The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-09-02
A TRIP THROUGH
LAURENS COUNTY.


Then we got into Laurens county by
way of Woodruff's bridge. We passed
by Col. Alfred Parks old place, now
owned by T. M. Ncsbitt, formerly of
Spartanburg county. He runs some
fortune TO lose his roller mill in May.
lie is not sure of rebuilding We then
arrived at my old friend and school
mates, Col. G. r. Wallace. | fourd
him in bed. He had quite an attack of
neuralgia, but we found so much to
talk Of that he could not stay in bed.
1t had been some 25 or 26 years since
we had seen each other, so ne iust
pulled himself together and STAYED up
the balance Of our stay. He and his
two sisters, Misses Lou and Mamie, live
together. They are fine housekeepers.
Their cid cook, old Aunt Ann, is still
with them, living with the family for
some 80 years. We had a royal wei
come and met the late Col Jonas
Swnk's widow and granddaughter,
Miss Marion Gray. That was very
pleasant company.
We left: early next morning with a
pressing invitation to 90 by w. w.
but as our trip was already planned we
had to decline and pass on, with regrets
that our time was so limited. After
leaving we passed by the w. P. Harris
place; that is quite a little town of it.
self. He has very large farm and
runs nearly 20 plows His cotton is
fairly good. He has plenty of corn and
fine lot of many acres of peas. He
has the finest house in that section. 1t
is of rock, two stories high, large and
roomy. He has a wind mill to give him
plenty Of water for his work stock and
fine j Jersey cattle. He has large fam
lily of interesting children. They have
a good many of the comforts and pleas
ures Of city home, lawn tennis
court and croquet grounds and so on.
He is a fine neighbor and citizen. His
cattle was one of only two lots seen on
our entire trip. ! stopped with our
friend, Willis Cheek, for short while.
girls; six, one married. He is quite a
good farmer and runs ten plows and is
getting on nicely.
We passed on by and through Gray
Court, on the Greenville & Laurens
railroad. That is a nice little town and
has several enterprises, an oil MILL etc
| rode on south through the poorest sec
tion of Laurens county. Cotton is the
principal crop. No peas are sown.
The land in this section is rented for so
much cotton and servants pay no atten-
ton to improving the land. Hugh Wal
lace is quite the best farmer in this
section. He plants some 100 acres in
cotton and had some very good corn,
but said they had too much rain, conse-
qucntly the crop did not show up very
we'll We then crossed North and
South Rabun creeks. The land is very
rolling, much more so than any part of
Spartanburg county that | have been
over Crops are fairly good in Hickory
Tavern section. A lot of land is lying
at Mr.. Baldwin splace, watered and fed
and ate our lunch and then passed on
some miles by way of Tumbling Shoals
bridge. There the crop Of cotton is
much better. After passing Mr. Sulh-
vans place we travelled down rdgeG
road by way of Poplar Springs church
Cotton and corn are the principal crops,
not many peas are SCwn. Cotton is not
very large, but fairly we'll fruited.
| then arrived at my destination, S.
b. Switzer's, at about p. m. He was
glad to have us, not having seen each
other in several years, and we had a
nice stay Of two days and three nights.
We took seining trip on Wednesday
with some of the neighbor boys on the
place and caught quite a mess of fish
The water was almost two high. Hood
Shoals is a noted place for catching fish.
The bows had quite lot of fun bathing
after scining for some two hours. They
did quite lot of grabbing, something
new to me; that is to say, run the fish
from under the banks. The only regret
of this trip was lost my glasses. AL
topcther it was very pleasant outing.
On our return trip we took i'm Col. j.
n, .johnson's lime kilns. That was in
tcrcstinp to some of us who had never
seen one. 1t is not worked now as the
distance is too great to haul to market.
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