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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
College GIRLS and Boys.

The return of the the college
boys aod girls for the summer has
caused the old town to take on new
life socially. Among those who have
returned are Miss June Rainsford,
a full graduate from the College for
Women, Miss Helen Tillman from
HolI;ns college, Miss Katherine
Minis from Winthrop, Miss Gladys
Padgett from the: Greenville Wo-
mans college, John Minis, Gill
Dunovant, James Hart and
Gus Tompkins from Wofford,
Egbert Rainsfozd Cantelou and
Morgan from the Bailey Mill.
tary Institute and Miss Mary
Jones from Coker college. Miss
Florence Peak graduated from Co.
ker college last week and has been
attending a house party in Marion.
Miss Nellie Jones went from the
Converse commencement last week
to attend house party at the home
of college friend in Georgetown.
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Misses Quarles of Cold Spring
Entertain.


A very pleasant event Of last Sat
urday evening at Cold Spring was
a sociable given by Misses Annie
and Maggie Quarles in honor of
their cousins, the Misses Adams of
Parksville and a few friends. After
some good piano music rendered by
several of the young ladies and jolly
games were played, the guests were
invited to the dining room by Mr..
and Mrs. Quarles where delightful
refreshments were served. All SEEM
ed to enjoy their few hours together
very much and some wished they
could have been longer.
Those being present were Misses
Leora Wake, Addie Mae and
Blondelle Adams, Annie Bell Smith,
Lydia and Mamie Holmes, Lila De-
Laughter and sister, Lurie and Jes-
sic Johnson, Bessie Burlington, Ju-
liza Eubanks, Ada, Alma and Pearl
Wood and Miss Wates, Messrs. Tom
Walker, Grady Pettigrew, Tom
Burnette, Geo. DeIaugbter, Cary
and Yates Quarles. Frank and John
Lee Smith, Arthur Mcdaniel, Joe
McClendon, Willie Spivey, Willie
Adams, Dave Wates and brother.
A Guest.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
Death of Mrs. Albert r. Mich
olson.

Early Thursday morning, June 8,
Mrs. Nicholson, the beloved wife of
Mi. Albert R. Nicholson, departed
this life at her home in Edgefeld.
For some months Mrs. Nicholson
had been d eclini1g physically but
not until within the past few weeks
was she forced to take her bed. Mrs.
Nicholson was in her 65th year and
prior to succumbing to the illness
that resulted in her death she was
remarkably active. This good wo-
man was devoted to her home life
and to the members of the family
circle, always finding joy in con-
tributing to the happiness of loved
ones. Before her marriage she was
Miss Sallie Hughes and was reared
at Cedar Grove" After their mar
riage Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholson To-
Gated on their plantation only
few miles distant from her cnilhood
home. There they resided for many
years and reared large family of
children who are an honor to them.
Not until within the past few years
did they sell their farm and move
to Edgefeld to pass their remaining
years in quietude. Before Mrs. Mich
olson's strength began TO fail under
the weight of years she was the
leading factor in the social and re-
ligious life of her community. From
early girlhood she has been an ac-
tive member of the Methodist
church. The funeral was conducted
Friday morning at the home by Rev.
| j. r. Walker, the pastor of the
M ethodist church. The interment
to ok place in the Blocker cemetery
near where she was reared.
Mrs. Nicholson leaves her hus-
band, five daughters, Mrs. R. l..
Dunovant, Mrs. Wayue Darlington,
Mrs. Frank Johnston., Mrs. Nc
Grath and Miss Sophie Nicholson,
and three sons, S. B., and j. Il.
Nicholson and DR.. A. K. Nichol-
son.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
FOR COTTON WEIGHER.

1 hereby announce that am can
didate for the position of public cotton
weigher for the town of Edgetielo, and
respectfully solicit the support OF those
who market cotton at Edgefield.
w. u. ALLEN.
l hereby announce that l am a can
didate 1or the position of public cotton
weigher for the town of Eugeheld, and
respectfully solicit the vores Ut the
people who market cotton at Edge
neld.
C. H. B. VILLA MS.
1 respectfully announce my candidacy
for the position.of public cotton weigher.
for the town of Edgefe!d and if elected
will do my utmost to give entire satls-
faction.
M. H. Deal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
"The Saving of Daddy"

There will be a song service at
the Baptist church on Sunday after
noon at $50 under the auspices of
the w. Q. Z. u. This service con-
sists of the reading of a story en-
titled THE Saving of Daddy by
Mrs. M. P. Wells, iuterspersed at
frequent intervals by music, solos
and chorusses given by Edgefeld's
very best vocal talent. Everybody
is invited to come and enjoy the oc-
caslon.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
An Easy, Pleasant Laxative.

