The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-12
The Fruits of a weeks Crusade
for News.
II you have a friend in town tell the
ADVERTISER.

a visit of several weeks to relatives in
Georgia.
Mr.. G. w. Garrett, manager of Har-
ris Lithia Spring was in town on yes
terday.
Mrs. William Campbell, OF Charles
ton arrived in town a few days ago and
will spend the summer with her niece,
Mrs. Rivers.
Mrs. J.. A. Copeland went up to
Greenville last week to attend the
marriage of her sister, Miss Lulie
White.
Honorable Robert Mclaughlin,
President of the Newberry Cotton
Factory, paid a flying visit here last
week.
Judge r. G. Watts accompanied by
his son Master Cash arrived in town on
last Tuesday to visit his old home and
friends.
Mr.. j. N. Wright, Laurens, S. c.,
of the Sea Board Air Line, can put
you in possession of the facts about
summer homes on his splendid line.
Mr.. Wilson, of the Southern Presby-
terrain, spent Friday in Laurens seeing
his various friends, the ADVERTISER
among them.
From Riverside, q California town,
Mr.. w. S. Killingsworth remembers
us and sends the Riverside Daily
Press, of date May 81.
At the National Scotch-Irish Con-
gress in session at Des MOines, Iowa,
Rev. j. II. Bryson, ID. D., was elected
I'd vice-President.
Mr.. w. o. Prentiss, Post Master of
Beaufort but formerly the popular
Manager of the Ben-Della Hotel, was
most heartily greeted upon his reap
pearance in Laurens last week.
Messrs. d. a. Davis, Dorroh Fergu-
son, S. M. Wilkes and Lane Monroe
spent Sunday at Harris Lithia and re-
port the Hotel rapidly filling with sum-
NOR guests.
Misses Hattie and Emmie Jones, Miss
Ellenc McCaslan, Miss Allie Webb
and Miss Reed, of Augusta, are in at
tendance upon the commencement cX-
crcises of the Presbyterian College at
Clinton.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. f. Jones returned to
Laurcns on Saturday for the summer
holidays. Mr.. Jones has been re-
Cuthbert Ca, and seems to be de-
servedly popular and successful in his
work.
Late Thursday afternoon q servants
house, the property of Rev. n. j..
Holmes, Northwest of the city, occu-
pied by Doc B~arksdale, colored, was
destroyed by fire. None of the in
mates were at home at the time Of the
unknown.
We are in receipt of the College Cat
alOgue of the Presbyterian College OF
South Carolina for 1893 81, located at
Clinton in this State. 1t shows a ilour-
ishing condition, and young people of
both sexes ambitious for high edu-
cation would do well to write Rev. E..
G. Murray, President, Clinton, S. G.
Mr.. Charles Stanley Reinhart, who
enjoys the reputation of being one of
the best after-dinner takers in New
York, has written a short story which
will appear in the July Harper's with
his own Illustrations. Its title is Gun
Mauvais Quart d'Heure."
III ClOSlun cAcIClSCo " IolcSSOI
B. Y. Culbertson's school at New Pros
pect took place on Friday evening
the eighth instant. The program con-
sisted Of tableauX, dialogues and reci-
tations followed by an address by the
Hon. Stanyarne Wilson of Spartan
burg. Senator Irby was present and
was invited to talk but declined.
The county commissioners are clos
ing the basement apartments of the
Court House, leaving only q passage
way from east to west. The wide hall
ways to the offices of Treasurer,
missioner are closed. The commits
sioners give as a reason that these
halls had recently been converted into
drinking saloons on public days and
thus interfered with business in adj
joining Offices.
The commencement exercises of the
majority of our State schools are over
and a bevy of girls have locked home
for the holidays waking up the town
in a most delightful fashion. Miss
Corinne Pitts, Miss Eloise Wright,
Miss Mary Cannon and Miss Claudia
Irby come from Converse. Miss Emmie
Jones is from the College for Women
at Columbia and Miss Eddie Nash, tho
only graduate among the number,
brings a diploma from the Columbia
Female College.
The Prohibition Convention held in
Columbia on the evening of the It'll was
well represented from Laurens whose
delegates took a leading part in the de-
alterations of the body. Rev. w. I. Her.
bert was elected Secretary. Rev. j. d.
Pitts delivered the opening ray
Rev. j.. w. Shell is placed upon the
State Executive Committee. DR.. a. G..
Fuller was placed upon the committee
on platform. w. L.. Gray, Esq, took
q leading part in the proceedings and
made an able speech in support Of his
resolutions to u u straight ticket.
Miss Carrie Hill, of Greenville, well
known and widely popular in social
circles at Laurens was the inspiration
of q delightful entertainment given
by Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Vance on Friday
evening. The entertainment was in
the form Of a Library Party and most
interesting and amusing did it prove
to be. The guests all wore something
about them which could be translated
into the title of q book. TO Mr.. Savage
who appeared as "White Lies" was
awarded a prize for having excellcd all
others in the representation OF his vol
umc. The guests said goodnight at
about twelve carrying away with them
the remembrance Of q most happy
evening.