Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-06-27
HARDY'S HAPPENING.
Writes Interestingly of trip to
Clemson. Edgefield County
Crops Better Than Other
Parts of the State.

Time has slipped away so fast
and so much has taken place since
last had say in your paper, that
/ don't know where to begin. The
marriage of Miss Mary Townes and
Mr.. Walter Stevens, then the Sweet
water Memorial, which was so
much enjoyed by all. On came an
other Sunday and Mrs. Eulala
McCarty and Mr.. George Wright
were married at Hardy's church.
That. we did not witness, for we
were far away on our journey to-
wards Clemson College.
Mrs. Walter Bunch came up from
Charleston Saturday night. arriving
at Mr.. Herbert Bunch's at u
o'clock P. NJ, to go to Clemson
Sunday AM.
Mr.. Herbert, Mrs. Walter and
Miss Lila Bunch left home and
went to Sweetwater church where
We met Mr.. and Mrs. H. +. Cooper
and Miss Christine Cooper. After
few minutes chat, we left taking
with us Miss Crystine Cooper.
We went out by the Pine House,
Edgefeld, Pleasant Lane, Kirksey,
Greenwood, Donalds, Hodges,
Sholes junction, Honea Path, Don
cheno, Belton. Anderson, Sandy
Springs, Pendleton and Clemson
College. We stopped at Green
wood and took dinner with Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Fouche, then
went on arriving at Clemson at 8
o'clock sharp. They had been hav-
ing an open air concert, and there
had been just quantities of people
there, and I think we must have
met over a hundred cars coming
away the last three miles of the
Journey. And they have not had
rain up that way for some time;
consequently, the dust was fearful.
1--WE could not see 20 feet ahead of
ms, and turning those sharp curves
vas dangerous, for those We were
were coming like the wind3
1--WE soon found our boy, Mr.. Ed.
ward T. Bunch, and he had secured
rooms for US in the Barracks, so we
cannot say we never were in Jail,
for the boys, no doubt, think @thvy
are in Jail often. sgWe were too
tired to leave our rooms that night.
Monday morning we took breakfast
in the mess hall; in fact, ate there
while we were there,
After breakfast we went to the
post Office, the mechanical building,
dairy, and saw the way they sepa-
rate the milk, cool it, churn it, and
take up 81 pounds of butter from
one churrthipk of that. saw the
machines for turning butter back to
cream to make ice cream of; also
the maehin. for cooling the custard
before packing in the chulns, then
the charms we're packed to get hard,
and it sold very rapidly for about
the time W, thought it was good
hard we wen: to get some, and that
was all gone, but we got some that
was cold-athough, not frozen.
| We went into the Museum to see
the wonders there; also to see the
milking done. All these places we
visited between attending the exer-
cises in the buildings. They were
all fine. The drills Monday after
noon were splendid. Oh, my! what
an audience. There must have been
fully a thousandautomobiles parked
around the drill grounds, each one
filled to their utmost capacity.
They came and vent, spinning here
and there, in aid out. Finally,
things became colgested. At first
we could not see tie cause, bat after
patiently waiting We saw two little
boys in soiled ovralis and ragged
hats sitting in very delapidaLed
buggy, driving a rumpled horned
oxen, very deliberately, and the
oxen looked so wise and important.
They had been selling berries, !
think. But this little team had
halted the movements of some of
the finest machines.
What a grand sight to see all
those fine young cadet. drilling, yet
so sad to think that was the last
time they would all be e!ogether, for
so many were graduating, and so
many of them are now arving their
country who may neve' see home
or friends again. Some hope to go
back to finish but may b. conscript-
ed before time to return. How un-
certain life is! Every valk of life
is made to feel the effecs of this
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