Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-02-02
|PAIMEITO HAPPENINGS
I News Notes Of General Interest
! From All Parts OF the State.

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Representative C. T. Wyche Of
Newberry, has received a cablegram
from the American consulate at Par
is that his daughter, Miss Isoline
Wyche, who with another Carolinian
and former Winthrop student, Miss
Florrie Bates, of Orangeburg has
been studying in Paris, is H~sperfectly
safe from the flood dangers.
Southern Railway Detective S. 81.
Boyer, who was shot through the
lung by n of three negro car
thieves whom he surprised at work
in the Royster yards at Columbia be-
fore dawn last Wednesday, died FRI
day morning at the Columbia Hos
pital.
Seven pupils and a teacher were
hurt last Friday morning when q
fierce cyclone demolished the Two
Mile Swamp school house, IL miles
from Or%angeburg. One Of the pupils,
a c Of Dan Garick, was severely
injured about the back. The injured
teacher is Miss Julia Reed.
Greenwood county has organized
q boys corn club.
Lexington cotton mills are running
only four days q week. High price
of cotton said to be the reason.
Timmonsville is TO have a new
passenger depot.
The Southern Textile association,
which viii meet in Columbia, Feb
ruary l9, will. be largely attended and
an attractive programme has been
arranged.
The Roddey estate was sold at pub
lie auction at Pock Hill and brought
$240,OO0.
Clarendon county is to have q
county fair in the fall.
The Cheraw printing company has
been chartered with $4,000 capital.
The charleston & Western Caro-
lima railroad will not build a new
depot but will enlarge the present
station at Woodruff.
Gen. M. L. Bonham. of Anderson,
has been elected president of the
South Carolina Bar Association.
The railroad commission ordered
the Southern Railway and Atlantic
Coast Line Railway officials to ar
range their schedules as to make con
nection at Pregnall's, a junction
point between Charleston and
Branchville.
Greenwood is making a strong eff
fort to have the Citadel cadets an
nual encampment this summer.
Ten thousand bales of cotton was
sold on Chester's market since Sept.
LIST.
Anderson is to have a public
abattoir for inspection of all cattle,
hogs, sheep, etc, before being slaugh-
tered.
Isaac Martin died at Inman of
pellasra.
Jas. Boyce, d. d., president
# Woman s College of the A. P.
r harch; at Due West: is dead.
Aga8 SO years.
nm Of $32,655S.41 represent
ecipts from fisheries from Char
CoIleton Georgetown, Horny
and burGhesreE counties from 1906
TO 1909. The expenditures as shown
from reports received by Comp
trolIer General Jones were $~30,357.84
thus leaving a balance Of $2,320.57
TO be divided between the State and
county.
Citizens Of the town Of Black
stock, Chester county, have begun the
matter of moving for the forming
of q new county with that town as
the county seat.
It is announced from Columbia
that Hon. r. S. Whaley. Speaker of
the House, will be q candidate for
lieutenant governor.
AT Greenville thirteen heirs settled
up with creditors and sixty-seven
mortgages were satisfied in one day.
Chester is to have an electric road.
which will link tie county seat and
Great Falls.
AFTER an illness or about a week
Judge Jas. Aldrich passed away at
his home in Aiken last week. He
was judge Of the second circuit from
1892 to 1908.
TIE largest steam plant in the
Southern States is to be erected by
the Southern Power Co., at Green
vile. The cost will be not less than
100000.
a. tuberculosis conference will be
held in Columbia on February q
and 90.
a Statewide campaign for the ed
ucation of the boys Of South Caro-
lima in the growing Of corn and other
agricultural products has been inau-
gurated by o. B. Martin, former
State superintendent lof education.
Ira 3. Williams, who has charge of
the farm demonstration work.
There is much interest among the
people Of Lexington county at pres
ent over a proposed new railway
leading from Columbia by way of
Lexington and Saluda to Greenwood.
1t is understood that the COM
mittee appointed to select a presi-
dent for Clemson college will not re-
port until the regular meeting of
the board of trustees next summer.
Representative johnson says that
out of the number of South Carolina