Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-24
PARKsVILLE NEWS.
Fair Sunday, Good congrega-
tions. Entertainment for
School Great Success.
DR.. Mitchell Coming.

HIS MOuQdy mOIuluS, Ile 1luu,
the sun is shining beautifully, in
fact it SO shone yesterday, in con-
sequence of which we had good
congregations at both the Baptist
and Methodist churches. At the
former, Rev. T. 81. Garrett preach
ed most excellent sermon in the
morning, and Rev. B. 81. Coying-
ton at the latter in the afternoon.
Rev. Covington was also with our
young people in the evening, and
made good talk to our B. Y. P.
U. workers.
The other day Mrs. Anon in
looking through some old papers
belonging to her father found some
old copies of the Advertiser for the
years 1869 and 1870. Our baby,
a little girl of IL summers, looked
them through carefully, and ad-
dressed me in the following words
practically: Daddy, l have been
scanning this ancient paper, or this
paper of long ago, and see they
got up a good paper without your
pieces" Yes, really The Adver-
tiser was good forty years ago, and
the success of any enterprise is not
dependent upon any one man. l
want to tell you, that when a man
gets to thinking that the world
can't do without him, he is in bad
shape. How sorry feel for such
an one. Why, my dear sir. you
are important in the arrangement
of Gods providences or he would
not have created you, but if you
were to pass away the world
would jog along without you. Not
mill would be stopped, the piows
in the fields would keep running,
the merchants would keep selling,
the ministers would keep preach
ing, in fact, the world would keep
moving. The truth is you would
scarcely be missed. Man is as
grass; as a flower of the field so he
withereth. The places that now
know us will soon know us noJ
more forever.
Some of our best and most use
full negroes are moving to Georgia.
George Bussey who had the respect
of both white and colored, and who
tells me that he had lived on the
plantation of the Hon. w. R.
Parks for 25 years, has moved to
Georgia; others who own homes
are arranging to move. Upon IN
auiry, 1 find that this unrest is
caused by anonymous letters, and
these negroes are getting threaten
lag them and in one instances Civ
ing the parties SO many days In
which to leave.
l have only this to say: that L
believe in a negro staying In his
place, but so long as they are on my
place attend to their own business,
/ am going to stand by them. We
don't allow them to vote, we have
the law, the judges, the jurles and
it is certainly as little as the law
abiding can do among the superior
race to protect him in his life, and
the property he may acquire by
honest efforts. l think it well for
those in authority to investigate
these reports, and if true institute
the proper remedies to protect not
only the tenants, but the land own
ers as well.
Mr.. J. c. Morgan is off on an
extended trip to Southwest Georgia.
We are glad to report that Mr..
G. w. Hamilton of White Town,
who has been quite sick for some
time with erysipelas is convalescent.
Messrs. r. N. Edmunds and j. r.
Blackwell, representatives, fr o m
Parksville Lodge A. F. M. visited
Mr.. Hamilton yesterday offering
the kind offices of the Lodge in any
way that they could be of assist
ance.
Mr.. P. R. Wates of Edgefeld
spent Sunday night and Monday
in Parksville. He is filling the ap-
pointment of the Auditor seeing
what we are worth in order to get
our names on the tax books.
We are sorry to report the indis-
position of little William, son of
DIR. and Mrs. w. G. Blackwell.
Mrs. Gordon Blackwell, whom
we reported last week as being
quite sick of typhoid fever at Dou-
BILE Branch, Ca, is reported to be
better.
Mr.. Joe Blackwell who has been
sick so long in Spartanburg is said