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^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ (Mesi Jfeurapaper Jjttpmrth (tote ,_?_ _ _- ? ---r-fj?. ? ~ VOL. 87 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1922 No. 39. JOHNSTON LETTER. Reviva! Services in Progress. Missionary to be Married. Death of Mr. T. R. Hoyt. The revival services began on Mon day evening at the Baptist church, Rev. W. S. Brooke being assisted by Dr. Fuller of Greenwood. Dr. Fuller is a preacher of great force and magnetism, and once he has been heard, no one will ever miss an op portunity of hearing him again, when this is afforded. Mr. Hoffman of Rich mond, Va., has charge of the singing, and the junior choir has already been greatly enlarged, and with the or chestra, the music is greatly enjoyed. Music is a great force, and many a soul has been won for Christ through the song message. The morning ser vices are at ll o'clock and the even ing services at 7:30 o'clock. News comes of the approaching marriage of Rey^. John Jackson, of our community, and of the Philippi Baptist church who is now a mission ary in China, having been there about two years. He i? to be mar ried to Miss Garrett of Texas, who has been on the foreign field about one year. Their marriage will be sol emnized on the Chinese Christmas which falls in February. These two young people will no doubt be able to do even a greater work in the Mas ter's kingdom in their united strength. Mr. Tom R. Hoyt died on Satur day evening here at his home, after a sickness of about four months, there being a complication of dis eases. For the past month he was con fined to his room, and while his friends knew that his condition was serious the sudden end was a shock. Mr. Hoyt was a life long resident of this place, and he was held in warm est esteem by every one. He was a member of the Methodist church and was most faithful to it. The funeral services were conducted in the home on Sunday afternoon, and his pastor, Rev. David Kellar, spoke of what a true member the church had in him, and that he was always found in his pew each Sunday. Rev. W. S. Brooke, made some touching remarks on his home life. As his near neighbor, the love of home upon the part of Mr. Hoyt had been beautiful to see, and his devotion to his wife and children. Rev. Mr. Wright, of the Presbyterian church read the Bible lesson. After sweet songs the body was carried to the Mt. of Olives cemetery and laid to rest beside loved ones. Mr. Hoyt first married Miss Ada Louise Mob ley, and by this union there are four children, Mrs. Dent, of Columbia, , Miss Laurie Hoyt and Messrs Thomas and Johnnie Hoyt. He married Miss Ruth Williams the second time, there being one son, Marion. Two brothers are left, Messrs Will and John Hoyt. There were many beautiful flowers placed on his bier by loving friends. Misses Ruby Glover and Antoi nette Denny attended the Crouch Horde wedding that took place last Thursday at Saluda in the Baptist church. Mrs. Walter Sawyer entertained on Friday afternoon in honor of Miss Louise Boyd of Chester, who has been spending a few days here with her. The occasion was a very happy one and all were given a cordial wel come by the hostess. Progressive rook occupied the time and after the game the hostess served a tempting repast. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Lott and Mrs. P. N. Lott have been for a visit to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pickens Kinard at Greenwood. ^, Mrs. Susie Latimer has gone to Griffin, Ga., having been called there upon the illness of Mary Sue, the eight-year-old daughter of her son, Rev. Leon Latimer. The Johnston High School is to be congratulated upon the very interest ing eight page paper that it is now - getting out, this being edited by the ^ high school force. The paper is pub lished monthly and is called "Purple and Gold," the class colors, and is 50 cents a year. The young people are very enthusiastic over this and en couraged by the cooperation of those . who advertise through this medium, thus aid them in having this pub lished. Mr. Bettis Bouknight had a fine ex hibit of cotton at the state fair whici took the blue ribbon. Prof. Whilden, of Columbia was the. guest of friends here for the week-end. Mrs. W. E. LaGrone and children have gone to Aiken to visit the for mer's mother, Mrs. Coleman. Mr. A. J. Mobley has purchased the dwelling of Dr. C. P. Corn and he and his wfe will reside there, fol lowing the departure of Dr. and Mrs, Corn for their future home in Green ville. . The Apollo Music