The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-05-03
A FISHING PARTY.

Accompanied by Captains Jack
Bradley, Hugh Bradley, Oscar Ham,
mond, Foster Barnwell, Raiford Nc
MILAN, Fred Minshall and Bill
Greene, we went to Dyson, S. c., on
Saturday last to do days fishing.
We left Abbeville at eight o'clock IN
the morning and made the trip by
way of Greenwood, Ninety-Six and
Godsey in fine style. The roads are
In good shape most of the way and
it is a pleasure to drive over them.
Along the road we received great
deal of information as to the country
and the people who live in it from
Captain Hammond, who is something
of an encyclopaedia on roads, resi-
dences and people, and the country
generally. We passed no farm-houses
and few barns and outbulldlngs
which did not have something OF
childish or other history connected
with them, and it was all related to
US in approved style.
The fields along the roads had all
been prepared with great care for the
new crops, and here and there the
cotton was peeping through the
ground, and it presented an attrac-
tive appearance to us as we whirled
along the roads. The small grain
is looking pretty well too, but it is
needing rain badly, and unless it gets
it pretty soon, it will not do so well
az it at one time promised.
All along the road we met people
going to Abbeville, Greenwood and
Ninety-Six. Some travelled In au-
tomobiles, some in Fords, some In
buggies drawn by fine horses, and
some in wagons drawn by the faith
full mules from the farms. We were
reminded that it was the end OF the
month, and being the last Saturday
in tie month, ration day was at hand
which meant an outing for the work
ers of the fields and busy day for
the merchants in the towns who sell
the ratons.
We arrived at Dyson little after
ten o'clock. Raiford's father was
there dressed in his Dyson suit, wait
ing to greet us, and on the front
piazza of Schumpert's store the
statesmen residing in the vicinity OF
DYSON were seated discussing the
war. politics and the state Of the
country. When we unloaded the
seven husky warriors with US, an old
gentleman said to us that if Carran-
"a could see these boys he would u.s.
ten to the United States. He had
been reading a Columbia State
which he loaned to us for the pur-
pose of getting an outline OF the
mornings news. He informed US
that the people in that section keep
up with the country by reading the
State and the Anderson Tribune
pronounced with long ") we
felt no doubt that they were well
informed, and we hesitated to ask
whether they had ever heard OF the
Press and Banner.
The City of Dyson.
Dyson is the largest town on the
Southern Railway between Godsey
and Chappells. 1t has about nlne-
teen white inhabitants and perhaps a
few more colored ones when the
brick season is on. The place has
three stores, one run by "shump"'
one by Mr.. Vaughn, the other one
we discovered as we were leaving for
home. and therefore, we did not learn
the name of the proprietor. In ad-
dition to these stores, it has the NC
MILAN Commissary, which had by
actual count, nine pairs of shoes,
eleven cans of tomatoes, twenty-five
cans of "simons", and proper pro-
portion of sardines, tobacco, ten SACKS
flour, eight pairs of overalls, a little
sugar, lard, and other ingredients
and broken sack of salt. 1t is pre-
sided over by Col. ]. L. Mcmillan
sometimes called Jim in Abbeville.
The commissary is located in a
Joint store and residence. The resi-
dence portion consists of the kitchen,
a dining-room and two bedrooms,
and Nancy" black Due West ne
gro, is the cook and housekeeper, and
she knows her business.
a. The Brick Yard.
Soon after looking over the city,
we were invited by Col. Mcmillan to
inspect his brick-yard. Now, it is the
Dyson Brick Company, (Which is the
Colonel's middle name), which has
nlaced DYSON. s. c.. on the map. We