Man Killed in Shooting at Johnston Pool Room

Man Killed in Shooting at Johnston Pool Room

  Milledge Hall, 63, of Johnston, was killed Monday, May 7, in a shooting outside the Pool Room on Johnston.  According to a spokesperson with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect, whose name is not being released at this time, came to the Pool Room earlier in the day and had words with employees […]

ECSO Seeks Suspects in Connection with Theft Ring

  The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office is looking for 3 more suspects in connection with the theft ring first reported on by the Advertiser in our Apr. 16 edition.  The ECSO has warrants for the arrest of Jacob (Jake) Folland, Cathrin Linares, and Christopher Basnight in connection to multiple thefts that have occurred in Edgefield […]

Mr. Milledge H. Hall, Jr. – Johnston, SC

Mr. Milledge H. Hall, Jr. Johnston, SC  Funeral Services for Mr. Milledge H. Hall, Jr.  will be held Friday, May 11, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at Bland Funeral Home.   The family will receive friends from 1:00-2:00 p.m. prior to the service.  Burial will follow in Eastview Cemetery, Edgefield, SC. Mr. Hall died Tuesday, May 8, […]

Robert E. (Bob) Dorn, Sr. – Edgefield, S.C.

Robert E. (Bob) Dorn, Sr. –  Edgefield, S.C.

Thurmond Burnett          Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett              Fax: (803)637-6006 Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com May 8, 2018 Robert E. (Bob) Dorn, Sr. Edgefield, S.C.     Mr. Robert E. (Bob) Dorn, Sr., 92, of Edgefield, […]

DOROTHY DALTON MATHIS RUMMEL – Durham

CLEMENTS FUNERAL SERVICE, INC.     (919) 286-1224     fax (919) 286-1226 OBITUARY NEWS STORY PUBLISH PAID ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2018   DOROTHY DALTON MATHIS RUMMEL   Durham Dorothy Dalton Mathis Rummel, known and loved by many as “Dot,” “Pinky,” and “Dorothy,” went to be with Jesus on May 4, 2018, at home, surrounded by her loving […]

Ethics

Ethics

Ethics as a word and as a concept are both derived from ancient Greece. The word is a close kin to the less common ethos, which roughly means character – as in character of a society or of a nation. The 1943 edition of Webster’s Dictionary on my bookshelf was inherited from my father, and […]

Hope for the Next Generation & Some Important Opportunities

Hope for the Next Generation & Some Important Opportunities

  Last week I finished two weeks of editorials, where I discussed the Nazi holocaust and the fact that most American millennials are uneducated on the slaughter of innocent Jewish lives a mere 3 generations ago. http://www.edgefieldadvertiser.com/2018/04/more-on-the-holocaust-another-action-item/.  Both weeks had action items for us as individuals: parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts or uncles, to help ensure […]

Eileen Morgan Millburg-Orangeburg, SC

Dukes-Harley Funeral Home and Crematory 3379 Columbia Road Orangeburg, SC  29118 Phone:803-534-6621 Fax: 803-536-3586 Eileen Morgan Millburg, 100, of Orangeburg, SC, passed away May 1, 2018. She was the beloved wife of the late Harvey Joseph Millburg. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 am, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the Methodist Oaks Chapel, […]

Harold E. Miller, Sr. Columbia, S.C.

   COLUMBIA– Harold Edward Miller Sr., 86, of Columbia, South Carolina passed away May 1, 2018 at Providence Hospital Columbia, S.C.  He was born on October 10, 1931 in Edgefield, South Carolina to the late George and Anna (Hammond) Miller.  A proud US Navy Veteran, Harold served honorably during the Korean War and in the China […]