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V0L- 86 , EDGEFIELD, S. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921 No. 27 JOHNSTON LETTER. Mr. Bledsoe and Mr. Clark Elected Cotton Weighers. Death of Mr. Sawyer Thursday. In the election for cotton weigher which was held here Saturday, Messrs J. W. Bledsoe and W. C. Clark were elected, there being five candidates for this place. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Willis of Willis ton have been guests in the home of Mr. John Sawyer. Mrs. M. L. Knight of McBean, Ga., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Geor gia Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Brice Feagle and Mr. Clarence Stillwell of Augusta are visiting the family of Mr. Jim Satcher. Miss Hallie White is at Leesville, the guest of friends. Miss Duncan of Atlanta is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. J. Hatcher. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crouch, Mrs. L. S. Maxwell and Mrs. Grace Crouch are at Glenn Springs for a two weeks' stay. .Mrs. L. C. Latimer has returned from a visit to relatives in Columbia. Misses Sara" and Louelle Norris and Mrs. McClung have gone to Sul livan's Island for a two weeks' stay. Mrs. Horace .Wright of George town and Mrs. John Bland of Vidalia, Ga., We the guests of relatives. Mrs. P. C. Coleman and " little daughter of Chappell, are visiting Mrs. Harry Strother. Mrs. W. E. LaGrone and children are guests of the former's mother in Aiken. Miss Lois Fox of Augusta has been visiting Miss Florence Wright. Mr. Elliot Lewis has returned from Chicago where he took a special course in music at -one of the uni versities. It is very interesting to hear him tell of his-two months' stay in this large city. Mrs. Frank Landrum, Elizabeth arid Marie Lewis of Florence are guests of Mrs. Annie P. Lewis. Mr. Ebb Timmerman was quite sick during the past week, suffering from a slight stroke of paralysis. He has partially recovered, is improving some. Mr. and Mrs. Smyly Stevens and two sons, William and Alex, have been for a short visit to friends and relatives here. They have spent a week at Meeting Street in the home of Mrs. Ida Stevens, and after a stay at Greenwood with Mrs. Stevens' mother, Mrs. Reynolds, they will re turn to Bennettsville. Mr. Clarence Sawyer died sudden ly here at his home on Thursday eve ning. For several years he had been in impaired health and suffered at times from attacks of nervous break down.' He was the son of Mr. Stan Sawyer, who died suddenly here just two months ago. Besides his mother are left two sisters, Mises May and Lila Sawyer and four brothers, Ben M. Sawyer, of Columbia, Dit W. E. Sawyer, -of Lexington, Dr. A. C. Saw yer of Lake City, and J. F. Sawyer, j The funeral services were conduct-1 ed Saturday afternoon at Mt. Pleas ant church, by Rev. W. S. Brooke, he preaching the sermon, and at the grave the Masons and K. of P. had charge of the services. Mr. Sawyer was a talented and highly educated man. He choose teaching aa his life work, having graduated at 17 years of age. He took a post graduate course at the S. C. University, and later studied at Columbia University, New York, where he received his M. A. degree for special work in psychology and education in 1912, and also received certificates there for special work on other subjects. He taught most suc cessfully in schools in South Caro lina and Georgia until his health failed. He was a Christian man, a member of the Baptist church and was'held in highest esteem by all. Miss Bessie Bean has gone to Chester to visit Miss Louise Boyd, and Miss Isabelle Bean is visiting friends at Pawley's Island. Rev. D. W. Kellar has returned from Richburg where he went to conduct a training class for Sunday school work. There were fifteen or more in this class. Miss Neola Diltz of Chick Springs is the guest of Miss Emma Ready. Miss Sallie Dozier gave a pleasant party one evening^ of the past week in compliment to her visitor, Miss Nellie Bailey of Columbia. ' Mr. William Lott has gone to Charleston where he contemplates accepting a position. Miss Blanche Sawyer has returned from Charleston where she was nurs ing a special patient. Mrs. Davis has returned to Co lumbia after a visit to her sister, Mrs. Mike Crouch. Rev. W. S. Brooke will go to Chap pell next week to conduct the pro tracted services at Chestnut Hill church. x Misses Antoinette Denny, Lottie I Bean and Ella Jacobs have been for a visit to Mrs. George Gaulphin at [Ninety Six. Miss Marion Marshall has return ed to Newberry after a visit to friends. Miss Cornelia Webb of Trenton, has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Al bert Lott. The Angeline Bacon chapter, C. of C., enjoyed a picnic on Friday at Smith's pond. Mrs. John Wright is the leader of the young people and she with many of the mothers were with the young folks. Mrs. Herbert Eidson was hostess for the Narcosa club on Friday after noon, and a very happy time was had. After several tables of rook a dainty ice course was served. , A meeting of the farmers of the Johnston community was held in Crouch's hall Thursday afternoon, August 4th, at which time a farmers' club was organized with the following officers: B. R. Smithy President; L. D. Holmes, Vice President; J. H. Ready/ Secretary. More than 30 of those present asked for membership in the organization. This movement for a farmers organization had its beginning at Trenton on July 16th, when a