Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-04
BREVITIES.

LOCAL. BREVITIES.
Moon-eyed tigers, is what they
call them now.
Our town was full of candidates
on Monday of this weef.
DR.. w. D. jennings, Sr., is again
at his old home, Edgefeld.
Anderson County has not yet
brought out a single candidate.
DR.. R. J. Talbert, of Mccormick,
was in town on Monday of this
week.
The State campaign meeting day
for Edgefeld is Thursday, July
18th.
"Continued rains" is the way the
weather bureau has of putting 1t
down these days.
Now is the time to put up your
black kberry jam and jelly-that is
if you can get the berries.
An exchange says plant your
late crop of watermelons now, and
they will ripen IN September.
The Hotel Edgefeld is soon to
be occupied again. A. S. Tomp-
kins, ESQ.,, has had several appli-
cations for it.
Edgefeld County will be enti-
tied this year to two beneficiary
cadetships III the Charleston Mill
tary Academy.
Some people think it no harm to
sin if while at it they are all the
time, thinking of and about hell
and damnation.
Rev. Marion Dargan, of Colum-
bia, will preach in our village
Methodist Church on next Sunday
morning at II o'clock.
Big stock Saddles, al, prices, just
received at Ramsey q Bland's.
Will almost make your pants
laugh to ride on one of them.
At the meeting of the County
Executive Committee on Monday
Mr.. w. A. Cheatham, of Longmires,
was elected secretary pro tenn.
Josh Billings says: "When a
fellow gifts a-goin' down hill, it
duz seem as tho everything had
been creased for the okashun."
Those good people in our coun-
try churches who prayed for rain
ought to have prayed with more
understanding and specified"
The people of Greenwood and
vicinity are straining every nerve
in their efforts to have new coun-
ty cut off by the next legislature.
I 1t is proposed to hold an cleo
ton among the Edgefeld candi-
dates to determine which one is
the "likeliest" and which the
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George Elliott says it is very
hard to make sacrifice when it is
probable that you may find out
afterwards that the sacrifice was
unnecessary.
Miss Carrie Sheppard, the charm
ing and popular daughter of Mrs.
Ida Sheppard, is at home for the
holidays, having closed her school
in the Mountain Creek section.
The ADVERTISER offers for the
largest watermelon brought to this
office box of Williams's Pink
Pills for Pale People. This is to
encourage the industry and the
pale people.
Handsome John Lott, who has
been taking a course of steno-
graphy at an Atlanta business col
lege, is at home again. John will
soon occupy his former position in
the Evans insurance Office, ADvER-
TIsER building.
This is the season of the year
wher the farmers mind stubbornly
contemplates the purchase of
farming implements, and othe
necessities in the hardware line.
AS usual Ramsey & Bland have
prepared to meet every demand
along that line. Visit their store
before laying in your supply.
Wanted a few good, responsible,
and energetic men to sell the Latest
Improved Singer Sewing Machines,
and to collect on accounts in Edge
field county. To the right men wg
guarantee good pay and permanent
positions. Applicant must be able
to give small honesty bond and
fornish horse and harness. Apply
at once to THE SINGER SEWING