Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-04-28
EDUCATIONAL RALLY.
Field Day Exercises of Johnston
High School and Annual
County Educational Raj
ly Combined.


! day-An ideal program arranged
for an ideal audience in an ideal
building-1deal hospitality dis
pensed by ideal hosts in an ideal
emanner. Yes, the educational rally
which was held at Johnston ap-
preached more nearly the ideal from
every standpoint than anything of
the kind ever held before in the
county. 1t was RED LETTER
DAY Gin bold letters), which marks
the setting of a new pace, educa-
tionally, in the county.
A New Johnston.
4 Those who visit Johnston are not
q within her gates long before they
realize that it is new Joh nston-
S new in social life, new in religious
life, new in educational and intel
ectual life, new in commercial and
material prosperity.
Instead of the old, unsightly
= guano houses along the railroad on
Maln street which mlde the atmos-
s phere redolent with the fumes of
"ammoniated dissolved bone" and
other pangent odors that offended
1.-THE. oltactory nerves, there now
q stands a modern brick warehouse.
Instead Of the narrow, ill-kept
I Sidewalks with maze of unat-
tractive signs over head, there are
now wide, well-kept walks which are
8 brilliantly lighted with electric
lights by night.
Instead of the old, ramshackled
wooden store buildings of ancient
design, the business section OF the
sown is graced with modern stores
That would do credit 10 towns many
LINES larger, the plate glass fronts
being the equal of some city stores,
i Instead OF the small, inadeqnate,
dssEgle Tals.slasssil :s.sss,ssssss
8 "a king their places. Already the
methodist and Baptist denominA-
\ lions have erected artistic and com-
B'nodious houses of worship that por-
END a greater j ohnston still.
Instead of the unattractlve, seem.
4 hglv-neglected yards, one now
casts his eyes upon lovely, careful
# offended flower gardens that not
MY urlghtcn the nome sarround-
b gs but contribute their part TO-
ards beautifying the entire town.
M Instead of the sunny streets OF
ANY years ago, splendid oaks
hose spreading branches form a
,u,iful canopy overhead now
ford dense shade along the lead
|| & streets.
instead of vacant lots here and
here in. the popular residence sec
ons, one now sees scores OF new
comparatively new cottages and
bsidences that are modern in de-
gn and appointments, and instead
Il. II the unattractive exterior OF the
lder homes, one observes that the
Generous use of the paint brush has
Rrought pleasing transformation.
"a. Instead of the row of germs-ln-
5ested, open wells in the centre OF
he main thoroughfare, from which
kater was drawn with leaking old
aiken buckets" the thirst of man
nd beast is now slaked from bored
ellis of considerable depth at inter
|als along the sidewalk.
Instead of idle, indolent and
fttimes INDECENT business men of
he days gone by who drowslly
reamed away much OF the dag,
$here are now scores Of alert, active,
kell-to-do men the CLINT of whose
byes show that they have caught a
yheS vision of the future and whose
aaSek step enables them to keep step
with the march of progress along
every line.
Instead of there being dominant
a selfish, every-man-for himself spirit
(which afiicts every community,
&knore or less, as the lawyers say,
&8here exists a commendable altruls-
s, every-shoulder-to- the-wheel pub
e spirit which has time and again
Yercome seemingly insnperable bar
ers that impeded the progress of
3e town.
The "Spur" Needed.
With all of Johnston's achieve
knts there is. yet one enterprise
4 ich we hope they will land" if
by will let US build the spur" to
= sefeld, and that is the trolley
= e which hts been projected for
f lny months. We do not mean
Illey line la Jackson, one on pa
or = verjtable castle in the air,