Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-29
Doings of the Progressive Peo.
pie of the Cogburn Section.

penlngs OF this the CogDurn ana
Meeting Street section. I very much
enjoy the news given by your cor
respondents from the various Sec
tions of the county each week and
it might be possible that some of
of your readers would Ike to hear
from this side of the county oc-
casionally, hence these lines.
1 might say as a beginner that
there has been more farm work
done around here since the 1st of
January than + have ever known to
be done during the lst three months
of the year. Almost every day has
been favorable for work on the
farm. Farmers have made better
preparations for planting than ever
before that I can recall during my
past fifty years of life and now that
we have been blessed with a fine
rain, people around here will
brighten up as well as the small
grain that we were so anxious and
uneasy about during the dry wealth
er. We hope to see such improve
ment in small grain in the next few
weeks that we can report it fine.
There has been some corn planted
but most of the crop is yet to be
planted.
There has been good quantity of
fertilizers put down and lidged on,
while a lot of the farms around here
do not believe in putting it out too
early and therefore have done other
work up to this writing, but now
that the rain has come, there will be
mighty rush to get everything in
readiness for planting on time and
in due season.
Our Long Cane school that has
been running since the 1st of No
vember 1910 will close in S or 6
weeks. Our teachers Mr. Harris
Mathis principal and ably assisted
by Miss Aminee Cartilage, have
been very faithful to their charge
since they have been with US and
will when they return home after
the close of school leave many
friends around here and will u
will say it anyway 1 expect some
admirers also.
QUITS camp w. o. w. met at
their hall over F. A. Owdom's store
in the city of Meeting Street, S. G.
By the way, there are two large
general merchandise establishments
in this town, both I suppose doing
good business. Mr.. w. Smyly Ste
vens is at the old Meeting Street
store, and by the way MIR. editor ne
only lacks 15 cents of being right
in Edgefeld as it were. Just ask
central at Johnston, he will explain
tho facts o. x.
We are delighted with our tele-
phone service, the Long Cane line
which has been doing business for
about months. We find it a great
luxury and convenience here in the
country, in fact since we have been
able to cali up the city folks and
talk with them from our places of
abode, we feel like we are as good
as the city folks themselves are
Selah.
The school at Mr.. w. S. Logue's
closed last Friday with picnic din
ner and some platform exercises on
platform erected for the occasion
10 turn your partner around and
balance all.
The township equalization board
for Elmwood met at Meeting Street
last Friday the oath and passed on
all the returns for the township and
turned them over to the auditor
Saturday the 95th. Now everything
will go smoothly until pay time
then occasionally the board will be
greeted with such as this.
Il amt got no dog, and never did
have one, dats stray dog tuck up
here, and l can't run him off. Dat
mule you got me down why l didn't
hab no mule l bought dat mule de
2nd day of January to makea crap
with this year."
Mr.. J. M. Bell and Mr.. ]. ]. Pad
gett, are both having nice dwelling
houses erected. Mr.. B. E. Sawyer is
the contractor in both which in
sures perfect workmanship and
quick completion. We can see why
Mr.. Bell wants and needs the room
he is building for his wife and
children but Mr.. J. J. Padgett has
neither wife nor children, SO we are
at loss to know what he will do
with 10-room house with about 8
fire places, Something might happen
to suit the occasion, wait and see.
guess l have written quite
enough for this time, therefore I
will not weary you further but will
try and let you hear from us again
soon. j. III. G.