Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-09-28
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THURSDAY, SEPT. %, 1893.
Z L0CALa BREVlTIEs.

Potatoes aud .urnips are said to
bevery fine in almost every section
Of the county.
There will not be much cottol.=
! Seld this fall for higher prices,
ifroma accounts.
che opening day of the Augusta
Il sition has been postponed to
the l4l.l of November.
Mr.. Robert A. Marsh, formerly
of Edgefeld, is Low clerking in
the town of Newberry.
Mr.. Alvin Hart is building a
brick store, 30x80 feet, in front of
Capt. James Benefits residence.
We have received from the Hon.
Jasper Talbert a copy of his speech
ON the repeal of the Sherman law,
delivered Aug. 18th.
The hearing of the case of The
State against Tom Butler for the
killing of Mr.. Pettyjohn is set for
trial in Aiken to-day, Tuesday.
Dog-fennel, jack frost's signal
flag, is blooming. According to
this old sign summer is gone for
good, says the Barnwell People.
A friend in Choty writes us that
SWELL halter drap Irby." All right,
lat him drap, but he was elected
for Six years, and drappin' time is
a long way off.
Mr.. W.T.. Dobey has rented his
house on Columbia street 10 Mr..
Fisher, superintendent of the Oil
Mill. Mr.. Dobey will occupy the
Berkley homestead.
Mr.. Linn Tompkins, formerly
of Edgefeld was married in
Columbia, his present home, on
Wednesday last, to Miss Agnes
Marshall of that city.
The Life Insurance agency of
B. B. Evans, Esq, of this place, is
probably doing the biggest bust
ness of any agency in the State
outside of the7cities.
Cherry trees and blackberry
bushes are blooming anu there are
young leaves on the fruit trees in
various sections of this county.
What does this mean?
Now is the time to push your
fattening hogs. but don't get
them too fat until cold weather.
Give them plenty of everything
else, but not much hard corn.
Mr.. w. S. Wynne the we'll known
former secretary of the Y. M. c. A.,
has entered the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in Columbia
stos prepare himself for the ministry.
Messrs. Sheppard and Hart are
stosfx up the opera house With
Isstaaeand o. hes appurtenanres;
@ nd perhaps we will be visited bys)
Sme famous troupes this fall and
winter.
Our young friend Chas. r. Dob
son is now foor-walker for the firm
Of ]. B. White & Co., Augusta, Ca,
and he will always be glad to see
his friends in that mammoth es-
tablishment.
Mrs. ]. M. Plow6en and children
are spending sometime with Mrs.
Lewis Jones. Mr.. Plowden will
also spend most of his time in
Edgefeld until cooler weather, go
ing down to his Augusta church on
Saturdays and returning on Mon
days.
An "eye witness" writes to the
Hampton Guardian that Hon. w.
J. Talbert's great silver speech was
listened to by crowded house and
Was frequently applauded. The
wicked Chicago paper was evil
dently misinformed.
They had called him everything
else, and now comes the Waycross,
Ca, Herald and calls him Joe.
Here is what the Herald says:
"Joe Tillman, the invincible gov
ernor of South Carolina, holds an
individual patent on cocktails in
his State"
We are glad to see that many of
our farmers are taking advantage
of this fine weather to cut and
cure asupply of hay for winter.
The necessity for curing hay is all
the greater on account of the
almost total loss of fodder by the
big storm.
We. call the attention of our
readers to the elaborate advertise
ment of Alvin Hart d Co. in this
issue of the ADVERTISER. You
cannot fail to seeit for it is the
biggest thing in the paper. We
shall have something to say of Mr..