Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
WILL YET HAVE TROLLEY
Plum Branch Has Men of Grit
Who Cannot be Kept Down.

Give me space for a few words
about the trolley line for our town
to Edgefeld G. f.: VIM. P. Cal:
houn and NJ. B. Sturkey were the
first to agitate the question of q troll.
ley line from Plum Branch to
Edgefeld. Well as some people
know ''Old M. b., as most of his
friends call him, rushed around and
made several trips to Edgefeld tax
ing time to see and consult the plan.
ters along the proposed line and
talked up the why's and wherefores,
and everything, seemingly, was
moving along nicely and the people
along the line appeared to be in ia.
vor of an effort to try to get every
one that lived near the proposed line
to take an interest in the enterprise
The subject was being; discussed
by the people and press until VIM,
P. and OLD M. B. became SO much
enthused over the project that they
called for meeting at their respec-
tive towns to elect delegates, and all
met at Edgefeld to organize or to
get the ball in motion.
But alas for old M. B. with all his
push and get there, if it is possible.
to see his hopes and dreams of go
ing to, and even had dreamed OF
sending his children to the school at
Edgefeld, often he would say to his
good wife, when she would look al
the project seriously and ask in a
quiet and doubtful mood, DO you
really think it possible that YOU will
ever realize to any degree of GER
tainty that the line will be built +
The old mans reply was that
beyond doubt it would be in the
near future. Imagine, dear reader,
the chagrin, the hopes all scattered
to the winds. Old NJ. &. returned
from that meeting at Edgefeld cast
down. You could almost read his
thought.
To the first inquiry, Mo- The
people of Edgefeld want their wives
and daughters to go to Augusta and
Greenwood to get their hats, silks
and satins, they don't want any feed
ers but prefer to feed Augusta and
let the farmer haul :thron mud,
Pslush and rain, j. e., those that don't
haul to Plum Branch and Parks,
vile"
Just allow me to tell YOU, they
(the farmers) are hauling Nto those
two places from within ten miles of
Edgefield. Brother, we have just
returned from Edgefeld and can
truthfully say that our horse and
your humble scribe were never more
completely worn out, and with all
this fatigue we did not have time
to shake hands with but few of our
friends, transact our business and
hurry back through mud and slush.
We at last after nearly two years
of anxious waiting, are to realize to
a certainty the establishment of the
electric power near us, i. e., near
enough if we wans to run a cotton
mill we can get it at a price much
cheaper than steam, also to run a
trollek line to Lincolnton and connect
both the freight and travel with the
C. & w. C. Railroad, and it may be
that Edgefeld will see the necessity
of coming our way.
Some of us contemplate making
Dan Tompkins or some one that is
in the cotton mill business a propo-
sition. We have. a splendid loca-
ton convenient to the railroad and
an abundance of water both mineral
and without mineral, a good loca-
tion for the buildings for the opera
tives and as healthy as the noun
tains.
More in the near bye and bye.
S. NJ. 3.
Plum Branch, S. G.