Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-16

state.
Spain has purchased Of Chill bat
tleship by the name Of O'Higgins. 1t
strikes us that she must be an Irish
man.
Plant just half as much cotton as
you had intended to plant and you
will hit it just right, on account OF
the war you know.
Melons were grown by the Greeks
and Romans, and were carried to
America by Columbus. The water
melon is native Of Africa.
1t is reported that the Carolina
Midland road will be completed to
Batesburg and the cars running in
thirty days, more or less.
The books Of registration will be
open at Edgefield on Salesdays and
on Tuesdays and Wednesday thereaf-
ter, c. NJ. WILLIAMS, Chairman.
Good Friday will come this year on
April 9th, which will be entirely too
late for the planting of beans, squash
es &C., as everybody in thie county
will have planted by that time.
The Advertiser and Confederate
Veteran will be sent one year for
$500; Advertiser and Cosmopoli-
tan for S2.40; Advertiser and At
lanta Constitution for $500.
The blue birds that entirely disap-
peared after the severe freezes Of 1895
have come back to US. Mr.. Joe Mays
says they are plentiful again in his
neighborhood, and others make SIM
liar report.
Quite large number of our farmers
will use cultivators this year, and
have already used cotton stalk chop
pers, we mean the kinds you ride on
and smoke your pipe in peace while
the machine and the mule do the rest.
The second Quarterly Conference Of
Edgef1eld Circuit for 1898, will meet
at Harmony II a. M, March 10th.
Preaching by Presiding Elder Dick
son Saturday morning, and Sunday
afternoon following at p. m.
Col. Robertson, colored, of Charles
ton has rendered his regiment, all col
ored, for the Cuban war. The colored
folks in Edgefeld are deeply inter
ested in this matter and talk q great
deal about it, but as yet we have not
heard one single individual Of that
race express the intention or even the
remotest desire to be in the fracas.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
for the State meets at Batesburg on
the 30-3lst March and the first of
April prox. The following delegates
have been elected from the Edgefeld
B. Y. P. US: Capt. Jno R. Tompkins,
n. Milton Jones, DR.. L. r. Gwaltney,
Misses Hettie Sheppard, Louise Gibson,
LIME MINIS, Gertie Strom and Effle
Allen. And they are all going too;
the Batesburg Baptists might as we'll
make the pies.
WANTED-Upright and faithful
gentlemen and ladies to travel for
responsible, established house in
Charleston. Monthly $500 and
expenses. Position steady. Re-
ference. Enclose self-addressed
stamped envelope. The DOMINION
COMPANY, Dept. K, Chicago.
The following persons or their
heirs of, or late of, Edgetield county,
are entitled to small dividends on pol
lcies held in the defunct Piedmont
and Arlington Life Insurance Compa-
ny Of Richmond, Va, to wit: Mrs.
Susan NJ. Brunson, A. F. Broadwater,
Jackson Covar, l.. Broadus. We shall
be glad to put parties interested in
communication with the special COM
missioner through whom they will
get their checks for dividends due.
Apply at this office.
The annual statement OF the Far
mers Bank Of Edgefield is published
in this issue Of the ADVERTISER. The
showing is very creditable one in
deed. Eight per cent dividends have
been declared, payable on demand at
the cashiers counter; the sum Of two
thousand dollars, in round numbers,
nave been added to the surplus fund,
and the deposits are nearly fifty per
cent greater than the capital stock,
while the undivided profits are more
than eight thousand dollars.
Fertilizers Fertilizers!
First class Ammoniated Goods
High Grade Acid Phosphate
CRANKY and Patapsco Brands. Buy
these old true and tried brands
Can deliver in car lote at any de-
pot in the county.
E. J. NORRIS,
Agent Patapsco Guano Co. ane
Columbis Phos. Go.