The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-04-07
EASTER
BRINGS SPRING AGAIN TIE
CHURCHES DECORATED.
Interesting services-Home Corners
for Easter.

.HE.
Mr.. Silas mclaughlin, OF Newberry,
was In the city on Friday last.
Mr.. Leland G.. Frierson has gone ia
Spartanburg for q few days.
Mr.. w. III. Chunn, OF Georgia, spent
Sunday with Col. Il. b. Ore vs. family.
Miss Fannie Roland was at home
from Converse for Easter.
Miss Mary Simpson is spending some
time with relatives in ~Spartanburg.
The supply of sugar throughout the
world is said to be O million tons short.
Fishing parties are now the order of
the day.
Mrs. FL. X. Aiken spent Easter with
relatives at Coronaca.
Cadet s. r. Todd is at home from
the Citadel.
Laurence Pitts, of Furman Univer-
sity spent Easter with his parents here.
Mrs. Thos. Pickett is visiting her
brother, F. p. MCGOWAN, Esq.
Tillman as we predicted will be at
Columbia to-day.
Mrs. T. F. Simpson and children
I were with relatives in Greenville last
week.
A new lot of cottages are to be built
over at the mill-sixty more. They
Will begin to go up this week.
The ADVERTISER and the Weekly
Atlanta Journal n year for one price,
-one dollar and q half, cash.
Mrs. J. w. Clark and Miss Mary
Camp were with relatives in Spartan
burg for Easter.
A half million dollar fire at Bruins
wick, Ga, on the I'd instant. Insurance
about covers the loss.
Mr.. S. M. Wilkes has purchased the
house now occupied by Dir. W. E. Luz
cas- on Hampton Street.
Mr.. Mason Langston and wife visited
relatives in Spartanburg during last
week.
Mr.. j. w. Copeland, of Statesville,
N. G., was in town on q visit to Mrs.
Corfie Rivers last week.
Miss jamie Vance, who has been WIS.,
itlng Miss Lydie Irby returned to Clin-
ton on last Wednesday accompanied by
Miss Birdie Vance.
Miss May Singleton after visiting
Miss Name Ferguson for q fortnight
returned to her home at Acton last
week. ,
THE ADVERTISER and the Weekly
Atlanta Journal n year for one price,
One dollar and q half, cash.
All Confederate Veterans are in.
vited to the reunion at Charleston on
the 22d and 23d whether or not they
belong to a Camp.
Good Friday mean holiday for the
children at the Graded Schools who
spent 1t delightfully."- picnicing at
Barksdale's Pond.
THE ADVERTISER did't hear of a
single April Fool. Even the schaol
children seem to have abandoned the
custom.
Mr.. @. S. Goodin, the popular cotton
buyer OF Heath, Springs & Co., the
season being over here, went on yester-
day to Charlotte.
Mrs. S. L.. Frierson has returned
from Spartanburg, whore she has been
staying for some weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. j. G. Darlington.
The work of opening up the new
street from Main to Hampton street
was begun some days ago and under
Chief Langston's supervision is rapidly
being accomplished.
Miss Mary Greer has been lying sew
eral days very seriously i'll at the home
OF her father in this city. Her many
friendsa are full of regret on her account
and much Interested in her recovery.
Brick-making for the extension of
the cotton mill has already begun. In
another year the factory anGl their viii
lage will rival this side of tn e river in
size.
Don't you want the Weekly Atlanta
Journal, Southern C%ultivator or Weekly
News and Courier. You can take adj
vantage Of the ADVERTISERS Gu bling
rates and get either.
The putting OF the engine over where
the artesian we'll is being bored Or
driven is now q regular accompaniment
to the six working days. In good earn
est, the work on the well has COM
menced.
A fine rain fell on the evening of
April L., the growing grains needing
1t. At Waterloo there was considera-
BILE wind and we regret to learn that
the frame of the new Presbyterian
church, in course of construction was
seriously damaged,
The Seaboard Air Line performs a pa
triotic work in publishing q handsome
pamphlet-"Farms and Farm Lands
descriptive of the splendid country to
which 1t Is tributary. Address General
Agent s. A. l.. Ports mouth, Va, in
closing four cents in stamps and re-
ceive q copy.
In an alteration on the plantation
OF Senator Irby three miles from this
city, Lyn Lyon shot q colored man
named Lewis WEIGH. He Is dangerously
wounded in the hip, Lyon having used
o Winchester rife. Lyon came from
Edgefield, and has not been arrested.
Mr. J.. FL. Brown, who has for the past
two months been conducting the SER
vice at the Episcopal church! here, left
on yesterday for Sewanee where he will
resume his theological course. During
his stay here he did much to render
the church attractive and made many