Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-09-12
HARDY'S HAPPENINGS.
Gins Running. Many Workmen
Go to Camp Hancock.
Marriage in Community
This Week.

There has been very little trans
!. piring in the Hardy's section since
. the association. We were so much
in hopes of getting to the conven-
tion at Rehoboth, but owing to the
Concentration of circumstances,
our hopes were blasted. The truth
of the business is my "chaffau" had
to CHATEAU" his gin business and
could not leave to take himself or
me. The gin has been humming
pretty steadily this past week, and
while tits coming is the time, to
stick to business, for the crop being
so short it will soon be ell out, and
/ fear sold while tits down in price.
For I heard a short while back,
that man made a remark in Au-
gusta that Wall Street would push
lit down to lS cents or lower, until
they got it all out of tie farmers
hands for they would be obliged to
sell to meet their obligations first
of November, and after they have
sold all, then it would advance to
80 cents, and he had asked a mil
lionaire to put up, for him and they
would divide profits. What a pity
the farmers will not combine and
say, we will not take less than 25
or 80 cents, and hold out for that
price. The merchants combine,
grocers, and butchers and set their
prices and hold to them, and if you
60 to buy from one, and his price
don't suit you, you need not expect
to get it at another store for less,
for they stick to their combination
and we farmers have to pay their
prices.
'Tis shame for the farmers to
make the cotton and other farm
products, and at so much cost, work
Iand worry with the inferior labor,
then be beaten by these Wall Street
.|sharpers. and sharpers every where
5iIlelse as well. The farmers ought to-
4 esshsrp enough by aoW Eot FORM q
|. com birations among themseI lives ara
hold together, But that is the
great trouble, they are so much
afraid of some one besides thcm-
selves being benefited, that first.
one, then another, will slip out un-
under-handedly, until the compact
is broken, and all faith thrown to-
the winds.aI have seen this done
right in my neighborhood. That
is why the farmers do not succeed
any better, they will not be their
brothers Keeper" and help him
to succeed. So afraid he might make
one penny more than he has him.,
: self.
: We still see the workmen pass
to and from the. camp work. Poor
fellows we know how tired they are'
going from the Collier section eacle
morning and home at night. wv
saw seven teams pass down Sunday
afternoon from Clark's Hill, going
over to do hauling at Camp Han
: cock, or be be hauled off the
grounds, for they were so poor they
were staggering, and did not look
able to get all the way over there,
much less work Monday as they
will be expected to do, and keep on
doing. For teams there were 3
or sacks of oats and no forage at
all, and we did not wonder the
mules were poor. Poor dumb ami
mails they cannot talk to ask for
more food or tell how weak and
unable to work they are, but just
get hard licks and rough, usage.
My sympathy goes out for them,
and I often ask the driver to use his
sympathy for them, and give them
more to eat and less lashes. They
would be better able to work.
We knew of one marriage toiF
take place in our neighborhood, orr
rather one of our boys to marry
this past week, but not the Dea-
CON-" But sure enough he did, SO
we are told, stole girl, and the
way he ran.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McClain,
Mrs. Julia Townes and Walter Ste
vens, we hear. motored to Green
wood for the weekend with Mrs.
George Anderson.
Mrs. Julia .Townes and MIR.
| Frank Townes, gave barbecue
| Friday. for a few, one special
young lady of North Augusta, so
keep your ears open. He bushes
greatly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison started to
Trenton on last Sunday, but the
Dodge" baked, and they gave up
the trip. They then started to
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