Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-27
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 81, 1894.
LOCAL2 BREVITIES.

Rev. Mr.. Brabham gave the Sun
beams q very pleasant talk last
Sunday afternoon.
The ADVERTISER has added fifty
new names to its subscription list
during this month.
Court convenes at this place the
first Monday in August. Judge
Aldrich will preside.
This is one year that the farm
ers are not complaining about be-
ing run away with grass.
Most men have faith enough to
pray for rain when the wind is
blowing stiffly from the south.
The citizens of Augusta are
working for the establishment of q
conservatory of music in that city.
The advertiser who has con-
fidence in the goods he offers is
the one who best succeeds in con-
vincing his reader.
Mr.. N. D. Zimmerman says that
Wiley G. Wells, of the Horns
Greek section, has th' finest cotton
in Edgefeld county.
Rev. w. D. Kirkland will con-
tinue to edit the Southern Chris,
tian Advocate until the meeting
Of the State conference.
The best way to get ones cup
full is to praise the Lord for what
he has already put in it, and not
wait until it has run over.
Col. John Bates has a magnif-
cent piece of corn in rear of his
residence on Buncombc avenue.
The nine acres will make 1877
bushels.
Rev. E. Toland Hodges, presid-
ing elder, will preach in our Meth
odist Church next Saturday, June
Goth, and at McKtndrees on Sun
day, July LIST.
Our account of the Chester meet
ing was taken from the News and
Courier, and must of course be
taken with a grain of salt and in
broken doses.
At recent meeting of the board
of trustees of Wofford College DR..
Carlyle was reelected president for
S@-m of four years. The entire
faculty was reelected.
John Knox, colored. killed three
rabbits on last Sunday with one
rock and at one throw. Wicked
rabbits! to attack so redoubtable
a Nimrod on the day of rest.
Miss Sallie L. Trapp, who was
very popular in Edgefeld while
attending our High School few
years ago, graduated last week from
the Greenville Female College.
If yonrhens are bad about
scratching up your corn or peas.
soak some peas in blue stone water
and feed them on them. This will
rot their teeth and they will never
desire to scratch again.
Married Mt Leesville, Lexington
Co., S. c., June -, 1894, by Rev.
O. B. Shearouse, Mr.. J. P. West
and Miss Ella Davis. The former
of Etheridge, Edgefeld Co., and
the latter of Charleston, S. c.
The Rev. ". States Jacobs was
to have preached his farewell SER
mon in our Presbyterian Church
on last Sunday night, but the ele-
neuts conspired against him, it
it rained so that it couldn't We
done.
The Johnston circuit of the
Methodist Church has contributed
$132 todomestic missions during
this year. The Edgefeld circuit
has contributed $50 to the same
object; the Batesburg circuit $55
and also $33 to foreign missions.
Mr.. John R. Durisoe, an old at
tachee of the ADVERTISER office,
was at home from Washington for
few days of last week. Mr.. Duri-
soc is employed in the government
printing Office at the Capitol at
lucrative wages.
The rains of the past week in
Edgefeld county have been v"ry
partial. In some places they have
been very abundant and in others
very light. In the vicinity of the
village we haven't had what is
called a 'season" in six weeks. But
it came-the rain did-on Sunday
afternoon last.
Rev. E. Aston Wilkes, of the
Parksville circuit, has been on
visit to Greenwood and writes as
follows about our former pastor
Rev. A. B. Watson: "Parson Wat
son 'is diligent in business, fervent
in spirit, serving the Lord He
delights to converse about the