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J. L. MIMS,_...Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No Communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the ?writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, October 15. Unless there is some relief from the sugar shortage, this will be a Christmas without sweets. * * * * The great wonder is ' that Presi dent Wilson did not break down earlier. * * * * Edgefield county needs some vol unteer teachers. Who will be among the number? * * * * Two pounds to the dollar would be a mighty fine price for cotton, and we may yet realize it. ' * * * * Less than six pounds of cotton will pay for The Advertiser a year. Make the investment for your home, t * * * So many posses are formed in Georgia that we don't see how men find much time for anything else. * * * .? It costs no more to feed blooded livestock than to feed scrubs. Im prove your herd and your profits will increase. * * * * In order to keep abreast of the times, a show should have a clown ess, giving women equal opportunity with men. * * * * Do you know why so many people went to the circus in Augusta? Be cause the circus did noa come to Edgefield! * * * * Lei's ask Congress to make an in vestigation in order to determine what has caused the sharp advance in cotton, so we'll know how to keep it advancing. * * * * With all due respect to the vice president, if President Wilson should become incapacitated, a much small er chair would have to be placed at the head of the Cabinet table * * * * We are glad cotton is nearing the thirty-five cents mark. Glad for the fellow who hasn't sold and glad for the fellow who paid thirty-five a year ago and still has the cotton. * * * * Just as bai'bed wire was found ef fective in thc late war, so will it prove effective in the fight against the boll weevil. Reduce the cotton acreage and increase the pasture acreage. . * * * * The devils that tore Europe asun der seem to have found their way to America. The whole country seems to be bottom side up. Bolshevism abounds in America but it is a more decent form than that of Russia. * * * * It is very difficult to adjust things properly. Now that we have a com pulsory school attendance law in op eration, sufficient teachers can not be engaged to open all of the schools in the county. * * * * If a fellow wants to have a suc cessful get-away after committing crime, he should hail from Green ville. Vaughn was guilty of the foul est of crimes and yet he is at large; the negro, Turner, shot two officers dead and goes on his way defying ar rest. Miss Florence Mims Writes From Washington. If a man's house is to any extent an expression of himself, the man who built Arlington, George Wash ington Park Custis, must have been a man of unusual vision since he built like the Chambered Nautilus, not for time, but eternity. There are wide stretches of lawn in front and around it like a massive frame of an old and elegant por trait. Far in the .distance from the front porch, Washington couid be seen, a view to which distance lends enchantment, not because it is dis tance, but rather because great and beautiful things are understood bet ter at a bird's-eye view since nearer the seem sometimes to stab us with their grand enormity. It is an interesting fact that the buildings around a state or national capitol are not always the most in teresting, but rather those old and . historic ones with which the city be gan, those spots which are the shrines of hero worshippers. The grounds of Arlington, the home of Robert E. Lee, are filled with the graves of known and un known dead killed in the War be tween the States. These fields, like Flanders' fields, tell the silent story of war and , are a gigantic proof of the democracy of death. Soon graves of the boys who were killed in the World War will be dug there and Ar lington will no longer belong to sec tions or countries but in a sense, will belong to the whole world. It is wonderful to think how the , memory of a great man can so linger about a place that thousands go to see the place where he, Robert E. Lee, lived, the man with the kind face and the gentle life. Like George Washington, he was first in war and first in peace-and first in the hearts of his beloved Southland. FLORENCE MIMS. Miss Grace Brumbaugh in Edgefield. Edgefield county is peculiarly for tunate in having secured through the State Board of Health and Mrs. Dodd of the Bureau of Child Hy giene, Miss Grace Brumbaugh of Maryland who is in our county in the interest of public health, especial ly as related to children. On Wednesday of last week Mrs. Dodd and Miss Brumbaugh held a meeting in the ofi.ee of Drs. Tomp kins and Marsh. The next day they visited the Edgefield school and be gan a medical inspection. Up to this time several grades have been in spected and the work will go on till every school in our county has had this privilege. The children in Edge field have been highly pleased and came home with their little green tags giving them an admonition from Uncle Sam to do as much better for their health as they could after they had been told just how,much they much weigh, what food they should eat and many othev things which add ed such a weight of testimony to what their mothers had told them al ready, that it makes it easier to stimulate the child's health ambition in the home. If any defects were found, person al notes were given the mothers ad vising them to see their family phy sician. Miss Brumbaugh has also visited Long Branch school and made a dem onstration, and will return there for a thorough inspection as early as possible. At a county meeting of the school board, Miss Brumbaugh was present, explaining her work, and a trustee i from Long Branch spoke very highly of what she had already done there. Miss Brumbaugh visited Antioch community on Tuesday afternoon and is at Meeting Street this after noon. >Miss Brumbaugh is a Red Cross Nurse, having spent some time in France during the war nursing sol diers and the refugee children of France. She is making her home with the Misses Abney and will be glad to ' hear from schools in reference to her visits in the various communities of our county. Notice of Final Discharge. To All Whom These Presents May Concern: Whereas, Mrs. L. J. Crim has made application unto this Court for Final Discharge as Administrator in re the Estate of W. H. Crim, deceas ed, on this the 6th day of October, 1919. These Are Therefore to cite any and all kindred, creditors, or parties interested, to show cause before me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the 10th day of November, 1919, at 9 o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. October 6th, 1919. FOR SALE: One one-horse Thom as Grain Drill, practically new, $15. F. F. RAINSFORD. 