The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-08-21
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Mr.. Pierre H. Fike was over from
Spartanburg last week.
Until the fatal 18th, still hunting and
manipulating OF the wires.
Want of space crowds "Trip's" COM
~munication out this week.
Mrs. Coleman, of Columbia, is visiting
Mrs. Il. E. Jones at Mr.. j. N. Wright's.
Rev. David Todd will preach at Sha-
dy Grove on Saturday and Sunday
next.
Miss Thames, of Charleston, is
visiting her sister Mrs. III. X. Aiken at
Mrs. Rivers.
Miss Mary Bell Holmes has returned
from a protracted stay at Harris Lythia
Springs.
Miss Pauline Anderson is In Spartan
burg staying with her cousin MISS Nell
lie Cavis.
Misses Fuller, Jones, Garrett, Frier-
son, Witsell, Ball, and Messrs j. d.
Watts and Claude Fuller spent Friday
last ut Harris Lythia Spring.
A party of ladies and gentlemen from
the city stormed Harris Lithia during
last week and report all very gay and
pleasant.
The unexampled heated term was
broken on Thursday evening last by
showers and clouds in various portions
Of the county.
S%partanburg District Conference
closed q session at Jonesville, Union
county on the evening Of the 18th inst.
It's next meeting will be at Gray Court
in this county.
Mr.. Hartwell M. Aver, late editor of
the Florence Times, will edit q new
Evening Journal in Charleston. He is
at home with the gray goose quill and
will deserve success.
Mrs. G. p. Wright and little daugh-
ter Katherine from Houston, Texas,
Mrs. w. f. Wright and children from
Helena, Miss Mamie and Lucy Wright
from Nowberry, are visiting Mr.. G. f.
Littlc's family.
Prof. H. B. Humbert left on Monday
for his home in Laurens where he will
enjoy a months vacation. He expects
to return in time for the fall opening
OF the Aiken Institute.-Aiken Journal
and Review.
Mr.. Jos. II. Johnson after visiting the
entire Congressional District was nj
home on Saturday. He wears u win
ming look and is in good spirits. Dur
ing this week he will be- in the old
Iron District.
The Greenville News of Sunday
learns that Rev. Hartwell Mosely,
fined in jail on account Of q tract pub
lished by him. 1t is believed that he
is not at fault and will soon be at lib
erty.
Coroner Sloan held an inquest on
Friday last over the body of O colored
female infant, the child of Alfred and
Adeline league, two weeks old. The
jury found it O case of accidental suffo-
cation and eXonorated the parents of
blame.
The Laurens delegation to the sug-
costing convention returned on Friday
morning. Every delegate appointed
was at his post. They performed their
p~erfunctory functions pcrfunctorily
n return homo with tho happy feel
ing of gentlemen who have discharged
a states-manlike Office.
Warren Richardson, a colored man,
was killed by an incoming train on the
Spartanburg branch of the =. II. g. W..
II. r., on Friday last. Tho man, it ap-
pears was sitting on the track in the
Northern part of the town and the
train coming through q cut and out of
a curve was not seen by the engineer.
His left arm was broken and four or
five ribs broken on his left side. He
lived but for a short while. Some ten
minutes previous to the accident the
man passed up the road. Richardson
had attended q religious service the
previous night until l o'clock and it is
supposed sat down upon the cross ties
and was in q half sleep when struck.
Coroner Sloan held IN inquest on Satur-
day,-the verdict was accidental killed.