Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-10-12

Edgefeld supports four bee1
markets or rather we should say
the four beef markets support
.Edgefeld.
Our Court commences on the
first Monday in November, which
falls the sixth day of the month
J Judge Hudson will preside.
Mr.. R. 81. Minis has removed bis
Photographic apparatus and be-
iongings to his new and handsome
apartments in the Norris building.
up stairs.
Mr.. r. Z. Fox is now in his ele-
CANT quarters in the Norris build
. ing next door to the postofice,
Mr.. w. 1T. Turner has the store
next to Mr.. Fox.
The South Carolina College
opened last week with q larger
number of students than last year.
There were thirty new ones and
nearly all the old ones returned.
Last week oetton regained the
half cent it had lost the week
previous and little more besides.
We don't believe it will quit going
up now until it hits the next crop.
October is said to be the best
time for planting shade trees. If
you have none in front of your
house plant some out this month,
They will add beauty and comfort
to your homes.
"What are you trying to raise
here2" I asked a traveller last week
of a Lickskilletite. The Licks-
killetite looked up from his work
long enough to reply, Nothing
but mortgage"
We are indebted to Prof. New
man of Clemson College, for
bulletin No IA of the agricultural
experiment. station a. Clemson
college. This bulletin is filled
with experiments with corn.
The sentence ':John quickly ex-
temporized FIVE town bags con-
tains all the letters of the alphabet.
We don't know that this informa-
tion will do our readers any good,
but the crops are short and we are
willing to help out all We can.
The ADVERTISER is under obi
cations to the Port Royal Steam
ship Company for an invitation to
BE present at an entertainment
given on board the .sLochmore," in
honor of the arrival Of this the
first vessel of the line, on Monday.
Oct. 9th.
The time for paying taxes COM
mences Oct. 16 and closes Decem-
ber Is, and there will positively be
no extension of the thine. An act
of the Legislature passed last year
reads as following: "And in no
event shall an extension beyond
the time. herein prescribed be
granted" Remember this and it
will be we'll with you.
Antioch Church.
The members of Antioch Baptist
Church are requested to meet at
the church on the 4th Sunday, the
22nd of October, for the purpose
of considering the matter of call
ing a pastor for next year.
Methodist Hot Supper.
An oyster, 'possum, and turkey
supper will be given by the ladies
Of the Methodist Church on the
7th of November, Tuesday, Z p. M,
for the benefit of the parsonage.
Further notice VIII be given as to
the place.
Fine Tobacco.
Col. S. G. strom, of Gilgal, has
sent us another package of fine
tobacco. Col. Strom is more than
eighty years of age and remembers
the time when indigo, flax, and to-
bacco were the staples of this
country. Those were good old days
when every man had a dispensary
of his own.
Stealing Seed Cotton.
A couple of years ago J. w.
DeVore, Esq, of our town, pro-
cured few cotton seeds from
Booriboora-Gah through the kind
ness of q missionary who is Ia
boring in that far off land, and
who was a college classmate OF
Mr.. DeVore. This year quite a
large field was planted with these
seed, and the cotton was, and is
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