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VOL. 86 EBGEFIELD, S. C.? WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1921 No. 31 JOHNSTON LETTER. School Opening Monday, Methodist Revival Closed Engagement of Miss Hallie White Announced. The High school opened Monday morning under very pleasing condi tions, with a large enrollment Supt. W. W. Fuller, County Supt of Education was present, and made a good talk. Prof, Tatum, of Edgefield was in troduced and all enjoyed hearing a few remarks from him. The Rev. David "Kellar and Rev. W. S. Brooke both made practical talks to the students. Supt. W. C. Compton, outlined his policy for the coming year, and as ked for the same hearty cooperation of last year. He spoke of the high rating of this school, which is second in the state in units. He also said that Edgef ield Coun ty was the leading one of the state in education, 984 10 ofits population being educated. .Following is the corps of teach ers: Supt. W. C. Compton, Principal; Prof. Stanton Lott, Miss Antionette Denny; Miss Edna Bailey; Miss Ow dom; Miss Pruitt; Miss ZilLa Sawyer; Miss Ella Jacobs; Mrs. L. C. Latimer; Miss Covington; and Music-Miss Barr. The revival services which were in progress during the past week at the Methodist church, closed on Friday evening. Rev. Kellar, the pas tor, was assisted by the Rev. Browne, of Leesville. Mr. Brown is an earnest, conse crated preacher, and eaich day he brought good and helpful messages to his hearers. There were sev erals additions to the church, and the entire membership was' strength ened to better impulses and better service for the Master. The Ridgedale Academy, at Speig ner's, in Saluda County requested the churches of rhe Ridge Associa tion to consider placing scholarships here these being valued at $100 each. This will be a beautiful act on the part of the church, society or indi vidual. The Academy is right in the heart of the section of this county where the true gospel is in great need. Rev. Posey is director of the school, and due credit should always be given him, for realizing the need of a religeous school and his efforts toward securing^ a school building and dormitory, t Last year the Ridge Association adopted the school. Messrs. John Howard and Oscar Black are at home from a ..week's visit to relatives at Anderson and Abbeville. . On Friday afternoon, Mrs. J. A. Lott entertained with a beautiful party, and this was an occasion of much njoyment and ended in a happy surprise. The arriving guests were greeted by Miss Hallie White and Mrs. Rob ert Kenny, and after all had gather ed score cards for the tables were given, these being decorated with cupids, and this, with, cupids and hearts which gave forth an exciting expectancy. Partners were found, and when seated, sandwiches and iced tea were served, this being the first course of a* progressive luncheon.. The seoond course was of salads, the third pink and white block cream, and bride's cake, and the last was an exciting surprise. Tiny pink bags with pink? and white mints were giv en out to each one and in the bag was found a cat-and the secret was out when the cat came out for on the cat was, "White-Mitchel^Oct. IS;" As these were read, Mendels sohn's wedding march sounded, and the dainty, blushing bride to be, was given an arm full of pink roses, and a tiny trunk, with many travel ing tags on it, and when opened, 't contained a lovely gift, to add to her trousseau. Miss White was showered with many good wishes but with it all came a tinge of regret, for all this I ^ meant that soon another town would ?.y m hi TS oe ca M th Cl st at is W( M: re Ec lal K] yu a soi ha va! Gr he; ? Sh ati J Ga fri ' 1 frc net claim one of v ;ton's best beloved daughters.. Mrs. Belle Jones Galloway died on Friday last at the home of Miss Sue Sloan, where she had been staying for a year or more. Mrs. Galloway had been sick only a short while and her death came as a surprise to her friends. She was a good Christian woman quiet and gentle in manner, and was a member of the Baptist church. The funeral services were con ducted on Sunday morning at 10 o' clock at Phillippi church, by Rev. W. S. Brooke, and the lady was laid to rest beside the grave of her hus band, who died several years ago. Mr", and Mrs. James H. White have, announced the engagement of their daughter, Hallie Honcly, to Mr. Thomas Milton Mitchell, the mar riage to take place Wednesday, Oct. 18. The wedding will be a church af fair, and will take place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. There is much cordial interest centered in this marriage, not only "in the home town but over the state. The bride-to-be is a young woman beautiful in person and character, md is gifted and highly educated. 