Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-02-06
MEETING STREET.
Urges Our People to be Loyal
and Patriotic. Follow Our
Leaders. Neighborhood
News.

We have been trying to obey the
the laws of and demands of the
government to the letter, but right
at this time we hardly know just
where we are or just exactly how
to proceed. We have observed the
heatless, wheatless, meatless, pork
less, sunless and all sorts of days,
and right now we feel that We will
I've called upon next summer to add
another day to the column, namely:
oatless days for our stock, unless
we SOW spring oats. The freezes
for the past sixty days have gotten
the beet of them.
We have no complaint to make
against our great President or his
great rulings, but it seems to me
that it would be best to get enough
of we Americans over there to show
the German Kaiser that our country
will never stand to be ruled or dom
ineered over by any such class of
people as they are-if they can be
called by the name of people. Sher-
man said war was" If that
be true this must be of war,
which has the whole world now in
its embrace.
The signs and the times say it's
great struggle and war. We not
only see it from the great daily and
weekly papers of our country, who
are doing a great bit TO help the
cause, but we can read in the very
hearts and minds of the people that
we ale in the greatest struggle and
warfare that our country has ever
witnessed. This being true. it be-
comes our duty, each and every one
of us as patriotic citizens, to obey
the call aud command of our great
leaders, who are true Americans and,
will not do anything only for the"
good of the cause and for humanity.
/ I've shoeld-not want To be called a
Stacker in any degree. So If we
don't do our duty in conforming to
the task put upon US, we will surely
be slackers of the slackest kind, and
should be dealt with as such by our
government. Those of us that are
left back here thousands of miles
from the trenches and from real
danger, exempted by age and other
dependent responsibilities, should
feel it to be our duty to save every
thing possible of what is already
made for our soldiers and allies who
are at the front, and saying to us:
Feed and clothe us and We will win
the war. }"
l pause just here to say: May the
good Lord help us all to do our bit
that this great struggle may be
righ:eously adjusted for the civiliza-
ton Of Christian world. So
mote it be. Amenn
We have been real busy mp here
ever since Christmas getting wood,
! making fires and trying to keep
from freezing.
There is good deal of cotton 10
pick and gin around this commu-
nifty yet, which the people are anx-
ious to give proper attention just as
soon as the weather will admit.
There has been no fertilizers
hauled yet to amount anything, and
not much prospect of hauling much
soon on account of the bad roads.
We folks up here in the country
who failed to buy flour earlier will
just have to live on corn breao, as
we can't afford to till ourselves up
on rice, grits, ETC., to get the flour,
and besides we already have the
corn to grind in meal and grits; SO
that's the way we will wisgle out of
it, and trust the kind hand of Prov
idence to guide and lead us through
these perilous times.
Well, Mr.. Editor, will close by
asking you to keep us posted
through the dear old Advertiser
what Uncle Sam and Mr.. Hoover
say we muss and mustn't do, and
you will find US Johnnie on the
spot.
]. II. G.
Meeting Street, S. G.