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<?Umi <Ne Wimper ?a %m?ih fepJ?? VOL. 86 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1921 No, 7? JOHNSTON LETTER. Will Build Storage Warehouse For Potatoes. Open Public Library. Visited by Blind Minister. There was a meeting of the far mers here last Wednesday for the purpose of discussing the planting of a larger acreage of the sweet potato, and the building of a potato house to cure and preserve these for ship ping. Previous to the meeting a com mittee had seen a number of the farmers and these were glad to co operate with a large planting of the potato. At the meeting it was decided ' to build the storage house and the order was placed for the material. This soil is well adapted to the po tato, and the movement for a greater potato crop will certainly be a suc cess. Mrs. Triable, who has the great misfortune to be blind, will soon go to one of the institutions for the blind in this state, where she wants to learn some of the arts and crafts for which the fingers of the blind have such a quick way of learning. The town library is now well un der way, and is located over the Far mers and Merchants Bank, a room having been rented. There are to be gin with 140 volumes, and the books from the government, which is a large assortment is expected soon, These books, the government had for use in camp during the world war, but never have been used, and are given with the condition that the sol diers of the world war have the bene fit of them when they choose. Another set of books is expected from Miss Browne, who was here re cently graveling in interest of li brary work. These books 'will be of special interest to the young folks. To be a member of the library asso . dation, .the Jee^.is.^l430,_,a_^e^Lr,_and already nearly 100 have joined. Miss Annie Waters, of Augusta, spent the week-end here and was ac companied home by Miss Mallie Wa ters and Mrs. Huiet Waters. Mr. Pope Simmons and Mr. Ferris have announced themselves as great for athletics, and for the past two weeks, they have had an early hour run, beginning at seven o'clock, and wearing red and white trunk suits. So far they have not had any addi tions of those wishing early exercise. On Sunday morning Rev. Wilson of Alabama, a blind minister, was at the service of the Baptist church and asked for a few minutes to present his plea, which was granted him. He stated that he had been blind since six years of age, and it was his great desire to attend a Theological Semi nary and preach the gospel. For some time, he has been preaching at times. A seminary has offered him the course if he can furnish his books and this is what he is traveling about for, and asked for a small contribu tion. Rev.. Brooke asked all inclined to aid in this cause to give it to the ushers as they passed out, and $31. 25 was the amount turned over to him for which he was very grateful. Mrs. J. Howard Payne entertained the Young Matrons' club in a thor oughly delightful manner on Friday afternoon, there being several other guests besides the members. After an hour of fancy work and chatting, a contest was had. The table in the living room was in Easter decorations and near bunny was a basket filled with many colored eggs. Everyone had a guess as to how many eggs there were and Miss Nell Scott guess ing the correct number, received a beautiful box of stationery. The hostess assisted by Mrs. Price Timmerman and Miss Frances Tur ner served a dainty salad course with iced tea. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Clark have been for a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Eugene Kneece, at Monetta. Mr. M. R. Wright has returned from a business trip to New York. Mrs. A. B. Lott and little daughter have been for a visit to the former's parents at Newberry. The last meeting of the W. C. T. U. was with Mrs. James Edwards, and was largely attended, and the union felt honored in having present, Mrs Emma Dietrick, a national lecturer. After business and a well arranged program, Mrs. Dietrick made a most timely talk, and presented several points as suggestions for immediate action on the part of the W. C. T. U. During the evening at the Methodist church Mrs. Dietrich made an ad dress which was a most forceful one, and all that heard her felt constrain ed to immediate action in the cause she presented. It is to be regretted that there was such a small number present to hear her. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Connerly have gone to Chapel Hill, N. C., where the former will take a special course in chemistry. Miss Tarrant of McCormick has been the guest of Mrs. Gerard Tar rant. Mr. L. S. Miller of Richmond, Va., spent the week-end with friends. Mrs. Charlie Brunson of Augusta and Miss Lillian Morgan of Parks ville have been guests of Mrs. J. A. Dobey. On Sunday morning Rev. W. S. Brooke announced that a protracted service would begin here the second Sunday in June, and that Rev. Hardy of Georgia would assist. Mr. Hardy is a fine evangelist and everyone is glad that he will now be able to be with this church. Some time since he accepted an invitation to conduct a revival service here, but at the last moment was prevented. Our Trenton Letter. Mrs. E. W. King and Miss Julia Wise spent last Thursday with Miss Rutledge in Eureka. Mrs. John Covar entertained with several tables of cards last week. Mrs. Frank Miller has returned from a trip to her sister, Mrs. Rice, in Columbia. Miss Catherine Ramsey from Beech Island is visiting Miss Grace Salter. A number of young people enjoyed a surprise party last week at Miss Salter's Miss Wl'kes is staying some with relatives in Chester, Rock Hill, and Columbia. ^-Tr/cT'Music Club met-with- '- Miss Catherine Marsh last week. A great surprise was given to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moss-on Friday even ing last week at the home of Mrs. Susie Miller, when a number of their friends and relatives surprised them with a lovely china shower. Mr. Alfred Day spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Day. Mrs. John McKie and Julian Mc Kie from Clarks Hill motored over to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moss. Mrs. Susie Miller, Miss Susie Wise, Mr. Frank Miller and Douglas Wise spent Sunday in Blackville. zThe friends of Mr. William Leppard of Atlanta, Ga., welcomed him back to his old home last Saturday. Mr. Lewis Harrison spent last week with his mother. The Presbyterian reception given last Monday evening in honor of Mr. Lack, the new Presbyterian pastor, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wise, was enjoyed by people from Edgefield, Johnston and Trenton. Af ter a salad course and coffee were served, a musical program was ren dered by Miss Sabe Miller, Mrs. P. B. Wise and Miss Maude Bettis. "RED BIRD." Death of Miss Tallulah Nichol son. Miss Tallulah Nicholson died at her home near Berea church on Friday night, March ll, and her remains were laid to rest on Saturday after noon at the old Nicholson cemetery beside her mother and many rela tives. She'was the youngest of the family of whom none remain except her father, Dr. Walter Nicholson, who livet, in the Confederate Home in Co lumbia and her brother, Mr. W. L. Nicholson. Miss Nicholson was a member of Berea church. Josef BenYamen in Edgefield. The world has not yet learned to place the proper valuation on great ness. Sunday afternoon, it was not a great crowd who. assembled to hear a man speak, who perhaps has borne more persecution for Christ's sake than any man or woman in Edgefield. He gave a splendid message and an' instructive and helpful one. Such a Christian as this should not appeal in vain for sympathy and cooperation. Mr. J. H. Cantelou presided over the meeting. Miss Florence Mims Casts Fir Ballot in Aurora, Minnesota Dear Advertiser: It has been said that no one is ? enthusiastic over a subject as he wi knows nothing about it. That is tn concerning myself and politics. All the town here has been excit( for days over the election which toe place in Aurora a short time ago. I went to the polls for the fir time in my life, and such a sensatio; I am afraid I created! In the first place I had such nam? as these to choose from: Knezivicl Knuti, Lunkhoven, Anttila, Klienv Korenchen, Danculovic and Rebiri vich, and many others quite as toi gue-tying. The first place my friend and I a] proached was the fire departmer where the polls for the township vo' ing were held. On the outside of th door were the words "No Admri tance Except for Business," but thought I had sufficient business p hand, so I walked in. There sat. group of forigners ranged around long table. Through all the perforai ance of voting I had an uncontrol lable desire to laugh, for 1 had talke so much about votes for women an had thought so much about it, an when the actual voting came I wa hopelessly ignorant as to what;-, should do. I took the lengthy sheet of yellow paper and walked into the booth be hind the litle blue curtains arrange,! along the side of the wall. As to th laws that governed such occasions, had no knowledge whatsoever, an< felt terribly cooped up. Consequently I called my friend before the whol< assembly