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VOL. 87 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922 No. 8 JOHNSTON LETTER. Meeting in Interest of Co-Op erative Marketing. Little Child Dies. Apollo Music Club Met. On Friday evening in the school auditorium, a meeting was held, ?ht object being the discussion of -co operative marketing. T|he speakers were Dr. D. Wistar Daniel of Clem son college and Henry W. Johnson of the extension service. These ad dresses were splendid and enlighten ing. Mr. Johnson spoke of the mar keting contract and showed in .detail the new system of marketing. Dr. Daniel greatly pleased his .hearers, bpth from a point of information and the happy manner in which ?he ad dressed his .audience. His points be ing emphasised with witty stories as he stressed the need of co-operative effort. Much interest was aroused as a result of ihe evening. It is regret ted that the .audience was not-such a large one, cowing to the great im portance of the subject, but the even ing hour does not seem to lae suited to the farmer, several having express ed themselves thus. Miss Blanche Sawyer who is now holding .a position in Darlington came to her .home here last week, as she had been quite sick. She will re turn as soon as she is strong enough Mrs. Miras Walker, who is ?at the Columbia Hospital is rapidly improv ing .and will soon return to her home. ^ Mr. .and Mrs. Joe McCreight are at nome from a few days' stay in Columbia with relatives. Those from aere who attended the j ^ It is a matter of deep regret that Mrs: E. E. .Andrews left this week for Tennessee, where she will .now make lier home for a while with her I * daughter, Mrs. John Milne. She re sided here for many years and has many warm friends. Mrs. .Susie La timer will return. * f?opn fr"m_/ifxffi?-?in-?^*?rsris??rs ?as - been ~ isp?nd?rfe- the ' past* tw?T ~ months ia -the family of her son, Rev. Leon Larimer. She is now making Johnston her" home. ". % The K. of S. club which has as its membership some of the young gen -tlemen of the town, appears to be a very good and pleasant lorganization !The dues ?re 25 cents a month and this fund is to accumulate until sum mer, when it will be used for the pleasure; of a great hike. It is one of the rules of the elub that at every qth er meeting some one shall be invited to meet with them, giving a talk or address, each spewer to be one of the towns' best men. The first speak er was invited on Thnrsday evening, the young gentlemen choosing Rev. W. S. Brooke. The officers of the club are William Lott, president; Albert Dozier, vice-president; Joe Adams, secretary; John Howard Black, treas urer. One of the rules of the organi zation is, that any member indulging in intoxicants of any form shall be excluded from ?the club membership. Little Henry Forrest, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Forrest and grandson of Mrs. Carrie Forrest, was buried here on Thursday. The little boy had been siek only a short while, the loved ones. He was an unusually bright child, and there were many fond hopes centered in him. Miss Mallie Waters is spending a few days in Augusta with her sister, Miss Annie Waters. Mrs. Frank Weirse has returned to Charleston after a visit in the home of her father, Mr. Westmoreland. Mrs. Taylor Goodwyn of Green wood was a welcome visitor here dur ing the past week. South Carolina Day, March 18th, was observed here in the high school, with exercises instructive and pleas ing. South Carolina has made this date, the birthday of her great states man, John C. Calhoun, a red letter day, and its observance by the schools is now a state law. Each grade of the school arranged its own pro gram. A very pleasing affair was the pub lic meeting Tuesday evening in t??e Baptist church, under the auspices of the Apollo Music club. The club is composed of twenty-five members and during the year it has been studying- American music, which has bern delightful. So the program was composed of all American numbers, there being several organ selections, voice and choras. The last choras was written by Mrs. Beach, America's most prominent woman composer, and was the Panama Hymn, wdiich was used at the Exposition. It is the intention of the club to have another open meeting before it ceases activi ties for the summer, and to this also, the public wall 'be invited. Mrs. M. M. Coleman is tire-guest! of her daughter,. Mrs. W. E. LaGrone. Mrs. Earl Smith and two little chil dren and Mrs. Garlington hsve gone to Newberry for a visit to relatives. Mrs. Jame^ White has been for visit to her daughter, Mrs. Tom Mitchell at leesville. Mrs. W. _S. .Brooke was idstess for j the Apollo Music club on .Thursday j last, the chief business being in mak ing plans for the entertainment by the club, u,The Spinsters' Conven tion" to be .given in about two weeks. This promises to be very amusing. Officers for the coming year were elected, those in office not being eli gible, having served two years. Those elected were: Miss Gladys Sawyer, president; .Mrs. W. B. ?Quzts, first j vice president; Miss Ella Jacobs,?sec- J ond vice-president; Mrs.