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EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1918 N0.3g JOHNSTON LETTER. Powell Harrison 111 at Camp Wadsworth. U. D. C. Send Thanksgiving Box to County Homo. Mrs. Annie P. Harrison went to Camp Wadsworth last Thursday, up on the receipt of a telegram stating the illness cf her son, Mr. Powell Harrison. She left on the first train and found her son in a critical state. Later reports are encouraging and it is hoped that he will soon be conva lescing. Miss Helen Wright left last week to teach in the school at Chappells. Mrs. W. P. Cassells and little ones are at home from a visit to relatives at Ellenton. Mrs. Marie S. Dozier and Master Albert and Willis have returned from a week's visit at Edgefield with Mrs. Willis Duncan. News comes that Mrs. Taylor Good wyn and Mrs. DeSaussure Hogan, who have been ill, are now improving. Rev. W. S. Brooke attended an ex ecutive meeting of the directory bot^d. of the Baptist Hospital, Colum bia, on last Thursday. Mrs. Willie Tompkins who had her arm broken about six weeks ago, is now abie to be about again, having had the wire supports removed from the injured member. Mrs. Susie J. Latimer is now in Virginia and will spend the winter with her nieces. Mesdames Harry Hamilton and Oliver "Hamilton. Mr. Walker M obley has been made manager of the Bank of Western Ca rolina. ' Mrs. W. S. LaGrone and little daughter are at home from a two weeks' stay in Aiken with the form er's mother, Mrs. Coleman. Mr. J. Howard Payne has been sick during the week* with influenza, and is being missed at his office. Mr. isfcnd Mrs. J. Murray and family have moved to Camden to reside. ~ -Mrs. A,,.F. Luwis,.-ice:i?. vq ..Q&?Xkr? ville last Friday to soe h?r daughter, Miss Marie Lewi;:, who was threaten- j ed with pneumonia .Miss Marie had ? suffered an attack of influenza and i .the.trouble developed upon her re-j turn to college. Mrs. Lewis was ac companied by I\ir. Archie Lewis and went prepared to brimr her daughter back with her bur decided it was best for her to remain longer at the col lege, as ihe found her condition bet- j ter. " . i Greenville Woman's college is now under quarantine and a number of new cases were reported in the col . lege last week* bu.. most of them dre of a mild form. While so many of the students are sick they are dependent on milk as a chief nourishment but on last Friday morning all of the milch cows were found dead in their stalls. It was thought that the cotton seed huii* might have contained some thing that was used to destroy the boll weevii. Their death is attributed to this food. Mrs. Frank Landrum and Misses Elizabeth anci Marie Lewis are guests of relatives here. For about sixteen years the Mary Ann Buie chapter U. D. C. has been sending a box of good things to the inmates of the county home on Thanksgiving, and this year they are again remembering them and the box will be carried out on Wednesday af ternoon, that they can receive it in ample time for the day. There are only ten inmates there now which I speaks well for the county. As the past Sunday was such an inclement one*, the annual collection for Connie Maxwell orphanage was not taken but will be taken this com ing Sunday. Miss Margaret Holland is now with Mrs. T. R. Denny since her return. Church Notice. Service at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock and Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Preaching by the pastor. Please do not forget the Sunday school will have services at the usual hour. The Men's Baraca Class is urged to meet and all who have been members are requested to be present. ROBERT G. LEE, Pastor. How To Giv?5 Quinine To Children. FKBRILINEisthei-ade-mark name Rfivrn to an improved Quinine. KisaTastelessSyrup, pleas ent to take anil does not disturb the stoni.-.ch. Children take it abd never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervousness norririKiiiK in the head. Try it the .'ext time you need Quinine for any pur Vose. Ask for 2-ounce original packape. The ?ame P?t?RILIN? is blown in bottle. 25 cents. ean on their way to America, laden with' thousands pf -Al-readv there are "west-bound ships plowing the. Atlagg^ brave "Yanks/' In a few days the Thirtieth Division, according to4n official announcement, will 'eml?aik for&ifcdr.t?* In this Division there are scores of Edgefield county boys. Yes, many of our boys will enjoy Christmas dinner at home. Miss Florence Mims Sends a Account of Ker First Glimpse of Boston. 50 Gainsboro Street, Boston, Mass. November 22, 1918 To Thc Advertiser: T? I One always believes that thc 'en I of good things justifies the means, i ! other words that no sacrifice is tc great for a goodNend to be obtainei ?but a train sick traveller, though nc doubting this truth, at least thin! ! that in proportion to the means, th j destination . must be a place like Pai [adise to make up for the long an trying train journey. Even the bottl of smelling salts was used in vainita good results. En route, I passed through th ?states of South and North Caroline i Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania ?Delaware, New Jersey, New Yorfc (Connecticut and Massachusetts, am so rapidly that I was reminded o ?what an Irishman said of the rail ?roads in his country. He said tha ?one day he was travelling, and fron the train window he saw a pond, an< then a stretch of corn and tomatoes ?He went so fast he thought it wa: ! soup. j The red autumn leaves were beau jtiful as I was passing through th< South, but in the North the leave; are crisp and brown and some of thc ?trees are entirely leafless, and re minded me of what William Culler Bryant said of autumn: "The melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear." In reality, however, it is this time ?of the year in which we recover our ; vitality, at the time the trees are los ing theirs. j The trains made fine time in the .North which I found out by refer ring to my booklet and my watch, which was supposed to be out of fix, but wasn't. The Mason and Dixon line is no more, and the spirit of the "Frozen North and Sunny South" are one, having passed through the greatest crisis in the nation's history together. New England is the home of so many of the manufactured products j that we use in the South, and I pass ed many great manufacturing con cerns. I remember especially Bridg port, Corm., where the Singer m chines are made. Also I passed : Bridgeport the headquarters of tl Barnum and Bailey Circus. We need the business-like Non with its manufacturing centers, ar the hospitable, agricultural South 1 make the nation a perfect whole, ar without either it would be a failur Much bewildered, I arrived at Bo ton at eight o'clock at night, gettir off at Back Bay Station. I walked few steps and was met by two girl students in Boston, one from Ne York and the other from New Hani] shire. My first impression of Boston WJ that this huge, lighted place was great blessing where one might wal and rest, for the bumping train ha been like a ship on the ocean. I spent my first night at the Sti dents House, 9G Fenway, establishe the year I was born, going the nea morning to the Leland Powers schoc which I found to be very elegan and charming indeed, both as to it faculty and building. Mr. Powers an all the faculty are perfectly charm ing. I am delighted. I am rooming at a Y. W. C. A Club House, recommended by th Students Union. In this apartment there are twenty-four other student from eigheen states. Five others be sides myself are Leland Powers stu dents. I am taking my meals at the Stu dents Union, a lovely place wher< crowds of students take their meals They are studying everything imagi nable and seem to be from everj state in the union. I am rooming with a girl fron New Hampshire who is spending hei fourth year in Boston as a studenl of music. We are going to the Museum oi Fine Arts Sunday afternoon to see some of the wonderful pictures. I went to the theatre last night with a girl from Plant City, Florida, where we saw Ethel Barrymore. I am enjoying myself very much indeed and am not homesick and am so independent, that I can hardly realize it is I. I found my boarding place myself, and sometimes go to and from school alone, in fact am learning to depend upon myself. I am delighted with Mr. Powers. He read to us a whole hour the other day and he is very wonderfu:, I think. Florence Minis. j We Must Still Conserve Food. I Notwithstanding the cessation of i hostilities in Europe, the indications are that a certain form of food ad ministration will have to be continu ed in this country; this, as much for the purpose of regulating and holding down food prices for the people at home, as for the purpose of properly distributinjr our surplus food products among the peoples of stricken Eu rope, as well as to supply the needs of our' army of occupation. In other words, a certain amount of patriotic sacrifice will have to be continued for a time by the people .of America; and it is believed that they will gladly acquiesce in this pro gram, as they have formerly. All this was made clea:: by Dr. An drew M. Soule, federal food adminis trator for Georgia, at a meeting of county food administrators in Atlan ta last Tuesday, as well as by Mr. W. It. Boyden, chief of the enforcement division of the federal food adminis tration, at Washington. It was pointed out by these gentle men that the food administration or ganization will be maintained for I some time to come upon practically its present basis to carry on the con servation necessary to solving the new "food problems of the world, and the people of Georgia will be called upon to lend the same generous co operation they have given the admin istration in the past. It is likely that the present food restrictions, with modifications in some particulars, will remain in force until at least July 1, 1919. In some details, notably fats and dairy prod ucts, the restrictions almost certainly will have to be made more stringent than at present. Dr. Soule in his address said with the present and prospective wheat supply and the prospect of more ship ping becoming available, it has been ; possible to lift the wheat restrictions already. Indeed, he states, the oncom ing crop is so large that there is a possibility that next year the prob lem may be more largely that of stor age and transportation of wheat than j of supply. The sugar allotment, he also poinl ed out, has heen increased to thre pounds and in December will go t four pounds, while after Januar "you will probably be able to roll i sugar if you think it will help yo j ?ny. On the other hand, the people o ?Europe are suffering from lack o ?fats, and it will be absolutely essen tial, Dr. Soule said, for America t economize very closely in this detai in order that the people of Europ may be supplied. The lack of fat and dairy products is a terrible men ace to