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Miss Mary Judson Dies at Age of 92' Years. Greenville, Dec. 20.-Miss Mary C Judson, emeritus professor of Eng lish at the Greenville Woman's Col lege, and one of the best known wo men in the Baptist denomination in South Carolina, died at the college tonight about 9 o'clock after several days of critical illness. She was in her 93d year, having "been born in Connecticut June 27, 1828. Funeral services will be con ducted from the college at ll o'clock Saturday morning, interment to fol low in Springwood cemetery, of this city. '?? Miss Judson had been connected with the Greenville Womans' college 46 years, having come South with her father in 18.57 to visit her broth er, Dr. Charles M. Judson, then a pro fessor of Furman university and la ter president of that institution. Miss Judson was beloved by the young women who have studied under her ?long years of service at the G. W. C. Her former students are now to be found' in all sections of the state and iii all walks of life. She had not ac tively taught classes during the past few years, but continued her active interest in the affairs of the college and its students as well as affairs of tile community. Shortly after the rat ification of the woman suffrage amendment, Miss Judson registered to vote and qualified as an elector of Greenville county. She has no living relatives so far as is known here. Practical Measurements of ' Land. To find the number of acres in any rectangular piece of land multiply the length by the breadth in rods and divide by 160 (the number of square rods in an acre.) ?n a triangular field (one with 3 sides), when the length of one side and of the perpendicular to that side from the opposite angle is known or can be measured, divide one- half the product of the side and perpen dicular by 160. Hence the area of a three-sided field with one right angle equals one-half the product of. the two short sides. When all three sides are known, from half the sum of their lengths subtract each side separately, multi ply the remainders and half the sum of the sides together; the square root of the product divided by 160 will be the area in acres. When the field is in the shape of a trapezoid (a four-sided figure with one pair of sides parallel) divide one half the product of the sum of the parallel sides and the perpendiculer between them by 160. To find the area of a field with any .number of straight sides, divide it hy straight lines into convenient .parts-three or four sides-and find the area of each of them by the above method and add these areas to gether. NOTE.-If the measurements are taken ,in yards instead of rods as above, then the result in each case should be divided by 4,840 (the num ber of square yards in an acre) to reduce to acres. If the measurements are made in feet instead of rods, then the result in each case should be divided by 43,560 (the number of square feet in an acre) to reduce to acres.-Progressive Farmer. Bad Cold and Cough Cured by Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. Several years ago ? C. D. Glass, Gardiner, 'Me., contracted a severe cold and cough. He tried various med icines but instead of getting well he kept adding to it by contracting fresh colds. Nothing he had taken for it was of any permanent benefit until a druggist advised him to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He says "I was completely cured by this remedy and have since always turn ed to it when I had a cold and soon find relief." Hastings Seeds 1921 Catalog Free It's ready now. 116 handsomely il lustrated pages of worth-while seed and garden news. This new catalog, we believe, is the most valuable seed book ever published. It contains twenty tull pages of the most popular vegetables and flowers in their natu ral colors, the finest work of its kind ever attempted. With our photographic illustrations, and color pictures also from photo? pbs, we show you just what you w with Hastings' Seeds even be e you order the seeds. Jhis cata og makes garden and flower . bed lan n lng easy and it should be In ev? y single Southern home. Write us post-card for it, giving your name nd address. It will come to you return mail and you will be mighty d you've got lt Hastings' Seeds are the Standard the South and they have the larg mall order seed house In the world ck of them. They've got to be the st Write now for the 1921 cata, g. It ls absolutely free. . G. HA8TINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. State Borrows $500,000 Till Taxes Come In. Columbia Special to Spartanburg Herald. Th estate borrowing committee composed of Governor Cooper, State Treasurer, S. T. Carter and Comp troller General Sutherland negotia ted a loan of $500,000 for the state today. This amount is needed to meet current expenses and due to the slowness of the tax money the bor rowing committee was forced to ne gotiate the loan. The half million