Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-05-22
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In few days, the Advertiser Jot
Office will be in charge of a competent
reliable and frst-class job printer
and we ask our patrons in need OF
work of this kind to hold their orders
few days longer, say week or ten
days.
Mrs. Ras. Youngblood is visiting
.Edgefeld.
Miss Hankinson has returned to her
home in Augusta.
o. Sheppard Esq, is in Greenville
this week, on Masonic business.
Mrs. Johr May has returned home
from a visit to relatives in Georgia.
A new cotton mill is to he erected
at Newberry in the near future.
Little Boykin Pascal of Mt. Carmel
will spend the summer with his Aunt
Mrs. Gladys Calhoun.
The Edgefelo County Teachers' AS
sociation meets in Edgefield on Fri
day Of this week.
Mrs. McKie expects her sister, Mrs.
,Kingman, Of Aiken, to visit her dur
ing Commencement week.
The Ball game at the Institute on
Friday afternoon was victory for the
S. G. G. I. team.
The Juverile Society of the colored
Baptist church of Edge6eld enjoyed
picnic on Beaverdam last Saturday.
Prof. Warren Entzminger of Meet
ing Street attended the entertainment
for the band at the Institute, on Fri
day evening.
Schools and colleges in need of gold
or silver badges, class pins &c, will do
we'll to correspond with Wn. Schwei-
CERT 6 Co., Augusta, Ga,
There were preaching services at
McKendree's on last Sunday morning,
and number of people from Edge
field attended the church there.
The Twentieth Century Education
al fund contributed by the Methodists
of the United States is aaid to be the
largest Thank Offtring ever given.
Lieut-Gov. Jas. H. Tillman has
been invited to deliver the ad-
dress on the occasion of the 2Stb
Anniversary of the University of
Kentucky, on June 4th.
TIE rain on Sunday afternoon and
night. was a blessing to all the farm
ers and gardners of Edgefeld. The
cool and damp mornings however are
not very favorable to the chicken crop.
Mr.. Henry Arthur, forL-erly OF
Edgefield, now a resident of Green
vile lsi visiting relatives here. One
of the special objects of his visit is 20
see his aJss1e Mr. Henry Gallman, who
is snfaili1g health. s5
new post office has been establish
ed atsI. r. Sulliyan's between Long
mire's and Sells. to be. called Pleana.
The Postmasteris J.P. Sullivan, as
sistant Mrs. Pleona Sullivan. At this
office stamps of all denominations can
be bought.
Measels is visiting our town. Bun-
combe introduced the malady, but is
net at all anxious to monopolize.
There is no doubt but there will be
plinty and to spare. However this
visitor will be more welcome after
Commencement.
w. N. Burnett who has been failing
il heslth for some time past, has gone
to Johns HopKins Hospital in Bnlti-
more fer treatment. 1t is hoped that
Mr.. Burnett will be restored to his ac-
customed vigor. This Institution has
been benedictiou to quitea number
of Edgeield's suffering citizens.
The entertainment on Friday sfter-
moon and evening at the =.
NJ. CA. hall, was the initial step to-
wards the establishment of public Ii
brary in Eigefield. This was u success
full effort, and raised for this worthy
cause about thirty-five dollars.
The Dime Reading and the supper
given at the Institute last Friday for
the benefit of the band was great
success. Our people have derived so
much pleasure from the sweet strains
of the band that they are ALWAYS will
ing to help it along. About forty DOL
lars was the financial result of the eff
fort, which was about the amount need
cd.
Nine graduates will become alum nj
and alumnae respectively Of the South
Corolina Co-Educational Institute at
this Commencement, viz: w. D. Moor
er of Georges, George Scott, Arthur
Mays, and Willie Byrd of Edgefield
countA Robert Black of Bamberg
Alumni Misses Julia Tompkirs, Stella
Atkinson, Minnie Rambo and Mary
Ann Fuller Alumnae all of Edgefeid
county.