The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-12-01

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LAURENs, 8. O., Dec. list, 1891.
! LOCAL
Cotton yesterday ~ to7K.
A slight snow Sunday p. NJ.
Miss Lucia McGowan, of Abbeyille, is
visiting Mrs. A. G.. Wardlaw.
Miss Lutte Wright is at home on a
visit.
Attorney Johnson visited Columbia
last week.
4 Go to the Minstrels tomorrow night
q and forget hard times.
Col. n. b. Crews went to Greenville on
I business last week.
The passenger depot is being built
and will be a neat and convenient affair.
DR.. Posey's prices are way down. DR..
y Posey's customers are way up.
Mrs. Crayton, OF N. O., has been on a
j visit to the family OF her father, DIR. J. I.
Poole.
Happy and content is a home with "The Ro-
chester; a lamp with the light OF the morning.
Catalogues, write Rochester Lamp Co. ,NewYork.
Representative Watts Is on the Judic-
iary and Ways md Means committees.
, the two most imp ortant in the House.
The conference of the A. NJ. e. Church
will meet here Wednesday,. Bishop
Arnett Of Ohio will preside.
Mrs. Della Martin left for her home in
Port Royal last Wednesday, to the re-
greet of humorous friends.
Mr.. w. w. Kennedy's law Office is in
the front room of Col. Balls building,
north side of the squares; third floor.
The Wilcox s. Gibbs Guano Co., whose
advertisement appears in these columns
is one Of the oldest and most reliable
houses IN the South.
Rev. d. B.. Clayton is expected to
preach at M. Nj. leagues school house
on the third Sunday in Dec. next at IL
O'Clock A. NJ. and Saturday before.
Mr.. Claude N; Bennett, of the Atlanta
Journal, was in town Friday. The
Journal has no superior among news
papers in the South and is greatly
blessed in the possession of Mr.. Bennett.
DR.. III. Martin makes q great Christ
mas announcement this morning. For
holiday gifts no better place can BIO
found where the beautiful novelties of
the Christmas season are sold at prices
which enable all to buy and be happy.
When u really first class show comes
to Laurens it ought to receive liberal
patronage. If there is anything in
newspaper accounts McCabe & Young's
Minstrels furnish a great fund of amuse-
mont and the troupe is n first rate n
Mr.. w. A. Jones brought to this office
Monday the talons of a bald eagle killed
at Beaverton last week. 1t measured
IN feet from tip to tip and weighed 1Ok
pounds. Tho eaglo was caught ina
~tfaps5SEvMr:.J Jones. I.had carried off
q goose the day before.
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place Of even moro than usual interest
for several days. The beautiful art dis
play conducted by Miss Sharp shows
the work of the White sewing machine.
No one should fail to see this most ar
tistic exhibition.
Capt. w. w. Butler, second son of
Senator NJ. G. Butler, died suddenly at
Augusta Sunday of congestion of the
brain at the age Of thirty. Cant.->Butler
I&as a.4aIyer of consuefable reputation
I'm EdgefefR ami was one of the most
promising young men in the State. His
death is a loss to South Carolina.
A successor to the late Chief Justice
Simpson will DO elected to-day by the
General Assembly. The race is between
General Y. j. Pope, Judge w. FL. Wal
lace and Major III, A. Meetze. IT Judge
Wallace is elected, Col. r. G. Watts, COL.
=. w. Ferguson and Major D.. r. Dun
can will probably be candidates for the
Seventh Circuit Vacancy.
Mrs. Ida Tucker, wifo of j. n. Tucker,
died last Tuesday morning in his city.
She was young, just entering the duties
4Soevomanhood, and had only been mar
ried about a year. Her death is a sad af-
Fiction to a devoted husband and ia
Their and kindred. She left an infant
child. Mrs. Tucker was a daughter of
MI. William Scott. The deep sympathy
OF the community is with the distressed
family.
Rev, and Mrs. Albert G. Wardlaw are
welcomed down from Lauren among
the popular visitors of the week. They
are accompanied by their handsome
little boy, John b., of whom they are
sery proud. John b. ought to be good
cooking, however, with one of the most
beautiful women in all Virginia for a
mother anil o handsome Georgia Presby-
terian preacher for a happy father.-Au
gusta Evening News,
Bills of local interest introduced in
the Legislature:
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