Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27

Ed efield Advertiser e
THURSDAY, JULY q, 1898.
0GAn BREVITlEs.
Miss Gertie strom is visiting
friende in Pickens.
The city of Augusta uses sixty
two tons Of ice daily.
Splendid rains IN this vicinity
on Tuesday afternoon OF this
g week.
q A watermelon weighing seventy
Eve pounds was sent to President
Cleveland last week by a firm IN
Augusta.
Mr. Wallace Townsend, wife,
and child, of Ninety Six, are
visiting relatives and friends in
Edgefeld and vicinity.
President L. P. Harling calls a
meeting Of the Confederate survl-
yors for the first Monday IN Au-
gust, the 7th dayof the month.
Sydney Smith said Of himself
with his usual wit: aThe whole OF
smy life has been passad away like
a razor-in hot waterlor a scrape."
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E.. schumpsrt
and Mr.. F. L. Schumpert, who
have been visiting Mr.. John p.
Schumpert, of our town, have re-
turned to their respective homes.
Miss Maggie Foster, daughter of
Dr.. w. n. Foster, of Augusta, died
at her home in that city on Satur-
day last. Miss Maggie was well
known and much admired in Edge
field.
There vii. be competitive ex-
animation for a scholarship in
Converse College at this place on
the End dayof August, next Tues
day, by order of School Commits
sioner Davenport.
The county democratic execu-
tive committee and members of
the legislature are called to meet
at this place on Saturday, the 9Th
of August. See Chairman Tim
merman's notice.
A farmer tells us that last year
he madea 500 store debt, and
this year his store account is 75
cents. The sort of frugal manage
mentin the long run will do this
country ten times as much good as
the free coinage of silver.-Easley
Democrat.
In another column Messrs. AS.
Tompkins, w. States Jacobs, and
j. D. Holstein call a meeting of
former students of the South Caro-
lima College, the purpose being to
organize a County Alumni Asso-
ciation. Time for the meeting is
next Saturday, July 18th.
Some one asked the other day
i. we ever saw q good farmer who
was a poor man, and we have been
looking around and thinking ever
since, and cannot yet put our
hands upon one. We wonder if
there is nota moral in this some
where2 Ex.
There is a new sleeve that is
called shiver-sleeve. 1t is for even
ing wear and is made of lace or
chiffon rufhes on a gauze founda-
ton. They are so light and airy
that when the wearer moves they
all tremble and futter. Sometimes
the whole gown is made. of these
gossamer rufes.
The Easley Democrat says: How
about your hog crop; are yor care
ing for it as you ought to; it's of
more importance to you than your
cotton crop; remember you have
had to eat tough bread, and sopped.
but one side of it, and season your
Deans with old meat skins culled
out of the barrel of soap grease all
because you did not look we'll to
your hog crop last year and the
year before.
s. S. Convention.
The Sunday-school Convention
will meet at Republican Church
on Tuesday and Wednesday, the
End and 3rd of August. Rev. j. P.
Mealing writes that the Bible les
son for the convention will consist
of those passages of scripture
which teach the obligations and
duties of Christians to their God,
to the church, to the world, and to
themselves. Mr.. Mealing requests
that all expecting to attend will
look out and mark the texts that
teach the obligations and duties,
80 that they may turn to and read
n Il.