Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-08-23

with the boil weevil in raising all of
these good things to sell and to live
on. It so encouraged us that we de-
cided to do likewise; SO with this in
mind we extended the parting hand
and spoke the parting word, cranked
up and were on our way to the sweet
est place on earth, which Is home.
On the return trip we crossed sne
railroad fifty times by actual CONT,
and even then we didn't got killed.
On reaching home and finding that
things were in as good condition as
they were when we left, and that we
still had few more days that we
could spare away from our crops and
other interests, we decided to extend
our trip into the Old North State to
find out, If we could, just what our
Tar Heel friends were up to during
these unsettled times. We started
on the North Carolina trip on July
27 In company with T. Y. Norton,
and Of course passed through the city
of Greenville, then Spartanburg and
Gaffney, and on UP the line to Kings
Mountain, which is Of Revolutionary
fame, as this mountain Is where one
Of the great battles Of the American
revolution was fought There are
great many monuments marking the
places Of note on the mountain that
can be seen by passers-by. We passed
on through the rapidly growing town
Of Gastonia, which is quite a little
city, and most beautiful.
From here we passed on to Char
lotte, which is city of fifty thousand
inhabitants and one Of the leading
cities Of the South, it being quite a
railroad center, with the Southern
doing a great volume Of business.
We passed on through Monroe,
Fayetteville, and saw many good
fields Of corn, cotton, peanuts and to-
bacco. Quite largo acreages Of clo-
vers and grasses are raised in this
State, as it is now somewhat Of a
dairying State, and hog and stock
raising is carried on to large ex-
tent in some sections. Did you know
that North Carolina stands second in
the United States as to cotton manu-
facture? They say she does.
think that North Carolina ranks
first in the manufacture Of tobacco,
but l would not be positive as to
that. The tobacco fields looked quite
strange to us, not being accustomed
to seeing tobacco planted on so large
a scale as it is being raised in North
Carolina. Taking the State as a whole
North Carolina Is said to be MAX
ing the greatest progress in improve
ments Of every kind Of any State in
the South. What say YOU?
We stayed our stay out at Mr..
Norton's and turned our noses to-
wards our own dear old State and
home, and as we were passing by a
large tobacco farm we noticed quite
lot Of small bugs flying around in
droyes, and we noticed quite few
lighting in and on our cars, and on
close inspection we discovered that
they were boil weevils. We were
somewhat surprised to find the boil
weevil in q tobacco country, so we
stopped our cars, and one or two of
the old rooster weevils Topped their
wings and told us mot to think hard
Of them," but that they were going
to ride short distance with us.
"Why, what are you doing up
here?" one Of our party asked the
weevil that was doing the talking to
us.
"Well," said the weevil, Eve came
up here to locate and set up in busi-
ness, but found out the tobacco bust
ness would not suit us, as I don't
chew tobacco and Mrs. Weevil don't
dip snuff, and neither Of us would al
low our boys to smoke cigarettes, SO
we decided to 60 back to South Caro-
lima and go back into the cotton busi-
ness"
"Well, guess we will have to let
you ride, but we hate to, as you Vice.
wills have proved TO be square against
us cotton raisers."
"Well, we will not 60 so very far
with you, as we understand there are
many of our relatives at work in your
State, and there will not be much
more doing in the cotton business, so