Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm Wi m im Wm WM v NOTICE ! fian TO MY CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS OF EDGEFIELD COUNTY: I buy corn and oats on Nashville and ' Memphis markets in car lots, hay on St. Louis and Cincinnati markets, flour from the mills, alfalfa and feed from the mills and in car lots. I have a car of each rolling and I haven't ware house room for it. When it arrives I will sell some of it cheap. You people who have that class of stuff to buy, it would save you money to see me and place your order. I will notify you on arrival of cars as they come in and can move it from the car to your wagon. In that way it will be cheaper for you. I saved the people of Saluda and Edgefield coun ties lots of money in 1917 that way. 1 sell more grocer ies and feed stuffs than any one man in Edgefield county and the rail road record will show it. If you haven't the money to buy this stuff, it would pay you to borrow it, because the interest will not amount to anything like the difference in price later. Price the stuff any where from Augusta to Columbia. Call or phone me and I will sell you. I make money and you will save money, because I have the stuff'bought and the markets have gone with me. I also have about one hundred tons nitrate soda left that I can sell at a profit and not touch it. Would . rather distribute it ir his territory because we have got to use soda to get ahead of the boll weevil. I will sell this soda April and May shipments, not less than ten ton lots, that the smallest car can be shipped bill of lading attached. See me for prices.! I have sold my February-March contracts. Now, we have three good banks here in Edgefield, so come early, see the banker first ' t new check. Money talks ! Have what you want to ~,uy on the end of your tongue and we can dispatch the business and get home before night. Without the money it would be useless to see me. I haven't time to credit. The High Cost of Living will catch me if I go to selling this class of stuff on credit. As to the banks-if you can't make it at Edgefield, it is only a thirty-minute drive to Johnston. I have at my command, three self starting Fords and one Buick, If you can't make a touch down with one of those six banks, you might as well blow off your dogs, and if you are walking, I will send you home free of charge. ' T notice by the papers that there is a Board of Commerce just organized here. I am not a member, but am gY ! to see them try to boost the old town. I have br driving over this country for ten years at my own .nse, boosting all I could.- I spend as much mor ?ind time boosting as any member, trying to buy st' and keep prices attractive so we can get the peo pie here, for without them we can't do business. Now, Mr. Board of Commerce, I will tell, you one of the first things I want you,to help me do and-that is, get one or two cotton buyers that have export connec tion,' so we will have a cotton market here to compete with Johnston, Saluda, Greenwood, McCormick or any cross road place, where you can get more for cotton than you can here. I don't blame the people at Pleasant Lane, Meet ing Street, Rehoboth and Collier from going to Augus ta, Greenwood, Saluda, Johnston, McCormick, Plum ( Branch, because they get more for their cotton. Then what happens? They get their groceries and every thing else they want, and we merchants are suffering from it. We haven't any territory to draw from at Edgefield only North and West. If we let Saluda, Mc cormick, Greenwood and Johnston take, them, what are we going to do ? As all oj: you know it's very little we get four miles below Edgefield. I go to all those towns above mentioned every week and I see just what is going on, streets full of wagons, loaded with cotton, people hauling out groceries by the load. I sell mer chants in all these towns and sell lots more than I do in Edgefield village, and I sell as much at Edgefield as any travelling man that comes here in my line. I see people at Greenwood, Saluda, McCormick and John ston that used to do business in Edgefield with the banks and merchants. They ask me what cotton is worth at Edgefield. I tell them that I left before the cotton market, opened. Then they say, "What was it worth yesterday?" and I tell them I don't keep up with the cotton market that I am selling feed stuff and flour. I always find out what they are giving for cotton by the time I hit a town. Now Gentlemen, come, let's get some e?port cot ton buyers here next season and bring some cotton, or at least hold, what is in our territory. I like to see these other towns do good business. We are not after their business, just want to hold ours. These people in other towns are all my friends, custom ers. As I said, I sell more