Johnston Letter Highlights Revival Events And Local News
Revival services open at the Baptist church led by Rev. W. S. Brooke with Dr. Fuller of Greenwood, and the junior choir expands with Mr. Hoffman in Richmond Va. new marriage news, Mr. Tom R. Hoyt's death, funeral details, and community notices follow including school paper progress, club events, and civic plans in Johnston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. R. Hoyt
The
Baptist Church
W. S. Brooke
Fuller
Greenwood
Hoffman
Richmond
Christ
John Jackson
Philippi Baptist Church
China
Garrett
Texas
Mrs Milne Stirs Edgefield W C T U on Prohibition Talk
Mrs Ge Milne of Aberdeen Scotland spoke at the Edgefield church under the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on the Scottish push for prohibition. She described old customs hindering sales of intoxicants and expressed hope as local option allows communities to vote every two years.
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Woman’s Christia Temperance Union
Ge Milne
Aberdeen
Scotland
B. Church
Tillman
A. T. Allen
Thomas Motte Kernaghan
Miller
Josephine McDonald
Nelle Braxton Nicholson
Neta Crouch
Hortensen Watson
Glenn Carter Allen
Margaret
Lillian Asbell
Mary Norris Wright
Bettie Walker
Georgia Coates Milne
W. B. Cogburn
Milne
Lois
Felicia Mims
Verdi
Seleestions
Treunierel
Breas Servie Eeesh
Sunday Services at First Baptist Church
The pastor will preach next Sunday morning on Getting By. All regular services are at eleven thirty A M and seven thirty P M. Every man not in the Sunday school is invited to attend the Baraca class. Last Sunday 136 attended the class and 360 were in Sunday school. Come and be with us.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom R. Hoyt
Hoyt
Methodist Church
David Kellar
W. S. Brooke
Mr. Wright
Presbyterian Church
Mt. of Olives
Ada Louise Mobley
Dent
Columbia
Laurie Hoyt
Messrs
Thomas
Johnnie Hoyt
Ruth Williams
Marion
Will
John Hoyt
Ruby Glover
Antoinette Denny
Saluda
Baptist
Gether
Women of the South in War Times honor Abbeville chapter
The Abbeville chapter celebrated gains from its meeting with two new members and a presentation of the book Women of the South in War Times to the town library. They sent good cheer to veterans and ill neighbors and pledged donations to the Jefferson Davis memorial Cunningham fund and Secession Hill marking project. A Thanksgiving box will go to the County Home. Mrs. Strother was elected state convention delegate, Cox alternate. A historical program closed with a paper on South Carolina’s role in the War Between the States by Miss Frances Turner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. B. Waters
New Century Club
Social Service Committee
Capt Johnston
Clara Sawyer
Fairfax
J. W. Marsh
T. R. Denny
Frances Willard
S. J. Watson
Maud Ballington Booth
W. C. Connerly
Huiet Waters
South
Jefferson Davis Memorial
Cunningham
Secession Hill
Abbeville
Harry Strother
Greenwood
J. W. Cox
South Carolina
Frances Turner
Theatre as church and life in a Henry Jewett Players reflection
Dear Alive recalls attending Henry Jewett Players in Boston and compares theater to church, arguing drama reflects New Testament ethics and broad human truths. The writer muses how plays reveal life’s moral texture, justice, and beauty, shaping readers’ views through performance and vision.
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Boston
Henry Jewett
Fon
Money in Cotton editorial in The State on southern farming
The Spartanburg Herald quotes a The State editorial praising cotton farming after the boll weevil shift. It argues overproduction danger is gone, prices rise, and successful growers must study agriculture, use brains, and heed expert guidance to profit in cotton farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
South Carolina
Students of Agriculture
Spartanburg
Banks to Close for Armistice Day Observance
Edgefield's three banks will be closed Friday November 10 1922 in observance of Armistice Day with Saturday November 11th as the holiday.
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Edgefield
Orphanage Thanksgiving Work Day Plan Stirs South States
A 1922 proposal urges South Carolina and Southern Sunday schools to dedicate one day’s income to Thornwell Church Home Epworth Connie Maxwell and Church orphanages. Families, adults and children would work a Saturday or Thanksgiving day and donate earnings at their church. The goal is to boost current needs for all four institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornwell
Church Home
Epworth
Connie Maxwell
South Carolina
Friends of the Orphan
Dial to renew fight over Tolbert senate confirmation
Senator N B Dial of South Carolina said he would resume his opposition to confirming Joseph W Tolbert a Republican appointed by the president as marshal of the Western district of South Carolina. Dial spoke after a subcommittee hearing where the recess appointment was debated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
N. B. Dial
South Carolina
Joseph W. Tolbert
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Dial
Tolbert
Minstrel at Flat Rock School House
An event titled Negro Minstrel will be held Friday evening at the Flat Rock school building. The program lists multiple acts including choruses solos and gags with performers such as Mr. Wallace Mrs. Jones Miss Happ and others. doors open 7:30 p m and show starts 8:00 p m with admission 15 and 25 cents.
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Flat Rock
Wallace
Jones
Mirs
Brown
Mack
Sweatman
Cleveland
Squash
Miss Happ
Tate
Wilson
Mr. Sweatman
Forty Sixth Anniversary of the 1876 Election
Mr. J. W. Reese recalled the 46th anniversary of the memorable 1876 election. He notes it was November 7 and still possesses the Colts cap and ball pistol he carried that day. He says he would have used it if necessary, though relieved not to.
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J. W. Reese
Reese
For Sale Rib bon Cane Stalks Edgefield SC
3000 stalks of rib bon cane for planting height 3 to 6 feet priced at 2 cents per stalk. Apply to Jack Hamilton on Mr J R Cantelou's farm Edgefield South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Hamilton
J. R.cantelou
Edgefield
S. C
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