Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-02
Edgefield Ad ertiser

Edg gefield Advertise
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The roads are bad, but mortal
man can't help it.
Cotton seed in this market nave
dropped to 20 cents bushel.
No spring oats have been or will
be sown in this county this year.
Mrs. Stacy, of New York, is
visiting her sister Mrs. Geo. Lake.
g Happy and content is home with "The Ro-
For eatalogae, write Rochester Lamp Co., New
Rich people eat bacon now, and
poor folks eat turkey and chicken
pie.
We are under obligations to
Congressman G. D.. Tillman for
sundry valuable public documents.
Mrs. L. r. Strother, widow of
the late b. F. Strother, has re-
moved to Sewanee, Tenn, where
she goes to educate her children,
Miss Melanie Dean, daughter of
Capt. Yancay Dean of Eufala Ala
bama, who has been visiting rela-
tives in Edgefeld, returned home
this week.
A colored man, Cap Rountree,
was killed at the quarry last. Sat
urday. large rock that was being
hoisted into car fell on his head
killing him instantly.
Miss Eliza Minis has been re-
called to Augusta, where she isen-
gagged retouching photographs at
the Art Galleries of that art centre.
Miss Mims's skill and taste are in
demand.
Ninety-fye cents on the dollar
for school checks at the ADvER-
TIsEa office, that is, if you are a
subscriber, or become one at the
time you bring in your checks to
be cashed.
Our Baptist brethren are in cor
respondence with the Rev. L. R.
Gwaftney in the matter of his ac-
cepting the pastorate of our village
Baptist Church. Mr.. Gwaltney has
not yet decided what he vii! do.
Intendant Hill, of Abbeville, is
authority for the statement that q
short division of the Cumberland
railroad out West has been sold
1t was bought by big Chicago
syndicate which proposes to build
the road to deep water:
A few bushels of cotton seed,
Peterkin's Cluster, for sale at the
ADVERTISER Office at $1.25 per
bushel, or will exchange for ordi-
nary seed at the rates of one for
four.
Rev. j. N. Booth left Edgefeld
m Tpesday of this week for Union,
S. c., where he goesto accept q call
to preach in the Baptist Church at
that place. Our best wishes attend
the reverend gentleman and his
family.
Capt: Geo. s3 33 q llsse- has jnst re-
turned to Auditor Davis the in-
comes of his various companies,
life and fire Insurance, and build
ing and loan associations. The
total foots up about $4,000, and
brings in fully $500 tax to state
and county, quite "a handsome
little revenue.
A school teacher in one of the
primary schools in Concord, n. a.,
tells the following: Some days
ago she was endeavoring to make
clear to her young pupils mind the
meaning of the word SLOWLY"
She was walking across the room
in the manner the word indicates.
aNow, children, tell me how l
walked" One little fellow who sat
near the front of the room almost
paralyzed her by blurting out.
s.Bow-legged."
Judge Gary has been holding
court at Bennetteville, Marlboro
county, and we clip the following
compliment to him from the grand
jury's report as it appears in
the Marlboro Democrat:
We beg to thank your Honor
for the clear and full manner in
which your have charged and
aided US in our duties, and are
pleased to welcome you to our
county as one of our Circuit Judges.
Bro J. N. Booth, of Edgefs9ss,
has received the unanimous call of
the Baptist church at Union. and
has accepted. We are glad that
the Union brethren have succeeded
in filling so admirably their
vacant pastorate with 80 little
delay. Ths church is to be con-
gratuluted, and we feel like express
sin unusual qualification on
account Of their prompt and wise
action. We are. glad, too, that