1 She has taught at Coker College, '> ind other towns in the state. She is rreatly beloved in her home town for I 1er sweetness and womanly graces, 1 md it is a matter of deep regret 1 hat her marriage will remove her to 1 mother town. ? Mr. Mitchel is a prominent bus- 1 ness man of Leesville, an'l is in c very way worthy of the woman of i lis choice. t Miss Eva Rushton will go to Mc tae, Ga. next week and will teach in a he school here. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wright and fam- a :y are now occupying the residence 1 f Mr. J. A. Lott, as Mr. and Mrs. b 'ender will now reside here for a gh^e,,at their home... _ a Mrs. J. W. Browne and children ti ave returned from a Tfcvo weeks' isit to relatives in N. C. . n Dr*. N. C. Connerly is now able to p ralk without his crutches, and get _j ut of doors some, having been con- s| ined to the house for nearly three lonths, suffering from a railway " ccident. g Mr. and Mrs. Backman Boat- ' right, of Fla., have been guests of p ?latives here, during the summer, ad are now at Saluda, visiting in ie home of the ^tter's son, Mr. Gra v Hazel. Mr. Boatwright has been a? lite ill during the past week, and still in a serious condition. ei Mr. and Mrs. Claud Hart have oved to Ridge Spring, Mr. Hart iving accepted a position in a ga ige there. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lewis are ? :cupying -the dwelling recently va ited by Mr. Hart, and the' family of r. Eugene Thrailkill, is occupying e one vacated by Ivlr. Lewis. Ci Mr. Elliot Lewis has returned to *? tiicago, where he will continue to ^? udy music at one of the conserv- as ories there. *h Miss Bernice Black, of Atlanta, ? visiting her cousin, Mrs. Alice Cox, Prof. John Waters spent the past P1 ?ek here in the home of his mother, as r. G. G. Waters. ar Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Tarrant will a* side in the residence of Mr. Jim u* Iwards, after the departure of the or ;ter and his family for Louisville, W( r: ab Mr. Leroy Wertzs, of Belton, is liting in the home of his parents. ra< Mrs. P. C. Stevens is at home from etl month's stay in Florida with her ar a, Mr. Willie Pearce Stevens. or Master Thomas Weiderman, who s been sick with fever, is now con- fr< lescing. is Mr. and Mrs Sumter Wright of pe eenwood, spent the past week lik re with relatives. he Mrs. George Galphin of Ninety sw c, was the guest of friends and rel- Ka ves during the past week. th< Mrs. Carrie Boatwright Cheek, of no ffney, has been for a visit to ends. Se; Mrs. J. L. Walker has returned un Newberry, where she visited ' mo . an< Only OM "BROMO QUININE" Fo: tret the grannie, call for foll name. LAXA- +,lr E BROMO QUININE. Look for signature ol "u 1 V. GROVE. Cur? a Cold in One Day. Stop? I zn and headache, and works off cold. 25c * Miss Florence Mims Writes En Route From Edgefield to Oklahoma. Dear Advertiser: From Atlanta to Oklahoma City, and on to Tonkawa the country was?j all so new to me that I could but keep my eyes close on the landscape, jeal ous of every obstructing freight car, for fear of missing some bit of seen ery that I might not see again There were rows of familiar oaks yet green, and cotton fields whitely de fying the boll weevil, in fact notR ing whose like I had never seen be fore, even the lordly Mississippi Here, however, as we crossed at Memphis there was a surprise in store, for instead of slowly ferrying across with chugging motor boat at j> the side, we rapidly rode across with the good engine pulling over an enormous bridge of steel that even the "Father of Waters" does not at tempt to flood but meekly flows under, and I thought the country is much too civilized for me. I prefer the low long whistle of a boat ply ing from shore to shore. Sometimes I would like to ex change the locomotive for a stage :oach ann minus cinders, and close air, jog behind four good steeds. There are not enough people who think as I do or else things might, ie that way, and no doubt it is best ja ;hey do not. At any rate I should [j ike to leave home on a stage coach' ind return on a locomotive at the ate of 60 miles an hour. The differ mt rates of speed would exprss my] eluctance to leave and my eagerness 0 return. I almost wish that dust would arise .long the prairie roads from the gal-v oping of herds of buffalos and the; ir echo with the shout of Indians.: 'hey are both here in Oklahoma, the uffalo and. the Indians, but likejj ny vanishing animal or race, they4 re too. iew ^o-cnphold rtheir-2?'