Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
| LOCAI2. BREVITIES

LOGAN BREVlTlES.
Don't touch my arml''
Our State Legislature met on
Tuesday of this week.
Pata ,sco Brands will sure make
your things grow.
The Johnston Institute opened
on Jan. 3rd with forty new stu
dents.
Miss Sawyer. of Juhnston, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. L. B. Jones,
III Buucombe.
Bradley's Ammoniated Dissolv-
ed Bone, Stono Acid Phosphate,
for sale by w. W. Adams.
The man who whistles seldom
swears, it is the one who listens
who says the bad,lest words.
Mrs. ". H. Hendrix and Master
Harry after spending sometime in
Edgefeld returned to Charleston
on Saturday last.
We can supply you with blank
mortgages, contracts, liens, etc.
Send us your orders, and we will
give them prompt attention.
German Kainit and Nitrate of
Soda for sale by w. w. Adams.
Married, on Jan. 9Th, 1898, by
Rev. DE-. Dantzler, Mr.. Beaure-
gard Timmons and Miss Josie
Cuthberson. All of Edge6eld.
Confederate teas are now high
and proper functions. 1t is need
less to say that the tea IS made
from "sassafrac" and raspberry
leaves.
Millinery just from Baltimore at
the Misses Aycock.
Baldwin's Ammoniated Dissolv-
ed Bone, Baldwin's Bone Potash,
Baldwin's Acid Phosphate, now
ready for delivery at ". ".
Adams's.
We are sorry to lose so good a
man rs A. V. Morgan he has moved
with his family from Edge6eld to
Alley, Ga. Our sister State profits
at our expense.
WANTED-An agent in every
County to represent q good re:ia-
BILE Fire Insurance Company. duly
licensed. Address A. H. MoNTEITH,
JR., Columbia, S. C.
AS last resort, an entirely new
wrinkle, it is proposed to make at
tendance at school more popular
among the small folk by serving
free lunches. Is a lunch tax to be
added to the already burdensome
school tax?
On Saturday last our town was
shocked at the news that Mrs,
Ella Mays, wife of Col. S. B. Mays,
was dead. This report, we are
glad to say, proved incorrect, aud
this popular anG beloved lady is
now almost out of danger, and
probably on the high road to re-
covery.
A Greenwood man contributes
this story to current small pox
literature. In 1867 his family
lived in Edgefeld District. A
stray cat came to his house, broken
out with pustulos and ID short
while his family took smallpox.
He is sure that the cat brought t
them the disease, as they had no
other opportunity to contract it.
Mr.. J. E. Swearingin, the talent
ed son Of Mrs. Anna Swearingen.
in the mid-term examination in
the South Carolina College was
marked "Highly distinguished in
all of his studies," insIeed of high
ly distinguished in some and dis
linghed in others, as we published
ii last week. The phenomenal
stand Mr.. Swearingen has taken is
all the more remarka bic because
he is totally blind.
A TEACHER WANTED-The Gil
gal school, on the west side OF
Edgefeld county wishes to secure
forthwith Il lady teacher Of expe-
rience and good references. Ap-
ply to w. A STRoM, Chairman
Board Trustees, Self P. O., S. G.
The statistical table in the
minutea of the South Carolina
Baptist Convention shows y total
white membership of 92,593; all
increase during the year Of 1894
by baptism, 7l2 by restoration ;
monies raised for all purposes,
$195,632,27; total value of church
property, 1,O4S,057; number OF
churches, S96; Sunday schools,
667 with 4.67O teachers and officers