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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24
Opening of the High School.

The graded school and High
School had very auspieious open
ing Monday morning. Public ex-
ercises were held in the auditorium.
Maj. T. j. Lyon, the superintend-
ent of the High School, extended
cordial welcome to the parents pres
ent and urged them to give him
their cooperation in his efforts to
build up strong school in Edge
field. Short addresses we're also made
by the following gentlemen: Rev.
]. R. Walker, Dr.. M. D. Jehries,
Mr.. A. S. Tompkins Mr.. ]. T. Nc
Manus and Dr.. R. A. Marsh.
Mr.. P. N. Lott, the county
demonstration agent who is working
under the Department of Agricul-
ture in Washinton, was present by
invitation, and in most effective
manner explained the plan of
demonstration work that is to be
conducted by FIVE schools in the
county. He will visit these schools
at regular intervals, instructing the
boys and encouraging them iii this
new feature. 1t is hoped that Mr..
Lott will meet with the hearty CO.
operation of the teachers in the
special work in which he is engag.
ed: The pity is that agriculture,
both theoretically and practically,
was not taught in the public schools
of the state 25 years ago. =
There are four teachers in the
High School, Maj. T. J. Lyon,
Prof. S. A. Genes, Miss Gladys
Campbell and Miss Marcie Gwalt-
ney. The following compose the
corps of teachers for the graded
school: Mrs. w. G. Tompkins, lst
grade; Miss Grace Tompkins, End
and 3ri grades; Mrs. H. N. Gren-
eker and Miss Matte Johnson, 4th,
5th and 9Th grades and Miss Hor-
tense Padgett, the 9TH grade.
Monday morning there were 40
enrolled in the High School and 40
in the graded school. Others will
yet enroll, making the total enroll
ment over 600.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24
NO.. 33

alongside of other towns in the
State, and invites every ambitious
boy and girl to accept eighth, ninth
and tenth grade instruction without
money and without price.
J. e. Swearingen,
State Supt. of Education.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24

The power plant was completely
destroyed and the town has been
without electric lights and street
cars, except the cars chat are pulled
tby mules. The gas. plant was des-
ttroyed and the city is without gas
except that which is piped from
Lon:si ma.
About l-3 of the city lies in ruins.
One hundred and twenty acres lie
blackened and desolate. No one was
withoutshelter, however, that night
as the city consists of more hotels
and rooming houses than any city
ofits size in the world. Almost a
hundred thousand more people
could be taken care of yet.
There had been no rain in about
two months but the next morning
it began to rain and has been rain
ing nearly ever since.
Uncle Sans reservation with its
large buildings and hospitals was
not damaged. Neither were any Of
the bath houses except two or three
that were not connected with ho-
tells. The hot springs are 46 IN
number and in addition to the hot
springs there a. g many cold springs
extensively used both in the treat
mentIof disease and as table waters.
According to tradition the cura-
tive properties of the springs were
known to the Indians before the ad-
vent Of the Spaniards. There is
tale that the various tribes battled
fromitime to time for contro! of
these waters, in which they believed
the Great Spirit to be ever pres
ent..
1t is believed that the earliest
whitesettlement was made in 1900.
Dunbar and Hunter, who visited
theJplace in 1904 found signs that
Write men had been there. The
springs were probably visited by
DesSoto in l54l. The lot springs
reservation contains Oil acres, The
springs are all grouped about the
ys,;;.i !, cd An 81
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24

81 e 4. NE: arTsn, Q. u:
Wright and M. DeLoach:
Trenton: p. B. Day, j. N.
Swearingen and James Smith.
Clark's Hill: John q. MeKie,
Henry Adams and ]. w. johnson.
Golfers: E. B. Mathis, T. r.
Miller and H. W.. McKie.
Morgana: Philip Markert, J. w.
Boyd and J. O. Scott.
Meriwether: John Briggs, Wal
ter Cheatham and Henry Cooper.
Ropere: D, o. Lanahm. j. B,
Zimmerman and w. T. Lundy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24