club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. M. T. Turner and Miss Frances Turner as hostess es and a very pleasant meeting was had. The club voted to have a com munity sing on the evening of Thanksgiving day and also Febru ary 22nd, if all things are suitable. Plans were made for the visit'of the state president and district president on November 22. The chairman of American Citizenship urged the mem bers to vote on Tuesday, November 7th at the general election, a request having also come from President General and national department chairman. The program on musical forms was enjoyed. Piano, Czardos, McDowell, Miss Sawyer. Vocal, Habener, Moszowski, Miss Barre. Piano, Tarantelle, Virgil, Miss Marie Lewis. Vocal, Selected, Mrs. David Kellar. Piano, Polka, Raff, Mrs. Mims Walker. All enjoyed a dainty repast, the hostesses being assisted in serving by Mrs. Wallace Turner and Mrs. Harry Strother. Mrs. Thomas Mitchell of Leesville is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. H. White. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Black of At lanta-are guests of Mri!.--Alice* Cox and their grandmother, Mrs. Mary Hamilton. Miss Louelle Norris of Columbia spent the week-end here with the homefolks. Mrs. Mattie Chavous of Bath has been the guest of friends;. < Mrs. Charlie Kenney of Warren ville has been for a visit to friends. Miss Annie Holmes Harrison, who is teaching music at Edgefield High School, spent the week-end here with her mother, Mrs. Annie Harrison. Miss Maude Wright has returned from Augusta where sb* has been spending a while with her sister, Mrs. Gerard Tarrant. Miss Natalie Yonce and Miss Eliz abeth Bubose of Ridge Spring have been visiting Miss Mary Walker. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Doboy and chil dren and Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Do bey have been to Augusta for a short visit' in the home of Mrs. 'Charlie Branson. Mrs. P. B. Waters was hostess for the New Century club cn Tuesday afternoon. There were many matters for discussion. Book week will be ob served, tnd it was suggesstad that one afternoon be an open meeting for mothers. The social service commit tee had done many pleasing things, and $1.50 for bulbs for winter flow ers was given the committee. The civ ic committee hoping that during the year the council could get possession of the $500 left by Capt Johnston in his will for this town which bears his name, stated that the members were also anxious to see the fount erected, for which this fund was stipulated. The committee will urge the council men to look into this matter and se cure funds. The member.? were all urged to vote on Tuesday, November 7th, by the American Citizenship chairman. Miss Clara Sawyer was elected delegate to the conference at Fairfax. The study topic being fa mous women, talks were given by Mrs. J. W. Marsh and Mrs. T. R. Den ny on Frances Willard and Mrs. S. J. Watson a talk on Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth. The hostess served a tempting salad course with coffee, being assisted by Mrs. W. C. Conner ly and Mrs. Huiet Waters. The rooms were bright with emblems of the Hal lowe'en evening. The Mary Ann Buie chapter met with Mrs. Annie B. Harison on Thur day. The members were glad to hear . - . f Mrs. Milne Visits Edgefield j W. C .T. U. On Monday afternoon under the auspices of the Woman's Christran' Temperance Union Mrs. G?oi Milne of Aberdeen, Scotland; ad^ dressed an audience at the Baptisa church telling of the prohibition sh>. uation in her own country of Scot| land and of the great difficulties ai?: tending the coming struggle for pro-, hibition in Scotland. She said the land was very old and traditions andi customs so strongly intrenched tha|j it would take mighty efforts to SUT. press the sale of intoxicants. Sher] gave expression to hope .for the t?? ture, as they now have local optioi and communities are privileged everj two years to vote on this question^] The first time this privilege was giv->| en, forty communities voted dry. Mrs. Tillman used in her orga?r preludes a medley of Scotch melo-a dies. Rev. A. T. Allen read the SeripV] ture and led in prayer. While the congregation sang "Thi? Morning Light is Breaking," all th& mothers present who had brought their children and were willing to rear them in the principles of tota? abstinence, came forward and the following children had the white rib bon bow tied on their wrists: Thomas Motte Kernaghan, - Miller,'' oosephine McDonald, Nelle Braxton Nicholson, Neta Crouch, Hortense Watson, Glenn Carter Allen, Marga> ret and Lillian Asbell, Mary Norris^ Wright, Bettie Walker and Georgia Coates Milne, ivlrs. W. B. Cogburn presented the children and Mrs.; Milne, representative of the World's ' W. C. T. U. tied the bow on then*1] wrists. Misses Lois and Felicia Minis gave a very beautiful and classic violin^ and piano duet by Verdi. One of the most enjoyable select tions was a mandolin solo, Traiim-i erei, with pipe organ accompany ment by- }lr. Evans,.Sei --Mrs.