Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 07, 1920, Page FOUR, Image 5
J. L. MIMS,_Editor.
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Wednesday, January 7.
Miss Florence Mims Was Guest
/ of Relatives in Littleton,
' N. H., Christmas.
Littleton, N. H.,
61 Pleasant St., -V
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 -by the White Mountains,
shut in by a great 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
famous.
Though the trip from Boston to Lit
tleton was slightly tiresome, the scen
ery recompensed for any inconveni
ence. Frozen lakes with blue moun
tains in the back ground and border
ed by white birches growing out of
the sno%v gave one the" real atmos
phere of Christmas, and furnished a
setting for imaginary Indian scenes
before the "pale face" came, when
warriors made their canoes out of
the white birches and sped in them
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 very
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
ing 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 storms of many New
England -winters.
Another cousin, Mrs. Isabelle Wei-,
-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 seenery 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 j
Eskimo. As the sleigh bells rang and
the horse trotted aiong 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 love thy rolling plains, thy groves
of giant trees,,
Thy rh-er'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 banks 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 banks
of the county have increased in their
deposits in about the same proportion
and today the banks here have a total
deposit of $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
has been a marked shortage of car
penters here for the past year and
another year will doubtless find a
number of other residences occupied
by new comers and every store in
town i3 occupied.
The farmers of the county are
holding meetings monthly in an ? ef
fort to get organized to meet the boll
weevil and are preparing to plant
crops other than cotton, to use im
proved implements and do not seem
to dread the coming of the boll wee
vil as much as they might.
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One of the newest enterprises in
McCormick is the wholesale grocery
company, the McCormick Grocery
Company with an organized capital
stock of $30,000 backed by men of
marked ability and experience. This
new enterprise is bound to meet with
success and will in a few days open
its doors for business.
A petition is being circulated and
in a few days an election will be or
dered for the purpose of (bonding Mc
Cormick'in the sum of $30,000 for
the purpose of erecting a court house
and this public building is to be erec
ted during the year 1920.
Notice
In some way, from post office box
some person on or about the last day
of December, gained possession of
letters addressed to me as treasurer.
I was apprised of the fact by several
persons bringing to my office money
orders and checks that were found
loose on certain streets in Edgefield.
This is to give notice to persons who
may have sent me a check at that
time which I never received in order
that they may know the reason,
should they fail to receive their tax
receipts. I do not know'wuo 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
War 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. Tiley are housed In dormitories
in th* factory compound. These dormi
tories are frequently unsanitary. The
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
h?s been sleeping in all day.
As part of its world service for wo
men, tlie 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-'
reatton Into the factory compound nud
direct games and social life.
This is done with the co-operation
of tlie factories' managers and pro
prietors. One of the most Influential
of these ls 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 ber
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*
* DEPEND UPON WOMANKIND *
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v Japanese Diplomat Says Men 4*
4* Alone Cannot Create Interna- 4*
4* tional Friendliness. 4*
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4? International friendship be- 4?
4* tween nations doponds tarpoly 4*
4* upon the friendly feeling hotwpen 4*
4* the women of those nations, nc- 4?)
4- cording to representatives of the
.!. Japanese embassy in Washington.
4* Their theory Is that there CUJJ 4?
4* be no firm friendship between .h
.fr two nations unless the women of 4*
.fr those two countries know and 4?
4? like one another, as co-operation *
4? between nations, as In the state 4
*. and in the family, is based on co- 4
4* operation between men and wo- +
4* men. 4"
+ Therefore, If Japan and Ameri- 4
4- ca are to have a real, lasting 4*
4? friendship, to really know and
4* understand one another, the wo- 4?
.fr men of the two nations must 4*
.fr learn to play together, to study +
.f* together and to think together, 4*
.fr The Y. W. C. A. is one of the -fr
.fr best mediums for bringing about
4? this friendship between the two 4*
4* nations, according to diplomatic 4*
4? representatives of Japan, as that 4?
4- organization is teaching Japanese 4?
4* women recreation, showing them 4*
4? how to enjoy out-of-door life and 4?
4* sport? It ls particularly neces- 4?
4* sary that Japanese women learn 4*
4? to enjoy and appreciate recrea- 4
4* tlon, they say, since the great 4*
.fr influx of women Into- Industry 4*
.fr and business, as Japanese wo- 4*
4? men, formerly so conservative, 41
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 T. W. C. A. has been as- 4?
.fr sured the fullest possible co-oper- 4*
4* ation of ' the Japanese embassy 4*-1
4* and the Japanese people in mak- 4*
4* lng Its "World Serrice program" 4M
4? for three million dollars to be |
4* used for women and girls In the +
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 lu 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 in Y. W. C. A. work either in
this country or In other of the coun
tries where the Y. W. C. A. is carrying *
aa, opening ?nd expanding Its wort
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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
All Hats in the Millinery Department at One-Half Price
All Agate Ware at Cost-closing this out
H COTTON COMFORTS-$3.75 for $2.50, $4.00 for $2.75; $5.00 for $3.50.
m COTTON BLANKETS-$4.00 for $3.0C, $5.00 for $3.50, $6.00 for $4.00.
m A few pairs of ladies' shoes still going at $2.00 per pair.
||j Also a few pairs on sale at One-Third Off.
II All men's shoes going at cost. Better get your size be
ll fore it is gone. You will not get such values for some
ggj time in any of the bargains herein advertised. Positively
H every item has advanced from two to three dollars above
H? the regular price when marked.
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??QJ A small lot of men's heavy fleeced undershirts and drawers, to-day's
??jg) market value about $2.25, going at $1.25 ? garment. $1.50 and $2.00
p?g blue and heavy kakhi work shirts going at $1.15 and $1.50. We will be
SIS glad to show you any of these items when you call, as we feel sure that
SS you can make your dollars ao more now than it will for some time to
come.
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Yours for Satisfactory Service,
The Corner Store
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