and asked her if we cau-ti consult each other. She was sho?t?fr? and made no answer, and I di?rrj quite .know what to think. Finally I made a mark opposite a sufficien number of foreign names, and stazM custodian of the ballots saul, <CFOK that up, please," and another mar said "You are telling all the secret: on your ballot." So I obediently fold ed it up. I suppose they were laughing al me, all of them, and my friend made no pretense, but thought it very fun ny and said that I should have known all about voting when I went in. I-suppose that women are expected to have some divine inspiration as tc what to do under such circumstances, but I happened not to have. The policeman who sat with his large club and silver star shining like Cyclop's eye, grinned as I passed out, thinking "what else could be expect ed from these newly privileged crea tures?" I was wildly excited like some caged animal let out, and with just as much idea about the technique of voting, but you may be sure that 1 investigated certain cases4 and had some idea of "who was who" in Au rora before I attempted to put my cross mark by some of the names, for after all, it is the upright man for the office for whom women in the very large majority stand. When we left each other, my com panion and I, to go to our respective places of residence, I said, "I shall see you this afternoon," and she said she would perhaps see me behind the bars, for I had broken all the laws concerning voting. "Ignorance is bliss," thought I and I enjoyed voting immensely, but shall never be happy doing it again, for all my past knowledge that I acquired that day will give me too much of an add ed responsibility. I was very much amused on talking to the music teacher who said that for a certain office she had voted for John Ukulele. I wondered who he could be and on looking over the sample ballot I found a name with many u's and l's and she had called it ukulele,.because that was the near est she could come to the pronuncia tion. She voted for him, I think be cause of her musical tendencies and his musical name, '.ad I voted for the same man because I heard he had a smart daughter, and I could leam ab solutely nothing about his opponent. Such is the way of women. "We are creatures of impulse, instinct and intuition and can not be expected to reason." FLORENCE MIMS. Aurora, Minnesota. March, 1921. L Long Branch Items. Teacher Rescued by Pupils. Mr. and Mris. Avery . Franklin, Misses Sadie and Lucile Franklin spent a day recently in the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cullum and fam ily of Johnston were calling on rela tives and friends in this community last Sunday afternoon. . j Mr. and Mrs. G. W.. Scott, Misses Cleo Attaway and Ruth Scott motor ed to Aiken and Augusta last Satur day. . Mrs. Fulmer and Mrs. L. D. Holmes united with Philippi church by letter last Sunday. The pupils of Long Branch school in grades from first to fifth are plan ning to have an Easter egg hunt on the school grounds Friday afternoon. The pupils from sixth to ninth grades are to gp to Attaway's near Saluda ?or a picnic next Saturday. , Miss Ivy Claxton of-Johnston spent the week-end with Miss L" .ene Scott. ; Mr. A. M. Herrin has bv.. .1 serious ly ill for about a week. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Pilot and family spent the week-end with Mr. G. W. Wil liams' family near Johnston. Miss Nora McGee of Eureka spent th? week-end with her sister, Mrs. R. L. Williams. Misses Lorene and Ola May Scott entertained several of their friends ??t dinner last Sunday, Misses Ivy and Pearl Claxton, Ruby Cullum, Pearl and Nora Derrick. Saturday afternoon, March 19, !Miss Lizzie Harvey, one of the teach ers of Long Branch school (about five miles east of Johnston), some of the pupils and a few young people of the community went to "Rock Dam" on Beech creek to fish. Miss Harvey and Brunsen Derrick, fifteen years old, a pupil of Long Branch school, attempted to cross the pond in a small boat; just as they reached the deepest 3?art of the pond the boat became un laJanced and Miss Harvey fell into the' pond.' In Tn instant, young De rick was in the water making effort to save her, she went down several . times; he had gone about half the way to the bank with her when Willie Duffie, about sixteen years of age, jumped into the pond and assisted in the work of rescue and in a few moments they brought her to land. One of the pupils noticed that Miss Harvey had lost her glasses, so Brun son Derrick swam back, dived for the glasses and brought them out, none the worse for their trip to the bottom of