Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
OUR MOUNTAIN LETTER.
Miss Gladys Rives Writes Inter.
esting Letter From Cedar
Mountain. Edgefield-
Aiken Colony.


and the seventh season in our cot
tage. 1t is. situated 90 miles from
Greenville, s.. c., Is miles from!
Brevard, N. c., ,s21 miles from Hem
dersonville, up the mountain. some
1900 feet higher. We are 81 milf j
from Caesars Head hotel and about
800 feet lower, Just at the top of
the famous Jones Gap. We have
mail once each day and telephone
connection with sBrevard. !,
We left Edgefeld in a buggy and.
my sister .Maude and [ said we were
going to say we drove a team from
Edgefeld into North Carolina and
we can say we did. Papa and Mr.
Theron Woodward, iof Aiken, were
in papa's buggy. We had fine wealth
er all the way and made the trip.
from Edgefeld to Cedar Mountain
in S3 trayeling5hours distance of
l29 miles,, q
We. reached Greenville at S p.s
m. on Saturday, leaving mama, Ora,
Elizabeth and cousin Lucille Stan.
ley, our crowd that came on the
train, and we got there the same,
time and stopped there with papa's
brother. & (;
Col. Bailey came by for those Of
us who Lad come through the eouns
try on Sunday afternoon and car,
ried us out seven miles on our jour
ney to his camp at Paris Mountain,
where we were most royalty enter
tained at his camp. The remainder
Of our party left Greenville on the
8 a. m. train Monday and Joined us
at the foot Of the mountain and the
lower end:3of, Jones Gap, where
teams were to take us up the noun,
tain, a di,tance of eleven miles,;
Our,neighbors had hot dinner for.
US on arriving. ,ss,
We have eseven of the highest
water falls in western North Caro-
lima. Tie. Day after we arrived the:
young folkssSof the eolo lony were;
waiting On us to go on three days
camps at High Falls. There were
nineteen in the party, and two large
tents. There are from two to five
camping parties stop here each day
and this being just at the top Of.
Jones Gap, the only way to, cross
over the mountain from South Car
olina side makes this quite a rest
ing spot and camp grounds. 1t isa
central place to all the sights and
falls and a. place to buy such as you
need on a camp.
Col. Bailey and family, stopped
on his way to Conestee Falls, his
old camp grounds seven miles away,
and spent the night some ten days
ago with us.
Rev. R. G.. Shannonhouse of
Edgefeld came over from Saluda,
N. c., in hisN buggy, a distance of
% miles and spent several days
with us. Papa took him to the three
big falls on Little River and he i'm
agined they were Niagara falls.
Mr.. Shannonhouse preached in
the Episcopal church here Sunday,
and it was full. The Baptist church
here is a large and very up-to-date
church for such a small town as we
have. This section is about ninety
five hundredths per cent Bapust and
only one Democrat in this voting
precinct.
Quite crowd of us young folks
walked over to Caesars Head hotel
last Saturday. They had 152 guests
and were looking for 45 that night:
Some years we do not see a rattle
snake, and some years they are quite
common. This year. you can buy a
large one live with as high as 81
rattles and button for $l.5O, or a
large dead onefor SOC. Yon can get
from ten to fifteen dollars for a nice
rattle snake skin tanned to make
fancy pocket books and belts of.
The public school in the noun
tains opens generally from the first
to the 18th. Of July.
Old Mr.. Dunn, the mail carrier
from here to Caesars Head hotel,
that travels altogether on foot, in,
four years only missed about three
times, and he is just seventy years
old now.
We have no apples, peaches OF
chestnuts on the top of the noun
tain this year as the frost on June
2nd, l91O,killed them, but half way |.
down the mountains and in the val
leys they are fine. Papa has just
come back from a trip andhe says
the corn crop is splendid, but the
cabbage crop is almost failure.
Mr.. Bennie Parker, of Edgefeld,
who has been stopping with his
aunt, Mrs. A. P. Easterling, left
for home few days ago.
Miss Sophie Tillman, of Trenton,