Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-24

Mr.. A: E. Padgett, Jr., has volun-
teered under the Call 894 and will go
to Vancouver, Washington, on July
20 with three young men who were
announced last week.
While you are enjoying. the deli
cious fruit plucked from your OWL
trees, resolve to enlarge your family
orchard next winter. And then keep
the resolution when the time arrives
to set out the trees.
If you want to control peach tree
borers white wash the trunks of
your trees and then mound up dirt
fifteen inches high and leave until
middle of October, pulling the dirt
away and pulling out borers.
Miss Florence Minis and Miss Hor-
tense Woodson left last night to
spend several days in Atlanta as
guests Of Hon. and Mrs. Walter Nc
Donald Who are in Atlanta attending
the session of the Georgia legislature.
A meeting of the Junior Auxiliary
of the Red Gross will be held next
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at
the Red Cross rooms for the purpose
of starting on a new line of work.
All members are requested to be pre-
sent. s.s-:;
Mr.. Rainsford Cantelou, Mr.. Sam
B. Mays and Mr.. DeLoach Warren,
three young men who recently vol
%unteered for service in the navy and
are now stationed in Charleston,
came home Sunday'on a 4S-hour fur
Tough.
We have heard of some injury to
crops by hail in the county but the
damage was not serious and covered
only a comparatively small area. Far
mers are very apprehensive at this
season, lest much damage will result
from hail.
Among those who went from Edge
field to the barbecue and political
meeting at Balldoc = Barn.
we'll county Thursday were Capt. N.
G. Evans, Mr.. W. A. Strom, Mr.'J. r.
Zimmerman, Sheriff Swearingen, Mr..
Paul Cogburn and Mr.. John Minis.
If the red spider is still troubling
your cotton, spray it with lime sui
phur solution to one hundred gallons
of water, making sure of getting
the spray on the under side of the
leaf. Concentrated lime sulphur may
be bought at any reliable seed store.
We are requested to call the atten-
ton of every member of the Baptist
church to a special conference of
said church, appointed for II o'clock
first Sunday morning in August, to
take up the matter of calling a pas
tor. All members are urged to be pres
ent.
It is pleasing information when
you greet farmers and they tell you
in large numbers that they have the
best crop they have ever had in their
lives. AS goes agriculture, so goes
every other business. When farmers
fail every other business and profess
sion fail:
MIR. and Mrs. W. T. Reel came
down from Cleora in their a Mon
day and spent a few hours in Edge
field. They will probably not move
to Edgefeld until the LIST of January
but will have their daughters come
down and enter school when the ses-
sion begins.
A note was received yesterday
from Rev. A. L. Gunter, who is at
Lake Junaluska, N. c., asking us to
announce that DR.. John O.. Wilson,
president of Lander college, will
preach at the Methodist church Sun
day morning at 1870. The public is
cordially invited to hear him.
Sunday afternoon, July IA, Lam
ham Dorm, the eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Dorm, stepped on a nail
which penetrated his foot nearly an
inch about the centre. 1t soon began
to pain him and he has suffered in
tensely from the wound, making him
quite i'll. Serum has been injected
into his system to counteract the pol