One or two DR.. Kings New Life.
Pills with a tumbler of water at
night. No bad, nauseating taste;.
NO belching gas. Go right to bed.
Wake up in the morning, enjoy a.
free, easy bowel movement. and feel
fine all day. DR.. Kings New Life
Pills are sold by ali Drug gists, se,
in an original package, for Csc.
Get bottle to-day-enjoy this,
easy, pleasant laxative.-2
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09

M. H. Deal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
Notice.

The Annual Meeting of the Share
holders of The Edgefeld Building
& Loan Association will be held in
its office at b. Bank of Edge6eld
Wednesday, June l6, 1915, a 5
o'clock p. m.
B. E. NICHOLSON,
President.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09

Mr.. James L. Gilchrist who con-
ducts a large dairy very successful
ly near Augusta came over on busi-
ness this morning.
Miss Maggie Winn was among
the visitors in Edgefeld Friday. She
is enjoying her vacation, having
taught the Sullivan school near her
home.
The pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Johnston will preach at
ll:15 O'Clock on the sweet and the
bitter of life. One service only for
this Sunday.
THE danger of falling. from
grace" is subject at Edgefeld
Methodist church next Sunday
morning at the IL o'clock service.
"A great and romantic life" at
night.
Among the names of the sixteen
who contributed the Bible to the
Baptist church, one name, that of
Miss Ida Folk who is a member of
that class, was left out through
some inadvertance-in this Office.
The many friends of Mr.. r. A.
Cochran deeply regret that he has
only slightly recovered from the
stroke of paralysis which he suffer-
ed recently. They hope for steady
improvement in his condition.
Mr.. Charles r. Dobson has COM
pleted his season ON the road and
will have a rest period of several
months. Within a short time he
will take his sisters and some friends
to the mountains in his car to spend
a month.
The annual ". G. T. u. picnic
will take place at the County Home
Saturday of this week, all of the
county unions taking part. 1t is
hoped that every white ribboner
who can possibly do SO will attend
Saturday the 18th.
DR.. E. Pendleton Jones went to
Allendale to deliver an address be-
fore the High School at that place
Monday night. On his return he
stopped over in Augusta to visit his
mother, who is with her son, DR..
Ashley Jones.
Prof. G.. C. Ross will leave to-
morrow for HIS home in Tennessee.
The best wishes of the Edgefeld
people 60 with him, all regretting
that he will not return next fall.
Prof. Ross will enter the University
of Tennessee next fall for special
course.
Miss Hortensia Woodson is in
the junior class at the Tubman
High School, and read the Glass
Prophecy" The Augusta Chronicle
said, This was one Of the cleverest
numbers on the program. 1t was in
tenselyswitty and kept the audience
in a gale of laughter"
Having sold their restaurant and
fruit business to James Velix, to-
morrow John Scavens and Pete
Garafalon will leave to engage in
business elsewhere. Tney have made
many warm friends since they came
to Edgefeld three years ago. These
friends wish them well wherever
they 60. They made Edgefeld good
citizens.
Mr.. Benjamin Greneker has ar
rived to spend the summer with his
mother, Mrs. H. N. Greneker, at
Cedar Grove" After graduating
from Wofford last summer, in which
Mr.. Greneker made a splendid rec
ord, be accepted a position as teach
er in the Greenwood High School,
where he has established himself
firmly in the esteem and confidence
of the people.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

