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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

Let every contestant do her best
this week to win the $500 in gold.
You just have until Saturday night,
March llth, to work for this offer.
Now for another one. We will
give 5000 free votes for every ten
dollars worth of subscriptions sent
in by any contestant from March
the 7th to March 18th. All sub
scriptions dated between the 7th
and 1lth will count on the free
votes, the $500 in gold and the
handsome prizes to be given at the
close of the contest.
Why You Should Work in. the Home
Contest.
You should work in The Adver-
tiser's great contest for number of
reasons. One reason is on account
of the fine hst of prizes offered.
With this list of prizes every con-
testant who really works will be re-
warded. Then we would call yor
attention to the fact thatit is a home
enterprise and that it is gotten up by
Mr.. Minis on his own accord and
because he has faith in his paper
and the county's support of it.
Edgefeld's Best Paper has the Grit to do
Things.
We are sure that every person in
Edgefeld county appreciates the
fact that The Advertiser has the
grit to do things on its own accord
and that Mr.. Minis is willing to go
down in his own pocket in order to
offer these opportunities to any who
may enter the contest.
A Word to the Merchants.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08
WORK IN THE GREAT
HOME VOTING CONTEST
You Have Big Opportunity to Win Handsoms Prize
by Working in The Advertisers Great Voting Con-
test. We have Added Several Beautiful Prizes
Besides the Beautiful $4,000 Piano.

and fair basis for all. Votes can
only be obtained by securing sub
scriptions, either prepaid or re-
newals, or by cutting the nomina-
tion coupon or free voting blank
out of the paper.
Rule (5) No employee of The
Advertiser or a member of his or
her family will be permitted to par
ticipate either as a nominator or vo-
ter in the contest.
Rule (6) Candidates will not be
restricted in securing subscriptions
to any territory, but may secure
them in any place in the United
States.
Rule (7) Only one nominating
coupon, emitting each contestant to
one thousand (1ooo) votes, will be
allowed.
Rule (s) All votes must be in
The Advertisers Office by Saturday
midnight of each second week from
issue or else they will not be count
ed on the minor prizes that will be
offered during the contest. Votes
cast on these prizes will also count
on the piano.
Rule (9) Votes once issued can
not be transferred to another con-
testant.
Rule (lo) Contestants in contest
must agree to accept all rules and
conditions in the contest.
Rule (ID The right is reserved
to reject the name of any contes-
tant for cause, also to alter these
rules should the occasion demand.
Rule (l2) Anu nnns+;c- th.-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08
JOHNSTON LETTER.
Death of MIR. Samuel Lott and
Mrs. Manning Simmons.
Mr.. M. Turner Loses
by Fire.

The past week has been one of
sadness to our town. Death has en-
tered into three homes and taken
away loved ones.
In the death of Mrs. Manning
Simmons, which occurred on Satur-
day morning about Z o'clock, a
great gloom has been cast. She had
been sick only about days and her
condition did not appear alarming
until Friday. The physician an
nounced her case as developing into
typhoid pneumonia. Before her mar
riage to Mr.. Simmons about 16
years ago, she was Miss Bird lie
Smyly, daughter of Mr.. Jackson
Smyly, and Elizabeth Tompkins
Smyly. All that knew her loved her
for her sweet and modest demeanor.
Self never came first with her, 1t
was always something for others,
and especially did this noble trait
manifest itself In the little home
circle. Her hands were ever willing
to do anything for them, no matter
what the task.
Her devotion to her sisters was
lovable to see, and inexpressibly sad
was the fact that one sister, Mrs.
Albert Dozier and her mother, Mrs.
Smyly, were too i'll to be told of
her death at the time. Besides her
husband, 4 small children are left,
and one brother, Mr.. St. Clair Smy-
ly, and three sisters, Mesdames p.
N. Lott, Pickens Kinard and AL
bert Dozier.
The burial services were conduct,
ed on Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock
by Rev. Beckham, assisted by DR.
Dorset.
Among relatives who came to at
tend the burial of Mrs. Manning
Simmons were Mrs. Ella Tompkins,
Miss Grace Tompkins, Mr.. J. L.
Minis, Hiss Ina Hill, Mr.. and Mrs
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08
IRISH POTATO PLANTING.
Select a Loose, Rich, Mellow,
Well Drained Soil. Fertilize
Literally. How to Avoid
Scab.

