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(ffl?ist .Newspaper ?n ^ortb felina VOL. 84 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ll, 1920 NO. 48 JOHNSTON LETTER. Decrease ih Influenza. Death of Nina Grace. Collins. Rev. V. Y. Boozer to Speak. There seems to be no spreading of influenza during the past week. In January there were about 14 cases, but with a few exceptions, the major ity of these are now up. The fact that school, churches and movies were closed, and in stores and public buildings, no crowd was allow ed to congegate, is seen that this has been the greatest help. Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Strother went to Saluda to attend the funeral of the former's niece, Mrs. Luke Wheeler, which occurred on Wednes day, February 4th, Mrs. Wheeler died from an attack of pneumonia, leaving a little baby girl three weeks old. The happy young couple had been married scarcely two years. News has been received of the death of Mrs. Donnell at her home in Virginia, and Mr. Donnell is critical ly QI. This young couple lived here for a year or more, having rooms in the home of Mrs' Annie Harrison, and had many warm friends here. Everyone in the home of Mrs. W. L. Coleman has been ill, Mrs. Cole man, Mr. and Mrs. Bartow Walsh and Billie, suffering from influenza. Mr. Walsh developed pneumonia and for the past two weeks they have had the constant attention of trained nurses. Mrs. John W. Marsh returned last week from a month's stay at Gaines ville, Fla. While away she also visited at several different points in this state. Miss Yeomans has returned to her home at Fairfax after a visit to her sister, Mrs. Joe Cox. Little Nina Grace, the five-vear old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs Collins died on Wednesday ? here after a short illness of ] nia following influenza. ' She was an unusually brig .?? girl and had wound herself c ly around the hearts of the f rents. Every effort was made her little Jife. The little white casket was carried on Thursday morning to Granijteville where the interment was made, the services being conducted by the pas tor, Rev. W. S. Brooke. The deepest sympathy of all is felt for the bereaved ones, but their little one is now "Safe in the arms of Je sus." A nation wide movement is now on under the auspices of the United Lutheran church of America to stir up more active interest on the part of the men in the work of the church. In this section of South Carolina, the itineracy has a speaker for every town where there is a Lutheran church and on February, the Rev. V. Y. Boozer will speak here, provided church services have been resumed. Mrs. Will Wright and Miss Maud Wright are at home from a week's visit to Mrs. Chester in Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Tarrant re turned last week from a visit to rel atives at Mt. Carmel. Mrs. Huiet Waters and little George are at home from Alexandria City, Ala., after several weeks' visit to the former's mother, Mrs. Os bourne. Dr. W. S. Dorsett has been culled to the pastorate of the Ridge .Baptist church. At present Dr. Dorsett is in Italy but it is thought thac he will ac cept the call. About ei.iht years ago he was pastor of the Johnston Bap tist church. Miss Annie Bonhan of Columbia has been for a short visit in the home of her cousin, Mrs. W. S. Mobley. Mrs. Clarence Woodward and chil dren have gone to Aiken to spend a while. Miss Jennie Walsh is spending a while here, having been called to the bedside of her father, Mr. Bartow Walsh who has pneumonia. Miss Hallie White who teaches at Leesville, was accompanied here for a week-end visit by two of the teach ers, Misses Bertha Mccutcheon and Rose Nichols. Miss Annie Mae Reames has been for a week-end visit to her sister, Miss Aleen Reames who teaches the Pardue School near North Augusta. Insist on genuine Ford parts for your repairs on your Ford cars and trucks. YONCE & MOONEY. Golden Wedding Celebration The chime of the wedding bell is ever sweet but in the ringing of the golden wedding bells there is a mel ody that is by far sweeter, for it tells that two have lived in wedded happi ness for 50 years. And so on Febru ary 2, 1920, as the golden wedding bells chimed at Ridge Spring, all were glad and happy, for these were ringing for Capt. and Mrs. Michael W. Watson, it