Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
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: LOCAL AND PERSONAL. :
Observation-Disclosures

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Mr.. E. strom (Boat) was in town
on Monday.
Judge John E. Colgan, Of Trenton,
was with us for few hours on Mon
day.
DR.. w. 2. Penn has the far-faned
Postum Cereal (a substitute for coffes)
for sale.
Gov. Tillman says he didn't get any
of the hams because he had hams OF
his own.
Col. Geo. B. Lake has been appoint
ed one Of the assistant marshals for
the Confederate reunion in Charles
ton.
IThere are now only two Mexican
War Survivors in Edgedeld County,
uncle Billy Bur:cll and NJ. Joe Gull
breath.
MFG. P. Cobb, the prosperous ana
popular dealer in vehicles Of all kinds
at Johnston, was in town on Monday
of this week and paid usa pleasant
call
The second South Carolina is to be
mustered out OF the service to-day
Wednesday, in the city Of Angus ia
where it has been in camp for the past
mcnth.
A teacher at Garden City said to her
primary class the other day: "If your
father gave your mother 81 today and
IS tomorrow, what would she have?"
And the small boy over in the scorner
replied: :'She would have flt.''
Mr., Eugene Freeland was in town
on Monday of this week. He had al
ready made three attempts to reach
Edgeheld, but was shut out each time
by our quarantine officers, but this
last time he broke through the lines
and came in anyhow.
All over Edgeheld, Ssluda, and
Greenwood counties the planting OF
cotton is going mer,ily OH, and this
week thousands and thousands Of
acres will De planted In the stuff that
cheers, but does not iRebriate because
you can't make enough money out Of
it to get on taro.
Mr.. s: NJ. Smith, of osr town, has
been appointed Of the survey corps OF
the Black Diamond railroad. He will
commence work at Anderson and end
up at Port Royal. Col. Crenshaw, the
engineer in chief of the Black Dia-
mond was in town several days OF this
and last week, together with Capt. w.
j. Kirk.
Mr.. Lee Mack, who was in town one
day of last week, bids US sag to the
people that in addition to his regular
profession he has tackled on that Of
cattle dehorner, that Is to say, he will
take the horns of your cows or bulls
and for mere song-haif wheel is
m AZ charges for tsIiIS off both
horns. Mr.. Mack calls q silver dolls-
wheel and q half wheel is there
fore half dollar. If you want only
one horn taken off he will doit for
quarter ofa wheel.
The small pox has about disappear
ed:fron our west side. We get this in
formation from Mr.. Winchester Nc
Daniel, an excellent farmer who lives
near Modoc, and who was in our office
one day OF this week. Now that our
city council has raised the quarantine
our friends Of the Savannah river side
may be expected to visit US in troops.
Edgefield CAM live without them and
We hope they can't live without US.
Wante:..
A perfect country road, whereon the
noble steed
Can draw broad and ample load at
pleasant rate Of speed;
One hard and smooth and level, yet 90
drained and round and high
It won't be muddy when it's wet, nor
dusty when It's dry.
Accident to Capt. j. C. Brooks
Capt. J. C!:Brooks while visiting his
children in Columbia met with pain
full if not serious accident few days
since. The following account of it we
clip from the Columbia State:
"Cspt. James G. Brooks OF EdSeaeld,
father of Mrs. E. J. Jones and Col. U.
r. Brooks, suffered serious accident
at the home Of Sergt. Jones yesterday.
Capt. Brooks is:.well up in years and
quite feeble. He cannot arise from his
chair without having something with
which to pull himself up. Yesterday
he attempted to pull himself up by
catching the mantelpiece. He slipped
and sustoined fracture Of his left
hip. at his advanced age the frac-
ture is quite serious. Mrs. Jones i,
herself quite sick ana unable to take
care Of him."