Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-16
The Gotten Graden Bisness.

The Gotten Graden Bisness.
noticed bunch Of Edgefelds big
gest farmers tother day over on the
main corner of town in a hot discush-
on about somethin', and thinkin' it
would no harm to find out what all
the excitement was about / santered
over nigh the bunch whar 1 could
here what these hitone voices was
sayin. After askin' what the trubble
wus I found out that thes farmers
wus all sturd up about a farmer out
in the southeast part of the county
that sold a bail of Gotten on the
streets of Edgefeld without havin' it
"offishuly graded" Seem that the
situashun was graiv one got bisy
and put up my argament in favor
of this poor illitrate farmer that re-
fused to pay a quarter to find out
what his bail of Gotten was worth be-
fore sellin' it. I further questioned
thes farmers about the value of his
nolledge anyway, and they become
very indignent at such SEEMING fool
ish question and ask. me to produce
my reason why farmer shouldent
know as much about what he had to
sell as the other feIler that bought it
niue, that CRATE meny farmers frum
year to year had sold THAR Gotten
hear and dident no if thay had any
that wus even midlin an in most oasis
wus called DOG TALES, but all this
has changed this yere seein we has a
cotton gradar. I questioned them agin
if this good Gotten wus not due to the
seasen this yere, as we never before
. in this county had such a seasen,
whairupon thay asshured me it wus
a seasen that ushualy occurd in this
county evry yere. So, seein' as wus
crouded with to meny strong arga-
ments aginst this Graden Bisnes, I
tride to use my last big argament in
faver of the pore man who saved
quarter by shuning the grader. l sez
tell Me the use of all this graden
since we have about haf a dozen
good byers here that propose to help
the farmers thrue these hard times by
bying the Gotten without the graden
fee attached. AS most all of our by
ers of this town live here and wus
anxhus to do all thay could for the
pore farmers without addin these on
nessery expence attachments. I say l
notice esae all of theas byers looks
peaseable and woodent dare to hurt
a feller for nothin'. In fact to make
myself cleer I am shure that all of
them ar good fellers. herd that
couple of them went to church, or
mebhy all of them went to the meet
in, and in fact say ga bird in the
hand is worth too in the bush," and
a quarter in my pocket is worth more
that $40 in the bail. I further argude
the way thay took the farmers Gotten
here shows we gets around the top
noch for our Gotten anyway. l hurd
that Dyer cut bail Of Gotten and
started it at 10 cts and begun to
wunder if that wusent big price fer
Gotten this far frum new Yark, as
thay wus byin on New Yark markit
and she wus payni' 13 1-2c, so l fig
cred the HE Cost of whealborroin
it from here to new yarK, and de-
sided that 10 C. was anuff for that
Grade of cotton. So all of a sudden l
hurd that the farmer seed the Grader
about this prise and he told him that
it waz wurth more, then anuther by
er moved up anuther sixteenth, then
anuther up a noch, and so till about
the right prise was reeched.
So say after all this graden
Bizness may not be skeem to get
the quarter, an before I left that
bunch of farmers I just about de-
sided thay wus rite, that here in
Ameriky a feller QUITO no what he
is doin' after all, esphuly in this cot
ton sellin biznes, so I says excuse
me Gentlemen, seein' I live up in
Delaware where we don't no nothin
about Gotten.
BILL WINS.