the children, he said, and h I declared that already in Servia am ?Roumania there are hardly any chil dren left. It is to put a stop to sucl conditions as this that America wil be asked to save her fats for use ii Europe. Dr. Soule stated that not only wil America be called upon to feed he: allies, as during the war but will ever j be asked to furnish food for the de ?feated people of the central powers j Dr. Soule admitted that to do this foi I the people who have preached anc practiced terrorism and brutality tc all the world and have slain our sons is not at all the liking of Americans, but that aside from the humanitarian spirit for which America stands, this i course will be necessary in order to j curb Bolshevikism and anarchy which threatens not merely the disrupted nations of central Europe, but also neutral countries and is capable of a situation which may pass beyond con trol. This is the cold fact of the situ ation America is up against, he said. Dr. Soule also pointed out there are more than 40,000,000 people in northern Russia who are facing star vation unless relief can be carried to them. The plight of these people is such that it is already doubtful whe ther they can be saved from this hor rible fate, he said. If winter comes on and their northern ports become ice-bound before food reached them, Dr. Soule declared, they will die ac tually by the millions. The co-operation of America in feeding the world will be further em phasized during "World Relief Work" December 2 to 7th, when an enor mous amount of food is expected to be saved in a nation-wide week's campaign. Plans for the keeping of RED OAK GROVE. Red Cross Workers Very Busy. Service Flag Exercises to Take Place Next Sunday. Really, our section has seemed al most in isolation for a period of six weeks, due in part to fear of influen za rather the quarantine, because many would not venture out even after the ban was off. Then, when the weather is unfavorable in the coun try a Sunday is, oh, so lonely for the young folks. For us, though, vre catch up with our reading that has been put to itself, and writing too, that possibly should have had our at tention earlier. So rainy Sundays are sometimes better for us. Inasmuch as the Sunday schools and churches feel the effects of the abandonment of services, that naturally causes some regrets. Last Sunday was to have been or phanage day in our Sunday school but the weather prevented attend ance. Much is being written and con sidered on the country church now and we read with interest every arti cle, for the sinew of our churches in the city is often influenced by those churches whose foundation work was laid in the country Sunday school. Besides, the army and navy boys ob serve this ruling among their com rades and even with their superior officers. We must not get discourag ed and allow any indifference to take^ possession now. The matter is of vi tal importance. We can not afford to . let "our boys" return to find the work secondary and ineffective with tho*? of us whose influence enabled them to face with courage and con fidence the ordeals of these great war times. The Red Cross workers are quite busy now with their knitting. Mrs. Mamie Bussey and Miss Mamie, also . Mrs. J. T. Grifas have finished a swea ter each, besides haying done work . for che Com mun Tey Service Cam J?.ajgn.._?he committee appointed at ourlastlmm^^ Cross to solicit members must not be come discouraged but try harder if I possible to add more to the Red Cross ; treasury for every dollar means un told gwod, in ways too many to mon ition. We have an illustrated pam phlet we will be glad for our collect ! ors to exhibit as they can, when soli , citing memberhip. j We regret not having the program complete fur the fiatr service which is ?to take place next Sunday afternoon .at Red Oak Grove at two-thirty. Not . having Sunday school last Sunday de ferred our plans in having complete details ready io announce, but we invite our friends and the public in I general to come and be with us. There will be our us'jal monthly jservice in the forenoon previous to ;the flag service in the afternoon. It was our privilege to bo in the home of Mr. and Mrs". Calbraith Mur rah last Monday night. We missed the j presence of our honored friend, the ?lato Mr. John Matthews, but a] ;re i dated" the evidence that Mr. Murrah was following elie beautiful example lin having family worship which his uncle had taught him. It is always a real treat to enjoy . the splendid hospitality of Mrs. Ollie Bunch and family, and to come in j touch with the saintly spirit of dear ?Aunt Trese Adams who has many times come into our own home, mak ing us feel better for having her moth erly counsel and tender love extend ed us. We found her quite active and able to sit with us till late bed time. We regretted to learn tha? the en tire family of Mr. Evans Barker is quite ill with influenza. FARMER'S HEAVY LOSS. Fire Costs Dillon Man Forty Thousand Dollars. Dillon, S. C., Nov. 20-R. M. Jack son, a successful and wealthy farmer of this county, lost by fire Saturday night 100 bales cotton, 14,000 bush els cotton seed, a large ginnery and all machinery connected with the plant. His estimated loss is $40.000. He had no insurance on any of the prop erty. the week in Georgia were discussed at the Atlanta meeting, and tentative programs for observance were out lined for use in the different counties of the state.-Augusta Chronicle.