The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-25

simmons opening on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. A great time for
feasting ones eyes.
Miss Josie Minter has gone to CO.
lumbia where she will enter the South
Carolina College for Women.
Mr.. John Ferguson left on yesterday
for Columbia where he will enter the
South Carolina College.
Mrs. Fletcher Hodges, of Abbeville,
was with friends in town for a few days
last week.
Miss Matte Bale is at home after an
extended visit to relatives in Roanoke,
Virginia.
What will Laurens do for herself
this winter? What public or corpo-
rate enterprises will she begin?
Mr.. Alex McCarley returned to Rich
mond on Tuesday last, where he is in
attendance upon q college Of medicine.
Miss Lee Nelson has returned to
L~eesville college to continue her
studies in vocal music.
Mrs. Wylie Willis of this city, died
ou ohO ISoluCuSS vi uCI ldUlcE1 WI.
Hewlett Sullivan, lear Tumbling
Shoals, on Sunday morning.
Messrs. Mccullough, Cothran and
billiard, of the Greenville Bar, were
in town on business connected with
the court Saturday.
Miss Lila johnson, of Newberry, a
great favOrite in Laurens, came to the
city from Greenville Saturday after
noOn.
Mr.. Hunter Moore, OF Harrells, Ala
bama, spent Friday and Saturday with
friends in Laurens as he was passing
through on his way to Bryson's.
Mrs. s.. j. Simpson and Mr.. Err
over to Laurens for a short stay last
week.
Now is the time to pay your sub
scription. When you sell your cotton
don't forget to call at the ADVERTISER
office.
Misses Fannie Roland and Eloise
Wright went on Tuesday to Spartan
burg to begin q winter OF study at
Converse College.
Before making your winter pur-
chases look into the ADvERTIsER-the
best firms in the city there tell OF the
advantages they can offer you.
In Laurens live merchants who arc
not asleep. Their ads are in the AD-
VERTISER. Every merchant who has
goods to sell can get assistance by buy
ing space in the ADVERTISER.
Farmers have had a splendid season
of ten days, which have been utilized
in saving hay, fodder and sorghum, as
Of ''roughness" has been harvested.
"The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of the year." for the sweet
little girls and the small boys must get
their satchels and tin buckets and
scamper off to school in the mornings.
We call special attention to the ad-
vertisement of Harris Lithia Water,
now famous throughout the land.
Nothing more conclusive as to their
medicinal virtue is wanted than the
testimonial of DR.. Joseph Jones, the
distinguished professor of Tulane, La.
This is going to be a great winter
for weddings. Already the air is laden
with predictions and the mails are
burdened with invitations. We should
not be surprised to see every boy and
girl in Laurens over fifteen years old
married and settled down by the
time the robins nest again!
Miss Lowe, of Baltimore, who has
for several seasons presided Over the
millinery department of the Laurens
Cash Company, much to the delight Of
her old customers has arrived and is
to be found in her old place though the
store has passed into the hands Of Mr..
w. A. Jameson.
Mrs. Virginia G. Barksdale, wife OF
Mr.. II. M. B~arksdale, died at her home
in this city on last Tuesday. Mrs.
Barksdale was q Miss Stokes, Of
~Branchville, and there her remains
We're carried on Wednesday for burial.
The bereaved husband has the sympa-
thy OF many throughout this COM
munity.
At a meeting of the stockhold ers of
1.-THE Columbian Liquor and Opium
Cure Company OF Laurens, s. O." the
following were elected Directors: John
w. Ferguson, ID. A. Davis, Lewis w.
Simkins, John F.. Bolt and G. @. Feath-
erstone. At q subsequent meeting of
the Directors, Lewis w. Simkins was
elected President and w. Fl. Gilkerson
Secretary and Treasurer.
The Company is now ready to receive
patients. They will be treated under
supervision OF Doctors j. P. Simpson
and Hugh X. Aiken the Company's
Physicians and q cure is guaranteed.
The Court OF General Sessions con-
cluded its sessions on Wednesday last,
the Grand Jury having been discharged
on Tun3day. A mistrial was ordered
on Wednesday morning in the case OF
the State against Matthew G. Cunning
ham, charged with the murder of viii
son Boyd. This was the third trial OF
this case. The juries were then dis
charged for the week, to return on yes
terday morning and the remainder OF
last week was devoted to equity causes.
At the present time the Court is
engaged in the hearing Of jury causes
which will probably occupy the Court
until Thursday next.
Gray Court Stock Show.
The ace track at Gray Court will
he completed in q few more DAVIS