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??gefieW %?vtt?mt< J. L. MIMS..Editor. . Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield S. C. No cummunications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Card of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, January 18. The Three Duties. A recent editorial in The State entitled, "The Two Duties," stated that "Upon the General Assembly rests two obligations: "First, to reduce the state tax levy by reducing appropriations to the lowest point consistent with the ef . ficient conduct of the state govern ment and its educational, charitable and public health activities. - "Second, to discover and enact new measures of taxation so that lands and houses shall be relieved of a considerable part of the burden, that burden to be shifted to other ob jects." The Advertiser would impose upon the legislature a third duty, that of so amending the law as to preclude the possibility of defeating justice through the appeals to higher courts ?when there is no shadow of ground in fact for the reversal of the lower tribunal. Appeals are made frequent ly upon the veriest pretext and.unless i the tendency is checked there will be 1 a tremendous increase in lynchings '' and mob violence. Our courts, the * very machinery established for met- ' ing out justice, should not be used 1 as a means of defeating justice and 1 encouraging lawlessness. There is ' enough legal learning in the General 1 Assembly to improve court condi- ' .tions in South Carolin?. * Railroad Deserves Loyal Support. 1 In this issue one of Edgefield's ?, Jfiading business men, who signs his * article "Citizen," makes an appeal to * our people to patronize the Southern railroad,' instead of the Augusta-Co lumbia Truck Line. The appeal is ] timely and should be heeded by Edge- J field's business men. Railroads, like every other line of business, have \ been hit hard. The high cost of op- 3 eration, together with the shrinkage J in volume of business, has made it ' exceedingly difficult for railroads to make ends meet. Automobiles have made heavy in- 1 roads into the passenger traffic and now if the truck lines that are spring ing up here and there are patronized ' by shippers, then the problem of 1 meeting operating expenses will be j made more difficult for the railroads. ] Furthermore, the interests of the . public will suffer along with the rail- ' roads for it will be impossible for railroads to render satisfactory ser vice without adequate funds. The Southern Railroad has always dealt very generously with Edgefield, ( furnishing the town with almost as ' good railroad facilities as if it were ( located on the main line. It is very ? probable that some of the trains op- ( erated in and out of Edgefield are . run at a loss, yet the management of 1 the Southern continues these trains * for the benefit of our people. If a t considerable portion of the freight be diverted into other channels- ' for example, the motor truck line c ?which parallels the Southern between ^ Columbia and Augusta-and these T trains become too heavy a financial * burden for the Southern to carry it will discontinue some of them, just 1 as has been done in Saluda, with its one train a day . Our people should be loyal to the road that has stood by Edgefield and not divide the patronage with a truck line which means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to Edgefield. It pays not a dollar of taxes in this county and does considerable damage to our roads without paying a penny for their upkeep. When we patronize the Southern Railro?d we are helping ourselves and when we patronize the Truck Line we do it to our own in jury. Whenever You Need a Genera* Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives ont Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds np the Whole System. 50 cents. N ... ? - - ^ ? i - J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of . Quarles ic. Timmerman Office Phone No. 3 Residence Phone" 87 How to Grow Early Potatoes. Mr. Editor: So many people have sought infor mation about the growing of early potatoes that I . would thank you to publish the following which is all I know about it: Potatoes should be planted in as rich land as you have and land that ts well supplied with humus. Plow it deep once or twice and then harrow it, leaving the field level for the planting. Lay off rows four inches deep, thirty-three inches apart and drop your potatoes sixteen inches in the drill. The guano should be put in the drill and not less than 1,500 pounds to the acre of a grade at least 7-5-5. Better 2,000 pounds per acre. This looks like a big lot but the pota to needs the quantity to grow quick. It will leave a. large portion in the ground for the second crop to be grown on the same land. After'the potatoes are dropped, put two fur rows on them and clean out the mid dles. These furrows should remain there until the potato is about ready to come through the four inch level, which is made by dragging down the