having been 50 years since the two plighted their troth, Michael W. Watson-Mary Mathews King. On this happy day there were hun dreds of friends and relatives, far and near, sending and giving good wishes and congratulations. . This couple has lived most of their married life at Ridge Spring and on this happy occasion, they celebrated this anniversary. From four to six o'clock a beautiful reception was had, and with the couple~were their eight children. These are Mesdames J. W. Mixson, of Union, J. M. Ivey of Rock Hill, E. M. Rodgers of Blen heim, Miss Pansy Watson, of Charles ton and Messrs. A. C. Watson of Orangeburg, W. H. and J. M. Watson of Charleston and W. W. Watson of Ridge Spring. Besides the many friends that came, there was a general family re union of the children and grand children, nieces, nephews and cous ins. The home was beautifully decorat ed in golden blossoms and ferns. Mrs Blair Watson received the guests at the front and passed from here into the parlor where stood the bride and groom of 50 years, upon whose brows the years sit but lightly.1 The bride wore a beautiful cos tume of black georgette, with a touch nf w*?'*~ ' - ?.- . * ' ^iquet. Ivvoir. which wu's ".?wac names were written nen.. _. book was in charge of Mrs. Mixson. , Later the guests were carried to ,the dining room where an enjoyable repast was served. The dining table i was lovely in gold and white, the cen-1 tcrpiecc being a large gold vase of j yellow narcissus and freesias and at the base a circle of orange blossoms. Seated at the table were Mrs. W. H. Stuckey and Mrs. E. R. Stead-man I who cut block cream which was serv- j ed with pound cake and followed by coffee and black fruit cake, then gold , and white mints, the last being serv- ' ed by two little granddaughters, Elise Ivy and Helen Mixson. Others assisting in the dining room i were Mesdames L. J. Smith, Jerald Watson and Miss Grace Frontis. Master Thomas Watson pinned up- J on each guest a souvenir, on which j was insribed in gold, "1870-1920. j M. M. K.-M. W. W." Coming out from the dining room, the presents were viewed, which were j beautiful. The groom remembered i the bride with a little gold clock, and ; she gave him a gold shaving outfit. Among the gifts were gold coins, in twenty, ten, five and two and one-1 half pieces. China, with gold decora- j tions, gold pieces for service, sugar and creams and many other lovely articles. The guests departed with many happy thoughts and good wishes for the pair, whose, lives had meant so much to those about them. The two, as they have gone along life's path way together, have radiated happi ness, have done many golden deeds, and among all of this is the family of noble daughters and sons that are liv ing monuments to the loving care and training of the parents. Valued Correspondent. The letters from Stanmore Townes are highly prized by the Advertiser. This-young man manifests a true spirit of loyalty to the county of his nativity, when he sends, as a son to his mother, the weekly messages to those who esteem him most, the peo ple of Edgefield. D. A. R. Meeting. The Daughters of the American Revolution will meet Tuesday, Feb ruary 17th at 4:00 p. m. with Mrs. J. H. Cantelou as hostess. Miss Florence Mims Writes of a Lecture by Burton Holmes. Dear Advertiser: Every year Burton Holmes, an European traveller and lecturer gives a series of travelogues illustrated, with motion pictures of a very high order, in the Boston Symphony Hall. He is a scholarly looking man with many worth while things to say. This afternoon I enjoyed hearing of and seeing the Rhine as it is today, with its picturesque peasants, color ful scenery and historic castles. The Rhine, he said, does not belong ex clusively to the Germans, for first it was Caesar's Rhine later Napoleon's Rhine and today it belongs to the world .a constant reminder of the greatest victory of mankind. Along its banks have grown up many wierd legends such as that of the Lorelei who enchanted the sail ors with their songs and destroyed them in the waves. Any such melo dies' today, Mr. Holmes wittily sug gested, would have to be sung in Yankee ragtime, for the heroes are no longer legendary, but "very per fect, gentle knights" in khaki and French blue who are patrolling the streets ".nd overlooking the conquer ed territory. It is the irony of fate that today American soldiers march the streets file on_file with the Stars and Stripes waving above them, while the Ger man inhabitants remove their hats as the flag passes, if not from re spect, from compulsion. In one of the old homes associated with Bis narck, American soldiers are living, and the little children, too young to feel their country's humiliation enjoy tl^.