Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-01-04
BREVITlES.

The Edgefeld Institute will re-
open Jan. Sth.
There are said to be 5000 cases
of grip III Augusta.
A Shatterfeld man made 1900
gallons of sorghum last year.
A happy New Year to "all the
world and the balance of mall
kind"
The dispeasary sales OH satur-
day before Christmas amounted to
five hundred and odd dollars.
Miss Mamie Norris, of the South
Carolina College for Women, spent
the holidays at home.
Gen. Jos. B. Kershaw has been
appointed postmaster at Camden
bv President Cleveland.
A week of prayer in the Baptist
Church during all of next week.
See programme of the Mission
society published elsewhere.
All the sales to have been made
by the Master of salesday In JAN
uary have been continued to the
first Monday in February, prox.
The Curryton Rifles have
changed into a cavalry company
and will henceforth be known as
the Sweetwater Light Dragons.
All applicants for admission
to Clemson College will have to
be examined III their respective
counties on the 18th of this month.
Eighteen cotton markets Of
Southwest Texas show that the
cotton shipped so far is Al per cent
under last year and that held in
reserve 1 per cent under.
Cotton is still very low. Con-
sress slipped up in repeating the
Sherman bill, for it didn't advance
the price of cotton to 10 cents per
pound, as many predicted.
The tax levy for Edgefeld
county for 1894 is as follows: 2
mills for ordinary purposes; l
mill for roads and bridges; and !
mill for past indebtedness.
We used to spell Christmas noli-
days "hollerdays." The dispen
sary won't let us spell it that way
now, which is about the only OBJ
lection we have to the dispensary.
Only two intoxicated persons
were seen on our streets during the
holidays. This is remarkable
fact and one never noted before III
the one hundred and odd years of
our towns existence.
The world may owe you living,
but it is about as easy to make a
living some other way as to collect
that debt-in fact the most of
those who try to collect it land in
-iailor the penitentiary.
If you did not enjoy your Christ
mas very much. perhaps it was be-
cause you mad not paid for your
paper. Pay up, and you may be
Happy yet
You bet.
Mr.. VIM. M. Webb, who lived in
EdgefelI county, near Chappells,
died at his home on the 25th of
Decem yer, Christmas Day. He
was good citizen and an honest
man. Peace to his ashes.
Will there be another dispensary
in Edgefeld county? Under the
new law it seems that dispensary
NAV be established IN any incor
porated town in the county by the
county board of control.
The ADVERTISER will take ten
gallons of frst-class sorghum as
the fee for announcing the candi-
date who first appears in these
columns in 1894. We do this to
encourage the sorghum industry
and FOR that reason alone.
Miss Mary E. McKie, the ac-
complished daughter of DR.. R. Il.
McKie, has been added to the
faculty of Cooper-Limestone Insti-
tute. We congratulate the patrons
of this institution on securing the
services Of this young lady.
Under the new county govern
ment law, Edgefeld will have to
elect this fall a county supervisor
instead of three county commits
sioners as heretofore. This county
supervisor will receive salary of
$500 per annum, something worth
struggling for, and we hear there
are FIVE Candidates in the field.
Auditor J.B. Haltiwanger starts
out Thursday, Jan. 4, on his rounds
assessing the real and personal
property in Edgefeld county. 1t
will save much time and trouble
if you will meet him at your re-
spective precincts. Mr.. Haltiwan-