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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
The Annual Parade.

That the almost continuous down.
pour last Friday made the holding
of the parade impossible that after
noon was very generally regretted.
Some who had planned floats and
rigs had to give them up altogether
on account of the unfayorable
weather, and it appeared for time
that the parade would have to be
abandoned entirely. But, undaunt.
ed by rebuffs, discouragements and
adverse conditions, the ladies who
had labored so assiduously from the
outset for its success would not let
it fail. Announcing the parade for
Saturday afternoon, the ladies OF
the parade committee got together
all of the rigs, foats,school wagons,
etc., that had not been injured by
the rain and held an exceedingly
creditable parade, one that would
do credit to a much larger place
than Edgefeld.
With Capt. w. A. Collett as
marshal of the day the parade was
formed in the Evans grove In the
following order:
Mounted squad from Edgeheld
Rifles. Commissioned officers OF the
Is. G. G. I. mounted. Horse back
riders, Miss Bessie Woodson with
Master James Hart, 1st prize; Miss
Mamie Cheatham with Master Oscar
Cheatham. The Advertisers decor
ated vehicle. Trades display OF
Beaver Dam Mill, 1st prize. Lott
school wagon, End prize. Beaver
Dam school, lst prize. Decorated
rigs, Misses Edwardina Blalock and
| ] Josephine Woodson 1st prize, Miss
jamie Harris and DR.. A. H. Corley
Child's rig, Master Irwin Padgett
and Miss Ouida Pattison, represent
ing Uncle Sam" and Miss Co
lumbia" 1st prize. Wagon of Gowns
Float of U. d. c., and float of Dix
lie Chapter, auxiliary of U. D. G.
lst prize. A prettily decorated auto
mobile representing Capt. Bright
moving picture show was the last Il
enter the parade.
Although they were not awarded
a prize on their exquisitely beauti
full rig, Miss Harris and DR.. Corle1
were showered with compliments
The child's rig was also centr
of admiration. Not only was the lit
tie turnout decorated in the best o.
taste but the costumes and demean
or of the occupants were faultless
The fair association is under last
ing obligations to the members o
the parade committee for the valua
BILE services which were so unselfish
ly rendered.
Comment upon the exhibits ant
fair generally will have to be post
poned until next week on accoun
of the crowded conditions of ou
columns.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
Trenton's Floral Fair.

The annual floral fair will be
held at Trenton Saturday next in
the old Methodist church. Turkey
dinner will be served as heretofore
for the benefit of the cemetery. The
Trenton ladies are noted for both
their fine flowers and ssumptous
feasts, so all who go will enjoy the
day thoroughly. The Advertiser be-
speaks for these good ladies gen,
erous patronage.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
Cancelled Engagement.

On account of sickness Rev. P.
P. Blalock could not fill the engage
ment which he made to preach in
the First Baptist church AZ Orange
burg Sunday. He was taken sick
Friday and his physician advised
him to cancel the engagement,
stating thatit would be exceedingly
unwise and imprudent to go to Or
angeburg.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
For Sale.

House and adjoininglotof of 3acres near
public square. Orchard, ga rden,good
well, pasture, barn, buggy house
and other outbuildings. House
piped for ace@lyene gas. For price
and terms apply to w. A. Byrd at
Edgefeld or
w. A. Strom,
Pleasant Lane, S. G..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
NOTICE.

The tract of land containing ST
acres, more or less, belonging to
the estate of the late G. E. Holston,
being part OF the Holston home
stead, will be sold at public outory
before the court house on salesday
in November.
Terms cash.
w. L. Holstcn,
Administrator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
FRIDAY BARGAINS


Our Friday bargains during October de-
cided success. Look at what follows for every
Friday in November.
9 pks Eagle and Thistle soda for Csc, ltd.
s Arm & Hammer Csc,
l-pound pks. Tacoma roasted coffee for 49c regu-
lar price soc
95 pounds best granulated sugar for sl.75 ltd.
IL yards extra heavy sheeting for 81
13 American Beauty outings and fannels in sol
id and fancy colors for 81 ltd worth regular loc I'd
yards 95c dress goods for 81 ltd,
l3 yards loc bleaching for 81
10 yards fruit of loom and Lonsdae bleaching, yard
wide for 81 ltd.
rockers worth regular Its at ss9 each, for. 2.S5
for the two, ltd.
No aos oak roll foot beds worth SIS for only 4,9s
No 9l3 oak roll foot bed worth 1880 at 1858 each
Big lot Aragon negigee shirts for SOC worth regu-
lar 75c each, It'd. Also lot of 81 Aragon shirts for
73c each. Big lot of mems shoes will be offered
every Friday at money saving prices limit of two
pairs to lot of mems hats CSC each ltd
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
NOTICE.

