The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-01
Piedmont Items.

have seen letters commenced some
thing like this "dear friend, seat
myself and take my pen in hand to write
you few lines to let you know" de-, but
1 can beat that now, for 1 can take my pen
and ink both in hand. l tell you it's
great convenience, and great help, too
one of these fountain pens are-for when
you get up good chain of thought and
begin to spread it out over paper through
pen it some times breaks that line of
thinking to have to stop tn dip your pen
in the ink, but these fountain pens does
away with all that So that when you
start out you need not stop for anything.
I don't now see how have got along so
we'll without one so long, but reckon as
the old saying is, that poverty is the
mother of invention.
believe it would have been better for
the State if we had took the money we
are having to pay out for law suits and
finished the State House with it, for
don't see what we are to gain by ell these
except experience, and thought we got
enough Of that when we were under car
pet bag rule. Some Of our citizens didn't
and are trying to get little more, but as
for myself have got enough to do me.
I see in the Greenville News some corres-
pondent is inquiring where our Attorney
General is and what his salary is? Now,
I think he's mighty inquisitive to be
making any such inquiries, when he
knows the Governor knows his own bus
mess and is tie peoples Governor. So
don't think he ought to be asking such
questions as that. OF course, we have an
Attorney General, but he may not be
competent to take such big cases into
Court. Ee is, I expect, farmers "move-
ment" man, and Of course farmer, for
as understand it, they ignored all law
yers and every other prolession-would
not have any one but farmers. So you
see good lawyer could not come in on
the movement ticket.
We have had a few days of fine weather
the last week, and l tell you we Lave
tried to make it count. Every body in
this neighborhood has been putting in
time sowing oats, and if the weather con-
sowing. Some fall sowed oats stood the
winter very we'll where they were sowed
early, but the late sowings were killed
out. I hope all will SOW plenty OF Spring
oats. Sow enough to feed your stock if
you should entirely fail on corn, which
you are not apt to do if you will plant it
and cultivate good, and then plant plenty
of land in corn to make enough to do you
if your oats fail, and will guarantee
you will not have corn to buy another
year. Don't get uneasy for fear of being
ovarstocked with horse-feed, for you can
easily sell all you don't peed at the crib.
It's rare chance you see any one in this
country have to haul his corn to town to
sell it. After you have provided literally
for corn and oats, you can plant as much
cotton as you can cultivate and what you
get for it will be net profit. So let US all
do that.
Mr.. II. R. Jones came very near getting
his house burned up the other day. He
had rolled his old house back few feet
to make room for his new one and had
constructed temporary chimney to it to
do until he could move into the new one,
and had left q fire in it. 7 wind got up
about one o'clock and blew fire into a
bed, setting it on fire, and would have
burned his buildings, both old and new,
if the hands at work on the new house
had not discovered it as soon US they did
and put it out. He lost the bed and
quilts, which were on it any way. Mr..
Jones was off at neighbours at a work.
ing, and liked to have got his hand split
open with an axe accidently at the time.
i near SOL1lo Ldlk Ol Luo llllu. u.dulLeS Try
ing to have an election for Postmaster Mt
the Piedmont Postoflice. don't know
why "Gideon's Band" has not held q
secret conclave to decide who to recon-
mend. They may have done so and con-
cluded to leave it to an election. There
are about dozen applicants for the office
and some of them-in fact all but one
will have to be left out. The Office pays
a very good salary or wages-for believe
it is not salaried office-and is worth
grabbing for. knew the place when
nobody wanted to be bothered with it.
Mr.. Thackston used to keep the Office
and carry the mall back and forth to the
depot, and was Express agent and, I
believe railroad agent, too, and it all
did not pay him enough to live on, If it
had not been for what the Piedmont Co.
paid him. he did it just for an accom-
mediation to the people on the place, but
now it pays and there is lots of applicants.
I wish there were Offices enough for
everyone who wants to be in Office. IF
there was, there woulden't be enough
people left to make corporaPs guard.
I will try and get somebody to marry
or do something to give me some news
to write. If any of the youngsters want
to marry and can't get a preacher if they
will come this way can tie the knot for
them all right, for am.
SQUIRE FEwEL, N. P.