Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-02
pgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1895.
LOCAl BREVI7IES.

L0CAll BREVlllES.
Miss LIME Minis spent the Christ
mas holidays with friends in Aiken.
DR.. Gwaltney and family are now
domiciled in their home in Buncombe
Mrs. Pet Bland and daughter. have
been visiting relatives in Edgetield.
Cotton at six cents in New York is
said to be the lowest point ever reach
ed in that city.
Miss Sophie Abney spent the holi-
days with her mother and has return
ed to her school at Ridge Spring.
Gov. Evans and Judge Ernest Gary
spent Christmas at Oakley Park, the
home of Mrs. Genl. Evans.
Miss Mamie Norris, of the "Collese
for Women" Columbia, S. c., spent the
Christmas holidays at home.
The beautiful snow came Sunday af-
ternoon at this place-the poor mans
guano, especially for small grain.
DR.. B. Fl. league and his daughter
Miss league worshipped at our Bap-
tist church last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G.P. Cobb and Miss
Sue Sloan have returned to Johnston.
Edgefield hates to lose them.
Mr.. w. Peak and family will in q
: few days remove to the old Jennings
mansion opposite the Catholic church.
MR. L. Dunovant and family are
now domiciled in the Prescott man
sion over in Buncombe.
Some people think that other people
are cranks but the "other people know
that "some people" are.
DR.. Prescott and family, much to the
regret of our community, have return
ed to their country home.
ITO put salt on the tail of lie and
serve it up with stufing," is not
proper Christmas dish. Don't do it.
Gary Caughman, of the Saluda side
has been appointed Supervisor of Reg.
istration for Edgeield County by Gov.
Evans.
1t is not the man who raises the
most bushels who is the best farmer;
it is the one who raises the most bush
.els from en- acre.
Beer is now being made of corn
more and more, both in this country
:and Germany. That is about the poor
.est use that can be made of corn.
Notwithstanding the hard times the
Christmas trade of our merchants was
good; some of them report it the best
i'm years.
A pretty fair synopsis of the actings
and doings Of the members of the Leg
nslature is given in another column
over the signature "Dagnell."
3Ir. Davis, County Dispenser, re-
parts sales for December, $2,553.5s-
being $500 less than the amount sold
-...u,her marriage, in which our
town is tn furnish the happy and for
tunatc groom, is booked for the 9th
inst.
The fall of snow in this town meas
'ured six inches on level-not quite so
deep as that of last year, but deep
enough to be sin it" when you getin
it.
AS token of their appreciation Of
him, both as teacher and friend, the
young gentlemen Of DR.. Gwaltney's
GLASSES presented to him on Christmas
day a'solid silver ink stand and case.
Is ita fact that every time there is a
Union meeting at Edgefield it is
failure? Last Saturday and Sunday
there wasn't single delegate here
from any churches of the Division.
A good S&eewR Yeaatf,s eaat present would
,be to send the ADVERTISER to some
friend for one year. 1t only costs $l.5o
and would remind the recipient of the
giver tifty-two times in the year.
The young man just starting in bu-
:siness should learn to say NO, not that
he should say it all the time and to
every body, but should know how to
say it when the proper time comes.
J. VIM. Thurmond, Esq, one OF our
most efficient members of the House,
spent the Christmas holidays under
the paternal roof, but returned to
Edgetield and his law office OH Monday
of this week.
oh the hogs, the beautiful hogs!
How we love 'em as they run thro' the
bogs;
How we laugh as they fall DER the
logs!
Fogs frogs dogs polly-wogs egg-nogs.
There is time for all things, but
the time for work is, when the sombre
shades tt row into gorgeous glory the
golden glimmer of Welsh rarebit-so
-Jiaa Fraser says, and Jim-knows.
TO saake hens lay well, feed as fol-
,loua. put tWO or more quarts of wa