09 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1910
Page
1
The fragment lists subscription terms dated February 8 1910 offering one year for 1 50 and six months at a reduced price. It reads as a brief price note likely from a periodical. No additional context or entities present beyond dates and monetary figures.
A fragmented OCR line presents a Bacon quote on action hue and heart with stray garbled text following. The readable portion emphasizes action reflecting inner heart and landscape varying with light.
The Greenwood papers claim hens weigh a quarter-pound each aiding a meat boycott while a carload of beef cattle and milch cows was shipped to Charleston from Greenwood last week. Edgefield is urged to match Greenwood in stock raising as farmers seek to outpace rivals. Peary aims for the South Pole next fall, and quips about weeping for absence of Poles if successful.
The piece notes heavier than 1888 North winters with unusual snowfall gaps locally. It mentions legislators finishing the session but suggests continued travel. It lists Orangeburg’s Negro College and Cedar Springs Institute as still unvisited and urges equal attention to all. It closes by noting taxpayers received fourteen cents for cotton.
A columnist notes a boast by a fellow not an Edge field man that he has not bathed in fifteen years. The remark is presented as a prompt for today’s talk on compulsory laws and public health measures.
Organized farmers of the south seek national legislation to curb cotton amblings in Wall Street. While some defend the New York cotton exchange, the piece argues it is largely a gambling scheme that swindles southern farmers, and says growers are pressed and expect action soon.
The Advertiser enters its seventy-fifth year as the oldest paper in South Carolina still publishing under a single name. The note highlights seventy-four years continuous under one title and lists three subscribers who have read it for nearly sixty years.
Mr J TL Gilchrist from North Augusta visited home folks Saturday and Sunday. Miss Jennie Gilchrist recovering from ankle fracture will return home soon. Miss Tillie takes charge of the Lyon's school. Mrs W P Winn and Miss Mary Winn have been sick. W M Strom and Miss Louise Lipscomb visited. The Seigler family welcomed a baby boy. Locals plan to hear Hon Seaborn Wright Tuesday night. Sunday service drew a good crowd and youth meetings followed. Miss Carrie Burkhalter spoke on Charity. Constance Long and West of Red Hill attended. A Sunday school was organized at Morgan schoolhouse. about fifty enrolled. Janie Rosenwike aiding the group’s setup.
The Edgefield cemetery upkeep is praised for its diligent care by the cemetery association led by Dr C E Burts and devoted ladies. Subscriptions fund the labor, with Mrs C E May soliciting distant supporters whose responses include a $5.06 donation and offers of future help.
Two enduring values are health and friendship, as echoed in Farm and Factory. The note reflects on how people recognize these goods only when they are gone.
The Anderson Daily Mail notes a top cotton plungert named Scales who misjudged the market and squandered his fortune, signaling notable losses for his backers and followers in the latest trading swing.
The Abbeville Press and Banner notes a case where a Black man in Kershaw County overvalued his wife at $2.00 on tax returns. It questions Comptroller General Jones’s effort to raise county assessments to an equitable basis.
A Boston era report notes a man paid a woman 4000 dollars to silence her, provoking remarks on the unexpected willingness to accept such a bargain. The exchange highlights the scale of the payment and the moral questions raised by the arrangement.
In Richburg Senator Tillman says the state senate is under corporate control and declined to join the invitation for him to address the legislature. He praises the senate for showing more backbone and self respect.
In the News and Courier a hypothetical cotton shirt boycott is raised, asking how residents of the cotton belt would view a mass refusal to wear shirts until cotton prices fall, reflecting regional concerns reported by the Greenwood Index.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution notes the boss man is away serving time after a lengthy legislative stint. The dialogue implies he will not return until his sentence ends, while workers speculate on his whereabouts and duties.
The Charlotte Observer notes Senator Tillman’s remark that “Thank God there is no divorce in South Carolina” as criticized for reflecting poorly on South Carolina. The piece argues a law depriving a mother of child custody is more objectionable to modern humanity and propriety.
Mr. Parker of Greenville donates 1000 dollars for cotton development in the state under farm demonstration. He is a prominent Southern mill man active in South rebuilding efforts and public spirited, signaling a shift of wealth toward intellectual contributions beyond profit.
The State Senate declined to invite Senator Tillman to address both chambers amid a charged session. House members debated the exclusion, with arguments over precedent and the speaker’s authority fueling the brief dispute.
The column records the death of Clarence Stone at his father's Red Hill home and Mrs. Minta Cotton from pneumonia. It notes local sermons, B Y P U talks, family news, moves of merchants, building plans on North Main, ill children, and farm crop concerns amid cold weather. It mentions Captain James's first-born and community activities including W C T U travel and church attendance.
The death of Clarence Stone from diabetes ends a brief illness and draws a large funeral attendance. Stone, nearly twenty one, was a handsome local youth and member of the Woodmen camp. Pallbearers were chosen from the youngest Woodmen as his family and friends mourned.
Benjamin Stevens Holland died at dawn February 3 in Trenton after a pneumonia illness. He leaves a wife and son, was an Ebenezer church member, and was mourned as a devoted husband and father. Funeral was held Friday at the Baptist church with Rev Graves L. Knight and Dr C E Burts officiating. The family burial occurred at Stevens burial ground and Edgefield county lauded his character.
The death of Mr Holland near the close of his 58th year is reported with sympathy offered to the bereaved family by The Advertiser.
Edgefield county farmers are assured a square deal from Beaver Dam Mills manager B F Zimmerman. The front page carries an official analysis showing Beaver Dam cotton seed meal contains a large plant food percentage and is of higher grade than claimed.
A Edgefield report praises Mrs Zehner, a twenty year veteran in temperance work, for her Monday night lecture at the Baptist church. Citizens applaud her fluent speech and persuasive reasoning, calling her the most effective temperance worker to visit Edgefield.
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