^ompany-of fV"> American dough green. On the top of one ot these I sloping terraces stands a massive ! memorial commemorative of the j Franco-Prussian War. The topmost j figure is that of a woman symbolizing Germany, with her face turned to 1870 and the now victorious France ; 1870 and the now victoriour France j of 191S. As Americans come to see and ad- j mire this war monument, the guide j tells ther.i the same merciless story ? cf its meaning, Xor the sad thing ; about the whole outcome of the war t)day is, that the Germans' thought seems to be where it was in nineteen fourteen. The training and teachings of forty years can not be undone in four or five. The task now is a Her culean one, to reconstruct rn; only the devastated fields of France, but the stolid and very wrongly di rected feelings and purposes of the German people. So the American flag, says Mr Burton ,does not fly flauntingly over the conquered ter ritory, but rather it floats as a sym bol of the truth that men would not have to live beneath the boot and ?spur of war lords, nor pay the penal ty of an indemnity, if they would but understand the lesson, which remains for them to learn, the meaning of de mocracy, the right of every individ ual to equality of opportunity and the unmolested pursuit of happiness. FLORENCE MIMS. 142 Hemenway Street, Boston, Mass. Thursday, March 11th is the Date. The last Lyceum number, Booth Lowrey, the Blue Mountain Philoso pher, will be given in the Opera House Thursday, March 11th. The advance notices of him state that he cannot be fully appreciated in one hearing. It would take a whole chau tauqua course to convey to you h'. powers. Sam Jones said of '. m, "Booth Lowrey has got me skint." Mr. Lowrey says of himself, that he is "a sprightly lad of fifty years, whose photographs slander him into a nice old man with silver lambre quins." If you do not know what lam brequins are ask your grandmother. Remember that the date is March 11th and it falls on Thursday-and look out for some more about him next week and the week after. .Is Our Climate Too Dry For .; Boll Weevil Damage? No Drawing conclusions from the data furnished County Agent Carwile by County Agent Luther D. Fuller, of Spartanburg county, who has made a study of climatic conditions of this State 'to compare with the Western States that are being damaged by the weevil, we are prone to believe that sooner or later we are to be damaged by the cotton pest and that the cot tell farmer is not playing safe until he grows all the food and feeds for hi? farm and then grows all the cot ton he can. The following weather data will be found very interesting. -^Report of Trenton weather sta tion: 16.80 inches rainfall during June, July and August; latitude 33 degrees and 48 minutes; altitude 6&0 degrees; coldest temperature 1916, 20 degrees; 1917, 5 degrees; 1$18, 4 degrees; growing period 224 d?Vs. Meriwether Station: Rainfall 16.54 inches; altitude 450 degrees; latitude 33 degrees and 38 minutes; coldest temperature, 1914, 17 degrees; 1915, 22?degrees; 1916, 19 degrees; 1917, 9 degrees; 1918, 2 degrees; growing period, 224 days. Keport from Cordova, Walker Co., Alabama; latitude about the same "as the above places of 33 degrees and 45>'minutes; altitude 334 degrees; rainfall 14.60 inches; coldest temper ature 1914, 9 degrees; 1915, 14 de grees; 1916 ll degrees, 1917, 8 de grees; cotton production of Walker county 1911, 9,498 bales; 1912, 7, 184 bales; 1913, 8, 225 bales; 1918, 3, 047 bales. (The above is bales gin ned ?ach of the ycars specified). From this date we may get an idea of ;vhat to expect, taking into consid eration that we have about the same climatic conditions as Cordova,, dif *oTni??in that we have a o-r~~J" uun c you conscien tiously believe that the weevil will fi nally get a bit of our crop? Prize Essay Contests. The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union each year offers prizes