The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-10-01
FACTS AND FADs
OF THE HOURs-sTREETs BUsI-
NESS LIKE.
Cotton Coming In--Its Price Per
sOnaiities.

49," DeOnSh JSotOtooJ
Mr.. Laurence Potter, of Spartan
burg, was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. T. G. Watts left for Atlanta and
other points on Friday.
Mr.. Waddy Thompson. attorney of
Greenwood was in the city on Saturday.
Two hundred and ninety white pu-
pills are enrolled at the graded school.
Cadet John Bale returned to his stu
dies at the s.. @. M. A. on yesterday.
Mrs. w. L. Boyd has returned from
q visit to Abingdon, Va.
Mr.. Jim Clark of Ashville is in Lau-
rens on a visit to his father.
Keep in mind notice of Corporators
OF Bank of Laurens in u last weeks
issue.
Mr. Bismarck Bale left for Atlanta
on Wednesday last, from which city
he will return to Philadelphia.
Lawrence Pitts left a week ago for
Greenville where he is enrolled q stu
dent of Furman University.
Rev. N. j. Holmes passed through
Laurens On Tuesday en- route for Spar
tanburg.
to Spartanburg for O brief visit on
Tuesday.
Mrs. T. +. Simpson aud children
have returned from q stay OF several
weeks at Porter Springs.
Mr.. Ben Wells, of Gross Hill, was
among the young men from this coun-
ty who matriculated at the South Caro-
lima College.
Mrs. A. G. Wardlaw and children of
Charleston, are visiting friends in the
city. They will always be heartily
welcomed in Laurens.
Mrs. Florence Merck, of Acme, Fla,
is visiting relatives and friends in our
midst, who are delighted to welcome
her to her old home once more.
Mr.. Tom Ray has returned from Vir-
ginia, where for several months he
was engaged in the insurance bust
ness.
Telephones continue to be taken and
already seem to have ranged them
selves in every household upon the
side Of the necessities.
Over at the Factory the cottages for
the operators are being built, the
floor of the Mill is being laid and the
roof is on. The days for the rlfcing
OF the machinery are not far off.
An important meeting of the stock
holders of the cotton mill is called to
meet at N. B. Dial's Office at 10 A. M.
to-day to consider the proposition to in
crease The stock and enlarge the mill.
The colleges in the State, male and
female, report an increase in attend
ance at the autumn opening. This
shows we'll for the State, now and in
the future.
The Saturdays crowd was larger
than usual. Everything was lively and
and happy. Complaint is made of the
short crop and the drought, but the
prices are cheering and so is the pros
pect. 120 bales were sold on Saturday.
On the western side of the square
the building of the new hotel keeps
everything moving along briskly. The
roof is on and the front is going up
1t won't be q very distant period when
1t will be open to guests.
On the 9th of October Bob and ALI
Taylor will lecture at Greenville. They
are leading humorists and the most ac-
complished platform lecturers in the
South. An effort will be made for a
strong Laurens party to go up and en-.
JOY the treat.
Messrs. Fleming Jones, w. e. Lucas,
II. K. Aiken, Arthur Simkins, John
Pool, j. II. Crews and Mrs. j. F.. Bolt
were q few Of the large crowd from
Laurens in attendance upon the fair at
Gray Court.
An advance agent of Sells Brothers
Circus was here to arrange for billing
the town on Wednesday. The circus
is to show hero on the 10Th of October.
The opportunity for q wildly gay and
hilarious time twill be.
We regret to have to note tho con-
tinued illness of Col. j.. j. Dargan the
able and distinguished editor of the
Sumter Freeman. His retirement from
the management of that paper is q cal
amity to the press of the State and the
people Of South Carolina.
What about Hampton street? Will
not the city fathers have the goodness
to take the matter in hand? The situa-
tion three months hence will prove ex-
tremely inconvenient If this matter is
no attended to at once
"Mr. and Mrs. G. e. Mason of Oconee
county are boarding at Mrs. Thames
for the winter. Mr.. Mason is here to
buy cotton.-Laurens Advertiser" We
commend these young people to the
good people of Laurens.-Oconee News.
The annual meeting of the Synod of
the Presbyterian Church of South Car
DINA will be held in Rock Hill on the
23d of October next. instead of on the
23d of September, as has been publish
ed in many papers in the State.
A Special train will bring Clinton
people to "Peck's Bad Boy" Friday
night. Tickets will be sold at Clinton
at same price as here, and the ride to
Laurens and back will be free. The
Opera House management has char
tered a train for this purpose. This
is o fine piece OF enterprise on the part
of the management.
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