On the first day of December
1911, the undersigned will apply to
the Probate Court at Edge6eld, S.
c., for a final discharge from his
trust as administrator of the estate
of Mrs. i. M. McKie, deceased.
G. A. McKie.
Oct. 3O.-4t.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01
CLOTHING.

100 Mems suits just received in
blue Serges and Fancies, all we'll
Tailored. Real value $500. Spe-'
cial for this week, $1,000.
Rubenstein, Mgr,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-01

75c negligee shirts at soc, white
or plain. F. g.. MERTINS, Au-
gusta, Ga
Large stock of cook stoves at
right prices.
Ramsey & Jones.
We have just received a big ss-
sortment of Misses and childrens'
Fur Goats in black and colors. 1t
will pay you to look at them be-
fore buying elsewhere.
Rubenstein Mgr.
Try a pair of our $3.50 Mems
Shoes, as they are hard to beat.
Every pair guaranteed.
Rubenstein, Mgr. !.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Keeping Boys on the Farm

The tendency is to seek city life
That is the danger and menace to our
farming industry. Place In your rural
school teachers who will teach farm.
ing, make It attractive and valuable,
interest the pupils, and the crops will
be increased threefold in an amazing.
ly short time
Three years ago made some sta.
tistics among schools in my district
in Iowa Out OF 1874 boys | found that
157 OF them, all sons of farmers, had
decided not to follow farming, but to
go to the city and take up a profes
sion. Later, after educational limo.
vatons, and instructing the teachers
In methods of teaching agriculture, |
took another vote. found that out OF
ia boys, 162 had decided to be farm
ers. That shows how education will
save your grain and your farm life"
Professor Benson also deplored the
lack OF entertaining and instructive
literature dealing with farm problems
and farm life He stated that the fact
that the most Of present-day litera.
ture dealt with urban life was re-
sponsible for the departure of many
farm children to the congested cit
les.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16

northwest Rhodesia, has taken an i'm
portant step in the development OF the
resources of South Africa-he has be
come a grower Of cotton.
Last year the low lying country on
his estate was utilized for the expert
mental growing Of cotton. The re
suits were such that the area Of land
under cultivation has been increased
from so acres to 800 acres, which Ia
expected to yield 60 tons Of cotton.
In yield and quality the first crop
ten tons-was more than satisfactory
and when placed on the market at
Liverpool the first consignment to
this country was sold at from 20 to rs
cents a pound.
The duke OF Westminster's estate In
South Africa comprises 10000 acres
of land in northwest Rhodesia, In the
vincinity OF the Kafur river. The value
Of the land when the Dutch bought Il
was four cents an acre; Its value since
then, with the added value which the
success OF the experiment in cotton
growing has given to It, has been In
creased to 62 cents an acre.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Bishop Of Salisbury Says City Is
UnchriStian.
still Smacks Of Frontier and Has Not
Acquired Enough Civilization TO
Make People Calculating In
Kindness.

