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?t?ts? ??eu>Hpaper ?n &mrtb (festina VOL. 84 EDGEFIELD, S, C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1920 No. 7 JOHNSTON LETTER. A Great Revival Just Closed. Meeting in Interest of Edu cation. Mr. White Im proving. One of the greatest meetings that was ever held in the town was that which has just closed at the Baptist church, Dr. R. G. Lee, of Edgefield, conducting the services. Every ser vice that was held seemed to the Christians the sweetest and most beautiful they had ever listened to, and those who had grown cold in the service of God, the messages were saving and redeeming ones. Every member of the church, it seemed, re-consecrated their lives anew, for better work and a nearer living to the Master, and many souls were brought into the Kingdom. It was not just a Baptist revival; everyone in the town- came and join ed in the great work for the Master. There has always been a sweet tie of Chistian fellowship between the churches here, and the pastors of other churches greatly ?oncerned themselves also in the saving of souls. The baptismal service will be had on Wednesday evening the 28th. Dr. W. S. Dorset, a former pastor of the Baptist church here, who is now pastor of the Ridge Baptist church, was a visitor here during the past week. On last Tuesday afternoon, a high ly interesting and profitable meeting was held here in the cause of Edu cation. For some time the trustees of the High School have found that it was going to be necessary to have more money to run the school, and it was decided that an additional mill tax be added to meet the in creased expense. So on Tuesday af ternoon, a public meeting was held to discuss this and to impress on the people the great need of this to pro . mote the cause of education: ' The' ' meeting was had in the school audi torium, and Dr. R. G. Lee made a very forceful talk on the subject be fore the people, which was received in a very appreciative manner. The election for the additional mills was had and was practically unanimously, being 7 to 1. Hon. John Edwin Stanfield of Ai ken spent Sunday here with his un cle, Mr. J. M. Turner. Rev. Ergle, of Graniteville has been for a visit to Mr. Edd Johnson. He has recently finished his college course and is at the Seminary now. It is his desire to go some day as a missionary. Mr. John Marsh went to the Co lumbia Hospital last week for an op eration, his general condition having indicated such for some time. His many friends pray that he will soon be restored to health. Miss Helen Walker entertained about twenty of her young friends on Saturday afternoon, the occasion being her birthday. Everyone present had a happy time and games were in dulged in. A birthday feast was ser ved. Each one gave her a pretty jjift and a good wish accompanied each gift. Mr. Ben Wright has purchased from Mr. Ebb Gibson, his vacant lot on West Calhoun street and will soon erect a dwelling, which he and his family will occupy. His wife's mother, Mrs. Mena Calhoun will make her home with them. It will be a sincere pleasure to many . especially the older residents of the town, to know that Mrs. Cal houn will again live here. In former years, she and her husband were among the pillars of the Baptich church here, and were identified with all that went for the betterment of the town and its people. Mr. Watson Nickerson, who has been quite sick, is now much im proved. Dr. C. P. Corn attended the State Medical Association held last week in Greenville. Mrs. John W. Marsh attended the states meeting of the Mission Socie ties of the Presbyterian church which convened last week. Misses Frances Turner, Marion and Elise Mobley and Betty Waters have been for a visit to Charleston to enjoy the beauties of Magnolia Gardens. Mrs. John Mobley has returned from a trip to Baltimore. ) Mrs. W. J. Hatcher attended the W. M. U. Institute held last week at convenient points in the western di vision, and was one of the teachers. Mr. James White happened to a painful accident last week while placing some posts. He was using a large knife in removing some bark and the knife slipped and made a painful cut at the knee cap. The pain was so sever at one time that lock jaw was feared. He is improving now. Mr. and Mrs. George Galphin and children of Ninety Six, are guests in the^home of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Lott. Miss Mary Lewis spent last week here in the home of her aunt, Mrs. Willie Tompkins, and with other rel atives. Miss Annie Crouch spent last week at Bennettsville and was maid of honor at the marriage of her college friend, Miss Crossland. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. LaGrone were in Aiken during last week to attend the marriage of the latter's sister, Miss Louise Coleman. Mr. Lewis i Hart and Miss Eva Pruitt were married last Tuesday at Edgefield, their marriage being a pleasant surprise to their many friends. Cordial good wishes ard con gratulations are extended them. Little Theresa, the daughter of Mrs. Cobb, is here for a while with her aunt, Mrs. W. F. Scott. The lit tle girl has spent the winter months in Illinois, and has had nothing but tnow and ice, and this balmy spring weather it is thought, will make her more robust. Americans Send an Appeal Home. Washington, April 23.-American government representatives in Mex ico have asked for the dispatch of warships to that country to protect American citizens and their property. The requests came from Mazalan and Tonolobampo oa the Pacific coast"- and"" Frontera, "on lXe''Qmt coast. Officials of the War and Navy Departments are investigating the re quests explaining that in times of disturbances in the Southern repub lic it is not unusual to receive re quests for warships where there is no need for them. Details as to the requests of the American agents were not made pub lic. Advices *aday said that 350 Mexican federal troops with two cannon had arrived at Mazatlan, but there have been no reports of dis turbances there or at other two ports Other reports received today, how ever, indicated a growing ferment which was described as rapidly ap proaching an acute stage and it was said that it was clear that communi cation with various points in Mexico was being interferred with. Mexican Judge Arrested in Arizona Douglas, Ariz., April 23.-Ingacio Pesqueira, chief justice of the Mex ico Supreme Court said to have been appointed military governor of So nora, was arrested by United States officers as he stepped off a train here today. A woman, said to have been brought here by Pesqueira from Mexico was detained. Chief Justice Pesqueira was said to have come here to "await the ar rival of Carranza ti*oops in Sonora, when he was to have assumed the duties of chief executive in the state, superseding Gov. Adolfo De La Huerta, who headed the secession of Sonora in its revolution against Car ranza. His arrest is said to be in con nection with bringing a woman into the United States and telephoning her here from Laredo, Texas. Pesqueira is from a widely known and wealth Sonora family. He has vast cattle and mining interests. Farmerettes Hear the Call. It's Back to the Land for Eighty Philadalphia Girls. From the Philadalphia Public Ledger "How're ye goin' ter keep us away from the farm, now we've sniffed the spring?" was the chorus of fare well that arose the other day from the throats of eighty,'Philadelphia farmerettes, who left the smoke of the big city for the simple joys of West Chester, Media, Hatboro and other points south, west and north. The ?ure of the nobby checked suit and the red necktie, according to government officials, is drawing the country boy to the city, but their overalls, in a manner of speaking, Miss Florence Mims Writes of Reception to Senior Students. Dear Advertiser: Saturday evening the faculty and seniors of the Leland Powers. School i were entertained at Mr. and Mrs. Powers' home in Brookiine. East of Boston is Cambridge and south of Boston is Brookiine, a city of lawns and driveways that remind one of the South, except that the air is crisp instead of balmy. The moonlight night was an ideal one as we drove before the spacious home, and entered to find it indeed a palace and filled w.ith students and teachers that we had seen at school in the morning, though this time they were all in evening clothes and ready for play instead of work. I think students always feel near to each other because they have shared comforts and discomforts, joys and disappointments together. This, how ever, was a joy unmixed. The students, the exceptionally talented ones, mocked the teachers and the faculty in turn, read and told stories. I know no other man who is so widely loved, as the man Leland Powers. For his students come from the states from coast to coast, from Canada and from the South. Trie ac-1 cepts greatness, popularity and suc cess in the way that many of us ac cept insignificance, as a matter of course. Soon the school year will end and many sad good-byes will be said and for many succeeding-years the stu dents of many more graduating classes will be entertained here. About forty seniors were present and six members of the faculty. We discovered musical talent in one of them and so before the evening was ; over we all Joined in singing, for ? music inevitably finds its way into - any social gathering. Delightful r?