Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-01
LOcAZ2 BREVITIES.
Cotton is opening rapidly.

Monday, Sept. 18th.
Mrs. Col. Geo. B. Lake, we regret to
learn, is i'll with fever.
Mrs. T. B. Lanham is visiting her
mother in the country.
Mrs. Manly Timmons is visiting her
parents at Winter Seat.
Red Messena Orange at the "Luray
Fountain of Youth"
Mr.. r. L. Fox has returned from
New York and the springs.
Mr.. Sam Timmons, Of Augusta, spent
a day in Edgefield last week.
Miss Zaida Whitman, of Charleston,
is visiting Mrs. w. J. McKerall.
Misses Mary Lou and Minnie Lam
ham are visiting Mrs. Robert Parks.
Miss Marie Abney is spending few
days in the country with Mrs. Julia
Talbert.
DR.. Geo. Sharpton will return to
Atlanta soon to pursue the study Of
dentistry.
Mr.. Jas. E. Hart, manager OF E. E.
Hart's dry goods emporium, is back
from New York.
"vigorone" at the "Luray," as IT'S
name indicates, invigorates as we'll as
delights the palate.
Walter Scott says: Tears are soft
ening showers which cause the seed OF
heaven to spring in the human heart"
DR.. L. r. Gwaltney will leave Edge
field On the sixth of September to visit
his children in Mississippi and Geor-
gia.
Messrs. Oscar Burnett and j. Foster
Cheatham each had bale of cotton
ginned at the Oil Mill on last Satur-
day.
The checks for Edgeield county pen
sioners that have not already been
given out, are in the hands Of Clerk
Hill.
A telephone line is being putup be-
tween Johnston and Saluda G. Fl. This
will give a connection to Edgefield
and Augusta.
Chocolate Cream is speciality at
the "Luray," refreshing, healthy.
pleasant and the most delightful of all
to most tastes.
Misses Mamie and Sophie Gwaltney
will leave Edgefeld for Rome, Ga, on
Monday of next week, where they viii
spend the winter. -
Miss Cell Richards has returned
from the country and will teach q
small school in our town during the
fall and winter months.
The rattlesnake gives warning be-
fore he strikes; the slanderer strikes
before he S;ves warning; the snake,
therefore, is the best of the two.
a series of services began in our VIII
lage Methodist church on Monday OF
this week. Mr. Dantzler will be as
sisted by Mr.. Brabham, Of Ninety Six.
Married on the Goth of August, 1897,
by the Rev. j. P. Meallng, Mr.. Thos. l..
McKie, of Aiken county, and Miss
Jennie P. Reese, of Edgeield county
Mark Twain says: "If you pick up a
starving dog and make him prosper
Gus he will not bite you. This is the
principal difference between dog
and man."
Gov. Ellerbe has appointed Mr.. j. B.
Haltiwanger commissioner ION the
part of Edgefeld county to adjust the
past indebtedness between Edgeheld
and Greenwood counties.
There was preaching in both the
PRESBYTERIAN and Methodist churches
on last Sunday. There was no service
in the Baptist church, DR.. GwaltneS
being in attendance on the union
meeting at Republican.
Marion Dorm, of Sumter county, has
been appointed by Gov. Ellerbe as
delegate from the Seventh Congress
sional district to the National Road
Congress to meet in Nashville on Sept.
10th, 18th and 18th. Mr.. Dorm is an
Edgefeld Dorm.
The following delegates from the
Edgefield Baptist Church attended the
union meeting at Republican Church
on last Saturday snd Sunday: w. E.
Dobey, A. 8. Tompkins, Prof. I. E
woodson, DR.. L. R. Gwaltney and T
B. Lanham.
W.F. Clayton, county attorney for
Florence county, has decided that un-
der the law all magistrates and con-
stables are paid salary, and under nc
circumstances are entitled to costs IN
criminal cases. This is a pointer to
Edgefeld magistrates and constable;
and grand juries, etc.
The cotton ginnery at the Edgefelt
Oil Mill commenced operation on las
Saturday, Aug. 2Sth, ginning ten Oh