field with an irontooth harrow. In Dther words, you start with your land level and when your potato :omes through, the land should be level as it was when you began plant ing. Great care should be taken in out ang the potato. Cut them only as you ire ready to put them in the ground. The quicker it is put in the ground ifter it is cut the better. A small po :ato, say less than the size of a hen's ?gg, should not be cut at all. A po tato as large as a hen's egg or a lit tle larger, cut in half. One just a lit ;le larger may be quartered and the large potato cut each eye singly with is much of the mother potato to each piece as possible. Cut the potato from sud to stem. The stem is not an eye, is some people suppose. The plant feeds from the mother potato all :hrough its life and when the mother potato dies, the plant dies. You will lave ample opportunity to observe ;his fact. If, next spring you walk mrough the field and find a plant with ;he blight, pull it up and you will find ;he mother potato is decayed and rone. On the other hand when your veil grown plant has produced a fine lill of ripe potatoes, you will ob serve the mother potato still there, ?ound, but of course, its substance las been spent in feeding the brood. Work your fields level. Not with a plow but with a five hoe harrow. At irst go close to the potato. A little ater when the spuds begin to form, lot so close. There is danger of bruis ing the tender spud and thereby in juring it. At the last working put a dight hill to the plant, not a great Dig hill, just enough dirt to cover the ;ubers well and keep them from ex posure. Potatoes grow near the sur cace. Most of them are formed only lbout two inches from the top of the soil. This is a fact that has not al ways been understood. They are nev ;r hoed by hand. Frequent cultivation s necessary after each rain. The ob ject is to keep the land well open and light, as close to the plant as possible without injury to the tubers. . If you are planting for the North ern markets, plant only the Irish hobler. The Edgefield Produce Ex mange has ordered a car for the planters, but if you wish to plant and lid not get your order in this car, fou can get the seed through a local lealer. For the home market and four own use, the Red Bliss is as rood as any. Some people prefer :hem. Plant them early. Get them in he ground as soon after the 20th of ianuary as the weather will admit, four chances for growing a good :rop will be better if planted early. There will probably be fifty acres or nore planted in the Edgefield sec ion. Forty barrels to the acre is a air crop and ought to be realized inder favorable conditions. G. W. M. TAYLOR. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS Pt OLE (5MANS KIN-FOLKS GINALLY FETCHES LONG A PECK O' TATERS WEN DEY COMES T' VISIT WE-ALL -EN PEN PEY STAYS LON6 'NOU6H T' EAT U? A BUSHEL ! CeprHht, ? IO toMrthm N??|p*|Mr ***** j \ "Citizen" Speaks Out on Im portant Matter. Mr. Editor: I am no writer, but I will ask you just to give me a small space in youl paper to express myself in regard tc our latest enterprise, our Freight Line by Truck. Now, Mr. Editor, in justice to oui rail road, which gives employment to about 15 men, all of whom I suppose have families. These men all get good salaries which they get monthly and most, if not all, is spent in Edgefield by them or their families. The railroad is one of the heaviest tax payers in the county, besides they pay a city tax to do business. This truck line pays nothing. I never heard of one of the men get ting a meal here. Besides running these heavy trucks are sure to in jure our public roads, and if the railroad is run at a loss we will soon be like our neighbor, Saluda, one train per day. So I think we had all better think, and act before our trains are discontinued. Suppose we have a heavy snow or a prolonged rainy spell, making the roads almost impassable, who will you look to then ? I would like to add that I am not connected any way with the rail road, but just a plain citizen of Edge field, an J am doing my mite to help her along. CITIZEN. ; Honor Roll of Edgefield Public Schools. I For Month ending January 6, 1922. First Grade: William Yonce, Edith Quarles, Dorothy McClendon, Homer I Jackson. Advanced First: Henry Quarles, [Horace Mellichamp, Earl Cogburn, I M. L. Mauney, Luke Thomas, Lucile Turner, Frances Johnson. Second Grade: Albert Bartley, Ce [cil Thomson, Mary Anderson, Addie Lue Covar, Helen Franklin, Mary Ouzts, Frances Prescott, Richard Clark. Distinguished, Sallie Anderson land Lina Jones. Third Grade: George Erwin Can Itelou, Gladys Parks, Floyd Nelson, Benjamin Ouzts, Annie Nicholson, Carrol Kemp, Helen Deal, Martha Gibson, Mary Gibson, Mary Ellen Rowe, Ruby Berry, Cornelia Holmes, Pattie Padgett, Essie Turner. Dis tinguished, Esther Daitch, Hettie Jones, Katherine Mims, Gfertrudje [Lanham, Ruth Kemp, Elizabeth Po sey. Fourth Grade: T. A. Broadwater, Jim Covar, Evelyn Rheden, Esther Rubenstein. Distinguished, Charles Byrd, Emma Perrin