Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-10
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1897.
LOCAL. BREVITIES.


Tax for silence aud for speech
Tax for all that's in their reach!
Tax to walk, and. tax to ride
Tax and tax on every side!
Tax to toll, and tax to think;
Tax to eat, and tax to drink;
How tbey hew us with their axes!
Death alone relieves from taxes!"
The man dimes well who dimes out OF
debt.
Three comets are booked to appear
in the heavens this year.
When a little man is lifted up every
body finds out that he is little.
Mrs. Lynch of Johnston, is visiting
her daughter Mrs. Kate Lynch.
Learning is not education, Half Of
all the fools in the world are educa-
ted.
The prospects are now favorable for
good fruit crop, in spite of the cold
snap.
Mr.. George Lewis had two thousand
dollars insurance in the Knights OF
Honor.
Miss Mamie Brown of Anderson is
visiting her sister Mrs. j. B. Haiti
wanger.
Presiding elder Dickson will preach
at Edgefeld on March Goth, at Har-
mony the day after.
More rain fell during the month OF
Feb. 1897 than in any one month 1or
the last four years.
Gov. Ellerbe has appointed John
Corley, late of Lickskillet this county,
liquor constable at Langley.
Major Mckinley, the advance agent
of prosperity, has arrived but he has
asyet shown up TO samples.
The mercantile business OF Geo. L.
Reid at Chappells has been closed up
by the Sheriff under mortgage.
Leesville has new paper called
The Leesville Lancet, To the making
of many papers there is no end.
The love of money is the root of all
evil; but money is the root also OF
nearly all good and great enterprises.
Miss Madge Graydon of Abbeville,
is spending few days in Edgefeld,
at the home of her uncle, Mr.. Arthur
Tompkins.
Miss Camilla Parker who is now
student of the Greenville Female Col
lege, has been quite sick, but has near
iy recovered.
After days of mild spring weather
another cold snap on Monday of this
week. No ice, however, consequently
DO damage done.
Miss Rettie Sheppard is teaching at
Liberty Hill large and flourishlng
school. Miss Hettie will be very much
missed in Edgefeld.
lrl., Kev. Mr. Reid Of Anderson, VIII
preach in our village Presbyterian
church on the third Sunday in March
at IL o'clock, in the a. m.
DR.. w. A. Sanders Of Ninty-Six is
candidate for Supervisor of Registra-
tion fer Greenwood county. Jack Carr
is a candidate for Auditor.
In this issue of the ADVERTISER
Mr.. VIII. Briggs applies for letters OF
administration of the estate OF the late
Jefferson Briggs deceased.
WI. Bryan. late candidate for the
presidency, has been invited to ad-
dress the students of Newberry Col
lege at their June commencement.
The flea is the politician of the in
sect world. He is ever itching for
place, creates no end of disturbances,
and you never know where to find
him.
Mr.. R. L. Fox has returned from
New York and Baltimore whittier he
went to make purchases for his jewel
nv establishment and new drug en-
-porium.
Miss Kate Youngblood, the charm
ing daughter of Capt. L. W. Yonng-
blood of Batesburg, was married on
the End inst. to DR.. 8. E. Sloan OF
Newberry.
Senator d.. Griffith, of Lexington,
won the watch offered by the Colum.
bia State to the most popular member
of the General Assembly. He received
46,1s2 votes.
Ginse Wood has promised to bring
up some shad from the river as soon
as the holes in the Martintown road
become passable. That is to say if
they ever do.
DIR. Gwaltney preached most in
structive and convincing sermon in
our Baptist church on last Sunday on
the subject of missions. The regular
monthly missionary services were
held at night.
MFG. S. Yeldell of the Liberty Hill
section was down last week on visit
to his aunt, Mrs. Ida Sheppard. If ru-
NOR speaks true he will soon sport
orange blossoms. We trust he will
send the ADVERTISER man slice OF
cake, and also an orange if they are
really from Florida.
An exchange says that fellow in
"a near by town, who couldn't spare 81