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Welling and little son are guests of relatives here, Miss Helen Lewis and Mrs. A. J. Lewis went to Batesburg on Wed nesday to attend the marriage of their cousin, Miss Timmerman, to Mr. Able. Miss Mollie Ransom of Augusta, is visiting in the home of Mrs. E. R. M obi ey. When Capt. E. E. Jefferson lived here she was a visitor here frequent ly, being a relative, and there are many friends who will be glad to see her again. Ther^ will be a Community Sing here on Thanksgiving evening, 7:30 o'clock, at the Opera House. Every one is invited and asked to bring a song book, and favorite songs of all will be sung. This is a general movement to give expression of thanks, and especially for peace. And also to promote the love of song. On last Wednesday, Mr Charlie? Nickerson and Miss Annie Laurie Rodgers were married in Augusta, the happy event taking--place -at- 12 o'clock, and was witnessed by about thirty friends. The beautiful rinjr service was used. Following the ceremony after a short while for good wishes and congratulations, the happy pair left for an extended visit to St. Louis, Chicago and New York. Upon their return they will make a visit here to the home of the groom's mother, Mrs Fannie Nickerson. The bride was beautiful in a trav eling suit of King's blue ?with all ac cessories in harmony and carried a bouquet of brides' roses and valley lillies. It was a sweet thought on the part of the bride to send her wedding bouquet to her new mother, Mrs. Nickerson, who could not attend. Mr. Nickerson is still claimed by John ston as one of her own, and everyone rejoices with him in his happiness. Miss Maude Nickerson, sister of the groom, attended the marriage. Miss Frances Turner will spend Thanksgiving in Greenville, S. C., and while there hear McCormack sing. Mrs. L. C. Latimer went to Harts ville, S. C., this week to spend Thanksgiving with her niece. Mrs. A. C. Mobley has gone to Vir ginia to spend the winter with her daughters, Mesdames Harry and Ol iver Hamilton. The Apollo Music Club met Wed nesday afternoon with Misses Ciara and Gladys Sawyer, and during bus iness, conducted by Miss Zena Payne it was decided to have a big Commu nity Sing on Thanksgiving day. All over the United States this is being done and is in the spirit of real thanksgiving. A committee was appointed to ar range and give publicity to this. The placing of a victrola and hav ing sight singing in the school here was discussed, with the view of hav ing this to materialize when possible. The contributing to the scholar ship fund was discussed, this to be done later. The subject for the program was Indian Music, Miss Gladys Sawyer leading, and good papers on the sub ject, Indian songs and piano selec tions by Missen Antoinette Denny, Clara Sawyer, Sallie Heyward and Mesdames G. D. Walker and Huiet Waters. Miss Brumbaugh, county nurse, was present and made a talk on "Red Coss and what it is doing for tuber culosis." The hostess served Russian tea, sandwiches and marguerites. Mrs. Mike Clark spent last week with her daughter, Mrs. Eugene Kneece, at Ridge. Mrs. Sallie Stanfield of North Au gusta was a visitor last week in the home of her brother ,Mr. J. M. Tur ner. Mrs. L. S. Maxwell visited last week in Columbia. Mrs. Olin Eidson is teaching at the high school, supplying for Miss Mildred Abrams, who is at her home in Newberry with her father who is Ul. . Mrs. O. S. Wertz has been visiting her two sons in Columbia. Upon the return of Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming Marsh fram their wed ding tour in Florida and Cuba, a beautiful reception was held at Breezy Heights, the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marsh. This was had on Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock and dainty invi tations cordially invited the friends, there being about one hundred com ing during the hours. The rooms on the lower floor were all in lovely decorations, the hallway being in cheery red and white, large vases of poinsettas making a bright back ground. Mesdames Herebrt Eidson and C. P. Corn received at the front and Mrs. Frank Bland at the parlor door. In the parlor which was artistically decorated in white chrysanthemums and ferns, was the receiving line: Mrs. J. W. Marsh, Mrs. John Fleming Marsh, Mrs. T. B. Kernaghan, Miss Marie Marsh and Mrs. Arthur Wat son of Batesburg. Miss Clara Sawyer and Mrs Har rison