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VOL. 86 EBGEFIELD, S. C.? WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1921 No. 31 JOHNSTON LETTER. Editor Progressive Farmer to Speak. Mary Ann Buie Chapter Met Last Thursday. Dr. Clarence Poe, one of the South's agricultural leaders'and edi tor of "The Progressive Farmer," will address a mass meeting of far mers and business men at Johnston, ? on Tuesday, February 14th at ll o'clock in Crouch Hall. Dr. Poe will speak on Cooperative Marketing, for which he has been an active exponent for several year, both,from the plat form and through the columns of the paper. Dr.- W. W. Long, head of the Extension Service, Clemson College, is also expected to be present to take part in this meeting. Every business house, in Johnston is pledged to close for the meeting, and the hotels will make special preparation to care for the large number of visitors expected from neighboring towns and the com- I munity. This will be Dr. Poe's first visit to this section of the state, and much interest is being manifested in the meeting, both because of the prominence of the speaker and the interest that is being taken in the cooperative marketing movement throughout the South. Mrs. Thomas Mitchell of Leesville is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James White. * Mrs. James White was sick during the past week but is now able to be up. Mrs. Kate Rushton Barr went to the Columbia Hospital last week for treatment, and it is thought that an operation will be the means of restor ing her to her former good health. She was accompanied by her sister, j Mrs. Olin Eidson. Mr. William Bouknight happened I to a most painful accident on last Thursday, while at his gin. The gin . was in operation,- and in some way, Mr. Bouknight was caught by the belting and before the engine could be stopped, he was pulled by the belt ing, its length and the ankle bones of one foot broken and five ligaments torn asunder. The Mary Ann Buie chapter 'held a well attended meeting Thursday af ternoon with Mrs. M. W. Crouch. The members were glad to learn that Mr. Rion McKissick, of Greenville would make the memorial address on May 10th. The Wilson Foundation Fund was discussed and the members decid- J ed to contribute individually. The at- j tractive year books gotten out by the division will be purchased by the j members. An interesting historical j program was carried out. I Mrs. Heber Ballentine has gone to Batesburg to be at the bedside of her j sister, who is ill. j .Mrs. B. T. Boatwright who has been at Columbia Hospital with her son, Burrell, for the past two weeks, returned to her home here on Friday. Burrell is now improving and it is j expected that he can be brought home next week. Mrs. John Milne and Jack have re turned to Cleveland, Tenn., after a visit to relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Logue and Mrs. Will Logue of Meeting Street, visited in the home of Mrs. Willie Tompkins during the past week. Mrs. Mary Waters is at home from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Ida Phillips in Augusta. Miss Hortense Padgett who is now teaching in Greenwood, spent the week-end here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright have moved into the dwelling which they recently bought from Mr. Will Saw yer, situated in the eastern part of town. Mrs. Eula Wright Gleaton of Springfield has purchased the former home of Mr. Joe Wright and she and her family will soon occupy this. Mrs. W. E. LaGrone was hostess for the bridge club on Thursday af ternoon and the members and guests enjoyed two very pleasant hours. Miss Elise Mobley was the honor guest. The highest score being made by Mrs. Archie Lewis, she received a hand embroidered handkerchief. Miss Mobley was presented with a lovely cuff and collar set. Mesdames W. A. Bradfield and Carl Richards cut for the guest prize and was won . by the latter. A dainty salad course was served. Mrs. P. N. Keesee entertained on Friday afternoon in honor of Miss Elise Mobley and the occasion was a very happy one. Upon arriving all were seated for rook, the score cards being of hearts and Cupids. After the game there c?me a delightful sur prise for the honoree, when little Lina Keesee came in and presented her with a-large red heart filled with beautiful hand embroidered handker chiefs, these coming from those pres en* with all good wishes. In appre ciative words the givers were warmly thanked. Later all enjoyed a salad course with coffee and whipped cream. Miss Elise Mobley was again com plimented on Saturday with an after noon party by Mrs. William Conner ly. The hallway and