Johnston News Roundup Highlights Socials And Local Fire
Johnston items report a Pythians Oyster supper planning and a 168-member meeting with summer hikes. A tenant house burned near Walter Sawyer’s farm at dawn, prompting alarms. Social guests include Mrs. M. M. Coleman and Mrs. Reuben Fulton visiting locals. Capt. Fishbourne’s illness and Caleb Walton’s death mark bad news. Annie Frances Crouch's engagement to Robert Elliott Johnson is announced. Basketball wins thrill Johnston High School as library plans loom with fund-raising.
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Billie Walton
Caleb Walton
Walton
Good Hope
Messrs
Bennie Reames
Hillery Wesley Crouch
Annie Frances Crouch
Robert Elliott Johnson
Greenville
S. C
Ryman Delights Augusta Audiences With Recital
Paul Ryman presented by Benjamin H. Nixon at the Grand offered an hour of refined singing. His tenor range and lyric upper tones carried each number, with Vesti La Giubba highlighted as a magnificent centerpiece. Claire Svecenski’s accompaniment and Grace Stephens with Nan Stephens provided graceful support as Augusta’s sizable crowd applauded the debut and urged future appearances.
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Paul Ryman
the Grand
Benjamin H. Nixon
Ryman
Claire Svecenski
Grace Stephens
Atlanta
Miss Stephens
Nan Stephens
Augusta
Augusta Chronicle
A London Day With Tea and Tower Tales
A correspondent recounts a January day in London starting late, riding a city bus to the Tower of London and wandering its historic nooks. A schoolboy probes for “that bloody tower” while an unemployed parade highlights postwar unrest. The writer notes social shifts, tea culture, and a cultured companion, ending with a promise of continuing the tale on page six.
Farmer Pledge Promises Cotton Acreage Reduction 1921
A farmer declares under oath that he will not plant more than one third of his 1920 cultivated land in cotton during 1921. He urges neighbors to sign similar pledges and to cooperate with county committees in organizing and promoting the cotton reduction program.
Effects of Constipation and Remedy
The piece explains constipation blocks the body's sewerage, poisons blood with retained refuse, and causes disorders. It urges not neglect of bowels and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for relief, warning against drastic cathartics that dehydrate and may worsen constipation.
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Chamberlain
A Day on Wine Lake and Rustic Winter Fun
A faculty group from Aurora spent a day five and a half miles from town at Wine Lake. They rode by omnibus to a dam shore, crossed a frozen lake, and visited a log cabin with Victrola and cozy furnishings. Hosts Mr. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Rase served venison and desserts, while tobogganing, camera posing by a bold chipmunk, and rustic charm made for a memorable winter excursion.
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Aurora
Wine Lake
Peter
Sea of Galilee
Lake Shore
Mr. Kirkpatrick
Mr. Rase
Kodak
Kirkpatrick
Rose
Rase
Are You a Farmer or a Clod- Hopper?
A local column condemns unfair labeling of farmers as profiteers while praising merchants and manufacturers for price setting. It urges Edgefield County’s seven hundred tillers of the soil to organize and sell their crops, arguing the term clodhopper misapplied to farmers who seek fair prices.
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Edgefield
Edgefield County
Farmers Unite For Better Cotton Marketing
A writer urges cotton growers to ditch old practices, pool surplus, and form a farmer‑run marketing system to raise prices and reduce debt. He argues cheap cotton harms both farmers and the needy, calling for collective action and responsible business methods.
Philharmonic Music Club Entertained at Edgefield
The Philharmonic Music Club was delightfully entertained by Mrs A E Padgett and Miss Gladys Padgett on a Wednesday afternoon. Representatives from Edgefield Gh League Winthrop Daughters and Harmony School Improvement Association attended. A letter from Mrs Corn on Federation work was read. The program included Miss Rainsford vocal solos, Beethoven For Elise, a Barcarolle violin duet by Rosela Parker and Annie Wilson, and Miss Norris Love's Flowers Shall Bloom. Mr Nixon of Paul Ryman concerts proposed bringing tenor Mr Ryman to Edgefield for a concert soon, which was accepted. Hosts served black cream and cake.
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Philharmonic Music Club
A. E. Padgett
Gladys Padgett
Corn
Margherita
Rose
Miss Rainsford
Paul Ryman
Philharmonic Club
Ryman
Edgefield
A Good Medicine For the Grip by George W Waitt
George W Waitt of South Gardiner Maine shares his experience with grip and a bad cough. He tried various remedies but Chamberlains Cough Remedy cured him after one bottle, with the cold and grip leaving him completely.
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Chamberlain
For Sale Good yoke of oxen well broken
Advertises a good pair of oxen for sale described as well broken. Applicants directed to L. R. Brunson Jr at Cleora South Carolina with a date code 2-16-21pd.
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L. R. Brunson, Jr
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Pythians
Walter Sawyer
M. M. Coleman
Aiken
W. E. LaGrone
Carrie Thrailkill
Jacksonville
Florida
Reuben Fulton
Staunton
W. S. Brooke
John Sawyer
Williston
Lou Willis
Angeline Bacon
C. of C
Minnie Westmoreland
John Wright
George Dawson Walker
Valentine
Will Sawyer
Denmark
Hallie White
McCarthy
C. D. Kenny
Warrenville
Capt. Fishbourne
Columbia
City Hospital
Garland Coleman
Little Garland, Jr
San Francisco
Cal
Bartow Walsh
William Connerly
North Carolina
Springfield
Nathan Jones
Pope Perry
Willis Holmes
University Hospital
Johnston High School
Batesburg
Barr
Covington
Nettie Jacobs
Will Wright
Clara Sawyer
Timrod
J. L. Walker
Carolina
London
Tower of London
England
Str Long
South Africa
Mr. Ennest
Farmer’s Pledge
County of
Tavill
Dear Advertiser
George W. Waitt
South Gardiner
Cleora, S. C
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