Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-05-05
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1897.
LOCAL. BREVITIEs.

LOCHl DFLVlIlLS'
Judge Benet will preside at our Au-
gust term of court.
Senator Earle is seriously i'll at his
home in Greenville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews Of Johnston
were in town last week.
Mr. Lucas Walker was in Edgedeld
from Johnston lest week.
Our town sanitary inspector will
soon stsrt on his rounds.
Who is selling whiskey on the sly
in Edgefeld, does anybody knows
Mr.. Jas.T. Bacon whose sickness we
mentioned last week is much better.
Mrs. Mary Sullivan has been quite
sick, but we are glad! to state is muoh
better.
Miss Lula Lake visited her cousin
Mrs. David Strother in the country
last week..
The. .Dobson House is being renoVa-
ted for the reception of the factory
operatives.
Mrs. Sophie Killebrew is visiting
hee parents in Edgefield. Capt aud
Mrs. Jones.
Delightful showers last week for
which farmers are duly grateful but
wantmore.
Mrs. David Zimmerman spent q few
days with her sister Miss Lizzie Do
hey last week..
Tickets are now on sale at the Gap
depot to the Southern Baptist conven-
tion, one fare for the round trip.
The peaches are sll right yet SO far
as our examination goes, but sppies
are badly blighted, and pears are non
est inventus.
Mr.. Luther Bell and w. w. Adams
each received car load Of damaged
corn recently. OF course they prompt.
ly reshipped it.
Solicitor Thurmond is anxious that
his case should be hourd at the Au-
gust term, and we see no reason why
it should not be.
Court is in session at Saluda this
week, Judge Aldrlch presiding, q
number of our lawyers are in attend
ance, In fact nearly all Of them.
DR.. Gwaltney was too unweEl to
teach on last Friday. He has no5 en-
tirely recovered from the attack of
grip, of which he suffered last winter.
Married at the home Of the bride
near Mountain Ccreek church, By Rev.
g. W. Bussey, April 25th, 1897, Mr..
Willie Clcgg and Miss Docla Faulk-
ner.
The Rev. T: n. Leitch is conducting
q meeting in Aiken this week. Ee
breaches In a large tent which has
been set up on Fairfield street near
the passenger depot.
o. Sheppard Esq, went to Saluda
last week in representing Congress-
man Talbert in the Chat1el6 I.ibeTt
election case; Chatfeld didn't set
much comfort in Saluda.
Mrs. M. w. Coleman has been selec-
ted az Editor Of the Carolinian new
paper at Seneca city. II we mistake
not Mrs. Coleman is native Of Edge
Held, or rather Saluda.
The price of cotton advanced sharp
ly during the past week the finest
grades being quoted at Sets. in the
Augusta markets. Low middliug sold
in this market at 71lcts.
Mr.. Arthur Brunson brought his
aIetter" from the Gilgal church and
on last Sunday united with our Ill
lage Baptist church. Arthur is o; the
third generation of Brnnsons who
were Gilgal Baptists.
On Sunday morning last the change
in the weather was almost from sum-
mer to winter and We fear that the
fruit crop is Infused? II not by the
cold certainly by the wind that came
along with it.
Sam Taylor saws he 10 opposed to
outstanding the heather for says
he. "as soon as we make christian out
of one of EN- the Turks taken turn
loose and kill em Same says we COM
mence at the wrong end, first kill the
Turks and then work on the heathen."
The early closing Of stores pro-
gramme in our town goes into effect
this week, indeed it began on Mon
day Of this week. The hour for clos
ing Of all our stores is fixed at Up. m,
except on Saturdays, and on those
days will be open until IL if so desired.
Senator NJ. C. Butler was booked 20
make .; speech to an assembly Of Con-
federute veterans at Parksville on
April 30th, but in some unaccountaple
& II 4 L. Il