Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 07, 1920, Page FOUR, Image 4
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J. L. MIMS._Editor.
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Wednesday, January 7.
Miss Florence Mims Was Guest
of Relatives zn Littleton,
' IV. H., Christmas.
L?+tleton, N. H.,
61 Pleasant St.,
December 26, 1919.
Dear Advertiser :
The heading of this letter is very
appropriate for this is one of the
pleasantest places I know. We are
surrounded 4>y the White Mountains,
shut in by a gre-.t wall of them, and
I ara a willing prisoner. The highest
peak is Mt. Washington, near it is
Lafayette and still farther on extend
Garfield and Lincoln, all inspiring,
worthy thoughts of worthy men.
I cannot think of many more beau
tiful scenes than the snow-capped
mountains against the blue sky as I
saw them yesterday. A rose colored
light lay over the top of Lafayette
and the great dark spruces made a
perfect picture. As the sun grew low
er the sky turned pink and purple
and it seemed that God must use the
rainbow for His paint, the sky for
His canvas and the rays of the sun
fer His brushes with more wonderful
effects than those of any artist whose
pictures I have ever seen.
Daniel Webster once said: "Men
hang out their signs indicative of
their respective trades. Shoe makers
hang out a gigantic shoe, jewelers a
monstrous watch, but up in the
mountains of New Hampshire God
Almighty has hung out a sign to show
that here He makes men."
Here he is referring especially to
what is called "The Old Man of the
Mountains," a gigantic profile which
is forty feet from the chin to the
forehead. This is the great stone face
about which Hawthorne has woven
such a delightful story. New Eng- '
land has natural marvels which in- '
spire men to write, and then she pro
duces the men with the genius to ?
make themselves and their country 1
famous. ]
Though the trip from Boston to Lit- 1
tleton was slightly tiresome, the seen- 1
ery recompensed for any inconveni
ence. Frozen lakes with blue moun- 1
tains in the back ground and border- i
ed by white birches growing cut of i
the snow gave one the' real atmos-!<
ph're of Christmas, and furnished al]
setting for imaginary Indian scenes 1
before the "pale face" came, when ^
warriors made their canoes out of
the white birches and sped in them j
across these same lakes. The most
beautiful of the lakes I passed had ,
an Indian name so long that I have ,
to pause and think how to spell it
Winnepausaukee. ^
On Christmas eve night we tramp
ed through the crisp snow to my !
Cousin Ray Gile's residence, a ver^
delightful New England home, where
Mrs. Gile and her sister awaited us ]
at the door. {
Last night we sat and listened to *
"Silent Night" and other appropriate '
music on the Edison machine, enjoy- 1
mg at the same time a most brilliant '
electrically lighted Christmas tree.
The spruce branches were so perfect
in every detail that it seemed as
though the tree must have been man- ?
ufactured. But it had really grown <
through all the st' rms of many New 1
England -winters. ]
Another cousin, Mrs. Isabelle Wei-, 1
1er, spent part of my stay with me in (
^Cousin Ray's 'home.
I think that the spirit of my great :
grandmother must be awake in me
for I seem to love New England, not
only for her memory but for the de
lightful people that I have met and !
for the splendid scenery that seems
to uplift one.
We walked down, what seemed a
mountain to me, into the midst of
the town to see a hotel built by
great, great, grandfather John Gile,
and still intact, since it was partial
ly built from the granite for which
New Hampshire is so famous.
I had my first sleigh ride one morn
ing while in Littleton. I was so wrap
ped up that I felt like a far-northern
Eskimo. As the sleigh bells rang and
the horse trotted along I could hardly
sit still for the pure joy of living and
the still more exhilarating joy of rid
I must not remain too long in New
England or the spirit of my long-ago
pioneer ancestors may claim me for
their mountain home. Though moun
tains are more beautiful, cotton
fields are more useful. There Dixie is
creeping into my thoughts again.
As I look out of my window and
see the mountains rising tier on tier
against the sky, in all the shades of
blue and green and brown, I know
how far away I am from the good old
Southland, i
"I love thy rolling plains, thy groves
of giant trees,
Thy river's mighty sweep, thy moun
tains wild and steep
All thy domains.
Thy silver eastern strand, thy gol-'
den gate that lies to the West.
' Thy flowery Southland fair; thy
pure and crystal air,
Oh, land 'beyond compare, thee I
love best,"-America.
FLORENCE MIMS.