group -, pf Johnston farmers present at a meeting there decided to take steps tb organize and appointed a committee to nominate officers. It was the adoption of the report of this comtt?to*ri&^^ Clark, Jas. D. Watson, and A. L. Eid son, which resulted in the election of the officers named above. The next meeting of the club will be held at 4 o'clock on Monday after noon, August 15th, at which time a constitution will be adopted and the organization otherwise perfected. Mr. Henry S. Johnston, district demonstration agent of Aiken, made a short talk on the necessity of or ganization and cooperationn of farm ing interests. Mr. Johnston will short ly start a campaign to organize the truckers of this section. ' Mr. N. E. Winters of the Extension Service made an unusually strong and impressive talk on soil improve ment. With apt illustrations and con vincing examples he led many of his hearers to express the determination to cut fertilizer bills and turn to le gumes for soil building. Nearly Nine Million Baptists in the World. Of This Number 6,162,500 Reside Within Southern States-Figures for Other Countries. There were 8,915,241 Baptists in the world in 1920, according to sta tistics that have been completed by Dr. E. P. Alldredge, secretary of survey, statistics and information of the Baptist Sunday school board. Of this number 6,162,500, including negroes, live in the Southern States. One hundred years ago there were only 2,500,000, according to the best available information, showing that during the century Baptists made an advance of 330 per cent. Figures for the various countries as reported by Dr. Alldredge, are as follows : Baptists of United States 7,789,165 Baptists of Dominion of .Canada " " 144,502 Baptists of Mexico __ __ 5,334 Central America & Cuba 5,461 South America_ 23,272 Africa (4 sections) _" 28,372 Asia, India, Japan, China, Siberia, etc., __ __ 255,134 Australia (7 provinces) 30,888 Europe (not England etc) 28,009 England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland-__ 405,104 -Newberry Observer. -:- % We want all horse and mule own ers to know that we have reduced the price of horse-shoeing to $1.00, shoes furnished. A. L. KEMP'S REPAIR SHOP. Meeting1 of Farn to Considei To the Farmers of Edgefield and You are doubtless perplexed as we are and as practically all other land owners of this section are, as to how we are to profitably employ our farm -lands. Being an agricultural ! people, we are dependent upon the income from our lands for a support. At the present time j the income therefrom is both1 small and uncertain. A change ' .in our system is necessary, oth- ' lerwise, serious consequences must result. In other years of financial j depression, we had our cotton < crop to "fall back on," and ? that fact tended to stabilize. values and to keep up the mor- < ale of our people. The fear of t the boll weevil did .not haunt us then, as it does today. We are as a "ship without a rudder." We lack a program. We need a Working Plan. If we had a plan that would inspire confi dence in our people, they. would go to work with a new j determination. Plenty of plans are being suggested, but few of them give us any encourage ment. _We need a safe, sure and workable remedy. We are not agitators, nor politicians, nor "doctas we have no cure-all to suggest. We. are plain farmers, with diffi-, culties very much like your own, and, as such, we are try ing to find a solution of the j troubles that beset us. We have/, a tentative plan to offer, and we believe it will, if adopted, farmers of this immediate sec-, tion. It will not be available to them all, but the benefits of j Rev. L. E. Roberts to Preach Sunday. The pulpit of the Baptist church will be filled Sunday morning and evening by Rev. L. E. Roberts of College Park, near Atlanta. Dr. D. W. Key in writing to the board of deacons has this to say, among other things, concerning Mr. Roberts: "Rev. L. E. Roberts is re garded as one of the best ministers of the Atlanta Baptist Ministerial Conference," and Congressman Up shaw of Georgia, in a letter to the chairman of the board of deacons, said "Rev. L. E. Roberts is a man of rather unusual brilliancy in the make up of his sermons. A man, I think, with a very clear head and a true heart." B. Y. P. U. Growing. An organization that is filling a great need in Edgefield at this time is the Baptist Young People's Union. While its name indicates that it is altogether a Baptist organization and is membership confined to that par ticular sect, yet such is not the case. Thc organization has fcrty-odd mem bers and practically all of the church es in the community are represented in its membership. The union held public services in the Baptist church Sunday night, one service of the or ganization in every month being a public service, and the entire pro gram was highly creditable. An or ganization of this kind composed only of young people gives them an op portunity to exercise and develop their talents. Nearly a dozen young men and young ladies had a part in the services, fully a half-dozen, both boys and girls, leading in public pray er. We bid the young men and young ladies, boys and girls, God-speed in their important work in the? church and community life. Last night the members of the B. Y. P. U. gave a moonlight picnic at Smith's pond and the occasion was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. FOR SALE: Burr Clover seed just as they are raked up 5 