Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-06-16
would be of benefit to- the people.
"a discussion Of the Agricultural in
;terests Of the county entirely di-
vested of politics during this off
year, would be attended with ex-
cellent results.
Or. d. "A. J. Bell Writes Of the
Meriwether Homicide. Com
mends The Advertiser.

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/ would not refer to the articles
of Messrs. johnson and McKie,
published in last weeks Chronicle.
but for the fact, that /, said in this
correspondence at the time that the
killing Of Georgia Ann Broadwatel
was as brutal q murder as was ever
committed in South Carolina. Nov
comes Mr.. Johnson and says it was
mo murder - merely an accident.
unjustifable perhaps but excusable. .
Really isn't Bill Broadwater nice
fellow, according to johnson and
McKie? If he will come in, thrust
his shotgunin in the homes Of his 9th
er SONS, with the intention of killing
them, but, instead shall kill a few
more innocent negro women, they
might make Bill Broadwater q hero.
Nice fellow indeed!
I want to say that / was the first
white man to- see Georgia Ann
Broadwater, that saw her mangled
and sweltering in her own blood,
that I amputated her arm at the
shoulder joint in the endeayor..to
save her life, that 1 heard the story
of the killing fresh from the lips of
BilPs wife and his children, as we'll
as at the inquest, and I state delibe-
rately, without fear of successful
contradiction, that the killing of
Georgia Anna Broadwater was as
cold blooded, as cowardly, as brutal
a murder as ever disgraced the an
mails of South Carolina.
It doesn't matter who Bill Broad
waters daddy or grand-daddy was,
who raised him, or with whom he
hunted, Gshed or played, if he fails
to stretch hemp, there will ever re.
main stain upon the proud escutch.
con of our native state, for the which
some one is dereliet Echo answers
Who?
The Advertiser may close its ears
now while I tell its readers some Of
the good things / have heard about
it. One man says its as good as g
religious paper; another that it is
clean and wholesome, and say, that
I admire it not alone for the enter.
prise manifested in the great i'm
provement of the paper but because
it stands for something. The Adver'
tiser breaches sobriety, and proves
its faith by its works, in that, at q
pecuniary loss, it refuses to publish
liquor "ads.n 1 love to see a mar
believe something and then stand
by it. The Advrtiser is "agin" Ii
quor and proves it. 1t should be il
every home in Edgefeld county.
Messrs. Joe Henry Elkins, anG
Nixon Dorm, Alumni of Furman, at
tended commencement and report 8
good time.
Miss Martha Dorm has returned
from ayisit to her Alma Mater, the
G.. +. C. 5s Z
Mrs. Ohm Brunson and her pret
ty grand daughter, Miss Lizzie Ed
monds are on a visit to relatives IL
Augusta.
Mrs. Glide Haryely, of Fairfax
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ada
Harvely.
Judge Blackwell and his consta
BILE, Mr.. j. A. HarYely, were tele
graphed for yesterday, by the negroes
of Bethany, (Bill Broadwater't
churoh) Meriwether, S. G. to come
down and help them catch blind ii
gers.
We are informed that Judg'
Blackwell told the negroes that i
they failed to put down the trafi'
he would close their church as
nuisance. Good!
ID. A. j. BELL, NJ. D.
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