-C. P. Corn, corresponding secretary; Mrs. O. D. Black, recording secretary; Mrs. Huiet Waters, treasurer; Miss Antoi-j nette Denny, parliamentarian; Mrs.' W; J. Hatcher, critic. Delegates elect- j ed to the State Federation to be held in Columbia ia April were Miss Gladys Sawyer and Mrs. Q. D. Black. A. very pleasant sociaLwhile was had, :he hostess .serving' an elaborate sal id course followed by ice cream and pound cake. Mr. P. N. :Lott made a business ;rip to Darlington during the past j veek. Miss Tisdale of BennettsvHle is the fuest of Miss .Mary Waters. Eureka News. Miss Sue Timmerman and Miss )orothy Williams attended the leach ?'M^iS--Leola ?oyervspt.nt- last Sun lay with Misses Ruth and Nora .Mc ?ee. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Randall and amily and Mr. and Mrs. D. Jackson pent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. iL J. Jackson. Mrs. J. M. Derrick,and two little laughters spent last Monday with ATS. George Rhoden. Miss Sue Timmerman visited her incle, Mr. Price Timmerman ^ in Jatesburg last week. Mr. and Mrs. Price Timmerman, Mr. Frank Timmerman and - Ben l,ewis went to Johnston Wednesd?y. Miss Alloe Rutledge is still im jroving, having just returned from ;he hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Moyer spent ast Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John 3ryant. . . Mr .Peter Staboritz of Columbia vas in Eureka last'Saturday and Sun iay visiting Mr. Paul Seigler. Mr. and^ Mrs. T. A. McGee and family motored to Augusta Thursday. Miss Marie Rhoden spent last week svith her aunt, Mrs. Irvin Reames, near Johnston. Miss Cleo Rhoden is spending the weekwith Miss Emmie Workman at Johnston. Mr. J. E. Timmerman and Miss Sue Timerman spent last Monday with Mrs. J. D. Mathis at Trenton. Mr. George Rhoden, Bob Williams, Ben Lewis and Ernest Whitlock went fishing at Plunkett's pond Thursday night. Mrs. L.. A. McGee visited Mrs. George McGee Friday. Miss Ruth McGee is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Watson at Granite ville this week. Mr. and Mrs. Price Timmerman, Mr. J. E. Timmerman, Miss Sue Tim merman, Mr. Frank Timmerman, Mr. Ben Lewis and Mr. Paul Seigler took tea with Mr. and Mrs. George Rho den Friday night. Mrs. Claude Derrick and Miss Ver na Derrick spent Saturday with Miss es Cleo and Nelle Rhoden. Rev. J. L. Pitman and Miss Louise Boyd of Warrenville spent Sunday with Mrs. Lydia Seigler. Miss Kathleen Glover spent the week-end with Miss Alloe Rutledge. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie King of Co lumbia have been visitnig Mrs. King's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rutledge. "BOBBED HAIR." , St. Patrick, the Apostle of ire- j land. Reception by ?. D. C. St Patrick, apostle of Ireland and patron of Australia, in whose honor Irish people all over the world cele brate today, was born, according, to some historians, on the 17 of 3?arch, ! 373, "but the place of his-birth is a mooted question. Italy, Scotland and France are among' the . countries which .claim him. It is stated that a few miles north-west of Glasgow was his birth place. The saree author ity states his father was Calpornius, a deacon in the -church, and -a man of means and standing. His baptismal name was Sucat. , When Patrick was 16 years old he was ?captured by pirates and carried to ireland, where he was sold to Mil rae, chieftain of North Balaradia, in the county cf Antrim, aorth of -Ire land, and employed in tending cattle, i His sad condition drove ihini to con-| sohction in God, and thene learned to wait on the .divine wilL Th? international Encyclopedia says, "Heat last returned to.Scot land, but his desire was to preach the gospel to the Irish, rand he was strengthened by visions and voices, md lie went to Auzerre in France to ' * be consecrated by Bishop Amator. It was on this occasion that he assumed 4 the name of Patrick, by which he is sow exclusively known. In 405 he be- J ?an lis missionary work, in Ireland 2 md the jest of his life was spent in 1 ncessant labors with much success. * Ie came to Ireland with a thorough * cnowledge 'of the language i of the * rish people. It is