kfEeeipt pts from this Eso lrceS are all ssexs
|pende dund der tll al tas:
secretary Of the interior in improv-
ing the service and in beautifying
the reservation. No one is allowed
to set his price for giving the baths.
The scale of charges are regulated
by big Sam and range in price
from 50 to SIT per course of 81
baths, including attendants. Uncle
Sam will give you this service him.
self if you will take an oath that
yoa are not able to pay for the
baths. Hundreds Of poor people
avail themselves of Uncle Sans
generosity.
On entering a bath house, you
purchase Jour ticket eor course of
baths and box is handed you in
which you deposit your diamonds,
money and other valuables. The
box is showed into a recess and
locked: The key is made fast to
your wrist by a rubber band. Arm
ed with your robe, slippers, cup,
soap and NIT you repair to undress-
ing room, where you leave your
clothes, and go into an individual
bath room where boils big tub of
water, fresh from the bowels of the
earth but little cooled down, rang
ing in degree from 9s to lO6. The
attendent souses you in and holds
you down till the skin slips, then
be takes your corn cob NIT and
rubs all the hide off. After this 90
minutes treatment, he takes you and
puts you into Hades vapor bath, $50
degrees, for five minutes. When you
cease to kick he takes you out, lays
YOU on a cot in room of sc de-
grees and covers you with a sheet.
There you sweat and blow for half
an hour. Then be takes you to the
shower bath, where the water is
turned on blazing hot and gradual
ly cooled down to about 80 degrees.
You are then rubbed and curried
till you feel like four-year-old colt.
Into cooling room you 60 where
you spend another half hour and
wonder how you survive it all.
Then into another cooler room and
into your clothes. You surrender
your key, which has not melted,
bedeck yourself with yo.r diamonds,
put your money into your pocket,
get out on The streets, look up at
the mountains and at the one hun
dred and sixty-tive feet tower which
stands on the mountain top and
wonder if you could not leap to its
skyround.
BY the time your readers are pc
rusing this shall be making big
tracks In North Augusta, the flower
of the great state of South Carroll
ma.
J. G. Whatley.
! Hot Springs, Ark.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24

With the coming of two trolley
li.ss to Johnston, is not this the
time 10 buy land? Y. May, sells
lt.-Ady.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24
Judges For The Corn Contest.

AS the season for harvesting corn
has arrived, the judges for The
Advertisers 5th COIN contest have
been selected. Those who have
entered the contest aud desire that
their corn be officially measured
will please notify the committee of
judges appointed for their respec-
tive community when they are
ready 10 gather their corn. If we
have overlooked any community in
appointing judges, the contestants
in those communities will please
notify us at once and We will
promptly select some one to act as
Judges. The following are the
lllllges FOL The coftesa Of ie l8s tlleI
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24


a community to $500 state aid, and
the policy o. schools like White
Town in making prompt use of this
appropriation should be promptly
adopted in other districts.
The value of all public school
buildings is placed at s2o,75o, and
their equipment at 5000. Many
counties have already adopted the
consolidated rural school and the
transportation of pupils. 1t is IN
teresting to note that the trustees
of Pickens District now prefer to
convey their children to Edgefeld
in order to secure the advantages
of a well-organized school.
During the year the white enroll
ment increased by 33 while the ne
gro enrolment increased by 7o3,
over the corresponding figures for
last year. In this connection it is
interesting TO note the following
facts concerning negro education in
the county: Enrollment-boys,
2477; girls. 2sl5; total for both
sexes, 5292; average attendance,
boys, 1920; girls, 927o; total, 1890:
These figures show that the negro
enrolment was 2t times that of
the whites. Nearly 81 per cent of
the negro enrolment was regularly
in school, although this high per-
centaee is probably accounted for
in part by the average negro term
of 81 days, barely three months.
School finances show great, i'm
provement over last year. The re-
port shows that the poll tax in
creased by 1888, and the special
taxes voted by resident electors
likewise increased by s2l67 Al.
The total of receipts was s32, 1867
26; and the total of expenditures
$50, ,s67.l0. These figures show
that the per ca oita expenditure on
the basis of white enrolment war
Sl2.57 for each white child, and
96c for each negro child.
These figures show an increase OF
a2c per white pupil, and &c per ne
gro pupil over last year. But the
average for both races fell from
S4.42 in 191l-l2 to S4.2l in 1919
l3, because of the heavy gain OF
more than IL per cent in enroll
ment. These items are still below
the average for the State. and might
be literally increased with advant,
age. Corresponding figures for the
Nation show per capita school
expenditure of more than $25.
The high schools at Johnston
Trenton and Plum Branch are do.
ing excellent work. The addition
of Edgefeld High School and thu
levying of an increased school tax
at the courthouse should strengthen
every educational force in the ccun.
lty. This step places Edgefeld
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24
James u. Jackson's Electric
Railway to Reach Connec-
tion With Duke Roads.