- j freshments were served, and as the 1 clocks of .the city . of Boston ..were' I ready to strike twelve, we arrived home, to all the temporary residenc es, which rather poorly take the place of home. ' FLORENCE MIMS. 9 '? 142 Hemenway St., Boston, Mass. Two Distinguished Visitors. In 1880 Dr. J. A. L. Waddell was assistant professor of mechanics in the Renselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy N. Y., at the time that Mr. Thomas F Rainsford attended this j institution, and Mr. V. H. Hewes was a class-mate of Mr. Rainsford at Ti'oy. Greatly to his surprise and de light these two gentlemen, whom he had not seen in forty years, visited j him Friday. Dr. Waddell is regarded as the highest engineering authority in the world upon bridge construc tion. His exhaustive treatise on . bridge engineering has been accept ed as unquestioned authox-ity through ' out the world upon this subject. He was professor of bridge engineering for several years in the Imperial University of Japan. Dr. Waddell ( now has offices in Kansas City and New york and Mr. Hewes, who is ' likewise a civil engineer of national reputation, is associated with him. They came to Columbia to confer with the State Highway Commission j concerning the construction of a very large bridge across the Santee , river, and while there came over to pay Mr. Rainsword a visit. It is re gretted that their stay in Edgefield was so short. are coveted by the girl in the large , town The "girls with the hoe" who ? started countryward from Philadel- \ phia were not exactly clad in over- \ alls, but they had them in their grips, ; which also contained grass clippers) \ agricultural text books, cold cream, ; mosquito netting and other articles | indispensable to the pursuit of life, , happiness, crops and insects on the j farm. i All of the girls were enexperienc- i ed as agriculturists, never having I planted anything but bulbs in a pot, I and never having cut anything1 ex- i cept dress goods, the pages of a book ? and cuticles. The group included i stenographers, department store I girls, college women and manicurists. < - ] FOR SALE: Eggs for hatching, : pure Wycoff and Barron strain i White Leghorn. Price $1.50 per 15. : 4-7-tf MRS. GEO. F. MIMS. ] Mrs. J. L. Mims Writes of D. A. R. Congress and Trip to Boston. Dear Advertiser: For fear I shall become too in volved with the wonderful experi ences which are before me for the coming days in Boston and other places, I shall give a few impressions of my journey before I leave my .quarters at which I arrived last night. For one thing I didn't speak all day yesterday, which was a very great deprivation to me, from Wash ing to Providence, Rhode Island. There a lady who was sitting oppo site me, who had, as she told me af terwards, lived in New England all her life and travelled a great deal, asked me, who had never been any whee, what place this was through which we were passing. I told her, and pointed out the state capitol on a high hill, amid a myriad of bril liant lights. I had no way of knowing what city it was, except by my pow ers of observation and wondered that she could not likewise use hers. I was very glad to be able to break the spell of silence which remained unbroken as I was soon off at Back Bay Station where I was enveloped in the embrace of my daughter, whom I had not seen since October. Some one asked me what had im pressed me most on my way from Co lumbia to Boston, and I replied that the apple orchards and grain fields and lovely farms of Virginia, the bill boads from New York to Provi dence, because it was dark and I could not see them any further, and the granite rocks of Connecticut Mrs.^Manly Timmons was my most congenial and delightful companion, as all the Edgefield people know who love her, leaving me at Washington tyhjere we stopped. As we ascended the steps in the station to the.gate where we were ex P. L. Parker, and beside him Annie May Timmons, now Mrs. Parker, who bad not seen her mother since last May when the beautiful marriage took place in Edgefield. They trans ported us very quickly through the streets of Woshington where nature is, having her spring opening, and where the temperature was like sum mer weather. Mr. and Mrs. Parker have lovely apartments, very conveniently ap pointed and located on 15th street in a very desirable and centrally lo cated section of the city. Here they lispensed hospitality to me with sid time grace as was done in the years before the war, and yd with ;he greatest ease on account of the wonderful provisions