Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-08-22
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, AUG. %, 1884.
BREVI7IES.
Vote for Col. Bob Watson.

Vote for Col. Bob Watson.
Gov. w. H. Zimmerman was in
town on Monday.
Columbia and Charleston went
for John Gary Evans.
Col. R. B. Watson, of Ridge
Spring, Senator to be, was in town
on Monday.
Business is decidedly on the up
glade. Toot your horn through
the ADVERTISER.
Senator Zimmerman has sent in
his resignation as State Senator
for Edgefold county.
Mr.. Dan Holland and bride wor-
shipped in our village Baptist
Church on Sunday last.
Mr.. Joseph Addison and family,
of the Ninety Six section, are WIS.,
iting relatives in our town.
Evangelist Fife, it is rumored,
will soon visit our town to do
little special missionary work.
Just received the incest assort-
ment of Rugs in the market, from
so cents up, at Ramsey d Bland's.
On Friday Aug. 11th the ther-
moneter stood at 100 degrees at
Batesburg, the hottest day in many
years.
We are prepared to supply you
with either a New Buckeye or
Mccormick Mower, at $45. Hay
Rakes at $40, at Ramsey & Bland's.
On next Monday Messrs. Alvin
and E. B. Hart, and Jas. M. Cobb,
will leave for New York to make
their fall and winter PURCHASES of
dry goods.
The Edgefeld Institute will open
on Monday, Sept. 10th, instead of
Sept. 2rd, as heretofore announced.
See change in advertisement to
that effect.
We are county agents for the
celebrated Ross Food Cutters, runs
either by steam ore hand power.
Come and see how they work, at
Ramsey & Bland's.
Several new post offices have
been established in Edgefeld Co.,
Velma in the Meeting Street Sec
ton, and Rambo, and Rushvllle in
the Shatterield country.
If you are out Of work clean
face, blacked shoes, and a nose
without blossom will be a bet
ter introduction than diamond
stud or a gold watch chain.
At the recent protracted services
at Stevens Creek church, conduct
ed by DR.. Gwaltney and Rev. John
Lake, eleven persons united with
the church and were baptized.
When a Russian family move
from one house to another they
always rake al; the fire from the
hearth of the old domicile and
carry 1t in closed pot to their new
residence.
Gov. Tillman has re-appointed
the same board of Control for
Edgefeld County as before the
closing of the dispensaries, to wit:
D. R. Durisoe, L. W. Reese, and
J. w. Hardy.
The empress of Russia has a
perfumery fountain in her recep-
ton room. She presses a certain
button, and the kind of perfume
which she wises IS produced. Her
favorite odor is the mayhower.
PAGES Branch trestle on the
Cumberland Gap railroad is still
in a state of innocuous desuetude.
Freight and rock trains 60 and
come by the way of Granitevllle
over the Richmond and Danville
road.
Deputy Collector QUITS enlivened
our town q little last Saturday by
selling at public auction on the
streets about ten gallons of liquor
and small mule and sulky which
had been seized for violations of
the revenue laws. The liquor sold
for very near as much as the mule.
-Easley Democrat.
In our published list of Demo-
cratic clubs there appears one en-
titled "Meriwether Club No. g."
This is a misnomer. There is no
such club. The one called Meri-
wether Nc. 2 should be Meriwether
Club pure and simple, and unde-
filed by addition, subtraction, or
division.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is said to
be about to lease her Beauvior es-
tate in Missippi SO that by INSTALL
ing responsible tenants there she
can prevent the decay of the old