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DEWBERRY TO EDGEFIELD. (Continued from Fifth Page) load with the exception of a few holes, as some one told us at Saluda about ?the road from that town to Wards. I agree to that, if you change the descriptive adjective from "few" to ""many." But really there are some ?pretty good stretches on this road .where the going is good. Just after -we passed the elegant country home of Mr. M. A. Coleman we found one ?sf the "few exceptions;" the car slid into it and there we were. Had to fte lifted out. Mr. C. H. Sheppard, who lives just beyond this "excep tion," kindly took two of his mules from the plow and. hooked up his .wagon and came down, but he had no Tope, neither trace ' chain, strong .enough to move the car. Finally a road working force with pick and shovel came along and the negroes just by main force of muscle lifted the rear of that Studebaker right out * of that hole, and then we were ail Tight. I hope that road force, which said they came over to fix a hole a little further on fixed the one we ?were in before they left. As a matter of fact it would not take a very .great deal * of work to make this a pretty good road all the way to Sa luda. And there should be a good road 'fcetween the two, that is to say be tween Newberry and Saluda. Wonder "whicl?one is to be part of the state system of roads. That state system idea of roads is a good one, if we just could get them built and then main tained. We have a state tax of two mills for the maintenance, but to get the roads in condition to be accepted "by the state highway commission is the difficult task. It has seemed to me that there is too much overhead charging in all the government under takings, and too much supervision ?with no good results. But we got out of this hole and had rio more trouble and rolled into Edgefield about ll o'clock or a little after. There was some consolation about getting stuck in that hole, Mr. Sheppard said he had not so long be fore pulled another car out. The road ' around by Wards from Newberry to Edgefield makes the distance just 49 miles. I had a brief conference with the .gentleman I went to see and then we knocked ai*ound town for a couple of hours, taking in the sights and meeting old friends. I called on my friend, A. S. Tompkins, who has been quite sick for some time, but who is now much better and on the road to health. He is a very interesting and entertaining talker and I was sorry that I could not remain longer with lim. He said he had just mailed me a copy of the book containing a life of his brother, the late D. A. Tompkins. I am very glad to get this book. I knew Mr. Tompkins quite well and will read the sketch with interest. Mr. Tompkins says that Newberry is very dear to him, as his paternal and maternal folk were from this coun ty. On the one side the Coates and the other, Caldwell. I recall very well the time when my father would send me from the home in Edgefield near Dyson lo the court house, our home then being in Edgefield county, and then mary times I would spend the night with Dr. Clint Tompkins at Meeting Street. Dr. Tompkins al ways kept an open house and the stranger was always welcome. That railroad that we were going to build was graded right along by Meeting . Street, as I recall. I was sorry that I missed Editor Mints of the Advertiser, but he had ;gone to dinner and we had to get away to reach home by night. Mr. Ed. Crews, a son of my old friend, the late Col. T. B. Crews of Laurens, .is working for Mr. Mims in the Ad vertiser office. I took time also to run around to the Chronicle office and speak to Wigfall Cheatham. He says that the times are a little squally ibut he seems to be doing very well, .and J hope he is. Just across the street from his office is the law office of Mr. T. B. Greneker, and he hap pened to be in, and I had a few words with him. He is a nephew of Mr. R: H. Greneker of The Herald and News -and every one over there says he is :a mighty fine boy, and he has the ap pearance of getting along well as a lawyer. Somehow I had never met lim. Of course I had to drop in to ?peak to McGowan Somkins and had a very pleasant few moments with him. I don't see why Edgefield did not send him to the legislature, but ithen you know politics is a queer .thing and you never can tell what the popular vote will do. There are many more people in Edgefield I should .lave been pleased to see bus our time was limited. I always enjoy go ing to Edgefield. It is a quaint old town and las produced many men of ?HstinctSon wlo have served their day and generation well. Not a great many changes have been made in th? appearance of the town in all th< years that I have known the place though there are many changes ii the men and women during thesi years. And by the way, it has a fini new hotel since I was there, and w< enjoyed the good dinner that wa served to us. They call it the Dixie a very appropriate name f or a hote in Edgefield. And there is buildingV already built a highway from Augus ta to Greenwood by Edgefield to bi known as the Dixie Highway. A goos hotel is a great thing for any town The streets