the pond. The Fruits and the Flowers. I have been in the sunshine city of St. Petersburg since the ll inst. I left Johnston Thursday the 10th at 7:30 o'clock and landed here at 8:5:0 o'clock on the morning of the ll safe, sound and sober. I made the 6?4 miles in 23 hours. There are more Yankees in the city than "John saw." They are here from every nation, tribe and clime. The orange groves are just lovely now. The trees are low and full cf golden fruit and the air is laden with the sweet fragrance from the orange blossoms. Everything is just lovely and "the goose konks high." If one wants music, they can lis ten to the sweet notes of the mock ing bird dressed in gray on the swing ing limb, and if it is the beautiful you are looking for, behold the flow ers that bloom everywhere; and if it is a mess of fish, gather your rod and reel and go out on the bay. If you want a delightful outing, get on the steam boat and take a trip down the Manatee river to Bradentown and Palmetto. If it is fine sport you are looking for, go to the Gulf of Mexico in swimming ard diving with the Yankee girls and boys. One can find here just what he looks for, be it snakes or wild honey. Today for dinner we had, let me see-beans, squash, Irish potatoes, tomatoes, beets, onions, cucumbers, okra, celery and strawberries to beat the band. Tonight we will have red snappers and speckled trout flopping from the water, for I am going to an gle them myself. Tell Frank Warren to come on down here and we will get his brother, Scott, and my two brothers, and go out about twenty five miles in the Gulf of Mexico and fish. The boats slay out from three to four days at a time, and cook and eat all you want, and bring back from one to five hundred pounds. Well, I will not write much today, as you have about two articles from me in the waste basket or in the pigeon-hole. Just before I left the state I heard that the town councif of Edgefield was going to move the' Confederate monument from where it now stands against the wishes of the Daughters of the Confederacy, who are the cus todians of that sacred sentinel. And you know the devil got in me as big as a sheep. I don't know who the councilmen are, neither do I care, but there are some things in the public square that should be moved at once. If it had not been for the good women of Edgefield county that monument would never have been erected, and that can be said of the women of the whole South. Now the ladies of Edgefield had it erected and dedicated where it- now stands. The council can sweep around it, but touch it not. It is too sacred a thing to be tampered with. I think there should be a brand new iron fence around it 24 plus 24 feet high. I hope by the time I get back that the horse lot will be near the branch where the wagons can be parked and the stock be fed instead of in the public square. I expect some of the boys will grit their teeth and make ugly months at me, but that wont cut any ice with me. "what I have written I have written." J. RUSSELL WRIGHT. St. Petersburg, Fla. Box 635. American Legion Picnic to be Addressed by? Hon. Morris Lutnpkin. Sometime ago at a meeting of Post No. 30 of the American Legion it was decided that the Post promote a pic nic and the date decided on is April 8th, 1921. We state candidly that the main object of the picnic is to induce those ex-service men of Edgefield county The Post is extremely fortunate in having the co-operation of Mrs. P. M. Feltham, who is helping us to pro mote this undertaking and who has organized an auxiliary composed of those girls or women who had a rela* tive in the late war, and who will as sist in making this a very successful and enjoyable day for all ,who will come. A committee on arrangements has been appointed by the Commander of the Post composed of Messrs. 0. Sheppard, W. A. Berriann and M. D. Lyon. This committee has al ready had a conference with Mrs. Feltham and the ultimate success of this venture is practically assured to all interested. The Hon. Morris Lumpkin of Co lumbia, a well known ex-service man throughout the state, will deliver an address just before the dinner is spread under the shady trees on the school grounds. The public is cordially invited to attend the entire program, which in cludes the address of Mr. Lumkin, the dinner and other entertainment such as foot races, broad jumps and other athletic stunts which will take place after dinner. It is possible that the stores will close for a few hours so that every one will have an opportunity to at tend the exercises. All Confederate soldiers are especially urged to at tend. CLAUDE