Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-10

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eist of Charleston, is visiting relatives
in our town.
If peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war, it is time she was
trotting them out,
The thrifty housewife will take ad-
vantage of the big fruit crop to can
and preserve an abundance for winter
use.
MIR. L. Fox, late of Edgeield, has
leased the Harris Lithia Hotel and
surroundings for five years, begin
ming Jan. !, 1899.
There will be services in our VIII
lage Catholic church on next Sunday,
the 14th inst. Mass will be celebrated
at $50 in the morning.
More rain fell in South Carolina
during the month of July, just ended,
than for the previous six months. This
statement is made on the authority of
the weather bureau.
Bob Taylor will lecture in Augusta
in September. For soul moving pathos
and puresU wit, Taylor is the peer Of
any lecturer on the American lecture
platform.
Married, at the residence of the
brides father, near Plum Branch,
July 2Sth, 1898, by Magistrate II. w.
Dobey, Mr.. w. Adams, of Augusta,
Ca, and Miss Julia Brown.
W. P. Calhoun, Esq, of Atlanta is
visiting Edgefield this week. Mrs. Cal
houn and her sister, Miss Marie, have
been in our town for some weeks visit
ing their aunts, Misses Sophie and
Msrie Abney.
Hon. Geo. W. Turner was in town
on Monday of this week. Mr.. Turner
is looking we'll. in fact is in better
health than for five years past. His
many friends over Edgefield and Sa-
luda counties will be glad to know
this.
Mrs. Woodward, sister of Gen. NJ. c..
Butter aid mother of Charles l.. Wood
ward, late of our town. died at her
home in Philadelphia on last Satur-
day. Gen. Butler has another sister,
Mrs. Carson. who lives in Greenville,
this State
Geo. Youngblood, Dan Brunson, and
Winchester Mcdaniel, of Edgefeld
county. have been drawn on the Uni
ted States petit jury for the February
term in Greenville. Mr.. S. E. Freeland
has been drawn on the grand jury
same time and place.
There has been slight change in
the schedule of our railroad arrivals
and departures, as follows: The morn
ing train now leaves at $50 instead of
$40, and arrives at 1890 instead of 100
P. M. The afternoon train leaves at
$40 instead of 2.2O.
Prof. F. N. X. Bailey was in Edge
field few days of last week, but is
now in the lower part of the State.
He will return to Edgefeld in few
days and will devote this month in
preparatory work to opening the Co.
Educational Institute on the 10th
September prox.
"If John C. Morgan won't run for
the legislature this time we'll run him
whether or no next time" This is
what an old farmer said in our office
the other day. John Morgan has no
more notion of running for office than
he has of flying, but or course if bird
can sing and just won't sing, you'll
chatter" make him, that's all.
A gentleman who lives at Williston,
S. c., in our Office one day of last week,
made this statement: "During Prof.
Bailey's seven years of teaching in
W:lliston more houses were built than
in all the previous years of that towns
existence" This is most significant
statement and means much for our
town if we only catch on and hold up
Prof. Bailey's hands for up building of
our school and, pari passu, our town.
Mr.. J. o. Atkinson, who works the
old Major Boswell place on the Savan-
nah river side of our county, has a
field of seventeen acres that, with fa-
vorable seasons, will make thirty bales
of cotton. This isn't all the cotton he
will make by any manner of means,
but this is the best cotton he has on
the whole plantation. On this same
seventeen acres last year he made
about two bales to the acre.
There will be two full moons in the
month of August. The firss was on
Monday night, the 1st. This phenom-
enon occurs only once in every three
years. The exact time between full
moon and new moon is twenty-nine,
days, twelve hours, forty-four minutes
and three seconds. You can now fig
ure it out for yourself, reader, and tell
to the second when the second full
moon in August will be ripe.
N. G. Evans, Esq, one of the candi-
dates for the House of Representatives
will be engaged at the Saluda court as
council in the murder cases of the