The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-10-15
THE CITY
WE LIVE IN-WHAT 1T is DOING
THE PEOPLE In IT-WHAT
THEY ARE DOING.

THEY ARE DOING.
@. G. Featherstone, Esq, attended
Court at Union during last week.
Miss Lila johnson, Of Newberry, is
visiting at DIR. Il. 70. Todd's.
Miss Moore, of Cokesbury, is visiting
at DR.. w. III. Dlal's.
Mr.. Christopher Atkinson, of Column
bia, was in the city on Friday night.
General J.. G. Watts was in town last
Tuesday night.
Rev. s. G. Todd filled the pulpit Of
the Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
MIR. Alex Bramlett is erecting a
handsome two-story residence on lrby
Hill.
Mr.. William Mcleod, Auditor of the
P. II. & w. O. r. r., spent Friday night
in Laurens.
Mr.. William Wells Simpson, of Au-
gusta, spent Saturday and Sunday with
his parents in Laurens.
Messrs w. d. Ferguson and Conner
Mock have returned to the Medical
College at Charleston.
Messrs. L. w. Parker and Julius Smith
were prominent gentlemen of Green
Vile who were in town last Friday.
Mrs. w. e. Lucas and child have re-
turned from a stay of several weeks in
the mountains of Tennessee.
1t is whispered that Laurens is to
have something like q dozen weddings
before the days reach their shortest.
Mr.. WE Lucas was in Columbia last
week, in the interest of the Laurens
Cotton Mill.
Four negroes are in arrest at Green
wood charged with the murder of Con-
stable Mosely on Sunday morning.
Mrs. E. T. Rivers has for some days
been In town visiting Mrs. Corrie Riv-
ers.
Mr.. Bryson returned a few days ago
to the Medical College at Charleston.
from which Institution he is expected to
graduate most creditably next March
Col. T. B. Crews and wife will Join
the South Carolina Press on the 10th,
and take in the sights of the Atlanta
Exposition.
Misses Addie and Iona Tillman are
in the city. They will go to Rock Hill
and enter Winthrop College.-Colum-
bia Register.
Rev. Mr.. Cauthen, Presiding Elder
Of the Methodist Church in this dis
trict, preached in the Methodist Church
here on Sunday.
Gov. Evans has appointed DR.. Sarah
Campbell Allan, a physician at the
State Asylum for Lunatics, where she
will attend on female patients.
]. j. McSwain represents the Clarioso-
phic Society as one of the editors of the
Carolinian, the College Magazine of
the South Carolina College.
The State Winthrop College for Wo-
men will be opcned to-day at Rock
Hill, with imposing ceremonies. Gov.
Evans, Senator Tillman and DR.. Curry
are booked for speeches.
Rev. Mr.. Adams, of Americas, Ca,
has accepted a call to the Presbyterian
Church, this city, and is expected to
assume his duties as pastor early in
November.
Our thoughtful friend, J. D. Adams,
now in Virginia sends us the Richmond
Dispatch with interesting reminiscent
ces of the war, for which we give him
thanks.
Observe the notice of Capt. Dial,
with reference to the additional stock
of the cotton mill. 1t will be a great
day for Laurens County when the
wheels of this mill turn around to the
tune of $350,000, and the time is coming.
DR.. Blue Mountain Joe gave a bone
tit to the Laurens Band, in the Opera
House, on Friday evening. The result
This was the last but one of Blue
Mountain Joe's entertainments in Lau-
rens, as he left or Monday for Clinton.
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and
the South Carolina Press Association
are billed to go to the Atlanta show to-
day, while the South Carolina Consti-
tutional Convention assemblies in Co.
lumbia.
The Winthrop College filings wide it's
Hill. $50 runs the world away"
On Sunday evening at about eight
o'clock the cry of fire was heard and
an out building at Mr.. S. ID. Gar
lington's was found to be on fire
inside. The house was filled with lint
cotton. With prompt assistance from
town the fire wsa put out and but
comparatively little stir was made over
the matter. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
The business men and merchants of
the town have an organization and will
have O cotton buyer on the market
hereafter. They are not anxious to
buy cotton, but they are determined to
do their best to ecu q square market
for our chief staple and do all they q
to keep the scales rightly adjusted
Besides, competition is the life of trade
and the more the merrier.
There was an unpleasant condition
of the cotton market for O few hours
on Saturday, with no buyers and more
than a hundred bales on the market.
There was some hitch about the scales
and the weighing. Soon, however, the
deadlock was broken and the market
went on in its even tenor. We trust
that there will be no further hitch as
u buyers are o liberal set Of gentle
men and we know that our cotton rails
ers want nothing more than the worth
of their products and besides must
largely trust to the good faith of the