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Office No 61 Residence, No. 17 Wednesday, May 25. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Ida M. Blount of Grovetown, Ga., is the guest of Mrs. S. M. Smith. Mr. W. 0. Cain of Sumter is here visiting his daughter, Mrs. E. S. Hives. Mrs. R. M. Scurry has returned from a visit to her parents in Inman, Spartanburg county. Mr. Tillman Pinson of Greenwood was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Peak Sunday. Mrs. Roy Smith of Augusta, is spending several days with her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Scurry. The Corner Store announces spe cial prices in its advertisement this week on all hot weather wearables. Mr. W. B. Hughey of Columbia came over and spent the week-end with his brother, Mr. J. D. Hughey. .Miss Royal Peak came down from Greenwood and spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Peak. Friday of this week marks the closing of the session of 1920-1921 of the Edgefield graded and high schools. .Mr. George Hubbard of Augusta spent Saturday and Sunday in Edge field with his daughter, Mrs. Warren Pani. Miss Helen Dora who has been teaching music in Seneca has arrived to spend the summer vacation at home. Rev. Luther B. Bridges and Mr. H. S. Jenkins are making the Dixie High way Hotel their headquarters while in Edgefield. Mr. W. P. Yonce, Capt. L. Y. Moore and Dr. A. H. Corley will go to Greenville tomorrow to attend a meeting of the Shriners. Mrs. Agnes Mace and Miss Emma Griffin of Marion are here visiting their brother, Mr. C. A. Griffin, and aunt, Mrs. Orlando Sheppard. Amos Moore, Elbert Mundy and Edgar Padgett returned home yester day from the Bailey Military Insti tute for their summer vacation. The piano recital by the pupils of Miss Fannie Sheppard will take place in the school auditorium Friday night, commencing at <nine o'clock. Dr. Sam Bridgers of Augusta spent Monday and Tuesday in Edgefield with his brother, Rev. Luther B. Bridgers. Dr. Bridgers is a dentist by profession. The boll weevils will hold high car nival in Edgefield county during the ensuing four months, having already launched a campaign against the cotton grower. Supervisor Edmunds has about completed his role of paymaster, nearly all of the ninety-odd thousand dollars from the bond issue being now in other hands. Rev. P. P. Blalock motored to Greenwood yesterday to attend the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, be ing accompanied by Mrs. Blalock and Mr. P. P. Blalock, Jr. A great reduction has been made in automobile tires, as shown by the prices published in the advertisement of Fisk tires in this issue. Messrs. Yonce & Mooney sell Fisk Tires. Weevils are already attacking young cotton in such large numbers that we understand that several Trenton farmers are considering plowing it up and planting other crops. Prof. E. W. Rentz has been em ployed as superintendent of the Trenton school for next year. The trustees and patrons are greatly pleased with his management of the school. The officers of the Baptist Sunday school are planning to hold their an nual picnic for the members of the .school. A committee was appointed Sunday morning to take the matter in hand. Put the stubble land in peas and corn. Surely South Carolina will now grow a sufficiency of food stuffs for man and beast. Let the Western hay and grain growers ship their product elsewhere. v WEDDING PRESENTS: See Miss Eliza Mims' handpainted china be fore selecting your wedding presents. Those who had the foresight to purchase seacoast cabbage plants early last fall and in mid-winter are now enjoying pot-liquor in great abundance. The roads are good and gasoline is some cheaper than it was, so crank your Ford or auto and come in to the revival meetings that are being held. You will find the services in spiring and helpful. - Pay more and more attention to the vegetable garden to the end that the year-round, in mid-summer as well as in early spring, it afford something for the table. A good gar den is a great help to the family both physically and financially. Here and there additional touches are being made to the Dixie High way hotel 'that make it more and more like a city hostelry. Within the past week linoleum has been laid up on the lobby floor and upon the hall floors on the second and third stories. Interest is daily growing in the re vival services. The meeting seems to have gripped the community from the very outset. All of the stores and other places of business in Edgefield have agreed to close for one hour for the meeting-from eleven to twelve o'clock. Mr. H. S. Jenkins makes an excel lent song leader, the music under his direction being a strong arm of Evangelist B ridgers in his two ser vices, mornings at ll and evenings at 8:15. If you hear Mr. Bridgers and Mr. Jenkins once you will want to hear them again. Will there be a cotton grader at Edgefield or not next fall? That is a question which must soon be decided, and we trust that it will be decided in the affirmative. After taking an ad vance step our people should not ret rograde. Let's keep abreast of the most progressive markets. Messrs. Yonce & Mooney published a business local in the last issue of The Advertiser which referred to the price of gasoline as being at 28 cents. These figures should have been 26 cents instead of 28. Read the ad vertisement in this issue and you will see it in its corrected form. It should not be necessary after having been published so many times, but let us say again that no commu nication should be sent to a news paper for publication without either being signed'or accompanied by the name of the writer. The name will not be published, if such request be made, but the editor must know who wrote the