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vor RA EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12. 1921 Kb. 43 _._- 1 - " 1 ' 1 " - ?" ' ' - 1 l=---i----;-!'.'-,? ?? 1 , ..i. JOHNSTON LETTER. Ladies Hold 'Sewing Bee. Spe cial W. C. T. U. Services. Mrs. Herbert Eidson Entertains Club. On Friday morning about 6 o'clock the home of Mr. Nathan Jones was burned, and only a few pieces of the household effects were saved. Mr. Jones having some business to attend to had gotten up early and built the fires and one in the range, from which the fire is supposed to have originated. Returning to his room Mr. Jones sat for a while and hearing a roaring, went out to find the rear of the home in a full blaze. Four of the younger children had not gotten up, so these little ones had no clothing at all, nothing being saved. Kind friends and neighbors during the day came to their aid in every possible way needed. Mr. Jones car ried only $2,000 insurance so his loss is a heavy one. On Wednesday of this week the la dies met for a sewing bee, and assist ed in making clothes for the children, which is a very thoughtful deed. News has come of the death of Prof. S. P. J. Garris, which occurred last week at his home in Branchville. Mr. Garris was superintendent of the high school here several years ago, and he made many warm friends here who will be pained to hear of his death. Mr. Pope Perry and family will move this week to the dwelling of Mrs. Ann Mobley, which they will oc cupy. Their present residence has been purchased by Mr. Ebb Cul breath. Mr. Frank Suber has returned from a visit to his daughter at Jones ville. Mrs. Joe Cox has gone to Miami, Florida to"'' visit- 'her ' mother, Mrs. Yeomans! Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lott are re ceiving congratulations over the ar rival of pretty little Miss Mary Caro line Lott. Miss Daisy Sawyer of Georgetown is visiting her sisters, Misses Sawyer. Mr. Leroy Wertz of. Belton is spending a few days here with his parents. Mrs. O. D. Black, first state vice president U. D. C. upon invitation went to Blackville on Monday to be the guest of the chapter at a special meeting and following this she will visit two other adjoining towns that contemplate organizing chapters. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright and Wil liam are home after a two weeks' visit to Mr. and Mrs. Salmon at Ma con, Ga. Mr. L. I. Epting of Newberry has been a guest in the home of Dr. Weiderman. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Long of Toccoa, Ga., have been guests of friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff of Cedar town, Ga., and Mrs. Elizabeth Cole man of Aiken have been for a visit to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. LaGrone. Miss Annie Crouch is the guest of a classmate at Bennettsville. Mr. and Mrs. James White and Miss Hallie White attended the 25th anniversary of the marriage of Rev. and Mrs. Henry Bell White at Sa lada. Mrs. Minnie Strother of Fruit Hill visited Miss Mallie Waters during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Tutt spent the week-end with Miss Emma Bouk night and Mr. William Bouknight. Mr. Wood Lowman of Timmons ville spent the week here with his aunt, Mrs. M. E. Norris. Miss Louelle Norris of Columbia was also here at the time for a visit to the home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Bartow Walsh and Billie are at home after a stay of three weeks in Sumter. On Sunday evening, January 16th there will be a special service held under the auspices of the W. C. T. U., this date being the first anniver sary of national constitutional pro hibition. The service will be a union one and held in the Baptist church. The pas tors of the churches will participate and a very interesting program is be ing arranged. Special music is also being planned for. A very enjoyable meeting of the Apollo Music club was held with Miss Frances Turner on Tuesday af ternoon. The club decided to offer a prize in the high school for the music pupil who made the best improvement, al so to invite from time to time musi cians, for public meetings, thus giv ing pleasure to the public as well. A special musician will be invited for Reciprocity Day. The subject for the program was "Sea Music," and a delightful pro gram of piano and voice selections and duets was given, those assist ing were Mrs. G. D. Walker, Miss Annie Lykes, Miss Emma Bouknight, and