Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, APRIL %, 1897.
ocAh BREVITIES.

to Columbia.
brand Mrs. Fred Parker were in
Edgefield last week.
Miss Ida Ready. of~Johnston, is
visiting friends in town.
Miss Ethel Hart is visiting her
brother, Mr.. J. E. Hart.
Mrs. James D. Fraser, of Augusta
spent last week in town.
Miss Rosa Lake is attending the
Carnival IN Augusta this week.
Piano-tuner Holland is doing much
good work in his line in our town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trib Davis have re-
turned to their home in Greenyille.
A dispensary has been established at
Saluda with Mr.. B. Dean as dispenser
Miss Lizzie Eubanks has flourish
ing school in the Mt. Vernon section.
A little rain on Monday morning,
lust enough to lay the dust, or part
of it.
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Jones, OF
Ridge Spring, visited in Edgedeld last
week.
Miss Lizzie Dobey is in the country
visiting her sister, Mrs. David Tim
norman.
Miss Fannie Tillman, OF Clark's Hill,
is visiting Col. and Mrs. James Il.
Tillman.
The drug store of Messrs. Fox,
Marsh & Co., is almost ready for oc-
cupancy.
Much cotton has been planted in
Edgefield, but it can never come up
unless it rains.
Miss Pauline Strother. of Edgeaeld,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Col
Patrick, of Anderson.
Jeweller Fox is rusticating at Glenn
Springs for ashort while. He is greatly
missed in social circles.
Miss Carrie Sheppard and Mr.. VIM.
Miller, of Collisions, were in Edgefield
last Friday and Saturday.
We now have soda founts galore in
Edgefield, Penn, Fox, Grim, Jackson
and the tale about half told.
The next mission meeting in our
Baptist Church will be held on Sun
day evening of the coming week.
Dlngley bill democrats is the very
latest variety. Shall we catalogue Con-
gressman McLaurin in this class?
Prof. Hartzog, of the Johnston Insti-
Lulc, ucliNcEcu oil t0oICoo DCAOlS OhC
Y. MO. A. last Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mamie Lake, after few days
spent in Edgefield with her sister Mrs.
Robert MINIS, has returned to Au-
gusta.
If there is anybody else in old Edge
field who wants county let MIN speak
out at once, or he will be everlastingly
too late.
Dr.J. II. Burckhalter. of Greenwood,
was marrIed.to Miss Alma Breeden, of
Bennettsville, last week Their future
home will be at Greenwood.
Everybody was delighted, charmed,
completely captivated by w. P. Wide
mans lecture "Hit the Grit" in our
Opera House on Monday night last.
Prof. 7. E. Woodson is IN town to
spend sometime before taking another
school. Prof. Woodson is an A. B.
graduate of the Virginia University.
Bill Arp's lecture on Saturday even
ing was we'll attended and highly ap-
preciated. During his stay in our
town, he was the guest of Pres. A. j.
Norris.
We suppose the pension boards in
the various townships were organized
on tast Saturday, pursuant to notice
in these columns, and that there will
be grand rally of all at Edgefield on
salesday in May.
Col. U. r. Brooks, Clerk of the State
Supreme Court, has announced it as
his intention to take up where Judge
O'Neal left off and complete to 1900
the history of the Bench and Bar of
Sonth Carolina.
The merchants of Aiken have all
agreed to close their stores at Z o'clock
in the afternoon, from the lst of May
to the 1st Of September. This has been
the custom for several years and it
gives the clerks good holiday as it is
not dark until after 8 o'clock. This is
pointer for Edgefield merchants.
The death of Mrs. A. Baron Holmes,
Jr- daughter of the Rev. DR.. Camp
bell, of st. Paurs Church, has caused
heartfelt regret on the part of her
numerous friends who were sincerely
devoted to her because of her lovely
and refined temperament. And out to
Mr.. Holmes goes similar depth of
regret at the great affiiction which has