Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-08-07
Seymour Carroll VIII Speak Here
Health Campaign for This County TO Open August 10
and ii With Big Meeting for Colored and White People
Saturday and Sunday.

The State. wide Health Campaign opened August 3d to
the 18th throughout South Carolina for the education of
both white and colored people intu the spirit of better health
in South Carolina and the methods OF treatment, prevention
of diseases, sanitation and public hygiene.
Edgefeld county is to play a great part in this campaign,
and the colored people of the county, under the leadership of
the county chairman of the county Council of Defense, have
arranged for two public health meetings for August the 10th,
on Saturday, at II 90 o'clock in the morning, and August
the 18th, on Sunday, at 400 O'Clock in the afternoon in the
county courthouse, where both meetings will be held.
J. H. Cheatham of Edgefeld is the county chairman of
the colored branch of the county Council of Defense, and
will have charge of the meetings. Let every colored person
in the county attend the meeting Saturday and Sunday.
Great speakers, white and colored, will attend each meeting.
The diseases to be taken up in four groups, as follows:
l.. Child welfare.
2 Venereal diseases.
3. Flyborne d~seases-Typhoid and dysentery.
Mosquito-borne diseases-Malaria.
4. tuberculosis.
Seymour Carroll of Columbia, field secretary of the negro
branch of the State Council Of Defense, will deliver an adj
dress Sunday. August IL, at 400 P. NJ. to both white and
colored people. Mr.. Carroll is an attractive speaker of great
charm and attraction, and will be heard with interest. In
other places that he has spoken in South Carolina great
crowds of both races have heard him, and to this meeting
both white and colored are invited to hear the colored man
who is directing the State work of the health campaign
among the colored people of South Carolina. Reserve seats
will be given to the white people, ladies and gentlemen.
The meeting will be held in the Edgefeld county court
house.
The following colored committee has been appointed by
u. Fl. Cheatham, county chairman OF the negro defense
council: Rev. F. A. Weaver, Rev. j. w. Shaw, M. II.
Holmes, William Holloway, Scott Stephenson, Rev. J. w.
Kenner, Rev. J. Nj. Brown, J. w. Lewis, p. L. Anderson,
|Solem Atkinson, L. ]. Morgan, ]. @. Bonham and J. H.
Goodwin will have charge of the meetings, with the names
of others that are to be named.
Health meetings will be held in every part Of the county,
but the main meetings will be held at the county seat Au-
gust 10 an IL, Saturday and Sunday. Let everybody hear
Secretary Seymour Carroll at the courthouse on next Sun
day, white and colored, and attend the other meeting. The
other speaker will be announced later.
The following white citizens have been asked to speak at
the meeting Sunday afternoon when Secretary Carroll speaks:
DIR. \. r. Nicholson, Mr.. J. w. Thurmond, District At
|to1ney.
There will be an expert to tell of each OF these diseases.
The churches having by-lneetings during this campaign are
asked to give these speakers time to talk when everything
lis on hand, as these experts will have only a short time IN
each place. G
The white people are especially invited to hear seymour
Carroll Sunday p. NJ. at 400 o'clock.