Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-06-17
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, JUNE II, 1896.
LOCAL. BREVlTIES.
The Luray cost $500.

The cool wave that reached us Sat
urday was most delightful.
Cherry ripe at the Luray.
Look out for Ramsey & Bland's new
/ and startling advertisement next week.
Chocolates at the Luray.
Mrs. Rice and daughter, Of Column
bia, are visiting Mrs. Ida sheppard.
Cherry Phosphate at the Lnray.
The 4Luray." What is the "Lurays
Fifteen different syrups at the Luz
ray.
Don't forget The new Soda Fountain
4 at DIR. w. b. Penn's.
,Saluda county has already distanced
old ssdyeield in the number OF her
candidates for county Offices.
Miss Birdie Schenk has been recent
4 .ly received by letter into the MEMBER
ship of our Baptist church.
The lists are about closed for the
campaign. We refer TO candidates.
and their announcements.
Married by the Rev. p. f. Blalock
at the home of the brides mother, May
26th 1896, MIR. II. A broadWater anu
Miss Margell Wash.
Judge Roath says that, physicians
c,il if aneryous prostration," when
min. times out of ten it is nothing but
s.neryous laziness."
County Chairman Gaines calls
meetins. OF The county Democra.,c
Executive Committee for Monaay ou-
ly 6tll at lO O'clock a. m, Sharp.
Miss Fioride Cunningham formerly
nf Taurus aud we'll known in Edge
field. has embarked in the real estate
busifes in Ashville, n. Z.
At the meeting Of the county execu-
tive committee, called for July 6, ar
ramye,nrnts will be made for the eOun-
sy camlaign meetings.
Other fruits will be comparative
+; failure in this immediate section ex-
cent only the luscious watermelon.
and OF this fruit of the vine the prom
ise is simply immense, and the frultioh
is almost here.
On Thursday last Butler Gray, "oid
Cold Rngn cut his own hair and did IL
naatIy too. You can see for yourse1.
rrhis is a feat ON mans head not known
to have been accomplished by any otn-
er tonsonial artist this side the seraies
of Gibraltar.
life is an endless chain In the days anu
weeks. months and years are the INKS
in that chain on earth; and every Sood
daed every kind word, every pure
Thought make up the links OF that
chain In the eternal world.
A gentleman was explaining the 20
Tn to an old colored man and toia
gh;m If meant SIG for the white man
and one for the negro. The old negro
laid swell, dats letter dan It's Din, III
latter yotefur "rillman."
That old Gold Bug, Butler Gray, has
,,nened barber shop in the room I'M
,nadiately under Judge Roatt's Office.
$ l;sr{ffs his shop a.The Gold Bug. he
does eooi work and solicits, most re5-
i,ectfuIly, the patronage OF the 'puohc.
They say now that if Boise is nomi-
rated for president that Ben Tillman-
is TO be made Secretary Of War ana
lEdgefieli will be expected to furnish
and equip sufficient number Oh men
to go TO Cuba and reduce the price OF
sugar: and free silver and 2cent sugar
will be in the platform.
MIS- Helen Gould Of New Jersey,
daughter of the late Jay Gould, mas
sent one hundred thousand dollars TO
the sufferers at st. Louis, caused oy
the big cyclone, to be expended IRE
spective of race color or sex. many
people rated Jay Gould as mighty
mean man." But the good Lord doeth
eli things for the best. II the father
had been ne'er do well, the danghter
could never have been a great city's
benefactress. All hail the name OF
Gould!
The colored brass band In our town on
last Saturday were very inspiriting.
An how It reminded US of the battle of
Malvern Eill where we killed sixteen
Yankees at one shot (they we're trying
TO kill us.) The most inspiring thing
il, war is the great big drum and the
brass band. Next to that, after the
battle opens, is the boom, boom Of can
non on the right and on the left. ON
the pride the pomp, the circumstance OF
glorious war, when men go out to XIII
and to MAIN their fellowmen zen In
the name of liberty.
Cant. John P. Mickler, for many
wears a resident of Edgefield county,
died mt his home in Greenwood Mon
day night, June Sth.
Pie Greenwood Journal says: "The
deceased was born in Lexington coun-
to on April q, 1894, and was therefore
Is years. l month and II days old at
the time of his death. In 1S45 he was
married to Miss Carrie Smith, daugh-
fer of Col. DAME, Smith, wealthy
Dlapter and prominent citizen Of New
berry county. The fruits of this union
were two sous and three daughters, all
of whom survive him except one son.
He was a public spirited and progress
siye citizen and used the wealth he
accumulated In helping to develop the
Industries of any community in which
he tound himself. From his youth he
was a consistent member of the Meth
odist church and died in the faith
which helped him to lead model life
for more than three score and ten."
Old HOss Sale.
See the sold Hoss" sale advertise
meat in another column. And they
saw fhis too is another good sign for
our town, namely, to wit: that when
town is growing so fast that "Old
Hoss" sales come to it, such town is
getting to he very much like Augusta
in its bigness though not in its bigoti-
ness. no, never! We are not yet "bigot-
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