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Five Ways of Makin;? the munity More Beautifi We need more beauty in ru chitecture. There has been a improvement in this rspect in years, but too many farm hous still "without form and voi takes no more money or mate: build a house along approve beautiful architectural lines tl does to build one in the form architectural monstrosity. And is just as much difference bet\ planless, ill-shaped house and z ly beautiful design as there tween a Mother Hubbard dres one of the finest creations < dressmakers art. No farmer to be allowed to build a house out modeling it on the plans competent architect. A small 1 beautiful and well built, may t more attractive and enjoyable place of residence than a poorly "ned house twice as big and ct "twice as much. 2. Let's help "Make the Soi Land of Painted Farm Houses -this day of high-priced lumbei ligh-priced carpenters, paint .for itself once as a financial ir. ment. It pays a second time ii added beauty it gives to the hou pays a third time in the psyche cal influence on the people who in the house. Men and women, "nnd girls, who live in a beauti painted house almost ijnvari come to feel that they must their work and their farming their ganeral attitude toward Iii progressive as the painted h gives pledge of their being. It is for a man to get the> spirit of,"; and hustle in an unpainted, : shackle dwelling. The painting w brightens the building often bri . ens the lives of all the occups too. 3. Let's make the home groi beautiful. We are not going to gest plans that call for the cons watchfulness of a caretaker on home grounds. It is not hard, 1 ever to have grass on the lawn mow it a few times a year. ] Lindsay Patterson has also poii out repeatedly that if you are busy to' care for regular flowers is still easy to plant flowering shi which ask for no attention on y part and yet go on pouring ot wealth of blossom and fragra year after year without money f without price. I have frequently : ommended four flowering shr that give a succession of beauty fi early spring until frost-the Ju tree, dogwood, mimosa and cr; myrtle-these to be followed some evergreen-pine, magnolia, liveoak, to give a touch of color the winter landscape. 4.0ur fields and forests need b ter care. We need to quicken ( sense of the beautiful as applied our fields and forests. The sheer i liness of a gullied field or a fi swept forest out to hurt us as woi some deformity or show of disei in a horse orcow. Abeautifullyshs ed and well kept field is as fine example of art and beauty as a bea tifully formed and well groom horse. And I know nothing of t sort that should be more constant taught the children than a love f beautiful trees and whole forests them. 5. Church buildings and scho buildngs should be the most beaul ful buidlings in the community. Ni only should these buildings be tl best in the matter of architectur materials, care and painting, bi they should have the most beautifi grounds. Too often nowadays we fin oases where large amounts of mone have been spent for the erection c beautiful high school buildings c . church buildings but not a thing ha been done to improve and beautif the grounds. This is like buying beautiful picture and nailing it u on the wall without a frame. Th ..school and church buildings belon; ..to all the people o fthe community And the love of the people should b lavished on them. If boys and girl through the formative years of thei young lives go on week-days ti school buildings beautiful in archi tectural design, made beautful with in by reproductions of masterpiece! of painting, and beautiful without bj a year-round succession of blossom, ing shrubs and evergreens, they will want the same sort of beauty foi themselves when they later come tc build and make homes. And in the case of churches, beautiful architec ture and beautiful grounds will in fluence both old and young in the community.-Progressive Farmer. .Whenever Yon Neefl a General 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 out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds op the WhoK System. 