Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-10-06
Miss Florence Minis Almost
81. Minnesota Methodist.
Dear Advertiser:

fNNkoo AlOI Sl1SC WILLIS <AlIuOSl
l Minnesota Methodist.
tDear Advertiser:
On Sunday friend and I rode
foyer about eighteen miles to Virginia
to attend a church service. Virginia
|issan attractive city of about eight
cen thousand inhabitants. The name
WAS more interesting for me since it
jsayored of Dixie.
Transportation in this part of the
country is carried on not only by
Etrain and street cars, but by huge
electrically lighted and heated busses
that run from town to town. I no
ticed that one of the bus lines we
passed was known as the Maryland.
|It was really tantalizing, like mi
rage on a. desert, to know that those
names meant not the south, but the
great northwest.
On arriving in Virginia just in
time for church service, we ap-
preached policeman and asked if
The could direct US to church. Police
men should. really be quite well in
formed on the whereabouts of places
|of worship since they both are some
what responsible for law and order,
though this policeman was for
|eigner and had knowledge of direc-
Etion but little familiar with the Eng
[ish language. Finally he showed US
the Methodist church and we arrived
in time to join in singing a hymn by
by Isaac Watts. was glad of that
much in common. So far I have at
tended only Methodist churches, so
4 presume that it is a strong denom-
nation in this part of the country. 1
have always liked that faith myself,
and am glad to have an opportunity
Of woTshipping with its adherents.
IT is the custom in this part of the
country to conduct the Sunday
School service after the church ses-
SION
irginia is very pretty town. I
am always greeably surprised when
riding or wa king along AM ywheres TO
Wa 'yaIs he most saadff1 lowers ia full
bloom. They seem to me to be even
more luxuriant than in the South.
Poppies and asters and flowers of
every color flash by like planted rain
bows. Sunday is not very satisfying
time to explore the interesting points
of place. So we had lunch, mine
consisting partly of Southern food,
such as sweet potatoes, which are a
rare imported dish here. Therefore,
they are not cooked with the skill of
the Southern negro.
On our return trip we noticed a
street car sign in four different Ian
guages for the convenience of the
many Foreigners. The first of course,
was English, the next two we con-
cluded must be Finnish and Austrian.
The last was Italian which we man.
fculty using our knowledge of Latin.
Though this lis one thousand five
hundred feet above sea level it is
more or less like one vast plateau.
One can see great distance over the
low green shrubbery which is grow
ing up after the forest fires. Wild
flowers and autumn leaves in the Sep
tember haze give the landscape a pc
culiar beauty that / have not seen
duplicated elsewhere. Some high
ridges rise above the roadways and
drop precipitately many feet to the
level ground where the mines begin.
Along the sides of these hills the dirt
is of various dull colors ranging from
purplish red to yellows.
Hundreds of feet below this love-
lily country the miners are hard at
work in the underground cavern
where darkness is turned to day and
where the ore is unearthed to be
made into thousand articles useful
to mankind.
FLORENCE MINIS.
Aurora, Minnesota.
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