stated that he f wand no? Christians in Ireland and 1 eft no heathen. It is aka'stated that * ie -was ?he founder of fhe Catholic a not Roman Catholic) faith. It is n aid that he died at Axmaugh in 1 63." a . " n And hese .in St. Petersburg, as Tell as all over the world the Irish. ? eople gave his memory a ?rand ova- ^ dis occasion. This was the irrst' tiaie ^ vmy long life that I ever witnessed t] he Irish ceremony. It was grand; es- ? eciaily the "chant," that was some- a hing else, Pm sure. n The U. D. C/s of this City gave a p ;r?nd reception to the visiting p laughters and all the Confederate c eterans who came this way. The r ilace for the picnic was at Pass-a- w irill, eight miles out from St. Peters- h mrg, right on the Beach of the Gulf f Mexico. We were wheeled out * here in automobiles. There were a :boot eighty souls in the bunch, and ^ et rae tell you, it was the liveliest ?? rowd that I have been with since I ^ lave been in the flowery land. We p tad everything in common, and every a tody knew everybody else before we a >arted. But the grandest of all was he golden sun set in the gulf. I speak n specially of the moment before the ^ iun sinks, when his light turns pure y .os? color and when the light falls ^ ?pon a zenith covered with countless c :loud-forms of inconceivable deli- j :acy, threads and flakes of vapor, j vhich would in common daylight be jure snow white and which gave, j ;herefore, fair field to the tone of j. ight. There is then no limit to the r nultitude and no check to the inten- j. sity of the hues assumed. The whole sky from zenith to the horizon be :omes one molten sea of color and . ire ; every black bar turns into massy rold, every ripple and wave into un sullied,, shadowless crimson and pur- j pie and scarlet, and colors for which there are no words in language and . no ideas in the mind-things which ^ can only be conceived while they are . visible till they are lost imperceptibly in its crimson and gold. This is' ar sun set on the gulf, as I beheld it on St. Patrick's day. J. RUSSELL WRIGHT. St. Petersburg, Fla. Stores to Close. We, the undersigned merchants, do hereby- agree to close our places of business, beginning April 1st, until September 1st at six (6) o'clock p. m., Saturdays excepted. The Corner Store, W. W. Adams & Co., Reynolds & Padgett, Jones & Son, Warren & Cantelou, J. D. Kemp Co., (except Friday) B. B. Jones,']' The Quality Shop, Dorn & Mims, R. H. Parks, The Hub, Jake Wynne, W. A. Collett. Miss Florence Mims Descril Spring in Oklahoma. Dear Advertiser: A poet mighf see some signs beauty in spring as it has come Oklahoma, but I can not. The bali ness of the air is not matched by 1 wild flowers and the budding tr< of the South. I shall have to satis my longing for yellow jessamine a honey snckle by smelling diff?re kinds of perfumes. The trees are a neutral gray a: so is the landscape. I have seen o peach tree, with a few stragglii blooms, growing in the front yard a home here on Main street. It seer to he a sort of treasure. On son dark :night, I should like to take few of the blossoms, and not fe that I had done anything wrong, heritage' of beaury ^uch. as tha ought to belong to the world, and m to an individual. "'Beauty is in tl eyes of the gazer."And in truth " man may buy what he may nevi swn." Possession without appr?cia tion does not mean ownership. 3 would describe spring here b saying that it is a trifle less desolat than fall and winter. In Norther Minnesota it was & saying that tha aart of the country had cnly two sea ?ons, winter and very, late fall. The trees here when green, seen ike decorated posts and the field md byways have an awful lack o: marm. The idea of utility is every vinre too ever-present to suit th? 'ancy of one who comes from th( apishness of the South. The Soatl aay think it is poverty stricken, and ndeed the West is rich. There are a Teat many wealthy men here as fai s thousands of dollars go, but how auch more really rich the South is han .this part of the country. The ?oney of. these people gives them o?ung but food ^and clothes, far ixey are not capable of spending it 0 that it will give them hinidi_ia?eL* i?itiiaL_o.