Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-06-05
"UNcLE w" WRITES.
EdgeGeld Fiddlers Made Good
Music. Urges Reelection
of Senator Tillman:
Wheat Good.
Monday Morning, June 8, 'ls

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was hot and dry down here? Yes,
both hot and dry, had no rain now
for three weeks, and ground get.
ting pretty dry and the sand hot,
but rather have dry weather now
while crops are young than later
on. What am I doing these days:
Well, but one thing then another,
not much of anything just at pres
ent as we finished chopping our
cotton two weeks ago, and we are
now going ever it again taking out
the grass we failed to get in chop
ping and the plow failed to cover.
No there is not much of it to get
out, but can get it out now while we
are resting. So that later on and
the weather grows hotter wont have
to dig so hard to get it out.
] Well what do you recken hap
pened at my home Saturday night?
Oh tits no use to put you to the
trouble of guessing, so will just
tell you. An Edgefeld man and
his two sons came and brought
their fddles and gave US some fine
music. Who were they, Mr.. Jim
! Creed and his sons John and Bud,
I. also his and his sons wives and
children, quite a crowd of Edge
! feldians. Where about in Edge
field were they from. Well, not
jfar from Johnston near Philippi
]church. Mr.. Jim married Capt.
.EJohn Denny's daughter, and as he
land I talked I could see away back
in the days gone by, and l could
see old. man Jake LaGrone and his
sons, Dave, Jim and John, and
! Capt. Bill Ready and many others
of that section. was not at all
iwell when the fddling commenced,
the old man leading on the small
violin his son John with the bass
III and Bud the organ.Wf4g.
sir in few minutes I forgot 1 was
sick and I thought of Ben Glanton,
Milt Lapham and Jim Adams on
the night that Henry Bussey and
Fannie Glanton were married and
could just almost imagine l could
hear their fddles and could see the
dancers turning corners, prominad-
ing and balancing partners, and for
time I almost felt young again.
No there was no dancing at my
house Saturday night, but could
see more than one that just couldn't
keep 'zackly" still, for there was
quite crowd of neighbor boys and
girls present. Yes love the young
folks yet and still like to see them
together and enjoy themselves. For
you know | was once young, and
know something about how young
folks are, and don't want to, nor
don't intend, if l can help it to drive
the young away from me by always
preaching behave yourself to them.
Well, enough now of that.
Wheat most of it cut and housed
and it was all very good. Oats now
about ready to cut and / have never
seen better spring sown oats, and |
have already heard several farmers
say that they intend sowing more
next fall, and oats too and if the
oats get killed next winter they will
SOW over after Christmas, and a
good many are now regretting not
having sown more this year. So
you see the two freezes of the last
two winters have taught US a les
son that spring oats sometimes
make good.
wonder if anybody will take
exceptions at what l am now going
TO say. What is it! 'Tis most time
now to be swapping horses for
United State Senators or congress
men unless those there are klckers,
if so hitch in another man, but If
those there are good work stock
don't swap them off. What am |
driving at, just this. Keep Ben
Tillman where he is and Lever too,
for if ] am not mistaken it will be
hard job to fill their places at this
time. No don't break into the team
now, too much at stake. Tried men
are needed right now. Men whom
we know have and are making good,
keep them there. They know the
ropes and where and when to pull
when the President gives the word,
and if there ever was time in the
History of the United States when
true and tried men were needed tits
now..
just one thing more and | will
stop. I got letter from an old
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