Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-27
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: LOCAL AND PERSONAL. :

It is only matter Of few weeks
befor- ground will be broken fo'
the c, llege building.
Mrs. l.. Charlton, after stay OF
some weeks at Glenn Spring, re-
turned on yesterday.
Mrs. VII. Dorm and the little
ones spent last week with relatives
and friends of the Antioch section
Mrs. j. C. Sheppard is visiting
relatives in Greenville, Spartan
burg and Union.
Miss Mertie Etheredge. Of
Trenton, spent several days last
week visiting Mrs. w E Holston
Miss Grace Bailey, sister of Col,
F. N. K. Bailey, has been elected
lady principal of the Sumter Fe.
male Seminary.
The material is tein5 put upon The
grounds for the erection of iron
fences around the monument and
public well.
Miss jamie Turner and Miss May
Parks. two very attractive young
ladies of Augusta, are visiting MIR
and Mrs. D. T. Grice.
The new pistol law is evidently
being disregarded. We have not
seen a man carryinga a pistol over
20 inches long.
The most artistic sign that We
have seen in" Edgefield is the one
front of the Parker building which
leads, "E C Smith, Dentist.
A committee, composed of Mr.. A.
E. Padgett, Hon J. c. Sheppard
and B. E. Nicholson Esq, has been
appointed to float the school bonds
Mr.Ben Croker hes been conf :
ed to his bed for more than q week
with fever. He is greatly missed
by his friends-both young ladies'
and young men-who hope that
he will not have prolonged spell.
Mr.. Harry Adams, who is now
with the Southern railway with
at Winston, N. c.,
stopped over several davs last week
to see his many friends i'll Edge
field.
Mr.. w. W. Adams and Col, F.
N. K. Bailey left yesterday for
Columbia and Charlotte to engage
an architect to prepare the plans
and specifications for the new
school building.
Of the 146 newspapers in South
Carolina not one espoused The
cause of James H. Tillmau in hia
race for the office of chief execu-
tive of South Carolina. This is
without precedent.
Dr.L.R.Gwaltney will pay Edge
fild a visit about Sept ist. He
will remain among us about two
weeks, attending the Edgefeld
Baptist association which conven-.
es on the 10th proximo at Reho-
both.
Mr.. ]. E. Hart is to-day bound
for the great dry goods markets of
the North az fast as the cars can
carry him. Soon the large cases of
ne fall and winter goods will ar
rive for the hundreds of patrons
of the Hart dry goods establish
mant.
Considering the enormous
amount of money spent on them
Uncle Sans soldier boys ought to
cope successfully with those of any
of the powers. The last congress
appropriated s2,627,314 to the nil
itary academy at West Point for
current expences and $3,5OO.OO
with which TO erect new buildings.
The military school of South Caro-
linia, the Citadel, which in some
respects equals West Point, only
receives an annual appropriation
of $25,GO0.
One experiences peculiar
pleasure in taking former Edg-
field man by the hand who has
made sn honorable name for him
self and his county in his adopted
home. This pleasure was ours OH
Friday last wh.n we created on
our streets Charles NJ. Rauton,
now with I. C.Levy's Son and Co.,
the tailor-fit clothiers of Angus
ia. Mr. Rauton is a man who does
not weary in we'll doing and has
hos is kof friends throughout the
length and breath of Edgefeld
county. No wonder that this relia-
bic firm has built up such large
clothing busidess co, ering a large
part of two states-when it has such
a man as Abram Levy i'll CON-
mand and such men as Phillip Sar
ling and Charles Rauton behind
the guns to battle for it.