Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-10-08
PLUM BRANCH NEWS.
West Side Town Growing. Large
Cotton Crop. More Good
Citizens With "Rusty
Dollars" Wanted.

Dear Advertiser + er rest of
a month l will give ~ the news
of our hustling little town. TO pass
through or try to pass through
themain streets one Would
imagine he was in a much
larger town. Every day in the last
week our streets were crowded with
wagons loaded with the feecy sta.
pie and most of it sold in our mar
ket here at and often above the Au-
gusta market, the prices paid rang
ed from So to 70 all the week. The
greater portion of the cotton seed
is being brought from Georgia. The
old man M. B. says he will i"nrove
the facilities for crossing at + Ter
ry so that the wagons can get A.'foss
more rapidly.To Cross from 80 to so
teams day going and coming we
must make the round trip in IL
minutes. Yes, boys we will bring
them over, you buy the cotton and
sell them the goods, and old Plum
Branch will boom as never before.
What we want is one or two more
large business houses to take care
of the Georgia trade. The trade on
this side will take care of itself. The
old war horse had the business lots
to sell cheap to a good business
man, 80 come ahead and take look
at the situation. We are building
but not as fast as we should. Broth
er Minis send some good fellow
around that has few rusty dollars
to invest in one of the best business
towns on;Sthe G & w G railroad. If
you fail to convince him tell him to
come and look and be cow inced of
the facts of which we write. Fur
thermore when. he comes we will
fconEince ceshim of one osher4fact.tha
he need not fear abouta county seat
being established five miles away in
the city of Mccormick who aspires
to the absorption of our little town
like dropping dry sponge into a
basin Of water which of natural
consequence the sponge would abb
sorb the water.
Well, brother we are having a
little scare over two cases of diph-
liberia. The board of health and the
doctors authorized quarantine sus-
pending the schools and church
services for a week or more. The
health of O., town otherwise is
good and every one is reaching out
for the mighty dollar. The farmer is
rushing his cotton on to the market.
He too wants that Is ga and 7.s for
his cotton, big price but if he will
hold back at least half of his cotton
he will get the long looked for Is
cents cotton and some say more.
Yes, brother farmer, sit steady in
the boat ana you will get the Is
cents. 1t must come whether you
hold or not for if the speculator
gets it he will make the manufac-
turer pay what you should have if
you hold on until the crop is gath
cred which will be in few weeks
if the weather continues dry and
the indications are that we will have
clear weather for few days at
least. This is one year that the bears
can't fool the people about top
crop neither here or in Texas. Mr.
Green who has been travelling over
Texas for 3 or weeks writes back
that the crop is short and no top
crop and the old cotton that has
opened has been damaged consider
ably by the heavy rains. Now as /
said before, sit steady in the boat
and all will be we'll. Well brother,
I would write more but the press
of othe. matters forces us to cut
out a good part of what we would
be glad to write.
Don Carlos.