cents per lb. Ask for samples or come and see them. W. L. DUNOVANT. Jr.., M?ES at Johnston r Dairying Saluda Counties: such a scheme, if and when successfully carried out, will reach the whole community arid help all. Our suggestion is that we take up Dairying. We are: decidedly of the opinion that "Dairying as a definite and considerable part of our farming operations, with hog raising in connection, is as reasonably certain to be profit able as any other line of farm ing we can undertake." While th? is a new phase of farming to us, and many objections and difficulties arise in your minds, we ; firmly believe it will work and pay. Furthermore, all of the objections and difficulties can be overcome if we have the mind to will and to work. Cer tainly it will do no harm co cornie together and hear the matter discussed and that is all we ask you to do now. ? meeting of the farmers of Edgefield and Saluda Counties will be held at the School Budding here in Johnston- on Thursday morning, August the 18th, at ten- o'clock, the pur pose of which will be to con sider the question of DAIRY ING?. The Agent in Dairying, Department of Farm Exten sion of Clemson College and the;U. S. Department of Agri culture in Co-operation, will be present and deliver n address. You and all other 'crested parties are invited ' r pres ent-We woulu have every white faru r .hin a radios of -I S- miles f rom"1 John ston attend this meeting. Come and bring some one with you. FARMERS. Bonuses for Ex-Service Men. . President Harding, and those who endorse his action, say there are so many war veterans that the United States cannot afford to pay them a bonus. But the fact is, if there were five times as many they would get th 2 bonus. There are so few v?t?rans of the World war in comparison with the entire voting population, that they do not count in national elec tions against the great hordes of profiteering taxpayers; and so the dominant party thinks it can play the taxpayers against the ex-soldiers in a national campaign. It is not so much a matter of government econ omy as of political policy. A government that can burn up so many thousands of tons of powder in times of peace sinking millions of dollars worth of warships, while it is planning at the same time for spend ing many millions more for a great er navy, would seem to be inconsist ent at least in pleading poverty for its war veterans. It may not be able to do for them all they ask for, but it certainly could do more than it is doing.-Newberry Observer. The Greater Citadel. Already favorably known through out the South for the efficiency of its system of military training, the Cit adel, at Charleston, is preparing to raise its collegiate standard to the level which is being universally set in institutions of higher learning. Steps are now being taken to achieve this end, and, necessarily, the first of these will be the raising of the j standard of entrance reqirements. This is as it should be. The Citadel was not designed as a preparatory school, and its graduates must be as well equipped as those of the Univer sity, for instance, to take up post graduate work in larger universities. Such is not the case now, for the Cit adel diploma is not always recognized as evidence of sufficient preparatory work for the advanced courses. In order to eliminate the impres sion that the institution is an inter mediate school instead of_ a college, its official designation was changed some years ago from the Sooth Caro lina Military Academy to the Mili tary College of South Carolina. Fol lowing out this idea, the title of the superintendsnt has been changed to president, and the usual nomencla ture of classes, freshman to senior, has been substituted for the West Point nomenclature, fourth class to first class, respectively. Small things, these are, but they will have cumu lative weight. A magnificent new home for the institution is rapidly going up at Hampton Park, approximately two miles from the present cramped site in the heart of Charleston, and ample facilities will be afforded for physi cal expansion. With its military stan dard firmly established, through many years of being rated a "distinguish ed," or Class A military school by the War Department, with its physical equipment soon to be unsurpassed for its purpose, and with the proposed raising of the standard of the cur riculum, the Citadel will become mpre than ever a source of pride to all South Carolinians, as it now is to those who know of the records of its graduates. It will be indeed the Greater Citadel.-Columbia Record Only Ten Chief Justices. It impresses one to recall that this great country of more than a hun dred million people has had only ten chief justices. A man living can re member six of these and^still claims that he is not an old man-a not very old man anyhow. The United States is a young country! Maybe that is why it does so many foolish things. It will be interesting to run over the list of chief justices; they are: John Jay of .New York; appointed by Washington. John Rutledge, of South Carolina; appointed by Washington. Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut; appointed by Adams. , John Marshall, of Virginia, ap pointed by Adams. ''Roger B. Taney, of Maryland; Ap pointed by Jackson. Salmon P. Chase, native of New Hampshire; appointed from Ohio by Lincoln. i Morrison R. Waite,, native of Con necticut; appointed from Ohio by Grant. Melville W. Fuller, native of Maine appointed from Ohio by Cleveland. Elward Douglas White, of Louis iana, appointed by Taft. i William Howard Taft, of Ohio;ap pointed by Harding. Thomas-Plyler. A marriage of much interest was that of Miss Corrie Wynonia Thomas, to Glenn Parnell Plyler, which was solemnized yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the First Baptist church, Dr. Thomas Clagett Skinner, the pastor, officiating. Only a few of the bride's intimate friends were pres ent. The bride is originally from Edge field but for the last year or so has made, her home in Columbia, holding a position -with the Hammack-Wil son company. Her bright nature and attractive personality have won for her many friends here. Mr. Plyler is formerly of Lancas ter but for the past few years has held a responsible position with the American Railway Express company of this city. The bride wore a traveling suit of dark blue tricotine with, accesso ries to match. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Plyler left for the mountains of North Carolina and Wrightsville Beach. After their r? turn they will make their home at 1516 Washington street.-The State Will Go to Camp Perry. Sergeant Ralph Byrd of the Cita dal corps of cadets will go to Camp Perry, Ohio, on the 27th of August as a member of the Rifle Team of the Citadel. Sergeant Byrd made a fine record in marksmanship at the Cit adel and he is one of ten cadets from the entire corps who will represent the Citadel at this National Match at Camp Perry. He will be at Camp Perry until September 22. This is a splendid opportunity, and a distinct honor, for this young man. Sergeant Byrd is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Byrd of the Pleasant Lane section. The Advertiser is always. greatly pleased to chronicle the successes of our Edgefield boys. RED OAK GROVE. Sunday School Institute Great Success at Parksville. Good Meeting at Red Oak ' . Church. > The' Sunday School Institute at Parksville was well attended. On Friday night the services were in structive and quite entertaining. The Bible class at Clarks Hill put on very helpful and well rendered pag eant, showing the unorganized sys tem, and then the advaptage of a Sunday School. Then the audience had a real treat, a recitation by Miss Stella Nixon, from North Augusta r a graduate in elocution from Ander son College. She will teach this fall? in thc high school ,being her second, term there since graduating. We hope the Sunday school work: will be revived, for thefe seems to be something . wrong somewhere' among the church members, gener ally. Perhaps our hearts are not right with out Lord, or we would not .need so many stimulants and so many con stant reminders of the duty we owe to the various works of the cause left in our keeping. We may have dif ferent duties to perform, but all of us should let our Master's work come first. Do we do it? Our series of meetings are in ses sion at Red Oak Grove this week. Services conducted by-Rev. A. W. Bussey from Bowman, Ga. Rev. G. W. Bussey, the pastor was able to attend both services yesterday and will remain the week, being present wh/en he can. We are glad to learn of the good services ! held at Antioch last week, and the .earnest work of Rev. E. L.. Kugley, who assisted pastor W. R. Barnes. Several were disappointed not be ing able to attend the Sunday School convention at Stevens Creek from here. The bad weather and so many serious accidents from ligntnrng lato-' ly made the second thought come to quite a few no doubt. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nixon return ing from Hendersonville. N. C., stop ped a night and day with Mrs. Mamie. Bussey, accompanied by their inter esting children. They had quite a hap py vacation in the mountains, and" making glad, too, old friends and ac quaintances along the route. Mrs. Nixon was interested in new ideas to carry back to "our children at the orphanage" as she remarked, where they have resided for the past 10 or 12 years. Mr. and Mrs. George Bussey at tended the funeral of Mr. Hezzie Griffis at Berea last Wednesday. Mrs. Mamie Bussey and her daugh ter, Miss Mamie, also Mr. George Gil christ, motored to Edgefield last Tuesday. Misses Marie and Maude Hamilton: had as their guests lately, Misses Ruth Prescott from Greenwood' and Aileen Youngblood from Antioch. Our County Treasurer, Mr. J. L. Prince, was warmly welcomed to his old home church on last Sunday. Some of his staunchest friends are:-., numbered where he was reared. Mr. W. A. Dow, Mr. George Bus sey, Mr. Perry Hamilton, Mrs. Eva. Bussey and Miss Mamie Bussey, also Miss Kathleen Kenrick represented our Sunday School work at Parks ville. Mr. Charlie Parkman and family' visited his sister, Mrs. Pickens Bailey a few days ago. Messrs. Charlie and Roy Bailey and Misses Bessie and Pearl Bailey attended services at Antioch, last" Thursday. Miss L. E. Parkman had as her guest last week-end Miss Bertha Parkman from Flat Rick. Mr. Walter Griffis and Mri Long from Cleora were callers of Mr. George Gilchrist last Sunday. Mr. T. J. Dorn and family were spend-the-day guests in the home of Mr. T. W. Lamb last week. Mrs. Mellie Dow has her mother; Mrs. Griffin from Greenwood with her now. (Later) Red Oak Grove had in the meeting just closed, one of the best revivals, among the church members general ly, that we have ever witnessed. Rev.. Abiah Bussey gave the message each day with much humbleness of spirit^ (Continued on Fourth. Page.)