50 cents Managers and Clerks for Pri mary Election for Edge field County, August 29th, 1922. Bacon: J. B. Yonce, Cole Berry, E. N. Smith, W. H. Smith, Clerk. Polling place, Store of J. M. Yonce. Cleveland: S. T. Pettigrew, T. L. Talbert, D. W. Smith, Charlie Jones, Clerk. At Pettigrew's Store. Colliers: Joe Hammond, Crafton Hammond, John Mathis, Murphey Miller, Clerk. Store of Tuck Mathis. Calhoun: J. G. Halford, J. H. White, Joe Clark, J. L. Walker, Clerk. Store of A. S. Rhoden. Edgefield No. 1.: W. J. Duncan, W. L. Dunovant, Jr., D. J. LaGrone, J. H. Nicholson, Clerk. Evans' Of fice. Edgefield No. 2: J. W. Kemp, T. A. Hightower, W. W. Adems, S. B. Mays, Clerk. Court House. Lee: J. W. Cox, Elsie LaGrone, Mike W. Crouch, John Wright, Clerk. Lott-Walker Store. Long Branch: L. C. Clark, W. L. Rutland, D. G. Derrick, L. S. Yonce, Clerk. L. C. Clark's Store. Meeing Street: W. M. Ransom, E. G. Lewis, J. M. Bell, J. K. Allen, Clerk. T. A. Owdom's Store. Meriwether: F. B. Barker, T. B. Harley, Dr. J. T. Reese, J. H. Mathis, Glerk. Meriwether Hall. Moss: T. P. Morgan, W. A. Reel, R. C. Griffis, D. D. Brunson, Clerk. West and Williams Store. Pleasant Lane: N. F. Manly, E. M. Timmerman, Whit Harling, M. B. Byrd, Clerk. F. L. Timmerman's Store. Red Hill: C. F. Mathis, 0. 0. Tim merman, Lewis Eubanks, R. M. Johnson, Clerk. Red Hill Store. Ropers: W. D. Lanham, F. F. Rainsford, W. J. Lanham, J. D. Bos well, Clerk. Boswell's Store. Rock Hill: R. D. Seigler, E. C. Winn, John Press Sullivan, J. D. Hughey, Clerk. Residence of J. C. C. Seigler. Trenton: T. P. Salter, J. R. Smith, Ed Harrison, James D. Mathis, Sr., i Clerk. Store of J. D. Mathis, Sr. 30. The managers shall open the polls at 8 o'clock a. m., and close them at 4 o'clock. The managers shall then proceed publicly to count the votes. After tabulating the result the managers shall certify the same and forward the ballot box, contain ing the ballots, poll list and all other papers, except the club roll, relating to such election, by one of their number to the chairman of the coun ty committee within 36 hours after the close of the polls. 3t>. The county committees shall assemble at their respective court houses on the morning of the second day after the election on or before 12 o'clock noon to tabulate the re turns and declare the results of the primary so far as the same relates to members of the general assambly and county offices, and shall forward immediately to the chairman of the state committe at Columbia, S. C., the result of the election in their re spective counties for United States senator, State officers, congressmen, and solicitors. The State committee shall proceed to canvass the vote and declare the result. 36. The protests and contests for county officers and members of the general assembly shall be filed with in two days after the day of the dec laration by the county committee of the result of the election with the chairman of the county committee and said county committee shall hear and determine the same at its first meeting thereafter. Rule 45.' Section 1. In every primary elec tion in this State there shall be pro vided at each polling precinct one booth for every 100 enrolled voters, or majority fraction thereof. The booths shall be made of wood, cheap metal, or any other suitable sub stance, shall not be less than 32 inch es wide and 32 inches deep, and 6 feet 6 inches high, shall be provided with a curtain hanging from the top in front to within 3 feet of the floor, and shall have a suitable shelf on which the voter can prepare his tick et. Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any pre cinct where there are less than fifty (50) voters enrolled on the club roil at such precinct. Section 2. The polling places shall be provided with a table for the man agers. The polls shall be provided with a guard rail, so that no r?ne ex cept as hereinafter provided shall ap proach nearer than 5 feet of the booth in which the voters are pre paring their ballots. Section 4. The managers shall be responsible for all ballots furnished. When a voter presents himself he shall be given a ballot. The manager in charge of the poll lists shall enter the number of the ballot next the name of the voter. The voter shall forthwith retire alone to one of the booths, and without undue deiay pre pare his ballot by scratching out the name of the candidate for whom does not care to vote. No voter si remain in the booth longer thai minutes. After preparing his bal the voter shall present himself the manager. His ballot must folded in such a way that the ni ber can be seen and the coupon i be readily detached by the mana without in any way revealing printed portion of the ballot. If voter is not challenged, and ta the prescribed oath, the mana shall tear off the coupon, put it file, stamp the ballot, and the vo shall deposit his ticket in the b and shall immediately leave the p ing place. If a voter sh?ll mar or face his