Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-05-17
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Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Killebrew are on
visit to relatives in Fdgefeld.
President and Mrs. A. E. Padgett
spent dap in Augusta this week.
Misses Fannie Marsh and Jessie
Day will spend Merry Makers week in
Augusta,
Mr.. w. E. Dobey took trip to Aiken
on Monday, thence to Augusta to take
in the merry making.
Greenwood is TO have round bale
press. How does the Edgeteld gin
merry stand on this question:
A good deal of editorial and local
matter was crowded out of this weeks
issue by letters from the people.
Bright and winsome Miss Isadora
Tompkins, of Columbia, is visiting
friends and relatives in Edgefieid.
Capt. w. Fl. Brunson took in the
Charleston reunion and was highly
delighted. He returned home on Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Hill with
Misses Daisy and Marion, returned
from the Charleston reunion on Satur-
day last.
Free rural mail delivery for Edge
field has not yet materialized, but
Congressman Talbert says We shall
have another chance, and if not why
not?
Auditor Haltiwanger is very anxious
to have the township assessors bring
in their returns in order that he may
make out his sbstract. Mr.. Haltiwan-
ger begs that these returns be handed
in at once.
A letter from Mrs. Ellie Jones, of
Columbia, daughter of Capt. JAS. G..
Brooks, brings the sad intelligence
that her father is slowly sinking and
may not be alive at this writing.
The Newberry Oil Mil. and ginnery
will make the round bale next season
instead of the square. Our Plum
Branch correspondent, "Don Carlos"
writes of Lowrey Ground bale) gin at
that place. Look out for the round bale.
All the Sunday schools Of Edgefield
are invited to the mass meeting in the
Opera House on next Sunday morning
at 10 o'clock. Let all the children come
out and fill the Opera House with their
presence and their happy faces.
Mr.. John B. Davis carried load of
hoes up to his Saluda county planta-
tion on Thursday Of this week, the hoes
are for cotton chopping. Although
Mr.. Davis is not cotton-tot, he makes
little of the fleecy staple, enough to
do him.
The Edgefeld County Alliance will
meet at Edgefeld on Monday, June
9th, 1899, at u NJ. Sub-Alliances hold
ing certificates of stock in the State
Alliance Exchange will send delegates
to the meeting. 5. NJ. SMITH, Pres.
S.B. MAYS, Sec'ty.
There will be mass meeting of the
young people of Edgetield in the Opera
House on next Sunday afternoon.
There will be a number of prominent
visitors present. and an appropriate
and instructive program arranged.
All the young people of Edgefeld and
visiting young people, and both old
young are cordially invited to be pres
ent.
Some weeks since the Board of
Equalization for this county appointed
a committee to investigate the prop
erty holdings in the county. in the
shape of bonds, mortgages, trust funds,
moneys, etc., not returned for taxation,
and to report same with a view to hav-
ing such properties placed on the tax
books. This committee is now busily
st twork going thror n the records Of
the clerks Office.
If our town has not an ordinance
forbidding the driving of loose horses
through our streets there ought to be
such an ordinance. One day of this
week as little Ellen Dunovant, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Dunovant,
was returning home from school, 8
drove of loose horses passed through
our town, and seeing little Ellen they
took after her. two or three of Them,
knocked her down and paved at her
while IN this helpless position. 1t is
wonder and mercy that she was
not killed. AS it is, che nervous shock
was very great, and this bright little
girl WIS confined to her bed for several
days, although at this writing she is
doing well, and will probably be up in
day or two.
Mccormick Mowers and Rakes,
Reapers and Binders.
l am agent for these goods, McCor-
mick Mower, one-half. $3.50. payable
November, 1899, balance, s22.5O, paya-
BILE November, 1900. Mccormick Reap
er and Binder, latest and lightest three
horse, payable one-third, $40, Novem
her. 1899: One.third. $40. November.