Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-05-06


Baptist Sunday-school will run a pic
mic excursion to Edgefield. The fare
will be 50c. for grown people and 25c.
for children under II years of age for
the round trip. We all have pleasant
remem brances of the picnic held in
Edgefield several years ago and think
the choice wise one for this years
eyenG.-Aiken Journal.
Hope Doesn't Enrich.
You can't get rich or hope; you
may hope all day that someone Will
come along and saw your wood, but
that doesn't keep the fire going. The
way to get rich is to save money and
the way to save money is TO trade at
Ramsey & BANDS.
Blessings 20 Humanity.
April showers are blessing to the
honest yeomanry, because they insure
well-filled granaries with the good
things of the soil, but these are small
compared with the blessings that
Ramsey & Bland will bestow Upon
their thousands of patrons who will
avail themselves of the low prices they
are offering ON Wagons, Buggies, Har-
ness, Furniture, Collins and Caskets.
FIRST a Joke, But Now in Ear
nest.
Lam informed that a man who
ignores the Primary, and goes into
the general election will be rid
died. 1 expect to go into theGeneral
election if it kills the Oldest man
in Purgatory, and in case l am
elected 10 Congress, | will not be
the only Jack Ass ever sent there.
w. POU JONES.
May 3, '9e.
Mr.. Geo. F. Mirs, electrician. who
did the work of putting in Col. Folks
burglar alarm haa given US the follow
ing particulars of the arrangement
and uses of same:
.sIf at any time during the night, a
person should enter any of the five
buildings, which are connected with
the central station, either by door or
window, an alarm is sounded and the
No. of the building entered will be re-
corded by an instrument provided for
that purpose. The duty of another
instrument is to keep the bell ringing
even il the wires should be cut. The
central station board is also fitted with
a switch by which the system can be
put on at night and cut off during the
day allowing free use of the buildings
without annoyance. All ef the four
instruments are finished off in best
manner in polished oak mounted on
board to match. The system has been
tested in every way and
has proven entirely satisfactory. The
central Stain is of course placed in
location in the dwelling"
Deatll of DIR. StrOther.
We clip the following account
of the death of DR.. w. A. Strother
from The Atlanta Constitution:
Albany is i'll mourning today
over the death of one uf its best
beloved citizens, DIR. William
a. Stro,her, whose death occurred
This morning at 1:l5 o'clock, .af-
ter short illness with pneumonia.
DR.. Strother had been u resident
Of Albany about twenty years. Hs
was born in Edgefield, S. C., and
was ffty-six years of age. lie was
a confederate veteran, having en-
tered the war as IL lieutenant, but
being shortly afterwards made
surgeon, served in That capacity :
lhe remainder of the war.
At 4 o'clock this evening, the
hour of his funeral, every business
house in the city was closed liff
espect >aa44ss-menofy He had
o1iif up large practice and ac-
,umulated a comfortable property,
being a. director in several of the
eading enterprises of the city.
DR.. Strother was universally ad-
nired and his death is felt as a
PERSONAL loss by hundreds. He
was laid to rest this evening with
honors, in the presence