stuff to them than I do at Edgefield because they sell more stuff. Boiled down to the last analysis, every man thinks more of his.own interests than he does of the other fel low's, which is right, so we all must think more about helping first, our own town and business interests. I will pay my part to help get these cotton buyers if we have to pay them to come, or if necessary, I will board one free of charge from September 1st until May 1st. I have been doing business with some of the best business men in Edgefield county, have their account. Booked them stuff when I saw a market going high and have never carried them wrong on a market. I can prove that by them. I can book them stuff today, write them that I booked their account and they will say "O. K. Tell why you did before seeing me?" They find out why, because I didn't want the market to run away with them. I have travelled and sold goods in Barn well, Aiken, Hampton, Abbeville, McCormcik, Lin colnton, (Ga.,) Greenwood, Saluda and Lexington, and we have as good and as fair minded merchants in Edgefield and Edgefield county as there are any where, and when I call on them out in the county to sell them goods in the fall of the year, I find ?them going to some other town with cotton and when I talk with them they say, "Well, I had rather come to Edgefield, but can get more for my cotton elsewhere and I just bought my goods there." I have other travelling friends here that will tell you the same thing. S. F. LOGAN, Edgefield, S. C. wm mm Traffic-Via Waterways, Dirt Roads and Rail Around Wash ington. P. 0. Box 100, Indian Head, Md., January 14, 1920. Dear Advertiser: One mile below Indian Head, on the Maryland side of the Potomac where the grand old river winds in a southerly direction, is an abrupt | bluff. Standing on this bluff one com mands a rare view of the Potomac and the Virginia hills-far away. At this point the river is seven miles wide and at this writing, is frozen over from bank to bank. The setting sun's red skies cast a similar hue over this scene which well nigh reaches the sublime in na ture. The steamer line from Washington via Norfolk to Baltimore cuts a road way through this ice several times -a week. Each steamer cuts its own way for the gap freezes over before the next ship follow in the trail. Pro gress , is slow, but an iron bound steamer on an ice bound water is like a Ford bound car on an Edgefield road. I made the trip from Indian Head to Washington and return a few days ago on the U. S. S. Moosehead, a dis tance of seventy-five miles in seven hours. iSometimes the steamer became jammed, then' she would back up several feet and break the ice by ram ming. Out on the deck the wind blew a little gale and the frigid ice drpps lashed the steamers' sides and turned to icicles as they fell. The steamer was steam heated and on the inside passengers sat around with their wraps and overcoats off enjoying the victrola and holiday spirit and-prohibition spirit. The state of Maryland boasts some good roads without a brag. From Washington to La Plata, a distnce of twenty-five miles, there is a graded dirt road with a firm foundation. Not -so wide, but wide enough for two ve hicles to pass with a safety margin. When you consider the miles per hour machines make over these roads you will understand the "safety mar gin." You are running along in your lit tle .flivver some thirty-five miles per hour when along behind come trip ping up some high powered car with ? ja gentle .siren .asking for the right of way. You give it, half the road, and she slips by. But don't try to keep up with it for your little Ford is unde cided whether to keep on the ground or take to the elements. The big car rolls on at forty-five,, fifty and sixty miles an hour and soon looks like a speck in the distance. Though the Maryland Motor Vehicle Laws say thirty-five miles is the limit. This is one of the regulations that is often overridden. Maryland's Motor Ve hicle laws are very stringent and more or less obeyed-mostly more. An operator's or chauffeur's li cense is generally revoked if an acci dent is caused by any carelessenss on the driver's part. And only a few dare to drive without a license for the fine or penalty is heavy. Opera tor's Licenses cost $2.25 and tags, 60c per horse power of car. The turnpike from Washington to Baltimore is in good condition, so are her (Maryland's) other state roads. Imagine yourself in the Union Sta tion at Washington. Those of you who have been there will recollect ? colossal dome which covers the ' waiting room, ticket offices and train gates. But another story will cove/ this because it is the roads we're dis- ' cussing now. In Italy, all roads lead to Rome and in the United States, all 1 roads lead to Washington, but if St. Louis were