parlor were dec orated in many red hearts and Cu pids, and the lights were all shaded in red. A contest, concerning "Loversl' was had, ~he answers being the names of Shakespeare's plays, and in this Miss Covington received the prize. Cupid, represented by little Grace El len Cassills, came airily into the room bearing a large package which she presented to Miss Mobley, with the love and good wishes of many friends, , which she expressed in rljyme. The package being opened, out showered all kinds of gifts, hand embroidered articles, china, cutglass and many other useful things. Miss Mobley thanked all for these expres sions of their love. A salad courge with Russian tea was served. The lettuce beds of Mr. J. L. Wal ker and Mr. Mims Walker are a de light to see, and also very tempting. The latter has had 2,000 heads grow ing, but has already sold much. Sev eral are discussing growing celery. [This product is being successfully grown here in the state, large beds j of it being at Camden, and some 'of this has been purchosed by ?different ones of the town, and this J is as fine as that,shipped from further markets. Mrs. Watson Nickerson is spending a while here with her mother. Mr. Nickerson ' has - recently accepted--ar traveling position for a firm in west ern North Carolina, so he and his wife will no longer reside in Colum bia. Mi's. Ben Wright and Miss Florence Wright have been for a visit to Au gusta. Mrs. ?. R. Denny was hostess for the New Century club on Tuesday afternoon and the business session showed good work being done. An' in teresting program on Mythology was carried out. Later the hostess, assist ed by Miss Antoinette Denny, served a dainty sweet course. Sweet Potatoes Sent to King and Premier. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 6.-South ern sweet potatoes, served in one of the appetizing dishes made famous by Dixie, housewives will soon be on the tables' of King George and Premier Lloyd-George of Great Britain, spe cially prepared packages for them having been among the shipment of 2,000 pounds, forwarded from Cherleston on the steamship Wekika. The Southern sweets are being sent to Eng'and for the purpose of intro ducing this excellent food staple through the joint efforts of the Southern Railway System, the Caro lina Company, steamship forwarding agents of this city; and the South .Carolina Sweet Potato Association. The potatoes were packed in five pound cartoons, each containing a copy o ' the attractive booklet recent ly published by the Southern Rail way System, showing recipes for pre paring sweet potatoes ir. the inost ap proved Southern styles, and other lit erature giving information as to the food value of the sweet potato and the exrent of its growth and use in the South. Arrangements have been made for the distribution of these packages through selected British dealers and it is expected that they will prove so attractive to the families who get them that an additional market for Southern sweet potato growers will be established. U. D. C. Notice The U. D. C. will hold the Februar; meeting on Tuesday of next week, the fourteenth, at 3:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. T. H. Rainsford. A good attendance is desired. Try us for satisfying service. COLLETT'S. Appeal For Improvement of Dixie Highway in Town of Edgefield. Mr. Editor: The Dixie Highway being fairly good except through the town of Edgefield, this mile or two renders the highway of little service as such; The farmers and lumbermen along and approaching Edgefield through this highway, the town people, and particularly- our splendid hotel, miss much by our willingness to keep these two miles in a condition so li ten impassable. Now, it does not need that we "put our heads together and pave it with rock" for there are-not enough head3. The town has been spending thou sands of dollars on these ways for- a hundred years, only to be bogged ns soon as built up, when the first wet ting rain falls. Sometimes, the Rock Quarry dust is purchased and put on these streets, only to turn to fine dust and soft mud in a few weeks. It is almost worthless. Two years ago Joe Eve Mims >and W. E. Ov.zts, two of the very best roads and street men anywhere, put almost in a day, our boggy Columbia street in fine condition that stands any rain or any usage. This was done by getting all the people and teams on that side hauling sand from the Holland hill in town and plowing the roads, making a lasting clay-sand roadbed. Mr. Joe Holland no doubt will sell the town the sand at a reasonable price, and our road men mentioned should be employed at good wages to direct and lead, and