to students in Edgefield county for es says on subjects which will make and hold tempei*ance sentiment. The bet ter class of our people everywhere over the county are taking high ground on this subject and we must keep this sentiment established for future generations. We appeal to all the teacher:; of our county to help UJ in this work. Prizes. For best essays on "How Pohibi tion enforced will benefit our coun ty," $5.00 will be awarded to the girl or boy 14 years or over. The essay must contain not less than 1,000 words nor more than 1,500. A second prize of $2.00 will be awarded for same subject. A prize of $5.00 will be awarded for best essay on "Why I should not smoke a cigarette," written by a toy or girl under 14 years of age. Same requirement as above. Second prize of $2.00 for same subject. The prizes have been won. by girls and boys all over our county, as many country schools as town schools having been successful. It has not al ways been the older pupils who have won. This need not interfere with regular school work, but can be done under the eye of the teacher or at home as English and count on the English marks of the children. The teachers or some one else may talk to the children about the subjects and they can get their ideas and in formation in that way. Send them in by February 25th to Mrs. J. L. Mims, Edgefield, S. C. On'the fifth Sunday night in Feb ruary the winners will be invited to ?*e present at the Methodist church at Edgefield when the prizes will be awarded to the four winners. If your school is closed from the epidemic, this will be a good time to take advantage of this opportunity. If you think not many others are try ing, then you will have more oppor tunity of winning yourself. Don't forget to place your orders for Ford cars for summer deliveries. YONCE & MOONEY. February U. D. C. Meeting. Mrs. Leslie Kernaghan was hostess for the Daughters of the Confedera cy Tuesday afternoon at one of the most large attended and interesting meetings recently held by this patri otic organization. The president, Miss Gladys Rives, called the meeting to order, the mem bers rising to say the Lord's prayer in unison. \ Each member was asked to con tribute some interesting incident con nected with the service of the soldier of her family. Mrs P. M. Feltham is to use these stories in preparing a paper, which will be, in a sense, a record of the soldiers whose Confed erate forebears Edgefield's United Daughters of the Confederacy mem orialize. It is desired that each mem ber of the chapter ,not present at the meeting, will send Mrs Feltham their contribution to this paper. Similar papers are being prepared by other chapters and are tc be published in the club columns. The year's programs had been re ceived from headquarters, outlining a series of most entertaining sub jects, with the list of prize essays for the chapter members, including those for the children's chapters. At the conclusion of the historical program the folding doors into the lovely dining room were thrown op en, disclosing a prettily appointed tea table under the rosy glow of the shaded electric light. Blue and white block cream, with individual angel cakes, on whose snowy icing "U. D. C." was outlined in red, was served-the immortal col ors of the Southland, recalling the' flag most beloved. Delicious red and white mints completed the dainty sweet course. Misses Fannie Shep-, ---j VncoU T?-?- . "-od the j the attention ux those interested^ j Lands for peanuts: Peanuts thrive I best on sandy gray soils, but a good j yield can be made on the clay and heavy loamy soils. The objection to red clay lands is that the iron, the el ement that gives the ?oil the red col or, of this soil stains the hulls of the nuts, making them undesirable for confections but they are all right for oil purposes. Then too, the "pegs' sometime fail to take to the ground of the hard clay soils. Seeding: Use the Little White Spanish ar.d plant in the hulls ?.bout four to six inches apart in 30-inch rows. Much objection has been found to seeding the shelled peanuts on ac count of their drying out. Fertilizing: Use from 400 to 800 pounds of 8-2-3 on the sandy lands, and 9-2-3 on the clay soils. If cotton tends to rust on the sandy land the supply of potash should be increased to 4 per cent. 600 pounds ?eems to oe a reasonable amount to use, and not under this since peanuts are heavier feeders of plant food than cotton. Let your ammonia come from a quickly available source. Liming: While there seems to be doubt as to the use of lime, experi ments show that lime pays on all le gumes. See your County Agent about the litmus acid test of your soil. Use a good grade of lime. (See article on liming.) Students Make High Average. The following students of the High School have been excused from the examinations this week on the sub jects named below as they have aver aged between 95 and 100 on that par ticular study for five consecutive months. Eighth Grade Spelling. Allen Edwai-ds, Elizabeth Lott, Gladys Lawton, Tom Bailey, Addie Sue McClendon, Mary Lyon, Nolia Turner. Eighth Grade Algebra. Allen Edwards. Ninth Grade, AU Subjects. Lillian Pattison. Ninth Grade Algebra. George Evans, Mitchell Wells, Dixon Timmerman. Ninth Grade English. George Evans, Mitchell Wells. Tenth Grade Geometry __Lois Mims, Eugenia Brunson. S. B. TOWNES' LETTER. View of House Office Build ing and Statuary Hall. Great American Paintings. Dear Advertiser: "We left our seven-passenger parked "At the foot of Capitol Hui Punctured, patched and painfully bruised, But obedient still. She's ever ready-and once cranked up Goes bounding to her task, For what more, gentle reader, Could her gentle owner ask? Then let us drive around to the House Office Building and get a pass from Mr. Byrnes to visit the House of Representatives when we are in the Capitol. The House Office Build ing is about forty-five degrees to the right of the east front of the Capitol, some several hundred yards away. All of the Congressmen that is, mem bers of the House, have their offices here. The Senate Office building is in the left east front of the Capitol. We consult the House Directory and find Mr. Byrnes' office to be No. 286, away down the wide corridor on the left. Unfortunately, Mr. Byrnes is not in, but his secretary, Mr. Hair, greets us with the glad hand and immediate ly wants the news from "down home." "We are residents of Indian Head, Mr. Hair." "Then, how do you like this section of the country?" "It is all covered with snow, we shall tell you next spring." Mr. Hair gives us a pass to the visitors' gallery of the House and we start for the Capitol. After crossing -tho-anacious.asohalt esn1o~- ". : . :'-.< Cirice "! .Ii-.;'. ? : hisi'? ;?\ just left. On your left, the Senate Office Building-beautiful structures both. Almost directly in front, beyond the open court but on Capitol Hill, rears the gilded dome of the Con gressional Library, under which dome a million books and more are ?open to the public use. Perhaps we shall visit this next week. Let us now admire what is more I immediate. On the Rotunda Portico where we now stand, there is a sort i of allegorical group to represent the Genius of America. The shield of the ?group bears the date, July 4, 1776, land the scroll of the Constitution, the adoption date September 1787. I There are two other massive groups: j The Discovery of America and the ?Settlement of America. The former j represents Columbus and an Indian 'girl, and the latter a pioneer battling with a savage. Here on the Portico amongst these groups is the scene of the Inaugura tion. It is here that the president ?takes the oath of office and delivers ?his address. Let us enter the Rotunda. The doors are bronze with representa tive scenes on either door illustrating the career of Columbus. You are now in a great circular hall decorated on all sides with eight separate paint ings by Trumbull, Wier, Chapman, Powell and Vanderlyn. The subjects are as follows: Landing of Columbus on San Sal vador, October 12, 1492. Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, 1541. Baptism of Pocahontas, Jamestown Va., 1613. Embarkation of the Pilgrims from Delft Haven, July 22, 1620. Declaration ?f Independence, Phil adelphia, July 4, 1776. Surrender of Burgoyne, Saratoga, October 17, 1777. Surrender of Cornwallis, York town, October 19, 1781. The Resignation of General Wash ington, December 23, 1783. Many "sculptured portraits of great men and great events adorn the walls and in the very top, against the can opy, which is 180 feet above the floor, there is a colossal fresco repre (Continued on Page Four)