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American Legion Picnic on April 8th. The Edgefield Graded and High Schools and Edgefield County Post No. 30, American Legion will co operate in giving a picnic and field day event on Friday, April 8th. The commanding general of Camp Jack son has been asked to send a band for the occasion. Two prominent speakers will be present. The ladies will provide a free picnic dinner. While the local schools and the Legion are promoting the affair it is planned to make it county wide in its scope and citizens of the county gen erally are urged to attend and to bring picnic baskets in order that all might have plenty to eat. Ministers throughout the county will be asked to give publicity to the occasion and the teachers of the county schools will announce the date of the gather ing in their respective schools. The local post American Legion will dis tribute circulars advertising /the event. The white ex-service men of the county will be special guests of the occasion and all are urged to attend. Edgefield Post No. 30 desires to en roll every white ex-service man in the county in the Legion and to that end Captain Morris C. Lumpkin of Colum bia, former Assistant Attorney Gen eral and Mr. Henry E. Holley of Ai ken, Executive Committeeman of the Third Congressional District, Ameri can Legion Department of South Carolina, have been invited to deliver addresses. Capt. Lumpkin is well known in Edgefield as an excellent orator, having spoken here on Memo- : Tial Day in May 1920, and on Wash ington's Birthday of last year. Mr. ' Holley is also a good speaker. These . .speakers will explain to the ex-ser- : vice men what the American Legion is and what it stands for. The County Post, American Le gion desires to increase its member ship so as to compete for a silver lov ing cup which will be presented on April 15th to the post in the state se- ' curing the largest per cent of in- 1 .crease in members. The annual dues 1 to the American Legion are three ?dollars, which includes a subscription ] io the American Legion Weekly. > Mrs. P. M. Feltham who is organiz- ' ing the Woman's Auxiliary of the Le- '' gion in this county will have charge of the dinner arrangements and all ^ ladies who will contribute baskets are ?' asked to notify her. The Civic League jof Edgefield will co-operate with Mrs. < Feltham in the dinner arrangements. ] At the meeting it is desired to en roll as many ladies as possible in the ? Womans Auxiliary. AU mothers, ? wives, sisters and other relatives of < .ex-service men are eligible for mem bership. The annual dues are fifty cents per year, twenty-five cents of which is sent to National Headquart- , ?ers. \ The tentative program calls for a parade of ex-service men accompa nied by band from the Court House to the school grounds at noon. The speaking will be held immediately thereafter. Dinner will be served about 1:30 p. m., and at 3:30 p. m., the athletic events will take place. There will be seven or eight events , and first and second prizes will be , awarded in each event. The closing .event will be a "battle royal" be tween five or six colored soldiers equipped with boxing gloves. Good ' prizes will be offered the prize fight- ; ers as an inducement to entering the contest. This event is sure to provoke much merriment. The business houses will be asked to close between noon and 3 p. m., so as to enable all employees to at tend the speaking and dinner. Let all forget hard times and.at tend the affair; there will be no ad mittance fee and everything will be free from the lemonade to the din ner. Watch the papers next week for further details. Honor Roll of Morgan School January. First Grade-J. D. Hughey, Ansel Seigler. Eighth Grade-Jennie Bell Long, Carrie Lou Long, William Corley, Ellen Culbreath. Tenth Grade-Georgia Coleman, Emmie Coleman. February. First Grade-J. D'. Hughey, Ansel Seigler. Fifth Grade-Marion Winn. Sixth Grade-Olive Coleman, Ju lian Corley. Eighth Grade-Jennie Bell Long, Ellen Culbreath, Carrie Lou Long, William Corley. Tenth Grade-Georgia Coleman. Notice. All parties having cotton stored with us are hereby notified that, be ginning April 1, storage charges will be reduced from 50 to 40 cents per bale per month, due to the low price of cotton. Edgefield Warehouse Company. From the County Agent. To the Farmers of Edgefield County: While I am not in the mercantile business to make a living out of it, and while I do not want to enter into competition with any agents that may be operating through this county, still I know) that I am in a position to save the farmers of the county some lit tle money in cooperative buying of such things as fruit trees, fertilizers and seeds of various kinds. Right now I am ordering velvet beans for some of the farmers and am able to save them a little money where the orders are as large as ten bushel lots and over; also, I can save any buyer of fruit trees the middleman's profits; and if you and your neighbors can get together to order a car of fertil izer on a cash basis, I can save you something on this material. Remember that I have nothing to sell except Extension Agricultural work, but if you are in need of vel vet or soy beans do not order until you see what I can get them to you for. ADDISON B. CARWILE. County Agri. Agent. News From Sweetwater Com munity. We are glad to see this lovely spring weather. The farmers have taken advantage of the past two weeks and have their land ready for ! planting. Some have already planted | corn. Mr. Roy Smith, who has been prin- i cipal of Cooper school since the i resignation of Miss Bertha Ferguson ! last December has given up the school i and gone to his grocery establishment ? in Augusta. We were sorry to have ! him go as we hoped he would bring, his wife to live among us, at least j until the school ter mclosed. We are glad to have Mr. F. B. j Barker, one of our neighbors, take > his place, as he lives just one mile from the school he can very easily conduct his extensive farming inter ests and also attend to his school du ties. We are glad that Miss Helen Gard ner is able to come back to school and j ilso glad to report little Thomas Stevens and his sister, little Louise, ire improving. Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Cooper of| Ninety Six visited Mrs. H. F. Cooper ind family last week-end. We are sorry to hear of the illness jf Miss Mattie Shaw, but glad to snow she is better. We are sorry William Boone is I sick and hope he will soon be able fr j i sick and hope he will soon be able to j 1 :ome back to school. Drifting Backward. \re we drifting back to ye olden day To the ancient of long ago, When they had no clothes to patch or sew, knd had no washerwoman to pay? Chorus. I used to have money jingling In my pockets everywhere, But now its gone awingling, It flew away unaware. Will we go back at no distant day, Will the time soon come again, When for a bath they stood in the rain, A.nd had no water rent to pay? Shall we drift back again to the day, When there'll be no one who cares If we go barefoot up to the ears, And there's no shoemaker to pay? If we should go back to that day, Why we'd just live in the woods, With a big pile of leaves for our household goods, And we'd have no landlord to pay. If we'd drift back to the ancient day And do away with our garments, Just live on such things as roots and varments, We'd have no merchant to pay. And best of all, should we go back to that day, We'd cut out the government graft, Each and every one his own laws draft, And we'd have no taxes to pay. If we'd go back it will be our hap py day, For goodness knows now things are rotten, We, by depending on treacherous cotton Now have the devil to pay. W. S. G. HEATH. She States It Mildly. While suffering with a severe at tack of the grip and threatened with pneumonia, Mrs. Annie H. Cooley, of Middlefield, Conn., began using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and was very much benefitted by its use. The pains in the chest soon disappear ed, the cough became loose, expecto ration easy and in a short time she was as well as ever. Mrs. Cooley says she cannot speak too highly in praise 'of this remedy. CHESS COMES EASY TO HIM Youthful Prodigy Declares There Is Nothing Wonderful About His Mastership of Game. Chess is the easiest game in the world to me. During the long dull days of the war my father used to play all the time with his friends. At first I did not understand what the chessmen were for, and wondered why father would sit for hours and gaze at the board with Its funny-look ing pieces. One day when I did not want to go out and play I watched him play his game. I became inter ested. I bothered my father so with questions that he chased me out of the game as soon as he was through with his friend. I waited eagerly for him to get through. He played a practice game with me, and I under stood every move after that. The next game we played, I beat my father, who is a very good chess player. There is nothing wonderful about my way of playing the game. My secre tary, Mr. Azenberg, says that it comes from reincarnation. A baby Is born with good brains, and they ex plain it that way. They say that his ancestors or some spirits have given this power to bim because so much ability in one person must have taken a long time to develop. When I play chess I can plan my moves six or sev en moves ahead, and most players can only go three moves ahead of the game. I can't help it at all. I was born that way. I like to play with poor players. At West Point, where I beat 19 games and drew one, there were only niue good players ; the oth ers had no business trying to play me at all. I have played lots of fine players in chess. During the war I beat the German governor at Warsaw, and he was an old man and a fine player. Then I drew a game with Itubensteln, the Russian champion, and also drew with Griffin in a blindfolded game in England. I have not played Lasker yet, but one of the 21 I beat in Paris says he drew a game with Lasker, and another said he beat Capablanca. In America, my hardest game so far has been with Colonel Fiebeger, sixty-two years old, at West Point.-Samuel Rzeszewski in Leslie's. SEE SUICIDE NATIONAL PERIL Influential Japanese Newspapers Exalt Christian Idea as to the Sacred ness of Life. Suicide, which has always been prevalent in Japan, is, according to the Japanese press, even more rife than ever since the financial crisis in the Land of the Rising Sun, says the Literary Digest In a recent Issue. The Osaka Mainichi, which sees peril to the nation In the prevalence of self slaughter, acknowledges the excel lences of the Christian view that sui cide, instead of being merely an apol ogy for failure, ls a crime. Many sui cides In Japan are due to the fact that the Japanese have "less attachment to life than foreigners," and also to the traditions of feudal times when they belittled life. The Osaka Mainichi says further: .'Death-much more suicide-means evasion of responsibly . . . and the notion that those who commit sui cide have the keenest sense of respon sibility is wrong. Suicide is the em bodiment of egoism and Irresponsibili ty. One of the strong points of the Christian people is their conviction that to kill one's self Is as criminal as to kill others." Remarkable Photographic Feat. Conspicuous among a number of re markable scenes In a three-reel mo tion-picture film recently taken of