ballot, he. may obtain ( additional ballot upon returning the manager in charge of the balli the ballot so marred or defaced, w the coupon attached. The manai in charge of the poll list shall chai the number of the ballot on his i list ,and place the defaced ballot file. No voter shall be given a secc ballot until he has returned the fi one with coupon attached. Section 5. No person ?hall be lowed within the guard rail except hereinafter provided. If a voter c? not read or write, or is physica disabled, and by reason thereof i not sign the enrollment book, he nc appeal to the managers for assi ance, and the chairman or the ni? agers shall appoint one of the mi agers and a by-stander to be des nated by the voter, to assist him preparing his ballot: Provided. Af the voter's ballot has been prepar the by^stannder so appointed sh immediately go behind the gus rail. Provided further, That in cit containing 55,000 inhabitants more, the chairman of the managi shall appoint two of the watchi representing different factions assist him in preparing the balli after the voter's ballot has been p: pared, the watchers so appoint shall immediately go behind i guard rail. Provided further, That there be no such watchers availab the chairman may appoint two t standers who are qualified to vote such primary to assist the voter the preparation of his ballot. Section 6. From the time of t opening of the polls until the a nouncement of the result and t ?signing of the official returns, person shall be admitted to the po ing place except the managers, du authorized watchers and challenge: the chairman of the executive coi mittee or member of the executi committee appointed in his stead supervise the polling place, perso duly admitted for the purpose of vc ing, police officers admitted by tl (managers to preserve order of e force the law, Provided, howeve That candidates for public officc.vc ed for at such polling place may 1 present at the canvass of the vote Provided, Canvass of the votes shi be open to the public. Section 7. If the watchers or if cers of the law who are admitted 1 the polling place by the manage: shall interfere with the managers ( obstruct the voting, it shall be tl duty of the managers to suspend tl election until order is restored, or i may be provided by the rules of tl party. No persons shall be allowed 1 approach polling places within 2 feet while polls are open, other tha the persons herein provided for. Section 8. Upon the close of th election, managers shall account t the executive committee for all ba lots delivered to them, and make th following return: (a) The numbe of official ballots furnished to eac polling precinct, (b) The number o official ballots spoiled and returne by voters, (c) The number of offic? ballots actually voted. Copy of rules will be mailed t managers of each club with tickets Each executive committeeman i hereby notified that he will be re quired to furnish the managers o election with two suitable boxes, on for tickets for candidates for Stat offices and one for candidates fo Congressional and County offices. (Ordinary cigar boxes will do.) . Any ballot deposited in the wronj bax shall not be counted. That ii case the managers find more ballot in the ballot box than names on thi poll list the managers shall draw ou the excess ballots and destroy them J. H. CANTELOU, County Chairman. Cheap Money For Farmers. The Edgefield National Farn Loan Association has $36,000 to lene to farmers at five and one half pei cent, for The Federal Land Bank ol Columbia. Applicant may file application noi later than. Sept. 1st. next, for this al lotment. B. E. Timmerman, Secretary-Treasurer. Farm Loan Association, Edgefield* S. C. 8-2-3t ^ * ' .? HELP WAS URGENTLY NEEDED Darky Evidently Had Troubles of Hi? Own With That "Possum" Hit Partner Shook Down. Two negroes, Salvation Jones and King Agrippa Johnson, living near the Dismal swamp went 'possum hunting one dark night. A warm trail was struck, and the dogs soon "treed." Salvation, being the better climber, volunteered to go up and shake down the 'possum, whereupon King Agrippa made ready to catch lt in the sack they took along for that purpose. Instead of an opossum, the dogs had treed a wildcat. As Salvation made his way to the topmost branches the animal retreated still farther out on the overhanging limbs, and emit ted an angry sharl. ,. "Huh? How's dat?" exclaimed Sal vation. "Never heard no 'Possum talk ?ak dat befoT* "Go on, Salvation. To' ain't heera nothln' but de dogs. Shake him loose I Tse waltln'," urged King Agrippa. Climbing a little farther out, Salva tion gave the limb a mighty shake and dislodged the wildcat Suddenly a chorus of yells, howls, screeches and cuss words broke loose from below. "Hey, dar, King Agrippa !" anxiously called down Salvation. "Yo* want me ter come down an' help yo' hoi' him?" "Naw, suh," yelled Agrippa. "Ah wants yo' ruh come down an' help me ( ter tu'n him aloose !"