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1 J : (?Wdes? JWHpaper Ito smith (tolma VOL. 84 EDGEFIELD, S, C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1920 No. 29 JOHNSTON LETTER. Ready For W. C. T. U. Conven tion. Women Will Register. Basket Ball Team Or ganized. f The Johnston Union, W. C. T. U., is ready for the State convention, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The first arrival of delegates to be on Saturday evening's South and North bound trains. The hospitality com mittee will meet these trains and place delegates in their assigned homes. The badge committee will also be present to give out the badges. Sunday will be a great day and two notod speakers will be heard, Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins of Ann Ar bor, Michigan in the morning and evening and Dr. Lee of Edgefield in the afternoon. The public is cordial ly invited to the services of all three days. Misses Ola and Ella Smith have gone to Mullins, S. C. where they have accepted schools. Miss Bell of Charleston is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. P. Cassells. Miss Annie Waters of Augusta has been for a visit to the home folks. Mrs._?? P. Corn has been informed of the illness of her nephew, Mr. William Bell, who was visiting in New York, the young man having in fluenza. Mr. Bell has visited here many times and his friends regret to learn of his illness. As soon as it was learned that the books for registration could not be opened here for the convenience of the women quite a number went to Edgefield for the purpose of regis tering, Mrs. T. R. Denny being the first. During the coming week there will be many that will go to Edgefield for this purpose. The majority of the jwomen are ready to assume this new responsibility and in doing it, will do so with the dignity, and an ear nest desre for ultimate good, that has always characterized movements in which women have done their part. On Sunday morning at the Bap tist church Mr. J. M. Edwards was elected assistant superintendent of the Sunday School and Mr. Guy Forrest, assistant secretary. The school is now large and such assis tants are being needed to aid in the great work. The basket ball teams of the High school have already been organized and the foot ball team is absorbing the interest of the High school boys to a great degree. The schedule has been mapped out up to Thanksgiv ing. The captain of the football team will be elected this week and* of the basket ball teams. Miss Olivia Mil ford is captain, Miss Marion Turner, manager; and of the other team, Miss Nellie Yonce is captain and Miss Laurie Hoyt is manager. The societies are to be reorganized at an early date. A fine school spirit abounds and the young people are beginning to enjoy work. The manual training class, under Prof. Lott is exceedingly interesting and many articles have been made. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lott are now domiciled in their new home. Miss Rachael Simmons and Mr. Cecil Kenney were quietly married on Monday last at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. David Kellar. Those present were the sister and brother of the bride and a few close friends. After a honeymoon, the hap py young couple . will make their home at Warrenville, where the groom is in business with his father. The warmest congratulations and good wishes are extended to these two young people, who are John ston's own and whom everyone loves. Mrs. Kate Crouch has gone to Trenton to spend a while with rela tives. Misses Kena and Jessie Hix, for mer residents are now living in At lanta, the latter having a good po sition with the Railway company and the former being a trained nurse. Miss Leda Gall of Leesville spent the week end here with friends. Miss Sara May of Greenwood spent the week end here with Miss Mattie Walton. * Miss Mary Waters will take charge of the Hardy school next week. Miss Lucile Woodward will leave next week for Augusta to take a busi ness course. Mr. and Mrs. Lynches of Aiken visited Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hutto this week. Mr. Strother Paysinger of New berry was a visitor here the first of the week. Miss Edna Hutto has entered the convent at Aiken, this being her first term. The New Century club met Tues day afternoon with Mrs. David Kel lar and a very interesting meeting was held. Mrs. P. B. Waters presided. She extended greetings to tfie mem bers and wished for theTclub a very successful year. There were several matters of business to dispose of. The year books were being printed and promised to be very attractive as to the topics. Delegates were elected to the conference at Edge field, being Mrs. P. B.^Waters and Miss Clara Sawyer. There will be several to attend from Johnston as there are delegates from other clubs. After business an instructive pro gram was carried out. The hostess served a dainty salad course with tea. Miss -Mary Meyer of Greenville, has been for a visit ni the home of Mrs. M. R .Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Turner will move into their new bungalow this week. The friends of Mr. Will Satcher will be glad to know that he is now able to be about again after being confined to his room for several months. Mr. W. Mj Simmons died last week at the home of his sister in Green wood, after a short illness and the body was brought here and interred in the Mt. of Olives cemetery beside [the gave of his wife who preceded him to the grave about a year ago. Mr. Simmons was a good Ghristiarr man and a member of the Presbyte rian church, where he was one of the chief workers. He resided here many years and was honored and esteemed by all. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Strother, Har ry and Josephine are at home from a visit to Newberry. Mrs. Mary Hamilton, Mrs. Paul Perry and children visited relatives at Edgefield last week. Notice to Farmers. The Government Cotton Grader for Edgefield County is now in his new office in rear of Court House, ready and prepared to give you the correct grade and staple of your cotton. If this is not your market, sam ple your cotton, bring the samples, and get the correct grade and a staple thereof. J. H. CANTELOU, Pres. Chamber Commerce, Edgefield, S. C., Sept. 14, '20. Daughters of the American Revolution. The Old Ninety Six District D. A. R. was held on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. J. H. Cantelou, Mrs. Frank Warren, Jr., regent, presiding. Letters were read from various state officers in regard to work of the chapter. One -was -a request from state genealogist, that a sketch of each ancestor of members of the chapter on whose services they joined he written and returned to her at, an early date. The historian requested that each "member prepare this sketch by the October meeting. Delegates were elected to the State conference in Anderson in No vember, as follows: Mrs. F. M. War ren, Regent; Mrs. P. P. Blalock, Jr., delegate. Alternates, Miss Sarah Col lett and Mrs. J. R. Cantelou. The historic programme was m charge of Mrs. J. L. Mims. A very instructive paper on "Women in In dustry" prepared hy Mrs. Helen Nicholson was read hy Mrs. A. A. Woodson. Mrs. Mims, following the year book program, made a two min ute talk on "The Political Outlook with Women as Voters." ?At the close of the meeting ice cream and cake was served by the hostess. The new year book programme was read and approved by the chap ter. The next meeting to be-held with Mrs. D. B. Hollingsworth on October Miss Florence Mims Writei From Minnesota. Dear Advertiser: The old saying "Variety is th? spice of life" is like a great manj other time-worn sayings-true. I have heard all my life of camp fires and suppers in the woods, and long hikes, but until this afternoon! I had never enjoyed one, when five of us in tramping clothes with a pail, hatchet, knife, matches and a haver sack filled with coffee, meats, cakes and other accessories as well as a kodak, started out for an experience new to me. Having walked about three miles we lost our way and wandered through a country covered with low underbrush, coming at last to a sort of cave which we ' believed to be either a deserted or a prospective mine. ' ' After examining the sides of the steep incline, we decided to crawl down, clinging to the rocks that pro jected from th? sides. It looked easy enough, but on leaving the top edge of the cave we found ourselves slip ping one after the other with the ground sliding under our feet. At last, after marry qualms we reached the bottom and looked back in amaze ment at the height which we had left. Being at the bottom of this huge basin our next move was to get out. First, however, we posed for a ko dak picture to have a memento of our jaunt. " One girl remarked that the charm of the barbed wire fence in this part of the country was that there were no barbs. We crawled through, and found ourselves at a railroad track .but on no road or highway. Luckily, some trampers like ourselves direc|J[ ed us to "the striaght and narrow way" which we. had left, and we pro ceeded on our journey. One girl o% our party wore a man's regulation khaki outfit. The roads of Minnesota are re markable, as I have fo?hd a great many other things here to be. Far out into the country one walks or rides over splendid roads and with sidewalks covered by boards, hence the term, "board walks.", The weather is ideal; cool enough to give one energy and warm enough to tempt you out of doors, for the sun is very hot, though not unpleas antly so. v We were favored with just such a day as this for our picnic tramp. Strange^?o say, about a quarter of a mile before reaching Syracuse Lake, we could detect a decided difference in the atmosphere-a sort of cool dampness. Our spirits rose for we knew that we were nearing water. We felt like laborers who were wor thy of their evening meaL having earned it by much effort. There is a peculiar pleasure about enjoying' such an occasion for the first time. Under such circumstances the building of a fire, the gathering of rocks and sticks, takes on a sort of glory, as though we might have been acting for a moving picture film so greatly did the occasion impress me. I thought, as I sat there, what a wholesome pleasure it was to be en tertained with such plain, God-given things as trees and water, but such a sight as this might well have pleased the eye of an artist. This sheet of water, Syracuse Lake, has a silver lining, or more properly, an iron lining which may be converted into silver. Under it lies ore whose value mounts up into the thousands, perhaps millions. Between the lake and the woods, a tiny strip of sandy shore lay cover ed with rocks and old dry tree trunks which the water had washed ashore. Little red-brown chipmunks playing around the lake added a sort of .pri meval wildness to the scene. We chose this as our stopping place and sat around . the evening campfire toasting sausages on long sticks and drinking coffee from large cups which we had brought for the purpose. This was Labor day, a holiday which we were celebrating. We tramped home after nightfall with a lighter knapsack and fewer packages but with a wider knowledge for we had obeyed the injunction of William Cullen Bryant, to ' "Go forth under the open sky y Great Man Hath Fallen by the Way. (A Loving