article. Miss Corrie Thomas from Colum bia spent the week-end at home with her parents in Trenton. She had as her guests on Sunday, Misses Margu rete Smith and Rae Black of Tren ton, and Mr. Plyler, of Columbia. ' Miss Thomas has been in Columbia since she finished school last year in June, having a position as steno bo?kkeeper for Hammock & Wilson of Columbia. Masonic Banquet. Friday night the members of Con cordia Lodge, A. F. M., gave a ban quet in the beautiful dining room of the Dixie Highway Hotel and Man ager Vause added new laurels to his already enviable reputation in pro viding a great feast. On this special 1 occasion the members of the lodge . were privileged to invite their wives, swefhearts and sisters, as the case ] may be, which accounted for the con siderable number of ladies who par- 1 ticipated in the feast. Covers were 1 laid for about eighly-five. In addi- j tion to the membership of the Mason ic lodge, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Edger- 1 ton, of Aiken were present as guests : of honor. At the conclusion of the feast Mr. J. H. Cantelou, master of 1 the lodge, arose and introduced Mr. 1 Edgerton, district deputy of grand lodge, who made an appropriate ad- ( dress. 1 Harmony School Closes. 1 Very interesting exercises were . held in the large auditorium of the Harmony school building last Thurs- , night, the occasion marking the clos- | ing of the present session. The pro- < gram was well arranged and carried 1 i out zn every detail in a highly cred itable manner. A picnic was* given for * the school Friday and a spirited game < of baseball was a pleasing feature i of the day. Prof. G. F. Long has clos ed another year of faithful service as principal of the Harmony school, the patrons and pupils having been ] extremely fortunate in being able to i secure him year after year for such J a long time, i The Bridgers' Tent Meeting. Rev. Luther B. Bri'dgers arrived in Edgefield Saturday night and preached his first sermon of the re vival services Sunday morning. Mr. H. S. Jenkins, the song leader, ar rived Monday and at once took charge of the singing. Twice each day Mr. Bridgers has preached earnest, force ful sermons to steadily increasing crowds. Already the Methodist church has proved inadequate in seating those who desire to attend the ser vices, but this situation will be re lieved as soon as the large tent which was ordered Monday by telephone from Atlanta arrives. It was shipped by express out of Atlanta Monday ?ifternoon an dis expected on every ncoming train. A large committee selected from all the churches of the town is waiting to act as minute men in erecting the tent without a mo ment's delay. It is very probable that the tent will be used for to night's service. We feel confident that the meeting will prove to be of much spiritual benefit to the entire commu nity. While the meeting was project ed by the Methodists, all of the churches and all of the people of Edgefield have been invited to par ticipate, making it in the fullest sense a community revival. This in vitation which was extended by Rev. G. W. M. Taylor has been accepted^ and representatives from all the churches, as shown by the personnel of the committees published in this issue, are actively at work on the committees. The people from John ston, Trenton and the rural commu nities are invited and urged to at tend. The weather being favorable, the roads good and gasoline cheap er, there is no good reason why this should not be in every sense a COUNTY REVIVAL MEETING. Let's make it so. Later: Tte tent has arrived and will be ready for tonight's service. Committees For the Bridgers' i Tent Meeting. Executive : L. S. Kernaghan, W. C. Lynch, R. C. Padgett, J. H. Cante lou. Finance: B. B. Jones, W. W. Adams, S. McGowan Simkins, S. B. Nicholson, S. M. Smith, F. F. Rains ford, T. H. Rainsford, E. E. Padgett, E. J. Mims, W. A. Strom. Tent: W. M. Harling, David Stroth: er, Dr. B. F. Jones, T. D. Barker, J. G. Alford, D. L. Stalcup, D. J. Grone, W. E. Boykin, W. 0. Posey, W. P. Yonce, Otis Weathers, J. M. Paul, W. S. G. Heath, Claude Lyon. Music: Miss Sadie Mims, Miss Elizabeth Rainsford, M. B. Tucker, Mrs. Tillman, Mrs. Dunovant, Mrs. N. G. Evans, L. W. Cheatham, Mrs. Feltham. Ushers : J. W. Stewart, T. B. Gren eker, W. P. Gordon, Edgar Strother, Allen Edwards, Robert Taylor, C. A. Griffin, M. P. Wells, Jr., N. G. Ev ans, Jr., T. A. Hightower, William Strom, Henry Hare, J. D. Kemp, Mil ton Parker Jr., W. M. Mooney. All chairmen of the Church Boards are members of the Executive Com mittee. The Money Question. Some people do not understand the money question. You will hear raen complaining of the hard times ;hese days, saying that it is hard to nake the two ends meet. But it was only a year ago that ve had plenty of money in this coun ty, and then they complained too. Their complaint then was that they lad plenty of money, but it would 'not go anywhere." Men who are low working for ?two and a half or ;hree dollars a day, then worked for seven and eight dollars per day. They spent more while they made nore, but were they better off than ;hey are today? The truth is that it is not how nuch, nor how little money a man iiakes, but the use of it that counts. The man who saves a little of his iaily earnings whether he works for ow wages or high wages is the man who is not in want, and who does lot go about the streets complaining ilways of hard times. He prepares for lard times. The man who having the ability to ivork in good times ,who either fails to work and make the most of the opportunities which come to him, or who working fails to save a little of lis earnings for the rainy day will lever understand the money ques :ion. It was not made for him to un derstand.