Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-01-08
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

the home folks, Miss Mamie Cheat
ham has returned to Pleasant Lane.
Messrs. Rives Bros. announce in
their advertisement this week that
they have secured the agency for
the celebrated Mccall patterns.
Misses Eliee Swearingen of Tren-
ton and Annie Mae Atkinson of Au-
gusta spent several days last week
with Miss Mamie Cheatham.
Married, Sunday afternoon, Jan
uary 5, Miss Matte Bell Casey and
MIR. Joe G. Adams, at Fruit Hill by
Rev. Fl. B. White.
There will be a called meeting
of the Odd Fellows tonight WED
nesday) at s o'clock. A full attend
ance is desired.
Better secure your tickets early
for the lyceum entertainment, as
there will be large demand for
seats. The first selections will be
the best.
The students have all returned to
the S. G. c.. /. and everything is
moving along as systematically as
if there had been no interruption CT
; the routine work by the Holidays.
Everybody is talking parcel post
but The Advertiser is of the opinion
that an old-fashioned registered let
ter is preferable to bundle, bale
or box la parcel post.
Mr.. Horace Cogburnis here visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
b. Cogburn. He is now an engineer
on the Southern railroad and makes
Columbia his headquarters.
Some Of the merchants have been
spending the past week taking stock
and closing up the old years busi-
ness. In spite of the many adverse
conditions Edgefield merchants had
very satisfactory year.
Newt. Broadwater says he and
several of the other neighbors will
soon initiate Wiley QUITS and have
promised to invite The Advertiser
man out to witness the ,conferrlng
of the third degree by the knights
Of Agriculture.
Mrs. Il. c. Bailey has closed her
sixth millinery season with Messrs.
Rives Bros and has returned to her
home in Lynchburg, Va. She will
come to Edgefeld in the early
spring to again take charge of the
millinery department of RiYes Bros.
DR.. and Mrs. NJ. D, Jeffries spent
Monday in Ridge Spring as guests
of Col. and Mrs. R. B. Watson. If
we mistake not they joined in well
coming the new Baptist pastor who
halls from the state of Tennessee.
The most valuable and the most
highly priced New Year gift that
was bestowed anywhere in the
county was that which the Stork
left at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Smyley Stevens last Wednesday,
fine boy.
Mr.. B. B. Wilson arrived Mon
day morning from Lexington, ky.,
bringing with him the second car
of horses and mules for Messrs.
Wilson & Cantelou. They purchase
their stock from the farmers aroand
Lexington.
The governor has appointed Col.
W. Jasper Talbert of Edgefeld as
representative from South Carolina
on the Gettysburg battle commls-
sion to take the place made vacant
by the death of Gen. James w.
Moore.
While very few farmers will now
be benefited by rise, it is proba-
BILE that cotton seed will go still
higher. Cotton seed meal is selling
for $2s per ton and hulls at sls per
ton. These prices are unusually
high for the season, and it is proba-
bic that meal will advance still
more.
The knights of Pythias will give
their annual banquet ill the college
dining room on Monday night,
January l6. Each Knight will have
the privilege of taking his wife, sis
ter or sweetheart. 1t is probable
that some prominent knight will
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