Tribute to Mr. C. M. illiams.) -1 i,,.When the news flashed over the vfires that death had kissed down the eyelids of Mr. C. M. Williams and his faithful heart "had ceased to beat, everybody's heart was made sad and e'very home was in mourning, ...I wish I could write this-tribute .jjwth the point of a diamond and in letters of gold, then I would place ihem in pictures of silver and send .them to his family. But empty words :?Ve too cheap for me to express an estimate of the worth of this great nd good man. He was one of na re's noblemen from spur to plume; ;6yery inch a man. He was born in ?ie days when strong men were need ed to excite the ruthless decree of fate. Whenever duty or danger call ed he was there unafraid. In the "sixties" when the South was bleed ing, poor and crying for help, he heard the call and stepped out and Accepted the guage of battle for his state and county, and bravely stood foursquare. He was honored because he placed duty before self, honor be fore ease and patriotism before life. |5e was a man strong of purpose, pure of. soul and an earnest Christ ian.,He was everybody's friend, gen tle, kind and generous. As the gen tle stream gives verdure and beauty to meadow and forest through which it flows, so was his noble life, un selfish, tender in its sympathy and always sparkling with humor that had no sting of malice in it; was a benediction to all who came within its influence and he was always ready and willing to throw the mantle of charity over the faults of others and could say with Pope: "Teach me to feel another's woe, rT<vTilde.the faults I see; . The pity . I to others show, That pity show to me." His devotion to his family wa? beautiful and his love for his friends sincere. His children bear the im press of his character in the integrity of their manhood and womanhood How he will be missed in the home no words can tell, also the church, the community and the county. Mhubo inchds InoW istrM ardla He had an abiding faith in Christ, and a sweet hope. He was rich in the currency of heaven and in dying left behind the sweet fragrance of a pure Christian character. For one to live well and die well and leave an untar nished name to his family is a grand consummation. I believe there was the largest con course of friends at Mr. Williams' burial that this writer has ever seen before, not less than five hundred persons were present. The floral offerings were numer ous and beautiful, all of which was a manifestation of the love and esteem in which he was held. -iHe sleeps beneath a bed of roses. May the mighty powers of gravita tion guard them, may they be spray ed with the gentle dews of heaven, and as the soft zephyr floats through the cedar and pine, may it chant a sweet requiem, and may all the whis pering winds sing a lullaby. His soul was full of the milk of human kindness.' Our friendship was altfn to that of David and Johnathan. I loved Chris. M. Williams as a moth er loves her first born. I have often been in his home. There I found him to be a veritable Chesterfield and among men, a prince. In 1876 when bitterness and strife prevailed, when black feet were on white necks, when we were denied the rights of citizenship in our own land, again we see C. M. Williams, as he sees his duty and accepts the guage of battle wth Carpetbaggers and Scalawags. And again he stands across their path foursquare, un afraid; with banners unsoiled and^ character unassailed, and helped to win as great a victory . in time of peace as had been achieved in time of war. I can not close this tribute without saying something about his four brothers, who went off in my com pany, "G," namely; Carr, James, Henry and Tommie. Finer specimens And listen to Nature's teachings." FLORENCE MIMS. Aurora, Minn. >f humanity had never been born; )rave as Caesar and gentle as Ruth, ?very one of them. Carr was our ?olor bearer. He died in camp from meumonia the first winter of the var. Henry and Tommie were both cilled under the flag in the H?llet ?howers of the battlefield. Capt J. C. Williams was severely wounded at ;he battle of the Wilderness, from vhich wound he suffered the remain ler of his days. The oldest brother, Phillie, I never knew. He was a min ster, so I have been told. Major Wil iams gave to the Confederacy six of is fine soldiers as ever lived. Three nade the supreme sacrifice. I beg to mingle my sympathy with ;he immediate family and fond friends in this sad hour through vhich they are now passing. J. RUSSELL WRIGHT. Engagement Announced. Colonel and Mrs. S. B. Mays have mnounced the engagement of their laughter, Margaret Eugenia, to Eu gene Hord Blake of Greenwood, rheir marriage will be quietly sol imnized at the home of the bride's ?arents on the 19tlr?of October. On y the very close relatives of the con racting parties will be present. Much genuine interest is' centered about his announcement. Although MYss ?adge has been teaching in Green wood for several years, practically naking her home there during that ime, yet the friends of her childhood nd girlhood have lost none of their nterest in her welfare, nor any of heir affection for her. It is no /onder then that the nuptials of this roung Edgefield woman Wjho pos esses many superior charms and wo lanly graces is looked forward to fith the keenest interest by her riends here who know her best and ppreciate most her real worth. Ford Tractor Demonstration. (Communicated.) Yonce and Mooney are to be con ratulated on the splendid demon tration of the Fordson tractor and rpper implements behind same giv n last Wednesday on the Bouknight arm. It was demonstrated beyond a oubt that the Fordson Tractor will elp the