^. ^nroilsrnes "with? what nmt?liigent faces' " shining . through. ie glass! They ride up to nousea lat might be mansions, judging rom their bank accounts, but they re not mansions, for the occupants ever thought of ,a house as a tern ie, as a reflector of the taste of the ersons within, as a chance for ar hitectural wonder, but only as "a oof eo keep away the sky." And nth all their money they haven't the ome life that the South has. These are not the pioneers, but he children of pioneers who often re like the children of millionaires, nheriting the money, and not the nitiative and patience which it took o earn it. The forbears of these peo ile have blazed the trail and they re content with living in that trail s they found it. > The desire for any great improve nent in any sense has died within hem. I am not speaking of the whole irest or even bf the whole state of Iklahoma. I have no right to. I am mly describing the part just west of ndian Territory and south of the Cansas border line. They have better schools here than n the South in some respects, but mw much less culture in them, how nuch less reverence for learning, and low much less respect for anything. The South still has food and dothes, and in the place-of the gold >f the west it has ingrained refine nent, culture, softness of voice, hos pitality and courtesy, which things [ would not substitute . for ihe gold )f Croesus, partly, I suppose, because [ miss them so much here. You are ;hrice "blessed and do not know it, jecause you have not stood off and watched yourselves go by, but I am standing a thousand miles away and watching you in my mind's eye and in memory, and I know whereof I speak. 1 heard recently of a poor Okla homa farmer who had an oil well built in his back yard right at his house. For the use of the land, the comp y, as it is the custom, paid him Atty thousand dollars. If the oil well produced he would receive one eighth of the proceeds which would make him and his heirs rich forever, and if the well did hot produce he still owned the fifty thousand. What good did it do him? He still wore his blue jeans, and his children may or may not have taken an education that, the wealth afforded. You can not polish hickory to make it shine like Red wood, for the fine ness of grain is not there. One grew up .suddenly in a waste place and the other took a half century, perhaps, by the sea. So are the West and the South. The South's civilization has grown slowly, and it is imbued' with some of the sturdiness of the Pil grims, and some of the rockbound religious faith of the Puritans ,and some of the humility of the Quakers, some of the patriotism of the Revo lutionary soldier, and some of the chivalry of ante-bellum days. Though the South may be suffering from a financial depression, this p?rt of the West is suffering from a spirit ual and intellectual depression^ I would not have you think that I am a pessimist, or that at some incident I had incurred a dislike for this par? of the country. That is not true. In fact Oklahoma has somewhat endear ed itself to me. I am simply jotting down a few things that come to me as I sit and write with little time, as always, tq do my thought and the subject justice. The other day one of the faculty from Oklahoma and I. were driving over to a nearby town with a rather intelligent Tonkawa woman. We were discussing the lack of trees here, and my southern friend and I were talk ing of the wonderful old trees that are peculiar to the South. The lady with whom we were driving then made a remark about the timber of the South, immediately thinking of the commercial side of the subject. There was nothing in the remark it self of singular importance to make ne remember it except that I thought it the time and am thinking now, how :o the West great trees are but tim >er. To me, they are food for thought iubject for poetry and mute friends. FLORENCE MIMS. Tonkawa, Oklahoma, March 23, 1922. . -The.oivjt.Leagu- %?* decided " he first week in"?prifi,,a^OT&?V ^i* ireek. The prizes for this year will be bree dollars for first and two dollars | " dr second prize. The yards will be udged not only as to deann-?s but iso at to neatness. We hope to have he cooperation of the entire town in his clean up work and also in trying o beautify our premises with flow ers, as one of our sister towns has aid, "Brighten the corner where you tre." " The inspection of premises will be friday, April 7th. The following com ni.ttees will act: _ /The street from Mrs. P. P. Blalock, Sr., to depot, both sides, including itreet by Mrs. W. W. Adams to Mrs. ?. G. Alford, Mrs. S. M. Smith and tfrs. J. G. Edwards. From depot to Mrs. J. D. Holstein >n both sides, including street from Hrs. J. E. Hart to Mrs. W. T. Kin iaird, both sides, Mrs. P. P. Blalock, ir., Mrs. B. L. Mims. From Dixie Highway hotel to Mrs. T. W. Thurmond, both sides, includ ng street leading by Mrs. B. L. Mims ;o Mrs. H. H. Hill, also street leading :o Mrs. Mamie Tillman, Miss Sophie Dobson and Miss Ethel DeLoach. From Court House to Mrs. S. E. Morgan, both sides, Mrs. A .T. Sam uel and