Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-11-11

To The Thinking Thousands
Miss Dolly Dugas, having fully
recovered from the recent opera
ton performed at the hospital in
Augusta, returned to her home on
Thursday last.
An exchange chronicles the fact,
as a most remarkable piece of in
telligence, that a wood hauler &C
tually delivered load of wood &C.
cording to promise.
Messrs. Jesse w. Dorm and A.
M. Zimmerman have jointly leased
the valuable farm of Misses Sophie
and Marie Abney in the northern
suburbs of our town for two years.
1t is useless to advertise a min
strel in Edgefeld, for il would re-
quire regiment of policemen to
keep the people from,crowding the
opera house on Friday evening
next.
We go to press a little earlier
than usual this week to enable the
editor to go to Atlanta to have the
celebrated occulist, DR.. Calhoun,
examine his eyes, which have
caused him considerable trouble
ri r'cently.
Everybody does not enjoy musi-
Gales, lectures, etc., but everybody
can appreciate and enjoy 10 the
fullest extent a good minstrel show,
everybody is going to
the opera house Friday evening.
Better select your seats. early.
Old farmers say that wheat
should be sown immediately after
the first ice. If that betrue, there
is no better tine than right now,
as ice has been seen several times
and it is sufficiently cold to kill
the insects that prey upon wheat.
Rev. C. f. Burts, who is quite
confident that the desired sum for
of Furman University
will be raised, will spend several
days this week canvassing the
Edisto association, in. which his
former pastorate was located.
A young "iord' asked plain
American: "Have you any gen.
tlemen in this country ?" The
American asked: "Who do you
call gentlemen ?" The reply was I:
"Oh, they are men who have moth
ing to do, and travel around at
will" The American said: "Yes,
we have plenty of them, but wecall
them tran1ps."
Miss jamie Frazier, of Atlanta,
who is conceded to be one of the
leading trained nurses in this Sec
tion of the country, has been spend
ing several days at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Minis. She will
visit Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Hill
and other relatives before return
ing to her home.
The banks of our town, both of
which have loaned more money
this year than during any former
year in their history, report col
lections good, and our. merchants
have thus far done rushing busi-
ness. 1t appears from this that
while the cotton crop has been far
below the expectation of everyone,
yet it has brought more money
than has 8, cotton crop for several
years.
Major h. S. Anderson left on
Sunday for Washington, in order
to be at his post of duty when
Congress convened in extra session
on Monday last. The next regu-
lar session being the long term, it
is not probable that Maj. Ander-
son will return to Edgefeld before
next July. He will be greatly
missed hy his many friends at
home during his prolonged ab-
sence.
A citizen of our town came into
our office few days ego and gave
us an order for large lot of print
ing, stating that there was no use
of sending the money off to help
oulld up other towns when the
work could be satisfactorily done
right at home. II we had a great
number of citizens who would
preach and practice this doctrine
would grow at much
more rapid rate.
The Individual who gets the
fewest letters, makes the most COM
plants to the postmaster; the man
who never had a good meal at home
growls at the hotel accommoda-
tions; the person who complains
most of his neighbors is the mean
est of the lot; the member who
pay, the least to the preachers sala-
ry finds the most fault at his
preaching and complains of the
bad management of the church
Elk.
Local agent, Mr.. G. ]. Derrick,
than whom the Southern railway
has not more efficient employee