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tstabUshc? 1H35. J. L. M IMS.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, November 19. No hotel spells no town. A good ho tel contributes to the making of a good town. * * * * Some men are "sponging" upon Edgefield-taking in everything and giving little or nothing. * * * * The four doctors who have formed a .professional co-partnership in a near-by town should be able to heal a man cap-a-pie. * * * * Pershing says the Thirtieth did it -broke the Hindenburg line, and he is the court of highest resort. * * * * If Edgefield fails to have a com-11 modious hotel, it will be because a . few citizens failed to do their duty, jj * * * * H . I The Alabama, moonshiners who < seized several officers and are hold ing them for ransom have compound ed their crime. * * * * The paterfamilias who has his l bunkers full of coal now realizes .1 that it pays to practice preparedness, h * * * * h The very sharp advance in candy ; 1 is said to cause some of the young swains to think much upon the "high j i cost of loving." ?1 * * * * i ] The high cost of printing is caus- < ing the average publisher to lose < more sleep than the high cost of liv- ( < ing. * * * * Instead of heralding the fact that b a cold wave is coming, it would be much more welcome news to say a ?1 coal wave is headed this way. * * * * Print paper, the kind The Adver tiser is printed on, is keeping pace 'j with cotton, the price being now $150 per ton, plus the freight. * ? * * ,( Since the government has recent- L ly increased freight rates the man . j who "pays the freight" these days ' ^ catches thunder and lightning. * * * * The Greenwood paper announces that "the local military company will drill every night this week." Don't you wish Edgefield had a "local company?" * * * * Next to Edgefield's need for a new hotel, is the need for more res idences. A dozen houses could be rented in Edgefield before tomorrow night. * * * ? The estate of the late tobacco king, R. J. Reynolds, has been ap praised at more than seventeen mil lions of dollars. Practically every chewer and smoker of the weed in the country has at some time contrib uted to this fund. - * * * * Ready Pistol Should Go. Having outlawed the bottle, let's .concentrate upon the pistol. While it was outlawed years ago, yet we still have the unlawful pistol with us. There is geat need of a stronger pub lic sentiment against carrying a con cealed deadly weapon. The pistol will go when the people decide that it .shall go. The ready pistol has caused the unwarranted shedding of human blood times without number. It is generally the cowardly, irresponsible fellow who carries a pistol on his per son. A truly brave man does not feel the need of such protection, if lug ging a pistol around with you be any protection. Let's by word upon word and line upon line create a sentiment that will finally drive out the unlaw ful pistol^ * * ? * Are You a Good Citizen? In an address before the New York Chamber of Commerce some 'J years ago, the late Col. Roosevelt j? gave utterance to these words: "Thejl first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shallot be able and willing to pull his own .i weight; that he shall not be a mere r! passenger, but shall do his share in t the work that each generation of us t finds ready to hand." Now, the part you have taken in promoting the proposed hotel for Edgefield will test whether you are a GOOD CITIZEN OR NOT. Are you pulling your own weight or are you lagging behind, doing as little as pos sible, and letting soi e one else pull his own share of thc load and yours too? We have a score of citizens who are ABLE but NOT WILLING to PULL THEIR SHARE of the weight. Better losen up and become public i spirited rather than dwarf through j more and more selfishness. Money that is hoarded for selfishends will | in time-in the next generation, if not in this-burn the hoarding hands. It will prove a curse rather than a blessing. Edgefield NEEDS A NEW HO TEL. PROVE yourself to BE A GOOD CITIZEN by PULLING YOUR SHARE of the weight. ., Letter From Rev. John Lake, j Dear Advertiser: My long suffering correspondents1 have had to put up with my from-1 bad-to-worse hand writing long ? enough! It is twenty years and more j since I owned and used a typewriter, ! and now I am having to learn all ; over again, especially since the ma chine I used to own is different from the one a friend in the homeland has recently sent me. My friends will doubtless feel grateful to him as I do. I Wife and I were much interested to learn from the home papers that the editor of The Advertiser had : been elected President of the Press ' Association, and she very much ap-1 preciated receiving some copies of the Greenville papers. When I was ?diting that little paper at Batesburg i A-hile teaching to fulfill my Citadel I abligation, I was a member of the Press Association-and what a 1 mange in the personnel of the or-1 janization during the years that aave intervened! Makes ' a fellow realize how the years are passing. Fifteen years ago this week since I , :eft for China. Thought you'd be interested in the Enclosed clippings from our Canton English paper-English language, jut thoroughly Chinese in its man igement and editorship, and Ameri :an in its sympathies, so far as for eign matters go. And now I've had to catch a train -the Chinese kind, that bumps-so ['ll not write much on the train. Lots of love from us to all the friends "at home" and everywhere. Cordially, JOHN LAKE. P. S. We are both just out of the 1 ?ospital, but are O. K. now. The following article from the ? danton China Times has been receiv-i( ?d by this office from Rev. John i L^ke: : illina a Dumping Ground For ? American Liquor. The enactment of a prohibition i aw in the United States and Canada . viii affect Asia, especially China, 1 nuch more than is generally thought ' >f. China and other oriental coun- 1 ries of the Pacific will come to be, if ' t is not yet, the dumping ground of ' nuch of the liquor from the United <' States and Canada. 1 The breweries and liquor interests ' )f America are now sending men ' hroughout the Orient to look into ' he possibilities of the business here. 1 '.rt Canton there arrived the other ' lay a representative of the British 1 Columbia Distillery Company, Mr. H. McCideel who is traveling through >ut the Orient for that purpose. )ther representatives of the liquor nterests are also busy making con lections in China and preparing for he coming "boom.',' "The liquor trade possibilities in 2hina look good," remarked Mr. Mc jideel to a Canton Times reporter vhen intei*viewed yesterday at the \.sia Hotel. After visiting the city, Hr. McCideel will go to Shanghai, ; Tientsin, Peking and other cities and hen return to Vancouver, Canada. 