Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-04-05
HARDY'S HAPPENINGS.
Corn UP and Cotton Being
Planted. Death of Dr.. R. L.
McKie. Moving From
Community.

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middle of February, and now Apri
has come the high winds continue
We are hoping they will not blow
all the rain clouds away, for We dc
need rain so badly. The winds have
blown all the moisture out of The
soil. Gardens are backward, anc
can't plant until we have rain tc
soften the hard clay.
Chicken crop also very late. Hens
rested too long before they begar
to lay, then took their time about
setting.
We are expecting a lot more cold
weather between this and Easter.
so the farmers have not rushed their
seed in yet, for they haven't corn
or cotton to waste.
In going out to Sweetwater last
Thursday we noticed MeSsrs. Sam
pie ana Mealing Bunch have corn
up and were planting cotton right
along. Hope i; will not get killed.
They are exceptions.
We have lost another of our
nearestneigbbors. DR.. r. l.. Nc
kie has gone to his reward. We
sympalhize most sincerely with his
bereaved wife and family of seven
children. 'Iis hard to realize that he
has been taken never to come back
TO those he loved so devotedly. For
he certainly was devoted husband,
and kind and thoughtful father.
Miss him, all YES, we shall all miss
him, hut his family, oh, how they
will miss him. How they need him.
They are so dependent. The wife,
our heartfelt sympathy is with her,
in her great grief and trial. This is
five of her immediate family that
have passed away since May 1915.
May God give her strength to bear
it and wisdom to direct and raise
hsr farsls They are all SO young
andGy fathers guidance=so
much.
I'VE shall meet but we shall miss
him
There shall be a vacant chair.
How many vacant chairs are
there in our community now? So
many within the past two and a
half years and no epidemic either.
SO many have died and so many
nave had to move out of the neigh
borhood on account of malaria un-
Ill we feel our country is almost
ruined. Mr.. Will Briggs moved
about week ago to Mr.. Adams
place TO try and get out of the ma
larial zone, but carried so much in
their systems that they have all
beer down with cbills ever since
they moved.
Mr.. Mckie Scott moved to North
Augusta this week from the Nor
CANA neighborhood.
Mrs. Harry Bunch and four chill
dren visited her fathers family Sat
urday returning home Sunday af-
ternoon.
We were very sorry to hear OF
Mr.. George Swearingen losing his
mules and wagons by being run
over and killed by an automobile
in North Augusta last Saturday.
Those who have automobiles should
not drive so recklessly as they do.
They have no regard for persons in
a buggy or wagon, or walking at
all. Seem to think they have eXcln-
sive rights to the streets and public
roads. The wonder is they do not
kill more people and animals than
they do. They have no more re-
gard for ladies' and children than
for dogs. feel each time go to
Augusta as though ] am going to
be run against and torn to pieces IN
the buggy they run so close at top
most speed and honk, iust in my
ear as they flash past. There should
be law against such behavior and
it should be enforced it seems to
me. l hope Mr.. Swearingen may be
reimbursed for the full value Of his
team and wagon.
Hardy