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

J Dear tflQ AuVeTLlSel. udVS
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 we'll. ! am about all right
again. Anyway I am feeling bet
ter, and as to-day is the day for
your weekly visit, ! decided to
commence just as soon as l 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 shirt if he
could have stood 10 be baked bH
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
bee un 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 aud girls | i'm
agine make shorter and quicker
steps. Cotton chopping is now in
full blast and so far hear no COM
pIant as 10 til" stand. Corn is
abou! ready for the second plowlng
aud the farmers are at it soon and
Iate. They tell me that this mo:Ith
is the time to put in full time SO
that when June comes in The work
will not be so regular or pushing
The first Of .Iuly the work in the
crops is about through. OF course.
it is new TO US whJ came here last.
winter and had Dern accustomed to
work right on Till folder was, about
r.ady 10 pull. Well, so Far don't
see that our move was mistake. /
there has been mistake it was in
not coming here or somewhere else
Years ago. Now want to be un-
dcrstood. / do not advise anyone
to move here or anywhere else Till
they first go and see with their own
eyes and use their own judgment.
i;ut do say that as far as [ 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
and 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
a thing of the past from one simple
fact, and that's the landowners are
beginning TO realize that intelligence
cJuniS !or something even on the
lIr!n. It is nothing uncommon for
>vnlc 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
far from where now live there is
a man who last year bought SIX
thousand acres Of land and now
proposes to cut it up in from twen-
ty-tiv" 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
To anyone who is not a sober and
upright man and that he intends
making it his business to know be-
fore he sells to them. Further 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 a good
many Edgeticld people. may later
tell his name but not now.
Well, what was my surprise to
get a ietter from 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 4 son of Capt. Thomas Get
Zen and grandson of Old Father
or Sam Gctzen, Il Baptist preacher
and my mothers brother. To say
that | enjoyed being 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
tidenee in: Il leader in church and