The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-07-21
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he eailed marching through Geor-
gia,HI The records do not state
wh$ther his reputation made him bad
: or whether his, badness made his re-
putatibn, anyway he was possessed
with both and perhaps the devil to
bootl::% The mission Of the fellow just
desepibed was destructive in intent
and ,a'anything but peaceable. He
probably travelled at speed of about
eighteen miles per day.
Sunday morning, July the 3rd, this
year, four very peaceful South Caro-
linians left Easley to "Ford it" into
Georgia. They travelled at about
eighteen miles per hour which gees
to prove that peace is very much
swifter and more desirable than is i
war. After some deliberation we
decided to go by the upper or noun
tain. road, and in very few min
utes;s driven by j. A. j., the Ford
was lifting dust on the top soil road
to Liberty, which was passed at S:15
a. m. At Norris we observed that
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better weather for ducks than it had
at Easley-a good rain had fallen
there. Central, Clemson College and
Newry were passed on schedule and
just at 10 o'clock we rolled into
Seneca but made no stop until we
crossed the bridge at that place and
found that we had taken road that
led too far south from the tracks of
the Southern Railway, so we turned
back north and just west Of Seneca
struck the highway, over the old rail
road bed, leading to Westminster
where we made our first stop for a
few minutes to give the Ford little
oil. Leaving Westminster we went
scurrying down the old railroad
grade towards the Tugaloo river, by
Richland, Harbins and Madison. The
road in this lap of Our trip was much
better than we expected to find and
runs through some pretty timber
land
We crossed into Georgia over The
old jarrett bridge which stands right
at the new railroad bridge II ere
the old wido"er and the old bache-
lor had some real thrills passed up
to them. In the river just above the
bridge a bcvy Of women and lirls,
in Atlantic City costumes, were hav-
ing an apparently very enjoyable
time, judging from the laughter and
little cxclamations Of delight or
fright that fioated up from the clear
waters Of the river. Right here our
schedule would have gotten badly out
OF time if another car had not been
trailing us into the bridge and ask
ing insistently for the right of way.
One Of the willy old timers said that
one of the women in the river was
about the prettiest woman that he
had ever seen (name can't be men
toned on account Of his great dislike
to publicity.
Our Ford climbed out Of the river
valley in good time and up on the
crest of the hills going toward Toe
Goa we caught vision of natural
: beauty that filled our minds with
pleasure. just at noon we rolled
into Toccoa and stopped right in
front of an old time livery stable
no, we didn't give the Ford any corn.
Our stop was to get direction which
a very clever gentleman soon gave
us. Leaving Toccoa we turned
nearly north into the mountains, at
the fork of the road that leads to
Homer and other places below Cur
rahce mountain. After a stiff climb,
over very passable mountain road,
we came to place where two Geor-
gia counties had had head on col
lison; and the fellows over there
were so proud Of it that they, had
put up big sign to tell the traveller
just how Georgia counties do cut up.
The sign read, County line Steph-
ems and Banks" We didn't stop to
untanglc the wrcckagc but were soon
out on the ridge that leads into Mt
Airy, with beautiful orchards of APP
pies, peaches and other fruits on
, each side Of the road for miles. We
found this section of Georgia to be
about the most attractive to the eye |
OF any that we passed through
at. Mt. Airy we stopped for din
ner. The hotel here seemed to be
pretty well filled with transient
guests, and some Of them were hay
/ mig quiet Sunday lounging on the
porchcs or on the lawn. While we