The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-06-18
STREET CORNER
NOTEs-FAyORITE OCCUPA-
TIOES OF IDLE HOURS.
Loss Of a Charming Family Pair
Visitors.
Mr.. Walter Poole arrived . HON
from Wofford on Wednesday last.


Good rains fell throughout the county
on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Misses Louise and Lille Vance are
visiting friends in Greenville.
Miss Willou Boyd was at Clinton for
Commencement last week.
Mr.. Ambrose Martin was In Green
vile for q few days last week.
John f. Bolt is building a handsome
residence in Jersey.
Comfy raised peaches were.on the
market Saturday of fair quality.
Supervisor Adair is making neccs-
sary improvements on the Court House.
Saturdays ration contingent was in
full force-horse, foot and dragons.
Mrs. Sandburg and children are Wis
iting Mrs. T. III. Nelson.
Mr.. Bloomburg, of Rock Hill, has
been visiting friends in the city for u
few days.
mer home at Cedar Mountain, spent
Thursday night in Laurens.
Mrs. II. N. Wells, of Greenville, has
been for some days past, staying with
her sister Mrs. b. G. Crisp.
Miss Claudia Irby went to Concord,
N. c., on Saturday where she will
spend several weeks with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Jones arrived
from Cuthbert, Georgia, on Saturday
to summer in Laurens.
Among the visitors at the reception
of the South Carolina Press Associa-
ton IA Miss Sallie Jones, of Laurens.
Charleston is in the throes of O mu-
nicipal campaign. Nobody will ever
know how 1t was done, when it is done.
Hereafter the Dispensary will be
opened at B in the morning and close at
Z in the evening.
The Georgia melon crop is estimated
at six thousand car loads. Better re-
duce the acreage.
Col. h Y. Simpson has been on O
visit to friends in Greenville and was
charmed with that city.
They now claim that the American
acreage in cotton is ii per cent short
of last year. Figures can't lie.
Mrs. Welch and Mrs. Goggans of
Newberry, are visiting Mrs. j. A.
Barksdale, Jr.
Miss Josie Minter is at home after
spending q year in study at the South
Carolina College for Women.
Miss Lizzie Gary, of Newberry, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Josephine
Watts.
Miss Lutte Wright has returned home
after spending several weeks with
relatives in Greenville.
Miss Mary Belle Holmes is at home
from Greenville where she has taught
art in Chicora College the past year.
Mrs. A.. L. Adams, of Grconville, is
in tho city staying with her mother,
Mrs. Martha Boyd.
Mrs. Matte Martin has gone to
Rutherfordton, N. c., to visit her sis
ter, Mrs. j. G. Mills.
Harris Lithia Springs, this famous
health and pleasure resort will have
its opening ball, Friday, juno 2Sth.
Mr.. j. @. Daniel, of Laurens was one
of the prominent graduates at Woirord
at the recent commencement.
Misses Mary and Lillian Werner and
Miss Jennie Cocker will arrive in Lau-
rens on Thursday to visit Miss Sara
Ball.
A dust-laying shower on Thursday
afternoon last gave a good wetting to
to the dry weather flag Haunted in our
faces by told Probabilities"
Mrs. Matthews, of Enoree, Miss
Jones, of Virginia, and Miss Coffin, Of
Washington, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. e.. Lucas.
In our prosperous and beautiful
city, Greenville, the city National
Bank has been authorized to do bust
ness with q capital Of 800, 900.
Rev. Mr.. Mahon, of Clinton was pres
ent at the exercises of the formal
school on Friday and delivered an in
teresting address.
Mr.. w. l.. Gray, an alumnus. of Wof-
sOrd, attended her great commence
ment and enjoyed the fluctuations of
the reunion of alumni.
Among the graduates at Worord for
this year prominent in his class, was
j.. B. Humbert, Jr., of Laurens. The
subject OF his graduating address,
1.-THE Diploma"
The Rand-McNally Railway Guide
and Hand Book should be on every
business mans office. Address Ameri-
can Railway Guide Co., 1853 to ia
Adams Street, Chicago.
The Alumni Association of Furman
University at their recent commence
ment elected Rev. Hartwell r. Mosely,
President and A. G. Furman, H.'H.
Watkins and w. j. Thackston the Elk
%ecutive Committee. o
Mr.. w. A. Jameson, Col. Traynham
and Master Gibbon, Mrs. Creswell
Darlington and q host Of others Joined
the excursionists from Spartanburg
who were going to Atlanta on Thurs
day.
The Columbus Inquirer-Sun is dis
cussing If Georgia or South Carolina
has jurisdiction over the Savannah
River. Up to date that stream has
served to separate Augustans from that
delightful retreat known as Hamburg.