Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-17
Edgefield Advertiser
LOCAL BREVTIES.

The popularity of the shirt waist
continues.
The peach and plum trees are now
in full bloom.
Too great an effort to be agreeable
is disagreeable.
Blackbirds are eating up the oat
crop in sections of Sumter county.
Miss Elise Carwile, spent last Sat-
urday at her home in Ridge Spring.
Our sister town of Newberry is to
have water works and electric lights.
Such continuous rains now, make
drougths in the summer almost GER
tainty.
Rev. A. Judson Reamy has accepted
a call to the Baptist church at john
ston.
Augusta is to have a new cotton
mill with capacity of twenty thou
sand spindles.
Rev. Sam Jones is conducting a
stirring revival meeting in Moody's
Tabernacle inlAtlanta.
The New York Sun says: Cleveland
began as an Accident, developed as an
Ego, and ends as Destroyer.
Mrs. Jas. T. nNrts of Elmwood is
visiting her dy~r hter Mrs. Beulah
Harling over n p, ucombe.
Mr.. j. w. Peak ,r popular Racket
man, has secured ;h-n;.; u new
clerk, Mr.. jefferson of Augusta.
Richard Timmons has secured a po-
sition in the cotton-mill which will
soon be in operation In Edgefeld.
Miss Bessie QUITS, the attractive
daughter of Sheriff QUITS, Is now a
student at the Columbia Female Col
lege.
A. T. Davis and rattlesnake Bob
Gardner are the only constables on the
new constabulary, from Edgefeld
county.
Rev. Mr.. Reid will preach at the
Johnston Presbyterian church on next
Sunday morning, and at Edgefield at
night.
Mrs. Mary Sullivan and little Ma
ry-Royal Peak returned last week
from two months visit to Greenwood
ard Anderson.
Plant full crop of corn for the year
1897. The reason is it, is going to. be a
bad year for corn, for every one who
does not make his own.
President Fisher of the Ee
Cotton Mills, has gone to Ne
to purchase the rest of the p
for the factory plant.
Mrs NJ. A. Taylor, who ha
fined to her room for three
gradually improving.
friends are delighted to hear
ing neMs---
Mr.. ..Birkamph of Cha, -, 81.
arrive in Edgefield in few .e -"
take charge Of the new drug store. Mr..
Birkamphis pharmaceutist of expo
rietce and skill.
Something every lady needs, shoul-
der brace, skirt supporter and hose
supporter all in one. Mrs. Woodson
is also agent for fine grade of corsets,
bicycle goods, children's corset-waists
and suspt nders.
The highest compliment paid to the
late legislature was that of the Clin-
ton Gazette. 1t says "they were a
good and brainy set." Well they GER
tainly did set.
Rev. G. w. Bussev is pastor of seven
churches, and breaches five sermons a
Sunday so says the Baptist Courier of
last week. Bro. Bussey san indefati-
gable worker.
r. A. Tompkins, formerly of Edge
field, now at the Port Royal Naval Sta
ton, was one of the ushers at the we'd
ding of Miss Lydie Irby, Of Laurens,
to L. D. Darlington of Savannah, last
week.
The Rev. w. II Hutson has returned
to Greenville, having given up the
pastorate of the Presbyterian church
here. Mr.. Hutson leaves many friends
Z, in Edgefield who will long remember
him.
State Treasurer Zimmerman is at
his home for a few days. When he
returns to Columbia he will carry his
family with him, as that city will be
his home for the next two years.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will meet in Wilmingto N. c., in the
month of May. Delega tes and others
can secure tickets over the Southern
Railway at half rates, that is to say,
one fare for the round trip Mr.. E.
b. Haltiwanger our local agent, will
have such tickets ON sale.
From the official reports, just pub
lished, we gather that the gross sales
at the Edgefield Dispensary for the
year ending December 3lst, 1896.
amounted tos22,7ls.42; the net profits
for the same period were $1,6751O. We
have no fault to find with the gross
sales. but the net figures are peculiar