^-' audience by Mrs. J. L. Mims, who had previously heard Mrs. Milne in Newberry at the State Convention, and had heard her say ''When the doughty Scotchman decides that he must have prohibition he will have it." At the close of the address Mrs. T. H. Rainsford made a very gracious presentation of a bouquet of prize chrysanthemums grown by the cham pion chrysanthemum grower, Mrs. W. B. Cogburn. The flowers were beau tiful and Mrs. Milne accepted them in a few words of appreciation, but they were not more beautiful than the speech of presentation which Mrs. Rainsford made. The last selection was, "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," sung as a duet by Mr. and Mrs. Madison Tucker. The meeting closed with "Blest be the Tie That Binds." Sunday Services at First Bap tist Church. The pastor will preach next Sun day morning en "Getting By." Ev-] erybody is cordially invited to this service and all of our regular ser vices at eleven-thirty in the morning and seven-thirty at night. Every man not affiliated with the Sunday school is invited to attend our Baraca class. There were 136 present in this class last Sunday with 360 in the Sunday school. Come and be with us. of two more members, two having been received at the previous meet ing. The book, "Women of the South in War Times," which the chapter had purchased to present to the town library, had been received and pre sented. Several notes of good cheer, post cards and flowers had been sent by the social committee to the vet erans and elderly ladies who had beert sick. The. chapter voted to give to the Jefferson Davis memorial and Cunningham fund, also to aid in the marking of Secession Hill, this last request coming from Abbeville chap ter. A box of good things will be sent from the chapter to the County Home at Thanksgiving. Mrs. Harry Strother was elected delegate to the state convention at Greenwood, Mrs. J. W. Cox, alternate. A pleasing his torical program was had, which clos ed with a paper on "South Carolina's part in the War Between the States" written by Miss Frances Turner. Miss Florence Mims Gives 'Views on the Theatre. Dear Advertiser: ' When I was in Boston before, at school, I used to go every week to the different performances of the Hen ry Jewett Players. I would marvel at ?jheir excellence, never dreaming that one day I should myself be studying ^vith them. I sometimes used to leave :the theatre feeling that I had been to church, though you may think it was a very paradoxical emotion. I |lid not then try to analyze my thoughts as I do now. I only knew that my meditations on leaving the ^building on Saturday evening were ?hot greatly unlike those I experi enced on leaving a house of wor ship'., the next morning. I think that ?this is an explanation. In both places J learned a truth or truths. Though ? walked down two different ave nues; I arrived at each at a right con clusion about many phases of life. I The pulpit deals in one ws.y, and ?the actor in another. There are come ?people who disapprove of the thea tre/ and they learn only in the ^churches. There are others who nev ijer frequent a church and yet who have many vital principles of right living and right thinking portrayed ;on the platform. Now I am not for a moment thinking that anything does, or ever can.take the place of the church. We know, in reality, that ev ery right thing in the whole world came from the Bible. The best things .in the drama today, are another way of saying the principles of the New Testament. I am speaking of the great dramas 'bf the world, written by great men and played by people of culture and experience. When a good play is rightly interpreted it shows the evil of wickedness and the good of right eousness. It runs the whole gamut bf life in a few hours. A i crime is committed early in the have learned, if y oil dicTn?t mbWT? unmistakably before that there can be no wrong without terrible conse quences to the wrong doer, and that sometimes right early. The audience sees that the murderer or whoever the criminal may be, gives his peace of mind, that most