was borrowed i through the Palmetto National bank of Columbia at 6 per cent interest and will become due March 16th. Treasurer Carter said yesterday that to date only $450,000 in new tax money had come into the treasurer's office and because of this condition it was found necessary to seek a loan. In commenting upon the tax sit uation Mr. Carter said that he had been connected with the office \ 23 years and the condition now was worse than he had ever before ex perienced. Mr. Carter said that the tax money was very slow and point ed out that within the next few weeks the state has loans aggrega ting three million dollars to meet. Greenville Widow Runs for Office. Mrs. Scott Would Succeed Late Hus band as Judge of Probate. Greenville Special to The State. At the earnest solicitation of lit erally hundred* of friends through out the city and county, Mrs. Fannie Davis Scott, widow of Probate Judge Walter -M. Scott, who was killed in an automobile accident last Sunday tonight announced that she will ac cept the office of probate judge to fill the s two years of her late hus band's unexpired term, if elected by the people at the .special election to be called by the governor. Mrs. Scott was assistant to her husband during the six years he served as judge of probate, and her friends contend that she is well qualified for the place. If elected it is believed that she wlil be the first woman county official in South C?rolina. Mrs. Scott, who was slightly in jured in the accident which costlier husband's life, said tonight that if chosen by the people, she would ac cept the office chiefly as a token of esteem for her husband. Her decla ration came after much pressure had been brought io bear upon her by newspapers and the public. J Greenwood Youth Takes Own Life. Greenwood, Jan. 3.-Bennie Wil son, 19 years of ag? and former clerk at the Oregon Hotel, shot him self to death in the room of H. J. Brinson, proprietor of the hotel, yes terday afternoon about 4 o'clock fol lowing an interview relative to the ex-clerk's alleged shortage in his ac counts. A verdict of suicide was re turned by the coroner's jury at the inquest which was held immediately after the tragedy. According to evi dence brought out in the inquest. Mr. Brinson had sent for Wilson to discuss a settlement of the alleged shortage. Wilson is said to have de clared that he would not make the shortage good and wouldn't be ar rested. He then rushed to the door and shot himself through the heart before he could be prevented. Mr. Brinson and his daughter, Miss Mary Frances Brinson, were the only per sons in the room at the time the shooting occurred. , Until a few weeks ago Wilson had been clerk at the Oregon hotel for about three years. Recently he was discharged following exposures of alleged shortages in his accounts. He was apparently obsessed with the fear of arrest, witnesses testified. Thousand Pay $1,000 Each to Eat Stew at Banquet. New York, Dec. 29.-One thou sand of New York's men and women of wealth paid $1,000 or more each here tonight to sit at a plain board table and eat beef stew. The "banquet" was a testimonial arranged by Herbert Hoover, chair man of the European relief council, of America's effort to succor the 3, 500,000 starving children of Europe. The stew, accompanied by white bread and a cup of cocoa, was the same as served to starving children at relief stations throughout Europe at a cost of less than a cent and a half. General John J. Pershing, Mr. Hoover, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. August Belmont and other no tables carried soup bowls and were first in a line that passed by army field kitchens to be served. The servi tors were young society women. - Fritz Kreisler entertained the din ers with several violin solos. A vacant high chair, placed for the "invisible" guest of honor for the children for whom Hoovers cam paign of $35,000,000 was launched, stood at the head of the speaker's tabie. ' I Farmers Purchase Much Fer tilizer. The State. Taxes on fertilizers imposed upon various companies and corporations in South Carolina have totaLd to date $276,485.31, according to fig ures from .the state treasurer's office. These figures included yesterday and while a few more dollars may come in between now and the end of the year, it is believed this will represent the total fertilizer tax for the year. In 1919 the total tax collected amounted to $269,581.48; so the fig ures so far for 1920 have exceeded this amount by a little over $7,000. The tax imposed on the fertilizer includes meal and is 25 cents a ton. It will be seen that, according to .hese figures, 1,105,9^1 tons of fer tilizer were sold in South Carolina during 1920 as compared with 1, 078,325 tons in 1919. In the total for this year is includ ed approximately $10,000 for penal ties on firms that failed to make their [product come up to the requirements and the analysis guaranteed. The Public Pays the