Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-17


THURsDAY, AU q. Il 1893.
4 DGAR BREVITIES
There viii be an Alliance rally
at Nc Cormick next Friday.
Bacon has fallen about2 cents
in this market. It is now loa
& cents.
Court adjourned on Saturday
last, after q 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
4 high school last sessio on, is reading.
law with A. S. Tompkins, Esq.
Misses Mamie and Annie Wilke
and Ida Edwards, of Charlesto
are visiting Miss Emmie Timmons.
Mr.. WigfaH Cheatham, Of the
Edgefeld Chronic cle staf, 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. CIV. Bussey, having closed
his protracted meeting at Red Oak
Grove, is now conducting one at
Parksville.
Misses Mamie and Annie Lou
Cover are spending several days
with relatives and friends in
Aiken county.
There was quite severe hail
storm in the Red Hill vicinity last
week, which did considerable dam
( age to the cotton.
lack 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 II. Leitch is now
preaching in Texas. The papers
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-
.Anie Maxwell Orphanage. w. N.
Burnett, of Edgefeld, contrib
uted SIS.
Rev. J. M. White has returned
to Edgefeld. Mr.. White with his
sgood lady will teach q school in the
Sweetwater section during the
coming year.
The Misses league, daughters of
Dr.. B. H. sTeagae, of Aiken, and
grand daughters of Dr.. Horace
Parker, Of our town, are visiting
relatives here:
The pro otracte ID NEE sting at Rocky
Creek Church conducted by Reys..
fss,iimpson, has
closed with SIX acce essions TO the
church as the result. # Is.
Messrs. G. D. Mobley and A.s j..
Coleman we're in town last Satur-
day. These gentlemen report cot
ton crops elegant, corn crops 80, 80:
the early corn very poor.
Miss Laura Davis, of Rixeyville,
Va, desires a position to teach in
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.
I'm Virginia if you ask a native
how far it ID to a certain point, he
! may reply that it is "two looks and
q hoot!" A look is as far as you
can see and a hoot is the distance
ahuman 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.
1t 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, aud
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 q heavy
yield is very encouraging. Much
still depends, however, on the sea-
sons during this month and the
carly part September.