Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-07-20
BREVITIES.
Picnic at Lanhsm's Spring to-day,

Picnic at Lanhsm's Spring to-day,
Wednesday.
aPign Smith has moved into his
beautiful new house.
Santiago has fallen, and we are go
ing to occupy the land.
Miss Bessie QUITS is visiting college
friends in Barnwell county.
The time for the Centre Spring pic
mic has been postponed from the 2sth
of July to Tuesday, the End day of Au-
gust.
Prof. Bailey, President of the South
Carolina Co-Edueational Institute
will be in Edgefield next week.
Mrs. Jas. H. Tillman has returned
from Chickamauga Park from visit
to her husband, Col. Jas. H.
Cotton generally in Edgefeld county
is out of sight, so far as the promises
of big yieldi is concerned.
Mr.. J. X. burst, president of the
Bank of Greenwood, was in our town
on Saturday last.
Election tickets for State and county
offices printed in first class style, and
in any quantity at the Advertiser Job
office.
The executive committee Will ap-
point campaign meetings at its next
assembly, which is to be, we believe,
the first Monday in August.
Mr.. David 1. Denny, of Greenwood,
has sold out his grocery business and
will return, it is hoped, to Edgefied, !
his original stamping gronnd.
There will be eight teachers employ
ed in the South Carolina Co-Educa- |
tional Institute instead of seven. See
change IN advertisement to that effect.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Broadwater, sick
with fever, are slowly convalesclng.
Little Abe, the youngest son of Mr..
Abe Broadwater, is now down with
the same type Of fever.
There will be Teachers Institute |
at EdgefielL from Monday, July 25th. to
30th inclusive Distinguished educa-
tors will be present. Lectures in the
Opera House at night.
We hear that the Rock Quarry: at
Pittsburg is to be operated again soon.
This is IN addition to the other good
things that are to come to US this fall
in the way of boom to business.
Capt. Bill Brunson is off to Atlanta
to attend the reunion of Confederate
veterans. Gen. Wilcox was accustomed
to say that "Capt. Brunson, instead of
a captain, should have been brleadier
general in the Confederate armies"
Mr.. j. J. Bell, master mechanic of
our town, has been offered lucrative
position in the Southern Railway |
shops in Columbia. Mr.. Bell left for
Columbia on last Friday.
Candidates who have ordered tickets
printed at the Advertiser Job Office
are hereby notified chat they are ready
for delivery. If you send for them,
please send written order.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.B. Clotworthy have
returned to Hillman, Ca, and are pre-
pared to take limited number Of pri-
vate boarders at their cottage on hotel
grounds. An electric shaft in the
base ment of hCuse. 5t
The peach crop in this county is
probably the largest ever known, ard
the best The thrifty housewife will
can an abundance of this luscious
fruit, for next year we won't have any
at all.
Mr.. Spann Barr has sent us couple
of heads of cabbage that remind us OF
Buncombe county, N. c., and the
famed valley of the French Broad.
And the best thing about this thing is
that friend Spann has half an acre of
the same sort.
Death of Mrs. III. j. Williams.
This estimable lady died at the home
of her son, Leon J. Williams, in Edge
field county. last Saturday morning,
Mrs. Williams was sister of j. G. and
Orlando Sheppard, of Edgefeld, an
aunt of Mrs. w. H. Yeldell, of Long
mires, Lafayette and Arthur Sheppard
cf this place. She was 62 years old
and leaves large circle of relatives
and friends to mourn her lOss.-Green-
wood Journal.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nicholson.
Tie death Of this aged and highly |
esteemed lady at her home seven miles
north of Edgefield, on last Thursday |
removes another one of our ancient |
landmarks. Mrs. Nicholson was in |
many respects most remarkable wo-
man. She was the mother of the late
Gen. B. f. Nicholson. at one time clerk |
of court of Edgefleld county. School
Commissioner A. r. Nlcholsod is an
other son. Mrs. Sumpter Boatwright