Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-01-16

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Mr.. W. P. Lowrey. who is con.
nected with large mercantile
business at Eastover, s. C,is on
a visit to his parents, Mr.. ard
Mrs. w. B. Lowrey, of Velma. He
reports the outlook in that section
of the state to be gloomy on ac-
count of the short crops of last
year.
The Southern Bell Telephone
Company will send a large force
of hands to Edgefeld this week
TO overhaul the local telephone
system. After the changes that
are contemplated shall have been
made, Edgefeld will have a tele-
phone service second to that of
no other town of it's size in the
stats. A night operator will be
employed, and the service will be-
continuous, including Sunday.
Central" will be moved to the
two front rooms over the store of
rimmons Bros.
Among the improvements on
the County Farm that are con-
templated by Supervisor Self, ls
q comfortable stockade which can
be used as winter quarters for the
chaingang. If the weather con-
tinues as mild as the first half of
January has been, the stockade
will not be needed this winter,
but there are times when the
temperature is SO low and the
weather so bad that practically
nothing can be done On the reads.
Then it is that the convicts would
be carried to the stockade and be
given temporary work on the
county farm.
We will pay three cents each
for empty bottles that contained
Penn'sBitters.
G. L. Peun & Son.
Rev. Richard Carroll, a colored
minister of Columbia who holds
the confidence and esteem Of both
the white and colored people
wherever be is known: has invi-
ted the "thoughtful and conser-
vative" colored people from all
parts of the state to attend a con-
terence of the negroes which is to
be held in Columbia from JaAua-
ry the 23r.l to the 25th. Besides
the colored speakers, a nun Der of
prominent white men will also
address the conference. We trust
that this conference will result in
lasting good to the negro race
Rev. Carroll is a good man, and
if his people will follow his in
struction they will not 60 wrong.
Mr.. W. H. Turner, the rroprie-
tor of the Corner Store, will soon
make his regular trip to New
York 10 purchase his spring
stock. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. Turner who will 60 in the
interest of the millinery depart
ment. She will not only make the
millinery selections but will
spend some time in this American
center of fashions studying the
styles, etc. Special orders placed
by the patrons of the Corner
Store will receive careful atteu-
ton.
I am now paying forty cents for
old iron and bones at old depot.
Bring it in while the price is up.
M. A. Taylor.
When the new county. board of
commissioners, which will be
composed of the present sSupervi-
sore and Messrs. w. G. Wells and
W. E. Turner, meets on the first
Tuesday in February, one of the
frs. matters of business to receive
will be the election Of a
clerk. which place has been filled
by Mr.. r. E. Morgan for the past
two years. The position pays $50
ger annum, and ,is being sought
after by half dozen or more per-
sons. The following, we bave been
informed, are applicants: Mr..
Jerome P. Zimmerman, Mr.. J.
w. Cheatham, Mr.. R. E. Morgan,
Mr.. J. T. McManus, Mr.. T. E.
Byrd and Mr.. w. L. Byrd.
John Oliphant, colored, who
was recently indicted for selling
and transporting liquor, failed to
put in his. appearance on Friday
last, the day set for the prelimina-
ry hearing before Magistrate
Brunson. Steps have been taken
to collect the amount Of his bond.
Unless be is caught and surren-
dered by his bondsmen, they will
have to plank down the cash. The
mule and buggy that were seized
by the officer at the time the ar
rest was made at the negro's
home, .hlee miles south of Edge
field, instead of being sold, we're
turned over by order of the Chief
Constable, to persons holding a
mortgage of them.
The January Embroidery Sale
is now on at The Corner Store.
See the vast window. Exquisite
styles and great values, to Is
inches wido at 5 cents per. yard