Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-08-21
JOHNSTON LETTER.
Ridge Association Meets This
Week. Red Gross Ladies
Active. w. M. u.
Met.

Association will be held Thursday
and Friday of this week at Ridge
Spring, S. c., in the Baptist church.
The letter from the Johnston Bap-
.tist church was read on Sunday morn
ing at service and adopted. The
church membership is $40. During
the year six members have been ad-
ded by baptism, eight by letter, seven
have withdrawn to unite with church
es elsewhere and three have been lost
by death. In the Sunday school there
are 41O members, with an average
attendance of about 225. The church
gave to State missions $561.45, to
home missions, S472.05, to foreign
missions, 1913. 40, home board, $40,
orphanage, s145. 80, Baptist Hospi-
tai, S134. 90, aged ministers, S56,
Bible fund, SIS. The church gave to
several other objects, and the sum
total Of the amount contributed dur
ing the year, including the pastors
salary, S1S0O.0O, and improvements
on the church, about $500, is S6,Oo9.
27. Then to benevolence the church
gave S25OO.OO. There will be eight
messengers to go from this church
to the association.
The Red Gross rooms were filled
on Monday and Tuesday of last week
and the order of 210 large cotton
pads, and 1000 gauze wipes were
made in these two days. On Satur-
day some of the surgical dressing
class spent the day in getting the
pads cut and cotton and gauze all
laid and folded just ready to sew.
So the helpers, after seeing one made,
could work rapidly. The gauze wipes
were made just as fast as the cut
ters could get the little squares piac-
ed before them, the electric fans kept
things cool and plenty of ice water
was on hand so, although the wealth
er was so exceedingly warm, it was
not uncomfortable, at all at head
quarters. All would come very early
and do a mornings work before the
working hours were up. At present
there is no work at the rooms as this
was so rapidly done. The box of un-
derwear made in July was beautiful
" done, each piece bearing the Red
Cross stamp from the Johnston chap
ter.
Miss Lucille McClendon of TIM
monsville is the guest of Misses Fran
ces Turner and Marie Lewis.
Miss George Sawyer has gone to
the Baptist Hospital, Columbia, for
treatment.
Miss Jessie Rushton is at home
from visit to relatives in Columbia.
Miss Jamie Bruce has returned
from a few weeks stay in Atlanta.
Miss Myrtis, Sue and Ella Smith,
and Messrs, Earl and Jacob Smith
went to Glenn Springs on Saturday.
making car trip.
Mrs. Eliza LaGrone and little Irene
have gone to the mountains of North
Carolina to spend while.
Mrs. L. S. Maxwell is at Tybee with
a party of friends for two weeks
stay. !
Mrs. David D. Moorer of st.
George is visiting in the home of her
father, Mr.. L. D. Kenney.
Mrs. B. L. Boatwright and chill
dren Miss Bessie Bean and Mr.. Mark
Toney have gone to WrightsVllie
Beach.
Mr.. Earl Crouch returned last
week from Columbia Hospital where
he was operated on for appendicitis.
Everyone is delighted to see him
back again.
The annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Missionary Union, Ridge Asso-
citation, was held at Leesville on last
Wednesday and Thursday, and from
reports it was one of the best years
work in the Masters service by the
Baptist women, young women and
boys and girls that has ever been
held. There are 19 churches in the
association and at these there are
II societies. The other two churches,
as far as Christian activities of its
women are concerned, are "cemeter-
les" of buried greatness. During the
year a girls auxiliary. and Royal
Ambassadors have been organized
at churches that had none. Practically
every church met its apportionment,
some exceeding theirs. The Johnston
societies led in gifts. The Sunbeam
Band of Johnston gave $1,000 over
it's apportionment. The Union gave