Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-05-13
GEORGIA LETTER.
Uncle Iv Morgan Writes In
teresting Letter. Wanted Ito
See Deestrict School of
Long Ago.

J Dear ora Advertiser: 1 ndpe
been wanting to send you a few
dots for sometime, but have not
! felt like writing for the last three
weeks on account Of rot feeling
very well. ] am about all right
again. Anyway l am feeling bet
ter, and as to-day is the day for
your weekly visit, / decided to
commence Just as soon as had
breakfast. | guess the moon is
about TO change as the weather has
made a considerable change, and
this morning fellow that has none
too much iron in his blood from
age or disease feels better with bis
coat on. The day before yesterday
he would have felt better and more
comfortable without a shirt if he
could have stood to be baked By
the sun. Goats have been laid aside
for the last two weeks, and IN some
cases shoes but the sand especially,
about noon and in the evening, has
begun 10 make the ants hurry up.
When they come to the top of the
ground with their little lamp Of
moist sand or clay and get back,
the barefoot boys and girls | I'M
agine make shorter and quicker
steps. Cotton chopping is now in
F.! full blast and so far l hear no com
pIaint as 10 the stand. Corn is
ab0u. ready for the second plowing
aud the farmers are at it soon and
late. They tell INC that this month
is The time TO put in full time 80
that when June comes in the work
will not be so regular OF pushing.
| The first Of July the work in the
crops is about through. OF course
it is new to US who came here last
winter and had Detn accust olned to
work right on I'LL folder was aboaf
rsady 10 pull. Well, so far | don't
see that our move was a mistake. lf
there has been Il mistake II was in
not coming here OF somewhere else
wears ago. Now ] want to be un-
derStood. ! do not advise anyone
to move here or ANY where else I'll!
they first 60 and see with their own
eyes and use their own Judgment.
but do say that as far rs 1 am
able TO Judge at this time there are
a good many families that | know
Of who own their lands are making
4 mistake in working the lands they
own and getting poor returns for
their labors. They could pay a
reasonable rent on some land | see
aud know of and have more at the
close OF the year. Yes, there are
disadvantages to contend with,
mostly III the matter of schools.
But from what | can hear that Is
fast passing away, and will soon be
thing of the past from one simple
fact, and that is the landowners are
beginning: to realize that intelligence
counts .ur something even OH the
farm. It is nothing uncommon for
some of the large landowners TO
even build school house for The
benefit of their renters, children
| (wh.te Of coursc.) In fact | have
talked with one of them and have
heard of others. While on this
subject ] want to say that not very
fur from where / now live there is
IA man who last year bought SIX
thousand acres Of land and now
proposes to cut it up in from twen-
ly-iiv" TO two handrcd acre farms
and co!onize it with good white
families. He says most positively
that he will not sell one foot of it
10 anyone who is not sober and
/ upright mau and that he intends
making it his business to know be-
fore he sells TO them. Farther than
that he says that with his own
money he proposes to build goo |
church and school building for the
benefit of those to whom he sells.
Were | to write or call his name il
would be very familiar to good
many Edgetield people. I may later
tell his name but net now.
Well, what was my surprise to
ge: letter from a Mr.. j L. E. Get
Zen of Wadley one day last week
asking me to visit him on last Sat-
urday. / went and who should it
he but son of Capt. Thomas Get
Zen and grandson of Old Fatner
or Sam Gclzen, Baptist preache:
and my mothers brother. To say
that l enjoyed heing in his family
would be putting it rather mildly.
| found him to be I man that every
one seemed to like and had all con
| hdenoe in; u leader in church and
SurI,y s.n,,,l u,rE Vas rur