Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

Miss Curran Hartley has gone
to Greenville to visit friends.
Jim Minors piece is in soak and
will appear next week.
Watermelons-good ones-are
no longer with us-and how we
miss them!
Misses Kate and Josie Sheppard
are convalescing from a severe at.
tack of fever.
Miss Walker, of Savannah. is
visiting her sister Mrs. James Oan-
telou.
Dr.. Gwaltney is conducting a
series of meetings at Rocky Creek
church this week.
Court is in session, Judge Watts
presiding, and will not last longer
than this week.
Read Fox's new advertisement
i'm which he makes wonderful re-
ductions in prices.
For several days of the heated
term last week there wasn't pound
Of .ce in town.
M,ss Sonbie Abney. who has
been very ill, is SO much better
that her friends are greatly re-
lieved.
Miss Bertha Whatley, charm
ing young lady from Parksvllle,
has been visiting the family of Mr..
Giles D. Minis.
Mr.. Campbell has some beans
that are two feet long. Such mon-
ster beans were never before seen
in these parts.
Two bales of new cotton were
carried into Columbia last week,
beating the record of any previous
year two weeks.
The Rev. Mr.. Hudson will preach
at Highview at II a. M, on every
second Sunday, instead of at Ro-
pers. He will continue his night
services at Edgefield on that Sun
day as heretofore.
We are requested to announce
that the ladies of Rehoboth Will
servo ice cream and lemonade on
Friday the 7th of August at Reho-
both for the benefit of the church.
They will also serve a barbecue
and picnic dinner at the same
time.
Picnic at Berea Baptist church,
for the benefit of the church, On
Wednesday Aug. IL. The charges
will be, tor ladies, 25cts, gentle.
men 35cts. CANDIDATES are expected
to be present on the occasion and
will make speeches. Everybody
invited.
The Edge6eld cotton factory is
fast approaching completion. The
brick work is all done, except The
monitor roof, which is to be put on
a five foot story and will somewhat
resemble the roof OF sleeping car,
this roof being especially designed
to secure perfect ventilat ON. aud
w,thal 1t makes handsome finish.
The Edgefield factory will not be
the largest in the world, but 1T will
be one of the best constructed,
neatest, and the best equipped, the
very latest wrinkle in everything.
Since the change of manage
Sment of our railroad travel on it
has increased twofold. The facili-
ties for getting to Columbia, Au-
gusta, in fact, the whole outside
world, are better than ever before
within the memory of the Oldest
inhabitant, A Y. has been put in
at Trenton by which the Cumber-
land Gap and Southern Railway
trains are made to stand side by
side for the transfer of passengers
and baggage. Our little road hasn't
got long name fol nothing. All
haill Carolina, Cumberland Gap,
and Chicago!
Death of Mrs. w. L. Werner.
On Wednesday last Auditor ].
B. Haltiwanger was summoned to
Wallaha by telegram announc-
ing the sad intelligence of the
death of his sister, Mrs. W. L. Vor-
nor. The Walhalla Courier gives
the following account of this sad
event:
"The friends and acquaintances
of Mrs. w. L. Werner were greatly
shocked on Wednesday morning
to learn of her death, which occur
red atths Grady Hospital, in At
lanta. Ca, that morning at half
past five O'clock, the result of
delicate and dangerous surgical
operation performed the Monday
before.
Mrs. Werner was in her thirty
second year, having been born
June 5th, 1865. She was most ex-
cellent lady, and numbered her
friends by the score. Modest, re-
fined, cultured and courteous, she
shed a gentle and elevating in
hueuce in every circle in which
she moved.
Several years of her life were
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