Mims, Elizabeth Nicholson, Frances Paul, Floride Tur ner, Helen Dunovant. Fifth Grade: Dorothy Marsh, Ja nie Edwards, Mary Cantelou, Corrie Louise Cheatham, Ralph Morgan, Elizabeth Kemp, Eva Berry, Mary Lorene Townsend, Harry Paul, Wal ton Mims, Maxie Holston. Sixth Grade : George Edward Shep pard, Fitzmaurice Byrd, John Nixon, Tom Timmerman, Mary Thurmond, Byrnes Ouzts, Margaret Lyon. Dis tinguished, J. R. Timmerman, Ned I Nicholson. Seventh Grade: Martha Thurmond, June Nicholson, Effie Allen Lott, Frances Louise Townsend. Distin guished, Charlton Tolbert, Frances Wells, Margaret Strom. Eighth Grade: Carrie Dunovant, I John Feltham, Mary Lily Byrd. Dis I tinguishec'l, Elizabeth Timmerman. Ninth Grade: Willie Mae McCar ty, Addie Sue McClendon. Distin guished, Robert Strom, Felicia Mims, May Rives, Magdalene Redd. Tenth Grade: Gladys Lawton, Mary Lyon. Distinguished, Isabelle Byrd, [Elizabeth Lott, Sarah Reeves. Eleventh Grade: Elyse Hudgens, Eleanor Mims, Dixon Timmerman. Distinguished, Robert Ouzts, Corrie Cheatham. Mill School: Sybil Sharp, Jessie Ouzts, Albert Ouzts, Helen Padgett, Esteen Coward, Fay Turner, Baxter Van Buren, Fred Stalcup, Edith Stal cup, Edith Wood, Annie Bilton. Thirty per cent of enrollment on ! honor rolls. W. 0. TATUM, Jr. Tribute to Monroe Goodwin Timmerman. Monroe Goodwin was born Febru ary 12, 1887 and departed this life January ll, 1922. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Timmerman, of Pleasant Lane section. He was one of eleven children, and is survived by both parents and all of the broth ers and sisters. He never cared for the things of the outside world. His only thought was of home and loved ones. He was ever dutiful to his aged parents, his father being eighty-one and his mother, seventy-four. With his hands clasped tightly in the hands of his Saviour, he entered that house not made with hands. . ' A FRIEND. BITTERb Family Medicine these (1 you sp* the wo gains t See Our , The Truth About Florida. By N. L. Willet. Two young men friends of mine, preparing themselves for the truck ing business, went the other day one to Beaufort and one to Florida and the pertinent inquiry as to which one of the two had the greater chances. Florida today is one of the most heavily advertised states in the Union and this is attracting a goodly i amount of immigration. Its citrus in dustry, of course, is the supreme thing in Florida. No one kan compete but it takes a long time to grow an orange grove ' and it takes a great deal of capital to carry on one or to buy a ready made one. The vegetable interest, too, is large but this also has its handicaps. I questioned a friend of mine the other day who lives in central Florida and I have secured some plain truths about that state and it is well worth while to make note of them. Florida's Immigration. He tells me that immigrants-into Florida are now mostly of the poor er class who have been unfortunate' afc home and who are simply fortune seekers. These men are not desirable, Florida doesn't wish them, and in fac^'Florida is getting now very tired even of the tincan tourists that she welcomed several years ago. Thc truth is, said my friend, that only rich men are indicated for Florida and this is true also of California. It takes big money to do this Florida business, whether it is citrus growing or whether it is vegetable growing and the man of small means, accord ing to my friend ,had better stay out of the state. Great Distance. Florida is a large state and ex very long. The haul from Florida to selling points is a big one. Freight rates are extremely high. Icing costs are heavy. This is especially true of Southern Florida. Trucking in south ern Florida carries not only the han dicap of great distance but though these muck lands are rich yet they j the full of stumps and underbrush and clearing up is expensive and they have all got to be drained. It fills an ordinary man with despair when he thinks of labor and cost of transforming southern Florida rich muck lands into arable lands. Central Florida. Before the citrus industry got its foothold in Florida this/ state was considered a kind of poor man's waste land given over principally to razor backs and three or four hun dred pound scrub ticky cattle and containing a native population that was exceedingly discouraging and'al most hopeless. Except southern Flor ida, according to my friend, is a poor land state. Its palms and its live oaks look picturesque and pretty and so do its lakes but these matters can't be thought of in terms of economic crops. A trip fifteen years ago through Central Florida was about the most discouraging trip that a man could possibly undertake. The state carried climate and seemingly nothing else. We must remember that the pleasure seeker who finds climate, palm trees, and winter bathing and good fishing in Florida-this man is wholly a different proposition from a would-be economic settler and any settler is apt to see discouragement and failure ahead of him where this settling must be on poor land. Health. My friend was from Central Flor ida and his yellow countenance show ed that he was full of malaria. Flor ida is badly infested with malaria and in the old days was subject, too, ! 