wet the slogan would al- 1 ter. ( The Pennsylvania rail road ha" : . four-track bed-two tracks for ! freight and two tracks for mail, pas- 1 senger and express service. This line 1 has built up a wonderful reputation ] and is known to its passengers as the "Pennsy." Her engines leave the station hourly and connect with all stations north and west running di- ? rect to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Also Pittsburg, St. Louis j and many other big cities. The B. and 0., takes in the saro?. citi?s. The Southern, S. A. L., an A. C. L., connect with all points south and run direct to seaport cities north of Washington. S. B. TOWNES. j FOR SALE: Five room house with outbuildings and lot containing about three acres adjoining High School in the town of Trenton. Apply to . LEILA B. LEPPARD, , 14A West Baker Street, t Atlanta, Georgia. I have just received a car of cedar ?hingles worth $10.00 per thousand, i E. S, JOHNSON. Rev. Frank Weaver Gives Timely Warning. Mr. Editor: Please let me say a few words through your valuable paper, to the public, as a warning. In travel ing over the country I see many farms lying, in waste; this means hunger to the eater. A great many people are making a great mistake in moving from the farm and going in i he city for high wages. The far i. .. is going to rule the world. God told Adam to go and till the earth for a living. All of this high cost of living and high wages remind me of Pharoah's dream: he saw seven years of plenty and seven years of famine, and when the seven years of famine took place, the seven years of plenty were for gotten. All of this high cost of living and all of this moving in towns means starvation. Let everyone move in town and everybody will have to move out of town to the cemetery. There are some people who are giv ing the last drop of blood in their veins just to stay in town. It was said once upon a time that here was an eagle that came down to earth and caught a weasel and he was seen soaring away on high, Out of sight he went. After a short while he was seen coming to earth faster i;han he ?vent, and when he fell he was as iead as a board. The weasel had irawn all the blood out of his body. A hint to the wise: wake up and stay on the farm. All of this high :ost of living and high wages is just ;he beginning of sorrow. Wake up people, and begin to think. Yours for the cause, REV. F. A. WEAVER. \n Appeal For Charitable Cause. Mr. Editor: We have organized a charitable ^id Institution over in Buncombe in ;he town of Edgefield. Its object is ;o help the poor old, worn-out people md orphans, regardless of color. A nan may have plenty of money but ;here comes a time in life when mon ;y will not answer the call. You will ?eed help otherwise. The Mount 'Ca ?aan Union and the Convention gave ne fifteen dollars for this work brough Prof. A. W. Nicholson and a vhite friend gave me fifty. God bless he cheerful giver. REV. F. A. WEAVER, Mgr. Keep an eye on Edgefield. Watch t grow. YONCE & MOONEY. "Notice to AH Ford Owners. We have just received a supply of application blanks from the State Highway Commission for 1920 Auto licenses. Drop in, bringing the num ber of your car with you, and we shall be glad to assist you in filling out application blanks. . YONCE & MOONEY Notice. I am now prepared to do an / kind of shop work, such as cabinet work and upholstering. Will build your door and window frames, sash, door, or blinds. If you want anything in this line will be glad to see you. E. P. ARTHUR. Cabinet Mantels If you need anything in the* cabi net mantel line, I can "furnish, com plete with tiling. All measurements ;aken without cost to you. Let me uve your order. E. P. ARTHUR. COTTOn SEED! Record 4 bales per acre. Free from lisease and weevil. It's a boll weevil imasher. Write for facts. HEAVY FRUITER CO., Royston, Ga. LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works and Mill Supply House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, irate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Eittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing lose, etc. Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES 'umping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfits. ~JTHTCANTELOU Attorney at Law . Will Practice in All Court*. Office Over Store of REYNOLDS & PADGETT Telephone No 103. 3R.K3Nti'S NEW ?IiSCOVEN3 Wil Surely Sloe That Corals BEST FOR HOME SHINES SAVE THE LEATHER THE BIG VALUE PACKAGES PASTES AND LIQUIDS ForBll^S'?0s^?,irkDrown THE F. F. DALLEY CORPORATIONS LTD., BUFFALO. N. Y, 1 Vulcanizing Service Why buy new tubes and casings until we see your old ones? x We can make them practically new. Our service guaranteed to auto owners. Ward & Hill Back of Turner's Store and Near Sheppard Broa.' Office ! i