Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P. Lewis is at home from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Caldwell Cullum at Batesburg, the latter hav ing been quite sick. Mr. Lewis Stevens of Meeting Street was a visitor here during the past week. Miss Maud Wright is at University Hospital for medical treatment. Master Maxwell Ferguson of Wal halla, is making his home with his uncle, Dr. L. S. Maxwell. Mr. Bartow Walsh and Master Bil lie have returned from a visit to Sumter. Mr. O. S. Wertz who is at the Co lumbia Hospital, having undergone ( an operation is reported to be doing well. His family has been with him. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woodword/ are now domiciled in the home of Mr. Westmoreland. A revival will commence next week at the Methodist church, Rev. Kellar preaching. He preaches good, ^?S?&?h* sermons, and this, week of. prayer and "conSBaraflSSiT^wirr"Ve a* great spiritual uplift to the j Miss Maude Sawyer has i from a visit to her sister, Mri Clark at Aiken. Mrs. St. Julian Harris of Ga., has been for a visit in of her mother, Mrs. P. N. L early date, Mr. and Mrs. J move to Albany, Ga. The f o yv, sition makes this a more convenient situation for him. Mr. Marion Williams has been for a visit to his sister, Mrs. T. R. Hoyt. Mrs. Davis, of Columbia, was the guest of her sister, Mrs., M. W. Crouch, last week. Mr. Frank Suber has been for a visit to Saluda. Mr. Guy Horne has gone over to Columbia to assist in the music of "Trade Week." He is a fine cornetist, also plays the trombone well. Mr. A. P. Lott was a visitor to Au gusta during the past week. The young people enjoyed a Pound Party on Friday evening in the home of Miss Betty Waters. There were several forms of amuse ment that were arranged that gave all a good time. Miss Lizzie White died on last Wednesday morning at the Universi ty Hospital, Augusta. She lived many years here and had many warm friends, and her death is deeply re gretted. She was a trained nurse, having been for about eight years, and by this her mission in life had been a beautiful one, and by her efficiency, she was much sought for by those who were sick. During the recent war she went overesas and was near many scenes of battle, where she nursed the wounded back to life. She was a noble, Christian woman. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom White, and leaves three brothers, Rev. G. P. White of Bam burg, Rev. Luther White and Mr. John White, and three sisters, Mrs. Sheppard, a matron at Connie Max well orphanage, Mrs. Lona White of McBean, Ga., and Miss Pearl White. Mrs. Georgia Turner of this place was her aunt. The body was carried to f^eenwood where it was laid to ret.' beside the graves of her parents. The Mary Ann Buie chapter, U. D. C. met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. H. W. Crouch, and five new members were received, this making about ten for the year, so far. Plans were made for Memorial Day and a good speaker was invited to make an address. This will prob ably be observed the day following the 10th. The District conference to be at Aiken was discussed, and Mrs. P. B. Waters was elected delegate. Mrs. Waters^xtended a cordial invitation to the chapter to meet with her on the 29th, to celebrate the 23rd anni versary of the chapter organization, also to observe Gen. Hampton's birthday. Year books will be ready for dis tribution at next meeting. After business a good program was enjoyed and Mrs. O. D. Black read a splendid paper on "A Famous Southern Home-Mt. Vernon.' Owing to the week of prayer and the protracted services, the Apollo music club will not meet until April 1st, with Mrs. J. W. Marsh. Mrs. Will Hoyt has gone for a visit to Augusta. ' On Saturday morning Mr. Elmer Collins was carried to Margaret Wright to be operated on for appen dicitis. He was accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Collins. On Saturday evening Miss Emma iBouknight entertained with a bridge i party at Mulberry Hill. There were ; other amusements besides 'bridge and j St. Patricks idea was carried out in every detail. An elaborate salad co urse, followed with 'fruit saladaz course, followed by ambrosia with fruit and pound cake, was served. Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Black, John Howard and Oscar Black, visited Au gusta jthis week. Mrs. Marie Dozier made a visit to i Saluda, the guest of Mrs. B. L. Allen. ; Clemson Students All Back at ! Work. Clemson College, March 22-Prac tically all of the students of Clemson College are back on the campus to day and at their work as usual. The j best of spirit prevails. Late trains Sunday brought the ca ,dets back to the campus in large fnrrmbers. FrieffdTy-?isciiss??