Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-10-24

The Presbyterian prayer meet
ing on Tuesday evening has bee
revived.
Mr.. E. J. Norris has some of tn
most beautiful crockery We eve
saw, and so cheap.
The crops of corn are SO good il
the county that the old-fashione'
corn shuckings are coming il
again.
Some one says that liquo
strengthens the voice. This is
mistake; it only makes the breatl
strong.
Copies of "The, Worlds Sweetes
Songs" may be seen at the ADvER
T1sER Office. They cost one coupon
and 10 cents.
Brass boldly enters where mod
esty dare not pull the door bell
and yet brass in these days is alb
solutely necessary, and there is
kind of brass now that never cor
rodes.
Mr.. w. H. Hare, a scholarly
young gentleman of the Caughma1
section, who has written some abl'
articles for this paper, was in towr
on Friday last and paid us apleas
ant call.
The ladies of our village Pres
byteHan Church will give an oyste,
supper one night during court week
The exact night has not yet beer
decided upon. Notice will be glver
hereafter.
Miss Savannah Salter, a formel
resident of this place, and a hall
sister of the late Henry t. Wright
Esq, died at her home in Johnston
on Saturday last, and was burieo
on Sunday afternoon.
A negro was killed one night last
week at hot supper on Mr.. Anon
Stallworth's place in the north.
western part of the county, and
his supposed slayer, also a negro
man, has been lodged in our county
jail.
Messrs. Glauzier and Woodward
of the Dutch settlement are going
to bring in a beef next Saturday
that will antonish the natives
Keep d sharp lookout, and don't
let them get away until you have
got your share.
The report that Joe Cartledge, Of
the Rehoboth section, had moved
TO Mexico is a mistake. He only
went down into "Clack" Seigler's
Mexican corn to look at it, and peo-
pie couldn't find him and thought
he had gone to Mexico.
The Plymouth Rock Pants Co.,
Of Augusta, Ca, has an advertise
ment in another column. They
will make you pair of pants or a
whole suit, If you want it, guaran-
anteed to fit, and at prices so low
as to make your 5 cents cotton
dance for Joy.
Since the repeal of our town or.
dlnance requiring a license to sell
beef on our public square, Satur-
day is a perfect beef bedlam day.
There were seven beef mongers
holding forth there last Saturday,
besides the four regulars in other
parts of the town. It's all pretty
good beef, too. Competition makes
# 80 perhaps, which we didn't have
under the old license system.
Mr.. W.. I. Wilson, the well-known
undertaken and embalmer, form
erly of Allendale, but now of Au.
gusta, Ca, has opened up an ur.
dertaking establishment at the cor.
ner of Washington and Ellis
streets. Bed room, Offices, and
ware room all under same roof
Telephone connections with tele'
graph office, so that orders will be
filled Immediately, any hour, day
or night. Mr.. Wilson will 60 out
with goods and give personal at
tention to bodies near any station
on all roads leading out from Au'
gusta. He has every class of goods
from the cheapest pauper cases tt
the finest zinc lined and metallic
caskets, and at prices heretofore
unequaled. Knowing Mr.. Wilson
as we'll as we do, we take pleasure
in recommending him to the peo
pie of Edgefeld.
ssYou, Ephraim."
"Ephraim Your hoecake aim
been turned over" Recently il
Macedonia, the colored Baptis
church of our village, visiting
minister. preached a sermon from
this text. He addressed all tht
unregenerate of his congregation
as "Ephraims," and compared
them most graphically, to hoe
cake that had not been turned
over. Everybody knows" sale
ho uthat hoecake that amt beer