Potato planting time is drawing
near. This is evidenced by the in
curry just at hand, which asks some
practical questions relative to this
crop. This first thing of attention is
the soil. 1t is true that the potato
has been grown on almost every
soil, but this does not lessen the i'm
portance of selecting for the potato
the kind of soil best adapted for it.
The ideal soil for this crop shonld
be one so light as to offer no great
resistance to the growing of tubers,
and having such supply of organic
matter as to contain moisture to
furnish an unfailing supply of fer
tilizing ingredients. A rich, sandy
loan, abundantly supplied with or
ganic matter, and naturally well
drained, is preferable. Sitter soils
may be rendered suitable by drain
age and by the incorporation of
| Iarm mduuTeS, VI USoVoi oohit, W
blowing under green crops. Very
heavy clay should be avoided if the
farm contains any lighter soil. New
ly cleared ground suits The potato
exceedingly well. Sandy soils may
be fitted for this plant by the addi-
ton of organic matter. The claim
is made that potatoes grown on
sandy soil are of superior quality
to those on sitter soil.
The potato requires a rich soil,
but even more important than nat
ural fertility, is proper mechanical
condition of the soil. Artificial fer
tilizers may be substituted in part
for natural fertilizers, but they are
defective only when the soil is in
such a condition as to furnish a
constant supply of water. The po-
tato should have some of the best
soil on the farm, since it is more ex-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08
INTERESTING PAPER ON
INTENSIVE FARMING
Paper Read by Mr.. w. T. Walton Before the Edgefeld
Agricultural Club and Published in The Advertiser
August goth, 1885. Common Northern Farms
Contain About Forty Acres.

will reap nothing; with all this,
you have the power to make good
crops, and live in peace of mind.
Others will say they see no money
in either mode. And truly, by the
way some of us manage, it is mat
ter of congratulation that we live at
all.
But let us see if there is not even
more than living on small farm.
Take an ordinary .4-horse farm, and
reduce it to Q horses land 2 hands;
let one half of it rest. l think ten
acres of land with years rest will
make bale of cotton more the year
following; or else SOW it down. You
can SOW this land, reap and house
your produce at 81 dollars per acre.
Or you can do this work in spare
time, with your 2-horse farm labor.
You can raise from 10 to 20 bushels
of oats per acre on this land; you
can feed your two horses off of it,
and buy neither corn nor manure.
Hire only good, efficient laborers;
do not take the refuse of the jails
and orphan asylums. If you rent
out any land, rent only to good ten
ants, and see that they change the
land and not wear it out. Turn off
promptly all bad men. Take 40
acres, say, to cultivate, and sow
down 40 acres every year. Follow
this plan. Give your 40 acres in
cotton liberal manuring, and by
sowing it in grain after cotton, you
have good stubble and oats to
feed on, besides some to sell. 1t is
said that an oat crop will impover-
ish sand land. / do not believe it,
though my own land is clay. Ten
wears acn took land th"+ ----~ -
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

acting in this res spect .an the other
crops, and since the product of an
acre is of greater valae, generally
speaking.
The success of tho potato is large
ly dependent on the crops preceding
it in the rotation. When the clover,
cow peas, or other leguminous crops
have been grown, the stubble of the
same furnishes good supply of~ni-
trogen. Perhaps the best rotation,
is that obtained by growing corn
after sod and following with pota-
toes.
1t is not good idea to grow over
two crops of potatoes in succession
on the same ground, although we
often find plot of ground that has
been continuously used for potatoes
for FIVE or six years, or even longer.
This latter course taxes heavily the
fertility of the soil, and as a neces-
sity calls for liberal manuring, and
also involves considerable risk
from fungus diseases.
A clean crop of potatoes can not,
as rule, be grown on land that pro-
duced scabby potatoes the preceding
year. The germs having once OBJ
tanned hold in the soil must be
starved out by growing thereon 9TH
er crops on which the scab has no
hold, such as grass or grain. These
immune crops should be grown for
three or four years befoi e planting
in potatoes again.
Practical experience has proven
that deep and thorough prepare
ton of the soil is important for this
crop. Flowing can scarcely be toe
deep, unless the subsoil is brought to
the surface in SO doing. If practica-
BILE, the plowing should be deeper
from year to year. While on an av-
erage, the tubers are formed within
about 6 inches of the top of the
ground, the roots feed several in
ches deeper.
Regarding the manuring, will adj
wise liberality in that line, as the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