^-bf < .. It is generally conceded that the students acted has tily in their walk-out, though many J patrons and present and former stu , dents claim that there were student i grievances. j The recent announcement by the ?trustees of certain changes, such as ?open trial, with counsel for student j off enders,-and improvement of the ?"mess," have brought forth expres sions of approval ,and it is believed there will be no further trouble. Resolution of Thanks. Whereas, our town was greatly jeopardized and imperiled by fire at an early hour Tuesday morning And whereas, we, otherwise would have been left practically to the de struction of its merciless hand of ?flame and terror, and possibly the ! greater part of the 'business section of our town destroyed, had not the patriotic Manager and Employees of the Addison Mills responded to our cry for help by coupling and extend ing into our midst its great fire-fight ing hose and equipments; And whereas, we feel extremely and deeply grateful to Mr. Hightow jer, the liberal minded Manager of the mill and always a friend in time of j trouble and need to the limit of his lability; and likewise appreciatively grateful to the faithful Employees of the mill who so willingly and efficient ly rendered their service; Therefore, Be it Resolved by the Edgefield Chamber of Commerce First, That we extend to the Addi son Mill and Mr. T. A. Hightower, its courteous and thoughtful Manager, and to each and all employees and all other citizens both white and color ed who so valiantly assisted in ex tinguishing and controlling the fire that so greatly threatened our whole town, our profoundest thanks and gratitude for the indispensable and consoling help rendered by them on this occasion. Second, That a copy of these reso ultions be handed to Mr. Hightower by our Secretary, and also to each of our County Papers for publica tion. Edgefield Chamber of Commerce. Columbia's Population An nounced. Washington, Marchi 22-Popula tion statistics for 1919 announced today by the census bureau included^ Columbia, S. C., 37,524, an in crease of 11,205 or 42.6 per cent, over 1910. Ranked as second city in South Carolina, thirty-second city of the South and 209th city of the nation in point of population in 1910 with 26,319 people. In the decade from, 1900 to 1910 it showed an incease of 5,211, or*24.7 per cent, while in the. previous two decades, 1890 to 1900' and 1880 to 1890 its increases was 37.5 per cent and 53.0 per cent. Cities of the country ranking near I Columbia in 1910 which have report led their 1920 population are: Bloom ington, 111., 216th rank, 28,638, an 11.1 per cent increase; Lewiston, Me. j 211th rank, 31,707 and 20.8 per cent increase; Danville, Ul., 201st rank,. 33,730, and 21.1 per cent increase; Shreveport, La., 43,874 and 56.6 per cent increase. Increases in southern cities whose populations have been reported are: Knoxville, 114.1 per cent; Beaumont, Texas, 71.3; Charlotte, 36.2; Chatta nooga, 29.8 and Macon 29.2. Columbia, in the dawn of its new era, announces that its people num ber 51,924. Announcement by the census bureau at Washington today jthat the census count gives the city. 37,524 people, while the suburbs hold approximately 14,400, according to; estimates made by officials of the out lying sections. This makes the popu lation of Greater Columbia approxi mately 52,000. There are six suburbs to Columbia, each a healthy town to ntself. The Record has secured from the mayors and clerks of several incorporated villages and their official estimates pf the population. These follow: Eau Claire (including Colonial *| Heights, Ridgewood jtnd Col-- --? .V ..u.iuun Annex and communi nity.- 800 Total_14,400 Red Hill News. Sunday being a pretty spring day, j we had a large crowd at church, were I more there than ever have been since our new pastor, Rev. Barnes, has ? been preaching. We have a heating plant to keep ; ;the church warm. We only wish our roads were better so everybody could go. We are glad to say we have not had many flu cases this winter here, but there are a few now. Miss Maude Smith has it. Hope she will soon be all righi. Mrs. Ebb Wood's baby is some bet ter of pneumonia, having had it twice this winter.. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Williams are the happy parents of another little boy. Another little girl has come to brighten the home of Mr. L. J. Mc Clendon, her name is Esther Mar garet. Mrs. Lou McClendon who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mary Co sey, who had flu, has returned home. Mrs. J. W. McDaniel was called home Sunday on account of the sud den death of her father, Mr. Reese, at Modoc. She remained until today. We are sorry to hear that Freeman Quarles, the son of F. W. Quarles, has mumps. Miss Cornelia Bussey visited Miss Minne Bell Bailey last week-end. We are having a good school with the following teachers, Mr. Cogburn, from Neeces, S. C., Miss Margaret Middleton of Clarks Hill and Miss Ruth Timmerman of Scotland, Ga. Mr. Maman Bartley of Johnston and Mr. Capers DeLaughter visited Mrs. J. B. Holmes last week. Our Sunday school has been changed to fourth Sunday afternoon instead of fourth Sunday morning. The Y. W. A. will meet fourth Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. We are glad to say Mrs. Fannie Bussey is able to walk after being very ill. A Larger Freight Depot Need ed. We doubt if there is another tynvn Edgefield's size in the State that has as large volume of freight'shipped into it as Edgefield. The very crowd ed condition of the depot, despite the persistent efforts of Mr. Townsend to prevent congestion, gives some idfea