Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-08-16
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E LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Through all the unquiet years;
Past all our dreamland hopes and
doubts and fears
=. He guides our steps. Through ali
the tangled maze
OF sin and sorrow and o'erclouded days
We know his willis done;
And still he leads US on"
Middling cotton in Augusta is
quoted at 63sc.
The beautiful Miss Mai Dozier is
visiting friends in Abbeville.
Prof. Bailey is in town and Will
give few days to the Edgefeld Teach
ers Institute.
Mr. Beauregard Timmons has moved
into his beautiful new residence on
Norris Avenue.
Cotton is advancing in price, due it
is said, to advices from Texas, where
CQe QFOuCn SILL COulluuco.
The Greenwood Wheat Convention
is in session to-day, Wednesday. A
good many are in attendance from
Edgefeld.
Teachers! Don't fail to attend the
Institute that opens at this place to-
morrow Thursday and will continue
until Sept. 14th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Livingston, after
spending a few days very pleasantly
with relatives in our town, returned to
Charleston last week.
Messrs. Padgett & Fair have made
an assignment for the benefit OF their
creditors to Mr.. Arthur Brunson. The
deed of assignment was made On Tues
day morning, 18th inst.
The frazzled out end of the Porto
Rican storm reached our town before
day on Tuesday morning of this week,
causing the 'tkiyer" to be pulled up
and that is all the harm it did.
Much to the delight of his congrega-
tion and our towns people generally,
DR.. Gwaltney returned home from his
trip on Saturday last and
preached-in our Baptist church on
Sunday.
The prospects are that there will be
much larger attendance at the South
Carolina Co-Educational Institute
next session than last. Prof. Entz-
mlnger, who mas been canvassing in
several counties, SO reports. The Pro-
fessor is still in the field hard at work
for his beloved aii.. mater.
The country seems to be going wild
over wheat; we hear of roller flour
mills and wheat conventions on every
side; and they say now that wheat inn
proves land. We have always heard
to the contrary, but the longest lane
has turning. Of one thing, however,
you may be sure that pease sitter wheat
will build up the waste places.
Farmers, quite number of them,
sowed oats in their cotton at the last
blowing this year, This used to be
pretty generally the ru'e, but the bet
ter plan is certainly 1ot to put all your
eggs in one basket. Sow small grain
from August to December, and some of
your eowings will hit and yield you
sbundaRtly.
During the severe blow on last FRI
day night the dwelling of Mr.. A. a.
Glover, in the Horns Creek section,
was lifted from its foundations and
moved several feet. Mr.. and Mrs.
Glover and the family were in the
house at the time, but fortunately none
of them was injured in anyway-al-
though Gus says his nerves were lit
tie unstrung for the time being, that
is to say, while the house was moving.
Prof. r.. E. Dorm, Of Callison, was in
town on Thursday last. Prof. Dorm
has been elected principal of the Red
Hill High School and will begin his
first session early in the fall. No as
sistants have as yet been elected. Eb
Dorm is son of Geo. E. Dorm, an ex-
county commissioner of old Edgefield
county in years when Edgefield's ter
rltory was kingdom in itself, and to
be an Edgefield county commissioners
was greater than to be king.
There was good deal of hail with
the storm of Friday night. Dir. j.
Foster Cbeatham tells us that he will
not have good bundle of fodder to
pull on his whole place, so heavy was
the TALL of hail. Steve Moragne, color
ed, who lives on Mr.. Cheatham's place,
says that his well was blown up and
cut of the ground by the wind and
lodged in high pine tree. Steve says
"the water all rund out of the we'll be-
fore it got dar so high up in de tree"
Early on Tuesday morning Frank
Lee, colored, was caught in the at
tempt to steal from the Edgefield post
Office. While the postmaster and his
assistant were at breakfast on the
morning named, Frank entered the
postoffice, the door being always open
in the day time, got up on the little