Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
Cotton will sell at 6 and 7 cents
next fall as sure as gun is iron.

Maj. W. T. Gary, of Augusta,
has been appointed U. S. Attorney
for the southern district of Georgia.
Mr.. Dick Parker has rented the
Presbyterian parsonage, and will
remove thither in a few days with
his family.
We are requested to announce
that the Rev, ]. NJ. White will
preach in our Baptist Church on
next Sunday.
Miss Sophie Abney and Capt.
w. H. Brunson are the only ap-
plicants for the postofice at Edge
field so far as heard from.
Miss Ida Covar invites the at
tention of our readers to her
spring and summer millinery. She
certainly has a beautiful line of
goods.
Thieves broke into the house of
Mr.. Joseph P. QUITS last week dur
ing the absence of himself and
family. We have not ascertained
the extent of his loss.
Mr.. George Lewis, we regret to
learn, was quite seriously injured
at Trenton yesterday in collision
tho shifting engine ran into the
regular train upon which Mr.
Lewis was travelling.
Rev. j. L. QUITS.
This talented you1. minister
preached an excellent sermon in
our Baptist Church on last Sunday
night. 1t is hoped.that Mr.. QUITS
may favor US again soon.
A Good Man Gone.
Mr.. John w. Ramage, an old
and highly esteemed citizen of the
Saluda side of Edgefeld county
died at his home on last Friday
after a long illness. Peace to his
ashes.
Attention, Pensioners.
The blanks for Edgefeld county
artificial limb pensioners have
been received by Clerk of Court
John B. Hill, and are ready for
signatures. The law requires that
vouchers for the future de-
livery of said checks must be
signed by each pensioner in his
own proper person and in the pres
ence Of the Clerk. So there is no
other alternative but that each and
every pensioner must come to
Edgefeld to get his pittance.
Lecture on Greenland.
On Friday night of this week
there will be a lecture in the Y. M.
C. A. hall at this place by S. J.
Entriken, a member of the Peary
Relief Expedition of 1892. Mr..
Entriken will have present ma
tive Eskimo costume and a num-
Der of other curiosities-no polar
bears or walrusses-and photo
graphs from Greenland. He will
describe his experiences while on
the coast of that ice bound land,
scaling her icy mountains, the
finding of Peary, and the return
voyage. The Eskimos will plays
few Of their old timey shake down
tunes on their little bazoos. The
lecture is for the benefit of the Y.
M. C. AIS and should be largely
Admission, adults, 25c.
Children, 15c. The Eskimos, as
many of our older readers will re-
member, used to spell their names
E-s-q-u-i-m-a-u-x, but at a con-
held last August they de-
termined that, as their sirnames
were so short, they would drop the
as and-x's from their alphabet.
How Much Tax.
From Auditor Davis's books we
ascertain that two mill levy on
the town property of Edge6eld
realized last year $500. These fig
ures show that a levy of five mills
would probably realize say $4,000,
enough to run the town, if it were
not for the fact that the town it
self would have to do it's own
assessing and collecting, which
work is now done by the Auditor
and Treasurer. There would have
to be a town assessor and a town
tax collector, a treasurer, and also
a set of tax books for town pur-
poses. An accurate survey of the
Incorporation would also have to
be made, and all of these things
will take money. Perhaps it
would require a levy of Z or 8
mills to get the town going under
the new order of things, that is to
say to have no bar-rooms and no
Dispensary. All these things
should be looked into, talked over,
and thought about before our
spring elections for intendants and
wardens. There should be no leaps
in the dark.
A Tribute to Eddie Cochran.
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