Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-10-10
Edg,efield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1894.
LOCAL2 BREVI7IES.

Thus far the month of October
has been all ideal one for harvest
ing.
Mems Suits, $3.50 to $19, at New
York Racket Store.
The Columbia Journal speaks O.
Captain Gee Wash Shell as the Ii
Hung Chang of Refawn.
The Sunbeams have changed
their time of meeting to 8 o'clock
in the afternoon.
A swapping and cracking reduc-
ton has been made in the prices OF
Whips, Harness, and all Sadlery
at Ramsey & Bland's.
Five and half cents cotton is
enough to run man distracted.
and would have sent many a man
to the asylum had it not come to
us so gradually.
Are you fond of a bright and
sunny disposition? Then buy your
wife a few pieces OF Ramsey d
BANDS Furniture, that she has
been wanting, and watch results.
Mr.. George Lewis has put two
new seventy-saw gins in his ginning
establishment, which do remark
able work. They actually skin the
seed of every particle of lint or
fibre.
Ladies' and Gents Hosiery, So
to 500, at New York Racket Store.
Your home is made beautiful moi
by lavish expenditure of money,
but by good judgment and taste in
it's furnishings. Ramsey & Bland
urge you to inspect their styles
and prices.
Mr.. n. Wood (Ginse) has open
ed a beef market at his old stand
on the corner next to the black
smith shops. Edgefeld can't get
along without Ginse Wood as a
fresh meat caterer.
This queer story is told of
Kentucky negro: He was caught
stealing chickens and a farmer
fred at him twice. The negro has
since lost his reason, and crows
like rooster all night long.
"No, judge, said ane'er- -do-well,
who was being questioned by
magistrate as to his reasons for be-
ing vagrant; 81 amt never had
the advantage of parental gui-
dance-I'm an orphan by birth"
A great deal is being said nova
DAYS about money being close"
but precious little stays by the peo-
pie when they 60 into Ramsey u
Bland's store and see with their
own eyes the bargains they have.
Boys hats and caps, 15e up, at
New York Racket Store.
Of Trenton,
brought in a load of sweet potatoes
on Saturday, the first of the sea-
son, brought in in wagons, and the
best. Mr.. Longs pumpkin yam
potatoes are the finest to be seen on
the planet.
Col. Geo, w. Croft, of Aiken, has
been in our town for some days
attending to legal matters prepara-
tory TO the sitting of our Novem-
Der court. Col. Croft is the clearest
headed. biggest Drained lawyer
who visits this bar.
Mr.. B. B. Evans is fitting up his
insurance Office with new furniture,
carpeting on the floor, new stove,
ready for winter and borean blasts.
In the meantime don't neglect so
great an opportunity to live in
hearts you leave behind by having
him insure your life.
Capt. John D. Roper, of Trenton,
took charge of the "Hotel Edge
field" on Monday of this week.
What with their long experience,
gastronomic skill, and gracious
courtesy Capt. and Mrs. Roper will
make most excellent and popular
host and hostess.
Bleachings and Cambrics, 4!e
to 1Oe, at New York Racket Store.
At a school examination, young
tyro in defamation, who had been
told by the teacher that he must
gesticulate according to the sense,
in commencing a piece with "The
comet lifts his fiery TAIL" lifted his
coat to horizontal position, caus-
ing roars of laughter.
AS Sam Taylor was picking
gooseberries in the woods last Sun
day afternoon rattlesnake struck
at his Adams apple, but missed it
and caught his collar button, which
he swallowed. Sam ran backwards
half a mile to the dispensary be-
fore be could get the snake off.
The sequel to this we will tell next
week, or as soon as we can extract
it from Sam.