The Potter’s Wheel Over the Centuries

The Potter’s Wheel Over the Centuries

And New Pottery Stash Clues –  By Justin Guy – When we think of a potter today most people imagine a person seated in front of a rather small machine with a flat disc which is kept reliably turning with the use of a pedal and electric motor.  It is easy to forget that this modern […]

Endia Yeldell

EDGEFIELD, S. C. – Mrs. Endia Simpkins Yeldell, 84, of Hwy 25 N., entered into rest April 7, 2013. Funeral service will be held 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2013 at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Oscar W. Brown officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Yeldell, a native of Barnwell […]

Here & There – 4-11-13

Water/Gatorade Donations: April 1-19, Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Johnston will be collecting bottled water and bottled Gatorade that will be distributed to four  community fire departments: Johnston, Ridge Spring, Monetta, and Center (Hwy. 1) the week of April 22. Collection Sites are First Citizens Bank in Johnston and Ridge Spring, IGA in Johnston, Ridge Auto […]

Computer Hacking at an All Time High

– By Bill Read of Computer Consultants Group, Inc., (ccgnet.com) of Charleston – Computer hacking events are at an all time high. This past week your venerable Edgefield Advertiser discovered that our own web server had been compromised. Our site does not contain any sensitive information, other than our own news articles, so please be […]

Kudos to a Woman’s Club a Half Century Old

EDITORIAL Johnston is a quiet town – except, maybe, on Saturday night.  It has been called a town to raise your children in.  What is significant in the mind of this writer, at this time, is how this quiet town has produced such strength in women.  When a club has lasted half a century, there […]

Roscoe Strickland

GREEN SEA, S.C. – Roscoe Strickland, 96 husband of 67 years to the late Nina Buffkin Strickland, passed away April 4, 2013 in Lexington, S.C. Born October 9, 1916, in Horry County, he was the son of the late Hybert and Lucy Strickland, retired farmer, avid fisherman and a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church. […]

Mary Williams

JOHNSTON, S.C. – Funeral services for Ms. Mary Williams, who entered into rest Thursday, April 4, 2013, will be held at 12 noon, Wed., April 10, at Simmon Ridge Baptist Church with the Rev. Alex Williams Pastor. Interment will be in the church cemetery. She is survived by two brothers, Johnnie (Christine) Jones of Johnston […]

James Landrum

EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mr. James E. Landrum, of Walker Road, entered into rest April 6, 2013. Funeral services will be held 12 p.m. Wed., April 10, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Willie Patten, Jr., officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Landrum, a native of Edgefield County was a member […]