Chicago.-Chlcago is not Christian
1t is Athenian. although dollar
worship is less evident here than In
New York or Washington.
1t has not yet gathered sufficient
veneer Of civilization to make It cal
culating IN its kindness.
It still smacks of the frontier, al
though its opera is crowded, its art
gallery has more interested observers
than ever we're seen In London, and 1t
has one Of the most wonderful Of uni
versities.
And one comes to Chicago to learn
the mightiness of man.
So concluded the bishop OF Sails
bury, from observations taken in this
city covering a period OF several
weeks. At least Chicagoans who have
been reading the keen and, on the
whole, sympathetic criticisms of Chi
cago and American life that are ap-
pearing in the London Church Times,
and are the frankest discussion of
America from distinguished foreign
er's viewpoint since Charles Dickens
wrote his American Notes, believe the
anonymous critic to be the English
bishop. II It is not the bishop, 1t Is
some one who came at the same time,
and did many Of the same things the
bishop did clergy at the Episcopal
cathedral said.
The writer Of these criticisms lived
at a Michigan avenue hotel, visited the
University Of Chicago and described
the services at an unnamed fashion
able church which many are certain
they recognize as Grace church, where
the bishop delivered his lectures In
December The fact Is known, 1t was
added, that the bishop wrote extensive
comments on his visit here.
81 found the greatest surprises Of
my American visit in Chicago and
Pittsburg," says the writer. "The Chi.
cago of Mr.. stead's dreams is not the
true Chicago. had expected a hideous
city: found a city Of promise | had
expected sordldness of aim; found
readiness to appreciate literature and
art generous-m -mindedness in criticism
and a desire for the sweeter things Of
life. Chicago gives one the impress
sion of frontierism. Not yet is It set
tied down. Some day they win tear
down the hldeous loop elevated and
make a center for commerce worthy
Of the vast enterprise. Then Chicago
will begin to show the world what a
city can be.
Her university is most wonderful
OF all. Boys and girls crowd the lee
ture-rooms: experiments in psyche
physics are treated as intimately i'm
portant affairs, and are not relegated
to back rooms for isolated research
students. Economics draws them In
hundreds. and at close quarters the
respect which an Englishman has for
Chlcago's work In sociology Ia vastly
Increased.
"And as Chicago is open-mlnded, Sc
is It open-hearted. Such charities!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
CHICAGO IS LOVABLE

Such boundless giving In the very
streets Such passionate desire to
give the poor children a Santa Claus
on Christmas morning There are
verses and pictures In the papers, all
pleading the same good cause. 1t is
cold by Lake Michigan today, There
are pillars OF Ice within few yards
of my hotel. There is heavy fall OF
snow. But Chicago hearts are win.
somely warm. Not yet have they gath.
cred sufficient Of the veneer of civil
ization to make them deliberate in
their love Of their fellows. or to keep
them calculating In their kindness.
81 could wish II we're a Christian
Chicago also. It is 80 Athenian. so
welcomely Athenian, so anxious not
to overlook any deity whatever. But
that is not sufficient. Chicago needs,
more even than New York. the rigor
Of discipline. Here is fashionable
church. 1t is we'll attended II Is
ablaze with organization. 1t has &C.
complished 80 much that the tempta.
ton to deify humanity must come
very near to It. There is no God In
its theology"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16


"Pilneyville, Or asks the man with
the sober clothes. Il should say
have heard Of that place. l was IN
business-or tried to be In business
there for a year. That town is the
healthiest place | ever knew"
'Is that so?" we ask, with interest
Yes. I'm an undertaken, you see.
I went there and opened an establish.
ment on learning that there was no
undertaken in the town. didn't get
q bit of buslnss, and along In the sum.
mer started out to pick blackberries
for a living. They made me quit.
They wouldn't even permit any black.
berrying."
We smile wanly.
And that wasn't the strangest part.
| didn't move out until after a man
who had tried to operate a cleaning
and coloring shop closed his doors
and failed"
What had that to do with"
WAS there any chance for an un.
dertaker in town where there could
be no dying Of any kind?"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Future OF Agricultural Industry De
pends on Better Methods In Rural
Schools.

Chicago. future Of the farm
ing industry In the United States de-
pends on renovation, Improvement
and better methods In the rural
schools OF the country, according to
Prof. o. II. Benson, former county su-
perintendent OF schools In Iowa, and
recently appointed head Of the bureau
Of plant industry Of the department
OF agriculture.
Professor Benson in strong ad-
dress showing the vital relationship
of the rural school to the question oil
agriculture, home, economics and the
keeping of the boy ION the farm" sus-
tanned the interest of 200 grain men
present at the opening session OF the
Council OF North America Grain Ex'
changes, held here the other day.
Questions anent the grain situation
the betterment of crops and the scien'
tific elements OF farming were taken
up by the association. In speaking
of the relation of school to farming
Professor Benson said:
Unless the rural schools are I'm
proved and new methods touching
farm life taught, instead OF cube root
methods, the growing boy will be dis
contented with his life. He will lool
upon the farmer as a type OF peasant
The method of education will measure
the amount OF cereal progress in this
country
"The girls also are discontented
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Birds FoALowed In Flights

