Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-07
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Mr.. G. j. Terrell, the hustling editor
of the Johnston Monitor, was IN town
on. Monday last.
The friends of Capt. Jim Miner, OF
Lcngmires, are thinking Of running
him for the legislature.
w. J. Rutherford & Co., of Augusta,
Ga. have for sale one million, FIVE hum
dred Thousand brick. prices as low as
the lowest.
People want to move to Edgeheia
this fall and winter to educate their
children. Have we any houses for
them?
We regret to learn that Prof. Bailey
is quite sick. It is almost puollc
calamity for this much loved citizen TO
be even sick.
Col. Tom Hoyt, formerly of Johnston,
now of the Macon (Ga.} Citizen, was
intown on Tuesday of this week greet
ing many friends.
Mr.. D. B. Hollingsworth's steam
thresher is now resdy for the seasons
work. If you wish him to come to your
house see him or drop him a postal.
We are requested to announce that
there will BE- q picnic at Kinard's
school house, IN the Ninety Six Sec
ton, on Friday, June 18th inst, snd
the afternoon game Of baseball.
Mr.. D. T. Grice and family left our
town on Friday last for Sharon, Ca,
on q visit to Mrs. Grice's father. From
Sharon Mr.. Grice goes to Hillman, Ga,
old St. Albert's Do-Me-Good, as Will
Penn and Jim Hart call it.
The Edgefield Eussars have done
very courteous thing in the invitation
they have extended to the old veterans
of Edgefield county to attend their
annual picnic and barbecue at Lam
ham Spring on July 10th prox.
Hon. w. A. Strom WAS in town on
Monday of this week. Mr.. Strom, who
is an extensive farmer, the largest in
the county perhaps, reports the small
grain crop as failure, especially oats.
He sowed six hundred bushels and will
hardly get his seed back.
> Clerk John B. Hill has received the
money for county pensioners, and
parties entitled will please call for
their checks as soon as possible. The
number of pensioners for this county
has been reduced by SIX, from 122 to
l16.
And our ole friends Stan Ryan and
Eb Reynolds concur in the statement
that in order that man shall live long
he must first have clear conscience,
next he must in his latter years play 8
great deal with little children, and
this is the whole secret. Stan plays
and romps with his !ittle grand child,
Pierce's little tot, all day long, and Eb
says he plays with the little children
out at the poor house, and that they
both have clear consciences goes with
ont saying.
The Adams dewberry is white
dewberry, white after it gets ripe and
white before it gets ripe, white all the
time. Children commence on them
early and thus you save rations and
doctors bills. They are called the
Adams dewberry because WI. Adams,
of Elmwood, discovered them and sent
box of 'em to this Office and the edi-
tor eat 'em all up, and after that if you
don't want to call 'em the Adams dew
berries you can call 'em anything "
please.
This is the Gale that friend Eb Rey-
nolds tells: "Many years ago." says he,
a.d am over go years of age, 1 went
to Augusta, and while there I bought
little and drank little rye whiskey,
aod took it occasionally on my way
home. It made me feel comfortable if
not joyous. ] had at home sick hog.
reasoned this way: II the stuff makes
me feel good, why not try it on my
sick hog, it may cure her. So turned
her over on her back and give her
small wine glass full, but of course I
didn't put any sugar in hsr'n. In two
minutes she was as dead as Julius
Caesar after the dagger of Brutus. The
death of that old SOW reformed me. I
might have been drunkard but for
her sudden demise"
J.W, DeVore, Esq, has just returned
from Columbia, where he went to argue
before tine Supreme Court motion for
new trial in the case of Mrs. Laura
M. Swearingen VS.. The Hartford Fire
Insurance Co. and Mrs. Laura s. Hardy.
Mr.. DeVore represented the appel
lants, and in his oral argument spell
bound the Supreme judges for more
than half an hour with his massive
Logic and captivating rhetoric, to say
nothing of the sockdolager law he
gave 'em. (Some people think thus
word sockdolager obsolete bad Eng