Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-08-25
Wednesday, August rs.
Beech Island
CONTINUED from last week.)

was subscribed. The president meme
ly called on each member who stated
the amount he was willing to put up.
There are times in the course of
events when a Gpeech of only few
words lis far more eloquent than a
long address by a Cicero or a Cal
houn, like the eyes" or "no" from a
fwoman's lips. AS the president, Mr..
Dunbar would call out name the
person addressed would quietly say
'sI'll give one thousand dollars" or
five hundred, and SO it was a mere
matter of few minutes and the
money was raised. This only illus
trates the excellent results that this
club attains by regular meetings and
real cooperation. And the exercises
do not consist of set of cold forms
of profession of fraternity and
empty ceremonies, but go right down
to practical and substantial benefits
for the progress of the community,
where money talks.
After the disposition of this mat
ter the boil weevil was opened up for
debate and several gentlemen who
had been in the territory already in
tested with the pest gave wise and
relevant advice as to how to combat
the evil. The main things to do is to
be sure and gather up all the dead
squares and burn them every day.
But the only sure remedy is to stop
planting cotton for two years. 1t
was further shown that the boil wee
vii is not so bad even in high, dry
land as in wet, swampy lands. Then
the meeting passed off in practical
debate about actual conditions and
/ do not remember ever attending a
meeting so full of interest, harmony
and good fellowship, all done'in such
quiet, good taste, just like one FAM
lily. At about three o'clock the meet
ing adjourned, then dinner was an
nounced!
We all repaired to the large din
ing room where everyone had a
comfortable seat at the table where
you found a first-class barbecue din
ner, consisting of barbecued pig and
lamb cooked just to the queens
taste, plenty of good corn bread
and flour bread, corn on the cob,
cold slaw, steaming rice. barbecued
hash in Southern style, hot potatoes,
raw tomatoes, pickle, hot coffee, ice
tea, lemonade and every sort of SUBJ
stantial food. There were no pic
mic knick knacks, no pies, cakes or
other sickeping desserts.
After dinner box of cigars was
handed arounded to every body pres.
present.
No ladies are permitted to attend
the regular meetings, but on stated
occasions ladies do attend.
After such barbecue dinner
everybody leaves full and well fed
and in love with the world and the
: balance of mankind.
As we drove back along the good
road Miss Kellah Fair showed us
neat white Baptist church nesting
in the valley amid the snady grove
of trees, quiet secluded spot where
she as young girl gave her trust
ing heart to Jesus, and near by is a
stream of water in which she was
baptized out under the canopy of
heaven, just as Jesus was immersed,
in the running stream in the open
air-an ideal spot for religious med
itation and real consecratlon!
/, s'There is pleasure in the painless
woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
BY the deep sea, and music in its
roar"
eft from society we learn to live
'Tis solitude should teach US how to
die.
1t hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone, man with his
God must strive"
Miss Kellah also pointed out to
US a beautiful Presbyterian church
in equally as quiet and secluded a
spot. We also passed very large
school house and commodious dwell
house for the school superintendent,
wbe gets large salary and this
dwelling and plenty of-rich ground
for garden and other patches-so
he can easily keep COW. This
school is an endowed school, called