housekeeping bird, was found in nest
box within 100 yards Of its paternal
cherry tree.
The black-headed gulls, the species
that especially haunt London, have pro-
vided some very interesting evidence.
One killed by flying into some tele-
graph wires near Lowestoft had been
ringed at Rossitten, Germany. spot
800 miles nearly due east, II months
before; and curiously enough, another
bird ringed at the same place on the
same date was shot at Lowestoft on
the same day. Another black.headed
gull ringed in Cumberland is reported
to have been found at Cape Finistere.
Swallows have proved the love OF
home with which they are always cred
tied by returning to the caves OF their
English home after a journey OF sew
eral thousand miles to and from Africa
An interesting record Is given In
British Birds" Of the ringing OF Eng
lish tits. Some OF these courageous
little birds have been caught four
times at varying dates within the same
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Kind but Careless,

John p. Irish, the San Francisco
orator and ofriceholder, was entertain
ing Joaquin Miller, the poet, one
night. Upon hearing a particularly
funny story by the host the poet fell
off his chair in paroxysm of mirth.
Irish thought the poet had a seizure
Of some kind and he rushed to the
sideboard, took bottle OF whisky and
stuck the top Of 1t into Miller's mouth,
hoping to revive him.
Presently Miller waved his hands
feebly and Irish removed the bottle.
What is itT' asked Irish solicitous-
ly.
Remove the corkl" whispered the
poet, hoarsely, Remove the cork!"-
Saturday Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
csrborundum Used In Building.

Paris.-A flight Of stairs has been
erected In this city over which $4,000,
900 persons have shuffled without SO
much as scratching the surface. These
steps are almost as imperishable as
If they had been built OF huge dia
monds, for In the concrete of which
they are constructed generous por
ton of carborundum has been intro
duced, and since carborundum is al
most as hard az the diamond 1t has
given the concrete a wearing quality
which no marble or granite could pos
sibly approach.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
ynportant 70 Mothera
Cause and Effect.

'T see from the papers," said Daw-
son, that there is a great scarcity Of
chorus girls this year."
Il was afraid there would be-" said
Wiggles. IT'S only another case Of
cause and effect. The French cham
payne crop has practically failed, and
Holsters are scarcer than hens teeth
this season. -Harper's Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Aluminium Rings Are Placed on Their
Legs to Aid Nsturallsts In study
Of Their Habits.

London.-Some triking facts have
resulted from the ingenious plan adopt
ed by some English and continental
naturalists to find out the lines OF
flight and fondness for home OF wild
birds.
In England the bird-marking scheme
was taken up on large scale by Mr.
Witherby in 1909, and since then sew
eral thousand birds, many OF them nest
lings, have been decorated with light
aluminium ring. The example was eag-
erly followed by naturalists.
The divergent lots of two starlings
from one nest we're traced by Mr.. Tice-
hurst, the first author OF the scheme
as preached In British Birds"
One of the youngsters, ringed during
infancy In its nest In an English cher
ry tree, has been picked up wounded
close to Boulogne. in France. rather
more than year later. The other. q
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16

/ cannot sing the new songs;
cannot sing the old
Tho latter are called chestnuts
And are no longer sold.
The new ones sell by thousands.
For they are all tho rage
Policemen have to censor
Those songs upon the stage.
] cannot sing the new songs
do not act part.
I do not daily gambol
In histrionlo art.
And 80 / cannot sing them
Because II would be found
They must be expurgated
With children all around.
! cannot sing the new songs
cannot even name
The wondrous ragtlme lyrics
That have their need OF fama
The double-meaning titles
Are by all odds too tough;
For me to even hint them
You'd say was quite enough.
I cannot sing the new songs
or men that are wild flirts,
Nor can I warbls sweetly
About bunch OF skirts"
I rather like the old songs
Where women all we're pure
oh. II would have been better
II they might but endure.
cannot sing the new songs,
And no one sings the old.
The new ones are-well. mildly,
A little more than bold.
Were to sing the new songs
You'd order me to hush
And ask II I'd forgotten
The things that make us blush.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
What IL Lacked,

They listen to the Photographic re-
production Of the voice Of the great
prima donna in the marvellous aria
from the grand opera.
'Ts II not perfect2" asks one.
'1t's good" responds another.
"One could not find any fault with
that, certainly"
"Still, there seems to be something
lacking"
what ia it?"
81 hardly know. o, I've got II. You
ant hear the chatter In the boxes"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
EDITOR BROWNE
OF The Rockford Morning Star.

