The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-03
CHRISTMAS AT RENBERT
Some Pertinent Observations on the
Ways OF Farmers by "Hagodd."

Rembert, Dec. 30.-Christmas is
here again and with it our boys and
girls: Bush jackson, Virgil Cor
bett, Benjamin Sanders, from Glenn
son, Theresa Sanders from Green
vile; Jeneva Spencer from Winthrop;
in the Rembert section are Juanita
Mcleod from Limestone, Moneta
Cox from Lander, are among those
at home for the holidays.
Then among the teachers who NAV
be named are Emily Creighton from
Great Falls, Ethel Allen and Edna
Davis from Williamsburg County.
Prof. Jesse B. Jackson did not find
it convenient to come home.
Only few visitors are in our
community. Mrs. Anna Alexander
and her daughter, Annie Lee, of Co.
lumbia, are visiting Mrs. Mary AL
len.
Allen Creighton Of Dalzell is visiting
Mrs. j. L. Jackson.
1t has been a busy time for the
young folks have been flying around
and the older ones giving dinings
and making things as pleasant for
them as possible while they-well just
talked and planned and so forth and
so on. So far We have survived three
dinings-at Mrs. Mary Aliens, Mrs.
H. c. Bethea's and Miss Courtney
Atkinson's, all Of them sumptuous
feasts.
Mrs. w. A. Young planned and car
ried out successfully Christmas
tree for the children of Bethesda
Sunday school, attended by the COM
munity and James, Adam and Eliza
beth Reames and Myrtyl Young of
Rembert.
]. r. Corbett, who was prostrated
for quite while by rheumatism, is
up again.
w. ]. Spencer and his little girl are
improving slowly.
Many Of our people have not plant
ed oats yet.
Our farmers may not curtail the
cotton acreage, but they will cut the
fertilizer bill.
The short price Of cotton has en-
barrassed all avocations according to
my observation.
All talk with the farmer about
curtailing his cotton acreage, like the
talk Of beliine the cat, viii end in
nothing.
Being a farmer myself, I hate 10
say that rs q class they are a set OF
dull asses. Give them ever so clear
solution Of their difficulties and the
way out and through bad faith or
something else it counts for nothing.
1t has become proverbial that they
will not hang together. The Grange,
Farmers Alliance, Farmers Associa-
ton and Union are and were move
ments in the right direction, but
failed for the same cause. The only
way to make the ounces learn-not
every farmer is a dunce,-is by stat
utory enactment. I heard a man say
some years ago: IT have come to
the conclusion that you cannot help
fool"
When such men as w. A. Bowman
talk we all do we'll to listen. I won
der that such as he, r. I. Manning
and others. have the patience to talk.
The slogan Of the average farmer is,
and he says it with such gusto, Pad
die your own canoe" which is in re-
suits equivalent "every man for him
self and the devil for ALL"
want to get away from those fell
lows so bad that I would jump clear
across to Northern Africa to watch
the fun. Over there a fellow bar
messed himself up with a mad steer.
AS was to- be EXPECTED, without out
side interference the team-that is
the steer-ran away and 1 can see
eyes, more eloquent than tongue.
casting about beseechingly some
BODY stop u.s. "Hagood."
DEAF MUTE COUPLE Welded