10o 3uCOmODile uUmUeie oon
higher and higher.
Mr.J. H. P. Roper was among
the visitors in Edgefeld Friday.
Mr..J. Maner Lawton of Savan.
nah spent several days here last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Mathis
came up in their car from Trenton
Saturday.
Edgefeld has some young orators
who are destined to make their mark
I'm the world.
Mr.. I. D. Thomas of Augusta
spent the weekend here as the guest
of MIR. J. r. Cantelou.
Prof. T. J. Lyon has gone to Alb
beville to visit his mother who has
been quite indisposed for some time.
Miss Mamie Dunovant is at home
for the summer. She has been teach
ing in the Darlington high school.
Misses Lula and Hassie Quarles
of Red Hill were guests of Mrs.
w. L. Holstein during commence
ment.
How many peas have you sown?
Make an early start and SOW as late
as you have the land and peas even
in July.
AS soon as the grain has been re.
moved from the field start the plows
10 planting peas-either In rows or
broadcast.
In this issue will be found state.
ment of the receipts and disburse-
ments of the town of Edgefeld for
the past year.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. q. Holland went
over to Augusta last Wednesday to
see the game of ball between Char
lesion and Augusta.
The Columbia district confer
ence of woman's mission societies
will hold their meeting in the Metho-
dist church here in July.
Mrs. J. D. Holstein, Mrs. M. A.
Taylor, Miss Lena Holstein and Dr.
w. B. Penn were among the visit
ors in Augusta Monday.
Mrs. P. P. Burns arrived Friday
to spend some time here with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Sbep-
pard. Prof. Burns will come later.
DIR. E. Pendleton Jones announc--
ed Sunday that he will preach a Sc
ries of four sermons on the Prodit
gal Son, beginning Sunday night
next.
The friends of Miss Madge Tur-
ner have extended her a very cor
dial greeting. This is the first visit
she has paid Edge6eld in some
months.
Mrs. J. C. Hughes aud the chill
dren have gone to Dudley, N.
C. The boys will remain for the
summer, Mrs. Hughes returning il
short time.
Mr.. r. H. Parks, the faithful
marshal of our town, has an eagle eye
that can detect at once whether or
not your automobile is exceeding
the speed limit.
There is no doubt about the fact
that some of the Edgefeld mer-
chants are having Red Letter sales,
some of the letters being almost as
big as barn door.
Mr.. Allen T. Samuel spent Sun
day here with Mrs. Samuel and
Allen, Jr., returning to his duties
Monday morning. His friends re-
GREETED that his visit was so short
You can now get meal at the
Greek restaurant at almost any hour
you call. Under the new manage
1nent it will be kept open during
summer as we'll as in fall and win
Ter.
Mrs. W. H. Turner and the chill,
dren are spending this week in
EdeeGeld. As the school has closed
in Greenwood, they will probably
spend much of the summer in Edge
field.
There will be an all-day meeting
at Rehoboth next Sunday and din
ner will be served at the church.
Children's day exercises will con-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09
Reception for Teachers and
Students.

The following invitation is being
sent out:
THE Baptist Mission Society
ard Y. w. AS. invite you 10 a
reception at the home of Mrs. B.
b. Jones, Tuesday evening at $3.50
in honor of the Baraca class and the
returned teachers and Students"
ALI the members Of the mission
ary society and their husbands and
the Young Woman's Auxiliary are
the hosts and hostesses at this re-
ception and will not receive invita-
tions, but will be expected to be
present to do the honors of the oc,
casion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-06-09

FOR SALE: Your orders solio.
tied for peach crates. @. B. Boat
right, Ridge Spring, S. =.
8.2-4t.
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CHAUFFEUR ELOPES WITH HEIRESS; RUNS
CAR TO SHOW BRIDES HOME

