The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-07-16

HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS IN OUR
BUSY LITTLE CITY.
The News OF the Past Week. Which is
OF Interest to Our Many Readers
Gathered by Our Reporter.


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Thos. S. Sease, Esq, of Newberry,
is in attendance on the Court.
w. w. Ball, Esq, editor Charles
ton Post, is in the city for this week.
Miss Corinme Pitts is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Wilson In Newberry.
DIR. and Mrs. o. b. Mayer, of New
berry, were in town last week.
Mi. w. ID. Watts spent the past week
with relatives In the city and county
of Newberry.
Miss Halle b. Thames has gone to
Chattanooga to spend the summer
Charleston Evening Post.
Miss Eva Coffin and Mr.. Matthews of
Enoree drove down to see some Oftheir
friends o few afternoons back.
Mrs. White and Mrs. Dillingham;, Of
Anderson. are making a visit to Mrs.
j, A. Copeland.
Jos. II. johnson, Esq, is down from
Spartanburg~ attending Court, his fam
lily accompanying him.
The Kings Daughters will meet at
the Presbyterian Church, Friday after
noon at $50 o'clock.
Mrs. James Killian and children, Of
Greenville, spent Tuesday with relas
tives in Laurens.
Mayor N. b. Dial and President of
the Cotton Mill, w. t.. Lucas, visited
Columbia on business during last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Prentiss, Of
Beaufort, are here to spend several
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Gar
rett.
Commissioner Bnuer's weekly report
for crop outlook for last week includes
Laurens among other counties as being
troubled with lice in the cotton.
The crops while greatly improved
from showers of q week ago are again
needing rain. The weather is Excess
sively hot.
Miss Corrinne Pitts, Of this city has
been elected by the Trustees Of the
City Graded Schools as q teacher, vice
Mrs. Martin, resigned.
DR.. Williams Wright who has been
quite i'll at the residence of his son, Mr..
'OOhh IN HIlRhO III UnlS ClUy We arc
glad to report greatly improved.
For the first time in years the april
cot has been a success in this county
and the fruit has been free from defect
and delicious.
State Constable Petigrew, wounded
in the whiskey fight neal Spartanburg
is dead and Toland has entirely re-
covered.
Another whiskey victim-the State
Sonstables at Columbia having filled
the skin of a blind tiger suspect with
lead and consigned him to the Penit-
entiary.
Home raised cantaloupes and water
melons have made their appearance
The cantaloupe is regarded a failure,
while the watermelon prospect is prom
Using.
The Rand.McNally Railway Guide is
year including wall map 46 X GO inches.
Address American Railway Guide Co.,
1852 to ia Adams Street, Chicago.
Young gentlemen, who are ambi-
tiOus of IN ornate as we'll as practical
education, read the card Of President
Woodrow, Of the South Carolina Col
lege in this issue of the ADVERTISER.
Read the ADVERTISER for this
week, inside and out, Tor information
as to everything transporting of inter-
est in Laurens and throughout the
state.
General Pierce M. b. Young, minis.
ter to Guatemala, is in the city. He is
enanlinn hiS vacation in tho r,iaf
mountain regions of north Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution.
There will be q Sunday School pic
mic at Beulah Church on Saturday, the
Goth of July. There will be speakers
| or the occasion. The public are in
vited.
Limitations have been issued for an
or Friday evening. Doubtless the af-
fair will be exceedingly pleasant and
there will probably be Laurens people
there to Judge for themselves.
gSLaurens and Ora played their mines
In O fine game on the Laurens grounds
last Saturday-the score Is to 5 in ia
vor OF Laurens. Pluck, grace, feetness
and skill could not avail the Ora
Apollos.
Governor John Gary Evans has re-
turned from New York where he went
to attend the Commencement exercises
of his Alma Mater and afterwards Wis
tied Niagara and fished in the ST. Law
ence.
Miss Kate Roland represented the
Laurens Methodist Church at the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society Of
the South Carolina Conference which
convened at Orangeburg during last
week.
Those who keep q file OF THE ADvER-
TIsERw will find the record prepared by
u correspondent at the Shoals Of
the months weather invaluable for
reference hereafter. There is no
more intelligent citizen anywhere than
u correspondent.
Judge II. @. Watts, who has been
confined for two weeks with fever at
the home of Major w. A.. Watts is i'm
proving and will probably recruit at
Glenn Springs. Little Bessie Watts
who fractured one bone in a leg, is do
ing well and showing great patience.
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