03 Aug 1910
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1910
Page
1
The county campaign kicked off at Long Branch with 300 to 400 attendees. Executives and candidates from Edgefield shared pledges and speeches, praising local voters and outlining plans for primary campaigns, road work, education, and fiscal responsibility.
Residents of the lower Abbeville and upper Edgefield counties push to join Greenwood County. A petition signed by required freeholders rests with Governor Ansel, who will refer it to the Attorney General and, if favorable, appoint a commission and order an election. The planned addition covers about ten square miles from each county, adding McCormick and Plum Branch, with described boundary lines along Long Cane Creek Little River Savannah River and Stevens Creek. The Greenwood Index notes the move would increase Greenwood’s area and population and calls it a growing, favorable region.
The statesman mocks a late scandal with a parlor maid tale about a girl’s engagement and a late visitor. He frames the testimony as bad and unanswerable, likening it to a household misstep and a kiss in the parlor. The remark targets the scandal’s credibility and propriety.
A doctor walking through a blizzard at four in the morning meets Uncle Pack, dubbed the laziest man in town. The exchange centers on Uncle Pack’s need for his morning dram and his quip that it won’t keep if taken the night before. The tale uses dialect and a humorous punch line about keeping a drink.
5 W Bends of Coal City Alabama says he found a perfect mine of health in Dr King’s New Life Pills after 12 years of liver and kidney trouble. The pills cure constipation malaria headache dyspepsia and debility. 25 cents at WE Lynch Co Penn and Holstein B Timmons.
A correspondent writes from Texas about farmland near Shreveport and the Mississippi bottoms, noting crops and rains. He praises local people from the old states, mentions Sunday school, and plans to visit more as he reports on corn and cotton conditions and harvest prospects.
Sunday at Red Oak Grove church marked a major ordination as P. H. Bussey Jr. was set apart as a minister of the Gospel. The ceremony featured Rev. A. B. Bussey and Rev. L. B. White, with the Bussey family prominent in county life and a strong church turnout. A Provo presbytery laid on hands and a Bible was presented as part of the formal charge.
A New York Times anecdote recalls a railroad official who calmed a wailing infant in a Pullman by placing the child on his knees and gently jogging it to sleep. He notes some drummers in the car disapproved of his intervention as the infant woke again at 2 a.m. and the room stayed awake.
A Houston Post column quotes a reader arguing that persuasion cannot make a woman perceive a man as a liar. The exchange includes a remark about him once telling her she was beautiful.
Advert claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly relieves burns cuts and wounds and heals ulcers boils eczema and skin eruptions. It lists 35 cents at W E Lynch & Co Penn and Holstein and B Timmons as sellers with chapped hands sprains mentioned.
Miss Marie Cullen visits grandfather Capt Waters in Springfield while Miss Ella Pauline Pechman visits Miss Carey in Pickens. Social events include large tea hosted by Mrs J H White and receptions for visiting ladies with music and refreshments.
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