cherished of all possessions. There is no harm actually done. The actor did not really commit the crime. The person whom he has seem ingly injured may be in reality his best friend. Yet th audience goes away with a peculiar understanding of that cross section of Iii?. The au dience has not. only learned through the eye but through the ear. A thought passes much more quickly to most of our minds if it is aided by the power of vision. So to me a play is often an impersonal sermon. The players are the preachers, and the audience is the congregation. There is never any offense, for neith er of the two groups knows the oth er. The audience sees the actors, but not the actors the audience. The players are blinded by the footlights, for they are not preaching to, but for that vast unseen multitude. If a bit of needed advice goes like an> arrow from the actor to a certain hearer, no one knows it, and the person is unembarrassed. For we are so made that we like to shield ourselves and our vanities. The more we can learn pleasantly, and the oftener we can be rebuked secretly, the more welcome to our selfish selves. The hearts of the hear ers are harps upon wKch the actors play and who shall say that the si lent music thus brought is not a hymn in tune with sublimity. Before the velvet curtain rises from the stage, there is a soft light glowing beneath it. To me it has seem ed like that "dim religious light that shines through stained glass win dows." A drama, too, is like an orchestra. There are the deep bass viols, speak ing of tragedy, and played, so to speak, by the tragedians, and so on through all the instruments to the piccolo note, symbolic of highest joy. and sounded by the player to whom falls the lot of happiness. It is the stage that helps us to see life with the true perspective, ;n the right proportions. Our personal ex periences seem just fragments, bright mosaics that time fastens to gether to make a picture, and we never see the completed scene. We live our little lives through the val leys and on the heights, but wc are so near ourselves that we can not stand off ^nd view our life landscape. Always there is the too ever present nearness of our reactions to our ac tions. The things that is tragedy yes terday^ nearly commonplace today, and the thing that annoys us today will be the source of merriment to morrow. But as we go to nee a drama or a comedy, we see, perhaps, someone's whole life story enacted. None of us is so different from the other, but that we recognize ourselves in all humanity about us. We accuse others of lacking what we lack ourselves, and are quick to attribute to others the fault of which we are guilty. . In a play we seem to see the prob lems solved in a moment that it took U3 years to solve. We are inspired to greater heights, .seeing the worth of true' effort. We are made more thankful that we do not possess the weaknesses that we see others victoms of. ,We see the pettiness of petty things and the magnitude of big things. We ac cept the law of compensation, see that what we have missed at one time, we have gained at another. It is as though each life were a piece of tapestry, the plan of which in all its detail is in the mind of our Maker. We on earth weave as near as we can j the pattern, the dark threads of sorrow and bright ones of joy, and it is never given us to see more than a day's weaving at a time. We would like to know if it had blended well. I like to think of a drama as some body's life work all done. It at first existed in the mind of the author. The players weave the threads. By seeing someone else attempting to win the constant struggle of life, though it be only an imaginary strife, thing 'uplif ting? .son??lmng>,a^m^?Vr' FLORENCE MIMS. Money in Cotton. Here is a little editorial from The State, Columbia, presenting a point of view thoroughly logical and thor oughly heartening to the farmers of South Carolina. Read it: Until a year or two ago it was of ten advisable to warn Southern far mers against over-production of cot ton. Cotton associations carried on energetic campaigns for curtailment of acreage. Exactly the reverse has come about with the arrival of the boll weevil. Too many men are leaving the farms in the belief that cotton growing will no more be profitable. The outlook for the intelligent, diligent cotton grower, willing to read, attend, listen and learn is de cidedly better than it has been in many a year. The danger of over-production is eliminated. At the price that prevailed yes terday a quarter of a bale fetches as much money as a