of modern equipment. My special reason for ^topping in Washington on my way up, or as [ notice they say here "coming down ;ast from South Carolina," was to go :hrough the red tape of being a dele gate to the National Congress of the D. A. R. They call it the Continental Congress * of the Daughters of the American Revolution, but that sounds too large for me, I like sim plicity. I attended one session of this Congress in the Memorial Continent il Hall, which is a magnificent white juilding just in sight of the Cor coran Art gallery and the National rreasury Building. No one was al lowed to cross the threshold except properly accredited delegates, other members, if wearing the National D. A. R. emblem being admitted to ;he galleries. After unwinding sev eral miles of red tape, interviewing several pages, and information bu reaus, I was finally, in the space of not less than an hour, presented tp Mrs. Johnston of uth Carolina who ?vas chairman of i "edential Com mittee. She was courteous, as :hey all had b ry determin ed that the pers. itered were fully entitled to do so. /is I had been nstructed from Edgefield to attend, ind vote and register, I was deter mined to do it, and after registering md receiving my badge, I had no more trouble. They gave me a large sheet on which were printed a great many nominees for vice-President General and told me to vote for sev m of them. As I glanced on the pa per, I did not know any of them, so [ asked myself the question in a mo ment's time, "How shall I vote when 1 know nothing. I must have some proper motive power," and as I read down the list I put a cross'mark by the names of all the Southern can didates. That was the best I could do, and I proceeded into the Audi torium. As I entered the hall which was also most carefully guarded, said to the lady in charge, "I have had considerable trouble getting in here, will there be any difficulty in getting out again?" When she assur ed me it could be done if necessary, I entered, and to my delight, Mrs. Calhoun of South Carolina was speak ing. This address on Tomassee Moun tain School which is the only one supported by the National D. A. R., was very sympathetically heard and much applauded and resulted in a good contribution for the school. There were, or still are at this time fourteen hundred accredited dele gates to this Congress. They are all descendants of Revolutionary an cestors and hail from every state in the union, most of them women in middle life and many advifticed in years, all handsomely, if not becom ingly dressed, many wearing bars denoting the number of ancestors they had in the Revolutionary, from one to as many as fifteen or more. In all that great concourse of wo men there was no familiar face ex cept that of Mrs. Calhoun and I think Mrs. DuVall, State Regent, who occupied the first seat in the South Carolina section. But I did not recognize any of the other women from my state, nor did I have an opportunity to investigate, as I left before the session closed. The Corcoran Art Gallery was open, and we went in for an hour or more. Hei*e I took a cursory glance, meaning literally a running glance, which was exactly what I did. I saw every picture and every piece of statuary and those I want to see I can find again. I thought of our Edgefield artist, as I saw several wo men seated at the .canvass, copying. Or,: P landscape^ and;the . other I a portrait~of George ' Wasmngton. As I was ascending the steps, I saw two rather odd looking men coming J ^ down, delicate and refined looking, j and yet with a full growth 'of beard on their faces. They riveted my at c tention and after they had passed, I ^ turned and looked at them as they walked away. Both of them had soft j long hair, and plaited and hanging down his back, the other was plaited and coiled in the bq^k like a wo man's. I was told that it was a re- . ligious sect, and then I began to won der where they had their Biblical au- . thority, for I thought it was taught . that men should cut their hair. Fi nally, I decided they must-take their inspiration from the fact that Samp son! was invincible as long as his hair remained long and powerless with it cut. . . c Without having, seen many cities in their entirety, I am sure that Washington must he the most beau- ^ tiful and spacious and looks now as if they had just had a spring clean ing preparatory to the wonderful opening of bud and leaf and the summer sunshine-and the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in May which we hope to attend and 3 at which other Edgefield people are expecting to be present even if rooms r are seven dollars a day. ^ MRS. J. L. MIMS. ? 