83 lays if you look around md it. Nearly every s rid to-day is putting o o meet the times. SO-Cent Window J Starting Saturday CORNER S to continuous yellow fever. Summer living, in most of Florida is, inmany respects, a dangerous proposition and carried on with great discomfitures to the body. Winter life in Florida is one thing and summer life is .to tally a different thing, and it isn't every man who is able to get away in the summer time. In fact, a man at Jacksonville told me a few years ago that the banesvof Florida were ma larial mosquitoes and flies and that they had them for about nine months in the year and these two insects are known as probably man's greatest enemies. The Labor Situation. One will never find poor whites and negroes in close proximity. They do not mix. In fact, they both hate each other and for this reason there are few neg: es and these constitute the labor of the south to be found in Florida. The trucking industry and the citrus industry need more labor than any other industry. For pxample we will frequently find at. one time on a moderate sized trucker's farm at Beaufort two hundred laborers at work. To attempt the citrus or truck ing industry where ' labor is scarce and where labor is high is a most per ilous undertaking and yet this labor handicap obtains throughout the whole of Florida. The Florida Cracker. In the old days Florida was filled with what are known as the Florida chacker or what the negroes some times call poor white trash. They made a poor living and life was ex ceedingly crude and hard. These Florida crackers still remain in the state. They are very numerous be cause the Florida legislature cannot today pass a no fence law. Probably Florida is the only state in the Union where a man is compelled to fence in his crops. These men are vindictive. They blow up tick vats and they do not mind destroying property and committing any kind of depredation. My friend recently wanted to open up, as a taxable matter, a road near him and several of these people came .to him and told him that if he did not desist they would "get him." He kept on with his road project and ? they burned his outhouses and a fine new automobile and even some of STATEMENT O? THE FARMERS BANK As rendered to the State Bank I December 31, 1921. RESOl Loans and Discounts_'_ Over-Drafts Secured_ O ver-Drafts_ _ ..._ Liberty Bonds Owned by Bank_ Banking House, Furniture, etc_ Other Real Estate Owned_ Cash in Banks and Vault_ LIABIL Paid in Capital'. Surplus_._. Undivided Profits. Due to Bank and Bankers... DEPOSITS._ Bills Payable_ Re-Discounts_ COT COTTON ! C. T Member of New Orleans Cott Produce E DAILY COTTON LETTER Fl Qreenwo Commercial Trust Bi his fields and they threatened his' life and this man today is going around with pistols in his hip pock ets and it was all ebcause they didn't want the public road. The newspa pers of Florida wanting a no fence law in Florida' are many but they are afraid to say so. Legislators are cowed. A no fence law means that the chrub and cow owner must keep up these animals and this is what the Florida cracker does not propose to do, and as I see it, my young friend who went to Florida will find all of these handicaps there. My friend who went to Beaufort will find no crack ers; he will find a shorter haul to big vmarkets, he will find rich land; he will find no malaria and he will find more labor than obtains in any place in the United States. NOTICE By virtue of distress warrant is sued to me by Rebecca Daitch, land lord, of Edgefield, S. C., I have levied upon and taken the "oods, wares and merchandise, and store fixtures of L. T. May, tenant, as contained in the store house occupied by him at Edge field, S. C., which I shall sell at pub lic auction in said store house at , Edgefield, S. C., on the 27th day of January, 1922, at ll o'clock a. m. Terms of sale Cash. Itemized list of goods and fixtures can be seen in meantime at my office. ' W. R. SWEARINGEN, Sheriff Edgefield Co., S. C. Edgefield, S. C. January 11th, 1922. Notice. All persons indebted to the estate of James Miller, deceased, will please make payment to A. S. J. Miller, Ex ecutor, at Trenton, S. C., on or be fore the' first day of February, 1922. Anyone having a claim against the estate will please present the same properly verified to A. S. J. Miller, Executor, at Trenton, S. C., and the same will be paid. A. S. J. MILLER, Executor N. G. Evans, Attorney. ' CONDITION OF OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Examiner at the close of business .$392,687.86 . 6,756 73 . 1,655.96 . 45,000.00 . 6,000.00 . 2,555.43 . 69,570 89 $524,226.87 75,000.00 ... 90,000.00 ... 1,191.73 586.39 .S357.448.75 - NONE . NONE ?524,226.87 TON SEEI9 OIL AYLOR on Exchange and New York xchange. IEE TO ALL INTERESTED od9 S. ?. uilding- Phone 362 I