Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-03-23
American Legion Picnic on
April 9Th.

ApFu OIL.
The Edgefeld Graded and High
Schools and Edgefeld County Post
No. 80, American Legion will CO.
operate in giving picnic and field
day event on Friday, April 9Th. The
commanding general of Camp Jack
son has been asked to send band
for the occasion. Two prominent
speakers will be present. The ladies
will provide a free picnic dinner.
While the local schools and the
Legion are promoting the affair it is
planned to make it county wide in its
scope and citizens of the county gen.
orally are urged to attend and to
bring picnic baskets in order that all
might have plenty to eat. Ministers
throughout the county will be asked
to give publicity to the occasion and
the teachers of the county schools
will announce the date of the gather
ing in their respective schools. The
local post American Legion will dis
tribute circulars advertising the
event.
The white ex-service men of the
county will be special guests of the
occasion and all are urged to attend.
Edgefeld Post No. 80 desires to en-
roll every white ex-service man in the
county in the Legion and to that end
Captain Morris C. Lumpkin of Colum-
bia, former Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral and Mr.. Henry E. Holley of All
ken, Executive Committeeman of the
Third Congressional District, Ameri-
can Legion Department of South
Carolina, have been invited to deliver
addresses. Capt. Lumpkin is well
known in Edgefeld as an excellent
orator, having spoken here on Memo
rial Day in May 1920, and on Wash
ington's Birthday of last year. Mr..
Holley is also a good speaker. These
speakers will explain to the ex-ser-
vice men what the American Legion
is and what it stands for.
The County Post, American Le-
gion desires to increase its member
ship so as to compete for silver low
ing cup which will be presented on
April 18th to the post in the state Sc
curing the largest per cent of in
crease in members. The annual dues
TO the American Legion are three
dollars, which includes a subscription
to the American Legion Weekly.
Mrs. P. M. Feltham who is organiz-
ing the Woman's Auxiliary of the Le-
gion in this county will have charge
of the dinner arrangements and all
ladies who will contribute baskets are
asked to notify her. The Civic League
of Edgefeld will cooperate with Mrs.
Feltham in the dinner arrangements.
At the meeting it is desired to en-
roll as many ladies as possible in the
Womans Auxiliary. All mothers,
wives, sisters and other relatives of
,ex-service men are eligible for men,
bership. The annual dues are fifty,
cents per year, twenty-five cents of
which is sent to National Headquart-
ers.
The tentative program calls for a
parade of ex-service men accompa-
MED by band from the Court House
to the school grounds at noon. The
speaking will be held Immediately
thereafter. Dinner will be served
about l so p. M, and at $3.50 p. M,
the athletic events will take place.
There will be seven or eight events
and first and second prizes will be
awarded in each event. The closing
event will be a "battle royal be-
tween five or six colored soldiers
equipped with boxing gloves. Good
prizes will be offered the prize fight
ers as an inducement to entering
the contest. This event is sure to
provoke much merriment.
The business houses will be asked
to close between noon and 3 p. M,
so as to enable all employees to at
tend the speaking and dinner.
Let all forget hard times and at
tend the affair; there will be no ad-
mittance fee and everything will be
free from the lemonade to the din
ner.
Watch the papers next week for
further details.
Honor Roll of Morgan School
January.