Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-09
! CAPIIAL OF
WEST SIDE. .
Short but Very Interesting History o
The Progressive Town of
Papksville.

.Talbert, Jr., and the other by j. P.
Brunson. Both stores are doing a
thriving business.
Messrs. Robertson Bros d Elkins,
a comparatively new firm in a bran
new store so.by go feet, are doing a
business. Messrs. G. q VIII.
Robertson and Dan A. Bell do the
buying and selling, and Mr.. j. IL.
Elkins keeps the books.
Mr.. d. Nixon Dorm is running
the business of his father, the la
mented L. f. Dorm, deceased. MIR.
Dorm is a natural born merchant,
and is doing a good business. His
assistants are Messrs. Henry Reese
and Henry Barrett.
Mr.. 3, f. Cotton has recently
opened up a, splendid furniture
business in the old. Campbell store
on the corner near the post Office.
Mr.. Cotton, recently from Connecti-
cut, is well known far and wide for
his courtesy and fair dealing,
The business men of this town
and community having realized the
disadvantages and inconvenience to
which they were subjected went to
work and organized a bank a little
more than a year ago. The bank
though small, has done a good bust
ness from the start. Having lost its
president (Mr. L. F. Dorm the vice
president, DIR w. G. Blackwell, is
at his post, while the affable cashier,
w. P. Parks, attends to the hand
ling of your money. The bank is
safe and its patrons have NO fears
in depositing their money in this
institution, which is a great help
and convenience to the town.
We have q very unique and use
full character in the person of Mr..
r. N. Edmunds, who runs a public
shop. Mr.. Edmuhds not only does
good work and guarantees it but he
guarantees his collections, having
lost only ten dollars i'll as many
years.
Our post office is the pride Of the
town, presided over by Miss Sallie
Parks, granddaughter of the towns
founder, with Miss Annie McDon-
aid as her assistant. These young,
ladies are not only efficient, but are
pretty as well, and a ggrea,Bmany
young people 60 to2the post office
when they do not expect any mail
Just to look at something pretty.
Parksville is conceded to be the
capital of the West-side, and Judge
John Blackwell presides over the
office of magistrate for this judicial
district, because by law he must re-
ride at the capital. The prominence
and prestige of the "West-Side
Capital" is further accentuated and
dignifed by having the Coroner of
Edgefeld county in our midst, in the
person of Judge John Brunson, who
is always ready to do his duty when
called upon to hold inquests, but
says he can not afford to boast OF
his business for good and sufficient
reasons.
Parksville has two resident ply
sicians: D. A. j. Bell, NJ. D., who
was graduated from the Medical
Department of the University of
Georgia in 1889 and has practiced
his profession here continuously
since that time, and w. G. Black
we'll, M. D., who was graduated
from the University of the South at
Sewanee, Tenn. in 1899, and he
also has been here ever since and
does a good practice.
Parksville boasts of her fraterni-
ty spirit. The Lodge of Ancient
Free Masons is in a fourishing con-
dition, taking in new material at
every meeting. Oak camp, Nc. 81,
w. o. W. is recognized as the
mother of Woodcraft in western