Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-02-13
HARDY'S HAPPENINGS.
Bad Roads Interfere With
Travel. Drag Improves Roads.
Entertainment at Lenoir
School.

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weather. We hope it will continue
this way for two weeks longer, al
least, so the farmers can get more
grain plowed in, for almost all has
been killed. We hope to get oul
wheat in that did not get in before
Christmas. IT'S SAID, all things
happen for the BEST" We can't al,
ways see it just SO, at the time,
though afterwards we find it true.
In this instance we hope the failure
to get the wheat sowed in the fall
may proveit happened for the best
for it would doubtless have been
killed as the oats were.
We hear of many farmers who
havn't a hand on their places yet
and no prospects of any. Messrs.
Sam and Hugh Gardner, Will
Briggs and Herbert Bunch are
without, also Mr.. Joe Lanham
One white man ona place and no
one to help him at all, and several
mules, no one to plow them looks
very gloomy. Especially where
the drought cut off the crops Of
last year, making the necessity OF
buying corn and hay to feed the
idle stock. We'll, we none of us
know what's III store for us, except
constant hard work to be able to
.tlive.
Thursday of last week it having
been8 SO pretty for several days,
Mr.. Herbert Bunch decided he
would 60 drag the road aid see if
he could scrape off some of the
rough places. So he dragged two
miles down and one mile above
| his place, which did worlds of
good. MIR. Harrison told him, he
i Mr.. iH. would have to do something
for the roads, SO his children could
get and from school at North
Augusta, as the roads kept the
surrey constantly broken and in
the shop. So on Friday Mr.. Har-
rison took his team and hands and
put in rocks into the holes and
pounded them in, then put dirt over
them. We went and came over the
Martintown road, on Saturday in.
stead of or 7 seven miles out of
our way to get to town. Now just
here reminds me of our mail car
rier. lie told me Of what trip he
has to take. His horse has distem-
per and during these bright days he
has been trying TO make his rounds
in his John Henry" He comes up
as far as Mr.. Joe Thurmond's store
and cant go on and get across An
derson branch on account of the
mud, both sides of this branch, not
only Gloss to it, but even up on the
hills. SO he has TO turn around at
the store and come back to Mr..
Chea!hams' place, and so out by
Curryton and on up by Mr.. Coop
ers place up the five notch road to
the Gardenville school house and
out to Mr.. Tom Briggs place,
which, if he could have continued
from Mr.. Thurmond's store he
could have reached Mr.. Briggs
with two miles travel. Think of it.
When he delivers the mail there he
then has to retrace the same ground
over back to Curryton, and on
down by Sweetwater. Which makes
him about ten or twelve extra miles
travel.
Now, / will leave it to the public
TO decide if this is not an outrage to
have such roads left unworked. We
hope MIR. Broadwater will bring
the Assistant Engineer down over
this road and use some of Federal
Aid funds putting it in order.
We attended services at Sweet
water Sunday and were sorry not
to have gotten there in time to hear
all Of MI. Aliens sermon. We have
never heard him before, but found
him fine speaker Mrs. Fred Bar,
ker joined by letter and was vel,
coined into the band of workers.
She leaves Tuesday for visit to
her former home in Tennessee,
where she will visit her parents for
month.
We were sorry to hear of Mr.. H.
+. Cooper's illness and hope he will
soon be up again. We know how it
worries Mr.. Cooper to be confined
to his bed, for he is all business and
energy.
Were glad TO see little James
McClain out again. We thought
we glimpsed Miss Theresa Bunch
at home and supposed she was home