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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12
Timmerman-Williams.

The following is a copy of the in
vitations that have been received in
Edgefeld to the approaching we'd
ding of two widely beloved young
people who are deservedly popular
here and in other parts of the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Lake Zimmerman
request the pleasure Of your company
at the marriage of their daughter
Ida Elizabeth
to
Mr.. Julian Williams
on Saturday morning, January %
at eleven o'clock
At Home
Pleasant Lane, South Craolina
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Moved to New Stand.

Mr.. Israel Mukashy moved Mon
day into his large modern and very
attractive store room which was for
merly occupied by Mr.. E. S. Rives.
The store has been repainted and
otherwise improved in the interior
and modern front with large plate
glass windows has been constructed.
Mr.. Mukashy not only now has ade-
quate room to display his large stock
but also has room for enlarging and
adding other departments. In his
large advertisement this week he an
nounces the change of location and
invites his friends and the public to
visit his new. store.
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SCHOOL NOTICE.

We expect to have good meeting
of teachers and trustees in the school
auditorium Saturday, January 29th,
at II o'clock'An interesting program
will be had and the ladies of the W..
C. T. U. will entertain us at luncheon.
All trustees who can be with us,zwill
please write card to Mrs. J. L..
Minis, that she may know how to pre-
pare. All teachers are expected unless
providentially hindered.
W. W. FULLER,
County supt. Education.
1-12-2t.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL

AVSAA AlSO GAa0SAHAA
Mrs. w. ]. Miller of Augusta is
here visiting her mother, Mrs. Ida F..
Sheppard.
Miss katherine Fitzmaurice ar
rived from Columbia Saturday to
visit her sister, Mrs. j. S. Byrd.
The Civic League will meet Mon
day afternoon in the rooms of the
Public Library at $3.50 o'clock.
Mr.. Horace Parker of Hampton,
has been spending the past week
here visiting his brother, Mr.. M. c..
Parker.
ssUncle" Zack Boone who has been
making his home in Thomson, Ca,
for the past year was welcome visit.
or in Edgefeld this week.
Mr.. T. B. Lanham came over from
Columbia Thursday for a hurried
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Dorm and
MIR. and Mrs. ]. P. Nixon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norwood Cleveland
have returned to their home in
Mar;etta after spendinp several weeks
in Edgefeld.
Mr.. A. E. Padgett was carried to
the Baptist hospital in Columbia last
week for treatment for nervous pros
tration. He has greatly improved and
his friends hope he will soon return
well and strong again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Thompson of
Atlanta are here visiting Mrs. Thomp-
sons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. A.
Brunson. This is their first visit to
Edgefeld since their marriage sever
al weeks ago.
The board of county commission
ers have elected Mr.. M. A. Watson
clerk. of the board and Mr.. T. B.
Greneker county attorney. DR.. j. G..
Edwards has been chosen as county
physician for this year.
Marshal Harry Culbreath is having
some of the best work done on the
street leading to Buncombe "a por-
ton of the Dixie Highway that ever
has been done in that part of town.
If he is not interrupted he will trans
form this very bad street into a first
class one.
A steadily increasing number of
people from the country who are in
Edgefeld on business for the day are
taking their dinner at the Dixie High
way hotel. We are glad to see this. If
they ever take one meal with Mr..
Yause they will become regular
guest when in town. The Dixie High
day hotel meals can't be beat.
{ Mr.. Claude T. Burnett has moved
his law Office from the rooms over
the store of w. w. Adams G. Com
pany into. the Office of Capt. N. G.
Evans. They will not be associated
in the practice Of law but will occupy
the same offices. Mr.. Burnett who is
really an Edgefeld boy has rapidly
made friends since he came to Edge
field soon after being admitted to the
bar to practice his profession.
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NOTICE.