Bills. Lawyers in the New Haven rail road "conspiracy case," brought to recover $150,000,000 from the di rectors, of the railroad, and who did recover $2,500,000 have been award ed fees of $800,000. Meanwhile, it was settled that the defendants had made no personal profit out of the railroad company and the charges of conspiracy were abandoned. Now $800,000 would build^and equip some miles of railroad . at any rate. What have these lawyers done for the general welfare? Why is .the proportion of legal to operating expenses of a railroad com pany so great and why is the public which, of course pays the bills, con tent to pay them? Why are the misfortunes of a rail road company,'a cotton mill or other corporation' or firm, the good fortune of lawyers? Are the troops of highly paid cor poration lawyers a luxury or a ne cessary? L_ The public pays the bills.-The State. ? I r- ni S|i" ? -* i 'in*i CDT COTTON COST BY MAKING FOOD Southern Farm Prosperity Absolutely Dependent on Cutting Produc tion Cost Through Food Making and Saving. Atlanta, Ga.-(Special.)-"A right about-face movement in 1921 is neces sary if the farmers of the South are to get on safe, firm ground again," Bald H. G. Hastings, President of the great Southeastern Fair. "It looks as if we all went cotton crazy last spring, despite all the dan ger signals flying and the disregard of plain facts as to costs of cotton production. We have repeated our fol lies of 1911 and 1914 and piled up debts based on costly food and grain to .be paid for by cotton that is now below cost of production. "With few exceptions those items of food and' grain could and should have been produced on home acres at one-third to one-half what the sup ply merchant charges for them. "Cotton is the one best money crop for the South, and probably always will be. The time of war prices is over and the problem from now on is to lower cost of production and at the same time afford the cotton grower a fair profit "Cost of making cotton is primarily the cost of food, grain and forage for the farmer, his family, his labor ers or tenants, and his work stock. Cutting food, grain and forage costs by home production will reduce cot ton costs from one-third to one-half. "Plant for an abundance of food, grain and forage, thus cutting down store bills, and the lower prices for cotton will not hurt so much. We can not, with European countries so thor oughly disorganized, reasonably expect high prices for cotton for several years and we must make cotton at lower cost, or else quit cotton growing.' "Most of us cannot quit cotton, hence the absolute necessity of food, grain and forage planting in 1921 the making on home acres of ever> pound of food and grain needed to see us through. "In this food production program, take the home vegetable garden seri ously. Give the home garden a square deal and it will surprise you in the amount of healthful food produced. I' takes the least ground, can be plant ed the earliest, brings quick returns and If kept replanted and worked will stay by you all the seaton through." flow To Give Quinine To Children. FEB RI LINK ts the trade-mark name given to on .improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot lake ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervousness nor ringing/ in the head., Try it the next time you need Quinine for any pur. pose. Ask for 2-oonce original package. The woe FSBIUJ.LNE is blown in battle, ii cent* '?-:-;-; The Luck of Lincoln. American Legion Weekly. ; When Abraham Lincoln was young men he ran for the legislatu in Illinois, and was defeated. He ne entered business, failed, and w seventeen years paying his debts. He wa? engaged to a beautif young woman-she died. Entering politics again, he ran f< congress, and was again defeated He then tried to get an appoin ment in the United States Land offii but failed. He became a candidate for fl United States senate, and was badi -beaten. He ran for president and was one more defeated. When you think of your hard luci think of Lincoln. For a Persistent Cough. Some years ago H. P. Burbage, student at law in Greenville, S. C had been troubled for a long whi] with a persistent cough, which h says "greatly alaimed me, causin .me to fear that I was in th? firs stage of consumption." Having see Chamberlain's Cough Remedy adve] tise% he concluded to try it. "I soo felipa remarkable change and afte using two bottles of the small siz washermanently cured." SUMMONS State of South Carolina, County of Edgefield, Court of Common Pleas. The Farmers Bank of Edgefield, S C., Plaintiff, Against Chamberlai Mar ti n a nd The Peoples Bank1 o Edgefield, S. C., Defendants. Copy Summons for Relief-Com plaint Served. To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the Complaint i this action, of which a copy is here with served upon you and to serve [copy of your answer to the sai Complaint on the Subscriber at hi office at Edgefield Court House South . Carolina, within Twenty day after the service hereof, exclusive o the day of such service; and if yoi fail to answer the Complaint withii the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff ii this action will apply to the Court fo the relief demanded in the Com plaint. ?, EDWIN H. FOLK, Plaintiff's Attorney.. , JSdgefield, S. C., ' "?etiember 29th A. D. 1920 To the Defendant Chamberlain Mar ?