-Judge. STRANGE MONSTER IN AFRICA English Scientist Tells of Creature " Which He Thinks May Have ' Been Giant Python. F. C. Cornell, Fellow of the Royal Geographical society, who recently re turned to England after spending twenty years lu practically unknown parts of South Africa, ls author of a story about an unknown monster that had been seen near the Great falls of the Orange river. It hos a huge head and a neck ten feet long like a bend ing tree. It seizes the native cattle and drags them under water. The natives call it "Kyman," or the Great Thing. Last May Mr. Cornell, accompanied by two white companions, W. H. Brown and N. B. Way of Capetown, and three Hottentots, went to the junction of the Oub and Orange riv ers to see the monster if possible. He writes: "At the cries of the na tives I saw something black, huge, .and sinuous swimming rapidly against the current In the swirling rapids. The monster kept Its enormous body under water, but the neck was plainly visible. The monsfer may have been a very gigantic python, but If lt was it was of an Incredible size. This rep tile may have lived for hundreds of years. Pythons approaching It In size have been said to have lived that long." Last Feeling of Satisfaction. Postmaster Chance told the Ki wanis club last week how he took an examination to get his first pro motion in government service. He entered as a messenger. One day be happened to look into a room and saw about thirty people bending over tables. "What are they doing?" he asked. "They are taking an examination for promotion," he was told. "Don't you want tc try?" If they were trying to play a joke on M. 0. Chance of Illinois he called their bluff. He went In, took the examination and later was told that he was the only one promoted. "I tell you, I felt pretty proud," de clared Postmaster Chance, recalling the time, "until they told me that the others had taken the examination for promotion to $1,000 and that I had been the only one to take the exam ination for promotion to ?1,000." Washington Star. Eddie Knewl Eddie is a high school freshie. He la enthusiastic over sports, and, with his father, has witnessed practically all of the wrestling matches held re cently In Indianapolis. His teacher had urged the pupils to attend at least one of the Shakespearean plays scheduled at a local theater, and finally asked whether any of the pu pils had ever seen Robert Mantell. "Yes," put In Eddie without a mo ment's hesitation, as he recalled the name of Al Mantell, a noted wrestler. "I saw him wrestle Jack Reynolds." The sally was good for a big laugh at his expense.-Indianapolis News. Stung But Rewarded. Patrons of a Long Island telephone line complained of a buzzing on the wires and a trouble hunter was sent out to locate the difficulty. He lo cated it and he did something oise, for he found that a swarm of bees had made a hive in the connection box on a telephone pole. The trouble hunter worked for hours and finally routed the bees with a fire extinguish er. He was badly stung, but he was rewarded by ten pounds of honey stored in the connection box. Takes City Directory's Place. How the telephone book ls displac ing the directory ls illustrated by com plaints In Brooklyn, which has no city directory now, that it is hard to find the address of persons living there unless they have a telephone. Of course everybody of consequence ought to have telephone service now, but all of these who can't are of con sequence to themselves, and many of them an of consequence to others. Moral: Live out in the country, where everybody knows you?-Boston Daily Clohi__ Careless Crossers Vie With 1 Rail Trespassers in Gam ble With Death. Washington, D. C., August 19.- ] Increased safety for passengers and < employees was achieved by the South i ern Railway System during the first I five months of 1922, but fatalities ; among persons who were neither ? passengers nor employees showed an increase of 24.64 per cent, according : to an announcement by the South- i em's Safety Department. During this period not a passenger i was killed and fatalities among em- ? ployees decreased 27.2 per cent as compared with 1921, but 86 other i persons were killed as against 69 in ? 