of the tremendous volume. Mr. Townsend needs more warehouse room for his freight? It is wonderful how well he conducts the freight bus iness under the present housing facil ities. A depot about double the size of the present .building is needed. Frequently freight that should be protected from the weather has to be left out on the platform at night. Heating Plant Installed. |fMr. R. M. Johnson of Red Hill was ip^town yesterday and told The Ad vertiser's representative that the rapibers of Red Hill church have in sfuled a modern heating plant for t?fi church, which is working ad mirably well. The furnace was placed in the basement and the hot air is ! carried to all parts of the large build- j ing. Already it has been observed I chat the attendance is larger on cold j days than formerly. No church can make a better investment than that of making the building comfortable ? in winter. We congratulate the mern- ; bers of Red Hill church upon this progressive step. Lyceum Entertainment. .Booth Lowrey, the finest humor- j ous lecturer on the platform today, j will'close our lyceum course for this winter. Mr. Lowrey is a native, there | is nothing imported about him. He is a Mississippian, from Blue Mountain, ! and knows Southern humor first hand. He has never failed to please, | and you have nothing to risk and all [ toprain, gain in a jolly, good evening of pure, clean humor. You will not be able to straighten your faro nut yei reacneu Lue tou. rx c?lii>raccu? in Edgefield told The Advertiser's representative that he has the con tract for erecting a bungalow and had to pay $140 per thousand for the flooring for the building. Several days later he secured the contract for repairing another Edgefield home j and needing some flooring for that building he telephoned to Augusta for it and had to pay at the rate of $155 per thousand. These prices are almost prohibitive. Interesting U. D. C. Meeting. The Edgefield Chapter, U. D. C., j met with Mrs. Agatha Woodson on ? Tuesday with a representative crowd . of women. There was very little business to atend to so after the opening exer cises, presided over by our efficient president, Miss Gladys Rives, the meeting was turned over to. the Ir's- j torian. The paper prepared and read by ? Mrs. P. M. Feltham on "Mount Ver- I non," was very exhaustive and gave full credit to our two South Carolina women, Miss Pamela Cunningham, the" founder of the Mt. Vernon asso-1 ciation, and its first regent and our own Lucy Holcombe Pickens, South ] Carolina's vice-regent. It was a beau- j tiful paper and was thoroughly en joyed. In the absence of Mrs. J. H. Can telou, Mrs. Woodson told a little about the home in which Mrs. Cante lou lives. Mrs. Jeff M. Wright gave a very interesting record of her brother, Mfejor John C. Warren and read his 1 Citation. Major Collett was mention-1 ed by Mrs. Woodson as being the ] first man from Edgefield to volunteer, his services in the great war. Sketch- ! es were read of Lieut. Boykin Pac chaT,' and Shields Johnson. Lieut. Jas. 0. Sheppard was now introduced and gave us a most de-, lightful talk. He spoke of the bravery and loyalty of Edgefield and her men during all the wars of the past and mentioned the Edgefield Company belonging to the famous Palmetto Regiment, that went to Mexico and achieved such wonderful success, speaking of Pierce M. Butler, the col-1 r onel of tRe Palmetto Regiment as be ing an Edgefield man. In reference to the war between the States he spoke of our great gen erals Butler and Gary, Bonham, Dun ovant, Perrin and others and conclu sively proved that our boys of the present could do no other way than to follow in the footsteps of )these great forbears. Nearly half of the men who went from Edgefield went as volunteers, but Mr. Sheppard up held the draft, and giving poor Eng land as an example of what it meant for a country to enter a great war and depend entirely upon the volun teer service. He gave twenty-eight as the num ber of officers that Edgefield contrib uted, while he gave great credit to the man in the ranks. Five majors-Collett, Warren, Bunch, Tillman and Sheppard are to her credit. Lieut. Sheppard spoke beautifully of Major Collett, of Ma jor Warren and Major Bunch and of Captain Beverley M^Epes. He touched on what we feel as our National disgrace-the failure of our peace treaty to be ratified by the senate. Just as his address was finished Mrs. B. L. Minis introduced Miss : Frances Herbert, the efficient Y. W. C. A. secretary, who is here in the interest of their campaign to raise money to send Y. W. C. A. secre taries into European countries. Her address was very forceful and enjoy- j able. At the close Mrs. Woodson served I a salad course with coffee, assisted ' by Miss Helen Tillman and Miss ; Gladys Rives. Price Boost is Coming May First. Detroit, March 20-Increases in the prices of Ford models of from ; $50 to $100, which wpw ?