, ..s, =. ... rvrvrpore aIe nvu UruuSuU 10
the notice of the readers in the field
which you may justly consider your
own.
r. V. Bidez, Contest Mgr.
Rules Governing Contest.
Rule (l) All collections made by
contestants must be turned over to
the Contest manager within one
week or votes will not be allowed.
Rule (2) Subscribers should take
receipt for all money given to con-
testants.
Rule (3) The Contest Managers
signature must be affixed to votes
before same are of any value in
contest.
Rule (4) Ballots cannot be bought.
The Contest will be run on a square
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

1t costs you nothing to enter. We
have absolutely no string to the
contest Wefdo not even require
that you be a subscriber for the pa
per in order to enter; the contest. 1t
will. be conducted, as heretofore,
purely forthe public good 5and not
for our personal orpfiYate gain. We
pay the prize money and you do the
rest i. e., enter the I contest and
make all of the corn you can.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08
A Change for the Better.

The lifelong domicile of an old
lady was situated several feet south
of the dividing line of Virginia and
North Carolina, and when that Sec
ton of the country was surveyed it
was discoveredthat the line ran afew
feet south of the property in ques-
tion. They broke the news to the
old lady that from then on she was
to BIZ resident Of Virginia.
ssThat's good" she axelain,Ad. ''T'---
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

took Two of my best mules, hired 8
of the best hands, and sowed down
40 acres of it. l bought good i'm
plements and used plenty of manure.
My profits, net, were $500 on this
land. In 1882, changing my land,
/ cleared $1,000 on this 2 mule
farm. In 1884, cleared sl,lOo.
So / am decidedly of the opinion,
and I speak knowingly, that the
profitable method of farming is on a
limited area, we'll manured, well
prepared, and well worked.
w. T. Walton.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

forced to work, and forced to do
your best, will breed in you tenn
perance and self control, diligence
and strength of will, cheerfulness
and content, and hundred virtues
which the idle never know"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08

Unem. Until they are cast your
standing will not be published.
Rule (l5) If any party stops his
or her paper and transfers it to an
other member of the family of the
same address it will not count as
new subscription.
Scale of Votes.
New.
1 year 1000 Votes.
2 5000
8 5000
4 1900
3 g" $4,000
Renewal and Collections.
1000 Votes. +
$500
1000
$500
1900
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
TO SECURE BETTER ROADS
Pennsylvania Township Official Got
the Cooperation of Others by Ad-
vertisine in Home Paper.

II your community needs good
roads, advertise for them in your
home newspapers!
DR.. Donald McCaskey Is president
of the supervisors board of Lampeter
township. Lancaster county, Pa. He
wanted better roads for his commu-
nifty. but found 1t hard to get the CO
operation of his brother officials.
He is a great believer In advertis-
ing, so he bought 1000 inches OF adj
vertising space in the local weekly
newspaper, called The Home. to tell
the people why good roads were need
ed and how they could get them.
DR.. McCaskey got up series OF ad-
vertisements which he called Road
Bulletins" heading them Road Dis
eases Unmasked," in which he gave
facts and figures.
The bulletins were read thoroughly
by the country folks around-so thor
oughly, in fact, that while Few
months ago the Doctors efforts for
road Improvement were met with ar
rogant refusal, since the appearance
OF these eQuCdLlOndl ItOdu DuhShihS
the road officials are now inclined to
co-operate and assist In fixing the
roads.
The newspaper advertising columns
saved the day! and the township has
become one of the most notable In
the state in the matter of road i'm
prevement.
This is new departure In news
naper advertising, and, as 1t mas
proved so effective In this case there
Is no reason why public official In
anv branch of the service, who finds
himself confronted with indifference
mr. animosity, should not buy a GER
tain amount of advertising space and
tell his story to the public.
If the story is true-if he Is an
honest. efficient workman-the people
will soon find it out and will support
him in every way in their power
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29

go c/LXVNs
VEGETABLE HAND AND FACE
Curious Freak Produced by Two Ears
Of corn-Potato Has Face Like
BIoated Old Loafer.

