Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
Edgefiieid Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IA, 1897.
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

Beautiful Easter Cards at Fox's.
Next Sunday is Easter Sunday.
Look out for the Easter bonnets.
Mr.. Barnwell Jones was in Colum-
bia last week.
Dr.F. R. Timmons paid visit to
Augusta this week.
Greatest nights fun you ever had.
Bill Arp, on the evening Of the 23rd
inst.
Mr.. 81. G. Watson is now running
livey end feed stable at the old Gray,
stable.
Mrs. Hassie Williams, and Miss
Sarah Kemp are visiting Mrs. Ida
Sheppard.
The Southern Baptist Convention
takes place at Wilmington, N. c. May
9th to 14th.
The Barnweil Sentinel speaks of
the recent rains as % delightful
suffici ency."
The Misses Broom gave pleasant
tableau party at their home on Tues
day evening.
The floods in the Mississippi river
destroyed property to the value of
$lOOOO0OOO.
March came in and went out not
like lamb or q lion, but like whale
: in water from snout to tail.
The Savannah river is higher now
than it has been for several years,
and all che adjacent low lands are un-
der water.
1t is getting time of the year for
mad dog. Shoot all the dogs supposed
to be mad and you will be sure to get
the right ones.
Augusta has been selected as the
place where the Georgia Baptist con-
yention of this state will hold its next
annual meeting.
If You should want lime. cement,
lsthes, plaster, ready roofing or any
thing of that kind. place your orders
with. W.. j. Rutherford Co. of Au-
gusta. Ga.
Detective Holland well known, but
not known well in these parts is want
ed in Augusta. Col. Jim. Tillman, we
believe, was the first to get on Hol-
lands trial in Edgefeld.
Jim. Pa rks says in his paper, the
Orangeburg Patriot, at is the time
Of year when many people think
more about their Easter bonnets than
their crowns of glory"
On April lst it became unlawful to
kill any kind of song birds. Land
owners should strictly enforce the law
in regard to trespassing by prose-
cutting violators of the game law.
Buggy buyers will do the proper
thing and the wise thing to see the
handsome line of these goods in the
sorte of Ramsey 6 Jones before buy
ing. Be sure to do this. and or word
for it you will never regret it.
Rev. j. c. Abney, of Columbia, ma
tive by the way of Edgefield, is trying
to build two Methodist churches at
CRANKY and Richland cotton mills in
Columbia, and is meeting with marked
success.
The roads are so bad that it is i'm
possible for ladies in the country to
come 20 town except for the sole pur-
pose of buying spring hat or bon
net. For such q purpose, IN such q
cause, it is said they would swim the
Zuyder Sea.
Under new law county Supervisors
have to make and publish quarterly
reports. Some of the Supervisors are
already publishing their first quarters
report to wit; for the months January
February, and March. Whether Edge
field comes under the provisions Of
this new law we do not know.
Fodder is selling at $1.25 in this
market nearly double the price Of
former years. In the language of
friend Horde Allen, we would re-
mark that we do not want any higher
tariff on "roughness." Congressman
McLaurin will please take notice.
Is it exactly the proper thing for
Senator Gaines and Representative
yeldell to hold on to their respective
offices now since they have moved out
of the county? We ask for infor-
nation only, and no doubt Senator
Gaines and Representative Yeldell
will have no objection to giving the
people their views.
The Fidelity Deposit company, of
Maryland does not act as executor,
administrator, guardian, receiver or
trustee, but furnishes security for
those occupying such positions, and
its bonds are accepted by Judges of
state courts and of the circuit and dis
trict courts of the United States. For
further information call on w. F.
Rost b, Advertiser Building.
The Cosmopolitan Ma gazine is the
cheapest monthly of its high class
published in the world, while at the
same time it is one of the most in