Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-11-15
LOCAL AND PERSONAL,

brother, MT. warren All, III DeecI
Island.
Mr.. Allen T. Samuel came home
to spend the weekend with hls
family.
Hon. n. G. Evans spent Thurs,
day and Friday in Saiuda on legal
business.
DR.. E. Pendletop Jones will
preach at Horns Creek Sunday af-
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Miss Sallie Carwile of Johnston
is here visiting Mrs. Mary E. Car
vile and Mrs. r. A. Marsh.
Beautiful assortment of Crepe-de-
chine waists. All popular colors.
Muksshy Bargain House.
Miss Monteze Spearman of Green
wood has been the guest of Mrs.
J. p. Zimmerman during the past
week.
The man who holds his cotton
seed over till planting time will
doubtless get $40 per bushel for
any kind of old seed.
Mr.. B. B. Wilson and his son,
DIR Wilson. stopped over in Edge
field Sunday as guests of Mr.. Bet
tbs Cantelou while en- route to
Augusta.
DR.. E. Pendleton Jones celebra-
ted his birthday on Friday last.
His mother, and brother, DR.. Ashby
Jones came up from Augusta to be
with DR.. Jones for the day.
The Advertiser acknowledges an
invitation to attend the dedicatory
exercises of the new gymnasium of
Winthrop College to be held the af
ternoon of November II.
About the first step in preparing
for the boil weevil is to enlarge the
pastures you already have and fence
additional areas, 80 as to be able to
change your stock from one pasture
to another.
Rev. A. L. Gunter left Sunday 10
attend the annual meeting in Green
vile of the U2per-South Carolina
Conference of the Methodist church.
During his absence Mrs. Gunter
will visit her parents in Leesville.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Harling are
now keeping house. occupying rooms
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. n. NJ.
Jones that were occupied by Mr..
and Mrs kirkland before they moved
to Batesburg.
The telephone company is Install
ing new switch board in the CEN
tral office and is making other need
ed improvements. After the ex-
change has been fully overhauled
the service will be greatly i'm
proved.
The increase in the volume of bus
mess done by the Edgefeld mer-
chants this fall can be Judged by
the number of new clerks that are
employed. Some OF the stores have
as many as three or four additional
clerks.
Edgefeld is being we'll represent
ed at the Georgia. Carolina Fair IN
Augusta this week. Augusta re-
CARDS Carolina" and especially
Edgefeld county, as one of her
strongest assets. Rightly so too.
1t will be pleasing information to
the friends of Miss Grace Dobson
to know that she will soon fill the
position as operator for the tele-
phone exchange, serving now as a
student operator. Wea confident
that the services of 5 popular
young lady will provet, be entirely
satisfactory.
No further stimulus should be
needed to increase hog raising in
the county than the fact that wes-
tern lard ,is selling for twenty cents
per pound. Cotton will have to
bring more than 20 cents to enable
farmers to buy western lard at 90
cents per pound.
Mr.. T. A. Hightower spent the
early part of last week in Spartan
burg, Greenvil!e and Atlanta, at
tending banquet at the latter place
that was given the superintendents
of the plants of the Addison Mills.
This extended trip was given Mr..