OF course We all know that corn has
ears, but the accompanying picture
will convince you that stalk OF corn
may be gifted with a hand as well.
The picture was taken from a photo
graph made of two ears of corn. each
of which closely resembled human
hand The one shown in the inustra-
ton was the more perfect Of the two
specimens, and you can readily see
that most of the proportions resem-
BILE those of hand with amusing cor
rectness. Hands of corn are notSun-
common, a certain variety of the veg
etable having been named hand
corn" by the Indians owing to its
tendency to produce hand-like ears.
Nature produces some curious freaks,
particularly among potatoes. Often
the potato digger will turn up great.
fat tuber looking for all the world
like the face of bloated old loafer.
The Chinese and Japanese make
practice of cultivating curiosities OF
the vegetable kingdom. At the
Worlds Fair Of 1898 some Chinese
stunted pines were exhibited that
were only few inches high, but We're
hundreds of years old. These curious
little dwarfs had all the characters
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
GOOD ADVERTISING
NOT A DIRECTORY
BY GEORGE S. BANTA.

Here's banker who says, I'VE have
been in business in this town for forty
years right on this same corner and
they all know where we are-we don't
need to ADVERTISE"
What the banker says is true, that
is the part about everyone knowing
where his institution ia located Banks
quite generally do a. business of receiv-
ing deposits and of loaning money and
we may grant also that they ell
know" this fact about this particular
bank
But is that all that advertising can
do, simply give the name and loca-
ton and brief statement of what the
business is? You can get all Of that
on 2x3 sign in big letters and too
many people beside the bankers think
that is all they have a right to give
in an advertisement. The public needs
to know these things. of course, but
how long would a manufacturer OF au-
tomobiles last if he merely told the
public in plain type his name and bust.
ness.
ABSURD isn't 1t!
Advertising begins at this point.
Good advertising does not deal with
generalities common to all businesses
Of the same class but it takes out and
emphasizes those features which are
peculiar to the particular business adj
Vertised 1t sets forth what the Gus
toner or patron will find Of value in
bringing to the advertiser the formers
custom or patronage. In other words,
advertising has a mission more pre-
| tentious than that of being a mere
directory for the information of the
public.
The man who enters business nova
days with the conception that all he
needs to do to prosper is to tell his
| friends where he is located, should
continue his studies along the adver-
Using line. In the beginning he may
need to convey in his advertisements
such simple information as this but he
can put it down as a safe bet that adj
vertising will not cease to be useful
| and valuable to him so long as he con-
tinues to offer to his customers any
| thing of merit or any service of parti.
| cular and special interest.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
WHY DO WE COUNT BY TENS?
Easily Seen How Much Easier and
Better It Would Be to Reckon by
Dozens-Fingers to Blame.

Why do we count by tens and not
by twelves? 1t is unfortunate that our
system Of numbers has not two more
signs SO that the first number Of two
figures would be the number we now
represent by "12" Twelve can be d.
vided by two, three, four and six, and
ten can be divided by only two and
FIVE. You can see how much better
and easier it would be to reckon sums
by dozens when you must divide the
numbers every once in awhile, and
you might think that the people that
invented numbers would have seen
this. But nobody did invent numbers.
Numbers were already invented be-
fore people knew that there could be
such a thing as counting
Look at your hands, and you will
see why people count by tens. Every
one counts on his fingers sometimes.
and there was once a time when not
every one could do even that. Some
savage tribes in Africa are so stupid
that they cannot count above five.
When they have got that far they say
they have counted a hand" and two
hands" are a man" If men had
been born with Il figures instead Of
10, we should have counted by dog
ems almost from the beginning.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
l..ded the Wrong Way.

The reason some men meet hard
mek so often is because they meet
hard work so seldom q NJ Maya
zine
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
MAKE YOUR OWN DOLL HOUSE
Directions for Making One That Any
Little Girl Can Put Under Her
Arm and Carry Away.