?d?S^ ions. The farther north we rode the lore decided the great stretches .-f rairie-like land became on the one ide with great fields of yellow corn talks rustling in the continued wind nd on-the other, whole meadows of in flowers, growing so close togeth }.* that } they seemed like a ?a of green crowned with waving atches of yellow bloom. So greatly does vegetation differ in ie various parts of our great coun ty that the flower commonly known > "Snow on the Mountain" or "Dus T Miller" fondly nourished in South rn gardens, was growing in wild rofusion along the roadways. In the distance were oil wells, ith the derricks rising far above the round, proclaiming that beneath owed oil that would later be lu ricating the wheels of industry. Every now and then an Indian ime on the train and several were 1 be seen at various stations. I oked at the .passengers as closely i the scenery even, silently deciding at the conductor from Oklahoma tty on was part Indian, which he obably wasn't at all. He wore a nk carnation and a piece of fern though he might have come from i early wedding, for the train left seven o'clock. A very few min es after I mentally noted his dec ation, he came down the aisle ?aring a yellow marigold. He prob ly should have been a botanist, it was somehow lured into the )re lucrative job of collecting tick i from such wanderers as I, who e continually starting off on large small adventures. The wind blew all along the way >m Oklahoma City to Tonkawa and blowing now at a steady rate, a rpet?al motion, making every tree e a large electric fan. It is warm re now, but in the winter the winds eep down from Nebraska, and ;nsas prairies. I shall look upon im as producers of energy and t of cold. Florence Mims. pt. 1, 1921, Tonkawa, Oklahoma. Mo implement on the farm can do re work or do more kinds of work i do it more economically than a rdson Tractor. Give us an oppor lity to prove this to you. Yonce & Mooney. tl ii gc Ci ar. ex co th ea cii bo at bo Cc ve fn Mi an Pli rie in* thi is sib be: sec me gn its pr? kout noi tioi ed wo: ent but wit anc bee els( fro thri sas abo sipi Report of Smallest Cotton Crop i In 33 Yep ~rs Boosts Price. H Washington, Sept. 1.-Cotton growing has just suffered the most ?isastrous/month in its history. The indicated crop will be the smallest iii the last 33 years, while condition toow is the lowest ever recorded in any month in the history of the in Juistry. Ravages of the boll weevil |j?e particularly the cause of this ??ver? decline of the crop, amounting to a loss of 1,116,000 bales in pro spective production since last month's forecast. The department ^f agriculture in. announcing today its forecast of a total produc ion of 7,037,000 ?crivaient 500 pound bales based on a canvass made $ugust 25th declared everything itemed to have gone wrong with the fop I An acre-field of 127 pounds to the ifcre is indicated for the country as * whole this year'. Never in the last ?6 years has the yield been so low Che. nearest approach was 129 pounds ? 1866. Only 10 per cent of a crop s promised in some counties of South karolina. I Parts of Oklahoma will have not Bore than 15 per cent of a crop. Ibout one third of a crop or less will ie produced in sections of Texas, Rrath Carolina and Georgia. A half i j crop or better may be produced in Mississippi, northern Alabama, north an Georgia and Northern South karolina. States on nie northern dge of the cotton belt may have bout two thirds of a . crop. In commenting on the conditions lie department, in a statement, said: "The damage has been the great si in the area from central Okla oma to north central Texas, the i condition amounting to from 25 y?O points. D?clin?s of from 10 *o jj: points are shown for Southern guth Carolina, for Georgia, north [.? ' Alabama,'the" defta' section' of 1 [ississippi and throughout the belt est of the Misissippi river except i the northern edge where some ight improvement