Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Potatoes must be growing now for
didn't we have rain?
1t is Just little less than four weeks
Until the presidential election.
We hear of COWS dying from eating
too much sorghum skimmings.
Provisions are cheaper in this mar
ket than they have been in many years.
There will be no State ball this year.
So says the Columbia Evening News.
Miss Kate Carter is visiting the
family of Major U. r. Brooks, in Co
lumbia.
Our information is that the Judge
will marry first, but the others Will not
lag very far behind.
The annual examination of appli-
cants to teach viii, be held in the court
house on Friday, the 10th of October.
B. B. Evans, of Columbia, late of
Edgefield, has been offered a position
in Philadelphia in fire insurance busi-
ness.
If we are not very much mistaken,
Edgefeld county will never rue the
day when she elected Hugh Talbert
County Supervisor.
Our banks are making very satisfac-
tory collections, but we are under the
impression that they have out this year
less money than for several years.
Mr.. C. A. Long and wife of Trenton
have been visiting their father, Mr.. G.
F.Long, in Newberry county during
the past week.
Gov. Evans has been appointed, it
is said, the presidency of land COM
pany that will give him salary OF
$4,000 q year.
Messrs. j. w. and p. b. Callison, and
p. B. Kemp, have formed partner
ship for the sale of general merchan-
disc at Collisions, under the firm name
of j. W. Callison and Co.
The Misses Aycock have removed
their millinery establishment to the
store of Hart & May where they will
be glad to see their friends and custo-
mers.
Mr.. M. N. Padgett, of Trenton, was
in town on Monday. Mr.. Padgett
came to town in buggy "a yeaIs old,
drove q horse 80 years old and is HIM
self sc years of age.
Mrs. Sallie Cheatham, widow of the
late John Il. Cheatham, sister of the
late w. w. Adams Esq, is visiting her
nephew, Mr.. j. Foster Cheatham, in
our southern suburbs.
Our old friend DR.. Joe Jennings was
in town on Monday. The Doctor, VIC
are glad to know, still lives in Edge
field county. In these days of making
new counties, this is quite big thing
10 say.
Rumors are rife that the Cumber-
land Gap railroad is to be sold again,
and that ahe South Carolina and the
Southern road are both crazy to get 1t,
the object being to build on to Green
wood or Mccormick.
Miss Sophie Abney, of our town.
his the general agency for the sale of
~Chapman's History of Edgefeld
County" and will soon begin a can
yass for subscribers thereto. she will
no doubt meet with great success, as
she ougAs. -
On Saturday last at her home in the
Meeting Street section Mrs. Mary A.
Hart, wife of Mr.. William Hart, de-
parted this life after a short illness.
The funeral at Rocky Creek church On
Sunday was conducted by DIR. l.. Il.
Gwaltney and was attended by large
concourse of friends and relatives.
Mrs. Hart left a husband and eleven
children to mourn their loss, to whom
our sympathies are extended
An exchange says: "If any garden
er wishes onions for family use or
marketing he should plant the sets or
buttons between the first and middle
of October. TO insure the largest
yield mark off rows ten inches apart
and plant one set every three inches
Give heavy top dressing of lot ma
nure for winter. Keep weeds down in
the early spring, give shallow cultiva-
tion and apply manure liberally. In
this way plot of ground 10 by 30 feet
will yield about 1,500 onions.