Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-12-08
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

last week.
Don't delay your order for hand
painted china for weddings. Miss
Eliza Minis will o=it for you.
Rev. P. P. Blalock will preach in
the Presbyterian church at Johnston
next Sunday morning at 11:15
o'clock.
Mr.. John Cosey returned home
last Tuesday after a visit of ten
days with his daughter, Mrs. Sam
Agner.
Bishop Guerry will be welcomed
visitor to Edgefeld on the 10th of
this month and will make an address
in the Episcopal church.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. GAMES and
Mr.. B. F. Gaines passed through
Edgefeld on their way to Florida on
Wednesday.
!. The regular monthly meeting of
the U. D. C. will be held at the home
of Mrs. N. G. Evans Tuesday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock.
The custom of bestowing gifts. at
the Christmas season is beautiful
one and should be kept up, but let
all Christmas giving this year be
sane and sensible.
DIR. R. G. Lee, Rev. P. B. Lanham,
Rev. w. R. Barnes and possibly
others from Edgefeld are in Colum-
bia attending the annual State Bap-
tist convention.
Recently Mr.. E. NJ. Faulkner
brought the Advertiser the longest
sweet potato Of the season. The cook
could almost be seated on one end
while the other roasted in the ashes.
After much delay, for which no.
body is to be censured, the new hotel
4 will be ready to open formally for
business by the end of the week.
Dinner Sunday will be the first meal
served. .-.r.-.la..
It seems that the weather is
against the lyceum course, but let's
not give up the enterprise. Edgefeld
needs the lyceum and it can not be
made success without the patronage
of the people.
Mrs. Maggie Hill arrived Tuesday
afternoon from Columbia to spend
several days in Edgefeld. She will
soon go to Savannah to make her
home with her son, Walter Hill.
The mud, the mud, the mud! If
the city authorities would only per-
NIT one to take the mud from the
streets, brick making plant could
be operated very cheaply in Edge
field these December days.
Those who, looking to the future
a decade or more ago, planted pecan
: trees are now being rewarded. Home
grown pecans are selling readily at
40 cents per pound for the large
ones.
The first 1921 calendar to reach
our desk was from our thoughtful
friend, Ralph Winn, of Plum Branch,
and the second was presented by
Mr.. M. A. Taylor, another friend
who keeps US cool in summer and
makes it hot for US in the winter.
Attention is directed to. the fol-
lowing new advertisements this week:
The Corner Store, The Hub, Dixie
Highway Pharmacy, James Allan o.
Co., Dorm & Minis, Israel Mukashy,
Edgefield Fruit Store and Mitchell
& Rainsford.
l&he absent college students and
1Me folk back home are counting the
days for the homecoming for the
Christmas vacation. The old town will
take on new life socially when all
of our college boys and girls come
home.
Within a short time the town will
have continuous electric light and
power, service. Superintendent Har-
ling has already employed man to
ELL the gap between the service OF the
day man and night man at the pow
er house. J.
The Dixie Highway Pharmacy
opened for business last Saturday.
tt is. very attractive place with its
modern sanitary soda fountain and
beautiful fixtures and is already prov
ing to be popular. Major Collett is
assisted by Mr.. Walter Gantelou.
Mr.. Wall is bringing some good
pictures to Edgefeld and the people
are responding to his efforts to fur
nish them "movies" of high order;
The Opera House is made warm and
comfortable for those who wish to
spend one or more hours seeing the
pictures.
The expert accountants from the
Office of the Comptroller Generals
Office have filed their report with
the rlerk of court and will be sub