Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-08-23
GETTING RID or HIS pEssl,11sM.
j. H. Lee Writes from Westminster
Of Trip that Gavo Optimism.

UQlCOr heOWee courier:
VIII you grant me little Of your
valuable space in your paper In order
that may try to tell my friends Of
the plan that fell on to divert my
mind from the pessimistic feeling
that had come over me, and that
comes over majority of us all at
one time or another, imagine.
One afternoon I sat myself down
in q comfortable rocker and turned
my mind loose to see If it could re-
member something that had happen-
ed in the past or thi TX of something
that could happen In the future that
might make one feel better at heart
and in mind. and this is what my
mind wandered back to:
!. 1 remembered how our fathers, in
their day and time, when, after they
had finished work or had laid by
their crops, they would hitch up old
Maud and Charlie and drive away
across the country to visit some Of
their friends or relatives and spend
few days at their homes, enjoying
their hospitality, eating melons and
fruits and many good things that
were to be found OH the well-cared-
for farms Of those days. l remem-
bered how they seemed to enjoy the
outing and how they would sit and
talk Of the good time they had, and
how much good it seemed to do
them, and / could not see why it
would not have the samo effect on
me and others. So on July 16 o. G..
Driver and wife and little daughter,
Miss Hattie Youngblood, Wal. Brown
and myself put our "John Henrys"
in good shape and filled our tanks
with some Of John DIS fluid, ana
gave the switch little twist, and
pressed button with orr foot, turn
ing on a little current of Tom Edi-
sons electric Juice, and then our
rubber wheels began to roll in the
direction Of South Georgia. 1t was
not long until we were across the
river and spinning on towards Nc
Rae, and while in McRae we visited
at the home Of w. B. Youngblood,
father Of Mrs. o. G.. Driver, and at
, the homes Of J. A. Driver and S. B..
Pitts, all Of whom are natives Of our
State and county. They are all happy
| and satisfied in their adopted homes,
and we enjoyed our stay in these hos
pitable homes to the fullest extent.
On our way down we passed in.o
and through 27 towns, villages and
cities, Athens being the largest. In
leaving McRae we passed through
the towns Of Hazelhurst and Lumber
City.
Picking cotton and pulling fodder
were in progress even at as early a
date as July 10th. The farmers in
South Georgia seem to have taken
the boil weevil by surprise by plant
ing corn, peanuts, potatoes, wheat;
! oats and forage, melons and fruits
(of course, as we all know, Georgia
Is the home Of the alberta peach and
the finest Of watermelons.) Hogs and
cattle are raised to a good extent
also. AS said, the farmers surprised
the weevil by fortifying themselves
against him by raising these differ
ent crops and fruits, and so on.
While on the way down we spent
the night at Perry, Ga, at the hotel
or j. A. Berry, proprietor, who ia
quite we'll known to many in this part
Of South Carolina.
We stayed among our friends as
long as we had the heart to do so.
as they made 1t very enjoyable for
us IN many ways. They extended to
us hearty welcome, and when the
table was made ready for the guests
we found 1t had been set the long
way and the ham cut the broad way,
and quite thick. But you know there
must be an end to all good things on
this earth, and all good friends have
to part. SO our time was up and we
all agreed that our pessimstic feel
ings that we possessed when we de-
cided to take this trip had to a large
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