Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-20
Edgefield Ad Vertiiser
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1893.
t OCAEl BREV VITlES,
Oh, where'd you get that wliskeys
Oh, where'd You get that dram?
/ got it from the 'spens'ry,
That John B. Davis man.

sssIt kOt ~ tIOll tuC . opSho y
That John B. Davis mar. I:
The average sales of the county,
dispensaries are from $25' to $45
per day.
Cotton is st:llquoted at 74and
Scents in Augusta, that is the best
grades.
Miss Annie Ready, Of Johnston,
is spending sometime with Miss
LillG Hill. IS S;
The right kind of a man always
learns something worth knowing
from a mistake.
Watermelons bid fair to be very
plentiful and cheap, but the peach
crop is reported short.
Miss Belle CLARK, of Beech
Island, is visiting the family of
Mr.. N.sL. Brunson.
Town Marshal John scurry, wife
and baby, are taking aweek's va
cation in the country at their old
home.
Rev. Mr.. Jordan, Of Columbia,
preached in our Episcopa! Church
last Sunday, the only morning SER
vice in town.
Prof. Robert M. Kennedy, who
formerly taught at this place, has
; been elected principal of the Cam
den graded school.
Up in Newberry the co1ored peo-
pie call the dispensary liquor,
anigger foot" In Edgefeld they
call it sgood old dispense.
Dry all the apples you have no
use for, and bring them to the
village next winter and enable US
to have an apple pie occasionally.
The Nc Cormick News says: aWe
are glad to report DR.. R. J. Talbert
much better. He is now able to be-
up and walking around the house,.
Last Friday was the hottest day
we have had in Edgefeld this year.
The thermometer indicated 96o.
AT Columbia on the same day it
was 1922.
The present sizzard may be in
tended by old mother nature as q
forerunner of the political sizzard
of 1894, which is already begin
ming to siz.
Mr.. E. L. Mattison, of Honea
Path, Anderson county, has gone
to Kirkseys, Edgefeld county,.
where he will be engaged in teach
ing during the summer.
Mr.. Purvis J. Boatwright, apros-
porous young merchant of Darling
ton, spent a short time in Edge
field last week en- route from the
Worlds Fair in Chicago.
Mrs. William Patrick Calhoun,
nee Miss Gladys Boykin, of At
lanta, Ga, is visiting her grand
mother Mrs. Caroline Abney. Lit
tie Marie BoYkin is also here.
The sizzard continues to siz. On
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday, the thermometer went up
as high as 1907 each day in all
creation, and 990 in Edgefeld.
Will there be teachers insti-
tute at Edgefeld this summer?
Other counties are enjoying these
educational feasts, why not Edge
feldl Will Commissioner Daven.
port look into the matter2
The oldest inhabitant died at
his residence in our town at IL
o'clock on Friday night, the 30 b
of June. His name was Old Man
Rum. Just before he died he made
an ante-mortem statement in
which he said that Tlllman killed
him by butting him to death with
a ramracker.
We rise to remark that School
Commissioner Davenport, of Lau-
rens county, is not a particle of
kith or kin to School Commissioner
Davenport of Edgefeld county.
The difference between them is,
that the Laurens Davenport has
been raising the very old Ned up
there, hut our Davenport (Belt)
a-i-n-'.t dome let yet, and he
never will.
The Edgefield Rifles.
The Edgefeld Rifles have de-
cided to have no barbecue this
year, but will be at Centre Spring
on the 9th of July, and as a body
partake of the hospitality of their
brethren III arms, the Light Dra-
goons. There will be competitive
target shooting between the two
7 companies on that occasion and
other enjoyable features.
"a Case of .Destitution.
There is in our town a case of
dsstitution that should be looked