Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-12-01
LONE STAR STATE.
Wants Uncle" Iv in Texas. Oil
Wells Increasing. Mexican
Labor Unsatisfactory.
Saloons Voted Out.

ses that Uncle" Iv Morgan has
moved again. / wish Iv would take
la aotion and come out here. Then
/ he and could fish and hunt all the
week and go 20 church on Sundays:
know that he would enjoy it. We
Ihaye Sunday school every Sunday
ltnorning at 10 o'clock and preach
Ling at,ll. Then the B. Y. P. U.
meets at Z o'clock in the evening
and preaching is held at s o'clock.
This is every Sunday with prayer
meeting on every Wednesday night
at s O'Clock. / tell you Iv, 1 am
with the widows and oil maids
nearly all the time and I must say
fthatI enjoy it. They look good and
talk real nice but, Iv, I can't help
thinking of Jane and the old Parks
tyille church where she is, to save
my life.
Well, talking of fishing and hunt
ings they are killing deer, geese and
ducks right along. A man told me
yesterday that he killed 81 ducks
the day before down on the bay.
He said it was nothing to see 500 or
s600in a drove. l have not hunted any,
EifSI did, I would have to take out a
license. No one can hunt here any
Thing unless he first takes out Ii
sense. That is the reason there is
so much game here, and | think II
as good law. Only few people are
able to hunt. / wish there was such
ID law in South Carolina, then the
negro would be out of it and you
would have game. Now, as for fish,
There is just plenty Of them. ] went
down to little stream near here
that they call river. 1t being so
drs.here, no rain since the 2sth Of
shss little stream has not rnTl
"a 3gs5gin about three months. DaS Nitt -
has holes in it ten feet deep and 100
yards long. We just set net about
half way and drive the fish in it. l
never saw the like of fish. We
caught in one hour and half one
hundred and four weighing from
five to eight pounds. Mostly mullet
and trout. Come ahead Iv, and We
will 90 to see Alba your son.
Mr.. Editor, the oil wells are get
ting thick around here. One
right in sight Of US. They have 1t
1000 feet deep now and still going
down. Everybody seems to have the
oil fever. Renting the right to the
company to sink a we'll where they
please and as many as they please
at 81. so per acre. They still hold
their land and farm right on. If the
company damages their crop in
sinking we'll it pays the damage.
If man had negro labor here to
work, he could make money farm
ing. These Mexicans are no good.
Can't understand anything they say
but they surely know where the sa-
looms are and they use them. They
have no preacher to help them at
all. My son being the pastor Of the
first Baptist church here, is trying
to get them a preacher and organ
ize them a church. | think they will
soon have their house and preacher.
Then the next step the town is go
ing to do is to hold an election and
put the saloons out of business,
making the town dry town. God
send the dav for we have so many
good people here and so many young
men and boys that are going to ruin
on account of whiskey. The Gov
ernor's home county went dry last
week by over 400. The governor
being for local option, nc came
home and stumped the county in
favor of local option but they did
not hear him and she went dry. 1t
is now thought that the whole state
will follow Bell county. After the
election he told them that 1t now
meant his defeat. in the next cleo.
tiou for governor. Mr.. Editor, i
want to see this town incorporated
and put the saloons out and the
moving picture shows out OF the
town, anyway on Sunday, and let
the children and young people 90
to church. On my way to church l
see just plenty of the children that
ought to be at church going to the
show.sThis is sad but, can be help
'ed just now. =.
The Baptist church here has five
or six deacons and about ten or
twelve Sunday school teachers. They
are the hardest working set of dea-
cons and teachers | think | have
ever seen.