Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-05-17
PARKSVILLE NEWS.
Very Interesting Meeting at
Modoc. Johnston and The
Advertiser Commended
For Their Enterprise.

luSS ~ w 40 OfS1 my PAAfAASS7S w dO
tend, and I have been in some good
ones. This meeting was held at the
hospitable home of Mr.. J. O. Mar
shall of Modoc, under the auspices
of the Woman's Missionary Socie.
ty of the Baptist church. 1t was a
public meeting, and the Bible
study class of Clark's Hill, con.
sisting Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sales, Mrs.
Leggat and daughter, Mrs. Laura
Bunch, Mrs. Stackhouse and 9th,
ers, whose names / do not recall,
came up to assist the good women
of Modoc in this meeting. TIE ex.
ercises were good, real eye-openers,
and we do SO much wish our good
anti-missionary friends could have
been present to have gotten the facts
and figures as presented, especially
by the Rev. and Mrs. Sales. We
respectfully invite these good peo-
pie of the mission study class OF
Clark's Hill to Parksville, and as.
sure them, that our hearts and
homes are wide open to them. The
only thing to mar the pleasures of
the occasion was the extreme ILL
ness of Mr. and Mrs. J. o.
Marshall's sweet little babe of a
few months. We hope the little
one, still quite sick, may be spared
to their devoted parents.
We have heard it whispered that
there is a probability of the vicin-
age of Parksville joining in the re-
quest to join in Greenwood. We do
hope for the present, this report is
not true, for we do long for the
time to come to vote again in old
Edgefeld. Truly, we want a chance
to vote again so bad. Well, we are,
some of us, just hankering for an
other vote. We think we can inn
prove the public service, at least
we want to call some of our social
ed public servants to taw. We are
just dying to vote.
Where, oh where, is the county's
chain gang. 1t has been absent from
this part of the public domain un-
til the sight of it would be a show
to some. Here children have been
born, taught to crawl, walk and
talk, since the chain gang has been
among us. To these children, the
first sight of the chain gang would
be quite show, causing them to
discuss for long time the quaint
ness of this public institution. Let
the chain gang come, if for no other
purpose, than to teach the children
now coming on in the Dark Corner,
what Edgefeld has.
We are sorry to report that Mr..
Sampson Strom, formerly of Edge
field, but now of Mccormick, Mrs.
Matte Strom and Mrs. Sudie Stone,
of Rehoboth are on the sick list.
Miss Annie Mcdonald VINO has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Joe
Rrpnsoa IN Augusta fer FOR seHeHfal ssHsefA,
weeks has returned home bringing
Mrs. Brunson and little Cathleen
with her. To say that many were
proud to have Miss Annie return is
to put it mildly.
Misses Sallie Parks and Barbie
Christian worshipped YESTERDAY
with the Plum Branch saints.
Misses Kathleen Parks, Claudia
Barrett, Myrtle Garrett and Mr..
Robert Bussey worshipped with the
Modoc Christianity Sunday.
We were blessed with a nice rain
Saturday night, which was greatly
!eeded, and will greatly help little
corn and cotton, though not enough
for small grain. We are sorry to
say, that small grain in our locality
is sorry. The best we have seen is
the crop of Mr.. w. w. Fowler,
who is developing into first class
farmer.
Before we close, we desire to pull
off our hat to the Edgefeld Adver.
tiser, and to the goodly city of
Johnston, both for enterprise, the
one in doing things worth telling,
and the other..in telling it in an inter.
esting way. We remember John.
ston when there was only one store,
kept by Capt. Tom Jones, and a
shack of depot, and we are by no
means an old man; when the sur
rounding country was considered a
barren sand bed, etc., but look at
her magnificent churches, stores,
residences, etc., we'll calculated to
excite the envy of older towns. We
pull our hat and bow very low to
Johnston, to her people, who are
God-fearing and law-loving having
possibly the best governed, dryest
town of its size in the state.
The B. Y. P. U. last night was
well attended, and we especially en-
joyed the solo rendered by Mrs.
Margaret Wales. Mrs. Wales is an
accomplished pianist, and is always
helpful to our young people.
DR.. and Mrs. w. G. Blackwell