introduced the guests. Mrs. Heber Ballentine carried the ,guests into the dining room; these serving in here were Miss Sara Saw yer, Mesdames S. B. Marsh, W. E. LaGrone, J..D. Watson*,H.JX ?ran,t and Joe Cox. The room was elaborately decorat ed in yellow chrysanthemums and ferns. The table was covered in a lace cloth over yellow satin and yel low shaded candles cast a soft glow in the room. White satin streamers came from the chandelier to the cor ners of the table. A silver basket full of yellow chrysanthemums was in the center and siver*slippers full of mints were on the table. An elaborate salad course with coffee was served. The favors were silver horse shoes. The register was in charge of Mrs. W. S. Marsh. During the afternoon lovely music both vocal and instrumental, was heard, Misses Gladys Sawyer, Bettie Waters and Mrs. T. R. Hoyt furnish ing this. The entire affair was a mo?t beau tiful one. Cantract Let for New Hotel. Edgefield's greatest need, a mod ern hotel of adequate size, is soon to be supplied. The directors of the Dixie Highway Hotel Company let the contract for the erection of a thirty-room, three-story hotel to the Schroder-Lewis Company of Augus ta, Monday. The building will be com pleted by August 1 next and the company has a guarantee that it will not cost more than $69,800. If it is built for less than that sum, the com pany will get the benefit of the de creased cost. The building will have three modern stores, lobby, office, sample rooms, barber shop, pool1 room, dining room, etc., on the ground floor and the thirty bed rooms will be provided for in the two stories above. The contractors will begin work at once and press it vig orously until the building is complet ed, which will probably be early next summer. The letting of the contract for this hotel is the most progressive step, the greatest forward stride, that Edgefield has taken in many, very many, years, and the erection of a commodious modern hotel will mean more to the material develop ment of Edgefield than the average citizen realizes. STRAYED: Sunday night, Novem ber 23, a black roan horse mule. Any information will be appreciated. PICK SETTLES, Edgefield, S. C. 11-26 Report of Trip ? Stricken Seel Editor Edgefield Advertiser: We shall endeavor to give you ? brief report of our trip throdgl Southern Georgia several days ag< that will include the most striking things of interest to the people ir our county. We travelled for foui days, about eight hundred miles, anc passed through the towns and cities of Augusta, Waynesboro, Midville Swainsboro, Vidalia, Hazelhurst Douglas, Ocilla, Nashville and Val dosta on the way down and returnee by way of Adel, Tifton, Fitzgerald; Abbeville, Eastman, Dublin Swains boro and then home on the ?same road that we went down on. Between the cities of Waynesboro and Vidalia we passed through a sec tion of country that has been hurt for the first time. These people re port that they had very few weevils last fall, but were hurt quite a bit this year, on account of weevils and rain both. We saw gins running in Waynesboro, but below this place the : ginning season was over. This is a territory that was hurt the second year of the weevil, this condition be ing brought about because of the mild winter of last year and the very wet summer that has just passed. On questioning the farmers of this section they said that wt may expect damage here next year if the seasons hit us as they hit them. Below Vidalia to the Douglas sec tion we found that the weevils had been in the country for three years, and for four years in the extreme lower part. We shall report on the condition as found around the little town of Alston, below Vidalia: TJSVL ally the Alston gin turns out 3,000 bales in the season. This season it gia ned about 600 bales. The farmers of, ?tmWect?on- usually-make' ten:-biles to the plow; this year they made only j three. These farmers are shipping I corn, getting $1.10 per bushel for it, ?shipping hogs, growing peanuts and ?tobacco to an extent. The latter prov jed a failure this year on account of . the wet weather, but they believe it : will be a great crop in the future. Al iso these farmers are shipping sweet ?potatoes, getting 50 cents per bushel ?in lump and 70 cents crated. The ?chief draw back here is the lack of ?knowledge in grading properly and proper ^storage facilities. These peo I pie say that negro labor is much bet Iter here now than