Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

The Farm Radiophone, the Greatest of All Farm Con veniences. ?Regardless of low prices, depres sions, and hard times, the world is moving right along and making won derful progress. The "radio" or wire less telephone has just been practi cally perfected and handed to the public. It is here, and here to stay, because it can do something worth while for the people. Within the next few years the wireless telephone will be as common as the ordinary tele phone is today. Fathers will talk to sons and daughters over a thousand miles away and recognize voices, while New Yorkers will call up and . converse with friends on the big trans-Atlantic liners when they are about to land in Liverpool. Storm j warnings and weather reports will be flashed ahead in time for security, and entertainment of the rarest qual ity will be furnished to the man in overalls as he rests in his country ?orne after a hard day's plowing. You don't believe this? You might as well; for it is true, and before you have time to stop and ponder some neighbor is going to in stall a set of instruments, and invite you over some evening to hear Presi dent Harding make an address or the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company render a fine program. The wireless telephone will not benefit any class of people quite as much as it will the farmer. "Back woods," poor roads, the remotest se clusion of the countriest farmer will cut no figure "with the wireless tele phone since it needs no poles, no wires, no linemen to keep it in re pair. It uses the same air we .breathe and will work just as well or better on a lonely hill op fifty miles; from the nearest railroad than in Madison Square. It will bs worth its weight in gold to the farmers of this section where rains slip up so frequently unan nounced. What would a farmer give to know the previous night whether or not to take in his hay on account of the unexpected rain? He can find this out from his wireless. Is he assured the clouds wili give way to a clear sky before morning and permit frost which would kill his earjy beans and tomatoes? By using his wireless he can find out from Nashville, Louis then know whether or not to sell my vhogs or cattle." This is one of the many important things given out each night for the benefit of the rural pop ulation. In my section the weather report and the market quotation are given out each evening at 7:15 o'clock. Aside from its value in giving the farmer needed information, the wire less telephone has another strong fea tures that recommends it to country people. This is its value as an enter tainer. Nothing makes rural life so unple?sant as its monotony. Rural people are frequently deprived of theatres, picture shows, opera, and fine orchestras because the roads are too bad or the distance too great. Dur ing the cold nights of the winter sea son the farmer and his family can sit around their own fireside and listen to Schumann-Heinck, Galli-Curci, Fritz Eriestler and other noted ar tists entertain the people in the opera house in Atlanta, Boston or New Orleans, and also can actually hear the applause that occurs from one number to another. Would this make home life better or worth more to the children? Is there a red blooded boy in the country who does not like to see a baseball game? Wouldn't he be glad to know tonight who won this after noon? He surely would. Last evening the writer heard the market quota tions, weather report, baseball score, then a fine concert of singers and players, a man in Newark, New Jer sey, and a piano playing in Cincinna ti, Ohio. This all happened in a few moments while he was resting quiet ly in Memphis. The wireless telephdne is certainly one of the greatest inventions for ac tual service and entertainment for the rural population. They need more entertainment and recreation and with the radio they get entertainment and recreation of the highest order and get them right at home. How much it would mean to the average community to have a radio outfit in the school house or in the church where all could go and be benefitted. Would it not help to solve the prob lem of keeping the children on the farm? The Southern Agriculturist is lead ing out in this new field because it wants its readers to know pf every World's Greatest Liner Starts on First Voyage. Southampton, May 13.-The Ma jestic, the world's largest liner steamed out of Southampton harbor today on her maiden voyage to New York. The Mejestie, a virtual queen of the seas, was built for the Hamburg American line in Germany, but was turned over to the White Star line un der the terms of the reparations agreement. With a length over all of 950 feet, ?a height from keel to boat deck of 102 feet and a breadth of 100 feet, the Majestic has a gross tonnage of about 56,000 and a displacement of 64,000 tons when loaded to her marks. By reason of the altered eco nomic conditions caused by the war, she doubtless will be the last word in mercantile shipping for some time to come. Assisted by tugs, she made an im pressive spectacle as she swung round with her head to the sea and began to steam majestically out into the chan nel. Like most of the modern liners, the Majectic is an oil-burner and is car rying epough fuel for the round trip, as against one way bunkering with coal. Her designers confidently ex pect her to average twenty-three knots per hour. Equipment Impressive. The . Majestic's equipment is huge -and impressive and reveals some as tonishing figures. The linen, for instance comprises 190,000 pieces. Her sheets, stretched out side by side would make a line for sixten miles. There are fifteen miles of blankets, weighing seventeen tons; nineteen miles of tablecloths and seventeen miles of serviettes. Although if the entire linen of the ship were put on one huge clothes line it would reach for a distance of 162 miles! In things like crockery there are 8,000 tumblers, 3,000 cruets, 30,000 plates, 8,000' wine glasses, 16,000 cups; 2,400 teapots. Piled up, the crockery would make a column half as high again as the Woolworth build ing. In the galley arrangements, of which 'there are eight, there is one provided entirely for Jewish passen gers, something hitherto unknown. --Has MuchJFlftQJL-Space. antt ex ?.?Bc restaurant, and are all in ter-communicating. In the event of a fire on board the part of the ship in which the fire is situated it is immediately isolated by watertight and fireproof-bulkheads and the affected part flooded within a few minutes. The Majestic's passenger carrying capacity is 4,000. She will carry a crew of over 1,000. . Altogether this new transtalantic liner may be described as the highest expression of the shipbuilders' art-a combination of engineernig, architec tural and decorative genius-that ha^s so far been produced. Buy a FORD and bank the difference.