Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-03-11
One month till Easter.

One month till Easter.
March 21st marks the beginning
of Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Ready and
children spent several days last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. John B.
Hill.
Mr.. G. J. Burton has been spend
ing a week in North Carolina look
ing after his interests at his for
mer home. He returned yesterday.
Mr.. Jas. E. Hart has returned
from his trip north to buy his
spring stock of merchandise. In
a few days his large purchases
will begin to arrive.
Miss Fannie Cochran, the beau
tiful and accomplished daughter
of Mr.. and Ms. R. A. Cochran, of
Rehoboth, is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. E. C. Vim.
We have been requested to an
nounce that the regular monthly
meeting of the Ladies' Mission and
Aid society of the Baptist church
will be held at the church on Fri
day afternoon next at o'clock.
Smallpox has not reached Edge
field and there is no probability of
it's doing so unless 1T comes over
the telephone wires, but another
malady, "spring fever has put in
it's appearances rather early. And
the unfortunate part of its coming
is that there is not a person III
Edgefeld who is immune to it.
Have you made returns of your
property to the auditor as required
by law !? If you have not attend
ed to this important matter do so
at once before the penalty is added.
It is not optional witt. Auditor
Hal:iwauger. Continued neglect
will force him to add >tbe penalty
which the law requires for delin-
quents.
The Mccormick Messenger an
nounces the fact that DR.. R. NJ.
Fuller, of Longmires, is to locate
at an early day in Mccormick. for
the practice of his profession. We
regret to see young man OF such
high character aid ability move
beyond the borders of our county.
We need an influx rather than an
efhcx of such young men.
On yesterday the Rev. T. P.
Burgess preached his farewell SER
mon to the people of Ninety.six.
This faithful servant of the Lord
has been preaching to US for nearly
three years and half, and in all
this time we have never heard
aught against him. We regret to
see him leave and commend him
and his most estimable wife to the
90 ID people O. Edgefeld.-Ninety
Six cor. Greenwood Index.
MI. E. S. johnson, one of the
Youngest and, at the same time.
one of the most aggressive and
prograssi8ez=ofnsEdgefel dssua=mer-
chants, has, within the last few
days, added new peanut roasting
machine to his list of store fixtures
that is attracting a great deal of
attention. It roasts them to suit
the Kings tasto and is selling
"goobers" for Mr.. johnson to
"beat the band"
Mr.. D. A. Tompkins, accompan-
led by two of his friends. Mr.. and
Mrs. Price, of New york, spent two
days in Edge6eld last week, stop
ping at the DuBose hotel. Misses
Grace Tompkins and LIME Minis
were Mrs. Tompkips' guests at tea
Friday evening where they met
these northern visitors and spent
a very pleasant evening. This
captain of Industry" was accom-.
panying his friends on a tour OF
recreation and pleasure and, Incl
dentally, lo,king after his hold
ings in Edgefinld.
Rev. L. B. White loves and is
greatly beloved by the member OF
Old Horns Creek church. He
served them as pastor daring the
past three years but, owing to the
great demand upon his time, he
was forced to resign the pastorate
against the wishes of th2 church
on u the first of last Janua:y. The
church again urged MIR. White te
serve them. He has accepted anc
will preach on the fourth Sunday
afternoon of each MOI To, this be-
ing the only time not actually en-