Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03

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Major w. w. Adams has begun
the framing of his handsome new
homs to be erected on the same
site from Which he removed his
old home.
Tillman and McLaurin will be
invited to speak at Saluda on July
2Sth, at the fifth anniversary OF
the laying of the corner stone OF
the Court House.
On Monday morning of TINS
week, at six O'Clock, Mrs. Patsy
Williams died at the County Aims
House. Mrs. Williams was for
merly a Miss Roper.
The colored baseball teams of
Graz iteville and Edgefeld crossed
bats on the Graniteville diamond
Saturday evening. The score was
reported 5 and 6, in favor of the
Edgefield team.
Miss Elsie Carwile, who spent
several years in Edgefeld as a
teacher, Is visiting Mrs. R. L.
Clnacy, of Savannah, formerly
Miss Ethel Boatwright, of the
Ridge.
Mr.. Wallace Prescott, who has
been studying in the textlless Gle.
partment of Clemson college, has
returned home. His many friends
n Edgefield are glad to see him
in town this week.
James II. Kennedy, once the
popular clerk in the mercantile
establishment of Mr.. Cobb, is at
home for the summer. He is al
ways a welcome guest in his old
home.
The many friends of the polite
and accom- modating clerk of Mr..
Penn's drug store, Mr.. James
Byrd, are glad to sec him at his
post dispensing drinks-non-in-
to1icating and ice cold, however.
He has just recovered from an at
tack Of measles.
Revenue stamps are 60 longer
required on checks, kilograms, ex-
press receipts, proprietary medi.
cines, perfumery, certain legal
documents and postal money or
ders. In great many other in
stances where there will not be en-
tire removal of revenue there will
be reduction.
There were preaching services
in three of our town churches on
Sunday morning last. Generally
the fifth Sunday finds most of our
pulpits vacant. At the Mill Chap
ell, Rev. Mr.. Burton preached; at
tho Presbyterian, Rev. Eugene
Stewart filled his appointment,
and DR.. l.. R. Gwaltney preached
at the Baptist church.
Rev. Mr.. Burton, who has been con-
Quoting the meeting at the Mill, went
from here to Greenwood to attend the
meeting of the trustees of the Connie
Maxwell orphanage. o. Sheppard,
Esq, as one of the trustees of that in
stitution, also attends that meeting
this week.
IA correspondent 70 The State
has the following to say of a young
man we'll known in Edgefield, now
cashier of the Bank of Batesburg:
"Whit. Watson is away from town
on a wedding trip-not his own,
howevor, this time, but perhaps
that later, and not much later
either.
DR.. Pell, of the Presbyterian
College for Women, Columbia, Of
fers scholarship to any Presby-
terian girl in Edgefeld county.
The examination will take place
at Edgefeld, July 18th, and will
be conducted by the Rev. Eugene
Stewart, pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Edgefeld.
The old Macedonia church bell
has been placed in the steeple of
the new church, and under Sewell
Smiths skilful hands the >church
will soon be completed and the
bell peal forth to invite the men,
bers aud congregation to meet in
their own house of worship again.
The zeal of the colored sisters is
to be commended. They have un-
dert, ken to raise enough money
to place all the windows in the
new church, and by all honest
means, are succeeding admirably
in their undertaking.
Mrs. James II. Tillman has been
appointed chairman of Edge6eld
county to get up an exhibit for
the Woman's Department of the
Charleston Exposition. Several
committees will be appointed by
sho obo;rpoon Lotto, On Had Tho
Woman's Department searched
throughout this county, one better
suited for this responsible posi-
ton could not have been found.
Mrs. Tillman is full of that steadi-
ness of purpose and we'll regulated
enthusiasm which will make her
succeed in whatever she under
takes. All the ladies should take
ali interest in this exhibit.