-Adv. j Dont's for Dairy Farmers. Don't forget to wipe the cow's ud der and -flanks before milking. Don't milk with wet hands. Don't run cold milk through the separator. Don't forget to cool the cream im mediately after separation is com pleted. Don't mix warm milk and cool cream. Don'? put milk or cream into dirty vessels. Don't forget to wash the separator after each separation. Don't separate the milk without first straining it. Don't fail to operate the separator according to directions. Don't expect the cream c?n to reach destination unless it is plainly addressed. Don't feed dusty hay or ill-smelling feeds just before milking. Don't expect milk or cream to be .cooler than the surroundings* where it is kept. thing that is happening worth while, and it believes strongly in the wire less telephone. If you are interested in an instrument write us and we will gladly assist you in making the selection, securing the outfit and ans wer any question you may have rel ative to the wireless telephone. Other articles telling how you can assemble and erect your own wireless telephone will appear in early issues. -Southern Agriculturist. i '* . V * .'v ' Irish Delegates Signed the Re cent Treaty With England. Was Devised by Monks of Ireland In the Early Days of Christianity Ogham ls an Older System. Signatures of the Irish delegates on the Irish-English treaty received con siderable notice because they were the ancient Gaelic instead of the Brit ish names of the delegates, and be cause they were written in the florid and, in English eyes, distorted, Gaelic script. For one not accustomed to the Gaelic style of writing It was difficult to make out the signatures. Gaelic script ls old. It was devel oped by monks in Ireland in the early days cf Christianity. Yet there is an older script than this. There is a more genuine Gaelic system of writ ing, known as Ogham. Ogham is the system of writing which grew from some root which may have been contemporaneous with the root of the Celtic race. Andi curi ously, Ogham may still *?e found in traces in Ireland among the Cymri of Wales and the Gaels of Scotland. Ogham specimens may be found en graved on flat rocks in whatever sec tions of earth Celts were in the days of Ogham. There-is a story of a shopkeeper in a little town In Ireland, who lived less than a hundred years ago and who was nagged continually while he lived by the authorities because, they said, he had no sign, above the door of his shop. He tried to show them the sign and tried to read it to'?them, and finally someone who knew .what Ogham was satisfied the authorities by translating lt into letters which the authorities recognized. The scratches over the door of the shop, when put Into English letters, really spelled out that old Irishman's name. Nobody knows how Ogham started -or when. The nature of the writing -the foundation of It-has led men to believe it grew in a time when the only writing surfaces were blocks of stone. It is essentially a script for scratching. The Ogham alphabet has 20 letters, beginning, In order, with B, L, S, In stead of the A, B, 0 of the Phoenician' alphabet, which must have been born ages after Ogham. The Ogham alpha bet ls divided into four groups ; all the letters are alike, being Unes, and are distinguishable from one another by the number of lines used, by position polar regions 10 winters auu . mers myself, and during most of that time I have carried reliable thermome ters, so that I could say from my own experience how cold it is up there in winter, but I prefer to quote the rec ords of the Canadian and American weather bureaus. I have written both of them and asked them to give me the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Canadian station at Herschel island on the north coast of Canada near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, and the American station near Point Barrow, at the north tip of Alaska, about 300" miles north of the Arctic circle. The replies in both cases were identical: 'We have never recorded anything lower than 54 degrees Fah renheit below zero.' "The other day I was reading over a report of the meteorological observa tions of my Arctic expedition of 1913 18, made by the second in command, Dr. R. M. Anderson. He says: The lowest temperature of the winter was 46 degrees below zero,* or about like Saranac Lake, New York state, which ls a winter resort." , Jazzes Them Up. Digging the family out of bed in the morning to the sound of a phono graph is the successful method dis covered by the mother of a large and sleep-loving brood in the Sheepshead bay section. Every member of the family except the mother goes out either to school or to work, and as there isn't an early bird in-the whole family lt has proved rather difficult for mother to get the household started In time to evade reproofs of school authorities or to keep their Jobs. Recently she noticed how her chil dren doted on jazz and. ?hought out her famous early rising plan. Before going to bed she tied one ena of a. piece of string to the hammer of the alarm clock and the other end to the starting lever of the phonograph. Clock and jazz started In magical ac cord the next morning and by 6:30 the family was downstairs dressed and dancing up an appetite.