The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-05-01
LoCAL HAPPENINGS.
Bits OF Intelligence about Our Friends
Cleaned I'm a Walk around Town
The Strangers within Our Midst.

Senator Irby has returned to Wash
ington.
Mr.. l.. A. McCord made a business
trip to Anderson last week.
Mrs. j.. A. Barksdale, Jr., is absent
on o visit to friends in Newberry.
Mr.. l.. w. Simkins went to Colum.
bia on legal business Saturday.
Mr.. James Clardy, son of Judge
Clardy, Is on a visit to his parents.
Mrs. Piper, of Newberry, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. @. ID. Barksdale.
Col. b. w. Ball was called TO Clin-
ton Saturday TO look after the interests
of a client.
Mrs. Cavis and Mrs. Blowers, of
Spartanburg were with the family OF
Mr.. III. w. Anderson last week.
Col. Robert Leavell, OF Newberry,
spent several days in town last week,
staying with the family of Mr.. j. Ell.
Payne.
Miss Irene Hutchinson, a charming
belle from Columbus, Mississippi, is
olVih 1tOl " NlIO.S 81 l. .
son.
Miss Maggie Finley, of Greenwood,
after stopping with relatives here for
several days, went on to S~partanburg
on Saturday.
DR.. =. b. Conner will leave next
Monday for Charleston to attend the
Dental Association. He will return
Friday or Saturday.
The Hosiery building belonging to
the State, within the ~Penetentiary
walls, has been burned. The State
looses $4,000.
Mrs. Creswell Darlington has gone
to ~Spartanburg to visit her son, Mr.. j.
@. Darlington, the editor of the Spar
tanburg Herald.
We had the pleasure of eating some
passover bread last week owing to the
kindness of one of u Hebrew friends,
Mr.. Harris.
Familliarize yourself with the wealth
er signals published in the ADvER-
TIsER and watch tho flags as they float
above the Opera House and become
weatherwise If not otherwise.
st. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, was
burned, Saturday night. Loss, four
hundred thousand dollars, and four
lives. 1t was the leading hostelry in
the city.
Col. Il. b. Crews who went to Bir-
mingham as Camp G~arlington's repre-
sentative has not yet returned, having
| gone on to Chattanooga to visit rela-
tives.
On Saturday the streets and stores
were thronged with visitors from the
country. Wagons loaded with provis-
ions began to leave town at an early
hour, while the dry goods merchants
did a heavy trade in new Spring MILL
merry and Dress Goods.
AT the recent session of the Grand
Lodge, knights of Honor, holden at Co
lumbia, the local lodge here was repre-
scented by Clerk of Council, L. G. Bale.
The Lodge could have had no more eff
ticient and faithful representative.
Probate Judge CASTOR, of Aiken
County, spent some time in the city on
Wednesday last. He was en- route tt
Greenville supposed upon q diplomatic
mission in the interest of his townsman,
Col. j. Gary Evans.
A little daughter of Mr.. B. c.. Crisp,
aged seventeen months, died on Thurs
illness of several days and was buried
in the city cemetery at six o'clock in
the afternoon.
Cross Hill notes bring intelligence
of the marriage Of Mr.. Perrin B.
| Watts to Miss Sallie Davenport, all of
the Saluda section of our county, on
tho OSth inst Thn IIylDnTcr,D nv
tends congratulations and the best
wishes for q long and blessed union.
DR.. T. e. Todd returned from Bir-
mingham on Sunday reporting a grand
trip. DR.. Todd had a twofold object in
his journey, a visit to his sister, Mrs.
Johnson who resides at Birmingham,
as well as to attend the reunion festiv-
tiles.
The following is the sentence for
May in the Constitutions Missing
Word Contest:
"The five hundred pounds of gold
which he had received in exchange
for his treasure had been conveyed to
the hiding place in the ..,..... field"
Our t~ownspeople bought cotton seed
hulls at the Mill in the city at fifteen
cents per hundred pound. Recently
the supply became exhausted and q car
load was brought from Grecnville
n sold to consumers at "a cents per
hundred. Here we nave a commentary
on the necessity of home enterprises.
CoXey's Commonwealers, numbering
about three hundred, landed in Wash
ington OF Sunday. They were footsore
from their long march and will approve
themselves ''tenderfoots" in that To-
cality. They will demand of Congress
improved roads. "Motley is the
word"
Will S. Wright, son of Mr.. John N.
Wright, has gone to Pacolet Mills as
private Secretary and s~tenographer for
President J. II. Montgomery. While
glad of the young mans promotion the
departure of so promising q boy will be
a loss to Laurens and thus it is with re-
greet that she sees him 60.
In future the educational advantages
of Women in South Carolina will be
on q par with those of men. AT q re-
cent meeting Of the trustees of the
South Carolina College it was deter
mined to adopt the suggestion of the
last legislature by which the doors of
the College will be opened to women
and a normal course will be estab-
lished.
Swami, distinguished as one Of the