Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-02-08
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: LOCAL AND PERSONAL. :

Mr.. Campbell will have Graham
bread this week.
we want the news from your part
of the country. Send it in.
About the worst joke woman can
play on a man is to marry him.
Cotton went up to 61ac in Augusta,
and stands steady at that figure.
4 woman can sharpen 4 pencil about
IS quick as man can thread needle.
We will publish Mr.. i. j. Williams
defence of the dispensary law next
week
solicitor ThurmonI will remain in
Columbia during the session OF the
Legislature.
Cotton goods continue to advance,
much to the delight Of the Edgeheld
Cotton Mills.
A wealthy syndicate OF Northern
capitalists will rebuild the Highland
Park Hotel at Aiken.
Augusta is to be made permanent
camp, and twenty thousand more SOL
diers are to be sent there.
Mr.. Motto c. Parker sold seventy-fve
bales of cotton to the cotton factory
one day OF last week for SIC.
The contract for building the Black
Diamond railroad has been let to Col.
A.E. Boone for fifty million dollars.
Mr.. II. A. Smith Is now buying COT
ton for the Edgefield Cotton Factory.
See advertisement in another column.
The season at Aiken is unusually
brilliant this winter. Col. is the pop
ular amusement of the fashionables,
when the weather permits.
More rsin IN the month Of January
Just past than was the average for five
years in that month, according to
Weather Prophet c. A. Long, and it is
still at it.
The Edseheld Cotton Mills are 20 be
doubled in size Of building and ca
pacity of output. This work is to be-
gin as soon as the weather will per-
init.
Gen. NJ. c. Butler is to be retained
in the United States army as Major
General with headquarters at Wash
ington. President Mckinley can't get
along without him.
The books of registration this year
are open on every salesday in the year.
So If you wish to oreglster you must do
so on the days named; there are no
others.
One DR.. Kaufman, of New York. has
discovered that the telephone is re-
.-sponsible- for theTspread of the grip.
he Sas made exhaustiFe Investigation
and gives out the informasion as posi-
tive and conclusive.
Rudyard Kipling's morh battle
hymn sTake up the white mans bur-
den" like the English drum beat will
ring round this old world of ours. We
shall publish this inspiring bit of
word painting soon, but those Of our
readers who cannot wait will find it in
McLure's for February.
Up-to-date Chatrel Mortgages. Liens
Titles to Real Estate, ETC., for sale at
this office. Do not ask US for "Billy
Sales,' we do not keep them now.
They are no good, having been rele-
gated to the limbo of the dusty and
musty past, or rather to the "LIMBUs
FATUoRtM"-paradise OF fools.
Mr.. Beauregard Timmons has bought
a.lot from Mr. A. J. Norris on Norris
Avenue, joining the Butler lot, upon
which he will in the early spring erect
thousand dollar cottage. Let the
good work go on! Mr.. Frank Timmons
of Johnston is to be the architect and
builder.
There seems to be some opposition
to Mr.. Evans house bill to authorize
the county commissioners of Edgefeld
county to borrow eighteen thousand
dollars. This opposition is certainly
ill-advised and should have no weight
with the members of the House. Edge
field county wants this bill passed.
Mr.. David Glover started from his
home on the west side to Edge1eld on
Monday of this week in buggy. AT
Mr.. ice Mays he abandoned his buggy
and borrowed saddle from Joe and
came to town on horseback. Joe had
but one mans saddle, so he rode in
himself on side saddle-and all :his
is on account of the roads.
Two horses, poor old rips who had
served their day and generation to the
best of their ken. fell flat on our
streets on Monday and fioundered
in the mud until death ended their
sufferings. They belonged to the
horse swappers brigade. Is there no
law to get at such unconscionable
wretches who perpetrate such acts of
barbarism.
Owing to the long continued rains
our little creek. Beaverdam, which
runs on the west and southwestern
part OF our town is to-day, Tuesday, a
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