The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-07-14
ITEMS GATHERED
AT THE DEPOT-vIsITORs In THE
CITY.
Home Folks Off For The Mountains
The Soldiers To Come.

esting matters until next week.
exits" interesting notes from Brew
erton will appear in next issue.
Job work in the best styles done at
this office.
John Bale, a bright Citadel cadet,
Is home on vacation.
@. @. Featherstone, Esq, visited
Spartanburg on the 7th instant.
Mr.. J. M. Robertson returned home
on Sunday after an extended visit to
relatives and friends in Arkansas.
Mrs. George r. Young has gone
t. Huntsville, Alabama, to visit her
father, Prof. James Anderson.
Mrs. o. B. Mayer, of Newberry, is
of this city.
Mrs. II. X. Aiken went to Charles
ton on yesterday to spend some weeks
with relatives.
Miss Sallie Jones, of Edgefield coun-
ty, is in the city visiting her father Mr..
w. w. Jones.
Mr.. B. Fl. Bale, now a successful
young business man of Philadelphia,
is in the city visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. l.. G. Bale.
Rev. r. A. Lee, of Yorkville, will
hold services at the Episcopal Church
on next Sunday Gully 19thl, morning
and afternoon.
Miss Goldsmith, who has been visit
ing her uncle DR.. j. A. B~arksdale, re-
fnrnn1 r., hnr homo In Grnnnuilo on
Friday.
Mrs. w. O. Prentiss, of Beaufort, is
expected to arrive here this week to
visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. q.
Garrett.
The city authorities have sent out
circulars for bids for the contracts for
furnishing material for the city water
| works.
Miss Agatha Davis after spending a
month here attending the summer
school returned on yesterday to her
home at Clinton.
High water on the Pedee and other
streams in the eastern and southern
parts of the State has made much de-
struction Of crops.
Governor Evans has offered q reward
Of $50 for the arrest and proof to con-
viction of the party who set fire to the
barn of Mrs. Amanda Smith Of this
county several months since.
We are requested to state that the
dedication of the A. r. P. church at
Ora will be postponed until the first
Sunday of July.
Harmony church (Methodist) Sunday
school will enjoy a picnic on the 18th
instant. Visitors to that hospitable
people will rejoice that they took in
the occasion.
Mr.. j. R. Watkins, a prominent
teacher, died at his home neal Owens
on the I'd instant. He was a candidate
for School Commissioner of this county.
He was highly respected and his many
friends lament his untimely death.
The second nine of Laurens left on
yesterday for Greenville where they
will engage some of the redoubtables
of that city in three games of ball. 1t
is confidently expected that they will
return victorious.
Our colored friends are looking for
ward to the sixteenth when base ball
teams from Columbia and Greenville
will arrive to play the colored nine Of
Laurens. The ARRAY is to last for two
days.
The Summer School came to an end
Friday after continuing for o month.
The attendance was good, the instruc-
tion good and it seems to be the gene
raj verdict that the institution OF the.
school was a most excellent idea.
We print to-day the Laurens lists of
Pensioners for Laurens under class
"CnI The list is a great one in all the
counties. Only $780, 900 was appro-
priated and while we can only guess,
1t is not probable that beneficiaries in
this class will get moro than $500 per
month.
Great rains fell throughout two days
and nights commencing on Tuesday
night last. In this locality they were
much needed. On some streams the
corn has been flooded and some dam
age done; in some cases there we're
strong blows Gas with q good many
politicians) and corn and cotton injur-
iously twisted and thrown down. All in
all the crops are greatly helped.
Jeweler w. A. Johnson has been APP
pointed Watch Inspector for the Co
fumbia, Newberry & Laurens Railway
at this important point. His duty will
be to inspect the watches Of officials re-
CURED to keep standard time pieces,
and regulate them. The position is
n Of responsibility and the appoint
ment a recognition OF the skill of Mr..
Johnson.
The law card of Mr.. Atticus II. Dag
nall will be found in this issue of the
ADVERTISER. Mr.. Dagnall is q son of
Rev. Mr.. Dagnall, of the M. L. Confer
ence, now stationed in Florence, is q
graduate in Law of the State Univer-
sity, and has jus been admitted by the
Supreme Court THE ADVERTISER
extends him the best wishes for sue
cess.
The opening ball at Harris Lithia
came off on Friday evening and proved
a very delightful affair. Among the
Laurens people registered for the night
were Col. and Mrs. B. w. Ball, Misses
Bette Watts, Azile Wilson, Lydie
Irby, Birdie Vance, Sara Ball and
Messrs. G.. H. Boyd, r. V. Irby, Claude
Fuller, Conner Fuller, Fleming Smith,
Prior Babb, Walter Poole and Ford
Franks. The music for the dance was
furnished by the Columbia orchestra
which is engaged at the Springs for