T. BURNETTE, Com. Post No. 30, Edgefield Co. Concrete Walk to Station. Why not make it a continuous con crete walk on the south side of Main street leading from the railway sta tion to the Dixie Highway Hotel? Most of the way is now paved. Who will take the matter up with the property owners? Let's step by step, here a little and there a little, mod ernize Edgefield. A very good begin ning has been made in concreting the beaten paths of pedestrians. By all means let's try to get the entire walk leading directly from the sta tion to the hotel paved. Strangers who come among us by rail use that walk more.than any other. ?When You Feel Rheumatic. For the aches and pains of rheu matism Chamberlain's Liniment is excellent. Massage the parts thor oughly twice a day with this liniment and you will be surprised at the relief which it affords. i Mrs. Ennett Writes Interesting Letters From France and Italy. Hotel Kuhl et des Anglais, * Nice, France, January 30, 1921. My dearest Mother: It seems hard to realize that today is Sunday, for it has been the big day of the Carnival here. For merry making and knowing how to play,, these emotional French head the na tions. They put aside all formalities and today have been having the-time of their lives, while I get almost as much out of it by simply looking on. As the parade was scheduled to be gin, at two o'clock, we utilized the; morning by attending service at a\ nice little American church nearby of the Episcopal faith. When two o'clock came the fire of a cannon announced the beginning of festivities. The streets which had/ been elaborately decorated were al ready filled wtyh the gay throngs,. and seats were provided for specta tors along the center, built up in tiers and roped off to keep the crowds with in bounds. Thousands were in fancy dress and masked, and when they were not dancing, they were throwing confetti and paper streamers. The* floats were simple, and represented! different clubs here, but being a stranger I could not recognize the sig nificance of these "moving pictures."1 At short intervals betwee n the floara bands would appear, which kept the merry-makers dancing or marching in time to the music. It lasted three hours and tired me out watching rt, so what must the dancers have felt who had not stopped from the time the cannon boomed until nightfall. By that time the throng had sep arated in groups, each lad with his arm around his best girl and all seem ed to be enjoying the last part of the f ete as much as the first. Yet view ing it with American eyes there^was observed as was the custom of the . Latin race, and as thoroughly joyous and a happy crowd as I've ever come across. I try not to measure these people by my standards because I v/ant to understand and get their point of view, which, would be impos sible if I-went at it critically. So far - as my personal taste is concerned, they don't start to suit me from the break of day, on. I db not like the slice of cold bread and coffee served in your room, but if you dared to get up and go to the dining room, the servants would stare as though you. were an escaped lunatic. Another custom here that is new to me is eating on the streets. All the . hotels and cafes have tables arranged out in front of the buildings and they seem to be quite the favorite resorts . among the diners. They are always attractively gotten up, and the meal well served, so this part of their pro gram I thoroughly enjoy: On our way home from the parade . today, we stopped at several "the . dansante" and the crowds seemed greater than any day in the week Each place we entered had two or chestras, so when one stopped the other took it up, so the dance went merrily on. Doubtless many of the dancers were a part of the masked dancers of the street, but if they were, they did not seems half as tired as I was. We leave tomorrow for Italy and-' expect to have our mail forwarded to i Rome, so please continue to send our letters to ll Rue Scribe, Paris. I feel: they will be more attentive there than anywhere else, and will forward them to us. I bought a little book of : pic tures of "The Riviera" to send you for this country is so beautiful, and Nice is the capital city. There are a hundred thousand per manent residents in this city and the tourist population must be immense.. My love, and you don't know how I want to see you all! God bless you;, dearest. Devotedly, GRACE. Excelsior and Central Hotel, Piazza Carlo Felice, Genoa, Italy, February 1, 1921. My dearest Mother: Genoa does not improve on ac quaintance. It is an old, old town of (Continued on Third Page.)