Interesting facts have recently
developed concerning the constrnc-
ton of two electric interurban rail
ways in South Carolina. 1t appears
that the Greeuyille, Spartanburg d
Anderson railway, which is already
operating between Greenville and
Greenwood, and is rapidly complet-
ing an extension from Greenyille to
Spartanburg, with prospect OF
soon starting construction on an
other. link from the latter pointsto;
Caste nis, II !f fG'., Illus sc onnecting
up the two sections of the Pied
mont Northern lines, will be con-
nected from Greenwood via Edge
field, S. c., with the Carolina q
Georgia railway, which James U.
Jackson and others are about to
build from Augusta, Ca, to Colum-
bia, S. c., via Johnston and Bates
burg. The connection will be con-
structed by the Carolina 6 Georgia
railway, and it will supply the de-
mand for an interurban line from
Greenwood via Edgeheld 10 Angus
ia. J. B. Duke and others are back
of the Piedmont northern lines, the
South Carolina end of which has
just decided. upon an increase of
S2,5Oo, 900 in its capital stock,
presumably for financing the Gas
tonia-Spa rtanburg line of about 80
miles, which is all that is needed to
make up through ''high-speed elec-
trio railway from Charlotte, N. e.,
to Augusta, Ga. about 205 miles.
Contract has been let to Michael
P. McGrath of II Battery Place,
New York, for the construction Of
tie Carolina & Georgia railway,
and he is expected begin work
within 80 days. Gadso N E. Shand
of Columbia is chief engineer, and
he is finishing up the surveys.
There does not appear to be any
plan for concert of action between
the two railway companies, but the
fact the Carolina d Georgia rail
way has definitely decided to con-
struct branch to Greenwood and
has awarded contract, leads to con-
clusion that the lines will operate
together for through service sooner
or later. II may be observed that
the Duke lines have not intimated
that they might extend to Augusta,
although some consideration has
been given to suggestion that they
be extended to Atlanta. This latter,
however, seems just now to be at a
observation-disclosures Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24

A minister in a small town, an
eloquent speaker, became afflicted
With throat trouble and was treated
for some time by local M. D. At
ter while he requested the physi-
clan to present his bill, but as it
did not appear, the minister called
one day and asked the doctor for
his account. Whereupon the doc
tor hesitated, stepped around and at
last said: well look here, brother;
you are minister, aren't you? and
l am a doctor. Now, I'll tell you
what we'll do. You do all you can
to keep me out of hell, and l will
do all I can to keep you out of
heaven, and we will call it square. y
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24
Facts and Figures Concerning
the Schools of Edgefield
County.

A full review of school conditions
in Edgefeld county, as shown By
the annual report of county super.
intendent, W.. w. Fuller, for the
scholastic year July l, 1919, to
June 80, 1913, cannot be given in
short space. Some of the most sig.
ni6cant facts, however, should prove
of interest to trustees, teachers and
taxpayers.
The enrolment shows 1908 boys
and l,6ll girls, making a total of
2,04s white pupils attending 7 tow n
and 46 country schools, and taught
by 9 men and 70 women. Of the
boys 779 were in regular attendance
while 797 of the girls were in school
every day. These figures indicate
that 1876 of the 2,o4s pupils, or
nearly II per .cent made good use
of their educational opportunities.
The term of IA schools was less
than 100 days, or FIVE months.
While the average session in town
was l57 days, the average in the
country was ll0 days, making the
average for the entire country only
lI6 days. This is a marked i'm
provement, but it is considerably
below the seven months term that
might be maintained in every school
district.
The trustees of the county have
exercised good Judgment in locat-
ing most of their schools, because
only seven communities report an
enrolment of II pupils or less, and
only FIVE additional communities re-
port an average attendance of like
numbers. Thus only 10 schools
seem to fall below the minimum
standard in these two Important
particulars.
Country schools taught b. two or
three teachers. are rare. The.patro,n,s.
af sTseFg dliissri ict co ortsini;,g
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-09-24

Fresh pigs feet. !
L. T. May.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08
GAYNOR BILLS INTRODUCED
Unanimous Consent Given to
Anti Turkey Trot Measures.

