The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-08-07
Names Familiar and strange.

Sales by public officers on yesterday,
Salesday, were OF little consequence.
Mrs. Tenant and daughter, Miss Bes.
sic, OF Columbia, are in the city.
DIR. j. p. Latimer, of Greenville, was
in the city on salesday.
Judge II. @. Watts spent Saturday
and Sunday in the city.
Col. Irwin returns from Georgia, his
old home.
Miss LILA johnson, of Newberry, is
visiting DIR. L. T.. Todd's family.
Miss Laurens Glenn, OF Newberry,
Is visiting friends In the city.
Mrs. Il. b. Grows is in the old North
State enjoying herself.
Professor Frank Evans, of Newberry,
is in the city.
Mrs. Sarah B. Terry, of Rockingham,
N. e., Is visiting her son, III. Terry &
family.
G. G. Terry, OF the A. G. L., payed
his brother, III. Terry and family q
Snort VlSlt laSt week,
Mrs. @. V. Walker and children, of
Augusta, Ca, are on q visit to the fam
lily Of Mr.. NJ. III. Fowler, over in Jersey.
The county campaign meetings so
far have been ~threactbare in attend
ance.
Rev. Sam Byrd has been ordained
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church in New Orleans.
Mrs. Brooks Conner passed through
the city from Cokesbury to join her
husband at Glenn Springs.
The mail from this place to Lisbon is
now carried on the afternoons of Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday.
Mr.. w. G.. Ross returned from his
Canada excursion after o most charm
ing visit.
Miss Sara Ball after a delightful
visit to friends at Walhalla has re-
turned homo.
Miss Emmie Jones has returned after
O pleasant outing in the mountains of
North Carolina.
The Kings Daughters will meet in
the Methodist Church on Friday after
noon at G o'clock.
William and Badger Bowen, Lau-
rens boys who have cast their fortunes
at Augusta and Beaufort are home Wis
iting their mother.
Messrs. G. G. Featherstone and N.
Is. Dial, attorneys, visited Greenville
during last week on professional bust
ness.
Notwithstanding the dull times the
hammer and saw are heard and con-
siderable improvements and buildings
are going on in the town.
The brick building on the public
square formerly occupied by j.. M.
Robertson as q residence is being rem
ovated into n handsome store on the
first floor. 1t is being fitted up as a
drug store.
Mr.. A. B. Carrier and Drs. Payne
and Watson have been in the city in
the interest of the Colum bia Liquor
and Opium Cure Company. 1t is pro-
posed to form O stock company in
Laurens to put the cure into operation.
Mcssrs. G.. H. Boyd & Co., driven
from their old stand by the late fire
will be found at the store room on the
north of the public square under Ball
commOdate their customers to hard
ware.
Lee Bolt, colored, charged with OBJ
Structingthe track of tho Greenville
and Taurens r. II. in June lastcausing
serious damage, has been arrested and
and committed to Jail. a white and
a negro detective were brought from
Atlanta to work up the case.
A severe northeastern struck us on
Sunday morning last and the laid-by
and rusty January garments, were
Sunday night followed with o great
rain and the bad spell is still with us.
Corn in the lowlands will be injured
and there is too much water for cotton.
Prof. J. D. Rast, of Bennettsville,
paid us an enjoyable visit during last
week. He is an alumnus of the S. c..
College and travelling in this part of
the State in the interest of that splen-
didly equipped University. For a
thorough all round education the State
COllege mas superior advantages n
the economical advantages are favor
able.
We have received a copy of the pro-
ceedings incident to the laying of the
corner stone of the Winthrop Woman's
College, including the speeches of Gov.
Tillman, Speaker Ira B. Jones, of the
House, Grand Master Dendy and other
interesting exercises. The frontis-
piece is q fine picture of Winthrop, the
noble bennefactor. The pamphlet is
handsomely gotten out by the Rock
Hill Enterprise Publishing Company.
Laurens Democratic Club No. 81"
elected the following delegates to the
County Democratic Convention, which
met yesterday in the court house:
G. G. Featherstone, N. b. Dial, G.
d. Barksdale, j. S. Machen, l.. w.
Simkins, J. o. Templeton, D. l.. An
derson, W. L. Gray, j. Fl. Kennedy,