Mr, Elliot Lewis. A duet, "What are the Wild Waves Saying" by Mes dames Corn and Kellar, concluded the program. While the guests were enjoying a salad course with coffee, opera selec tions "were given on the Victrola. Miss Aleen Reames entertained with a dinner party on Saturday last in honor of Mrs. Mary Moet, teacher of French at Winthrop college. Miss es Sara Ready and Ethel Lott, two Winthrop students Were also present. Miss Marei Lewis has gone to Florence to visit her sister, Mrs. Frank Landrum. Miss Ella Jacobs went to Lake City last week to attend the marriage of her friend, Miss Ruth Tomlinson, to Mr. Bunch, playing the Wedding March and also assisting in the mu sical program. Mrs. Guy Forrest and children have returned from a visit in the home of the former's brother, Mr. Boyce Carson in Greenville. Mrs. Herbert Eidson was hostess for the Nacousa club on Saturday af ternoon and two very happy hours were spent with this cordial hostess. being arranged. Two more instruments have been added to the orchestra of the Baptist Sunday school and on Sunday morn ing the music was especially good. Mrs. Frank Bibson and little son are now staying in the home of Miss Sue Sloan. Robison-Adams. Cuthbert, Ga., Jan. 3.-After the sermon Sunday morning, Organist Burr Stanford began playing Men delssohn's wedding march. Mr. John Robert Adams, accompanied by Mr. John D. Gunn, came down one aisle, while Miss Johnnie Ilene Robison come down another with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Lanier, meeting in front of the pulpit, where the pastor, Rev. J. H. Coin was waiting to pronounce them man and wife. After the marriage they received the congratulations of their many friends. They will return to their home in Millstead, Ga., where they have been living for some time. Miss Robison is not a stranger in Cuth bert, having visited her sister, Mrs. Lanier, several times, and made quite a number of friends here. Mr. Adams is a fine architect of Mill stead .The church was beautifully decorated. Berea News. Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high in the Berea section. Christmas passed off nicely at Berea. The Sunday school gave a Christmas tree at the church and there was a large number present. We are glad to know that Mr. and Mrs. Lem Harling are moving back to the Berea section. Their friends will give them a cordial welcome. Mr. 0. E. Sizemore has moved from the Nicholson place to Berea. We are glad to welcome him to the Berea community. Mr. J. Moore went to Edgefield Saturday. Mr. 0. E. Sizemore went to John ston Saturday on business. Mr. Ed Byx.i went to Edgefield Tuesday on business. The Berea school has opened again after the holidays. BLUE BELL, i _ Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC.drivcs oui Wala rh,cn riches the blood. build9 up the system. A true Tonic For adults and children. Wk> Miss Florence Mims Visits Early Home and School of Frances Willard. Dear Advertiser: ( Through all the ages there have been pilgrims to holy places, some to rescue the holy sepulchre from the; Mahommedans, and others to worship some foreign god in a remote spot in India. All of these places are fa. mous because of their connection with some individual. j Now pilgrimages are made tc Janesville, Wisconsin, not to wor ship a person, but to stand in rev* erence before the early home .fi Frances Willard, and to worship anew-the right as she taught it. I believe that "only the good are truly great." I truly believe that she was called to give her life and ef fort for just such a time as was the day in which she lived. Great people have a certain urge within themselves and a certain aim to which they are being called, plus the power to answer this call. This is the difference in the great and the ordinary. There is a vast difference in a mar vellous tomb built for a person, or even in a famous structure built in memory of one and a little place where they were born and reared and attended/ school. One place is studied, and tedious, planned and perfected while the other place is natural, the spot on which early events shaped a life, wh?re dreams were dreamed and visions seen, for. spots and homes, and surroundings, even landscapes, become the very part of a person. There is a certain tree near her home called the "Eagle's Nest," in which she used to sit and study and this tree is point ed out to visitors as the Washington Elm or the Charter Oak might