Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-10
THE NEWS INFINITELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

luG MISSISSIPPI iiVti dL DutlluS-
ton, Iowa, has touched the low water
mark established in 1864. !.
Louis Schishe, in his day known as
one cf the world g greatest cornetists,
died at Los Angeles, So years cid.
Negotiations with their employees
looking to a settlement CT The strike
Of cloak makers has been declared
off.
Old Confederate Soldiers of South
Carolina will assemble at Spartan
burg. August II and Is.
The pass book system, used in ordi-
nary savings institutions, will be
adopted for the proposed postal saw
ings banks.
The commissioner Of police of New
York wants farmer boys on the force.
Accordingly what is known as the
mental test Of policemen, will be made
less severe.
Real estate transfers recorded in
Atlanta during July of 1909 amounted
to $1,567,439. The increase is $780,
62l.82.
This year the first Georgia bale
Of cotton was raised by NJ. A. Rainey,
of Baker County. and was sold for
80 cents per pound. The bale weighed
412 pounds, and was graded middling.
It was rushed to Savannah, where it
was sold at auction for p cents the
pound.
One Of the new Dreadnaughts- au-
thorized by the last Congress will be
built in the New York Navy Yard.
1t is possible that tie other ship also
may be built by the Government. The
new ships will be Of $4,000 tons dis
placement, and larger than the Wyom-
ing or Arkansas, now building:
Notices have been posted in the
seven cotton mills of the Amoskeag
Corporation, Manchester, N. H., an
nouncing the entire plant will be shu!
down on August Is and reopen Sep
TENDER u. The company, in connec-
ton with other cotton concerns, has
been c%urtailing the output since
spring. The closing will affect 15,-
500 operatives.
Cincinnati, OHIO, has a population
Of 364,463, according to figures made
public by Census Director Durand.
This is an increase Of 3S.56l, or lis,
per cent, as compared with the popu-
lation in 1900. The population CT
Bonham, Tex, is 4,S44, as compared
with SOP in 1900.
Sultan Mulai Hafd's atrocities
have stirred up European nations,
and his answer to a note OF protest
was to invent a new form of bar
barity, for a woman captive.
The entire police force Of the town
of Guttenburg, N. j., with the 'excep-
tion of the chief, has gone o. a
strike. The men object to doing duty
nR.Sunday, unless they are granted
some other day of the week of. as
acompensation.The force consists OF
eight men. 49,
n. Wise, California farm
& j, claims all reeards for a grass
hopper harvest. In three days he
garnered l25 bushels of hoppers. He
used oil to kill them. Wise says
he will dry the grasshoppers and
feed them to@his chickens next winter.
The Newburgh, N. j., Fabrikord
Works, reputed totbe the largest ar
tiGeial leather plant in the world,
has been sold to the E. l. Du Pont
de Nemours, Powder Company, of
Wilmington, Del, a concern whose
assets aggregate approximately $751;
100000. The price paid was $780,
coo.
Hugging a pretty saleswoman Of a
Boardwalk store, at Atlantic City,
N. j.. in spite Of her protests, is a
serious offense ii the estimation OF
City Judge Keffer, who committed
Pietro Conide, a love-smitten youth
to Jail for 80 days
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter S. Jarhoe, Of
Kansas City, occupied cells at the
Joliet, ILL.,, police station because the
woman masqueraded with her hus-
band in male attire: They have been
"hoboing" since their marriage a
month ago, just for fun.
A bill making it a misdemeanor for
any company to employ messenger
boys under l6 years of age between.
the hours of 9 p. M, and 6 a. m.,
was passed by the lower house Of
the Georgia legislature.
Esperantists will be invited to hold
their worlds convention in 1915 in
New Orleans. During the congress at
Washington a lecture will be given
on New Orleans as the "logical
point" for the Panama exposition.
Thousands of acres of pnappropri-
ated lands which were eliminated
from the national forests and re-
stored to the public domain by re-
cent proclamation Of President Taft
will be thrown open to homestead
settlement and entry this fall, accord
ing to orders issued by Acting Sec
rotary Pierce of the Interior Depart
ment. The lands are located in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico, Washington, Ore
gon, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. The
secretary also has restored to settle
ment on October % and to entry on
November q about 1920 acres in the
Great Falls. Mont, land district form