before the weevil j hit them. It is much easier to get day laborers. The negroes are doing saw mill work during odd times to make a little money on the side. Public work has not yet crippled the farm ing operations as some so often fear. This section of the country is only partly adjusted to weevil conditions. From Douglas, by Ocilla, through Nashville and to Valdosta, we passed through the weevil section proper. Here it has been for four or five years. We obtained information in Nashville that proved of more value than gotten elsewhere. We met Mr. A. W. Gaskin here, a merchant who has been a real benefactor to the farmers of his community. When the boll weevil hit Alabama heavily, Mr. Gaskin made a visit to that state to study conditions. He foresaw what was facing his people and began at once to prepare for it. (We need nothing but A. W. Gaskins in this town and county.) He began encour aging the growing of peanuts, more hogs, and started the tobacco busi ness. Mr. Gaskin bought eight Bent hall peanut pickers and put among his customers to gather their peanuts on the share basis, one-eighth being taken as toll. These machines paid for themselves in the first season. In addition to this Mr. Gaskin erected a $12,000 warehouse, which would easily cost $20,000 today, for the purpose of handling the peanut and tobacco business for the community. Mr. Gaskin recommends the flat run ning North Carolina, No. 1 peanut ' for hog grazing and the little white Spanish for confections and oil. The latter is bringing the best price on the markets today. We asked this gentleman the effect the change in the farming system had on his gro cery business and he replied that the weevil had been a blessing in dis guise to his people. He said that he de to Boll Weevil |n of Georgia fm_ $hce sold meat to the farmers, but that he now sells hogs for them. Last year he shipped for the farmers of around Nashville 32 car sof hogs and 52 cars of peanuts. He said the best yields of peanuts are near a ton per ?ere of peanuts and a ton of hay. ?The nuts he sells for $200 per ton ?ad the hay for $20 and $25 per ton. eor those farmers who are thinking o*? planting peanuts this coming sea son we suggest that they write Mr. A. W. Gaskin, Nashville, Ga., for ictt.d and for valuable suggestions that he is willing to give from his experiences. The seed should be ob tained at once, as they are -going to be scarce later on. Mr. Gaskin re ported the cotton condition of his town as follows: The normal cctton market is near 7,000 bales; this year it was 1,200. One farmer told us that iie made 400 pounds of seed cotton to eight acres. . In Valdosta we visited the county agricultural agent and the official ^ charge of '?he Valdosta cotton exp ment station. Valdosta was once t of the greatest long staple cotton markets in the world, but this indus try has been almost ruined, so we i were told by the county agricultural i agent. Lownes county, of which Val- ' dosta is the county seat, used to grow 12,000 bales of long staple. Now she i grows less than 500. Mr. Gaddis, of : the experiment station, will not rec- ' ommend the growing of long staple ' cotton. He says that with normal sea- '. sons they can grow from one-half to : $jree-fourth of a short staple crop, i 35? recommends the following vari ft>es for weevil conditions and places i p? procuring seed: For wilty lands; ! ^fst place, Council Toole, bred by M. B. Council, Americus, Ga., thirty- ? is*, per cent, lint, medium boll, one . inch staple, easily picked ; Secona , place, Lewis No. 63, bred by Mr. ] Council also, lint, staple, boll and : picking qualities about the same as ? Council Toole. For land without wilt, i first place, tither of Half-and-Half, ? (bred by Dr. Marcus Mashburn, ; Cumming, Ga., who is the son-in-law of the late Mr. Summerhour, the originator) forty-five per cent lint, seven-eighths inch staple, boll, small and pointed, or Simpkin's, bred by W. S. Simpkins of Raleigh, N. C., thirty-six percent lint, seven-eights inch staple, boll, small and pointed, not so easily picked; second place to Wannamaker's Cleveland for the Model Seed Farm, St. Matthews, S. C., Mr. Gaddis spoke of Hasting's Bank Account, but not so favorable of the King cotton. Mr. Gaddis says that any small boll cotton is prefer red over the big boll, one reason is that it has more bolls and that the weevil will not be able to puncture as large per cent of small bolls as