Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-03
Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8.
LOCAb BREVITIES.

Georgia has already had a new bale
of cotton.
Mr.. T. Williams offers this week
for the House of Representatives.
Peace will be. here before cotton
picking time. Now look for things to
go up, cotton too.
Rev. Mr.. Herbert is assisting Mr..
Dantzler IN the protracted meeting in
our Methodist church.
The protracted meeting at our Meth
odist church began on Sunday OF this
week and still continues.
Mrs. Ben Livingston, accompanied
by pretty little Ruth, Of Charleston,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. II. Covar,
in our town.
Senators Tillman and McLaurin and
Congressman Talbert will speak at
Crocketvllle, Hampton county, on
next Thursday, Aug. 4th.
Our regiment, the lst S. c. ", has
been ordered from Chickamauga to
Jacksonville and assigned to the corps
commanded by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
The Augusta Chronicle says: eff the
Spaniards in Santiago believed that
Americans are pigs, wonder what they
thought when they saw Gen. Shafter.'
You can get your money out Of either
of our banks by simply signing a re-
ceipt, and no stamp Is required to be
attached as IN the case of check.
This is as it should be.
Court convened to-day, Wednesday,
Judge Gage presiding. All the circuit
judges are holding court in Bank in
Columbia is the reason why our court
did not open until to-day.
During the past week in Augusta,
Ca, Miss Lillyie Cheatham, youngest
daughter of Col. o. F. Cheatham, was
married to Mr.. Claude Garrett of the
same city.
The express charges on peaches and
other fruits gaid each day from Ridge
Spring alone amount to $3.50 to 1000
dollars. Peaches and plums are going
north by the car load.
At the request of Rev. D. z. Dantzler
we announce that, the annual protract-
ed meeting at Harmony will begin on
next Sunday, Qst Sunday at 4 P. NJ.
There will be two sermons each day,
with dinner in the grove. Rev. G. c.
Herbert will conduct the meeting.
The cotton mills started up early on
Monday morning of this week. They
say two or three bales of cotton have
already been chawed up. They also
say it will take Ice ha.es to fill the
hoppers, and they must be full before
the cloth will begin to run opt.
Mr.. n. G. Gonzales, late editor of the
State, is in Cuba attached to the army
Of Gen. Gomez, the commander IN
cheif of the Cuban forces. In one OF
his letters to his paper he says that
Gen. Gomez looks much like Cen.
Mart Gary, though he. has not so stern
q countenance.
The negro who some weeks since
broke into the +. B. Hart clothing
store has been captured and lodged in
Jail. His name is Ed Holloway. There
seems no doubt but that Mr.. Hart has
the right coon, He had been travelling
around extensively, and pawn ticket
given by Columbia pawn broker was
found in his possession.
A physician in Columbia recently
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Datent flour, and concluded to analyze
a sample to see what it contained. He
found therein IL per cent. of foreign
matter. Use homemade flour, even if
it is little darker. Many of the dis
eases prevalent ale directly traceable
to adulterated food.
DR.. Calhoun, of Texas, is on visit
to his sister, Mrs. S. B. Mays. DR..
Calhoun has not visited his old home
In more than. twenty years. He tells
US that the Texas crops are magnif1-
cent. Cotton will go up towards four
million bales, and corn beyond esti-
mate. The wheat and oat crop, already
gathered, was the best for years.
The county pension board of Edge
field was reorganized on Monday of
this week as follows: H. B. Gallman,
chairman; J. Newton Fair, secretary !;
r. =. Cochran, T. H. Clark, DR.. F. W.
Z. Butler. Township boards of pen
sioners are urgently requested to
forward names of their local boards to
j. Newton Fair, secretary, Edgefield,