Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-11-30
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WEDNESDAY,. NOV. 80.
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: LOCAL AND PERSONAL. :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Three rev scholars for the In
stitute this week, may be more.
Miss Stella Atkinson will return
to the Institute after Christmas.
A little snow and sleet fell ON
Monday morning of this week.
Miss Jose Moblay visited her
sister Mrs. o. Sheppard ,Ir., on
Sunday.
The cry is still for wheat, SOW
wheat, SOW more wheat. Sow wheat
but don't go crazy over it.
Miss Kella Fair has gone to Au,
uusta for few days to vlslt he1
aunt Mrs. Miller who is very Ill.
Our Edgefeld Cotton Mill sold
three thousand dollars worth OF
their products in Northern mark
cts last weok.
Do not fail to attend the closing
out auction sale of ". E. Lackey,
the ieweller. The goods must be
sold as Mr.. Lackey is going out OF
the iswelry business. Sales daily
at 2.3O P. NJ. and 7.30 P. M.
The cotton mills run day and
night now, that is to say the
spindles run day and night in Or
der to supply the looms with ma
terial for all day runs.
Mr.. E. A. Barker a prosperous
farmer and dairyman of the Sa-
yannah river side was in town last
and this week in attendance Oh
the court as jurymen.
Mr.. William Harris died at his
home hear Meeting Street one day
of this week. Mr.. Harris was over
seventy years ofage and had but
recently married. He left no chill
dren.
Arthur S. Tompkins Esq, was
called by telegram to Greenwood
on Monday of this week to attend
the funeral of his half-brother,
Clifford Tompkins, who died III
that city on the day named.
Ladies ale especially invited to
attend the auction sale of w. E.
Lackey, the ieweller, beginning
Friday, Nov. 25th, at $50 A. NJ
Seats will be provided and perfect
order enforced.
The. statement in last weeks
ADVERTISER that Mr.. Jesse Hobbs
and Miss Rena Harris had been
married was untrue. We were
misinformed.
Why are so many country ne
groes coming to town? Long-leg-
ged Pet Penn says they are here to
eat up we'uns vittels and to get
we'uns pickins.
Capt. Cain returned from his
home on Monday, where he has
been recuperating from his recent
illness, we are pleased know
that he har sufficiently recovered
to resume his duties at the S. c..
tC. l.
President Bailey will attend the
Baptist State convention which
convenes at Darlington to. lay,
Wednesday. President Bailey is
Chairman of the Committee on
Education of that body.
There will be Missionary Mass
Meeting in our Baptist church on
Wednesday night, Dec. 14th, un-
der the au spices of the B. Y. P. U.
Public cordially invited to attend.
Programme next week.
Mr.. P. B. Day, of Trenton, a
most successful farmer, proposes
in the future to grow everything to
eat that be possibly can on his
plantation. He will also Sc: out a
grove of pecan trees this winter.
The students of the South Caro-
lima College will get out an annual
this session. The editor in chief
will be J. G. Hughes, of Trenton
chief assistant Mr.. J. E. Swearin-
gen, the blind son of Mrs. j. G.
6wearingen.
Gen. NJ. C. Butler will be at
home in a few days where be will
remain probably ten days, when
be will return 10 Havana with his
wife and daughter. There is some
talk of making the General guta-
,nador of The island, and then
gwe'll all get some sugar.
If you are in need of anything
/, the line Of Watches, Clocks,
Jeweiry ana Silverware the chance
Of a life time is at hand, as Mr..
Lackey closes out his entire stock
bv auction, opening sale Friday,
Nov. 25th, a. 8 80 a. NJ.
Clifford smyley Tompkins, old
est son of the late DR.. D. G. Tomp-
Al. INllo 10 Hin6