Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-07-28
JUNGLE" IV'S LETTER.
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preaching tour through the coun-
try and took young man along
with him as a companion, and that
the preacher never preached at the
same place. but one time, and his
text was, Peters wife's mother lay
sick of tie fever" and everywhere
he went he preached from that text,
and that after while he went to
town where there was bell at the
church, and when the bell rang for
the morning service the preacher
went into the pulpit and preached
from the same text, and he and the
young man went to dinner with one
of the church membe RS, and after
dinner they were sitting out on the
porch and the church bell rang for
evening service, and the preacher
became somewhat excited and asked
the young man if that bell meant
preaching again, and the young man
told him no he guessed not, but he
expected Peters wife's mother was
dead.
So, Mr.. Editor, you see that l am
surrounded by all sorts of people
and beliefs and am now superinten-
dent of a Sunday school in sight of
my home (having given up the Sun
day school that 1 first worked in)
and am trying to be of some help
to my near neighbors. We meet
every Sunday for Sunday school and
have preaching twice month, and
our school house which is l6x32
feet will not hold the people that
come. Old, middle-aged and young
men and women boys and girls come
and seem hungry for the truth as
taught in Gods word and l do feel
so weak when I see their needs and
realize that am an old man whose
mind is not as clear as it once was,
and can now more clearly under
stand the need of praying for Ia
borers to work in the fields, for of
a truth down here the laborers are
very few and far between. I have
written the above that my friends
in Edgeield county may know how
I am surrounded, and pray for me.
Now, i want to ask a question.
Jabez Garnet says he looks FIRST to
see if l have anything in the paper,
and the first thing I look for is to
see if there is anything from Parks
vile, the Grove or Modoc. Failing
to see anything from either of those
places / feel disappointed. What is
the matter with Parksville, where
are Marie Blackwell, Kathleen Parks,
Rosada Talbert, Anna Mcdonald
and others? I name those four,
why? Well, when I went to Parks
Vile last October l met those four
on the railroad and had a chat with
them, and as l write I can imagine
I see and am talking with them as
I did that Sunday evening. Now
girls want some one or all of you
to let me near from Parksville
through The Advertiser. 1t will do
the old man good.
How about crops down here?
Well where they were planted along
about the lst of April and have
been worked they are as good as [
have ever seen, but it has taken
hard work to keep the grass from
taking possession. Since the 9Th
of May I don't remember of ever
seeing as much rain fall and the
cotton planted from the middle of
April to lst of May got in bad
fix, and some of it is still in a bad
fix. Cotton aud grass all came up
together, and the rains gave the
grass the advantage, IN fact in some
sections l hear of some that planted
over with no better success, and of
others that raised the white flag or
in other words shouldered their hoes
and quit their crops. Fortunately
we got our crop up early and got it
worked out before the rains set in
regular, and though we have the
drills fairly clean there is some
grass in some of the middles that
have been plowed up three or four
times and tits still alive, and guess
will stay so until the frost kills it,
but those who pass by say we have
as good if not the best cotton they
have seen, but as 1 said before it
has taken hard and persistent work.
Hav'nt had any of our wheat
ground into -four yet, but had a
bushel ground at the corn mill and
we are now eating graham bread
and tits good too, makes me think
of when I was boy and ate muf-
fins, wafles and batter-cakes made