Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
Edgefield Advertiser
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
LOCAL. BREVITIES

LOSHG DINI Y i-N|'
The Spaniard still is on the run,
And old Cervera's hard to beat;
We've cot the disappearing gun"
And he the disappearing fleet"
The Oregon is in-by Jupiter!
Mr.. William Hart will make 200
bushels of wheat this year.
Miss Eliza Minis is at home again to
the delight of her many friends.
Mrs. Jas. E. Hart and Mrs. R. Can
telou leave for Hillman Well this week.
Mr.. Rufus Hart is assisting Mr.. Tom
Lanham in the E. B. Hart clothing
store.
Mr.. Geo. +. Minis has put up twenty
two private telephone lines in our
town.
Presiding Elder Harmon breaches
at ParksviIle on Saturday and Sunday,
June 11th aud 18th.
Walker Norris was rejected on ac-
count of his eyes, but he proposes to
try it again at another stand.
= DR.. Gwaltney preached at Gllgal
church on last Sunday; there were no
services in our village Baptist church.
Another carload of machinery for the
cotton factory reached these shores on
Saturday last, and more Is soon to fol-
low.
Ninety per cent. of those who fail IN
the physical examination for the U. 5.
army are cigarette fiends. Notch 1T
down!
Mr.. Low has opened up shoe
shop in the Grice livery stables annex.
He half-soles for SOC and patches for
little or nothing.
S. Mouzon Smith, Esq, has been ap-
pointed Engineer-in-Chief to the
philippine islands. Mr.. Smith went to
Washington on Monday CT this week.
Mr.. John II. Carpenter, of the Vau-
cluse-Trenton section, was in town
one day last week. He was looking
for Pugh Jones, wanted to join his
company.
Sam Colgan says that from his short
experience in the U. S. army at Co.
lumbia, he ascertains that the boys are
given to "deal of deleterious devil
ment in the camps
Capt. E. Fl. Folk will continue the
practice of law at the cid stand, con-
ductlng the business of the late firm
of Folk s. Folk, a ID also any new busi-
ness that may be rec cived.
We hear that the Hotel Edgefeld
is to be leased or purchased by Prof.
Bailey, of Orangeburg, and used as
school building next session and prob
ably for long time to come.
aPig" Smith is building an elegant
two-story dwelling on Columbia street,
next the Bryan house. twill contain
eight or ten rooms and will be thor
-ous hly up-to-date in every respect.
Prepare to SOW and to plant an
/, abundance of COW peas IN your corn
and out of it Any old place is good
enough place for peas, and the best
fertilizer for them is acid phosphate.
Mr.. A. S. Tompkins has cut his wheat
and he can now have Graham flour
without buying it. Arthur considers
every man fool who eats white flour
made from chalk, dried beans, and
soap-stone.
Jim Brown has hen that came up
to roost q few nights since with a half
grown mink in bei mouth. Jim says
that she hunts minks all day, and gen.
orally brings one up with her to eat
during the night.
1t would seem to be an easy matter
to get up from Edgefeld county even
a whole regiment to go to Porto Rico
with Gen. M. C. Butler, who may be
made Governor-General of that beau
tlful island after its capture.
And the longer the war lasts the
better it will be for our country in
dustriallY and commercially, so says
Mr.. Trenholm, late comptroller Of the
currency, and so will say any sensible
man who will give the matter mo-
ment's thought.
Ice galore-Mr. NJ. A. Taylor will
furnish ice in any quantity to town
and country patrons, at Augusta cost,
through the season. Mr.. Taylor has,
Mt the depot, built very substantial
ice house inside the brick warehouse at
that place. Ice at Augusta prices, just
think Of it.
Edgefield will soon have telephone
exchange, central Office, talk all over
town, etc. Mr.. Geo. F. Minis, electri-
clan, has ordered twenty-five hookem
sniyies Eve don't know the name of
the thinesl for the first layout and