***tnT*fit?ove .named : I Take notice that the Complaint ii ?this action; together vf*th the Sum mons of which the foregoing is ? copy, was filed in the office of th< Clerk of Court of Common Pleas a Edgefield, in the County of Edgefield State of South Carolina, on the 29tl day of December, A. D. 1920. EDWIN H. FOLK, Plaintiff's Attorney. Attest: W. B. Cogburn, (L. S.) Clerk C. C. P., E. C., Si-C. l-5-3t WANTED: Men or women t< take orders among friends and neigh hors for the genuine guaranteed ho siery, full line for men, women an( children. Eliminates darning. W< pay 75 cents an hour spare time o: $36.00 a week for full time. Expe rience "unnecessary. Write International Stocking Mills, Morristown, Pa. Notice of Final Discharge. TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY CONCERN: Where, Patsey Mosely (now Bus sey) has made application tinto this Court for Final Discharge as Ad ministrator in re the Estate of Hen ry Moseley, late of said county anc State deceased, on this the 3rd daj of December, 1920. These Are Therefore, to cite anj and all kindred, creditors, or partie: interested to show cause before me al my office at Edgefield Court House South Carolina, on the 6th .day oj January, 1921 at ll o'clock a. m. why said order of Discharge shoulc not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. Dec. 3rd, 1920, Notice of Final Discharge. To All Whom These Presents Maj Concern: Wheras, Andrew C. Yonce has made application unto this Court fol Final Discharge as Administrator ir re the estate of C. K. Johnson de ceased, on this the 7th day of Decem ber, 1920. These Are Therefore, to cite anj and all kindred, creditors, or parties interested to show cause before me at my office at Edgefield Court House South Carolina, on the 7th day ol January, 1921, at ll o'clock a. m. why said order of discharge shoulc not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. ! December 7, 1920. Preparedness We have heard a great deal about "preparedness" daring the past few years. While no one really likes trouble, it is a good thing to prepare for it if you know it is coming. Preparedness is half the battle. If you are go ing to fight, the quicker you get your coat off, the better. Financially, if there is a possibility of hard times ahead, prepare fpr it by accumulating an ac count at a reliable bank like ours, where your funds will be carefully safeguarded and. al ways subject to your check when needed. The Bank of Trenton, S. C. AU checks drawn on The Bank of Trenton can be cleared free of ex change through the Federal Resei-ve Bank. 1 T]fcTl_ . IO A seasons: toil wasted on a soil deficient W OlCO . *n p'ant fcxx** or a ^ttie rioney invested . . in Planters Fertilizer? Make your choice now. Planters Fertilizer doubles your yield and pays for itself. Progressive Southern farmers long ago realized the necessity of supplying ex I hausted soils with Phosphoric AooV Ammonia and Potash, which every crop B necda. PUHTERS FERTILIZER DOUBLES YOUR YIELD because It contains available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia and Potash ia the right proportions. Better place your order for Planters rig.n now, and avoid delayed delivery. Ask any agent in your town for informa ion, free advice, or prices, or write us direct Every bag is stamped with our Giant Lizard Trade Mark. ' Look for it-It*? for your protection. FARMERS: Sell Your COTTON and Hold It Ask Your Bankers > About This Method We Handle Ten Bale Lots on Margin of $10 Per Bale You need the money, but you don't want to let go or your cotton because you believe the price will ultimately go higher. You can get the money and the ultimate advance in price if you hedge with us. To do this, sell your cotton at the best price you can get and buy an equivalent amount of future cotton, holding back one-fourth of the sell ing prie ? to protect the same, like a banker does when he lends you mon ey on warehouse receipt. Thee if the market goes up you still get the benefit of the advance. In this way you pay no interest, storage charges, depreciation or in surance, yet you have just as much money aj if you borrowed on a ware house receipt Write for free booklet "How Cotton Markets Are Made." Set tlement made in Columbia of all contract", carried there. Net bal ances subject to draft. Address Martin & Co. Edmund A. Felder 81 Broad Street New York City, N. Y. OR S. C. Representative 1512 Sumter St, Columbia, S. C. YOU TAKE MO CHANGES! Razors are Guaranteed for Life For Sale by EDGEFIELD MERCANTILE COMPANY