Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-01-24
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8 LOCAL AND PERSONAL. :
/. fine fruit year this, 1900.

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Observation-Disclosures
A fine fruit year this, 1900.
Miss Mary Evans is on visit to
frieads in Augusta.
AS compared with last this winter
has been so far rather mild.
Our next term of court, March, con
yenes on the third Monday in the
month.
Congressman Talbert has succeeded
in having North Augusta made a post
Office, by name 'Lillian."
shad have appeared in the George
{ town markets-few and far between.
Edgefeld will get some in few days.
Miss Mamie Reece, third daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Reele, is, we regret
to say, very Ill indeed, not expected to
live.i
Col. and Mrs. Jas. H. Tillman have
returned from lengthy visit to
Hon. G. D. Tillman and family at
Clarks Hill.
Mr.. Motto Parker is getting ready to
build handsome cottage on his lot en-
Columbia street, near and in front Of
Judge Roath.
Brother farmer. you. might SOW a
few spring oats in the month of Feb
ruary. 1t will make cotton that much
higher next fall.
Solicitor Thurmend was at home
from Columbia on Monday Of this
week to attend an important meeting
in our court house.
And won't this year be great crop
year? Ofkcourse. 1t is always that
way; that the last'year of century is
an all round good year.
We have just been informed by Mr.
Geo. F. Minis that telephone connec.
tion is now complete from Edgefield
to Greenwood, by way Of Kirkseys.
Let everybody accord thanks to
Mayor Adams and Chief Scurry that
our cemetery is now in neater and
more cleanly condition than for years.
The Johnston Monitor has bet en-
larged to an. eight page paper, and mas
:, been otherwise improved and adorned.
Brother Terren,was evidently born on
the increase of the moon.
Mr.. Giles D. Minis, of the Falfa sec
tion, has bought the old Alb Gllchrist
place of 100 acres and will convert it
into stock and dairy farm. Will sow
or has sown about 400 acres in wheat
and oats.
Coffee has advanced two cents a,
pound within the last few days, owing
it is said, to the prevalence of the bu-,
bonic. plague in Bio. de Janeiro. But.
there is one consolation about high,
coffee, the higher it goes the better ii
tastes.
Mr.. Jack Sulliyan, of the Roperssec-.
tion, who is So years Of age, had q few
nights ago quite severe attack of
bronchitis that alarmed his family.
very much, but the old gentleman soon
rallied and is almost entirely well
again.
Mr.. J. P. Sullivan, of Ropers, has
bought the old Conway Mayson place,
near Liberty Hill, and will remove
thither early in the month of February.
This move, we are glad to state, does
not take Mr.. Sullivan out of the county.
He still loves old Edgefeld.
The B. Y. P. U. have made arrange
ments for supper to be given in the
old Y. NJ. G. A. hall on Friday evening
of this week. All who come will spend
a delightful evening. Admission for
grown people 25 cents. All students,
both day and boarding pupils will be
admitted for 15 cents. Supper willbe
free to all.
J. B. White 6 Co. will open up again
On Fep. /. MIR. White. himself, says:
sYou can state positively that we will
be ready for business on the first of
the month, when we will offer such
bargains as will make our new place
of business the Mecca for the dry goods
buying people of Augusta aul vicinity.
Twenty thousand dollars will put up
first class hosiery plant-socks and
things. Can't Edgefield get one dur
ing the year 1900. A $4,000 plant of
this kind has recently been removed
from Little Falls, N. z, to Griffin, Ca,
If Edgefield only had an organization
of her citizens, as do other towns, to
look out for such matters, we might
capture good many good things now
drifting southwark.
Hon. w. 81. Zimmerman, State Treas
urer, has been elected president of the
new State Banking and Trust Co., of
Columbia. the capital stock of which
is $4,000. .rhe organization was per-
fected by the election of the following
board of director, w. II. Zimmerman.
Edward Ehrlich, John Taylor, Gustaff
Sylvan, j. Caldwell Robertson, Edwin
var Doha,t,on Tho aIaotaI