Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-08-20
JOHNSTON LETTER.
Ground Broken For New 81 g.
600 Methodist Church.
Death Of MIR. Augustus
Nickerson.

Mr.. Earl Crouch spent the week enc
at Greenwood with MIR. and Mrs
Taylor Goodwin, making car trip
Mrs. w. Allen Mobley and little
Virginia are at home from a visit
to relatives at Middlebrook, Va.
Mrs. NJ. A. Huiet is visiting at
Trilby. Ga.
Miss Matte Osteen is the guest
of friends here.
Mrs. Will Hoyt and her sister,
Miss Foster, are at home from a
visit to Augusta.
DR.. B. L. Allen returned last
week from. the Augusta hospital
He is auch improved and it is a
great pleasure to his many friends
to have him back.
Mrs. May Walker Byrd, Of Pleas,
ant Lane, visited Mrs. j. P. Bean
last week.
Mrs. f. R. Mobley his returned
from Columbia where she visited
the family Of her uncle, Mr. j. f.
Mobley.
Mesdames Chas. Hearsey and
Sallie Dodge, of Wayhesboro, Ga,
are guests of Mrs. Carl Lowrey.
Mr.. p. N. Lott is at home from
athree weeks stay in the upper
part OF the state where he has been
conducting farmers institute at
the different points.
Misses Mamie Swillenburg and
Beulah Smith, of New berry are
guests of Mrs. James Dobey.
Mr.. F. S. Blind is spending this
week in Brunswick, Ga, with rela
tiVes.
Miss Marion Mobley gave de-
1ightful tea on Wednesday evening
complimentary to Mrs. Horace
Wright, of Georgetown.
Miss Antoinette Denny is at
Cross Hill, the guest in the home
of her cousin, Mr. James Denny.
Mesdames S. ]. Watson and
Frank Crouch and Miss Loisa Wat
son spent few days of the past
week in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Satcher and
children have been visiting at the
home of MIR. w. w. Satcher.
Miss Lucille Miles, of Maiden,
Texas, is expected soon to visit
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Browne and
children are spending a month in
the mountains of North Carolina.
Miss Sara Norris is spending
awhile in Baltimore.
Mr.. George Merchant, of Green
wood, was here this week.
Miss Virginia Harrison is at home
from Aiken where she visited Miss
Rath Coleman.
Mrs. Margaret Stevens and Mr..
J. F. Payne visited relatives here
during the past week. They reside
very near that noted old church,
Stevens Creek church, and told of
one of the best reyivals held there
in years, the meeting August 10th.
There were 80 additions to the
church, 3 of which were by letter.
Rev. Henry White is pastor, and
he was ably assisted by Rev. j. E.
Bailey, now of Charleston.
Mesdames A. P. Lott, and w.
D. Watkins spent several days at
Trenton last week being summoned
there to attend the bedside of their
niece, Mrs. Arthur Webb, whose
death resulted on Saturday. Mrs.
Webb was Miss Matte. Holland be-
fore her marriage and there was an
afectionate bond between her and
Mrs. Lott, for being an orphan, her
girlhood days were spent under the
loving care and guidance of her
aunt Mrs. Lott.
On laslThursday morning, work
was begun on the Methodist church
here on the corner of Lee and
Church streets, dirt being broken
by the pastor Rev. E. H. Beckham.
The editice will cost 81 5000 and the
plan contains all the modern i'm
provements o. the Sunday school
rooms and main auditorium. This
is splendid record for a pastor,
two churches being erected during
the year in his circuit. Harmony
church is nearing compl elton.
Miss Lucille Norris is spending
this month in Hendersonville, N.
G.
Mr.. Augustus Nickerson died
here last Thursday at about 2
o'clock. For two or three years his
health has been failing, and last
January he was in a critical state,