Senator Smith has sent me sup
ply OF garden seeds for distribution.
Those desiring them call at my Of
fee Mondays and Saturdays as long
as they last.
w. w. FULLER,
County Supt. Education.
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Frost Proof Cabbage Plants

One hundred acres, thirty million
good stocky plants, ready now. Early
Jersey, Charleston Wakefelds, Sue
cession, Flat Dutch. Parcel Post paid.
800, $1.00; 500, $1.50; 1000, $3.50;
Express 1000, $3.50; 5000, $3.50;
10000, $12.50. Count and delivery
guaranteed.
PARKER FARMS,
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PARKER FARMS,
Moultrie, Ca.
FOR SALE.

Extra Early King Cotton seed,
grown by me. $1.5O per bushel +. o.
b. Clark's Hill, S. C. Cash with order,
or $1.25 to those who call with sacks.
at my home and get them. Come on
Ruben and be ready to plant early.
G. D. MINIS,
clark's Hill, S. C.
1-12-st.
@aTTERs SllzsHSsHSz 5sB sfbSrra
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Beat the Boil WeeyiL,

Now ready. See me quick. Cab
bage Plants, Garden Seed, Onion Sets
Seed Peanuts, Seed Irish Potatoes,
Sweet Potato Plants in season.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Farmers Bank
OF EDGEFIELD, S. C.

At the close of business December
81, 1920.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF TIE
Bank of Western
Carolina

Located at Johnston, S. c., at the
close of business December 81, 1920.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Farmers & Merchants
Bank

Located at Johnston, S. c., at the
close of business December 81. 1920.
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Bank of Johnston

Located at Johnston, S. c., at the
close of business December 81, 1920.
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State of South Carolina, &C i
County of Edgefeld. 81
Before me came G. H. Balleutine,
Manager of the above named bank,
who. being duly sworn, says that the
so0Ga aooTa If reg nnn Is bv be
books of said bank.
G. H. BALLENTINE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 4th day Of January, 1921.
W. w. RHODEN,
Notary Public.
Correct Attest
H. G. Edison,
]. w. Hardy,
E. L. Yonce,
Directors.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12

The Civic League will meet Mon
day afternoon in the rooms of the
Public Library at $3.50 o'clock.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12

Miss katherine Fitzmaurice ar
rived from Columbia Saturday to
visit her sister, Mrs. j. S. Byrd.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12

WATSON PLANT CO.,
Edgefield, s. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
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State of South Carolina, ss
County of Edgefeld. 80
Before me came w. H. Harling,
Cashier of the above named bank, who,
being duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is true con-
dition of said bank, as shown by the
books of said bank.
w. H. HARLING.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 5th day of January, 1921.
E. H. FOLK,
Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
]. w. Thurnond,
e. H. Folk,
w. A. Byrd,
Directors.
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Mrs. W. ]. Miller of Augusta is
here visiting her mother, Mrs. Ida F.
Sheppard.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12
w. w. FULLER,

County Supt. Education.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-12

Mr.. Horace Parker of Hampton,
has been spending the past week
here visiting his brother, Mr.. M. G.
Parker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
PARIS OF AMERICA"

earned where it is plentiful in the place where it will buy the most"
 This inveterate traveller was quite un- aware, beforeNhe saw BAenos Aires, with his own eyes, of one Interesting facr- which will be, in all liklihood, new to our readers too. He says: "It may be surprising to most Americans, as it was to me, to know that Buenos Aires is strictly white mans town The one negro I ever saw there was posted be- fore the door of theatre, in uniform. as an advance attraction. The caste Of color, so intricate and unacceptable in the Andes. is completely lacking here. and the Argentine Republic is the most fully European in race of any country in the western hemisphere. Nor are the places of importance in it's social struc- ture confined to those of Spanish origin"
 The Irish are there, as everywhere. "As
 in Chile" says Franck, there is little aristocracy of third or fourth gen. eration Irish retaining the original spell ing of their family names, but even them- selves pronouncing them "O-co-nor," "Kel-yee," "O-bree-en'' and the like. It is comparatively ordinary experience in running gloriffed errands in Buenos Aires to come across business men with English or Irish names who speak only Spanish, or men who speak English with both an Irish brogue and Spanish ac. cent and accompany their remarks with the full gamut of Latin gesticulation.'' "To say,' he adds, that these trans planted Irish are active in both local and national politics is to utter 3 tau tclogy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