of the large bolls. We have tried to give the farming facts as we saw them. We met and talked with very few discouraged farmers, and those that were proved to be the less intelligent ones. Most of them said they would continue to make cotton, but realized that it would take more labor to do so and that it was not safe to depend on cot ton alone. Some said that the weevil was a blessing to the people, yet others said they could never find a substitute for cotton that would suit everyone as cotton did. We were struck with the way there is cooperation between the town and country. Every town or city has its chamber of commerce, usually with a paid secretary to do work in connec tion with the county agricultural agent. Every county has its yearly agricultural fair. The most progres sive of the places we passed through is the little town of Adel, a town twenty-three years old and with 2,300 people. It is the county seat of Cook County, the baby county of Georgia. This town is well fixed with organized forces to combat the wee vil. The chamber of commerce of this town is the hardest working institu tion we visited. We were disappointed with the livestock of the sections we passed through. There seemed to be plenty of it, but of very poor breeding qual ities. This is true of both cattle and hogs. In the best sections the people are crossing the Durocs and the Hampshires on the "pine rooters" to make a better killing hog. The Hamp shire seems to be in the majority excepting the native "pine rooters." These people do not have the stock law, a condition that makes livestock raising very hard. The cattle are badly infested with ticks, and the hogs are openly exposed to cholera by allowing to run to the four winds. The roads are fine. We passed over more rough road from here to Augusta than we did in the State of Georgia. Some say that Southern Georgia is the coming farming sec tion of the nation, and this is ?rue unless the other states awaken to the road facts; because good roads will bc better means of building that country. We can not say that the schools are any better than our own. In fact, they are not so good. This condition exists because of the large and careless landlord and the lack of children in the communities. The banking and merchandizing interests are in a substantial condi tion from all we could learn. We no ticed that a great many of the houses are doing cash business. Several bankers of the Valdosta section of the state told us ?hey carried over ...ore overdue notes the first year the weevil hit them heavily than ever before, but they did not know of a single bank that had lost on account of the weevil. The merchants report the same experiences. At present, they say there is more money in the 1 country all the year around than be- ( fore the weevil came. This is because | the market season is scattered over j the year instead of the fall only. Land values seem to be going on up in spite of the weevil. A great deal of property is being sold. The weevil. has not stopped the movement of ? home buying and cutting up the large farms. While our crowd to make the trip 1 ivas small, we feel benefitted our-1 selves by the time and money spent j and' now feel that we know better boll weevil conditions than when we read of them. We think it well worth any man's time to spend several days through this section getting acquain ted with weevil methods and weevil farming. ' L. M. JOHNSON, W. W. REEL J. D. KEMP, M. W. SHIVE, A. B. CARWILE. The New Overland Model. In this issue an atti-active adver tisement will be found which sets j forth the merits of the new Overland 4 car. Especial attention is called to j the three-point cantilever springs ' that make this car ride as easy an one I of the heavy high priced cars. Tak?e ? a ride in one of the Overland 4 cars and you will be convinced that every j statement concerning these cars is j absolutely true. It is a marvel when the low price and comfort of the car are taken into consideration. If you contemplate purchasing a car, call on Mr. J. P. Bland, manager of the Con solidated Auto Company of John ston, or Mr. J. D. Holstein, Jr., of I Edgefield. They will take pleasure in demonstrating every feature of these cars. Next Lyceum Entertainment. Coyla Spring, one of the nation's best readers will delight you on Mon day, December 15, if you will give her a chance. She has possibly read to more people than any other one person on