bale sold 25 years ago. To thoroughly understand the com ditions reflected in the above is the beginning of wisdom for the cotton grower in this state. There is going to be money in growing cotton more money than ever before for the man who can grow it. It is going to be more difficult to produce cotton than before. Brains are going to be necessary in its production. And brains are always rewarded. The far mer who does not believe anything the students of agriculture say, and refuses to accept their teachings, will not raise cotton. The boll weevil will eat his. crop every year and he will finally quit or go broke. While the man who has ears to hear and uses his ears for their purpose will make cotton and get a good price for it. The boll weevil simply out wits the ignorant and restricts the production. It is another application of the law, unto him that hath shall be given. Spartanburg Herald. Banks to Close. The three banks of Edgefield will be closed Friday, November 10th, 1922 in observance of Armistice Day which is Saturday, November 11th, 1922. Orphanage Work Day Plan for" Thanksgiving Period, 1922. For several years the orphanages" of this state, and in other Southern, stater,, have observed a custom that has now become well established among our Sunday schools. Joint re quest is made by Thornwell Or-' phanage, the Church Home Orphan age, Epworth Orphanage and Connie Maxwell Orphanage that all people who love God and little children wilt contribute the in-come or the wages, of at least one day to the orphanage of his choice. It is suggested that the plan be handled in every Sunday School in South Sarolina by an nouncements made well in advance and that a 'Saturday be selected on which everybody including the chil dren shall devote himeslf to a task orr special job if necessary, and. con tribute the income of the day at his church on the following Sunday. Per haps in some places it may prove more acceptable to have everything brought in on Thanksgiving day. Each community may work out its own plan for the observance of the day but it is hoped that many thou sands of our people will adopt the scheme. If the friends of the orphans should with any sort of unanimity en ter into the proposed observance^ of the day there is little doubt that each of our four church orphanages would receive enough to supply the current needs for some time to come. Dial Will Resume Fight on Tolbert. Washington, Nov. 7.-Senator ?. B. Dial of South Carolina declareo today that he would resume his fight against the confirmation of Joseph W. Tolbert, Republican, appointed by the president to be marshal of the Western district of South Carolina. The fight was waged before a subcommittee of the judiciary com mittee of the senate? After the ad journment , of congress, the president jgayj^TTfift and':lie -^^^^?v?^^^i^^^t^?M Senator Dial, after stating that he would renew the fight, expressed sur prise that the president, with the* evidence before the subcommittee, had given the recess appointment and confidence that Tolbert wouldi never be confirmed. Minstrel at Flat Rock School House. There will be a "Negro Minstrel"" at the Flat Rock school building Fri day evening, November 17th. The program will be as follows: Grand Opening Potpourri. Opening chorus, entire company Comic recitation, gags, etc., Mr. Wallace, Mrs. Jones. Vocal duet, Mrs. Squash, Mrs. Brown. Monologue, Mrs. Mack . Instrumental music, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Sweatman. Chorus, entire company. Comic songs, gags, etc., Mr. Cleve land. Monologue, Mrs. Squash. Vocal solo, Miss Happ. Gags and dancing, Mr. Tate, Mr. Wilson. Instrumental music, Mr. Wallace,. Mr. Sweatman. Chorus, entire company. Intermission. Concluding with those side-split ting farces, Colored Suffragettes and Oh! Doctor. Doors open at 7:30. Performance commences at 8:00. Admission 15 and 25 cents. Forty-Sixth Anniversary of '76. Mr. J. W. Reese reminded us yes terday it was the 46th anniversary of the memorable election of 1876. It was likewise held on the 7th of No vember. Mr. Reese says he has yet in his possession the Colts cap and ball pistol which he carried on the elec tion day, November 7, 1876, being in as good condition today as it was 46 years ago. We are glad to report that Mr. Reese did not have to use his Colts in 1876, but would have done so with peculiar zest had it been necesasry. FOR SALE: 3,000 stalks of Rib bon Cane for planting, from 3% to 6 feet high, at 2 cents per stalk. Ap ply to Jack Hamilton on Mr. J. R. Cantelou's farm, Edgefield, S. C.