Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-07-09
HARDY's HAPPENINGS.
Continued Rains lake Grass
Grow. Labor Scarce. Roads
Bad. Tribute to Edgar
Lanham.
We had lots of rain week before


last, very hard, washing rains and the
grass grew and increased very rapid
lily and took possession of the crops.
1 fear the lazy negroes on this place
will never work it out. They are the
LATEST set that l ever saw.
The past week has been hot and
dry and the grass that was hoed and
plowed up, died. We had some good
breezes which helped US not to smoth-
er. The fourth of July was scorch-
er.
Sunday was plenty warm, though
we had a good breeze. For while
| it looked as though we would have
some rain, but that passed off and
now it seems dry spell is on.
Fruit, with the exception of black
berries has been a failure with us
this season. Blackberries were al
most beyond reach, for if the coon
picked them, they asked fifteen cents
per quart.
1 did have a pretty garden until
the rains came so steady, but now
grass and weeds are too high and
thick for me to battle with. My
strength will not hold out to con-
quer it.
Such thing as getting hand for
days work is out of the question.
They are "every man to himself"
and no help for the neighbor. The
society down here has them bound
over not to help the white people.
They are all so rich now that it is al
most impossible to get wash wo-
man, and cooks are not to be had at
all. What is the world coming to?
We are down this side where we do
not get out to visit at all and when
Sunday comes everything is too tired
to go, to church or Sunday School,
ard as q can crank run
have to stay at home and do not
catch the news.
Am told Mr.. Hugh Harrison. is
quite sick today. Hope he will soon
be up again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bunch are
both complaining a good deal. Mrs.
Sallie Bunch is very feeble. Mrs.
Luta Baynon also is feeling very
badly. For myself, ! am just worn
out.
have had lots of people in auto
mobiles come and stop to ask me If
there is any better road ahead of
them, or any way to leave this one
and find better road. They want to
go to Clark's Hill, Greenwood or
Greenville. They are all on their way
to North Carolina. All pronounce
this the worst road they have ever
tried to travel and say it is disgrace
to the state, much less the counties
of Edgefeld and Aiken.
You people who pay road tax and
automobile licenses should demand
better roads. Some of the people
were coming from Florida on their
way home to North Carolina and
said the roads they came over in
Florida and Georgia were grand.
To strike such roads as these they
would go back to Augusta and go by
Columbia rather than continue on
this road, that is, if they did not
break down before they could get
back to Augusta. Some from Green
wood coming down, say the people on
the Martintown road ought to mob
the commissioner.
We have just heard the sad news
of Mr.. Edgar Lanham's death. We
sympathize with his bereaved FAM
lily. No longer than week ago we
saw his mother and sister in Angus
ia and his mother spoke of his hopes
of attending Clemson College this
fall. We have not heard the particu-
lars of his death, but suppose he must
have taken cramp while in bathing.
His two elder brothers crossed the
Atlantic and went through the SER
vice. Preston has returned home with
out injuries. They do not know where
Willie is just now, but we hope he
will soon be home. Another vacant
chair to renaind and keep the hearts
sore and aching for their loved one,
who was so strong and was snatched
from them without a warning. God
knows why, we do not. May He COM
L