MCCORMICK HAS PROSPEROUS
YEAR
McCormick, Jan. 4.-The year
1919 was a remarkable one for Mc
Cormick county in many ways. Like
the year 1918 over the previous year
and every other year since 1914,
every line of activity has been on the
boom, but especially since the year
1916, when the county of McCormick
was formed.
. The progress of the county is per
haps best estimated by the deposits
in the hanks of the county. One of
the banks-and this particular bank
has had no .unusual success over the
other banks-had a total deposit of
$26,000 in 1914, and in December
1918, this same ba^ik had a deposit
of $126,000. This same bank today
has a deposit of $356,000. All hanks
of the county have increased in their
deposits in about the same proportion
and today the banks here have a total
deposit cf $1,500,000.
Nothing has been more active, how
ever, than the real estate market and
more than $100,000 worth of real es
tate has changed hands during the
past year. Several new residences
have been erected throughout the
county, farms have been improved
and the whole atmosphere seems to
be one of prosperity. There are two
new churches being erected at this
time in the town of McCormick. The
Baptist church at a cost of approxi
mately $50,000 has been about half
completed while the Associate Re
formed Presbyterian church at a
cost of approximately $25,000 is well
under way. Quite a number of new
residences in town are in course of
construction and others will be erect
ed as soon as labor can be had. There
lias been a marked shortage of car
penters here for the past year and
another yea-, will doubtless find a
number of other residences occupied
by new comers and every store in
town is occupied.
The farmers of the county are
lolding meetings monthly in an ef
fort to get organized to meet the boll
weevil and are preparing to plant
:rops other than cotton, to use im
proved implements and do not seem
;o dread the coming of the boll wee
/il as much as they might.
One of the newest enterpx-ises in
McCormick is the wholesale grocery
company, the McCormick Grocery
Company with an organized capital
?tock of $30,000 backed by men of
narked ability and experience. This
lew enterprise is bound to meet with
success and will in a few days open
ts doors for business.
A petition is being circulated and
n a few days an election will be or
lered for the purpose of bonding Mc
cormick'in the sum of $30,000 for
;he purpose of erecting a court house
md this public building is to be erec
;ed during the year 1920.
Notice?
In some way, from post office box
some person on or about the last day
jf December, gained possession of
etters addressed to me as treasurer.
[ was apprised of the fact by several
persons bringing to my office money
jrders and checks that were found
pose on certain streets in Edgefield.
This is to give notice to persons who
may have sent me a check at that
:ime which I never received in order
hat they may know the reason,
mould they fail to receive their tax
receipts. I do not know "who obtained
the letters or how they were gotten.
J. L. PRINCE,
County Treasurer.
FOR SALE: One mare mule, one
Jersey cow with third calf, fresh to
pail. See
J. R. CARTLEDGE,
One mile west of Berea Church,
ltpd
Remember all Ford orders are fill
ed in the order they are filed. Better
get your order in at once.
YONCE & MOONEY.
WOMEN EXCEED MEN
IN JAPANESE FACTORIES
850,000 Japanese Women* Work
at Average Daily Wage of Ten
to Twenty Cents for a
Twelve Hour Day.
There are more women In Industry
In Japan than there are men, accord
to a statement recently made by the
W?r Work Council of the Young Wo
men's Christian Association.
The world war has brought 850,000
women and girls Into the dally grind
of Industry according to this state
ment; 30,000 of them little girls under
fifteen years of age who work twelve
hours at a wage of ten to twenty cents
a day, that the world may have silk
dresses and munitions.
In Tokyo alone, a city of two and
one-half million people, there are 100,
OOO women employed In sixty-two In
dustries and businesses varying from
work as telephone operators, clerks,
stenographers and bookkeepers to
work In silk and other sorts of fac
tories and domestic work.
Each year thousands of these wo>
men go back to their homes In the
country, broken In health and victims
of tuberculosis because of the poor,
conditions under which they work and
live. Tliey are housed In dormitories
in th* factory compound. These dormi
tories are frequently unsanitary. The
i girls work long hours, have no recre
ation and on finishing their long day
go Immediately to bed, oftentimes a
bed which a girl who works at night
has been sleeping In all day.
As part of its world service for wo
men, the Young Women's Christian
Association plans to build dormitories
In manufacturing towns where girls
may live cheaply under healthful
physical ?nd social conditions, to send
out secretaries who can Introduce rec
reation Into the factory compound and
direct games and social life.