It may be paradoxical But it is the man who doesn't get home often enough to get sick of it who gets homesick.
 If man went around with things hanging down behind the way girls do people would advise him to tuck hfs shirt tail in. a3
 You would be heap more popular if you spent as much time boosting your friends as you do knocking your ene- mics.
 After you grow older you will know that by the time you are told anything "confidentiallyo everybody in town knows 1t.
 Even when the weather Is perfect for going to church a man can always dig up another excuse for staying away.
 Ain't 1t funny how girl can learn how to fix balky automobile engine when she can't learn how to peel pota- toes.
 A man doesn't really appreciate the girl who jilts him until some other girl gets busy and marries him.
 He may not believe it. But the live one in the dead town might be . dead one in a live town.
 It is mighty hard to have a full heart when you have full stomach.
 It may be true that wealth does not bring happiness. But that isn't the reason why so many of us remain poor.
 You may think that there are only four letters in love. But any poor boob who has been sued for breach of prom ise knows better.
 Opportunity and dame fortune are the only knockers who boost every time they knock. ts Copyright 1s3l.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
1A VIEW YORK, January 4-(Special)-
 UWl Harry A. Franck, the traveller and = author of travel books, has live

lN NEW TURK, January 4-(SpeclaI)-
 UNi Harry A. Franck, the traveller and author of travel books, has a live ly picture of the Argentine capital in the January Century Magazine. Some interesting passages give striking view of it's population.
 We all know the city is cosmopolitan; Mir. Franck says that, though it is not quite so difficult to find native Ar gentino in Buenos Aires as to run to earth a genuine Americap in New York, there are many evidences that it's growth has come mainly from across the sea-
 Of the immigrant class he says: Tt is an even bet on any man of this class that he came from Italy. The long-drawn vowels and doubled consonants of Italian speech are certain to be heard in every block, though more often as foreign accent in the local tongue than in the native dialect of the speaker; for the Italian fits far more snugly into his en- vironment in the Argentine than in tn ly enough like his own to be learned in a few weeks; there is Latin atmosphere about the southern republic, and partic- ularly it's capital, which makes him feef so much at home that he is less inclined to segregate than in the colder Anglo Saxon north. But as it is summer and grape picking time in the bootleg penin- sula when it is winter on the pampas, large numbers of Italians fit back and forth like migratory birds from one har- vest to the other or to spend the money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
Harding Punctures .
 Watson Fiscal Plan

@ ELECTION to the proposal of " Senator Tom Watson to make Liberty bonds legal tender is voiced by W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board, who says: "It is impractical to make actual money of promissory note payable on fu- ture specified date"
 That is the sum and substance of it and brands the Georgian's fiscal plans as essentially unsound and chimerical. MT. Harding fully disposes of any right of the people to have these securities made legal tender when he declares: "The government agreed to redeem the bonds at a stated period. The money involved was lent by the people with that under standing and it was never considered possible, either by the government or the people, that the bonds would be- come immediately redeemable."
 It would be just as fair to make legal tender of promissory notes o1 individuals and corporations as tc make legal tender of the promissory notes of the government. It woulc be as fair to make legal tender of the paper discounted by the federal re. serve banks and pronounced sound by the reserve board.
 The trouble with MT. Watson anc other proponents of loose policies o1 government is that they conceive the state as something above and not amenable to the ordinary laws of trade, commerce and finance The opposite is true. The government is nothing more than the people in corporated and must practice bushes: methods just the same as the in dividual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
A SINGING JAILBIRD OF 1891

