Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-06-19
Mr. j. F. Bettia, president o.
the Bank of Trenton, accompanied
by Miss Fannie Mae Bettis, was
in Edgeh. Id en- Monday.

4 az GhO VI sA1S
Rifles on Thursday night last
number of .ci.izens were elected
} honorary members. COMMITTEES
J was also appointed to arrange TO.
A q barbecue on July 4th.
Responding to call from tht
! State Bank Examiner, the Far.
4 mers Bank an | the Bank of Edge
field publish statements in this
I issue of The Advertiser. The com;
bined deposits of the two banks
amount to $236,150.61 and then
loans aggregate $473, ,329.06,
The 4th of July will be atgreat
Cay at Plum Branch. A barbecue
and picnic will be given and
doubtless d great throng will gath.
er on that day. Mr.. ]. j.. Langley
will make q speech on this occa'
sion.
/ The unreasonable weather is
not confined to the South but plo-
vails all over the entire country,
j While in New York last week Mr.
| w. H. Turner had to purchase an
overcoat in order to be comfor.a.
be.
DR.. J. G. To,npkins left Edge
field the latter part of last week
for Mobile, where he went to ac-
company his sister, Mrs. Fannie
Torlpkins, to his home IN Edge
field. Mrs. Toupkins will make
her hcme for the future with him.
The society columns of the pa
pera, in which are exploited the
June wedding, present a varied
com mbination of names. We re-
Gently saw a notice of the mar
riage of Miss Cork to a Mr..
l.egg, their nuptials being refer
red to as the Cork-Legg marriage.
Mrs. II. F. Tompkins, whom We
all remember as Miss Sudie Davis,
has been very i'll at her home in
|Connallsville, Pa, but we are hap
by to state that she is improving.
Mrs. Tompkins, father, Mr.. John
B. Davis, was in Edge6eld Oh
Monday and had just received en-
couragibg news from her.
Messrs. May & Tompkins an
nounce in their new advertise.
ment this week that they have
applied the knife vigorously to
all Spring and Summer goods.
These reliable merchants are
closing out some lines of goods al
actual cost. Read and then pro t
by what they say.
Mr.. Andrew Watson and his
daughter, Miss Lucy Watson, of
Batesburg, cana over to Edge
field on Wednesday afternoon in
their automobile, spending the
night and part of the next day
with Mrs. Mary ]. Norris. Mrs
j. H. Tlllman returned with them
on Thursday afternoon, reaching
Batesburg in an hour and a half
after leaving EdgeGeld, returning
home on the night train.
Mr.. S. T. Williams, one of
Edgefeld county's most success
! full planters, was iRtown on Mon
day, and in conversation with
the writer stated that, owing to
the unfavorable conditions, crops
|tln his section are very small.MMr.
Williams says he bad to ploW up
and replant a portion of his cot
ton this year, which is the first
time he has ever done such a
thing since he began farming thir-
ty or more years ago.
Preparations are being made by
a+number of Sunday schools in
Edgefield county to observe Tenn
perance,Sunday as" "Anti-Cigarette
Day" All the Sunday schools of
Edgefeld and Johnston will carry
out this program. Packages of sug-
gestlve literature will he furnished
70 any Sunday school for fifteen
cents per package by writing to
Mrs. j. IT. Tillman, Edgefeld,
S. G..
The editor of The Advertiser
gratefully acknowledges card
stating that the Edge6eld Rifles,
at their last meeting, had'elected
us an honorary member of the
company. This honor is greatly
appreciated. From the time the
re- organization of the old compa-
ny was suggested, we have done
all in our power 10 make the un-
dertaking success. and IN the
future We shall continue to do
everything possible that slll in
any way promote the welfare of
the company.
There is a oung man in North
Carolina who entered the States
agricultural college four years
ago with SIS in his pocket and not
cent for peanuts and ginger
cakes. He was graduated few
days ago and be had $11 to begin
life with aid did not owe cent.
While at cullege be had worked
and succeeded in paying his own
way through the institution
thonuh II cost him S724 His mama