furnish their teams, to notify and request every body who drives these ways regularly to meet on a certain day, or two or more days, and complete the job in a Mims-Ouzts manner. Everybody with teams should be invited, extending out to Felix Tim merman's, Frank ' Watson's,.. Davin Strother's. John: -Blocker's; :'-B?ifc -OS Hamilton's; and the Augusta s i de''as far out as Joe Smith's. Will our Mayor and Street Com mittee not put something like this in motion, giving us highway con struction in a very few'days whereas it would take the balance of time and the balance of our money to keep it as heretofore. Last Sunday there were four cars stuck between the Court House and the terminus of the Dixie Highway work. Dr. Nicholson was one ?who had to be trucked out, and I see Dr. Tompkins making his Buncombe rounds on foot. As my Fire Companies pay $171 license. I may be permitted to sug gest our doing something. E. J. NORRIS. How to Meet Difficulties in Keeping Farm Accounts. Clemson College, Feb. 6.-A farm is a very complicated business and many seemingly unanswerable ques tions arise when the accounts on a farm get well under way, such as: "What will I charge for my own hay when I feed it to my own cows?" "I will plant oats in cotton middles in October; how much of thc fertili zer which was applied to the cotton in the spring is to be charged to the oats?" "How will I determine the yearly cost of shelter for my livestock?" These and other questions too numerous to mention, will arise says W. C. Jensen, specialist in farm economics. Special and standard farm methods of dealing with most of these problems are worked out, but the farmer must also rely a great deal upon careful estimates, and it should be realized that in accounting as well as in the other work on the farm,good judgment is worth a great deal. ' Accuracy in Farm Accounts.. The accuracy of farm accounts de pends upon (1) The accuracy of the original determinations, which in turn depends largely upon the far mer's judgment, but also a great deal upon the miscellaneous records, such as feed records, milk records, butter records, egg records, etc.: (2) the nature of the one who keeps them, that is, whether he is completely free from prejudice or bias. The farmer should start right by obtaining a convenient book, con venient places, and should give the work accurate and regular attention every day. Interesting Interview With One of Pioneer Western Settlers. Dear Advertiser: Yesterday I had the rare privilege of talking to one of the "old timers" ,?f the early west, and getting some first hand knowledge of pioneering which Was doubly interesting, for I knew that it was true. It ihad not been handed down to me by any imagina tive story writjer. He spoke of fighting the Indians as I would of fighting mosquitoes. i Immediately after the Civil War in 1867, he came from Pennsylvania out to Leavenworth, Kansas, being the wagon master for a train of fifty four covered wagons. He was then twenty-one years of age. Mr. Mason, for this is the gentleman's name, now lives in Iowa. Perhaps there are some old timers around Tonkawa, but this is the only opportunity I have had of talking to'an early settler. During General Custer's encoun ters with the Indians, Mr. Mason car ried supplies for the use of Custer's soldiers from Kansas to a fort in Ok lahoma, by covered wagons across the plains. The Indians were fighting for what they considered to be their inalien able rights, for in 1867 the Union Pacific Railroad was being built across Kansas, and this meant that the wild game, more especially the buffalo, would be driven from the state. The Indians felt this to be an in justice, and consequently made war on the whites. Mr. Mason said that on one occa sion he, with a hundred and five other men, had a battle with the Cheyenne, Sioux and Kiawa Indians in the north western corner of Kansas ad joining Colorado and Nebraska. For ty out of his one hundred and five .'comrades were killed, and at present there is a monument erected on the battlefield by the three states, to the ?n??v':who"''we're killed'therev ? . .... ..? He left Kansas with seventeen friends, and they rode horseback all th? way to the gold mines of Arizo na. There he kept a stage station with fresh horses for the stage drivers on their way from Los Angeles to San Antonio. During his stay of four years there, all of tile eighteen com rades who had come with him from Kansas, were killed by the Indians, except four, his brother being among the victims. The Apaches, of Arizona, ?were a very sneaking Indian who al Iways came upon them* unawares. It seems that these particular Indians