Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-14
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Stevens Creek, so we hear.
Rev. P. P. Blalock, who has had s
slight touch of the grip, has SO far re.
covered as TO be out again.
w. N. Burnett, Real Estate Agent
has some excellent bargains, and the
properties he offers will never be sc
cheap again.
Prof. Bailey is still absent in the in
terest of the S. c. Il. The Professor
is always at it, which is the one secret
of his success.
And Mr.. Motto Parker sold hun
dred bales Of cotton at s15sc, and Mr..
Blalock thirty-fiye, and Will Penn
fifty, and so it goes.
Historic Beaverdam which flows by
our old town, is higher this a. NJ.
(Tuesday) than for many years, owing
to the rains of the past three days.
A thunder shower in February is an
unusual occurrence, bat this is just
what we Lad on last Sunday night, and
it rained little, too, so Jim Brown
says.
For sale in town of Edgefield, four
acres land with rwo-story 14-room
dwelling house thereon, centrally To-
Gated. Suitable for hotel or boarding
house. w. N. BURNETT.
Zack Boone says that "when a girl
pins a flower on 81 mans coat. she al
ways tilts her chin up and looks at 1t
sideways; and the man who doesn't
tumble is too slow to get run over by a
hearse.
The annual missionary sermon of
the LADIES' Missionary Society of our
village Methodist church Will be
preached on the fourth Sunday night
in this month.
We predicted some two weeks since
that cotton would be cents in sixty
days, and now we predict that it will
be more than that by the time dog
woods blossom.
Mr.. w. J. Bryan Will speak in Co.
lumbia tomorrow (Thursday) after
noon. Will any go down from Edge
field to hear him? We should certainly
send delegation.
FARM HANDS WANTED-Wanted good
steady and Industrious colored men
single or married, with families, to
work the whole year for cash payments
monthly. Apply to Hollow Greek Farm,
Toales 2. O., Aiken Co., S. c.
The sympathles of our entire COM
munity go out to Mrs. Sheppard in her
sad bereavement, the loss OF her moth
er, Mrs. Judge Wallace, an account of
whose death we publish in another
column.
A:telegram to Col Jas. 81. Tillman
on Monday, 18th inst, advises usthat
the following fertilizer companies are |
NOT in thefertilizer trust: The Ashe-
poo Co. and The Reid Co, both of
Charleston, and The Savannah Guano
Co., of Savannah.
WANTED-Local or travelling sales
yuan, salary or commission, to handle |
our Oils, Greases, Petrolatum, Paints
and White Lead. Goods guaranteed.
Prices low. Good freight rates and
prompt delivery. PENN PETRoLArUM
Co., Coraopolis, Pa.
@Short Cotton Crop" makes some
very wise suggestions in this issue of
the Advertiser to farmers, and if the
farmers of Edgefeld county will heed
what he says they will lie one hundred
per cent. better off next year this
time. Want Of space prevents q more
extended notice, but the article speaks
for itself. Oh, ye farm ers, if you will
only hearken!
TO the first of our subsc ribers who
will pay up for the Advertiser after
seeing this notice we will give pack
age of triumph" watermelon seed,
guaranteed to weigh-the watermelon
not the seed-l50 pounds each, if you
let 'em grow big enough. To the sec
ond, thirt, and fourth subscribers who
pays up after seeing this notice, we
make the same offer.
Should Senator MLLaurin resign his
seat in the United States Senate, Edge
field has some available timber for that
niche in addition to the names already
mentioned from other counties, and
who are already avowedly in the field.
The most prominent candidates sre:
Atty Gen. Bellinger, Lieut.. Gov. Scar
borough, Senator Dan S. Hende, son.
Judge Buchanan, WE Stevenson. And
there are others: Speaker Gary, Gov.
McSween.y, Col. Willie Jones, and
Representative Geo E Pri..ce.
Application will soon be made
to the Secretary of State for big
bleachery at Aiken, where the wa
ters arc as clear as crystal and
plentiful as the sands OF the sea-
shore. At present the product of
the South Carolina mills is being !
sent north to be bleached. 1t is
stated chat a party of capitalists
have determined to at once to- es-