Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-17
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There will be an a Alliance rally
at McC Cormick next Friday.
Bacon has fallen about 2 cents
I'm this market. It is now 1oa
cents.
Court adjourned on Saturday:
last, after a session OF only one
week.
The less religion there is in q
church the more, oysters and ice
cream it takes to run it..
Nearly everybody left town last
Sunday to attend Mr.. Watson's
tent meeting on Log Creek.
Mr.. Asbill, who taught in our.
high school last session, is reading
law with a. S. Tompkins, Esq.
Misses Mamie and Annie Wllke
s and Ida Edwards, of Charleston,
are visiting Miss Emmie Timmons.
ME-. Wigfall Cheatham, of the
Edgefeld Ghron onicle staff, will leave
ina few days for the Worlds Fair:
Misses Lou Gary and Mary
Evans left on Saturday morning
for Chicago and the Worlds Fair.
Rev. G. W. Busaey, having closed
his Sprotracted meeting at Red Oak
Grove, is now conducting one at
Parksyille.
Misses Mamie and Annie Lou
Goyar are spending several days
with relatives and friends in
Aiken county.
There was quite a severe hail
storm in The Red Hill vicinity last
week, which did considerable dam
age to the cotton.
Zack Boon writes us that silver
money twas good enough for Paul
and Silas, and it's good enough for
him." and SO say we all.
Rev. Thomas FL. Leitch is now
preaching in. Texas. The papers
3 in that State say he is next to Sam
Jones as q crowd drawer.
The Mountain Creek Church con-
tributed last week $14 to the Con-
s.nie Maxwell Orphanage. w. N.
Burnett, Of Edgefeld, contrib
uted SIS.
Rev. j. M. White has returned
to Edgefeld. Mr.. White with his
good lady will teach a school in the
Sweetwater section during the
3 coming year.
The Misses league, daughters of
DR.. B. .H. Teagae, of Aiken, and
grand-daughters of DR.. Horace
Parker, of our town, are visiting
relatives here.
T protrac ted meeting at Rocky
Greek: Church condu ducted by Reys.l
and simpson, has;
closed with six accessions to. the
church as the result,
Messrs. 6. .. Mobley and a.. j..
Coleman were in town last Satur-
day. These gentlemen report cot.
ton crops elegant, corn crops 30 so.
the early corn very poor.
Miss Laura Davis, of Rixeyville,
Va, desires a position to teach in
q school or family. She teaches
English, French, and music. Best
references given and required.
Those of us in Edgefeld who
can't get to the Midway Plaisance
go to the dime readings that now
rage in this community, and we
have the mostest fun, all for 10
cents.
In Virginia if you ask native
how far it la to a certain point, he
may reply that it is "two looks and
a hootl" A look is as far as you
can see and a hoot is the distance
a human voice is supposed to carry.
In the account of the falling of
the bridge at Clemson, an account
of which we publish in another
column, two Edgefeld boys were
hurt, S. T. Carter and M. A. Hol-
stein. We hope neither is seriously
injured.
It is officially stated that $500
of the Peabody fund has been paid
to Superintendent of Education
Mayfeid for the teachers insti-
tutes in the various counties, and
yet Edgefeld has had no institute
this year.
Cotton in the county has i'm
proved SO much during the last few
days that the prospect of a heavy
B yield is very encouraging. Much
still depends, however, on the sea-
sons during this month and the
carly part of September.
Miss Eliza Minis, who will have
charge of the art department in
the Edgefeld Institute, has just