BN lefIfNDn 10 me iIiDiUfsl
Albany April 7.-Senator Pollock and
Assemblyman Caughlan, chairman Of the
cities Committee Of the lower House. in
troduced the Gaynor "anti-turkey trot'
bills tonight. The measures were handed
TO the legislators by Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel McGoldrick.
Although the time for the introduction
Of bills in the Assembly had expired Mr..
McGoldrick was able 10 get unanimous
consent for their introduction. BY unani-
nous consent they were advanced to the
order Of third reading In the Senate.
The first bill enables the Police Com
missioner To appoint extra deputy COM
missioners instead OF inspectors whenever
he may see IT. The detail of inspectors
IS not cut off entirely, but the extra dep
uty commissioners and inspectors cannot
exceed nineteen, the number Of inspectors
now allowed by law Complaints against
the police under the present charter must
be referred TO and Investigated by the de-
partment itself. Under this bin these
complaints may be Investigated by the
extra deputies.
The second bill requires a.! ..blic dance
halls to be licensed. whether they have
nfty bedrooms or rot This does not al
iect the regular hotels. as their dance
nails are not open 10 the general public
The third bill provides that all public
dance halls must close at / and NOT 20.
open before noon. 'o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08

ate action on the resolution WITHOUT
unanimous consent but the VICE
President promptly ruled that 1t was q
question of the highest privilege. Alter
much discussion of parliamentary prac-
tice the resolution was concurred III
without a dissenting vote.
The announcement that Presiusn'
Wilson would read his tariff message
m person tomorrow was received IN
the House with only scattering 2p-
plause on the Democratic size.
Following the routine organization
If the House. the Speaker appointed
Messrs. Underwood Fitzgerald ana
Mann as notification committee %
accompany a similar Senate comm' o.
tee 10 the White House 10 tell the
President the Congress had assembled.
Returning within thirty minutes, Mr..
Underwood announced. Your COM
mittee has performed its duty and has
notified the President that the House
is pleased to receive any commuaic&-
ton from him. The President informs
us that he will present his message III
Lcrson tomorrow afternoon.
Routine business was resumed when
Mir. Underwood drafted the concurrent
~esolution for a joint session OF Tie
House and Senate. This was adopted
by unanimous consent and without de-
bate. and was sent Immediately TO the
senate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08
Gazed R.gretfully at Guests.

so the Mayor Is going TO stop IT all,
is he?" he added as he gazed regretfully
at the fifty OF 80 couples sitting at his
tables. drinking cocktails and highbalis
as they waited for tie orchestra to strike
up another tune.
George Rectors place was almost de-
serted for there was no tea dance going
on there. He did not have a hotel IL
sense. nor a dance license. and rather
than excite the wrath of the crusaders,
he said. he had determined TO cut dancing
Off the programme.
But Andre BustanOby s. in 39th street,
the busiest of all the tea dance places.
was going full blast There was little
censorship maintained over the dancers
there. and folk were dipping and wiggling
TO their hearts content. 4 prominent
figure on the floor was Evelyn Thaw. in
little red bonnet and plain black
dress. Another was a prominent down
town banker and broker.
why. everybody has the dance craze
these spring days" he said. Il myself
have often got up 20 have whirl be-
tween the oyster and the soup course TO
the strains Of a photograph. ] have seen
three generations of a family on the floor
al once-gray- haired grandmother. mother
and daughter. If Mayor Gaynor would
come 10 a few of these affairs himself he
would see that the class of people in
dulging in them are not as low as he
seems TO think"
At one Of the tables a party of four
women sat, industriously sewing buttons
and bows on slippers that had popped of
in the strenuous measures of the dances.
They said they were the college Point
Sewing Club" and that their names we're
Faith. Hope and Charity. One OF them
said she was Mrs. +. NJ. Psuly and that
she was the president of the club.
OF the six hundred dancing academies.
casinos. cafes and restaurants that have
been under investigation by James G.
Wallace. jr, chief OF the Mayors Bureau
of Licenses and his corps Of forty In
spectors, II was said yesterday that fully
$50 Of them hereafter would be danceless
for various reasons.
Some Of them have quietly had their
licenses revoked or renewals denied them
as result Of the "goings on in them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08
PURITY WAVE AMAZES
RETURNING CABARET MAN
All Turkey Trotted'' Aboard
Ship. and John D.. Jr., Was
Graceful. Says Wagner.
TEA DANCERS KEEP IT UP
Evelyn Thaw, in Red Bonnet,
and Prominent" Banker Join
in Afternoons Whirling
and Merrymaking

