Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-11-30

Edgefleld ADVERTISER
THURSDAY, NOV. 80, 1898.
LOCAL2 BREVlTlES.
A turkey stood in cranberry swamp,
And he sang till his throat was sore
For all day long he sang this song,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
Drove hogs are now selling at
II cents per pound, gross.
Notwithstanding the very cold
weather there will be orange hlos-
SONS in Edge6eld in December.
Edgefeld county people have
sowed a great deal of oats this fall
and propose to keep it up until
Christmas.
During the year 1894 real estate
will be again returned and assess
ed. This will be the first assess
mont for FIVE years.
People are not crowding the
Trpasurer's Office as vet to pay
their taxes. Just before Christmas
they'll begin 10 pour Ill.
The Griffin house on Butler hill
is being rr-shingled and other
wise improved, and the supposl-
ton is that it will soon be occu-
pied.
Our young friend John Lott
goes to the Osborne business
College early iu January to take
course of steuography. Our best
wishes attend him.
Flour is cheaper in this market
than ever before known within the
memory of man; from $3.50 to
81 70 per barrel seems to be the
alpha and the omega.
Judge Simonton has ordered the
SAFE of the South Carolina Railway
on Dec. 18th. This is the third
time the date has been fixed Cor a
sale which was not made.
Nearly every one in our town is
going down to the exposition on
Thursday of this week, Thanks
giving, and the stores and business
house of course Will all be closed.
If your hogs are sick soak corn
in lime water and feed it to them.
It will cure the disease now going
about, will also give them a Won
derful appetite and make them fat
ten fast.
Mrs. DR.. Scott Sheppard and
family will soon move INFO town
and will occupy the house on the
hill owned by Orlando Sheppard,
Esq, which is being reitted and
rehabilitated for such occupancy.
Avoid the rush by paying your
taxes now, right along, every day.
The limit is the 31st of December,
and don't forget, after you have
paid your taxes, to come up into
the ADVERTISER Office and pay for
your paper.
The railroad fare from Edge6eld
to Augusta has been reduced to
e$4l.l5-on Tuesdays aud Thursdays.
This includes return ticket and
entrance to the Exposition, but
does not include the street car fare
from the city to the Exposition.
The Y. M. c. A. haye secured
the services of Mr.. Frederick D..
Losey, who will give one of his
entertainments Oh Wednesday
night, Dec. 6. Mr.. Losey.is highly
endorsed by the press, and it is
hoped he will have a large au-
dience.
Rev. G. w. Bussey was in town
on Monday of this week. This
gentleman, with Mr.. J. H. Boldridge
Mr.. J. S. Jordan, and Mr.. j. l..
QUITS are the only preachers, we
believe, who will attend the
Baptist convention that meets in
Anderson this week from this
county.
The man who predicted that
this would be an unusually cold
winter understood his business if
we may judge by the record of the
thermometer on last Saturday and
Sunday, especially when we re-
member that according to the
almanac winter doesn't even begin
until the Goth of December.
No notice has been given in re-
gard to Thanksgiving services in
the churches OF our town, so every
man is expected to give thanks i'll
his own domicile, under his own
roof-tree. We can thank the Lord
for what we've got, and "that. it
amt any worse than how it is
Any of us can do that much
thanksgiving.
The Hon. Bourke Cockrane, of
New York, is opposed to the idea