing the offer ings were brought in to the heads of circles. The gift for State Missions was $225. The Y. W. A. met with the missionary society at this meet ing. All of the junior organizations made good gifts also. There was a large attendance at t*he Baptist Sunday School on Sun day. 235 being present. This was the beginning of the rally to bring more into the school and there were sever al new scholars. There were six of the cradle roll promoted to the Sunday School and each of these were presented with a Bible and certificate from the Sun day School. Mrs. Pickens Kinard and Mr. Quincy Kinard of Greenwood were visitors here last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Lott. Prof. W. F. Scott went to Monte cello last week to see his father, Dr. Scott, who had been quite sick and in the hospital in Columbia for treat ment. Mrs. P. C. Stevens as been visit ing in Saluda in the family of ber brother, Mr. Ira Carson. Mr. W. W. Satcher of North Au gusta was here during last week vis iting relatives. Mrs. F. M. Warren has been at Fruit Hill visiting her daughter, Mrs. Walter Allen'." " - Mr. J. T. Ayers of Columbia spent the week-end with Mr. Mark Toney. Mr Powell Harrison left on Friday to resume his-studies at the Citadel in Charleston. Mesdames J. M. Turner and B. T. Adams have been visiting Mrs. Wal ter Hendrix at Leesville. Mrs. Joe Cox returned last week from New York, being accompanied home by her husband, and is now much improved. Her many friends are delighted t<"> have her back again. Miss Annie Crouch is in Greenville this week for a visit and to hear Madam Schumann-Heink. Mr. James Huiet of Trilby Fla., has joined his family here who have been for some time with his mother, Mrs. Mamie Huiet. Every one is glad to grasp his and again. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren.Mr. Walter Warren and Miss Lizzie Wright are at home from a visit to relatives in Florida. Mrs. Strom and Mrs. Carcledge of Plum Branch have been fer a visit to their sister, Mrs. Irvin Reames. Mr. and Mrs. Josh Haltiwanger | and their daughter, Miss Grace Ha! tiwanger have been visiting relatives in Saluda. Miss Haltiwanger hasi been for sime time head nurse at the hospital in Charleston, and is at her home for a vacation. Rev. W. S. Brooke went to Pine Pleasant on Sunday to preach in the interest of the great 75 Million Cam paign. On Sunday evening, he and Dr. Lee of Edgefield Baptist church exchanged pulpits. It was a real pleasure to all here to have the priv ilege of hearing Dr. Lee and his dis course was listened to with keen in terest. He is a gifted and forceful speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Harney and Miss Shirley Montague of Jacksonville, Fla., and Miss Mary Robinson of Orlando, Fla., are visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren. The first two named ladies are sisters of Mrs. Warren. Mrs. David Kellar has been at the bedside of her mother, in Greenville, who is quite sick. Mrs. Paul Perry and little Mary Caroline are visiting Mrs. Alice Cox. The little son of Mr. W. P. Cas sells has been quite sick during the week but is better now. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Branch has been ill at the home of the lat ter's mother, Mrs. Minnie Strother, but is thought to be improving. Mrs. Chas. Lamb returned last week from Ohio where she visited her sister, who is pleasantly remem bered here as Miss Flora Lott. Miss Will Johnson has returned from the University Hospital where she has been under treatment for 6 weeks. The Apollo Music Club met on Tuesday with Miss Emma Bouknight at "Mulberry Hill," which was the first of the season. It was delightful in every respect and each member entered into the work with a throb and glow that showed energy in the coming year's work. The fact that the vice-president, of this district, Mrs. C. P. Corn, is a member of the club is an incentive to good works. The members were glad to receive a "new member, Miss Frances Turner, and two more names were submitted, Misses Campbell and Thomas. The subject was "jazz" music, which proved highly interesting. The victrola gave illustrations of jazz music of the orchestra and band. There were papers read on the sub ject and piano and voice selections. The hostess served such an elabo rate repast, that it might be termed a 6 o'clock dinner. Messrs. Fred Parker, Judson Ready and Cephas Derrick, students of the South Carolina University, came home for the week-end. Vetch as a Winter Cover Crop. Clemson College, Sept. 29-Vetch is one of the best, if not the best, winter legumes for South Carolina conditions. It can be grown on any well drained land in the State, al though it does best when planted on the clay types of soil. Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) has been found to give the best results in this state? although there are sev eral other good varieties commonly grown. .-Because -of. the recumbent growth of vetch, the best results can be secured only when it is planted with some small grain. Appier or Fulghum oats, Red May or Boggs wheat, Abruzzi or Florida rye, and Beardless barley are recommended for this purpose. The seed bed must be thoroughly prepared before planting. The land can be prepared with either a disk harrow or a turn plow and after wards thoroughly harrowed with a smoothing harrow. When vetch is to be planted in cotton, all the prep aration that is necessary before planting, if the cotton has been well cultivated, is to run a 15-tooth cul tivator over the land. If vetch has never been grown on the land be fore, the seed will have to be inocu lated. Failure to do this will result in a failure to grow the crop. Two hundred to four hundred pounds of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of muriate are advised. 25 to 50 pounds of sodium nitrate ap plied early in the fail will give the plants a good start and result in a higher yield. Fifteen to twenty-five pounds of send is recommended when planted with a grain crop. Vetch, should be planted in South Carolina between October 1st and November 11th.-The grain crop and the vetch should be sown separately since the vetch seed and the grain seed cannot be mixed evenly. Vetch makes its principle growth in the early spring At that time ii may be pastured, bul care must be taken that the ground is not too wet as the physical condition of the soi will be greatly injured if pastured ir such a state. It should be kept ir mind that vetch is a legume anc that when the crop is turned undei it increases the nitrogen of the soi as well as the organic matter. If th< crop is grown with oats and cut foi hay, as much as three to three anc one-half tons can be secured fron good land in South Carolina. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup and whoop ing cough. From a small beginning ti its sale and use has extended to al parts of the United States and ti many foreign countries. This alon< is enough to convince one that it 1 a medicine of more than ordin?r; merit. Give it a trial and you wil find this to be the case. Help Save a Million Dollars. Clemson College, Sept. 29.-"Re^ ports received thus far indicate that cotton anthracnose, the fungus boll' rot of cotton, is even more wide-, spread and destructive this season! than heretofore," says Director H. W.Barre, of the South Carolina Ex periment Station. "During the past ten years the disease has caused an annual loss of more than a million dollars in South Carolina. The dis ease seems to be becoming more de structive from year to year, in spite' of the fact that the investigations conducted at the South Carolina Ex periment Station show that it can be prevented. "We have found that the fungus which causes anthracnose grows into the inside of the diseased 'bolls, at tacks the lint and seed, and grows into the soed. The fungus remains alive in such seed until they are planted and germinate an,d start to grow; then it attacks the seedlings. The disease remains alive on these stalks and attacks the bolls when they appear. In this way it is car ried in the seed and continues to spread from year to year. There is no way of curing a stalk of cotton after it once has anthrac no^e. The only thing that can be done is to protect the cotton next year. The first and most important step in this is to secure seed which are free from disease. It is best to secure seed for next year's planting from a field where there is no dis ease. If this is not possible, the next best thing h to pick cotton for seed from stalks which show no signs of disease and which are not near dis eased stalks. It is not safe to pick healthly looking bolls from stalks which have rotton bolls on them. Baraca Class' Supper. One of the livest organizati Edgefield is the Baraca class Baptist Sunday-.;, school w taught every Sunday morning R. G. Lee. It is a large class ana average attendance is large. On Oc tober 10 the .lass will give an oyster supper, concerning which the Calen dar of the Baptist church last Sun day had the following to say: "The Baraca class with its enroll ment of 120-cdd members has voted unanimously to have a big to-do of fellowship and Christian mingling the night of October 10th. That is Friday. On that night we want every fellow to come and bring a friend. It