an Ohio steel mill In operation, is one that actually snows the bolling of molten metal In an open-hearth fur nace heated to 3,000 degrees Fahren heit. The photographic feat of suc cessfully registering this action in de tail on the film ls particularly inter esting, because the subject ls one that a human eye cnn not gaze upon un protected, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Furthermore, the extreme heat of the furnace cast some doubt on the safety of the camera, with its charge of celluloid ribbon, and while the exposure was made, two men stood ready to hurl the operator to a cooler place If anything happened. Potato Flour Mixed With Wheat A fifty-fifty mixture of wheat flour from the United States and potato flour of domestic make has been or dered by the Netherlands government for Its people with the hope of keeping down the price of bread. Unless some thing ls done to keep down the price of Imported wheat it win soon be ont of the reach of the populace, says the Chicago Journal. Potato starch was used a great deal during the war for the purpose of piecing out the wheat flour supply, and it was not generally acceptable to the people, but potato flour will not be open to the same criticism, and lt is anticipated will prove more palatable. No Respecter of Persons. Law enforcement ls.no respecter of persons, as a young woman stenog rapher In the office of Charles J. Or blson, federal prohibition director, can testify. This young woman ordered some wine of pepsin from her druggist. The druggist considered the order and her record on previous orders. "Young woman," he said, "I cannot sell you any wine or pepsin. You are using too much. We are under strict orders from the prohibition director to watch carefully our sales on wine of pep sin."-Indianapolis News. MIMI We are showing a snappier and more up-to-date line in Misses' and Ladies' Hats than ever before. We have several hundred hats on dis play. Visit our millinery department and you will find the very hat you are looking for Easter. New shapes arriving almost daily. Dresses, Coat Suits and Coats Extra Specials for Saturday New dresses in Crepe de Chine and Taffeta. Prices up# ?>A Q Qf\ to $40 at q>l?.?U New Coat Suits in French Serge and Tricotine. Prices up (PAO QA to $40 at $10.yU HUBENSTEIN News From Cleora. The farmers of this section are- at ea as to how and what to plantthis ear. They are fully decided on one hing, to plant less cotton and use ?SS fertilizer than they have for sev rai years. The white farmers around ere have bought very little? provi ions in the last few years and will iake a bigger effort to make a pro ision crop than ever. Some have lowed most of their land for their rop, while others have just com menced to plow. Miss Lottie Corley gave a sociable ist week for the young folks. All pent a very pleasant evening. Miss Emma Ligon went to her lome at Bradley to spend the week nd, and was accampanied by Miss Cliza Williams. Mr. A. B. Holmes is spending some ime on his farm. Since M?. Edmunds has taken harge as supervisor, he has appoint d overseers on the roads and those tho preferred to work out their road axes have worked the bad places in iur roads and put them in fairly good :ondition. This is the first time in many years here has been no fertilizer hauled 1?re and it is the 21st of March. SUBSCRIBER. Farmers Can Borrow Money Now The Federal Loan Act has been leclared constitutional. The Federal l.and Bank at Columbia will begin )usiness soon. We have been author zed \by the secretary of the local as sociation to take applications from 'armers for loans on real estate. All 'armers who wish to borrow money :an procure application blanks at our jffice. Avail yourself at once of this jpportunity. N. G. EVANS. C. T. BURNETT. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optometrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. C. DOYOURCMLMIH like Castor Oil? then why make them take it? Why cling to the old idea that a medi cine must be unpleasant in order to be good? Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets TASTE LIKE CANDY ACT LIKE MAGIC The best authorities say that their main ingre dient "accelerates the peristalsis in the same way as castor oil.'0 Good for children and adults. Get a box at your drug store? Lever and Thompson Barred Rocks best layers and brooders. Coop of 4 hens and 1 cockerel for S5.00. Mrs. P. N. LOTT. 3-9-2t. Don't that we have a large and well assor PIPE, VALVES, FITTINGS, IROI and HANGERS, BOLTS, NUTS a you may need in the way of machir TRY Columbia Sup 823 West Gervais Street Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ORGANIZED 1892. Property Insured $8,875.360 WRITE OR CALL on the under signed for any information you may desire- about our plan of insurance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM, or LIGHT NING and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest and cheapest plan- of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick, Edge-field, Laurens, Saluda, Rich land, Lexington, Calhoun and Spar tanburg. The officers are : / Gen. J. Fraser Lyon, * President, Columbia, S. C., J. R. Blake, Gen. Agent, Secretary and Treasurer, Greenwood, S. C. -DIRECTORS A. 0. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. J. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Dodges, S. C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. J Fraser Lyon, Columbia, S. C. W. C. Bates, Batesburg, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, General Agent. Greenwood, S. C. .:. january 1, 1921. Forget ted stock of afrkinds of BELTING, STEEL, SHAFTING, PULLEYS ind WASHERS, and ?nything else ?ery supplies at pr?sent low prices. US iply Company Columbia, S. C.