About seven years ago l ceased
drinking coffee to give your Postum a
trial.
II had suffered acutely from various
forms of indigestion and my stomach
had become so disordered as to repel
almost every sort OF substantial food.
My general health was bad. At close
intervals would suffer severe attacks
which confined me in bed for a week
or more. Soon after changing from
coffee to Postum the indigestion
abatsd, and in short time ceased
entirely. have continued the daily
use OF your excellent Food Drink and
assure you most cordially that am
indebted to you for the relief 1t has
brought me.
Wishing you continued success, |
am Yours very truly,
]. Stanley Browne,
Managing Editor"
OF course, when a mans health
shows he can stand coffee without
trouble, let him drink It, but most
highly organized brain-workers sim
ply cannot.
The drugs natural to the coffee ber-
~ affect the stomach and other organs
and thence to the complex nervous
system, throwing 1t out of balance and
producing disorders in various parts
of the body. Keep up this daily pois-
oning and serious disease generally
supervenes. So when man or woman
finds that coffee is a smooth but dead
ly enemy and health is of any value
at all, there is but one road-quit.
1t is easy to find out If coffee be the
cause OF the troubles, for If left of 10
days and Postum be used in Its place
and the sick and diseased conditions
begin to disappear, the proof is un-
answerable.
Postum is not good II made by short
boiling. 1t must be boiled full 10 min
utes after boiling begins, when the
crisp flavor and the food elements are
brought out of tho grains and the bev-
erage is ready to fulhll its mission OF
palatable comfort and renewing the
cells and nerve centers broken down
by coffee.
There's Reason"
Get the little book. "The Road to
'Wellville." in pkgs.
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are EenuIne, true, and full Of human
knterest.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
No Apparent Rssso,

Reporter-colonel, you and ,,,.
there was money used IN eIactir, r'
tlebrayne. How much did it cost b'~,
You may as well tell me, for I'm goi,.
to find out.
Politiclan-What makes You b,,,
there was-er-bribery?
Reporter-Why, blame It. man /,
was elected
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
In Its Due Order.

Champ Clark, at dinner In Wash.
ington, pleaded indulgence for some
what rambling speaker.
He'll arrive" said the Democratic
leader, "if you'll only give him time.
He is like DR.. Thirdly.
'Dr. Thirdly was dividing up his ser
mon into its appropriate heads one
Sunday morning when member OF
the congregation shouted irascibly
Meat, man! Give us meat!
"'Well,' said Dr. Thirdly promptly,
hold on, then. till Pm done carving
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16

neighborhood, and one particularly un.
suspecting bird was caught almost
every day" One begins to think that
he did it on purpose and entered into
the game.
1t is hoped that naturalists all over
the country will share In this game Of
ringing and catching birds. The rings
do no manner OF harm and the news
they may convey is OF the greatest in.
terest
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Vacations VIII Cost More.

Chicago. Summer vacations prob.
ably will cost more this year. An
advance in summer tourist rates, both
east and west, is being considered by
the railroads and probably will be
adopted. Heretofore the summer rate
has been fare and third, plus $3.50.
The new rate for the round trip prob.
ably will be fare and half.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Biggest Liner Is Beuun.

Brown & Co. of Clydebank have laid
the keel for the immense steamer
planned for the Cunard Steamship COM
pany, The steamer will be called the
Aquitania, and will be OF $4,000 tons
1000 feet long and her engines will de-
velop sc. O.OOO.horse power.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
Essential.

"Yes, sir" said the dealer, when
we sell you an automobile we include
every necessary feature that should
accompany It,"
Does that mean" asked the pros
pective purchaser. that you tell me
the correct method Of pronouncins
chauffeur"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
The Optlmlst,

"It was too bad" we say to our
friend, that your house burned down
yesterday"
az don't know" he replies. "The
fact is, It burned Just In time"
How was that2 Was your insur
ance about to lapseY"
mo. But my wife was beginning to
plan her spring housekeeping"