The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-07-24
Familiar and Strange.
Crop conditions are reported favora-
bly, throughout the county.

Mf. Gaul Hayne, OF G~reenville, Is
visiting his friend Mr.. Vance Irby.
Mr.. Bloomenburg went over to Alb
beville, for q few days last week.
Mrs. j. N. Wright has gone to Paris
Mountain for a few weeks rest.
Mr.. Claud Fuller is among the guests
at Harris Lithia Springs.
Miss Mary Garrett has gone to Har-
ris Lithia Springs for the summer.
Mr.. Pierre Fike is off on a business
trip to Spartanburg.
Miss Sara Ball leaves to-day for q
visit to friends in Walhalla.
Rev. A. G. Wardlaw and family left
on Monday for Saratoga Springs.
We are having a steady drizzlc, droz-
zlo. August is ahead Of time.
Misses Carrie and Hettio Earle, of
Columbia, are with friends in the city.
Miss Sallie Jerry has returned home
after q residence of three years in
New York city.
Owing to unavoidable circumstances
tho Kings Daughters have postponed
their concert indefinitely.
Some of the young men of Waterloo,
came up on their wheels and paid Lau-
rcns q flying visit last week.
Mr.. w. G. Ross, of this city, joined tho
Canada excursionists from this State
at Greonville IN the 10th instant.
Court adjourned sine die on Friday
last, after the entire business ready
had been discharged.
Miss Lola Anderson has returned
home after a stay of several weeks in
Spartanburg.
Miss Hattie Jones is .summering at
Glenn Sprinns, and Miss Emmit Jones
at Saluda.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Brown, now re-
siding at Gross Hill YER in town on
last Thursday.
EX-Lioutenant Governor w. l..
Mauldin passed through tho city on
Wednesday last.
The crowd of ration hunters in town
on Saturday last was below the usual
numerical standard.
Miss May Lucas and Miss Mary Deys
of Allendalc arc tho guests of Mrs. j.
M. Hampton.
B. A. Morgan, Esq, of the Green
willie bar, was in the city in attendance
on the court Thursday last.
Prof. Henry Bonner, of Due West
Female College, was in the city last
week IN the interest of that institution.
Col. S. d. irwin is on q visit to his old
home in Georgia. We trust he will
return with renewed health and vigor.
Rev. j. d. Pitts will leave on We'd
nesday to attend Moody and Sankey's
summer meeting at Northtield, Mass,
Mr.. S. G. Todd has returned from
Paris Mountain, where he has been
visiting Rev. N. j. Holmes.
Mr.. A. M. Aiken and Miss Maggie
Aiken, of Coronaca, spent several days
last week with DR.. and Mrs. II. K.
Aiken.
Professor II. T.. Jones has returned
to Cuthbcrt, Ca, to look after the in
tcrests OF the college there of which
he Is president.
Sheriff McCravy went to Columbia
Thursday last carrying to the p%eniten-
tary four convicts and also one colored
lunatic for the insane asylum.
The Jail was clear on Friday morn
ing last. This morning it is populous.
So we go. Nothing is so certain as
death and taxes.
A big effort at Atlanta has been
made to down Lon Livingston who rep
reScntS that district in Congress. 1t
looks as if it will fail. Populistic pro-
clivities prevail at Atlanta.
Remember the Great X X X combi-
nation circus wagon will be at Maddcns
Station OH next Saturday, weather or
no weather. Maddens is four miles
South of Laurons on the Augusta Rail-
road.
Mr.. Wright Nash, q young attorney
of Spartanburg but q Laurens boy,
conducted an important case ut the
late term OF our court with great judg-
mcnt and skill. A bright future Is
ahead Of him,
There will be q dino reading at An
dcrson's Hall in Waterloo next Thurs
day evening, Goth inst. for tho benefit
of the Methodist parsonage. Admis-
sion 10 cts. Ice cream will be furnished
by the ladies.
Mr.. IL. Fleming Jones and Mr.. John
Brooks, two of the most promising
young mon in tho city propose going
into merchandise in the near future.
They intend embarking in the hard
ware limo and THE ADVERTISER trusts
that thoy Will meet with the success
that they we'll deserve.
The examination for the Winthrop
College scholarships for this county re-
suited in Miss Lizzie Hunter, Of High
Point, winning tho first and Miss
Emily North Smith, of Clinton, the
second. The first is worth $3.50 and
the second free tuition. The contest
ants we're eleven and to have won is
evidence Of m%eritorious cleyerness.
a cottage building tho property OF
Of Capt. John Moore was burned in the
city on Saturday last with q loss OF
81 800. We regret to learn there vas
nc insurance. The house vas occupied
by City Marshal L. A. Langston, who
lost his furniture largely but was par
TALLY insured. Mrs. Moseley, his
mothcr-in-law, who resided with him
Lost everything and was uninsured.