Mrs. R. C. Padgett. From Court House to Mrs. C. R. Jackson, north side of street includ ing side -streets on that side, Mrs. P. M. Feltham and Mrs. L. S. Ker tiaghan. From Mrs. A. Daitch to Mrs. M. W. Holston, including street to Mrs. E. S. Rives and Mrs. L. S. Kernaghan, Mrs. J. S. Byrd and Mrs. W. L. Dun ovant, Jr. From Mrfe. W. E. Lynch to Mrs. D. J. LaGrone, from Mrs. A. A. Wood son to Addison building, and from Addison building to Mrs. Chalmers Hughes, both sides. Mrs. Bettis Can telou and Mrs. R. A. Marsh. Street leading to Mrs. J. W. Reese, and from Mrs. J. W. Reese to Mrs. Jerome Timmerman, both sides, Mrs. Helen Nicholson and Mrs. J. G. Hol land. Each committee .will hand in the name of the lady having the cleanest and neatest premises under their in spection to the special committee, who will make the final inspection Friday afternoon. PRES. CIVIC LEAGUE. Meeting in Interest of Co-op erative Marketing of Cotton. 'A meeting of farmers and business : men was held in the court house on. Thursday morning in the interest ofL ? the cooperative marketing of cotton^ : Mr. J. H. 'Cantelou presided and in--H. troduced. the- speakers, the first being" Henry S. Johnson ol Aiken, district agent of the farm demonstration work. In a very clear and compre hensive manner Mr. Johnson outlined the plan of organizing a cooperative marketing association. All efforts having failed in the past to organize ' farmers effectively, now an effort is- ? being made to organize on^ basis of certain products, cotton in. this in stance. The organization is fashioned after the one that has been matte sc*-, effective in California. Mr. Johnson was followed by Dr. D. W. Daniels, professor , of English " in Clemson" college. The speaker by | his rapid fire of humor and eloquence- $ at once captivated his hearers and? then entered upon the discussion "of ? Iiis' theme, "How to Meet Present Day ' Conditions." The imperative neces- - sity for cooperation was the central :hought of the admirable address. Dr._ Daniels urged his hearers to be opti- . nistic and stop''crying hard times. Conditions should be met ch?erfully md with courage. He said the people* . lave the same or better land in South.. Carolina than they have had; finer touses, more fine automobiles and year fine clothes. All that worries- . he people said Dr. Daniels, is that- , -, hey have not as much money 'tc*. pend" on fast living as they had a ow years ago. In closing he stressed he great need of every cotton jgrow r and every land owner who receives otton in return for rent to join the ooperative marketing association in rder that their product may be mar eted scientifically. . . Edgefield Baptist Sunday- J?f ;,. School. ie Sunday school \of the First ?Bap st church of Edgefield has request i the different classes to prepare lort articles, bearing on the great ibject. and have them published, eekly. . , It falls to the lot of Class No. 1 to . lake the initial venture, and we ope and pray that great good will ?suit. Class No. 1 is composed of the old- ' r male members of the church,., bj mich class has been led for a num- - er of years by the oldest male merdr er of the church. Class No. 1 is unanimous in the. onviction that every member of tile, i i hurch should be connected in some ray with the Sunday school. The tudy of the word of God is one of he most important duties of manr nd this study will be more effective. I undertaken in an organized inan er, and there can be possibly no lore appropriate place for this study han the Sunday school. : The Sui xy school is the nursery f the church, and it is the sacred, uty of parents especially, to see that heir children attend, and there, can. e devised no better ' way to reach . his result than to go with them to he Sunday school. Let our motto then be, "Every iiember of the church a member of he Sunday school;" and if this very lesirable result can be reached we rill find that each generation will be ,n improvement on the* one going be bre, and the work of the Lord will ie greatly promoted in our commu lity. Our lot has been cast in a land of ?bles and churches, and we hope and ?ray that every member of our . hurch may realize his or her respon iibiiity to God, the church, the fam ly and community, and that our Sun lay school may continue to grow, and hat the Kingdom of our Lord may $ )e greatly promoted, and to His name hall be the honor, the glory and jraise now and forevermore. CLASS NO. 1. -. . "Stop, look, listen," read the wise nan as he sat in his flivver. "Those words express the whole scheme of life. You see a pretty girl, rou stop, you look, and after you narry her, you listen!"