The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-05-19


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LAURENs, s.. O., May 10th, 1891.
LoCAI.
Miss Mamie Boyd is visiting in
Greenville.
An infant child OF Mr.. T. b. Reeves
died last week.
Mrs. Martha WILKES has returned from
a visit TO Charlotte.
Rev. Robert Franks preached In the
Methodist Church Sunday.
See about the moonlight festival on
Friday night.
Miss Jane Ballew of Glenn Springs
is visiting Col. t. b. Crews family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. j. Lipscomb are visit
ing the family Of Mr.. w. NJ. McCaslan.
Mr.. Darby Fulton oY Clinton spent
Sunday in the city.
Mrs. Brooks, of Seneca, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. McCaslan.
Mr.. w. A. Wallace is building a resi-
dence on Laurel STREET.
Mr.. s. j. Garlington's brick works
are now in full operation.
Mrs. Lizzie Fielder, of Moores, is on
a visit to her sister, Mrs. West.
Call at Tallahassee is still on the anx.
ious bench.
Miss Eunice Walker, Of Spartanpurg,
is visiting her cousin, Miss Lula West,
on College Avenue.
Ground was broken yesterday pre-
paratory to the building of the now
Presbyterian Church.
Miss Rookie McCaslan, who has been
teaching music at Waynesville, has re-
turned homo to assist in the college
here.
Congressman Shell went to Greenville
Tuesday to hear Hon. Ben Terrell, Ma
tional Alliance lecturer.
II. l.. Mclaughlin has been elected
President of the Piedmont Factory in
place of President Hammett, deceased.
Miss Sara Ball, who has been on a
visit to her parents, returned to Column
bia yesterday.
The City Council has ordered a lot OF
terra Gotta piping to use in the drainage
of certain streets.
Don't forget to go and see the New
berry Rifle Theatrical Company at the
Opera House on Thursday night. Pro
ceeds to be divided with the Laurens
Guards.
Mr.. Barnwell Anderson is at home
for the summer vacation from the Pres
byterian Seminary at Columbia.
Postmaster Robinson has ordered
seventy additional lock boxes. Who
say Laurens isn't growing tremen
dously?
It will pay you to carefully note the
advertisement of the Union Central Life
Insurance Company OF which Sam +.
Darlington is agent.
President MoBryde, OF the s. q. Col
lege, has resigned to accept the presi-
dency of the Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
Hurry up if you want a Gloria parasol.
They are going like hot cakes at Elem
ing & Co.'S. They can't hold them at
such low prices.
Rev. w. II. Atkinson, President of the
S. 9. College for Women at Columbia,
will occupy the Presbyterian pulpit
next Sunday morning n evening.
Properly enough Laurens, upon her
arch, has a Goddess Of Liberty all to her
self. Well, Laurens is the homo of god
desses and liberty, anyway.-Colum6ia
Record.
Herlong charged with The murder of
Capt. Frank Wannamaker during last
summers campaign was tried and ac-
quilted last week at ~Orangeburg. He
only killed a lawyer.
Extensive forest fires in Michigan have
done great damage in the destruction Of
forests, Villages and railroad property.
Many persons have been injured and in
some cases fatally.
Crowd the Opera house Thursday
night and give Capt. Mclaughlin and
his boys a rOusing WELCOMED Have we
or do we want better friends tina they2
The Laurens Guards expects every man
to do his duty and take his best girl.
The Earnest Workers" society of the
Presbyterian Church will give a moon
light picnic Friday evening on the
College campus. Refreshments will be
served and a good time is expected. The
proceeds will 20 to the New Presby-
terrain Church.
A crowd OF colored people collected
around the Jail Friday morning, expect
ing the execution of Perry Gray. In
the meantime Gray had gone to Colum.
bia the day before, not to attend the
Centennial, but to begin his life sentence
in the penitentiary.
The relatives and friends of Mrs. So
phia M. Langston, widow Of the late Jno