You have probably heard of the man
who took up his bed and walked, but
here is a bedroom that any girl can
carry under her arm without the least
difficulty. The best of it is that the
young housewife can make the whole
thing by a careful use of glue and
part of some old book. This is the
way to go about it:
Get your father to give you some old
volume with sound covers and strong
back. Then carefully cut the pages
out of the book and stiffen the back
with a piece of strong cardboard,
which must be glued into place. Then
cut two pieces of cardboard of equal
length for your end walls and cut an
other piece sufficiently long to make
the ceiling. These strips should be as
wide as the space formerly occupied
by the leaves. Glue the three strips to
one Of the book covers to correspond
with the end walls and ceiling of the
bedroom in the picture. This part
of the bedroom can be made stronger
by pasting bracing pieces at the joints.
1t is a simple matter to cut out a
window similar to the one in the pic
ture, and any bright girl can shape
the necessary bedroom furniture from
pretty colored cardboard. An Open
Window club button will complete the
furnishing after the window has been
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
MOST DURABLE KIND OF DOLL
American Concern Has Brought Out
Toy, Said to Be Wonderful Ad-
vance In Construction.

Although Germany has for many
Sears been credited with the newest
and best ideas in children's toys, an
American concern has designed and
brought out doll which is said to be
o wonderful advance in doll construc-
ton. In the first place, the new type
Of doll is all wood, the head being
solid. The head, arms and legs are
Joined to the trunk by means Of steel
spring swivel and hinge joints, which
completely eliminate the use Of rubber
cord. The face, being Of solid wood
instead of composition, Is artistically
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29

Tell your advertising story
in full, and tell it right. Use
enough words to make every
point clear. Don't fall into the
error that advertising must be
"boiIed down" until there's
nothing worth while left In it.
People will read an advertise
ment that occupies dozen
pages if it is interesting enough,
and there's nothing in all the
world so interesting as business.
When asked how long mans
legs ought to be, Abraham LIN
coin replied that they ought to
be long enough to reach the
ground. Same way with an ad-
vertisement.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
Spiders Store No Food.

1t is said that spiders store away no
food in winter quarters. Quantities
of eggs are laid and carefully shelter
ed in velvety cobweb sacks that defy
the weather. These sacks may be
found swinging by silken ropes from
the goldenrod and corners of board
fences and stone walls. The little
spiders creep from their coy sleeping
bags which the wise mother has pro-
vided for them, and IL they escape
their cannibal brothers and sisters
they enter at once on a career of trap
ping and hunting.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29

draped with a curtain. Perhaps bet
ter way would be to get your boy
friends to whittle you out a dainty
bedroom set.
One of the advantages Of the book
room is that a thrifty housewife can
add to the number of her apartments
as rapidly as she may make the rooms.
In this way a girl might have veri-
table mansion of rooms that, when
placed up on a shelf, side by side,
would look as dignifed as a set Of
books.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
oonortunity TO Order.

The man with a message to the peo-
,,e or a man with an invitation for the
neople, needn't care much about TINS
thing called Opportunity" It's only a
,,,ystic term used by the members OF
the "Do-Litt Club.
Resign from the "Do-Littles and get
into mental. moral and spiritual action
hut resign right now. today.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
Meaning of Death.

Small Robert did not know the
meaning of death, so when he was
told a man across the street was dead
he asked his fve-year-old sister what
Il meant to be dead. After a moments
hesitation she answered: Why, 10
be dead means that-that-you are
all in"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29

dos of gnarlsd old trees, and 1t was
asserted that they had been family
heirlooms for over 1000 years IN some
cases. The trees grew in pots, and
some Of the smaller ones could be
easily hidden under a silk hat.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
Quite Changed.

why. papa" said Frances, Sho
was looking at the album; surely this
isn't a picture Of your" Yes" re-
pied papa; that is picture of me
when | was quite young" We'll"
commented the little girl, ii doesn't
look as much like you as you look
now"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-09-29
New American Doll.

carved, and painted in oil colors so
that it can be washed. The nicely
shaped hands and feet are cut from
solid hardwood. In the whole make
up of the new dolls there is nothing to
easily wear or get out of order.