be. horse, ' even as Janesville proc Frances Willard with whom the lit tle white bow is always associated. Of all the quotations I know, there is one which, it seems, can not be surpassed. It is this line: "This tiny knot of ribbon. Sweet sign of an inward grace, Means all that God and woman Can do for the human race." There is really nothing at all that can not be accomplished by the pow er of God and woman. t Miss Willard was the prophetess of a new idea, the very hardest thing to promulgate, even in seem ingly broad-minded and progressive America. Frances Willard's early home stood about two miles out of the city of Janesville. The house has been added to and looks perhaps more pre tentious than it did when she lived there. About a half a mile further on is the little school, a simple little wooden structure. It matters little to visitors about the size, the appearance or the gran deur of a place if only it is connected with someone whose memory they love and revere. It is only when a place is connect ed with nothing high .or holy, intel lectual or uplifting that it has to be adorned to attract the eyes of peo ple. I had the pleasure- of driving put to the home and school with Mrs. Mary E. Palmer, the corresponding secretary of the Janesville W. C. T. U. On the way there we talked of the great woman whose statue is in the hall of fame' in Washington, the oth er representative besides Abraham Lincoln from illinois. Strangely enough, they are the two characters that I admire most in American his tory. I had dinner in Mrs. Palmers' home after our trip, and we continued oui conversation regarding this famous woman and she showed me differenl pictures which brought the wei known face vividly back to me. FLORENCE MIMS. Aurora, Minn. January 5, 1921. FOR RENT: A two-horse farm good land, near Mr. Darling Jack son's in the Philippi section. Apply tc Dr. W. P. TIMMERMAN, Batesburg, S. C. Modem Water and Sewerage Systems Completed For ^ ? ; f in ?rd?r - to give dur ; readers. the ,{?;icts arid^figures;'-pe^aih^.rig to: the' j ri^;y;ly .installed water1 ajid sewerage ms'for . the to\vn correctly,. we fefyiewed MT. J;-;>rewt?h Johnston, 6fe supervising- er^in'eerj : just ' before I) .left Edgefield last week for Cov Uhigtrm/'Va., where he has been en t??i?fy, survey and supervise the &j,j>.on ; of' a public highway ^verses two counties. In the '(?r us say that, like the elec ta)?^, syste'm. of. the town, Edge modern' and scientifically jcted'water and sewerage sys s any town in'the state. While unfortunately true, the people ^.o'tetf-.tna bonds .and installed the Vysfems at a time-when.-?ll construc tion work was high, yet the people's' looney -has'been .wisely: expended, p : : Two Deep Wells. (v'.TKe source of supply for the water . \ two deep wells. Well No 1 yields from .45 to'50 gallons, per niinute and ^.eH"No. 2 yields, from 35 to 40 galr ^nE- per minute or about. 120,000 Salons per 24 hours,, which guaran tees the town an available, water'sup-;' ?>ly. three-times as great as will nbr-^ .iVt'ully be'used for many ye?rs'to ;; >me'. The average per capita i con-: j5:Jmption will, be about' 30 gallons, tiij?? day. Of course this quantity will pot .be ' ; consumed [until practically all ;^the . home3 have connected with x he system. Mr. Johnson stated, that, j he town should have at least 200. . onheetion'i -within, the next IS. yThe Ay.dis are S7incK bore, 4 O'-feet rtr.on.gh ..soil, and ?50 fee^-vth^ough; ._.'iter-U-;,iring. rock, making '8-maxi ^:um.. '...nth. of.- ?9p feel; These.' two ". op' . -Us will''.net only affordi;a; 1 A Reserve Supply. The water works system, in addi tion to the two deep wells, consists of an Ingersoll-Rand air compresser, having a capacity to deliver 150 gal lons of water per minute into a brick and concrete reservoir holding 100, 000 gallons. The water is then taken by two steam turbine centrifugal pumps, having a capacity of 500 gallons per minute, and discharged into the five and one-half miles of water mains, and also into a 100,000 gallon steel tank of the top of a 100 feet steel tower. The top of the tank is 150 feet above the public square of the town. This warrants the state ment that Edgefield has the best stat ic pressure of any town in the state with the exception of Greenville. The 100,000 gallons in the resevoir, to gether with the 100,000 gallons in the tank and the 50,000 gallons al ways in the five and one-half miles of pipes, give