Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-09-21

ket. AS we Wrlte aI ~ Clo'h w
Tuesday mornirg) there are up
wards of thirty bales on our pub
| lie square, and the wagons from a
distance do not arrive till a later
hour.
On Sunday evening next the
regular monthly union service will
be held in the Baptist church. The
sermon will be preached by Rev.
Marvin Auld. 1t is to be hoped that
the church will be filled to over
flowing. The members of all the
churches should certainly attend.
Rev. T. P. Burgess is conducting
a protracted meeting this week at
1.-The Presbyterian church at Ropers.
He is being assisted by Rev. ".
Fl. Mills. of North Augusta. We
trust that the attendance will be
large and that much good will re-
suit from the efforts of these con-
secrated servants of God.
Orlando Sheppard, Esq, &C.
companied Miss Fannie Sheppard
to the Brenau Conservatory OF
music at Gainesville, Ga, on Fri
day last, returning Sunday after
noon. Miss Fannie will probably
make a short visit to the home
felix's during the Christmas holi-
days.
Tho work of the Edgefeld
graded school began in earnest on
Monday. Great crowls of children
enrolled. The teachers are: Miss
Nichols, first aud second grades;
Miss Dicks, third and fourth
grades; and Miss Newsom, fifth
and sixth grades. No more efficient
corps of teachers can be found in
any graded school in the state.
The friepds of Mr.. and Mrs. r. L.
Dunovant rel vice over the speedy
recovery of their bright little
daughter, Bessie. She fell from
the piazza Oh Friday and 1T was
At frs. apprehended that she bad
sustained permanent injury. She
was carried to the hospital in Au-
gusta on Saturday and returned
OIL Sunday and. is steadily improv-
ing.
Notwithstanding the fact that
the dormitory capacity of Glenn
Esen=eol4eger has-beon- -increaBed-by
twenty.one rooms. one hundred
and two applications had to be
turned down. There are $50 cadets
enrolled, this being the large ST
regular attendance in the history
of the institution
The cutting and shipping of
poplar logs in the upper part
of the state is new and profitable
industry. The poplar is shipped
to paper mill in Tennessee and
Sd per cord is paid therefor. There
are millions of cords of timber
throughout Edgefeld county that
will some day comman.: good
price. If another railroad or two
traYersed our county thousands
of cars of wood and timber that
now is dying and rotting could
be converted into casb.
a woman in a neighboring town
bought uew-fangled coffee pot
from a peddler. In the evening she
showed it to her husband, hard
ware dealer, who told her he kept
the same thing in his store for
half the price she had pai1. "Well"
she said, "why don't you adver-
tise2 Nobody knows what you
have for sale." Doubtless the
wives of some Edge field merchants
are buying articles out of town
for "home consumption" or at a
high price from peddlers when
their husbands have it in store
and sell it for less. Mr.. Merchant
how are people to know what you
sell unless you keep them Inform
ed. There is no better way than
to keep them posted through the
columns of the paper that goes
into hundreds of homes adjacent
to the Edge6eld market. Plant an
advertisement with us end you
will reap an abundant harvest of
business.
The Woman's Christian Ten.
perance Union of South Carolina
will hold its annual convention at
Manning, South Carolina from 8
p. M, september Z9th TO OCTOBER
2nd. All delegates expecting to
attend will send their names 10
Mrs. Joseph Sprott, Manning
South Carolina.
Mrs. S. M. D. Fry, National
Corresponding Secretary of the
w. G. T. u, will be with us
throughout the convention. This
is an unusual honor and will add
greatly to the interest of our con-
vention. We earnestly urge every
union to send as many delegates
as possible,
Reduced rates applied for.
Delegates inquire at home Office.
Mrs. JAMIE HERBERT HAYNES,
Pres. S. c., w, CT. U.
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