Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
Edgefield Advertiser
LOCAL. BREVITlEs.

LOCAL1 BREVITIES.
April will have five Sundays and
two full moons.
Look out for Easter bonnets and
gowns next Sunday.
Our Baptist and Presbyterian
Churches are still without pastors.
Full moon next Saturday after
which you can just plant anything
you please.
Mr.. w. A. Strom and family re-
move to their country residence at
Limestone this week.
1t is estimated that four million
tons of ice have been harvested on
the Hudson river this season.
Mr.. w. B. Mafett, good farmer
and business man of Fruit Hill,
was in town one day last week.
Happy and content is heme with "ThG Ro-
chester;" a lamp with the light Of the morning
For Catalogue, write Rochester Lamp Co. New
York.
Our County Alliance meets on
April 18th. The District and State
Lecturer are expected to be pres
ent.
A postage stamp Ticker has been
invented. Postmaster Brunson
has sent for sample. 1t out licks
"Calliner."
Jno. NJ. Ward, Jr., of this county,
has been appointed railroad agent
and telegraph operator at Walhalla
in this State.
The Edgefeld Oil Mill will be
sold i'll May, but will not shut
down, however, or discontinue
operations.
The Revs. w. P. Jacobs and
Matthews will conduct ser
vices at the Presbyterian Church
next Sunday.
Such is the scarcity of pigs and
hogs in Anderson county that the
people are riding day and night
hunting them.
Mr.. w. A. Livingston advertises
in this issue his beef market To-
Gated in the old Colgan house,
near the depot. Give him a call.
About twelve hundred executions
have been issued against per-
sons in this county for nou-pay-
ment of taxes on real and personal
property.
Walterboro is about to have a
cotton factory. Edgefeld is three
times as large as Walterboro and
has none. We have great expecta-
tions, however.
Mr.. w. F. Strickland, at present
studying theology at the Presby-
terian College at Clinton, was in
town last Sunday and gave nice
little talk to the Y. M. G. AS.
Ninety-fve cents on the dollar
for school checks at the ADvER-
T1sER Office, that is, if you are a
subscriber, or become one at the
time you bring in your checks to
be cashed.
Court adjourned last Friday, the
longest term we have had in sew
eral years. The last case tried was
that of S. S. Tompkins against the
railroad company, in which ver-
dict was rendered for the railroad.
Married, at the residence of the
brides father, Mr.. N. D. Thinner
man, Edge6eld County, S. c.,
March 18th, 1893, by Rev. J. L.
QUITS, Mr.. Luther Miller and Miss
Charlotte Zimmerman.
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.
Alliance Lecturer Castor has
made the following appointments
in his, the second district: Edge
field C. H., April IL; Aiken
county, at Rocky Springs, April
13; Barnwell c. H., April IA;
Hampton, April 15>
Every business man should have
his name and postofice printed on
the envelopes he uses in cores
pondence and then no letter would
ever 60 astray. The place to have
them printed is at the ADVERTISER
Office. Farmers should have them
too.
The "Annals of Newberry," by
Judge O'Neall and Mr.. John A.
Chapman, IS out. 1t gives his
tory of Newberry county from it's
early settlements to the present
time. 1t has been the aim of the
compilers to make a book, valua-
BILE not only. for the present time,