Edgefield nearly 300, 000 gallons of water for fighting fire, including the steady flow from the well filling the resevoir as water was pumped from it. The system has been inspected and accepted by a repre sentative . of the fire insurance com panies. The town has 70 double nozzle fire hydrants in the water system, with 26 gate valves so arranged that any part of the town may be cut off so that the pump pressure can be con centrated at any one point in case of a conflagration. None of 'the water pipes are under six inches in diam eter except a few hundred feet of 2-inch pipes on terminal lines. These terminal ends are connected to the sewer flushing apparatus, which si phon once in.every 24 hours, thereby insuring a circulating condition in all of the water pipes in town. This feature is a very important one in that through this means no house in town will be at any time be supplied with stale or standing water. An additional building has been erected adjoining the electric light plant which not only houses the pumps but also a 125-horse power steel cased boiler. By having the wa ter and elcetric light plants practi cally in one building, all owned by the town, the operating expenses of both will be very materially reduced. Sewerage System. The town has eight miles of sani tary sewers ranging from eight to twelve -inches in -diameter, with 23 automatic flushing tank' cyphorisjr which makesj the. sewer system , self-' clean mg.-: Before the sewage is wasted into .'the streams a consider able distance, west of , the town it : .is first treated by'settling and sedirh?n-, tatibn in an enclosed tan'? and1'filter ed and aerated through..'open gravel beds:.This process- which' is a natural one .reduces the impurities' of-- the 'sewage 85 pei* cent, by actual test. Very Capable Engineer. The board was extremely fortu natee in securing so worthy and capa ble an engineer as Mr. J. Newton Johnson to supervise the' installation pf the water and sewerage systems. He hachad. extensive experience in this particul?r field of engineering, besides "other -places, having . super intended the installation of water sys tems in Ftorehce,. McColL and Tim ?monsville, S. C., and in Wilmington, N. C., and Covington, Va. Mr.. John son was born among the rugged red, hills of Virginia and spent most of his life in Richmond. During the time, he. was rn Edgefield , he. made many warm, personal friends who were reV luctant to have him leave. Mr. John son told the. Advertiser's .cpresenta tiye that he .'became very much at tached to Edgefield, finding the peo-' pie extremely courteous and hos? 'prtable, the old town'with, ifs old "homes, shade, trees and r?d hills re minding him of the section of Vir ginia in which he was reared. ?Guests of Dixie Highway Hojt?fc) During Bast Week. ? Wednesday.: Frank Driver, Ander-* son;,,Geo; S..' Srnith/Atlanta; 'P.. L. ^Mathews, Atlanta ; E 3 Asbell, city?. \p^i!^?^^0le?^ij^i S: G. Page/A&en; T.- R. Hays, S. C.; L. S. '.Kernagh??, City ; ?, L.'. ; George, Greenwood';;W.'''iff. "C?rter, Cc4um-j wood; Bethune Glass, Columbia; E. C. Asbell, City; N. G. Comer, S. C.; D. F. Kalus, Augusta; Lemis H. Mer cer, Savannah; P. J.Horn, Augusta; Edward Cay, Columbia; W. H. Gibbes, Columbia; J. M. Sitton Greenville; S. C. Case, Chester; C. S. Steele and J. A. Rogers, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Herring and Miss Anne Herring, Spartanburg; Joe W. McLaney, Charlotte; Bettis Cantelou and family, City. Friday: J. E. Reardon, Augusta; E. C. Asbell, City; J. P. Coppedgem, Atlanta; F. M. Miller, Greenwood; Sam W. Small, Washington, D. C.; W. D. Meara, Charleston; N. E. W. Setrunk, Augusta; I. A. DeArmon, |S. C.; E. C. Asbell, W. M. Mooney, W. P. Yonce, City; W. E. Ouzts, City; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Koch, Augusta. Saturday: Bessie Harper, Henry ,S. Johnson, Aiken; A. J. Holstein, Johnston, Jake Wynne, Isador Ru benstein, City; R. G. Kenendy, S. C.; S. M. Watson, City. Sunday: Misses Bettie M. Metzler land Annie S. Wilson, Edgefield; E. C. I Asbell, W. W. Hilton, City; J. W. Copeland, wife and son, Charlotte. Monday: R. E. Weeks, W. P.' Wood [ward, C. V. Bell, Augusta; R. C. Stuckey, Greenwood; F. F. L?zenby, ?Augusta; J. G. Steadman and wife, Leesville; J. E. Hart, Jr., City; A. B. Beard, Albany, Ga., L. W. Graves, Greenwood; H. S. Anderson, Lexing ton, N. C.; T. J. M. Scott, North Au Igusta; E. C. Asbell, City. Tuesday: E. C. Asbell, City; W. A. Roberts, Gainesville, Ga., W. H. Rush, Charlotte; J. P. Kelly, Salis bury, N. C.; Arthur Lee, Greenwood; G. McG. Smith, Greenwood; James L. Swindler, Columbia; F. L. Timmer man, Pleasant Lane; J. H. Harrison, Greenwood; Geo. P. Huffman, S. C.; E. S. Parker, Clemson College; R. W. Cobb, Greenville; F. E. Schroder, Au gusta; R. Lee Spilman, Baltimore. LOST: A new "Racine" auto tire, 30x3 Vi on Ford rim, lost between the Parker place north of Edgefield and Trenton, by way of Huiet's Cross Roads and Mr. Abner Broadwaters. Suitable reward. W. A. PARDU fi, Trenton, S. C. l-12-2tpd. ?iii Surely Sioo That Gou<&. ASPARAGUS GrlQWERS; [Sixth Annual Meeting of South Carolina Asparagus Grow ? ars Association Held at Trenton Tuesday. The editor. of' The Advertiser, had the privilege and. pleasure of attend ing the sixth . annual mee?ig k^'^i?' South Carolina Asparagus ")Growers Association at Trenton yesterday. There' were about 125 members of the association pfesent. from ; Willis ton, Elko; Ridge Spring, Johnston, Trenton, and . other ' places^ all of jvhom wer? representative business men. The .mating was presided, over .by 'Mr. J.'Brqadus Kinghtqf Green ville, president', of . the association,, ^ho^welcome'd the visitor's to Tren-: ton. instead of long drawn out) speech es, .the meeting was turned rather, in to-a round table discussion of the dif ferent phases o? marketing. Mr. M? .Gruder,- the representative .'>.-'? of the selling agency of the association-, ' was present by invitation' and was; requested by Mr. Knight to speak of the outlook for the appro?ching sea Son. Mr. McGrudes whose business it is to' familiarize,-himself with market ing conditions over the country stat ed that the, .decline;in prices of pro duce is not peculiar to the South. The vegetable and fruit growers, and par ticularly-the grain and potato grow ers of the West, are in a' more uhf or-';. $unatl? plight than, the cotton growers of thc South. He stated that potato pricfi$ haye .gone down . and - down,: twangKto^tHer.s*urplus 'of..fifty millions . of ; bushels; how stored ;in different parts of\the.country; Mr: McGruder ,? stated that it is-yet'top' i?ariy.*-to.:5?y^j .just, what prices Vililprevail ior as paragus dui'mg'the approaching sea- ; son:/-L tha-v*ont?t??iM^?i'dwftW: that \t shipping usually begins m this seo^" tion about March 10 and lasts until May 19, which brings in ready money at a season when farmers have little or nothing to sell, unless it be cotton that has been held. In the vicinity of Trenton alone there are about 200 acres planted in asparagus and the acreage is steadily increasing every year. Mr. Knight, chairman of the com mittee charged with contracting for crates for the association, reported that he has been able to contract for crates at 20 cents each-a much bet ter crate too, than was used last year. Tape for tying the bunches can be bought this year for a little more than half the price of a year age. Nails have been quoted at $6, deliv ered, per keg. The president reported that there has been a thirty-three and one-third per cent increase in freight rate since last year, which information naturally was not favorably receiv ed. A committee of three was ap pointed to take up the matter of se curing a reduction of the rate from>r the railroads. A report was made by the general inspector whose duty it was to visit all of the 120 packing houses in the territory of the association last sea son to see if the rules and require ments of the association were com plied with. He stated that there has been a general improvement in the grading and packing of asparagus but that some shippers were somewhat careless in packing which caused all of the members to suffer. A resolu tion was adopted without a dissenting vote authorizing both the general and local inspectors to exclude from the association members who failed to properly pack their product. A stan dard bunch of asparagus is nine inek es in length.and weighs two pounds,' the value or quality being determined by the color and size of the sprigs, the green being more valuable "than the light colored and the large sprigs more valuable than the small or culls. The bunches of "Colossal" grade con tain from 22 to 25 sprigs and the next grade, the "Fancy" contants from 33 to 38 sprigs, the culls con taining a larger number. During the past season the selling agent of the association was the (Continued on fifth page.)