Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-21
'Edgefield Adv ertiiser

Don't;You Forget.
Drop your work, saddle your old
. gray mule, and come to Edgefeld next
: Saturday.
Left Over.
Another: host of Tillman endorse
ments and communications are left
over until next week.
Remember the 23rd!
Come onel Come ALI Come to the
grand rally-ef Edgefeld Democracy
next Saturday.
Look Out Next Sunday.
The emigration to Johnston last
Sunday left only few Easter bonnets
and ene Easter cravat with us. The
grand display here is reserved for nsxt
Sabbath. =
An Edgefeld Boy.
i. Milton Mitchell, an Edgefeld boy,
] graduates from the University of
!. Maryland in.April, We are indebted
to Mr.. Mitchell for an invitation to at
Z tend the commencement exercises.
Christian Citizenship.
Next Sunday night Rey.A.B Watson
WIN preach in odf Baptist church on
aChristian Citizenship" We hope to
lay this sermon before our readers in
some subsequent issue Of the ;ADyER.:I
T1sER.
one Hundred Goats: 70 a&
AS a symbol and sign, it is on the
programme for George Adams, Of the tn
West.side, t6sbring hundred goatsto
the meeting next Saturday. This is
Collier townships contribution to the
campaign fund:
our Citadel Boys. ;yss
Edgeaeld is proud of her contingent
at the Citadel-A. G. Etheredge, J.E.
Purifoy, w. D. Ready. E. L. Ready and
p. s. Norris. We acknowledge the re-
ceipt of recent favors from these
young soldiers.
A Conllndrum.
Mr.. Jas. s. smyley, whose postofice
is Meeting Street, propounds the fol-
lowing conundrum for the correct So
linton of which he will give a bag of
coDrrn-field beans: aWhy is Tillman
like a pickaxe, and Sheppard like q
scovill hoe?" fs
Marshal SharptOn.
i The new Town Council has retained
aMr.FranK Sharpton-as Town Marshal
for the current year. Mr.. sharpton
has made during the past four years a
most efficient and courteous officer, one
of the best, if not the very best, our
town has ever had.
Hailstorm.
On Thursday last a hail storm struck
this section, producing sudden fall
in temperature, and doing some dam
age to fruit and vegetation in general.
Fromathe papers I'VE learn the storm
extended over a large area OF our
States
Goy.Isheppard:R Replies.
Gov. Sheppard in another column re-
plies to our appeal ofslast week that
he retirefrom theraee for Governor.
The Goyernor evidently thinks there
is something at the endof tberainbow
for him, and the only way toconyfnce
him tosthe contrary Is to let him go
and see:s
Everything in Readiness.
County Chairman Gary is having
large and commodiors stand erected
in our Academy grove for the speak
ing next Saturday, and; ;everythingwill
be in readiness for the grand occasion.
Every son and daughter of Edgeheids
true blue Democracy should be pres
ent to see see Tillman and Sheppard lock
horns:
Eintless Cotton.
A subscriber in, Georgia writes t Us
for information in regard to lintless
cotton, its merit, etc. AS others may
desiresinformation on the same subject
we take this method Of saying that it
isa humbug, simple and pure. The
editor Of the Southern Cultivator has
experimented with it and SO pro-
nouncesit.
Some Sheep Adages.
A friend ut Meeting Street tells US
that the club reorganization, on the
9th inst. was simply sowing the seed.
They sowed sheep on-that day in his
club. but they'll come up goats. HE
also saysaBen Tillman, has commenced
shearing sheep too early. Who ever
heard. Of shearing. sheep in April
They'll every one die-freeze to death.
He says:
Shear sheep before the 1st of May
Soon you'll shear 'em,allaway.
Shear sheep twice year
Soonyou'll have. no sheer, to shear.
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Beneficiary scholarship.
Some time in July there will be an
examination at Edgeield of applicants
for a scholarship at Converse College
the gift of PRESIDENT Wilson to. the
county.eSApptcants will be examined
on Arithmetic, and Algebrato eqna-
~ saeond.deo gree Geography.