Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-27
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1t is only matter Of a few week
before ground will be broken fo
the c, c,llege building.
Mrs. l.. Charlton, after stay o
some weeks at Glenn Spring, re
turned on yesterday.
Mrs. w. H. Dorm and the llttl
ones spebt last week with relative
and friends of the Antioch section
Mrs. J. C. Sheppard is visitin
relatives in Greenville, Spartan
burg and Union.
Miss Mertie Etheredge. Q
Trenton, spent several days las
week visiting Mrs. w E Holston
Miss Grace Bailey, sister of Col
F. N. K. Bailey, has been elacte'
lady principal of the Sumter Fe
male Seminary.
The material is tein5 put upon th
grounds for the erection of irol
fences around the monument ant
public we'll.
Miss jamie Turner and Miss May
Parks, two very attractive young
ladies of Augusta, are visiting M
and Mrs. D. T. Grice.
The new pistol law is evidently
being disregarded. We have moi
seen 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
"eads, "E G Smith, Dentist
A committee, composed of Mr.. A
E. Padgett, Hon J. G. Sheppard
and B. E. Nicholson Esq, has beer
appointed to float the school bond;
Mr.Ben Croker hes been conf
ed to his bed for more than q week
with fever. He is greatly missed
bv his friends-both young ladies
and young men-who hope thai
he will not have q prolonged spell
Mr.. Harry Adams, who is now
with the Southern railway with
headquarters 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. Tillman in his
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.. J. E. Hart is to-day bound
for the great dry goods markets OF
the North as fast as the cars can
carry him. Soon the large cases of
new 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 la.t congress
$2,627,314 to the mil.
itary academy at West Point fol
current expences and $3,500.OC
with which TO erect new buildings
The military school of South Caro-
linia, the Citadel, which in some
respects equals Vest Point, only
receives an annual appropriation
of $25,GO0.
One experiences a peculiar
pleasure in taking a former Edg-
field man ty the hand who has
made IN honorable name for him
self and his county in his adopted
home. This pleasure was ours Of
Friday last wh.n we greeted OF
our streets Charles NJ. Rauton
now with I. C.Lery's Son aud Co.
the tailor-fit clothiers of Angus
ia. Mr. Rauton is a man who does
not weary in we'll doing and ha'
hos is tof friends throngh hout tht
length and breath OF Edgefele
county. No wonder that this relia
BILE firm has built up such a large
clothing busidess co, ,ering large
part of two states-when it has suct
a man as Abram Levy i'll con-
mand and such men as Phillip Sal
ling and Charles Rauton behinc
the guns to battle for it.
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