John Wagner. who is associated with
Louis Fischer in the management of Refs
enweber's got in yesterday on the Vic
toria Luise from Panama and learned for
the first time of the Gaynor wave of pur-
ity that was knocking his business 10
SKIES and scVens. He was astonished
enough when he heard first Of the
O'Clock curfew order but when he also
heard On top of that of the fight against
tea dances he grew laxative and I'M
burdened himself of an anecdote
John ID. Rockefeller. jr." he said was
or the Victoria Luise with me. He had
the captains quarters. Then there was
George AIDE. who occupied the first Off
GERS. while I had the second officer
quarters. Almost every evening there was
q dance in the main saloon. and We all
danced the turkey trot' and many of the
other new dances. one Of the most grace
full turkey-trotters' We had was Jonn
II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08
BROWN DENIES CHARGE
Senator Says He Made No
Pledge to Labor Men.

Albany. April Rising tonight 10
question of personal privilege senator
Zion Il. Brown. Of Watertown. denounced
Governor Sulzer FOR an executive attack
on him because Of his resolution Tor an
inouirv into the Governors prediction
nromise 10 sign the full crew bill. I'M
mediately thereafter Senator Brown FOUND
himself accused Of having made prom
se of the same kind.
MIR Browns contention was that the
Governor. who is alleged TO have prom
ised i'm secret to sign specific bill. rem
dered himself ineligible for office u ne
made such a promise
"Why. every Senator here. including
Senator Brown, has made such pledges
declared Senator Wagner, Democratic
leader. Then. remarking that he COULDN'T
guarantee its truth. he read a story from
q Watertown newspaper giving interviews
with a lot Of labor union men. VINO sdld
they had called on Senator Brown during
the campaign TO ask his support Tor me
"full crew" bill. and he had promised IT,.
The charge is absolutely false, SAID
Senator Brown with heat. Il was ap-
poaled to on numerous occasions by rail-
road men from Oswego and WatertoWn.
who sought my support on the bill prior
10 its passage Never once was the suS-
cestOn made that l was under obligation
10 support il because Of a prediction
pledge This charge has first been made
public by interested men. who feel Obl-
gated to tn Governor, and TO protect him
start this untrue and unfounded report
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08
IDENTIFIED, SAYS WILSON
That Is Why He Will Read His
Message to Congress.

Washington. April President wilson
was asked to-day what motive impeiled
him TO renew the custom of century
ago and visit Congress.
The reasons are very simple. said MI
Wilson. II think that that is the only
dlgniied way for the President to ad-
dress the houses at the opening Of the
session. Instead of sending the address up
by messenger and letting the clerk read IT
perfunctorily in the familiar clerks tone
of voice. ! thought that the dignihed
and natural thins was To read it. 1t Is a
precedent which it is true. has been dis
continued a long time, but when is
very respectable precedent
The President was asked II he eNpec'e"
hat there would be answers from Con-
.ress. as there had been in the old days
but he smilingly replied that the only re-
sponse he looked for was the legislative
auex-pr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-08
"FINGEY" C0NNERS BACK;
WAS UP WITH ZEPPELIN
Former Democratic State Chair
man Pleased with Airship
Trip Over Berlin.

"Fingey" Corners, former Democratic
state chairman, came back from abroad
last night on the Hamburg American
liner Amerka.
As the vessel came up the bay from
Quarantine a reporter asked,a steward il
there was any person of prominence on
board and received this answer
"Sure. There is one I show you. You
see yet, by the port rail, that stout gentle
man with the high hat"
"Who is he?"
"Ah, Is it possible you do not know
That is Mr.. OConnors of the Tammany
Hall club. He eats always in the Ritz
dances on the deck. spends his money
like II is water. He's good sport. He
was up with Zeppelin in Berlin. ASK
him -
Sure enough. William j. Corners had
been up in the Zeppelin airship and
thought it was great, and il he can SO
arrange ne will have an airship Tying
over Lake Eric during tho forthcoming