Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-07-11

Ft1uSSdTS OH July lOlll: lQe CdLppdlSL
meeting at Edgefeld on the 10Th
and the barbecue at Harmony ot
Confederate survivors on the 21st
all come in rapid succession and
the candidates will have to dc
some tall hustling to get to all.
An Hypnotic Entertainment.
On Friday night of this week
the 18th inst, Prof. L. J. Parrott
of Sumter, will give an exhibition
in the Edge6eld Opera House OF
the power of hypnotism. Hypno'
tism is what, forty years ago, we
called mesmerism. Judge Ernest
Gary says that Prof. Parrot has
wonderful powers.
"Mars" Roper.
Mr.. D. R. Durisoe has removed
his fire insurance office to the
ADVERTISER building, from which
coign of vantage he will issue poll
cies to those desiring them. He
represents two of the largest and
soundest fire insurance corspanies
doing business on this co. tinent
with millions of dollars of ssets.
Give him a share of your patron
age.
Barbecue at Mt. Willing.
The Mt. Willing Rifles will fur
nish barbecue, first class in all
its appointments, at the campaign
meeting to be held at Mt. Willing
on Tuesday, July Oath. The charge
will be, for gentlemen, IS cents, Ia
dies 25 cts, children under years
of age, Is cents. The candidates
Will not be charged any more than
the gentlemen, alth ough it is we'll
known that they will eat twice as
much.
That Big Barbecue.
The Confederate Veterans Asso-
c;ation- of Edgefeld county, as
previously announced, will have a
barbecue at Harmony Church, four
miles east of Edgefeld, on Satur-
day, July 21st. Col. James R.
Armstrong, of Charleston, will de-
liver an address to the old soldiers.
Ladies and children are especially
invited, and the ladies, in the Ian
guage of Capt. George Lake, are
Earnestly permitted" to bring
baskets.
Services.
--ReH.-Marien- Dargan preached
in our methodist Church on Sun
day morning last. His sermon was
a strong and able argument in
favor of equal culture of mind,
heart, and physique as leading up
to the perfection for which Chris
tian men and women ought to
strive. He closed with an earnest
appeal to parents to regard their
solemn obligations to their chill
dren. Mr.. Dargan is travelling in
the interest of the Columbia Fe-
male College, which he represents
as thoroughly equipped for the best
work during the coming scholastic
year
Advertised Letters.
List of letters remaining in the
Postohice at Edgefeld C. H. July
3rd, 1894: A J Adams, Andy Alex
ander, Joyer Blocker, Rell Derring,
T B Frau, J H Gresham Henry
Grenett, J S Grimes, Jackson Clap,
Henry Lockhart, Jasper Rush,
Perry Simkins, Richard Simkins,
VIM Cornelious Synes, Henry
Wooley, (2), Samuel Weaver, (2),
B ] Wilson, Mrs Matte Barentine,
Mrs Tabetha Burnett, Mrs Addie
Davis, Mrs Louisa Davis, Miss
Emma Hughes, Lena Keys, Mrs
Julia Moore, Miss Emma Mikes,
Miss Melia Sullivan, Mrs H H
Wilson.
An Entertainment.
On Tuesday evening, July 18th,
the Woman's Mission Society of
the Baptist Church, will give an
entertainment at the residence of
Mrs. G.. P. Cobb. There Will be no
admission charged, and every one
is urged to come. Vocal and in
strumental music, recitations, etc,
will be furnished gratis, but charge
will be made for the delicious re-
freshments which the ladies will
serve during the evening. The
money realized is to pay off the
debt now resting on the Foreign
Mission Board. AS this is q
matter in which all the Baptist
churches are interested, it is hoped
that friends of the cause through
the country will come in and help
swell the fund.
Fine Crops.
Trial Justice F. E. Rinehart, ot
the Etheredge section, was in oul
office on Monday and reports the
crops in his part of the county
both corn and cotton, az simply
magnificent. He says that Charlie
Adams's field of corn on the old
Duncan road, originally a poor
sandy, pine ridge, will make thirty