2t Our up-to-date soda fountain is increasing in popularity All of the popular drinks served. Come in when you are hot. QUARLES VARIETY STORE. Many useful articles for the kitch en and household can be found on display at our store. They are too numerous to mention. Come in and see them. QUARLES VARIETY STORE. "UNCLE IV" WRITES. (Continued from page One) heart.) Second, in October 1915, we mov ed to McDuffie county and for two years put up with sixth grade men trying to teach eighth and ninth grade pupils. Again I took the matter of schools up and succeeded in hav ing the trustees hire a principal that could teach any grade up to the thirteenth. Why were such teachers allowed to teach? Because neither of the board of trustees could have taught the third grade. Where igno rance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise, and I have found out during my life that it is very hard to convince any one that they are really ignorant, well, you simply can't do. it. Third, in December,' 1917, we moved to where we now are, but the influenza put a stop to the school in this section last winter. We had only three weeks, but our school opened last Monday with two teachers and about thirty pupils. Did I have any thing to do with getting two teachers and a promise of a seven months' term? I have others to answer that question. How about the weather! Well, we men folks and boys are still going in our shirt sleeves and summer pants (with a good many patches). 'Tis more like June weather than October. Have had no rain, except light showers in seven weeks. The wet weather in June and July injur ed the crops a great deal and what was not drowned in the gardens,, the Harlequin bug ate it. Three bales of cotton to the plow is about the best I hear of in this sec tion and corn nothing like a full ; crop. No grain sown yet and won't be till it rains, ground too dry. Some j few have sown turnips but the few : that came up the sun killed. I certainly enjoyed reading Red Oak Grove this week. Hurrah! I, know what kind of folks make up 1 Grove neighborhood for I was among ? them, first and last, twenty-three1 years and they just don't know how ! to do things by halves. Love to everybody in Edgefield. i UNCLE "IV." Harlem, Ga. Pleasant Lane News. Mr. Gus Byrd spent the last week-1 end here with relatives. A number of people enjoyed being in the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Timmerman at an o'pos sum dinner recently. Miss Edna Timmerman is spend ing this week with Miss Nellie Byrd. At a meeting held recently, the pa- ! trons of Pine Grove scool elected ! Miss Sallie Smith of Red Hill as teacher for the coming term of school which begins about Novem ber 1st. Miss Smith will board with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Williams. Miss Lula Ouzts has charge of the Pleasant Lane school and is with Mi*, and Mrs. F. P. Walker. i Petit Jury, Second Week. W. E. B. Tompkins, Pickens. C. M. Thomas, Edgefield. B. L. Reames, Johnston. J. N. Lybrand, Johnston. George Thompson, Ward. G. W. Holmes, Pickens. E. E. Walker, Trenton. James Clark, Ward. A. A. Edmunds, Edgefield. W. A. Rawl, Pickens. L. M. Johnson, Pickens. W. C. Williams, Blocker. Ed Harrison, Trenton. Arthur Harling, Blocker. J. P. Adams, Elmwood. J. E. Reynolds, Talbert. A. M. Clark, Johnston. L. R. Hamir.cr.J, Collier. G. B. Reynolds, Johnston. W. M. Agner, Colliers. R. W. Glover, Meriwether. O. L B.lack, Trenton J. C. Harris, Colliers. J. B. Holmes, Collins. H. H. Smith, Collins. C. A. Nicholson, Elmwood. J. J. Griffis, Moss. L. D. Swearingen, Trenton. J. J. Mayson, Talbert. T. C Mathis, Collier. J. W. Parkman, Blocker. J. A. Claxton, Ward. G. T. Burton, Blocker. L. J. Rutland, Ward. W. C. Hammond^ Collier. L. S. Reese, Meriwether. Lumber for Sale My saw mill is located on the Five Notch road, near Cedar Grove church, and I have lumber to sell from the yard or can cut it any dimensions when bill is furnished. Better buy while you can get it. H. H. Sanders I .i. This is National Shirt-Waist Week See our window display of Shirt Waists in Voiles and Silks in the Wirthmor Line, which is the best line on the market for the money. For these cool mornings see our line of Sweaters, Wool Dresses, Coat Suits and Cloaks. Can also show you a pretty line of Bedroom Slippers in felt and leath er soles to keep your feet off the cold floors. Don't forget that we can show you the latest style in Shoes for ladies and men and a new School Shoe for the children at a price that is about the same that they were last year compared with the recent rise of leath er. Heavy and light weight Hosiery also. WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE. The Corner Store PEOPLE FLOCK TC) THE Variety Store Many who come to our tfore and see the large variety of merchandise we carry ft popular prices say it is just what Edgefield has needed for a long time We highly appreciate the nice things that have been said about us and they will act as an incense for us to strive harder to merit the good will and friendship of all. We are constantly adding 0 0Ur already large stock and our new fixtures will son arrive, enabling us to show the people what we hae. They can see what they want without having to ak for it. We invite the people to inspec our line of staple dry goods and shoes that were bougt before the rise In fact we have practically everytlig that is needed by the family or in the household. Come in to see us. It will I a pleasure to serve you Quarles' Variet; Store