Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-25
LOCAL3 BREVITIES.

Col. Geo. 3. Lake, CT johnston, was
in town on Monday of this week.
Mr.. D. B. Hollingsworth has pur-
chased new steam travelling thresher
Walker Norris went to Columbia on
Monday to volunteer for the Cuban
wal.
We regret to hear of the sickness of
Rev. John Lake of the Johnston In
sUitute.
Johnnie Davis has been made nom
commissioned officer of his company,
the Johnson Rifles.
There are men living to-day, and in
Edgefeld county, who had rather be
right than be trial justices.
Mr.. Geo. P. Cobb, popular mer-
chant of Johnston, was in town on
Tuesday of this week.
We have not yet announced the
name of the individual who will be our
next school commissioner, but watch
these columns!
The sympathies of our entire COM
munity are with Rev. and Mrs. G. G
Mayes in their sad bereavement, the
loss of an infant.
Crops are needing rain. Stands of
cotton are poor in many sections and
corn is small. Small grain crops, while
good, also need showers.
Trenton has newspaper, The Call,
edited by j. G. Hughes and printed by
S. 81. Manget. We hope for our neigh
Dor an abundant success.
The two stores of E. B. Hart, the
dry goods and clothing stores, will be
continued as heretofore, both under
the management of Jas. E. Hart.
WANTED-Salesmon to sell Lubri
eating Oils from samples on commits
sion. Liberal terms. TIE EUCLID
OIL COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Robert 81. Covar, aftera visit
of three weeks to relatives ard friends
in Charleston, returned last week ac-
companled by Master Geo. Pearce.
IT, No,. ToI,r ,Norv Fvopc hoe haan
appointed assistant-adjutaut and in
spector general with the rank of major.
Senator Tillman asked for the appoint
ment.
Some of the boys in Columbia COM
plain of the grub. They say it consists
of hash, stewed potatoes, sour beans
left from last meal, light bread and
coffee.
Lee Mack, the great horse necro-
mancer, is making his annual rounds
through Edgefeld and Saluda coun-
ties. His postofice is Butler, Saluda
county.
On last Saturday the thermometer
reached So degrees at Edgefield, equal
to the hottest July weather. In other
portions of the State 1T reached the
extreme altitude of SO degrees.
Prof. ]. D. Dunovant, of Mine Greek,
a recent graduate of the Nashville Uni
versity, is at home for few days from
his schools in Georgia, where for
year past he has been teaching most
acceptably.
rrhe law Office of Croft & Tillman is
now in charge CT Theodore Croft, Esq,
of Aiken Mr.. Croft is son of Col.
Geo. w. Croft, the legal giant of the
Aiken bar, and is himself most prom
Using young limb of the law.
Sam Colgan has gone to the war. He
left on Tuesday for Columbia. He says
he is to get the appointment of team
ster or mule driver. Sam says he in
tends to have ali his mules shod
backwards" so that the Spaniards
when they stake after him they will be
gong from, instead of towards, him."
Sly Sam! Promises to send US bar
rel of Jamaica ginger and sugar, by the
first passing.
The season is backward. Not since
1867 have the crops been so late. The
stands of cotton are very irregular.
In some portions of the county they
are good, at other places Indifferent,
and at still other places there are none
at ALL The corn crops are not much.
Of course there is time enough for
both these crops to come out and make
good yields. One redeeming feature
of the outlook is that there is an in
creased acreage of corn in the county
as well as of small grain, and this last
Is ont of sight.
On next Saturday, May 2sth, Bill
Quattlebaum will give a public and
private barbecue at Johnston. The
eatiug charge will be % cents. The
barbecue is public in the sense that
everybody is invited who can pull a
quarter, and private in the sense that
the meat belongs to Bill Quattlebaum
until paid for. After the eating is over
all who desire to do so car volunteer
for the Cuban war and those who do
not care to volunteer can go back
home. Old Cornfeds especially in
vited.
In the upper p&rt of this State, on