Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-02-15
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vERTISER.
Reports from Georgia say the
peaches are all killed.
Cotton is trembling on the brink of
7.cents. Let her tremble!
In and around our town there is a
a. healthy outlook for real estate in the
near, very near, future.
Sam Taylor says he has heard talk OF
eating Fillpena, but he'll be drat if he'd
eat one of dem drafted Catanaldos.
Married, at Ridge Spring, on the
3rd inst, by Rev. W. Thayer, Mr.. AL
bert Cato to Miss Ada Sawyer, both OF
Monetta.
.Ata Georgia Camp Meeting" and
IA South Carolina Tickle" are the
latest and most popular two steps. or
cake walks.
Prof. Bailey gave the students OF
the S. c. CT. quite a treat insthe way
of games at SNOWFALL, etc., on. Monday
nuch to their delight.
Mai. John Gary Evans, last week,
made known his presence in Havana
py releasing Georgia boy from the
cruel treatment of the Spanish police.
That was 3 cold snap we had last
week, but we had daisy time COM
pared with the experience OF the peo-
nile of the North and West, there the
cold was the most intense since '92.
Losr-one check for $3.50 on Ma
'tlonal Bank Of AtlantN, Ga, payable to
Sheppard Bros. and transferred to W..
II. QUITS. Please return same to W..
81. Ouzts, Edgefield. S. G.
All the cotton in the fields Of Ala
bama, Arkansas and Texas froEe to
death Monday night. So it can't be
picked any more. Look for suostan-
tial rise during the pe1s week.
Married, Feb. Sth, at the home OF the
brides father Mr.. S. NJ. Walton, at Eu-
lala, S. c., Mr.. James Rodgers, OF Nine
Creek, and Miss Ida Walton. Rev. a.
K. Gwynn, of Aiken, performing the
ceremony.
Our beloved friend "Tommy" Tomp-
kins says: "As is warm blanket to
cold baby, so is our present beautiful
sheet of snow to the grain crop"
rPommy" ordinarily is mighty good
authority, and in this case we hope his
assertion will hold good.
DIR. Prescott Devore says that it you
want to know when cotton is going up
watch him, and whenever you see HIM
selling his cotton it will go up the
next day, and continue to 30 up until
everybody .else has sold. He sayss it
Z slrEaxs- goes nn-AErER he sells.
We copy the following from the
Abbegille Medium: 81 will not be able
to preach at Hopewell and Lebanon
churches next Sabbath because Of the
terrible horrid condition of the abom-
Unable roads. AJasI for modern CIV
ilization!!? J.O. LINsEI."
The London Mail says that if q man
could move his legs proportionately as
fast as an ant, he would travel 500
miles an hour. Some of US Edgetield-
ians tried it in the snow on last Mon
day morning, but we couldn't make
any comparison because no ants were
in sight.
Wash Adams says that he hears that
us white folks over in vanilla killed
four thousand er dem Philippines at
oneshoot. De way dey done it wus
dis: Dey loaded canon wild bird shot
and didn't half ram 'em and den when
de5 shoot de gun de shot scattered and
killed 'em most all.
Capt. A. G. Williams and X. A.
Cochran have been appointed county
commissioners for Edgefield county
under the new county government
law, two mighty and powerful good
men. They with Supervisor Padgett
constitute the county board of COM
mlssioners.
If,the Seaboard railroad build their
newly contemplated line from New
berry to Augusta by way of Edgefeld,
and the Black Diamond theirs from
Abbeville to Port Royal by way Of our
town, Bdgefeld will be split wide
open twice. Well, let 'em split.
Wash Adams, colored, announces
the following change in his business
'Notice-De kerpardnership hereto
fonr resisting betwi1t me and Jack
Sample in th2 baby waggin making
business is dis day resolved by my
cornsent. Dem what owes me and
Jack will settle with me. Dem what
me and Jack owes will settle with
Jack. WASH ADAMS"
Congressman W. J. Talbert is en-
deavoring to induce the postoffice de-
partment at Washington to make an
experiment in free mail delivery at
this the EdgefieId postotfice. An IN
spector will be in our town in a few
days seeking information and as a
preliminary to such service, which
will be something entirely new to our
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