From the New York World
 At this time of the year, 100 years ago, John Howard Payne, known to most of the world as the author of Home, Sweet Home" was in durance in the old Fleet Prison in London. As manager. he had sought to elevate the stage in the Sadler's Wells theatre. In- stead, he had depressed his own for tunes So he was committed to the insolvent debtor. The good old idea was in full force. in those times. that the way to deal with the man who had no cash to pay was to put him where he could not earn the money.
 But young MT. Payne refused to con- firm this theory of the debtors due. January !. 1921. our prisoner had a headache. We learn that from his diary. some early pages of which are printed in the current Scribners. But on January IT he had an idea. parces from France brought two melodramas by Victor. one of which Mir. Payne quickly adapted into '.Therese. or the Orphan of Geneve." This play was in reading for Drury Lane January 27. Ii was produced February 2, with cast in which a conspicuous place was held by James William Wallack, father of
 that Lester Wallack whom New York was to applaud eagerly in after years. With "Therese," therefore-a first
 night success. although on February 3
 the playwright again had a headache
 Payne added his name to the honorable
 roll of those who have sent fair writ ings out of jail. John Bunyan. Leigh
 Hunt, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Tasso-they all are on that roll. Daniel Defoe, too. laid out the plan of Robin son Crusoe" from behind bars. These others, however, wrote for posterity,
 while "Therese" did nothing for the memory of Payne. Indeed. of those
 millions who sing Home. Sweet
 Home" few know him as a dramatist--
 and those few by way of the encyclo- pedia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
Appropriations Granted
 to Warrior River Ports

N LTHOUGH the fate of the Mus AA cle Shoals nitrate plant hangs in the balance, something has been gained for the development of the Warrior river as freight carrier.
 The House of Representatives ap- proved yesterday, in the sundry civil appropriations bill, an appropriation of $4O,000 to construct storage bins for a coal tipple at Cordova and $25, 1000 to provide Demopolis with fa- cilities for handling river cargoes. An appropriation of $25,000 for AL giers was stricken out. The sum of $4OO,000 was also appropriated for dock at New Orleans and $6O,OOO for Memphis.
 Cordova and Demopolis will be equipped to handle general freight, as we'll as coal The use of the War rior depends to large extent on adequate port facilities for transfer ring shipments from the river to rail- way lines, and from railroads to the river.
 With Cordova, Demopolis and the Port of Birmingham equipped for handling large consignments of freight with a minimum of delay, great im- petus will be given to traffic on the Warrior.
 It is gratifying to see that Congress, in it's effofts to economize, has not adopted the short-sighed policy of crippling the south's waterway de- velopment just at the time when its value is being universally. recognized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
POWERFUL MARINE FORTRESS

From Popular Mechanics Magazine.
 TX Vow that the British navy's two new
 UW mystery ships stand revealed to q the world, even though their pur- pose remains hidden, Popular Mechanics Magazine is able to disclose the signifi- cant fact that America first pointed the way to what now appears as new era of naval engineering, by the recent construction of a most extraordinary ma- rine fortress. The probability that this queer naval unit in the Pacific ocean, entirely unknown to the vast majority of Americans, was directly responsible for the British inspiration, becomes at once apparent when the specifications for both are laid side by side, and their remarkable departure from all previous practice is grasped. The information on which this surmise is predicated appears in an illustrated article entitled Strange Concrete Battleships Built on Oceans Floor" by Paul H. Woodruff, in the January number.
 That the British admralty's new achiRements comprise two of the strang- est marine structures that ever kept a nation in excited suspense during all the months of their building. is apparent from both the photographs and the descriptive matter For with all the secrecy of the undertaking, the very bulk of the new units prevented their concealment from curious eyes, yet only added to the mys- tery of their projected use. Properly they are not ships at all, but mammoth towers of steel and concrete, 1So feet high. with bases about as. great in diameter, and weighing 10000 tons. That such an im- posing edifice, massive as some great public building, should float at all IS remarkable; yet the first one launcneo drew only 14 feet of water. The manner in which it was lowed into the open sea, through a harbor entrance only five feet wider than it's base, and finally sunk in D feet of water in the Solent, IS an II, us,,al story of engineering skill. There 1t now stands it's steel superstructure towering no feet above the surface, it's hasa of nearly 100000 hexagonal blocks
 Naig6ed down Wltu COICictc uhtAi IL M AAiS veritable fortified island. What may be the duties of the silent crew that
 nhabit it's six inner decks, or of the huge electric plant that occupies its core. isl still a mystery.
 The extraordinary undertaking of the
 United States navy that initiated the new system of artificial Gibraltars is 2
 marine fortress erected between Luzon and Corregidor. in the Philippine Islands. It is nothing less than a huge. stationary stone battleship. built upon stub or rock whose surface area is practically no greater than the concrete hull of the nrotionless craft itself. The soldier crew i, of this queer fortress live and work in a pit 70 feet deep, with walls 15 feet thick, hollowed out of the solid rocK. Several tiers of decks, always electrically lighted and ventilated. are made com fortable by every possible annlication oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06