3is company will push their liquor ;rade from northern Vladivostock lown to Calcutta. They specialize in vhiskey. With regard to the extent the American and Canadian liquor trade s invading China may be gleaned "rom the fact that that on all the lo :al bars and hotels, the liquor that iredominates^is American made, es jecially in the case of beer. Not nany weeks ago the steamship Vene zuela, of the Pacific Mail, was dis patched to the East with practically io other cargo but wines champagne md beer and other kinds of liquor, is a result of prohibition in the Jnited States. Another business contemplated by he liquor interests in the establish nent of bars throughout the Orient. ? rhe bars will be outfitted so attrac- ' lively as to attract high claSs cus omers and will be backed by capital A Crisis Reached, What Will Old Edgefield Do? At a joint meeting of the boards of directors of the proposed -new ho tel and hospital, recently organized for Edgefield, it was unanim -usly agreed that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE NOW or the NEW HOTEL project will fall, and "great will be the fall." There is no argument against the fact that a hotel of modern design and conveniences and of adequate capacity will mean more toward the future growth and development of Edgefield than any other one thing, if not an IMPERATIVE NECESSI TY. There is no better way of adver tising a good town than by the free advertising done by the commercial traveling men and the tourists, in spired by good fare and hospitable treatment at "a dandy good hotel." On the other hand, nothing causes more ''kick" by these same free "boosters" than a "bum hotel," or ' NONE AT ALL. Try to imagine, if, you please, the dismay and disap-; pointment experienced by the many ' people who have come to our good old town puring the past year or two looking for a new place for business of different kind, and looking for a ' home or a farm and instead of a ' hearty WELCOME TO EDGEFIELD find NO ROOM for them even over night. Many traveling men and tour ists on the railroad, and over the new. DIXIE HIGHWAY, instead of selec- ; ting Edgefield to spend a> good night, ; or over Sunday, have actually figur ed Edgefield out of their stopping program. These are hard and lament able facts. Edgefield is facing a stern situation, and there is no way of evading the issue that will uphold her former honors, and glorious records except by awaking to the reality and each and everyone in the town and surrounding country should do their part and "go over the top" in sub scribing for stock. This only, is be coming to our Edgefield people when they become thoroughly interested and make up their minds to do a ' thing. This characteristic has been quite noticeable to the writer during the past sixteen months spent with ' you. There is no question as to the success of this preposition when the people become fully awake to the i meaning and necessity of it. And NOW is the time to act. It is a LIVE or DIE issue. YOU cannot afford to NEGLECT this matter. Edgefield has felt the thrill of a' REAL BOOM -in recent month*? which has had a little cold water thrown upon it, for the time being, by Mr. Boll Weevil and his folks, but if only the people of this old town and county would see the natur al resources, and possibilities, espe cially in fertile soils and congenial climate, favorable for diversified . farming and live stock raising, as is seen by the new comers from less fa vored sections of the country, noth ing could keep Edgfieeld county from forging rapidly to the front ranks of progress. In the past year a num ber of new stores, garages, ware houses and residences have been erec ted, and are now under construction, with the New Hotel, Hospital, Bank and Water Works and Sewerage sys tem and considerable road building in the county in prospect for the near future. Nothing will contribute more to the progress, development I and general good of the town and ? :ommunity than the New Hotel, with the right management, and then the other thing will follow-Edgefield will, indeed, be a good place to live in. To the business men and property owners in and near Edgefield, there is noth'ng in my opinion, that will ! pay larjer dividends in increased business and enhanced values of property in a general way than by putting your money in the New Ho tel stock. Come along now, one and all, put your shoulder to"the wheel, and make the NEW HOTEL a reality. There will never be a better time for this than now. May it be a perfect SUC CESS. M. W. S. Edgefield, S. C., November 18th, 1919. FOR SALE: Five or six desirable building lots. Apply to G. V. CROUCH, Edgefield, S. C. Keep an eye on Edgefield. Watch it grow! YONCE & MOONEY. FOR SALE: A Ford Touring Car, practically new. Apply to H. H. SMITH, Jr. 11-19-ltpd. and much newspaper and poster ad vertising to make them popular. Isn't this sad? JOHN LAKE. The Mild Fall Weather that we have had so far this fall means two things: that we arp going to have some very cold weather or that we will have a late spring, and it be best for ali for us to have some real cold weather in order to kill off the boll weevil, which would be a blessing to our farmers. But are you prepared for the cold spell if it should come our way in such as Wool Blankets (a shipment just received), Sweaters, Knit Caps, Under \ wear, Hosiery and Wool Serges. On all orders sent in for these goods, most are returned with the words: "Sold up. Will have no more to offer." Better heed the warning and get what you can while we have it in stock. Have just received a shipment of Misses Cloaks, and can save you money on them. Also, a shipment of Moccasins and Soft Sole fine kid shoes for the baby in the popular colors. We are well stocked in other departments. Give us a chance to serve you. ^he Corner Store Service Counts m mm ms wm sim mm WELCOME! No matter whether you come to buy, meet a friena, or wait for a car, you are welcome to our store Prescriptions and Sick Room Supplies Are Specialties of Ours QUALITY Always the first consideration in * the goods we carry in stock If you cannot come to the store PHONE LS We Deliver Goods Promptly H. C. MITCHELL PHARMACY Edgefield, South Carolina