Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-10
LoCALa BREVITIES.

Cotton is now quoted at OF (noth-
ing and half.
November 10th and no frost yet,
this breaks the record on frost.
Miss Virginia Addison has been
on g visit to Anderson, s. Z.
Mrs. D. q. Dantzler is rapidly
improving from severe case OF
fever.
Mr.. Luther White, of Johnston,
led the Y. NJ. C. A. meeting on last
Sunday afternoon.
Greenwood County's first Court
of General Sessions will convene
Monday, 18th inst.
More rooms have been engaged
at the Aiken hotels for the coming
season than ever before.
Many people do not know the
derivation of the word "fad."
FAD means for day.
Ten barrels. of fish on Saturdays
for sale in our public park is now
the regular programme.
Messrs. Folk & Folk are in their
law office again, and it looks as
new and bright as before the fire.
Buggies are now 80 cheap that
you can actually buy a brand new
one cheaper than you second
hand one.
President Hartzog says three
hundred students has been enrolled
in Clemson College thus far ID
the session.
Store your cotton with Mr.. NJ.
A. Taylor, at the fre-proof ware
house, 25 cents mouth is all 1t
will cost you.
Taxes are high this year-hlgher
than aver before. The neIt legis-
lature should be called upon to
explain why this ls thus.
An Irishman tells US of a fight in
which there was only one whole
nose left in the crowd, "and that
belonged to the teakettle.
Another restaurant Oh the corner
next to Giles Buffers slnithy, own
ed aud conducted by Messrs. Grim
& Clark. Mr.. Clark is from John
stor.
A French physician has proved
to certainty that the contagious
period in whooping cough comes
previous to the appearance of the
"whoop."
NJ. P. Wells, ESQ.,, went to Au-
gusta and returned on Thursday
last, all in one day on his bicycle.
He took his shot bag of money
with him.
Two more Mormon preachers
have been sent into this State.
There are over so of them at work
throughout the South, two women
preachers Included.
All men have times when they
would like to be better than they
are, and all women have times
when they would like to be wick
eder than they ara.
A girl ran away from home, and
the father ad sertises her as Jennie,
aged 1S; dressed in a brown straw
hat" What fix she'll be in if
that hat blows off!
There is considerable kicking on
account of high taxes. 1t is hard
to pay high or low taxes out of FIVE
cents cotton, and We do no; blame
the people for kicking.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hammond, wild
ow of the late Maj. Andrew Ham
mond, has returned to her home
after long visit to her daughter.
Mrs. J. H. P. Roper, of the Elm
wood section.
The Jackson cotton, which has
been recently creating such furor
in Georgia, is identically the same
cotton that, as improved by our
fellow townsman N. L. Brunson
from the old Dixon variety, was
so popular few years ago.
Miss Efie Allen has returned
from the swell wedding of DR.. w.
NJ. Boatwrlght and MISS Mamie
Perry, which was celebrated at
Batesburg last week. The Rev.
A.C. Wilkins assisted by Rev. Jno.
Lake, officiated at the marriage
ceremony.
The following persons from
Edgefeld will attend the fair IN
Columbia this week: Mr.. and Mrs.
Bragg Jones, Mr.. Milton Jones,
Miss Minnie Broom, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. J. Norris, Mrs. w. F. Roath,
Mrs. H. A. Smith, Mrs. Lewis Jones
and Capt. J. C. Brooks.