The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-28

already built highway from Angus
ia to Greenwood by Edgetield to be
! known as the Dixie highway. A good
hotel is great thing for any town.
: The streets are somewhat torn up
now as the city is putting in water
works, and that always tears up the
streets at any time of the year.
! Speaking about the men of Edge
! field in The days when | went there as
boy, | recall among the young
lawyers at that time was John R.
: Abney, now practicing law in New
! York who was at the time speak of
solicitor Of the circuit, and a mighty
good one he was. He was a candidate
: for attorney general and was defeated
ard soon after he moved to New
York. Then there was Ben w. Belts,
good lawyer and hard worker
who died young. And Ernest Gary,
afterwards a circuit judge and now
dead. Sheppard Bros. who are still
practicing 1T Edgefield, Arthur 5.
Tompkins who has now retired from
the practice. And this was at time
when Gen. Mart Gary and Gen. M.
! C. Butler were active. l can recall
my father talking about Gary and
Butler and he said when lawyers got
! to quarrelling that Butler ard Gary
were always a little careful about
what they would say to each other,
because they knew that the other
would fight and neither cared espec-
! tally to do the job, so therefore they
would leave off fight provoking re-
marks, though sometimes get very
near to the point Well, time makes
many changes in the personnel of
any community as we'll as in other
things. And then Edgefeld never
seems the same without the genial
and versatile Col. James 7. Bacon
who was for many years one of the
editors of the town. Edgefeld is a
nice old town in which to live. Mr.. j.
! II. Summer, who was with US, said
| it seemed to him that Johnston would
be a better place for the court house,
bu: l think Edgefeld an ideal place
for a county seat and for lawyer.
While in Edgefeld it was very
pleasant to me to hear the many good
things the people had to say about
Miss Hortense Woodson who has but
recently come from this good old
town to Newberry to operate the
linotype machine in The Herald and
News office. And while she has been
with US only week l am pleased to
!, endorse what these people over in
Edgefeld had to say about her. Sc
far l have found her intelligent and
willing and competent and able to dc
ell she claimed that she could and
above all pleasant and agreeable
And that is "a great asset. | have
reached that stage in life where l dc
not care to be around or about dis
agreeable persons, and especially dc
I dislike to work with them or fol
them or to have them work for me-
The older I grow the more l wonder
why SO many people are SO disagree,
able when It pays, to put it on higher
ground, to be agreeable and pleas
ant.
did not get to see my friend,
! Captain N. Geo. Evans. and then !
missed Hon. Brooks Mason who Is
also living in Edgefeld. They tell me
that Geo. Evans is making money
practicing law in Edgefeld and that
Brooks has plenty and does not nave
to work any way. 1 used to know
Brooks when he was just an ordinary
country boy like myself when ne
lived at the old home down near Good
Hope Baptist church, but when ne
get to be a lawyer he soon became a
capitalist and now is taking'llfe easy,
l have no doubt. In brief stay CT
only few hours it is impossible to
get to see all the friends you would
! like even in a city the size of Edge
! field. I am going back some of these
DAYS before SO fearfuhy long, and
when Mr.. Summer has business that
side, so that we may have a good
driver ard good car in which to
make the trip.
In passing through Saluda we made
brief stop and l dropped in to the
Standard office just long enough to