Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-09
LOCAL. BREVITIES.

Look out for chicken thieves
they are abroad in the land.
Gov. and Mrs. Jno. Gary Evans
came up from Aiken on Saturday
last on visit to Oakly Park.
Mr.. Henry Kearsey has closed
his O. P.store in our town, this
leaves US only one such house.
The difference between q wo-
man aud an umbrella, lies in the
one single fact that you can shut
up all umbrella.
Col. and Mrs. I. W. Fowler OF
Aiken, are on visit to Mrs. FoW-
ler's parents, DR.. and Mrs. ii.
Parker.
Bradley's Ammoniated Dissolv-
ed Bone, Stono Acid Phosphate
for sale by w. w. Adams.
N. G. Evans Esq, has returned
/. from Columbia, whittier he went
one day of last week on legal bu-
siuess.
Call for your rabbit sausage
meat at Norman Youngblood's
beef market prepared and stuffed,
to order only, by John Knox.
The Highland Park Hotel at
Aiken was burned on Sunday
morning of this week, loss said to
be $15O,OOO, insurance s9S,000.
h.ll--Peurifoy-By Rev.
Jesse J. Stevenson, at the Sa'uda
parsonage, January 9th, M. Aul
c. Mitchell to Miss Carrie E. Peu-
rifoy, both of Saluda County, S. G.
We can supply you with blank
mortgages, contracts, liens, etc.
Send US your orders, and we will
give them prompt attention.
eff 1 should fall out of the ham
mock what would you do?" she
asked. Il would catch you in my
arms" he answered promptly.
sect re;.dy," she exclaimed, with
feminine impulsiveness.
A bill has been introduced in
the Legislature requiring pigs to
be vaccinated-an immediate ad-
iourument is now in order.
Wouldn't such a law tend to keep
out northern capital.
DR.. Manley Timmons has just
purchased a full line OF new latest
improved and up-to-date dental
implements. The doctor went to
Atlanta in person and made his
own selection of the latest and
best.
In this issue of the ADVERTISER
Coz. Ellerbe offers reward of
one hundred and fifty dollars for
the party or parties who burned
Mr.. D. B. Hollingsworth,s barn on
the night of January 7th.
The firm in our town, late
Hammond & Co., is now L. G..
Bell & Co., the Company being
one or more of our most wealthy
citizens who bought out the inter
est of Messrs. Hammond q Pres.
colt.
Mrs. Winnie Hammond died at
her home IN this county on Fri
day last of dropsy. Mrs. Ham
mond was 81 years of age and left
a large circle of family connec-
tlons and friends to mourn her
death.
The negroes are making big
preparations for laying of the
cornerstone of their Coleman
Cotton Mills, Concord N. c., on
Feb. s. They have invited Presl-
dent Mckinley, Governor Rus sell,
Queen Victoria, Wash Adams and
others to be present.
NJ. P. Wells Esq, lost the case
against Senator Gaines before the
State Senate, but he fought a
good fight all the same. The Sen
ate was agin him on the general
principle that "when We get
good thing we expect to hold 1t
until it thunders."
The report comes from Georgia
that Josh Harris, Wyatt Seigler,
NJ. P. Burnett, in fact all those
Edgefeld boys who moved from
Edgefeld to that state last year
are getting rich hand over fist.
They all promise that when they
get rich enough they will come
back to old Edgefeld and spend
their money.
The vaccination fad has about
spent its force. Two deaths and a
considerable number of arm am
putations helped to put a quietus
on the vaccination business. The
names of the two who sacrificed
their lives to keep from having
small pox were Fielding Ray, and
Albert Turner Of Savannah Ga.
who was son of Mr.. J. D. Turner
of Johnston, S. G.
PERsoNAL-Wanted information
as to the whereabouts of George
Hill, an Englishman, who came to
this country about so years ago.
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