The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-13
AMONG rHg MAsv THINGS
which Have happened in the PAST Week,
Here are q Few matters OF Interest.

which Have happened IN the pass Week,
Here are q Pew Matters OF Interest.
The furniture for the Presbyterian
Sunday School room has arrived.
Miss Emmie Webb Is visiting in Au,
gusta.
Miss Louise Vance has gone TO Green
vile to spend awhile with relatives.
Mrs. w. r. Young is visiting relatives
at st. Georges.
Mr.. Gus. Hudgsns, OF Honea Path, is
visiting relatives in town.
DIR. Sampson Pope, the renowned
Newberry Reformer, spont several days
in the city last week.
Miss Eloise Wright has returned from
Converse College where she has spent
the session,
Miss Mary Aikon, OF Cokesbury, Wis
tied her cousins, DIR. and Mrs. Hugh
X. Aiken last week..
Mrs. ella Wallace, of Green Vile, with
hor children has been visiting Capt. w.
I'll. CARROTS family.
Mrs. J.. A. Copeland and Master Will
liam Bruce Copeland have returned
from q visit to GreenviIle.
Misses Corinne Pitts. Mary Garrett and
Mary Cannon have returned from Con-
worse College.
Mrs. Josephine Watts has returned
from q visit to relatives in Newberry
County. Her sister, Miss Lizzie Gary,
accompanied her home.
Miss Julia Utsey, who has been attend
ing the Graded Schools and graduated
at the recent commencement, has re-
turned to her home at ST. Georges, s. G.
Mrs. Ann Carrot and Mr.. Claude Gar
rett have returned from Spartanburg
where they attended the commencement
of Converse College last week.
Miss Ida Holmes has gone to Waynes.
Vile, N. c., to visit hor sister, Miss Mary
Belle Holmes who has been seriously
i'll. The latter Is now much improved.
Drop in at Kennedy Bros. before you
go home in the afternoon and buy a
nickel's worth of ice, five pounds, have
ice tea for supper and cool water for
tho night.
Miss Mayme Ferguson has returned
from the South Carolina College for We
mon at Columbia. Miss Ferguson's
pictures received very high praise at
tho art exhibit of the school last week.
So far as the ADVERTISER has learned
no man in this town has seconded the
motion about an Athletic Club, but the
idea Ia a good one. Our people need
muscle.
Mr.. Addison Sullivan and Mr.. M. G.
Langston are petitioners for county dis
penser. It'll 8 said hat they have within
twenty or thirty of thenumber of names
of freehold voters necessary.
Laurens has tho most efficient and ac-
complished kicker among all the horses
of the world. He is an animal who
does not especially pride himself on his
personal appearance but whose actions
speak louder than words. He has been
the wonder and admiration Of u citi-
zens for the past week n they have
gazed upon him in awe by the hour.
Let us have q summer frolic, a base
ball tournaments, q ireman's tourna-
mont, any sort of tournament, but let's
celebrate. There is a possibility OF dry
weather in July. Therefore let us all
get together and raise q tremendous
fuss thus bringing down bountiful and
refreshing showers after the manner OF
those who have been exploding gun
powder for the same purpose.
Seriously, Laurens oughtto invite the
neighbors to spend a few days with her
this summer. We are in danger of los
ing I equation for hospitality.
Afro-American youthful devilishness
vented itself on the colored school build
ing which is located in the depths of
Postum Hollow last Wednesday night.
The dark hued sons of sableness from
six years old and upward were detected
laying waste the land by tho police and
many OF them were jagged just as safely
as IT they had been put into a county
~dispensary.
Thursday morning these colored des-
peradoes of few days but full OF sorrow
were brought up before Mayor Simkins
and his municipal excellency imposed
upon them penalties OF various weights.
Local Advertisements.
Blanke Bros.' celebrated bon bons and
chocolates at Shumate & Garrett.
5spools of thread &c. Wiggln, slightly