Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-05-26
LOCAL. BREVITIES.
Watermelons are blooming.

p'aOSs
Mrs. Robert Covar is spending few
days with relatives and friends at
Trenton.
The souvenir edition of the Gleen-
wood Journal is worthy of all COM
mendation.
Edwin F. Strother. Esq, will act for
Solicitor Thurmond at the Lexington
court next week.
Queen Victoria has worn the same
style of bonnet-but not the same bon
net-for twenty-five years.
DR.. Manly Timmons will be absent
from his dental parlors for few days
taking a little needed recreation.
Less crab grass has made its appear
ance in the crops this year than for
many years, SO old farmers tell US.
Misses Sallie Wyman, of Aiken,
daughter of DR.. Wyman, is on visit
to the Misses Lake, on Columbia street.
The oat crop will not be magnifi-
cent one, failing to come up to its early
promise. Wheat is something better.
Prof. Nichols will be in Edgefield
only one week longer, and all those
who desire to take his treatment
should do SO at once.
Use whitewash freely on your fences
and out-buildings, indeed little used
about your dwelling will be all the
better and may save doctors bill.
ChildreD's Day in the Methodist
Church on last Sunday was great
success. We don't mean this as a mere
compliment-it is the literal truth.
Electrician Geo. F. Minis spent last
Sunday at home. He is engaged at
present in putting up the telephone
line from Augusta to Johnston and
Edgefleld.
Schools and academies that desire to
publish programmes or catalogues, or
anything in that line, would do well
to see the Advertiser Job Office prices
and samples.
An educated Indian who recently
spent half an hour reading the epi-
taphs in a cemetery, remarked: 81
guess the only good white man is a
dead white man,
AGENTS WAN-ED-Male or female,
: in every county. Business respectable.
Compensation good. No trouble to
make sone money. Address CHRoNI-
GLE, Augusta, Ga, for particulars.
Farmers generally throughout Edge
field county are well up with their
crops, unfortunately, however, the
crops are not,up with them, being two
weeks late; especially is this true of
cotton IN the clay lands.
Ma --ied, at Edgefield on Thursday,
May Goth, at the residence of the
brides mother, by the Rev. j. S. Jor.
dan, Mr.. w. j. Miller, of Callison, to
Miss Carrie Sheppard, daughter Of the
late DR.. w. Scott Sheppard.
We would be glad if the Greenwood
gentlemen" would say something out
loud; the pressure is getting heavy.
Say something, gentlemen; either that
you will, or that you will not. There
is nothing unfair about such request
as This.
Rev. j. S. Jordan, of Phoenix, Abbe-
vile county, was in our town on last
Thursday and Friday, having officiated
at the Miller-Sheppard marriage. Mr..
Jordan is an intellectual and cultured
gentleman and of scholarly attain
ments.
The new church building at Noun
tain Creek, the Mountain Greek Bap-
tist Church, will be dedicated on next
Sunday, the dedication sermon to be
preached by DR.. Gwaltney. A number
of our River Jordan Baptists will at
fond thaco caryicec
Capt. J, P. DeLaughter, of the
Sweetwater Light Dragons, Ham
burg, has Deen elected Colonel of the
2nd Regiment of Cavalry. Col. De-
Laughter has had quite brilliant
military career, having risen from Or
derly sergeant to colonel within a
short period.
Sweet little Meg came into her Sun
day-school class one morning, her
eyes filled with tears, and looking up
into her teachers face, said: 'Our
dogs dead, and guess the angels were
scared when they saw him coming up
The path, for he's awfully cross to
strangers.
Mr.. Horde Allen has rented the
Fleming house in Buncombe and will
remove thither this week with his sis
ters and brother-three sisters and one
brother. Our people will heartily well
come them. Horde Allen in an exem-
plary young man in word and deed.
Miss Enmie Carpenter, daughter Of
Mr.. John NJ. and Mrs. Frances Car
penter, died in Augusta on Friday
last, May 2lst, and was buried at Lang