ard Douglas Connors to give up her hus-
band or make him give up the taXicab
and sightseeing business, but absolutely
to no avail.
In modest little cottage on Engel
street, Tenaf1y, they continue to reside
quietly and happily. The former chauf-
feur goes to his taXicab business every
morning and returns every evening just
as regularly as the brides brothers go to
their bank in the city. The wife potters
around the cottage just as any other
housewife does. just as if she had never
heard Of all the millions her railroad
organizing father piled up. She enjoys
a modest little income of $4,000 year
and IL worth in excess of 100000 in
her own name.
So It may be seen that she is perfectly
able to indulge in the luxury of $50, 900
home on the Palisades if she wants to
and that is just what she is doing.
OF course, the owners of the other stately
mansions and palaces along that famous
strip of land are terribly afraid that
when the place is finished she will in
stall her chauffeur-husband in it, and
that also seems Just about what she will
do. Independence is a strong trait in
the Coppell family, and Mrs. Cornors was
the eldest daughter Of old George Cop
pell, founder of the banking firm Of
Maitland, Coppell & Co., chairman OF the
Denver & Rio Grande board Of directors,
president Of the Wisconsin Central and
Of the Railway Equipment Company. and
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a director in dozen other corporations,
including the original subway concern in
New York
The Towers was for years, and still
is, the show place of Tenafly. and the
Coppell family has long been the strong
pillar of that village. In that princely
mansion. aptly called The Castle" by
the villagers. lived Miss Elizabeth c.
Coppell for years. Six years ago she ad-
vertised for a manager, and Connors OBJ
tanned the position. Two years ago she
relegated her regular chauffeur to the
position of garage keeper and thereafter
used Connors in that capacity exclusively.
With her one unmarried sister, Helen,
who lived at the Towers the few months
of the year she was not in Europe. the
eldest Miss Coppell toured France in
machine. Connors went along as chauf-
feur. When they returned it was soon
noticed by the villagers that no other
member of the family ever accompanied
Miss Coppell in the car when Connors was
driving. This first started suspicious that
the relationship between the elderly
spinster and her chauffeur might posi-
bly, be something more than employer
and employee.
1t was in the early part Of November
when the cat got out Of the bag. Miss
Coppell and Connors eloped to Atlantic
City, where they admitted they were
married, and had been since April. The
ceremony had been performed by the
minister Of the First Presbyterian church
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in New Brunswick. N. J. Exclusive cir
cles gasped. Tongues wagged merrily
and bitterly.
The two Coppell brothers threw
guard around The Towers" with in
structions not to permit the heiress to
return. She never did. Then the
servants were discharged and the place
closed up. Now il is only a piece of
scenery for the sightseers in Connors'
big truck to gaze at. II seemed that BY
George Coppells will, THE Towers" was
to remain in possession of Miss Coppell
as long as she remained unmarried. With
her marriage, the place reverted back to
a trust fund. By getting the permission
of the executors, she could have returned
to the CASTLE" but she preferred the
little cottage on Engel street and the
pleasure of building her own home up on
the Palisades.
Every step Of this romance has out
ragged the feelings of Mrs. Connors' sis
tiers and brothers, and likewise SO an
Eoyed her socially prominent friends BE-
cause it's all been wrong Nothing that
was expected has happened and eyerv.
thing unexpected has been Just what did
happen. And with year and a half Of
married bliss behind them, it seems Hhe
they were going to settle down to .
peaceful. routine existence, which was
not among the dozens Of predictions
freely and gloomily expressed when the
ffty-one-year-old spinster eloped with her
forty-tvo-yaar-old chauffeur.
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Il fought it all out with God.
thought, Shall l keep my promise-to
tell the truth about this thing-even if
1t sends another man to that awful
death chair, even II 1t makes poor Mrs.
Becker go through the terrible suffering
l have just gone through
And only one answer kept on COM
ing, You must keep your promise to
your husband and do your duty. no mat
ter what ii costs anybody
But there is one thing / know | can
never forget and that is that terrible
hour when l knew they were killing
Louie, and when | was alone with my
God, asking whether / should say the
words that | knew might make another
Sing Sing widow"
That was the widow of few months
talking. A far different girl from the
cold, hard woman who a year or so later
was glad that Becker lost his appeal and
was happiest when thinking of his i'm
pending end, grasping the same arms Of
the same chair in which her boy-hus-
band went to his God.
But one and the same Is the blue
eyed, blonde-haired child of the East
Side who held Becker's certain fate in
the hollow of her soft, plump hand and
who loosened her fingers that he go to
the same ending with her gangster-hus-
band.
In the eyes Of New York's East Side
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and the dazzle Of her gilt hair were still
enough to tell why the great East Side
had chosen to call her Lefty Louie's
French doll"
1T was on Easter Monday that It
come to me that must go on the stand"
she said after her ordeal. at vast
was - II was while they were killing
Louie up there in that terrible death
house.
"All that night couldn't sleep.