occurred. "Conditions are especially bad not Dove 15 per cent in southern Okla >ma, and over a third of a crop promised in the adjoining portion ? northern Texas. In southern and intral South Carolina the promise tr less than a third and in some ?untries not over ten per cent of a op. The central belt of Georgia and ost of east and south Texas promise ?out a third. Everything Wrong "Everything seems to have ?ne wrong with the crop. In South irolina, in Georgia and Arkansas id in some portions of other states :cess rainfall and cool weather have rabined to give a big weed which e boll weevil in the flush of the rly invasion has attacked vora jusly, destroying all squares and Us set during August and even tacking the larger bolls. "From 40 to 90 per cent of the 11s are affected in southern South irolina and the proportions run, ry high in other states. Westward Dm Georgia through Alabama, ississippi and Louisiana to Texas d Oklahoma the weevil has multi ed far beyond the usual expe mce. In Oklahoma not withstand ? heat and drought it is worse in ever experienced. In Texas it the chief cause of deterioration. "The mild winter is held respon le for sparing an unusual num r of weevils as well as other in te, which have multiplied beyond asure and are devastating the new >wth in practically all the area of present range. The army worm is ?sent in large nw.. 1 TS through ; most of Arkansas, Tennesee and -th Mississippi, but the defolia n of the heavy growth is not look upon as an unmixed evil. Boll rms and the usual pests are pres ; in greater numbers than usual, ; their damage is small compared h the weevil. In North Carolina I Virginia the long drought has n almost as destruction as weevil jwhere. 'The northern edges of the belt, m Virginia and North. Carolina ough Tennessee, northern ?rkan and Northern Oklahoma promise ut two thirds of a crop. Missis >i and the northern portions of m C d] bi in P' 0] ot to di is a te be hi th AJ ne lo inj at* fei Th of flo kir Mr Ed the Isl! sho er Alabama, Georgia and South Caro lina still forecasts better than h?lf a crop. Condition of States The condition of the crop on Au gust 25 and the forecast of produc tion based on the condition by states, were : Virginia: Condition 63 and pro duction 11,000 bales. North Carolina: 63 and 523,000. South Carolina: 50 and 744,000. Georgia:'21 and 872,000. Florida: 59 and 16,000. Alabama; 53 and 472,000. Mississippi: 57 and 679,000. Louisiana: 45 and 244,000. Texas: 42 and 1,938,000. Arkansas: 63 and 729,000. Tennesse: 74 and 235,000. Missouri: 78 and 50,000. Oklahoma 48 and 474,000. California: 83 and 75,000. Arizona: 85 and 47,000. All other states: 85 and-. Lower .California's production forecast is 34,000 bales which in cluded California figures but was excluded from the United States to< tal. Weevil Dispersion Has Begun. ?Clemson College, August 30. The t>o21 weevil, so long as there is food available in the cotton field, does irery little migrating during the spring and summer; but beginning ibout the middle of August, the pest s seized by the migration instinct ind begins a period of dispersion vhich continues until stopped by the "irst killing frost. This, says Prof.A. p. Conradi, Etomologist, explains to armers why they have been observ ng a greater number in their fields luring the last week or te?i days than ,t any previous time. The weevil is now over the entire tate, specimens having teen sent in >y farin ?rs from the extreme upper lortion. oljhe. Piedmont. .3.jqtion. Al hough the weevils are more numer us than we expected, because of lild winter, every farmer should ut forth his best efforts to destroy he weevil's winter home. This de duction consists in cleaning up ter aces, ditch banks, fence rows, the dges of woods,neglected orchards, nd other places where the weevil lay find proper shelter. Cover crops offer one of the best reapons in a weevil fight, because esides their agricultural value in reventing washing and leaching, nd in adding vegetable matter they ?rve as a powerful cleansing crop hich destroys the weevils' winter uarters most effectively. Ed ge fie ld County Should be Well Represented. armers Attention! Hon. Carl Williams of ?klaho a City, President of the American otton growers exchange, will ad ress a meeting of Farmers in Colum a at Craven Hall on Friday morn g, Sept. 9 at ll o'clock. The pur )se of the meeting is to discuss co