Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
BREVITIES.

Shorter days make it necessary to
hustle more.
DR.. R. Gwaltney is conducting g
protracted meeting at Bethany church
this week.
The lease of the Cumberland Gap by
the Southern is for 81 yeors, virtually
a purchase.
Gen. M. c. Butler has shipped two
colts from his Savannah river place to
Camp Alger, Va.
Mr.. David I. Denny, late of Green
wood, will probably soon go into busi-
ness in our town.
Rev. P. P. Blalock will begin pro-
tracted meeting at Berea on the 4tn
Sunday in this month.
julie Holstein has sold a lot to the
factory people, upon which they pro-
nose TO build houses for the operatives.
Mr.Lewis Jones, of Atlanta, a bright
and handsome old time Edgefeld boy,
is visiting friends and relativss in our
town.
Mr.. Jas. G. Penn, well known in
Edgefeld, is candidate for the House
of Representatives from Greenwood
county.
Prof. Bailey is visiting various Sec
tions of our county in the interest OF
the Institute. Prof. Bailey is 3 won
derful man.
DIR. w. B, Penn has sold his last
years crop of Gotten to the Edgefeld
Cotton Mills. about 30 bales. he didn't
get 9 cents for it.
The Edgefeld Democratic club Will
meet in the court house on Wednesday,
Aug. oath, at P. NJ, for the purpose
of revising the club roll.
Misses Mona and Matte Johnston
request the person who received Chance
No. on quilt sold for the orphanage
to please come and get the prize.
Cotton is just beginning to open
little in these regions. In the sana IL
is opening rapidly and picking mas a.,
commenced. Foster Cheatham Will
have out bale this week.
There will be barbecue and enter
tainment at the old Bethlehem churcn
grounds on Friday, Aug. 26, for the
benefit of the Sunday, school. Candl-
dates have been invited and must be
on hand.
Willie Woodson has been offered 30
cents day to work in the cotton fac
tory. Willie says his duty will be TO
sit in a. a.acheer" and look at the looms
all day long, and he says he is a "boss
hand at setting down."
While the peach crop was fine we DO
not remember ever to have seen q
worse apple crop than this year OF
grace 1898. Well, we can't have all
the good things at one tlme' Ii we
/. did we would "bust."
-Four Of the factory mschinists are
boarding temporarily with Mr.. Jas. E.
Hart. The first thing we know we'll
be on regular business boom. The
factory will help greatly, but the Co.
Educational Institute much more.
The big fog horn whistle at the Cot
ton Factory blew for the first time on
Tuesday afternoon of this week, and
all our people wept with JOY and emo
tion too deep for utterance. And Fisher
said, many moons ago, "the factory
will start after the whistle blows"
When you go to Columbia let your
stopping place be the boarding house
of Mrs. A. I. Tompklns, 1918 Senate
street, rear of State House. You will
find il a most home like hostelry, con-
Quoted by Edgefield people of the old
regime.
The South Carolina and Georgia
railroad is already running Jim Crow
cars, giving white and colored lsepa-
rate cars, but equal accommodations.
Banjo pickers ride in the Fin Crow car
always. The other roads will follow
suit on or by Sept. 1st.
Chris Stalnaker's Edgefield county
friends will be delighted to hear that
he has been elected cotton weigher at
Greenwood. This Office pays some
thing like $1,000 year. Now if Green
wood will elect Lewis Moore auditor
she will have done another wise thing.
a telegram received in this city yes
terday announced the death, from ty-
phoid fever, at Chichamauga, of Elbert
DeVore, son of J. X. DeVore, formerly
ofKirhsey but>now residing at McRae,
Ga. The deceased had many friends
and relatives in this county, all Of
whom join in sorrow with the bereaved
parents.-Greenwood Journal.
at the. Teachers Institute, recently
held in our town, one of the problems
discussed was, which is right "twice
one is two, OR twice one are two" All
the teachers present, with but one ex-
ception, we believe, held that twice
one ARE two @ARE" right. We should
like TO have some of our teachers dis