are somewhat torn u] now as the city is putting in wate: works, and that always tears up thi streets at any time of the year. Speaking about the men of Edge field in the days when I went then as a boy, I recall among the younj lawyers at that time was John R Abney, now practicing law in Nev York who was at the time I speak o: solicitor of the circuit, and a might] good one he was. He was a candidat! for attorney general and was defeat ed and soon after he moved to Nev York. Then there was Ben W. Bettis a good lawyer and a hard worke: who died young. And Ernest Gary afterwards a circuit judge and now dead. Sheppard Bros., who are stil practicing at Edgefield, Arthur S Tompkins who has now retired fron: the practice. And this was at a time when Gen. Mart Gary and Gen. M C. Butler were active. I can recall my father talking about Gary and Butler and he said when lawyers gol to quarrelling that Butler and Gray were always a little careful about what they would say to each other, because they knew that each other would fight and neither cared espe cially to do the job, so therefore they would leave off fight provoking re marks, though sometimes get very near the point. Well, time makes many changes in the personnel1 of any community as well as in other things. And then Edgefield never seems the same without the genial and versatile Col. James T. Bacon who was for many years one of the editors of the town. Edgefield is a nice old town in which to live. Mr. J. H. Summer, who was with us, said it seemed to him that Johnston would be a better place for the court house, but I think Edgefield an ideal place for a county seat and for a lawyer. While in Edgefield 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 a week I am pleased to endorse what these people over in Edgefield had to say about her. So far I have found her intelligent and willing and competent and able to do all she claimed that she could and above all pleasant and agreeable. And that is a great asset. I Lave reached that stage in life where I do not care to be around or about dis agreeable persons, and especially do I dislike to work with them or for them or to have them work for me. The older I grow the more I wonder why so many people are so disagree able when it pays, to put it on higher ground, to be agreeable and pleas ant. 1 did not get to see my friend, Captain N Geo. Evans, and then I missed Hon. Brooks Mason who is also living in Edgefield. They tell me that Geo. Evans is making the money practicing law in Edgefield and that Brooks has plenty and does not have to work any way. I used to know Brooks when he was just an ordinary country boy like myself when he lived at the old home down near Good Hope Baptist church, but when he got to be a lawyer he soon became a capitalist and now is taking life easy, I have no doubt. In a brief stay of only a few hours it was 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 day before so fearfully long, and when Mr. Summer has business that side, so that we may have a good driver and a good car in which to make the trip. In passing through Saluda we made a brief stop and I dropped in to the Standard office just long enough to say good morning co Mr. Armfield, the young man who is now editing and publishing the paper. We left for home at 2 o'clock and made a stop of forty minutes at Johnston. I did not feel like passing through Johnston without at least going around and speaking to my good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Sim Wertz. They moved many years ago from this city to Johnston. For sev eral years they lived at the Aull hills near Jolly Street, and in fact down that side. He is ? brother of the late Dr. D. H. Wertz and also of Mr. Paul Wertz who now lives near the old home. They were of course glad to see me, but, just to think, I had to tell them who I was. Mr. Wertz says that he is 87 years old though his good wife says he is only 86. Mr. Wertz is looking remarkably well and so is Mrs. Wertz, though she is not as stout as I knew her, but she says she has not been well, but. is now improving. She is still bright and cheerful. It has been many years since I have seen them. The large family of children have all grown up and gone, and now it is just the two the same as when they first began to journey together. I was glad of the opportunity to have seen them, and was sorry I could not regain longer to tell them about the people over here, and to talk of the days that are gone. They begged me to remain, and but for the fact that I had to be home to keep up the daily grind I would have been tempted to stay. I hope I may see them again before so long,. E. H. AULL. Rides His Favorite Horse at Eighty-five. Greenville, Jan. 29.-A ride of 150 miles on his favorite saddle horse through sleet and snow is enjoyable exercise to Col. R. B. Watson, 85 years old, veteran of the Confederate war and twice wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. Colonel Watson, a planter of Ridge Spring, Edgefield county, arrived at the home of his son, Maj. Richard F. Watson, of Greenville today. 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