Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-11-18
.B[RRYV|lE LADIES AID

We never had any trouble to speak
of In the Ladies' Aid until that ST.
Louis milliner came to Berryville, an
after that we never had nothing nut
trouble until she left. Twas shame.
too, fer the Ladies Aid Society of Mt
lions Church had been running along
ca III an peaceable ever sence things
settled down in southwest MiZzoura
after the war. an old Mt. Zion got
opened up again.
Then two or three years ago Jim
Chapman started up whut he called a
department store, an sent to st. Louis
after young woman to run the milli-
merry an dressmaking part Of it. Any.
body'd a-thought it wuz Queen Victoria
if they'd seen that st. Louis milliner
when she first come here. She said
she wuz French an that her name
wuz Madimysell Sara Dutong, but the
only sign l ever seen of her bein'
French wuz always callin' st. Louis
'St Looey," like she couldn't talk
plain. Fer all the rest she talked
common Mizzoura talk like everybody
else, an / always did miStrust that
her name was nothing but Sally Dut-
ton after ALL
Of course Madimysell went to church
at Mount Zion-strangers always do, it
bein' by far the leadin' church of Berry.
ville-an' after a while we asked her
to join the Ladies' Aid, but we seen
right away that we had made mis-.
take, fer she begun to make trouble
as soon as she Joined.
Fanny Lou Baker wuz one Of the
leadin' girls in Mt. Zion, an an officer
In the Aid, an sweeter or pre;lier
girl than Fanny Lou never lived in
Mizzoura, accordin' to my way OF
thinkin'. She wuz always mighty nice
10 strangers, too, Fanny Lou wuz. an
she went out of her way to be pleas.
ant to that st. Louis milliner, bein', as
she said, furriner, an so fur from
home.
But l noticed from the first that
Madirnysell always acted sorter dis
agreeable whenever she wuz anywhere
near Fanny Lou-sorter stuck up an
scornful. l couldn't think whut wuz
the matter until | noticed that Ma.li
myself wuz settin' her cap for Fanny
LOUIS beau, John Holt, an then, OF
course, the cat wuz out of he bag.
John an Fanny Lou had been keep
10 company fer a couple of years, an
everybody WuI lookin' fer EN- to be
married pretty soon, an everybody
thought it Wu. good match. join
Wuz postmns ter, an tall, manly fel
low that all tie town folks liked IN
saw right strlight that that st. Louis
milliner WIZ maxim a dead set al
him.
Sure enough, 1t wuzn't long before
John Holt begun to go with Madimy
sell littlo once in while, an even
takin' her buggy ridin' two Sundays
hand runnin, though found out after
wards that that wuZ accidental so to
speak.
'Twuz about that time that Madimy
sell joined the Aid an our troubles be-
gun. First she wanted to change the
name to Saint Somebody's Gid, whut
ever that may be, but we soon settled
that Then she wanted Us to give up
plain SEWN an let her teach MS fancy
needlework. an some WIZ in favor CT
it, but | said no, an meant it, too. an
beln' as l wuz president OF the Aid,
that scheme fell through. too. Then
other things come up. get In all the
time more an more disagreeable, an
Madimysell gainin' all the time more
an more of followin' among the
younger an the weakened sisters,
until the Aid WIZ near about split in
Two.
When things were about at the
worst in the Aid, we decided to give
supper to raise money fer new
carpet fer the church, an it wuz
Jlum scandal the way some Of them
women acted about gettin ready fer
hal supper. On ell Of EN- church mem.