This ls done with the co-operation
of tlie factories' managers and pro
prietors. One of the most Influential
of these is Mrs. Suzuki, the most
prominent woman . manufacturer In
Japan, who Is owner and manager of a'
firm which exported $11,000,000 worth
of bean oil to America last year.
Recently Mrs. Suzuki decided to
employ one thousand women in her
offices. She could not find enough
well trained ones so she established
a permanent school where Japanese
girls may be trained to enter the busi
ness world. The greatest danger
ahead of Japan, she says, ls In Its
growing materialism, and Japan's
greatest need, the development of her
women.
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4? NATIONAL FRIENDSHIPS 4?
4? DEPEND UPON WOMANKIND +
A _ A
4- Japanese Diplomat Says Men v
v Alone Cannot Create Interna- 4?
4* tional Friendliness. 4*
4* - 4*
4? International friendship be- 4
4? tween nations Appends Inrpely 4?
4- upon the friendly feeling br>tw<>en 4*
4* the-women of those nations, nc- 4?
4* cording to representatives of the 4*
4* Japanese embassy in Washington. 4?
4? Their theory Is that there caji 4?
4* be no firm friendship between 4*
4* two nations unless the women of 4
4* those two countries know and 4?
4- like one another, as co-operation 4?
4* between nations, as In the state 4*
4- and In the family, is based on co- 4?
4? .operation between men and wo- 4?
4* men. 4?
4* Therefore, If Japan and Amerl- 4?
4? ca are to have a real, lasting 4*
4- friendship, to really know and 4
4? understand one another, the wo- 4?
4* men of the two nations must 4
4? learn to play together, to study 4*
4? together and to think together. 4*
4? The ?. W. C. A. Is one of the 4?
4? best mediums for bringing about 4?
4? this friendship between the two +
4? nations, according to diplomatic 4*
4* representatives of Japan, as that 4*
4* organization ls teaching Japanese 4*
4? women recreation, showing them 4*
4* how to Ptijoy out-of-door life and 4*
4? sports It ls particularly neces- 4*
4* 8ary that Japanese women learn 4*
4* to enjoy and appreciate recrea- 4?
4* tlon, they say, since the great 4*
4? Influx of women Into- Industry 4?
4* and business, as Japanese wo- 4*
4* men, formerly so conservative, 4?
4* are going Into business and doing 4*
4* many things which they had 4*
4* never thought of doing before the 4?
4? war. 4*
4? The Y. W. C. A. has been as- 4
4* sured the fullest possible co-oper- 4?
4? ntlon of1 the Japanese embassy 4*
4* and the Japanese people In mak- 4^
4* lng Its "World Service program" 4\
4? for three million dollars to be *
4? used for women and girls In the 4*
4? United States, India, China, Ja- 4?
4* pan, South America, Egypt Si- 4?
4? beria, the Near East and Mexico 4>
4* a success. . 4?
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Y. W. C. A. TRAINS WOMEN.
Young women students from forty
four states and nine countries-China,
the Philippine Islands, France, Bulga
ria, Holland, Russia, Armenia, Canada
and Mexico - are registered In the
National Training School of the Young
Women's Christian Association In New
York.
They are studying methods of Y. W.
C. A. work with a view to taking up
positions tn Y. W. C. A. work either in
this country or In other of the coun
tries where the Y. W. C. A. Is carrying
OD, opening and expanding its work.
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You will be when you come in and see what values we are offering this
Week and Through the Month, in such as
H All Hats in the Millinery Department at One-Half Price
ll All Agate Ware at Cost-closing this out
COTTON COMFORTS-$3.75 for $2.50, $4.00 tor $2.75, $5.00 for $3.50.
COTTON BLANKETS-$4.00 for $3.00, $5.00 for $3.50, $6.00 for $4.00.
A few pairs of ladies' shoes still going at $2.00 per pair.
Also a few pairs on sale at One-Third Off.
All men's shoes going at cost. Better get your size be
fore it is gone. You will not get such values for some
time in any of the bargains herein advertised. Positively
every item has advanced from two to three dollars above
the regular price when marked.
A small lot of men's heavy fleeced undershirts and drawers, to-day's
market value about $2.25, going at $1.25 ? garment. $1.50 and $2.00
blue and heavy kakhi work shirts going at $1.15 and $1.50. We will be
glad to show you any of these items when you call, as we feel sure that
you can make your dollars ao more now than it will for some time to
come.
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Yours for Satisfactory Service,
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