jerative marketing of cotton, and ;her matters of vital importance i farmers. I want to urge atten ince at this meeting. Mr. Williams coming a long way to'bring you message and I believe all who at nd the meeting in Columbia will i well repaid, for the trip to hear m. Hon. R. C. Hamer, President of e South Carolina Division of the nerican Cotton Association ear stly urges all progressive men who /e the South, and who are fight Z to get a fair price for cotton, to tend this meeting. B. R. Tillman. One of the poets said, "A fellow' sling makes us wondrous kind.' en the Presbyterians and Baptists Edgefield, the two shepherdless oks, should feel "wondrously id" toward each other. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pobson and '. L. H. Hankinson passed through gefield Thursday en route from i mountains to their home in Beech md. a As cotton harvesting will be mplqted early this fall farmers uld begin to plant for winter cov crops. ar ch WI M Ec wi gu ay Fl; th? rel to me Co hoi foi tan tioi hoi Mr. McCreless Write* From Texas. In the far away West, but still in. God's country, where the milk tastes good but the honey doesn't flow only in places. The general health in this section, in which I live is good. Our crops this year are .not as good as we have had for the last two y(!ars on account of a .drouth, and an unusual period of extremely hot weather, but the drouth has bien broken this evening (September the ?first) with rain in abundance which is calculated to do good, as we gen erally "nave late frost, i and we have no weevils to contend with at all.. .Now on account of the near rel atives, many friends and acquaint ances of J. M. (Melvin) Dora's fam ily record, which I gathered at his family reunion,-August 29, it being: his golden wedding occasion. Fifty years of married life passed by him and his noble wife. God gave therm 13 children, ll being Jiving at pres ent and attended the reunion. All of them are married an ?. thir wives and husbands are all living and were all present at the reunion. Mr. and Mrs. Dorn have 57 grand children, 54 living and 51 being pres mt at the gathering. They ? have S rreat-grand children, 2 of whom vere present Four o'clock dinner was spread vith a bountiful supply of good nings to eat with a fine barbecued >eef in the lead. Now, Mr. Editor, I want to thank rou publicly for your thoughtfulnees if me in sending me your paper, irhi?h is the dearest old paper on arth to me and good enough for the est to read. .E. M. McCreless Colorado, Texas. News From Trenton. _. -Tr?htorf; Sept.~8^=Mr?r. Ar S. M2~~ ?r and Garland Coleman gave a par y for the young folk Friday evening: t Mrs. Miller's in honor of Lane [artley of Batesburg. Rook was play d after which refreshments were srved. The ladies auxiliary met with Mrs. 7. B. Posey Monday afternoon. At ie beginning of the social hour re :eshments were served. The ladies Missionary society met riday afternoon with Mrs. A. B* [iller. At the conclusion of the buB iess and study hour refreshments ere served. * Wyatt Moss of Texas has a vis or here. .. Mrs. Fields of Albany Georgisi, id Mrs. E. D. Woorley of Erwin, enn., have'gone to Tignal, Ga. af ir visiting Misses May and Carrie arrison. Miss Mattie Harriosn ac nnpanied them. Mrs. A. J. Day surprised her other, Mrs. Lila Roper, with a love Thursday evening. It was Mrs. oper's birthday. Miss Mary Tillman and Miss Ruth, shmor? of Greenwood are visiting: rs. S. S. Tillman. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Harrison have turned from their wedding trip.. Miss Ida Ryan is the guest of Mr.. id Mrs. E. L. Ryan. Mrs. T. M. Jordan of Winnsboro id Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Jordan and, ildren of Columbia spent last, ?ek-end with Mr. and Mrs.. A. B.. iller. Miss Dollie Bettis is visiting Mrs. lison Marshall of Oregon, who is th her mother, Mrs. Flythy in Au sta. Mr and Mrs. J. M. Long and fam left Wednesday for Crescent City, a. They will spend the winter in ?ir Florida home. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Manget have iurned from a three weeks' trip* Atlanta. Notice. Notice is hereby given that a. eting of the Dix e Highway Hotel mpany will be held in the court ise Friday afternoon, Oct 7, at ir o'clock. As business of impor te will come up for considera rt, a full attendance of the stock ders is urged. J. G. Sheppard, President. L. Mims, Secretar/.