~ L,*Uvii ixuiu manuiacturers have I been wrestling with the production proposition for many months. Deal- ? ers all over the United States and abroad are crying for cars and the makers have long lists of unfilled or-. ders. Interruption has been frequent. First canie the coal strike. Then1 the shortage of freight cars, which j not only retarded the arrival of much needed material and parts, but pre cluded the shipment of the finished product, so that thousands of cars j were stocked in all available places ; throughout the city. At the Michigan state fair -grounds, on the outskirts of the city, there are some 10,000 automobiles partially protected with canvass covering awaiting shipment or driveaway. Although hundreds of cars are be ing driven from Detroit every day de spite the bad weather and almost im passable roads, the accumulation grows. This condition is not strange when the tremendous daily produc tion of Detroit's auto factories is con sidered. The Ford plant at present is turning out more than 3,500 cars daily in accordance with a production schedule of 1,000,000 for the current fiscal year. The production of Dodge cars is better than 550 daily, with the Maxwell, Chalmers, Hudson, Essex^ and all others straining their utmost to meet the demand for their produc tion. Death of Mrs. Lucy Arthur Cobb. The friends of Mrs. Lucy Arthur Cobb in Edgefield were saddened yes terday by the announcement of her death. She was born and reared in Edgefield, being a daughter of Mr. Henry Arthur, and was beloved by her school mates and all who knew her. She moved away from Edgefield but came back to reside for a short period several years ago. While in Edgefield she was an active member of the Methodist church. She was a sister to our fellow townsman, Mr. E. P. Arthur, and of Mr. R. B. Arthur of Augusta. The interment will take place in Latta, S. C., today. "All For Edgefield; Edgefield For AH." Miss Florence Mims Spends Week-End in Providence, R. ?. Dear Advertiser: I suppose such cities as Philadel phia, William Penn's legacy of broth erly love, and Roger Williams' Provi dence, founded on the idea of "soul liberty," are two cities whose histo ries would reveal the history of the country accurately from the earliest beginning. ^ Roger Williams was a young Welsh preacher, eloquent and learned, who came over to America early in the seventeenth century to escape the re ligious intolerance of the English Church. On arriving in Boston he soon found that his ideas were no more in agreement with the Ply mouth Colony than with those of the people whom he had left. He then, went to Narragansett Bay and found ed Providence, buying the state of Rhode Island from the Indians. This he called first Providence Pk-.tation. I had the pleasure of spending the last week-end of my spring vacation in this capital of Rhode Island. The city has been called the "Southern Gateway of New England" and the "city set on seven hills." This is a modern Rome, set not on a muddy Tiber, however, but at the head of the Narragansett Bay. Curiously; enough the shores of this water are parallel with Rome. Rhode Island is only forty-eight miles at its greatest length and thirty seven miles at its greatest width. Be ing the smallest of the six New Eng land states, one would hardly expect it to boast of so lovely a capital city and so impressive a State House. Like a city set on a hill, this building cannot be hid. It is rather refreshing to visit a modern edifice that breathes of live issues after studying musty buildings of antiquated days. On entering the massive doorways of the Sr.nfo ? ?.Yr - '- "- -~" . williams in the year 1775. True to his religious convictions he built a church. Prior to this time Brown University was founded. This too, is a Baptist school dty which Dr. W. H. P. Faunce is president. Before the Boston Tea Party there was a Providence Tea Party, how ever, the latter consisted of throwing the beverage into the flames instead of into the water. These are some of the things ob served on a casual glimpse into the city, and though it is old it is still growing. As we left Monday the first real spring day of the season was melting the ice and uncovering the grass along the roadways, for like the Na tional Capital, Providence is a city of wide streets and pleasant avenues. FLORENCE MIMS. 142 Hemenway St., Boston, Mass. Meeting of Music Club. The March meeting of the Phil harmonic Music Club was held at the home of Miss Helen Dorn. After the ?business session Miss Miriam Norris i took charge of the program, the sub ject for study being Russian Music. The club enjoyed a Schumann piano solo played by Miss Nelle Jones .who is quite a gifted pianist, having completed a post graduate course in music. Miss Helen Tillman read an interesting account of the life of An ton Rubenstein, and Miss Genevieve Norris played Rubenstein's "Kamen noi-Ostrow." Mrs B. L. Mims read an extract on Tschaiskowsky to the club. It was voted that the Tschaikowsky Quartette be brought to Edgefield for a concert. This quartette has played before Columbia University and is of a very high class, and the music club realizes the importance of bring ing musicians of value to the town. After the program Miss Dorn, as sisted by Miss Mary Dorn, served gelatine with whipped cream and cake. WANTED: To buy Scrap Iron of all kinds, brass, copper, aluminum, rags, bones, etc. Highest prices paid. Next door to Cassell's guano house.. LOUIS KAMENOF^F, Johnston, S. C.