-Pitts burgh Dispatch. Professional "Aunts. Miss Fort of London ls the inventor of the "Universal Aunt" who stands ready to perform all kinds of services at so much an hour. She has eight women In her employ, each one of which has some specialty. Some stand ready to take children to places of amusement, others to act as guides. There vare nurses, teachers, shoppers and chaperons. There is constant demand for the services of these vernen and Miss Fort is making a fine living at the head of her body of ..aunts." No War Tax Effective May 8, 1922, the Excise Tax on United States Tires for passenger car?, both casings and tubes is absorbed by the makers and is not added to the selling price. United States- Rubber Company i r v r r f r r r I r f r f r t t r f f r f f. r v r f f r f r r r r r r r f f f r r r r r f r f f f f f f r r f r f r r 7 r f f r r r I r r r, chasers of Vi |HEN the "Usco" Tire announced its new price of $10.90 it carried this understood contract with the buyer A price reduction made in good faith using all the U. S. advanced art of tire mak ing not only to get the price down, but to keep the quality up. * * * Today $10.90 is not the uncommon price it was last November. But the "Usco" Tire is still the uncommon tire value it always has been? *' Because in carrying out the "Usco"price reduction in good faith, we learned something about rais? ing the quality, too. United States Tires are Good Tires 1922 United States Tires United States ? Rubber Company Fittv-thru Fae tories Th? Oldest and Lccraftt Rubber Organization in ?hs World Two hundred and thirty-five Branchen ALE BY ls & Bro., Johnston, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ?DGEFIELD COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Lillie F. Adams, Plaintiff, Against I W. Adams, the Bank of Johnsto The Bailey-Lebby Co., Shappleig Hardware Co., A. L. Kanter, Ti McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., Hoc Rubber Products Co., Brown Bigelow, Indian Refining Co., Can lina Auto Supply House, Michell Tire Co., and The B. F. Goodric Rubber Co., Defendants. (Summons for relief. Complair not served.) To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and r< quired to answer the complaint in thi action which is filed in the office o the-Clerk of Court of Common Plea; for the said county, and to serve copy of your answer to the said com plaint, on the subscribers, at thei office at Edgefield, South Carolina within twenty days after the servie thereof, exclusive of the day of sud service; and if you fail to answer th complaint within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will appl: to the Court for the relief demandei in the complaint. SHEPPARD BROS., Plaintiff's i Attorneys. April 21st, A. D., 1922. To the Defendants above named: You will take notice that the ori ginal Summons and Complaint in the above entitled action, are now on file in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Edgefield Coun ts, State of South Carolina. SHEPPARD BROS., Plaintiff's Attorneys. Attest : P. L. Cogburn, (Seal) Clerk of Court Common Pleas. FOR SALEI Any one wishing a copy of the Life of D. A. Tompkins can procure same at-the store of W. E. Lynch & Co., Edgefield, S. C., price $1.25. This book ought to be read by every young man in the county. , To Preveut Blood Poisoning ipply at once, the wonderful old reliarle DE PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a sut ?ical dressing that relieves pain and heals at w 8am? time. Not a liniment, ^25c 50c. 31.00. ' > ? > N?TICE TO CREDITORS of Application For Discharge In the District Court of the United States For the Western Dis trict ol: South Carolnia IN THE MATTER OF Victor Daitch, Edgefield, S. C., Bank rupt. No. B-387 in Bankruptcy To the creditors of the above named Bankrupt: Take notice that on May 8, 1922, the above named bankrupt filed his petition in said Court praying that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts prov able against his estate, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge, and a hearing was thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on June 8, 1922 before said Court, at Greenville in said District, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. Dated at Greenville, S. C., May 8, 1922. Lombard Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works and Mill Supply House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Grate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc Cast every day. % GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing as? Feed Grinding Outfits. I am now prepared to sell ice in any quantity. Will deliver anywhere in town. J. P. NIXON. McMurrain's old stand near depot., ?bbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ; i ~~~ ORGANIZED 1892. V* _____ Prop erl1.y Insurred $17.226,000. WRITE OR CALL on the under signed for any information you may desire about cur plan of insurance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM, or LIGHT ' v. NING and do so cheaper than any Com panyan existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove te you that- ours is the safest and cheapest plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick, Edgefield,; Laurens, Saluda, Rich land, Lexington, Calhoun and Spar enburg, Aiken, Greenville, Pickens, Barnwell, Bamberg, Sumter, Lee, Clarendon, Kershaw, Chesterfield. The officers are: Gen. ?J. Fraser Lyon, President, Columbia, S. ,C, J. R. Blake, Gen. Agent, Secretary and Treasurer, Greenwood, S. C. -DIRECTORS A. 0. Grant, Mt, Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. J. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. C^, A. W. Youngblood, Dodges, S. C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. J Fraser Lyon, Columbia, S. C. W. C. Bates, Batesburg*, S. C. ? W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, General Agent. Greenwood, S. C. . Eggs For Hatching. Wyckoff and Tom Barron strain White Leghorns. "The Best Layers." $1.50 per setting f. o. b. Edgefield. $1.75 by parcel post. Mrs. Geo. F. Mims, Edgefield, S. C. Don't say shock absorbers say "Hasslers."-Y. M. C. Delicious VAN-NIL Delicious