Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-14
BREVITIES.

The sweet potato anu pc" 'iop
ought to be goods it?
Mr.. Walter Wise spent last Sunday
in Trenton with the home folks.
Master Wallace Sheppard is attend
ing the Virginia Military Institute.
Mr.. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte,
was in town on Monday of this week.
Mrs. w. F. Dobey, of Aiken, is visit
ing her sister. Mrs. j. A. Zimmerman
Miss Kate Minis, of Augusta, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Richard Tlm-
mons.
The change to cool is seasonable
though we shall have hot weather yet,
no doubt.
DR.. Geo. Wise has returned from the
mountains of North Carolina much
improved in health.
Rev. Geo. P. White will preach at
Horns Creek church on Sunday after
noon next at $50 o'clock.
Miss Ida Sheppard, after a pleasant
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Carrie
Miller, has returned home.
Mr.. Julian E. Hart has returned to
Edeefeld from q two weeks trip to
Glenn Springs and Raleigh, NC.
Judge G. w. Campbell is quite SICK
at his home in our southern suburbs.
The Judge is threatened with pneu-
monia.
Will Edgefeld county be represent
ed in the convention of Cotton Grow
=, ers to meet in Columbia on the goth OF
this month?
Mr.. JIG. Hughes, of Trenton, is to
enter the law department of the South
Carolina College at the fall opening OF
that institution.
Capt. Ras Minis and his daughter,
Miss Eva, of Augusta, are visiting the
family rf Mr.. Richard Timmons on
Columbia Street.
Mrs. Col. Jas. H. Tillman returned
from Jacksonville, Fla, on last sun
day. where she had been on q visit to
husband, Col. Jim.
Mrs. John B. Hill has been confined
to her bed for the past few days with
slight spell of fever, she is, however,
much better at this writing.
Mr.. BuforI Hill, of the Meeting
Street section, has accepted position
with the Edgefeld Cotton Mills and
will move his family here this week.
The Trenton Call has ceased to ex-
ist. 1t had short but creditable CO.
reer. The talented young men con-
nected with it gave good evidence OF
knowing how to run a newspaper.
Miss Julia Anderson, of Spartan
burg, will matriculate at the South
Carolina Co-Educational Institute for
the session just commencing. Miss
Jnlia will board with her sister, Mrs.
w. L. Dunovant.
Mr.. A. c.. Jones will board pupils
for the South Carolina Co-Educational
Institute at reasonable rates. 4t
A scholarship has been left at this
office for some worthy young gentle
man or lady, lad or lassie, who desires
m ATTEND the South Carolina Co-Edu-
cati2ual Institute, and is unable to pay
tuition.
Miss Annie Henry, of Trenton,
whom all Edgetield remember as a
gifted elocutionist, has returned from
q two months sojourn in northern and
eastern cities, having visited Syracuse,
Niagara Falls, and New York City.
The houses for the operatives OF the
Edgefeld Manufacturing Company
are rapidly approaching completion.
Mr.J.J. Bell has the contract. These
houses are much above the average OF
cotton mill houses, both in size and ar
rangement, some of them are two
stories in height.
DR.. Frank Butler offers his Griffin
place for sale, on the high hill over
looking Edgefeld. A nice one horse
farm goes with it. Best water IN
creation. Can see Augusta on clear
days. Just the right distance from the
Institute if you have children 10
school-in fact regular San Souci in
it's environments and surroundings.
Joe Mays, Hord Allen, and Mitch
Wells have made an agreement to go
hunting on Thanksgiving Day in No
vember, to hunt partridges. They will
have only one gun between them, and
the proposition is for the two who dc
not have the gun to spit tobacco juice
on the tails of the birds. this will par
alyze them until the man with the
guns shoots 'em to death-this beats
nnttinn salt ON their tails so Joe