The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-02-05
NO. 24
srArE Nnws IN RnIEE.
Interesting Notes fsoip Various Sc

'ohhson, EuSenelu County, has n
dispcnsary by vote OF IS to a.
Mr.. Summit, of Yorkville, killed a
hog a few days ago that weighed 37Ti
pounds net.
Sumter has taken steps toward
continuing the three C's road frora.
Camden to that point.
Rev. II. G.. Pearson, the noted
evangelist, will begin series Of meet.
in3s in Aiken about March /.
The work of laying out the cleo
trlc railroad from Beaufort to Port
Royal will be started in the near flu
ture.
South Carolina's corn crop last
year was Is, I2S,Sl9 bushels, valued by;
the department of Agriculture at
$l2, 1912.
The work of building the Newber-
rly cotton mill chimney from 126 feet to
i36 ioet high is being pushed with all
possible dispatch.
Mr.. Eldrcd Addison, of Ninety-S,x,
Abbcviile County, shipped to New
York rooentiy forty lambs, for which
he ,>ceived $40 apiece.
Superintendent of Education Nav
field reports fine progress in the work
on the buildings oi the Womeu's In
!ustrial College.
The hog cholera has appeared in
places IN Chester County. Mr.. Nj. e.
White has recently lost eight Of hi
best hogs from this disease.
Suits have been brought against
the Bank OF Barnwell and the Peoples
Bank OF Denmark by one of their cus-
toners fOr usuriOus interest.
Tho Cooper-Limestone Female
stitutc inuSpartanburg County will
.,t.. nd HI
being tt'rS pghly repaired.
The d of trustees OF the So
Carolina .5,H4tssse, through its ex'
tvs committee, h9ss determined
have II summer school against
year
The Edgclield town council fined
Mr.. Is. b. Evans $50 and Capt Jim
TiIlman $2S for the scrapc they got into
some weeks ago, in which each shot
the other.
Tho Orangcburg police seized
three small boxes Of cans labelled "to
maloCs. The boxes contained sixty
quart cans filled with whiskey, and
twelve cans Of tomatoes.
The registration books will be
opened on the first Monday in Feb
ruary, March. April, May, June and
July and also during the first eighteen
days in Marcn in each county.
Some Of tue ladies oi the several
Camden white churches have organi-
zcd II wives aud sisters praycl-meet-
my" and hold weekly prayer meetings
at lirst one nome ana then another.
Tho Camden Baptist Church has
called the Itgv. james Ten Brooke, of
Burlington, VI, aud he will enter up
on MS lubors about February !. He
comes highly recommended Us II fine
pastor ana orator.
Roccntly !, good deal of the tim
hered lands OF COllcton County
lishmcnt ofS saw mills and turpen-
tine stills thereon, and profitable sales
arc made by local capitalists.
Tho diapcnsary question wac de-
tcatcd in Greenwood by Il vote Of 75 to
10. The chances are that the town
will have metrni Titan police to sup
port. and Il dispcnsary just outside of
the Incorporated limits Of the town.
Greenwood has passed an ordi-
ancc against amy one buying on deliv-
crinS To any other person, within thE
incorporate limits Of the town, any
cOntrubrand liquors under fine of
not more than $50 or thirty days i'm
prisonment in the county jail.
There is still another effort on FOO
10 secure the establishment OF Il dis.
pcmsary in IOrkvilc. The informa
zion IS To the effect that within the
next few days tho town council will be
presented with a petition for the call
ing of another election.
The first term OF court over which
Judge Joseph ii. Earle will preside
will be IL Camden. He will preside
4 l,I I'.,l,,
county, which convened on the 4th inst.
There are three murder cases to be
OF ut this term, two white
men ana one negro.
The Secretary Of State has rcceiv-
rd letter from ~. Cunningham, of
the Chicago and Burlington Railroad,
asking iOr the latest railroad map Of
South Carolina. inquiry reveals the
iaci That no correct map na, been is
SucG in years. in which time numerous
r"%us have sprung up, and the old
maps have become useless.
The roll of the Equal Rights Asso-
citation Of South Carolina mas been IN
creased hy four names Of ladies in Ab-
bcviilc. one of them being the beauti-
ful Mrs. Hannah Llcmphii Coleman,
who was on the State commission sent
North in 1891 to formulate plans for
o'0 va '" 't""oCi ''ti H'i' -N'I'lldl W.
lc2c.
Governor Evana'has appointed the
historical commission which is pro-
Nidcd under the Act passed at the re-
cent session OF the Legislature. The
commission Is appointed consists OF ID.
IL. Tomptius, cX-Oilicia chairman,
Henry Mci".., ". &. Bcnct, W. A.
Courtcnay, Prof. Il. Means Davis and
j. f.. Tindal. The commission is ex-
pcctcd to collect data relating to the
history Of the state.
y ncw shoe factory will be estab-
lishcd in Columbia. The men who are
TO open the factory are NorChcrners,
and they intend to waste no time in
getting TO work. They intcnd to locate
the factory within the State penitcn-
tialY, and electrical power will Dc
used. The frctory will be Of about the
same Kind It's that formerly run within
tho pcntcntiary walls by Mr.. y. G..
Dibcrt.
Rev. ID. w. Key, statistical sccre-
tmy, reports for 1891 that the Baptsts
OF South Carolina have 42O ordained
ministers. SCI churches; increase, by
baptism 3,GS7, by letter %, 725 by re
stOrattOn l6j; decrease, by letter.
2SOj. by exclusion / .l6j, by death rs
total membership 85,9ll Six hun
drcd and siXty-iivc Sunday with
l,3Oi officers and teachers and 3S, 100
pupils: contributions for all church
purposes SlI0, SO, Is value Of church
property $9I3,So6.