1921. Of this total, 42, lost their lives while trespassing on tracks, 13 while : tresspassing on trains, and 28 killed i in highway crossing accidents. "These figures show," the state- : ment says, "that while the Southern . has been able to protect the passen gers who pay to ride on its trains and the employees whose duty it is to operate them, it has not had equal success in controlling fatalities among persons who insisted on walk ing on tracks or climbing on trains where they had no business, or among persons who attempted to cross its tracks without taking the simple precaution to see that no train was approaching." Painting and Stenciling. Place cards, tally cards and invi tations made of good quality of pa per and decorated with simple or elaborate designs. Luncheon sets stenciled in oils on best quality of sanitas. All orders will be promptly filled and appreciated. Write me for further information. SUSAN ADAMS, Edgefield, S. C. Six Per Cent Money All land owners desiring loans on farm lands at 6 per cent interest for a period of 5 to 33 years can apply through the Peoples Bank of Edge field, S. C., representative for The First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank of Columbia, S. C. Straight loans; no commissions. THE PEOPLES BANK. Edgefield, S. C. July 4th, 1922. We Can Give Yoi on Mill Work an< Large stock of Rough and D Immediate % Woodward QUAL1TY Corner Roberts arid Du Spend Next Sund Isle of 3.50 ED?( Good Only on Train Leaving ?< via Columbia. Arrive al Returning leave Charleston 5:15 P. leaving Charleston 3:00 A. M. No b; lor or sleeping cars. ENTIRE DAY OF FUN AND Excellent Sailing, Bathing, Fishing Charleston, Fort Moultrie and Sullivj WEEKEND i TICKETS < Sold for trains Saturdays and Sunc reach original starting point prio date of sale. Summer Excursion tickets bearing f sale to Mountain and Seashore Rn communicate with Ticket Agents Southern Rai Legislation to Block Raise in Prices of Fuel. Washington, Aug. 15.-Immediate egislation to prevent coal' profit eering the coming fall and winter .vas forecast today by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Attorney Gener al Daughterty and Fuel Distributor Spencer. This legislature would give the fuel distributor powers approaching those conferred on the fuel adminis trator during the war to fix prices on :oal all the way from the mine to the consumer. The Hoover voluntary price regulation has broken down", the secretary admitted today, as ?roup after group of producing op erators have disregarded it. Exceptan the West Virginia fields, it is not being adhered to in any pro ducing district. With the settlement of the bitu minous and anthracite strikes, which will bring the now idle union mines into the competition, the secre tary admits it will be practically im possible to regulate prices without the authority of a price fixing law. Legislation may go so far as to create a commission to investigate the whole coal industry and provide compulsory arbitration of the mine wage question, so as to prevent a re currence of a coal strike next spring. "The situation is such that there l ) have to be some suffering and extortion for the time being, but the American people are not going to stand it forever," declared the attor ney general. "Something will grow out of this situation, and a way will be found." President Harding received virtual assurance of the end of the anthra cite strike in the Pennsylvania fields by Monday, as the result of the con ference to be held tomorrow at Phil a d?lphia between representatives of the anthracite operators and the United Mine Workers. Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania, told the president at the White House of his belief that the anthracite, contro versy would be settled within a week. Whenever You Need a Generai 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 out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents* ii Prompt Service i Interior Finish reseed Lumber on hand for Deliverv. Lumber Co. -SERVICE gas Sts., Augusta, Ga, lay on Delightful Palms ?ND TRI? FROM JEFIELD, S. C. dgefield 7:30 P. M. Saturdays t Charleston 7:55 A. M. M. Sundays; also, good on train aggage checked. Not good in par FROLIC AT THE SEASHORE and Water Sports. See Historical m's Island. $6.25 lays, with final limit returning to | j r to midnight Tuesday following fi inal limit October 31, 1922, now on sorts. Stopovers. For particulars lway System