guilt is proved. Mistakes may have been committed or there may have been extenuating circumstances in the cases, of many men who techni- cally violated the selective service act. It would be a great injustice to make their names infamous before it has been proved that they were wilful violators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
From Mines in Brazil
 to Alabama Steel Mills

@NF importance to the Birmingham " district is the acquisition by the United States Steel Corporation of manganese ore mines in Brazil. This ore comes to Fairfield and Ensley mills in large quantities.
 Through the ownership and opera ton of the Brazilian mines, the bins to be built at Mobile for storing the ore and, finally, by bringing the ore up the Warrior at freight rates 20 per cent under the all-rail rate, the steel works at Fairfield and Ensley will en- Joy strategic advantage.
 When this ore is worked into steel in admixture with Alabama ores and the finished product goes to the coast at another 20 per cent differential in freight rates, that means additional economy.
 The Birmingham district is great in itself, but it is growing greater and greater as years go by through the extension of it's relations with other parts of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
Voting in Massachusetts
 And in North Carolina

TN census committee hearings with bill, it was brought out by Congress man Brinson of North Carolina that the literacy test as suffrage qualifi- lima and in Massachusetts. Thereupon MT. Tinkham of Massachusetts, who seeks to cut down southern repre- sentation, was forced to admit that his state should be treated the same way.
 Then came a gentleman from New Jersey and one from Pennsylvania who think the states should base their representation on proportionate vot- ing. The more we delve into the mat ter of suffrage the clearer it is going to be made that it is impossible to per- suade the people of the different states with their different conditions that operation of the electoral system shall be precisely the same everywhere.
 Having enacted the fourteenth amendment and the presumption be- ing that the states are obeying that amendment, alleged infractions of the constitution of the country should be aired in the courts. The south has never objected to that and has never suffered as the result of court pro- cedure.
 If representation in Congress were allowed to be based from time to time on the conclusions arrived at by parti- san legislators, the electoral system of the country would become seriously endangered. It is this consideration which will make Congress slow to adopt the suggestions of customers who would regulate what they know nothing about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-06
TRAVEL SKETCH

From the Chicago News.
 A traveller in northern Chosen-which was the kingdom of Korea before Japan annexed it-writes as follows to the Daily News from his oriental wayside inn. his letter being dated November 22:
 q am writing this cross-legged in front of table eight inches high, which is hard on the joints of one ac- customed to chairs. On one side of me is a hibachi-which is a box of sand containing some sticks of glowing red Icharcoal-and on the other side of me the temperature is somewhere around zero The dinner this evening in a spotless hotel consisted of many kinds of raw, salt or pickled fish, varying from salmon to sliced octopus legs. Using chopsticks is only start in what one needs to learn to relish the deli cacies in this part of the world, We have a three hours train ride yet to- day-having arrived this afternoon on one of the dirtiest ships af1oat; then we are to be pushed for half a day>on a | shall go by horseback or afoot. I have been week on my way already and when we cross the northern Korean border we shall be nearly 1000 miles from Tokyo. This would indicate that the Japanese empire is not as small as Japan's toy houses and dwarf trees seem to indicate"
 Those who like to travel for it's own
 sake will find a fascination in this thimblefull of description. The rest of us who have fondness for comfort, i'm cluding conventional foods and steam heat. not to mention practicable bathA
 tubs. arc likely to find in the travellers l simple tale another of those invaluable helps to contentment