Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-01-17
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: LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
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Rev P. B. Lanham, of Ropers, was
in town on Monday of this week.
The English cotton market is firm
and we hall soon see what we shall
see.
Mr.. Fleming Mosely, of Georgia. is
visiting his brother-in-law, Mr.. Jesse
Morgan.
Miss Marie Abney has returned to
Edgefeld from Atlanta, where she has
spent most of the winter.
Capt George Evans, member of the
legislature, came over from Columbia
on Saturday and spent Sunday With
his mother at Oakley Park.
Rev j. C. Abney, a Saluda-Edgetie'd
man. and member of the South Caro-
lima Methodist Conference, is Chap
lain of the House of Representatives.
FoR SALE-Some secondhand mules
and good horse: Also small steam
engine and two sets mill rock and gin.
Apply to A. S. Tompkins, Edgefield,
S. 9.
Mr.. Frank Fair left our town on
Monday of this week for Cha ;tanooga.
where he goes to accept a position in
alarge furniture manufacturing estab-
lishment.
From all accounts it seems that every
body is going to vote for Brooks May
son this year for the House of Repre-
sentatives. We don't make or attempt
to make, any explanation of this, but
tits SO.
A factory has been started in Sumter
for the manufacture of Golf sticks from
persimmon trees. Here is hope for
Edgeield from our old fields full Of
persimmon trees with no persimmons
on them.
Since the freezns and the snow, and
the subsequent rams aud milder
weather, the small graiu-the wheat
and oats-have come out wonderfully,
and a beautiful green now covers all
the landscape, or at any rate @right
smartn of it.
Bishop Warburton is reported to
have said that high birth was athing
which he never knew any oneto dis
parage, except those who had it not.
and he never knew any one to make a
boast of it who had anything else to be
proud of.-Whately.
We should like to shoot off our mouth
on the dispensary law for the benefit
of the legislature now in session, but
we don't know what to say or to ad
wise Will someB smart Aleck tell us?
If, in the multitude OF counsel on
ihis subject there pe wisdom there is
also sight of fool talk.
Rev. Geo. w. Davis preached his first
sermon IN our Methodisi church on
Sunday morning past to large au-
dience. and he made deep impression
on his hearers. His own people were
especially delighted. Let us hold up
his hands for the good work to be ac-
complished under his administration
during the year 1900.
Twenty. four Quarleses and twenty
two Holmeses are attending the Red
Hill High School. There are enough
in these two families to start another
new county, the only trouble is that
they are such good folks old Edgefeld
can't nor won't spare 'em to make an
other new county, nor for any other
purpose.
The Red Hill High School, Prof. Il.
E. Dorm. principal. is prospering won-
derfully, having nearly one hundred
pupils. The people of the vicinity are
taking great interest in the school as
they ought to do, and there are pupils
even from Augusta in attendance. Prof
Dorm is a graduate, last year, of our
own S. C.C.I.
E@ The Pleasant Lane Agricul'
tural Club calls meeting of the farm
ers of Edgefield county to meet a,
Edgefeld c. II. on Friday, the 26tf
January inst, to take some action il
regard to the advance of the price O
fertilizers brought about by the fertil
izer trust. Greenwood county farmer
have already spoken in this matter il
tones not loud but deep, that they viii
not use any of the internal stuff fo
the year 1890.
Eleven new students have matricu
lated at the S. G. c. l. since Christ
There are now twenty students who
not finding room in the Institute. ar
accommodated outside in private fam
lies. Oh for building commensurate
to the growing needs of this schoo
and its;manifest destiny, i. e., to be tn
grandest institution for the co-educa
tion of girls and boys, young men an
young women this side of Mason an
Dixon's or anybody's else line.
Mr.. Benz. j. Crooker has on han
and for sale, of his own manufacture
a score of beautiful one-horse Wagon
with his own brand and mark on thpl