-Abbeville Press and San ier. When you have your Ford car re paired never let any other parts, ex cept the genuine Ford parts, be used, [t means a saving of both worry and noney. We use nothing else but the genuine Ford pats in reuairs. ' YONCE & MOONEY. A Statement From Mr. Gordon I desire to make a statement to the farmers of Edg?field county, hoth those whom I have assisted in mar keting and grading their cotton, and to all those who have intended to have their cotton graded when they are ready to sell. . First, I desire to express to the far mers of this county my appreciation of the cooperation which they have given me. I realize and so do the good farmers that this has been a very hard year on this work, but I feel sure each and every cotton producer in this county has had the opportuni ty of seeing cotton grading work tried out under the most adverse cir cumstances, and from the reports that have come to me from time to time, they have each and every one been profited by having their cotton classed before offering for sale. Every-intellig .it person on earth, I am sure, will agree that the farmers should know before he offers a bale of cotton for sale what it is worth to him as its owner, and when I see any man who does not want to see the far mer enlightened, I can't do anything but have pity on that man for not having brotherly love in his heart. The market here in Edgefield has been on an equal to the best markets in the state, while the offerings ranged around 'normal. During the early fall months Edgefield held first place for .over two months in the state of South Carolina. I am proud of this as we are enabled to pull cot ton from nearby markets here and numbers of bales were received from adjoining counties, graded and mar keted here. I trust the business men of Edgefield appreciate cotton dem onstration work and will blend their efforts together with the leading far mers of this county and continue this work here for years to come. It is the truth, that where a cot ton grader has b?en kept on the mar ket that it always led he markets of that county. The writer was sent by the Bureau of Markets to Tarboro, N. C., in 1918 and during the season from September 1st to January 1st, thirteen thousand eight hundred (13, 800)* bales were'graded, about fifty per cent of the cotton in that coun ty, and each season since that time the official grader has increased the number of bales graded and the mar ket has become stronger, and if the farmers and business men of this county will continue the work which has been started here, and . keep ex panding by adding a seller, I see no reason why Edgefield could not be kept first and foremost* in the state. I desire to state further for the in formation of those who might think I am writing this in my own interest, that I am requesting action in this matter for the farmers' future wel fare as I do not hesitate to say it is a great work and I would hate to hear of Edgefield abandoning it. I have been stationed at other places and the work has been continued, and if it should fall down here now, I would feel like may be that I had not done my full duty. I have been offered a position in the same line in another state, and am considering accepting same, but I trust that you farmers and business men will not allow the work which has been started in a progressive direction to stop. W. P. GORDON, Cotton Grader. ------ i New Uses For Rubber. . Your business man, usually alive ? to opportunity, sometimes misses one. j Take the matter of rubber heels. ] Hardly anyone can plead ignorance < of the fact that leather heels "cause i jar" while rubber heels "absorb the j shock" and "conserve nervous en- j ergy." That's conceded. But why halt j with heels? Are nerves jarred, in no i other way? Many and many a man j gets up and sits down again, fifty j times daily, on a hard office chair. Is < this not harmful to his spinal col- i umn, to vital nerve centers?Of j course. Then why not rubber seats j for trousers? Then there is the mat- ( ter of resting one's elbows on table, \ or lunch counter while eating. Inex- j cusable habit, but millions do it. Two j very small pads would absorb the I shock, and hy contributing to com fort at meal time, aid digestion. For emergency nightwear, live rubber shins would cheat the demon rocking chair of its victim. And back again , to daylight, what a sale there would be for rubber shoulder blades, to be slipped into'place when a safe is be ing lowered so the wearer may lean against a neighboring building and look upward without fatigue!-Les lie's Weekly. We have two Ford cars for sale. One stripped runabout and one 1920 touring car with starter. Price very reasonable. LYON BROS. Reduced Pri?es in Tires We have made a GREAT REDUCTION in all MICHELIN Cord and Fabric Cas ings and Red Inner Tubes HERE ARE A FEW PRICES 30x8? non-skid $16.90 31x4 D on-sk id $23.90 32x4 non-skid $27.90 33x4 non-skid $29.20 84x4 .non-skid $29.75 Better come in whiie we T have! your size LYON BROTHERS EDGEFIELD, S. C. g ? I New Chevrolet j Prices Effective May 7th, 1921 "Four-Ninety" Models Touring Oar. % 645 ....... 635 ....... 1195 I Coupe . . . . . . . . 1155 I Light Delivery Wagon . . 645 I All pnces f. o. b. Flint, Michigan I Roadster I Sedan I Acme Auto Co. o s s s I s & & ? I s I s s o I EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA TOURIST AND PLEASURE SEEKERS You should have one'of our "Au tobeds," comfortable for two people in five or seven passenger car. ; Re quires about three to five minutes to put in place. When rolled up in waterproof cover 4 feet long by 5 inches in diameter. Sells for $19.50. Send for circular. ' COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY 823 W. STREET COLUMBIA, S. C.