Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-14
EOcAa BREVITIES.


Col. R. B. Watson of Ridge Spring is
quite i'll.
Miss jamie wardlaw, of Columbia.
is visiting in Edgeield.
&f. w. z. Dobey is almost well
again, we are glad to hear.
Good humor, after all, is the best
lubricator for running life's machinery.
Mr.. Jas. 7. QUITS, Elmwood, S. c.,
has seed wheat for sale.
Mrs. p. p. Blalock has returned from
Spartanburg. Her mother is still very
The slight frosts we have had in this
vicinity are not appreciabie, so far as
damage to vegetation is concerned.
Another dispenser gone wrong
to be about 81 900 short.
Applications of honey are said to
quickly relieve the pain and abort the
attack in erysipelas Of the face.
Miss Lula Mickler, of Greenwood,
was married to j. q. Barr, Of Ridge
Spring, at Williamson on the 9Th inst.
Ii a rooster crows on the ground, it
is sign of rain; if he crows OH the
fence, 1t is Sign OF fair weather.
What sterile-minded son of sap
headed sire, day By day grooms him.
self as fancy foolY All of EdgeIleld.
Miss Lottie Hart, sister of Mr.. Ju-
Ian and Miss Mary Ida Hart, has
come to Edgefield to live and is clerk
ing for Fart C May.
The Rev. Irl B. Hicks, the great
weather prophet as some think, says
Ghe month of December this year will
be one OF the most severe for years.
aAn awdinary man dat keeps a-doIn'
,is bes', said Uncle Eben, Car mo- dan
likely ter go ahaid OBJ er smaht man
dat's lazy"
The Edgefield Hussars propose to
attend the State Fair in November.
See notice of Capt. Brnnson In anoth-
er column.
Silver men use buttermilk soap ex-
clusiyeily, because it is the right color
and it floats on q wave of high-tide
popularity.
Little Ethel Lanham, who has teen
so sick for several weeks, is much i'm
proved, and we hope will soon be well
again.
During the past week the women of
Edgefield have sent generous contri-
buttons of clething and bedding to the
Maxwell 0rphanage at Greenwood.
1Ir. Jackson, the green grocer, had
cabbage on Saturday that weighed
nineteen pounds, enough for full
meal at a boarding house.
This is very delightful weather we
er to call it Indian summer or not
perhaps Wen have to ask the Indians.
We are now paying 131a cents BUSH
ei for cocton seed.
l.. G. Bell,
Z. j. Norris,
n. A. Taylor.
We hear of good many cows in
this vicinity dying with what as called
bloody murrain. Capt. 81. B. Gallman
has lost four, SO we have been Inform
ed.
H. J. Haynswerth, Esq, a prominent |
lawyer Of Greenville, was in town on
Monday and Tuesday of this week in !
connection important legal mat
tiers.
S. McGowan Simkins, Esq, and
Messrs. Sloan s. Green Attorneys of
. Columbia, are engaged this week In
some very important legal matters be-
fore Judge Roath.
The annual contest of the Calhoun
Literary Society, of Clemson College,
will take place on October 23rd. Edge
field Is represented in this contest by
J.. "A. Werts and B. r. Tillman, Jr.
Jno. II. Mixson of Barnwell county
soyys annually 100 acres in rye. 1t is
generally supposed that rye makes
poor yield of grain, but Mr.. Mixson
averages Is bushels to the acre.
According to Weather Observer
I4oag 1896 is 13 inches short on water,
and we will probably get it this fall
and winter. We have had less rain
this year than for three years past.
@Here, waiter!" roared the long
whiskered customer, pushing the plate
from him. "Take this punkin pie away
and bring me a glass o. milk. Darn
silver man who amt true to his col
ors"
The Southern Cultiyator now comes
twice month instead Of once, and has
been greatly improved. Any of our
subscribers can get this old reliable
in connection with the ADVERTISER
both one year for 1925.
A rattlesnake was killed under a
barn in Wilkes county, Ca, that weigh
ed SO pounds, was feet long, And as
large around as mans thigh. 1t had
only Gwo rattles, as the rest had fallen
off from old age.
Our county Dispensary sold whiskey
the past week to the amount of eight
hundred and fifteen dollars, and it
wasn't COOK week for the business
either, as most of the Choty boys spent
the week rusticating in Augusta.
Yon can never tell if a joke is good
or not when women laughs at it, for
women count laughing at jokes as a
part of their duty, the same as attend
ing church, and sending flowers to
funerals.
Women constitute two-thirds of all
the church members in the United
States, but only lib of all the crimi-
nails. Men make up l2-l3 of the crimi-