Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-22
BREVITIES.
Now for pease, pnt 'em in!

Mr.. Foster Cheatham had cotton
blooms on the 18th Of June.
Many of the wells in our community
are very low in their supply of water.
Mrs. Carrie Miller is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Ida Sheppard, in our
town..
Prof. Bailey will spend few weeks
rusticating in the mountains Of North
Carolina.
Abundant and glorious rains have
fallen in this community within the
past few days.
Private Bussey, of the Abbeville
Company, is at his home, Parksville, on
a recruiting expedition.
The County Board of Control of
Edgefeld will hold their monthly
meetings in the Grand Jury room.
Mr.. D. r. Durisoe has removed his
office to the store room adjacent to and
In rear of the Bank of Edgefield.
Judge Gage will preside at our Au-
gust term of court. This will be the
judges first appearance at Edgefeld.
&c ro hoe nn1V thrpl
counties, the same number that Edge
field had before she was dismembered
and dismantled.
Maj. w. T. Gary, q candidate for
Judge of the Augusta (Ga.) Circuit
Court. We hope he may win and SO
does all Edgefeld.
We are requested to announce that
the Rev. P. P. Blalock will preach at
Berea Baptist church on the lst Sun
day In July at II A. NJ.
The report is current on our streets
that the Southern Railway has bought
the Cumberland Gap and will at once
finish up this line to Greenwood.
The crop of candidates is growing
slowly but steadily. If all men would
be all the time as sweet-mOuthed and
tender-hearted as are candidates, what
a heaveu-on-ea -earth there would be.
Since the failure of Letter, the great
wheat manipulation of Chicago, flour
has receded to its almost normal fig
ures, and perhaps the new crop OF
wheat just now coming in has much
to do with it.
"We like Mr.. Bussey's letter in the
ADVERTISER of last week so much
This is what our subscribers tell US
and write US. We hope to- hear soon
again from the boys in camp through
: Chaplain Bussey.
In the recent meeting of the trustees
of Furman University Mr.. L. F. Dorm,
of Parksville, was present and took a
conspicuous part in the proceedings.
Mr.. Dorm has for many years held this
important position, and is always a
friend to education and aworker in
the cause.
You can get the ADVERTISER and
Frank Leslie's Weekly, both one year
for $3.50, or both six months for $l.75
Leslie's has all the war pictures-bat-
tleships and battles, generals and
horses, and a few privates now and
then.
Jones was dead, and bulletin stat
ing that Geo. S. Jones, Esq, had de-
parted this life for heaven at II NJ,
was posted by sympathetic family on
the door. A passing wag, full of mis-
chief, placed the following notice on a
telegraph sheet under that of the
family: oo,
aJones not arrived. Excitement in
tense"
The postolfice department asks the
press to publish this notice: "Rela-
tives and friends of soldiers in the
field, in addressing letters to them.
should mark plainly the company and
regiment to which they belong, as by
doing so the distribution of the mail
will pe facilitated. This applies to
both the regular troops and the mllitio
volunteers"
Contractor J. J. Bell is just now en-
gagged in building a number of flat
cars, or gondolas, for the Cumberland
Gap road. This work is being done at
the terminus of the road in the flat
lust below Mr.. D. r. Durisoe's resi-
dence on Main street. BY the way, a
passenger ticket office is'scon to be
erected at this place, whence the trains
will make their departures and arrivals
instead of at and from the freight de-
pot as is at present the rule.
Our young friend w. G. QUITS was
at home for few days last week
Wiley is at present a conductor on the
railroad that runs from Savannah, Ga.
to Montgomery, Ala, with headquar-
ters at the first named city. In few
years We expect to see him go higher
There is no better place in which tc
begin career than railroad employ
if you have the stamina, the push.
and the ability. Friend Wiley has all
these and of course that settles it.
We are glad to hear that Uncle Billy
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