Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-21
TIMELY NJ / y J. ADVICE.
Besides Giving Neighborhood
News The Sage Of Falfa
Gives Wise Counsel TO
Young Men.
Editor Eagafeld AdYertiser:

Well, asI am alone in the house
!. from one of three things. Wife, and
the little girls gone to spend the
day with one of my boys and his
wife; the. boys in the cotton patch,
one plowing the other two hoeing.
And now for one of those three
things; why, I am in the house
while the boys are in the field. Well,
first Ishad started early this morn
ing to visit Mr.. G. T.. Hammond,
whom / Ilearned Yesterday evening
had been quite sick, but on meeting
up with Mr.. T. NJ. Dorm l was told
that Mr.. Hammond was better and
able to. be. up. came back. home
and felt, lonesome, SO / just thought
you and j would have chat or l
would chat you. That winds, up
firstly. Secondly, / am lazy. sick or
worn out, i don't know which
guess it is general mixture of the
three. Now, for thirdly, the sun
shines mighty hot, and I imagine
that it hurts my feeling or burns
my flesh.
Now, here goes for the waste
basket or print just as you, Mr..
Editor, shall see fit to do. Cotton
crops are late in this section, more
on account laf so much rain in June
{ than from late planting. Early corn
that was.worked looks we'll and one
or two more rains Will insure good
crops. While the late corn looks
well, it has the month of August to
face.
Anybody sowing peas? Yes. sir,
and a lot of them. Some are still
sowing while some have finished
two. or three, weeks ago, and those
sown in June look very promising.
Peas sowed, peas in corn, pea
patches are on many farms.
Sweet potsytoes?. Yes, sir, on every
hand. Sorgham cane, not as much
as should be, but if seasons suit
there will be some soppinge home
made molossas in several homes
around here. Why not in every,
home! " Il,
Waternsa pms: 2 OF much too
wetsin June, bnt i you and your
wife and little ones will come down
during our meeting, the week after
4th Sunday in this month, the wri-
ter will see i: he cannot give you
all YOU want of them, if no disaster
come to my patch.
No fruit scarcely; only a few or
4 chards had any peaches, and apples
none at all. But such a crop of
blackberries! and I won't tell what
fifteen-year-oId girl it was who
did it, but tits fact. She picked
berries enough to fill two dozen
quart jars and two and half dozen
gallon jars and I hear that they ale
keeping ever so nice. That girl got
full of red bugs or chiggers, we
call them, but / am told that the
way she out-generaled the bugs, she
would bathe in camphor after her
days long picking. And now what
do you suppose the writer did? He
got full of red bugs and having
heard of the camphor treatment
tried it and to his surprise the
itching stopped almost as soon as
the carnphor touched the skin. Don't
orget that now, Mr.. Editor, for
ONE of those little bugs may get
hold on you while picnicking
around.
Mrs. G. G. Whatley, who was
carried to Augusta two weeks ago
for medical treatment, / learn is
expected home to-day.
Mr.. T. NJ. Dorm, who passed his
sixty-four mile post on the 18th of
this month killed a nice fat pig and
then what we'll, be hasn't felt
very well since.
Rev. Eddie Seago was visiting at
Mr.. Dorn's (being Mr.. Dorn's som
in-law) at the time the pig was
cooked and should have forewarned
T. NJ. not to cat too much fat pig
and the weather so hot, but all we
old gray heads are as hard headed
as we are gray.
G.. M. Dorm hear has decided to
let one of his boys get him house
keeper. / don't like that;i t;ibetter get
one himself te keep him at home,
for he is as,sly.as a fox. But George
is all right, and a, good woman
would make no mistake in taking
charge of him and his boys, for they
certainly are the most devoted quar-
tette of male folks / ever saw.
Well, i guess / had better not
say anymore about my neighbors or
/ might have to take to my heels,
and I can't run or lope like 1 could
in my young days.
a word to the young men and
boys of Edgefeld county, and l am
done for this time. All have heard
no doubt of that shocking tragedy :
Bush killing his wife. When Bush
was a boy of about fourteen or ff-