18 Batavia Street, t Boston, Mass. t . '. . v Notice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the c firm of Holmes and Salter has, by a mutual consent, been dissolved. The j business will be conducted from this p date by Perry W. Salter, Agent of f Mrs. Matilda Salter. All claims against the firm of Holmes and Sal- a ter should be filed with Lewis 3 Holmes, Johnston, S. C. Persons in- j, debted to the firm will make pay- e ment to Perry W. Salter. This April j 23rd, 1920. i LEWIS HOLMES, t PERRY W. SALTER. e 4-28-3t g Cotton Seed For Sale. DORR GREEN SILK COTTON, 7 fifth year development, one package t of seed for fifty cents prepaid will ? insure you a start. With orders for e two or more packages we send sam ple of cotton. Get ready for the Silk ^ Mills. Plant in your back yard. a L. A. DORR, Box 804, Augusta, Ga. RED OAK GROVE Contributors Doing Their Part Well. Flat Rock School Clos es Friday. Work of Rev. Barnes. It is quite gratifying to see our contributors to the 75-Million Cam paign promptly doing what they can to help raise the part of the appor tionment asked so that the meeting at Washington may be the Victory Convention. Contributions keep com ing to the treasurer, Mr. Lamb, which signifies that our members are trying to "carry on." The Sunday school at Flat Rock, which was organized during the win ter, when roads were almost impas sable, continues to flourish, no abate ment in the interest; But soon it must sustain a great loss, by the re turning to Parksville, of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bussey. Their co-opera tion and help has been a wonderful inspiration. They came in our midst ind rendered assistance so much leeded to keep the interest of our Sunday school and church alive du ring the1 long winter season when conditions were such that it was im possible to reach the churches. Lectures on the Sunday school les ions each Sunday by Mr. J. M. Bus sey have been full of instruction and nterest, being given by map study "rom the Bible. We agree with Dr. Eldredge B. ?atcher in regard to a closer view 'rom the study of the Bible being ?eeded be the Sunday school teach ?r. We read with exceeding interest, lis contributions contained in the 3aptist Courier. Referring to the Baptist Courier, he help it is to us is indispensable, 'or when we country folks can't at end the different meetings, the Coa ler comes, with just the information nany of us want and-really need, if ?f .vt?iv: lo ber intelligent helpers ia ?ur Christian" work. Into our home comes quite a num >er of papers and magazines, regu arly, which are classed different, of :ourse. But the Baptist Courier ornes first with us and next are the Agricultural Journals, because every >erson, no matter in what walk of ife he may be engaged, should have t sympathetic, helpful interest in igriculture. Especially since we hear ind read so much of the need of pro luction along this particular line. While there seems to be a shortage n produce some way, yet there has teen many discoveries of value in ar ides commonly unappreciated here ofore. My father was a farmer, but one imo tried to keep informed as to dis overies and improvements as best he ould, planted sparingly of peas, the relvet bean was unknown; peanuts mrecognized only as a luxury for amily use. They, like the peas and relvet bean, have now become a^ie essity on the farm. I remember vhen cotton seed was an unwanted irticle, now they are considered too -aluable to be used as a fertilizer, s they were forty years ago. The coming of the boll weevil, we eally believe, has come as a help, . lot a down-fall, thus proving to be a dessing in disguise, because our Southland is composed of soil equal o successful growing of many hings so essential to man and beast, , vhich year by year is demonstrated. One of the most touching sights, me that appealed greatly to me was . father, a few evenings ago, teach ng his little 9 year old boy how to ' doW-teaching him to farm-the arm stands for the world. The school closes on the 30th with . community picnic at Flat Rock, ir. J. L. Mims and Mr. W. W. Fuller ave accepted invitations to be pres nt and deliver addresses. So not on y the children will enjoy the day,. >ut the parents as well, because hese gentlemen are held in highest steem, unanimously. The teachers have given valuable ervice, the children have all been iromoted, doing good school work, riiich makes it all the more impor ant for the teachers to continue with hem, if matters could/be so arrang d. Time is fast approaching for the ome-coming or our college boys nd girls. We heartily commend tftie (Continued on page five.