walked miles and miles, guess, through
the dark, empty streets
After a while, when felt It must be
all over at Sing Sing, I began to grow
quiet, and what Louie said to me came
into my mind.
1T was Easter Sunday, the last time
| ever saw him, and l asked him if he
did shoot Rosenthal. He said, No, kid,
| didn't-honest to Cod Then | said,
Louis, what about that talk you had
with Rose that time he said if you didn't
come across Becker would frame you
and the boys?' I always knew you
heard that talk, Lilly he said. Well,
1t was true. Rose did bring me that
message from Becker, but l didn't do
any of the shooting, nor did Whitley
Lewis. Dago Frank, Gyp the Blood and
one other did 1t. And when / am gone,
want you to tell the world what you
know. But don't say it till am dead.
don't want to die squealer!
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" IT'S all so very provoking. A wealthy,
middle-aged spinster of a prominent
and socially important family Sc
cretly marries her chauffeur, then
elopes with him six months later, con-
tinues to live with him and is perfectly
happy in a cottage while she is building
q $4,000 home!
Apparently enough inconsistencies for
anyone to talk about. But Ihe hero and
heroine Of this romance continue to dis
regard the rules of the clipping game.
The chauffeur husband insists on making
his own living and is now running a taxi
cab business started with his own savings.
Neither the ancient and honorable
name of the Coppells nor the eloquent
arguments of the wealthy brothers and
sisters Of the fifty-one-year-old bride can
dissuade him from conducting his per-
fectly legitimate if not too glorious bust
ness. And to add to all the other pro-
voking things, the bridegroom has added
a sightseeing car to his establishment
and makes regular trips around Tenaf1y,
N J., the principal place Of interest in
which is THE Towers the home of the
bride before she married her chauffeur
Exclusive New York and New Jersey
circles admit that the whole affair is out
rageous, but what can they do? All the
rest Of the Coppells = the two banker
brothers and the FIVE sisters OF the bride
have begged and implored Mrs. Rich
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she expressed sorrow for Mrs. Becker.
but II was merely the mutual sorrow of
Sing Sing widows" a fraternal spirit.
As to sorrow
But for Becker? Never!" she cried
Il am glad that he lost his appeal. |
am glad that he must die. He should
have been sent to the chair a long time
ago, even before my husband was ever
convicted of crime. 1t is the greatest
happiness for me to know that he must
die In the same way poor Lefty did.
'Of course, l am sorry in general
way that any man should get into the
hands of the law. 1t is like a great big,
Shiny creature squeezing the souls out
of people.
But / am sorry for Becker's wife.
She has fought for him and stood by him
for three years, just as l did for Lefty.
She has done everything in her power
to save him. l know what 1t means to
have a husband done to death by cleo
tricity. The sensations are still fresh in
my mind. ! pity her"
far different woman from the wilt
ed broken girl that came from the
court house after giving the evidence
that sealed Becker's fate. Then there
we're lines trembling about her mouth,
there were little blue shadows under her
blue eyes and her cheeks were washed
white with her own tears. But the oval
of her face. the tilt of her little nose
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Lilly is a good girl In fact, she is
possessed of many virtues. not all neces-
sary to the canons of East Side decency.
She was married before the balls and
the rackets and the Gangsters had dis
possessed her of her girlish virtue She
remained SteadfaSt to her husband. She
has been true in word. deed and spirit
She perjured herself in the vain effort to
save her lOver-husband When her man
was gone, she braved the ever-to-be-
feared machinery of the law to reap VEN
seance on the man who was responsible
for his Undoing. AS far as the world
knows, she has remained true to Lefty
Louie's name and memory. She has
worked industriously to support herself
since the family's more or less irregular
income stopped through the incarcera-
ton of the head of the household And
she is victim of none of the minor vices
she neither drinks nor puffs cigarets.
A swell girl. model wife and exem-
plary widow, in the eyes Of the East
Side.
Unless the unforeseen happens and
Charles Becker is granted a reprieve be-
fore the week is out, another Sunday
will see in New York another Sing Sing
widow and bitter will be the heart Of
the second widow towards the blue.
eyed, blonde haired widow of nineteen
years of age and less than that numbei
of months of widowhood.
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adjured her to tell the truth to the world
after his departure.
That confession coming from the
dead. with the solemnity impaired by
the last meeting between devoted hus-
hand and wife, sealed Becker's fate
when all the sworn stories of gangsters
and gunner, thieves and fends had left
doubt Becker was doomed, and it
was within the power of the girl with
the faxen curls and blue eyes to with
hold that doom. that last, convincing
testimony Lilly's venerable rabbi con-
frmed her story. She had come to him
in her predicament and he had advised
her to do her husbands bidding
But in the year and a half since then,
Lefty Louie's Lilly has lost her compass
sion. II compassion was what kept sealed
her lips until the day Of the trial. Her
feeling toward Becker now is merely
the feeling Of the embittered woman
towards the man she thinks robbed her
of her lover-husband. When told that
Becker's last appeal had been rejected,
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