Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-05-10
"UNCLE w" AGAIN.
His Letters Always Easily Read.
Georgia Farmers Suffering
From Drought and Cold
Winds.

Ii has been quite a while since l
| have written you, and am afraid
this will be rather a kind of sickly
note. as am not feeling at all well
this morning but don't think it is
because Geargia has gone dry on
the liquor question but may be
from inhaling so much sand and
dust.
With the exception of light
rain on the 3rd and 7th of last
month there has been none since the
last week in February. Those who
planted their cotton weeks ago
have fairly good stand but it is
so dry now that seed planted with
IN the last two weeks will not come
up until it rains The early planted
corn has about all been worked ever
but it is growing very little. The
oats are not very high and l am
afraid will not be very full grained.
Some wheat sown early and manured
, looks like it will make fine crop.
The wind has until the last few
days been blowing since the last
week in February and has been real
cool weather, too cool for cotton to
do any growing.
What am l doing? Well not
much of anything, as | am but little
account in the farm, but still set
the hens and build the coops for the
little chicks and take off the brood
when they hatch out and then see
them droop and die and if they
keep on dying'it will be no use for
any preacher to come to see us
thinking that fried chicken will be
on the table. Now don't want the
preacher that should chance to read
this to think / mean That all they
come for is to eat fried chichen. Oh
no, but | have yet got 10 see one
that was not fond of fried chicken
and not at all partial to any breed.s
Speaking of preachers, the first
week in March / visited my chill
dren down in Emanuel county and
while waiting for the train | made
the acquaintance of preacher
White and his father on their way
to visit son and brother at st.
Clair. Since then / see an account
in The Advertiser of the death of
the old man. l certainly enjoy
ed talking with the preach
er and during our conversation |
found out that he was pastor of
little Stevens Greek church. The
church that your father was once
member of and if make no mistake
your mother ard one or two of her
children united with the church at
the same time and | shall never for
Get the letter your father wrote Geo.
Bussey aud he knowing how much
| thought of Hanny, brought me
the letter to read, a joyful letter
from happy father.
Yes, | like to think Of those days,
it does the old man good to recall
some things that happened or took
place years ago, but there are some
things l would like to forget.
As l came home after my visit to
Emanuel who should / run up on
but Nick Broadwater on his way to
Grovetown TO visit his brother Bob
and what do you suppose was about
the first the first thing he said TO
me. Nv why don't you write more
to The Advertiser" And my reply
was, well Nick / don't know that
what I write is worth the space it
takes up in the paper" And his re-
ply to that was The first thing l
look for when my paper comes is
to see if there is anything from un-
Gle w." We sat together on the
train till he got OH ana nad no.
ticed Just across the aisle two girls
who kept looking at Nick and l and
after he left the train one of the
girls said 10 me, you and the other
old gentleman were Confederate
soldiers were you not? And / told
her that we were and she then said
all the old soldiers seem TO love one
another and l told her yes and as
we grew older the love for each
other grew stronger for all were
getting to be old men now and
whenever we meet each other we
need not expect to see each other
again in this life, especially if we
live some distance apart.
visited my children in South
Carolina the first week in April and
went to the Old Red Oak Grove on
the first Sunday feeling in ali