practiced camouflaging long ago. They dressed to suit the foliage of the season, so ?hat they could not be detected near at hand by the ene mies. The Apaches were the last In dians to surrender. The Cheyennes and Sioux were the bravest fighters of all. They fought fairly and in the open, and took great chances. When travelling across the prai ries as many as twelve mules would be hitched ? to a wagon and there would be perhaps fifty wagons in the train. On stopping to '.amp the wag ons were arranged in a huge oblong position with the wheels of each wag on locked together. The mules were placed within this space to protect them from thc stampede of the buf-1 falo and from attacks of Indians. Using the wagons as a barricade, tihey could fight the Indians off. Many times he said he had seen thousands of buffalo, the pl?ins black with them as far as the eye could see. When one of these enormous herds would " approach, the sound would be like that of distant thunder coming nearer and nearer. The buf falo in their mad stampede would rush over the encampment as though it were a spider web, if the men did not go far out into the plain and shoot into them, thus scattering the drove on either side of the wagons. This pioneer is now eighty years of age, but his memory is as clear as if it had happened yesterday. He was extremely modest in all of the refer ences to his experience. He confirm ed the statement that I had more than once heard before, that the Tonkawas were cannibals in the early days and for that reason were bitter ly despised by all the other tribes. It seems that only a few years ago there lived an old Indian woman, a canni bal, over a hundred years old who nas since died. We began to talk of the War Be tween the States and I learned that he was also an old Union soldier, who fought or was stationed, all the way from Vicksburg to the Atlantic and all along the coast from South Caro ling to Pennsylvania. He fought at the battle of Gettysburg, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appo mattox, being amorig those who guaided the captured army. He was stationed at Beaufort, S. C. He gave it the French pronunciation, and I had to stop for just a moment and think just what he meant. He spoke in particularly high terms of General Lee, and said that if there was any man he respected in the army, it was General Lee. I am sure that I shall never again meet a man of such varied experi ence who fought in the Civil War, and later came to the wild west which then was extremely wild, and fought Indians whom he said were armed with the traditional bow and arrow, tomahawk, and gun, and whose faces were brilliant with red and blue war paint. FLORENCE MIMS. Tonkawa, Okla. . Mrs. Ida DeVore Sheppard. The world was made poorer, and heaven richer when Mrs. Ida DeVore Sheppard was called to receive her reward on December 15, 1921, after an illness of some time. She died at her. home in Edgefield, where she liv ed for many years, and where she had a large number of friends, not only in tlie town, but in the county where she was bom and reared. Mrs. Sheppard had been a Baptist from early life, having joined the church ai Olive Branch, when she was quite young, and she made full proof of her profession, having magnified all the years of her long life, her love and devotion to the cause of her Lord and Saviour. ' After moving to Edgefield, she united with the church there in . the membership- of which.she diedjJShe was modest, intelligent and unas suming to a marked degree. Mrs. Sheppard was a daughter of Elbert DeVore, one of the most prom inent citizens and Baptists of Edge field county who was for long years a member of Mountain Creek Baptist church, from which church he,moved his letter, in order to establish Olive Branch church. He reared a large family, and their lives prove that he brought them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. One of the daughters, Harriet, married Dr. P. H. Adams, Fannie ? married W. P. Andrews, Beaufort married the Rev. J. K. Fant, a Bap tist minister, Lou became the wife of the late W. L. Durst, Carolina mar ried W. A. McLees of Greenwood, and she is the only surviving member of the family. One son, J. K. DeVore died at his home in the city of Green wood several years since. The subject of this sketch married the late Dr. W. Scott Sheppard who preceded her to the grave twenty nine years ago. He was a brother of Orlando and John C. Sheppard, well known citizens of Edgefield. To them was given one son, Walter, who died seventeen years before the death of his mother. Besides this son, she had six daughters, all of whom are living. They are Mrs. E. C. Brown of'Green ville, Mrs. W. J. Miller of Augusta, Mrs. C. E May and Mrs J. B. Ken nerly both of Edgefield, Mrs. L. S. Cogburn of Greenwood* and Mrs. R. D. Rogers of Benn^fcville. These the daughters of a motner of precious memory, rise up and call her blessed. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. T. Allen, the pastor of the Edgefield church, after which her remains were laid to rest in the vil lage cemetery. This brief record has been prepared by request of the fam ily. G. W. GARDNER. Greenwood, S. C., Jan. 29, 1922. Sunday at the Methodist Church. Sunday morning at the Edgefield Methodist church Rev. G. W. M. Tay lor, the pastor, will preach a special sermon to women. He will take for his subject "The Woman Who Drop ped Her Waterbucket." This message will be delivered with special refer ence to woman in these modern times. At night the subject will be "Things Done in a Corner." The pub lic is cordially invited to the services. News From Red Oak Grove Community.. Dear Advertiser: ' The rain continues to fall, so the ground hog must have seen his shad ow and gone in winter quarters for another month. On account of the bad weather there was no Sunday school at Red Oak Grove on yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gable spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Willis, Mrs. Gable's parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Marshall and Mr." George Bussey were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Dorn on Sunday last. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Agner recent ly visited their daughter, Mrs. Lucy Bailey in Edgefield. Mrs. James Rearden and daughter, Alice, spent Sunday night in the home of Mrs. Agner. Mri Frank Kenrick, Miss Kathlene Kenrick and Mr. Earl Dorn were re cent visitors in the home of Miss Lou Eva Parkman. Messrs. Johnnie and James Willis and Pat Bush spent Sunday with Mr. T. J. Willis of-Flat Rock. Mr. P. E. Thurmond is visiting his daughter,. Mrs. Eugene Thurmond. Our teacher, Mrs. Clifford Robert son spent the week-end at her home in Parksville. We missed Misses Mae and Alva Jordan at . school today. Miss Maggie Willis enjoyed spend ing the night with Miss Thelma Dorn. Messrs. Clarence and James Willis were very much disappointed^ that they did not get to go to Whitetown yesterday. Don't worry, boys, the sun will shine again. , We are glad that Margie,, the lit tle daugher of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dorn is well again. We hope to se? her at school soon. Mrs. Frank Sharpton is much im proved since o.ur . last writing. Card From Mr. Edmunds. Editor Edgefield Advertiser: I see in the Advertiser an article Witten by Mr. H. W. McKie of Col liers. Also some weeks ago someone wrote an article from the Grove sec tion of the county in which they both gave utterance to their apprecia tion of what had been done to the roads in their respective sections. Of course; "Bro. Henry" didn't mean to make anybody "cuss?' but I have already heard people from other sections say "D- him, he aint done nothing for us." " Of course that is true, but I am asking peopTe in those sections to have patience as did the people on the west side and their time may come yet. I desire also to thank the people of the west side for their hearty co-op eration ni furnishing their, teams in top soiling most of the worst places in the Martintown roa?* anc* do h?Pe they will continue to look after the road in that section and wont let it get in that fix again, as it will be im possible for me to reach them again in the near future, and hope that the people in other sections will also, not only cooperate but will take advan tage of the fact that a great many will work out their road tax this year, as a very few have paid. , In a few sections of the county there was very little done with free labor, while in other sections they worked splendidly. Now that we got only one convict from October court, and only one prisoner in jail since, it is impossible to get over the county and do anything permanent with so small a gang. So please everybody come together and do everything pos sible to keep the roads from getting in worse condition and quit "cussing" ' so much. In other words, work more . and "cuss" less. Very truly, A. A. EDMUNDS. . Married. % Mr. George D. Sharp and Miss Meta Berry were married Sunday morning at nine-thirty in the home of Mr. George in Edgefield, Rev. G. W. M. T?ylor, pastor of the Meth odist church officiating. Miss Berry is the daughter of Mr. Berry who lives in the Mill village. Mr. Sharp is em ployed at the Addison Mill and well known in Edgefield.