Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-12-15
Edg,,efield Advertise

Ed2g' efiield Advertiser
& olsAla BREVIT.lE,s. S,
Christmas comes on Sunday this
year.
Make the old ADVERTISER a
Christmas present by paying up
your subscription.
The British museum has thirty J,
two miles Of shelves filled with
books.
A Joke should not have more
than one point; tits real waste
to have two points to one joke.
Happy and content is home with none areine he.
shestsfn lamp p,y;te Tt.n sos Lamp CO..
York.
Gov. Tillman has by proclama-
tion extended the time for paying
taxes to the 1st day OF January
1898.
You can get the Advertiser and
the Cosmopolitan, one OF the best
Of the illustrated monthlles, ooth
one year for $3.50.
Auditor Davis begins his annual
round for the purpose OF assessing
personal property in the county on.
the 5th of January.
The road of ambition is too mar
row-for friendship, too crooked Tor
love, too rugged for honesty, and
1 TOO DARK: for science.
The Southern Cultivator and the
ApyERTrsER will be sent to you one
year for $40. Don't neglect 80
great al opportunity.
Married, Dec. 9th, by the Rev.
I: e. w. Bussey, at the home OF the
BRIDES mother, Mr.. Ed. McLendon
and Miss Emma Seigler.
Married, on the third Sunday in
November, at the brides home, by
the Rev. G. w. Bussey, Mr.. r.
Miner and Miss Vada Goodwin.
Paw your taxes between this and
the 1st clay of January, and after
YOU get through with Treasurer
Stevens step up to the ADVERTISER
Office and pay for your paper.
ssAdyertise, my dear fellow; ad-
vertising is the only means of sue
cess; modest merit starves in a
earret; pushing self-assertioa
6bnilds itself marble halls and fares
sumptuously every day."
Col. A. P. Butler estimates that
100000 pounds of tobacco have
been shipped from Florence this
season. Ten aud three-eights cents
the average price, 937 pounds per
acre The average yield.
Our people had about made up
their minds to build an ice factory,
but on Monday and Tuesday of this
week thew concluded they had
enough ice to do 'em while in this
world, and Mr.. Fife says ice won't
keep in the place where he fears
some of us are going.
Lost and Found.
Sam Taylor has found 8 silk
handkerchief in briar patch and
wants the owner to come and get
it, let him be as white as the snowy
caps of the Sierras, or as black as
the hinges of the gates of Tophet.
See notice in another column.
Worthily Bestowed Honor.
Our young friend, Ben w.
Crouch, junior at Wofford Col
lege, has been elected First Junior
Debater from the Preston Literary
Society of that famed institution
of learning. This is the highest
honor in the gift of the society,
and has fallen upon worthy
shoulders. Edge6eld is proud of
her sons at home and abroad.
School Entertainments.
The Parksville High School, un-
der the administration of Prof.
Toole and his assistant, Miss Essie
Jones, now foots up a total of
eighty pupils. They will give an
entertainment for the benefit of
the school on the Friday afternoon
and night before Christmas. Every
body is expected to attend, and
everybody is goingto attend.
Tobacco Culture.
AS number of our readers pro-
pose to go into tobacco culture
next year there is one rule should
be borne in mind, that the tobacco