farmer solve some of his lost perplexing problems in prepar ion of his seed bed which is recog ized by agricultural authorities to e one of the four important points a be taken into consideration in con ection with making a crop. The ther three in order of importance re: selection of seed, fertilization nd cultivation. The conditions under which the 'ordson worked last Wednesday ;ere regarded by all as very unusual eing very dry and hard, but the ase with which the Fordson handled he Oliver Disc plow, the Roderick >ean Harrow, the Amsca Seed drill nd the Oliver cultipacker, convinced veryone present of the amount of lower available, and as expressed iy several representative farmers, One could "not expect or want any letter preparation of seed bed." A great deal is being said and written not only in South, Carolina, ?ut all over our country about pow r farming. It is no longer in the ex lerimental stage but a real fact and my farmer interested in building up lis land to a good state of cultivation viii certainly have to resort to use if the best improved farm machinery ind implements available. Now is the time to begin to diver ify your crops which has proven to >e the best boll weevil killer known, 'n some of our Southern States vhere the boll weevil destroyed crops l?verai years ago, today they pro luce more cotton than ever before, mt this is done by crop rotation and jlanting cotton every third year, ;hus buliding up the soil in elements ?pon which the cotton feeds and laving it available, so from the time ;he cotton is planted the growth of t can be rushed to early maturity ind where we raised one bale make ?ame land produce two bales. Not only will we produce as much :otton but each and every farmer viii produce all the feed necessary "or his stock and food for his family, ;hus making him independent as to what price he shall get for his cot ;on. -- =SB State Convention W. C. T. LT, The South Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union will convene in their annual gathering with the Baptist church of Johnston on the third, fourth and fifth of Oc tober. The first meeting will be held in the Johnston church on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, Rev, W. S. Brooke, pastor of the church offi ciating. The music is in charge of Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman and will be of a high order and very inspirational, the splendid pipe organ and orches tra instruments adding greatly to the occasion. The devotional service will be in charge of Rev. W. S. Brooke,, pastor of the church, and Miss Mir iam Norris will sing "Victory," which the Woman's Christian Temperance Unon has sung in faith through many years and now sings in exultation since the passage of the 18th Amend ment, and later of the 19th Amend ment which will give the women of our nation a share in its administra tion. The speaker of the morning will be Mrs. Elizabeth A. Perkins of Ann Arbor Michigan who will address the convention on the significance of the recent International Anti-Alcohol Congress which she attended last week in Washington. Mrs. Perkins has a national repu tation having for years been identi fied with great forward movements as a national lecturer and worker, and has lectured in almost every state of the United States on liter ary, suffrage and prohibition topics. During the world war, she served as executive secretary of the Wo man's Committee Council of Nation al Defense for the state of Michigan and registered the women of that state. And last year served as executive secretary .and director of .publicity . for the million dollar \7 ab lice drive/'' of. the National W. C. T. U. ' Sunday afternoon there will be a mass meeting in the interest of Good Citizenship when the same good mu sic will add to charm and Dr. R. G. Lee will make an address on the sub ject in question. Everybody who ever heard Dr. Lee will go to this meeting \ to hear him and those who have not heard him will go to see who this speaker is whom everybody praises. The Sunday evening service will be one of the most enthusiastic of the convention, when Mrs. Perkins will speak on "The Great Forward Movement of the W. C. T. U." The business session will be called to order Monday morning by the State President, Mrs. Joseph Sprott of Manning. During the morning ses sion, Mrs. Perkins will conduct , an open conference on "The Child in our Midst." Lunch will be served Monday and Tuesday at the church, and all who attend the session will be expected to remain. Monday" afternoon the devotions will be led by Mrs. Howell Morrell of Congaree. Mrs. L. W. Walker of Georgia will deliver an address on Christian Citizenship and Mr. B. W Crouch of Saluda will speak on "What steps should our recently en franchised citizens take to prepare themselves for their new duties and . responsibilites." Tuesday evening there will be a Children's Chorus, a duett by Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Keller and an address by Mrs. Perkins. Services all day Monday and Tuesday, also Sunday. Everybody is invited to attend these metings which are open to all the people, men and women everywhere. -- * rt . Card of Thanks. I wish to express my sincere grat itude to one and all of the true and loyal friends-those both far and near-for their many, many acts of love and kindness shown me during my recent misfortune, an automobile accident. The memories of their kindness shall be with, me as long as I shall live and I hope to repay them in some way at some future time. JAS. B., MINICK. "Oakland," September, 27, 1920. Wanted: Two good mechanics at $3.00 to $4.00 per day. Apply to G. D. Mims, Clark Hill, S. C.