the Lyceum platform. Reading is not her only talent. She has a superb voice, and when accom panied by her sister, Miss Lotus Spring on the 'cello, you will have to draw straws to decide which gave you the most pleasure. Tell your neighbors about it. Remember that the Lyceum course is yours and we are running it for you. Don't fail to back up your own enterprise. STRAYED: From my farm last week a Poland China male hog weigh ing about 200 pounds. Finder will notify me and receive a reward. I have for sale two young mules, 2% and 3Vz years of age. Price $175 for the younger and $190 for the other. O, O. TIMMERMAN, Modoc, S. C. 11-26-lt RED OAK GROVE Mr. Kucley Spoke Last Sunday Very Active Prayer Meet ing. Flat Rock School Flourishing. Our Sunday School lesson last Sunday treated on the narrowness of selfishness, which in some way is pos sessed in every human being and we need to feel our littleness and hum ble ourselves to become what our Lord wants us to be. Only two weeks more and the great drive for the Baptist 75 Million Campaign will have ended. Many of the churches have , had their drive with encouraging results. Rev. Kugley from Plum Branch came to Red Oak Grove in the inter est of the work last Sunday after noon, bringing much encouragement to the workers. Mr. T. W. Lamb, his captains, Messrs. 0. 0. Timmerman and Eugene Thurmond with goodly number of workers were present and feel greatly helped by Brother Kug ley's visit. The wekly prayer service for this week was omitted, and instead, a Thanksgiving service will be observ ed at Flat Rock on Thanksgiving day at 2:30 P. M. One of the largest attendances at our prayer meeting was the last one, being conducted by Mr. Perry Hamil ton. Mr. Brooks Doolittle Will con duct the meeting next time, the sub ject being the word" Blessed." Mr. J. M. Bussey and Mr. T. W. Lamb made interesting ?taiks on "Salva tion" last meeting. The school at Flat Rock under di rection of Mrs. J. M. Bussey of Parks ville an dMrs. Fannie Belle Cobia of Pleasant Lane is doing splendid work. The children seem to be en joying their school life and at pray er meeting last week was demonstra tion of their training in the part they took in the service. The weatt.er has been ideal for hog killing and everyone in this sec tion is enjoying spare ribs, sausage and the other good things the season brings. Mr. Charlie Parkman bears the laurels of having the largest hogs to kill. Mrs. Eldred Powell of Sweetwater has returned to her home after a vis it to her daughter, Mrs. Will Burton. Mr. and Mrs. George Bussey spent the week-end recently in McCormick as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jock Bradley. Miss Evelyn Jordan was the guest of Miss Mamie Bussey this week-end. Mr. Oneal Timmerman has return ed to Scotland, Ga. His presence will be missed at the prayer meeting, as he has rendered faithful service, He filled out his pledge card for the 75 Million before his return to Georgia, as he contemplates living here next year. Mr. and Mrs. Will Whatley were week-end guests in the home of Mr. T. W. Lamb. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hammond visited Mrs. Maggie Griffis last Sun day. Mrs. Griffis can walk alone with the aid of a cane, having been almost helpless nearly two years from a fall.' The many friends of Mr. Bruce Timmerman will be pleased to learn he is able to resume work and is now in Greenwood accompanied there last Tuesday by his father, Mr. Oscar Timmerman. Mrs. Will Agner spent last Wed nesday with her daughter, Mrs. Liv ingston Bailey, near Colliers. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Bailey were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Williams at Red Hill Sunday. Miss Pearle Bailey, with her pret ty little sister, Minnie Belle, visited Miss Bertha Parkman last week-end. Misses Deadis Dow, Sadie Dow and Mildred Bussey were with Miss Marie Hamilton last Sunday. On last Tuesday Mrs. Oscar Tim merman and daughter, Miss Lullie, spent the day with Mrs. Lamb. The friends of Mrs. Mary Quattle baum Rush were pleased to have her visit them again, bringing with her Master Fleetwood Rush, whose fath er was wounded and died of wounds in France more than a year ago. Mrs. A. B. Young is convalescing' slowly from a recent attack of sick ness, and 'her many friends trust she will soon return to her former self again, for one so noble and useful is; always missed in many ways. Modoc, S. C.