The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-12-08

uhi oho IuIos WAX rElCTSOu, vi
Cincinnati, have arrived in Laurens
and are thinking of making it their
home in future.
We see with regret in the Columbia
dailies that Mr.. B. @. Bolt, student
from Laurens at the South Carolina
College, has been very ill.
Rev. A. ). Stokes, DR.. w. III. Dial
ard O. O.. Featherstone are of to the
State Methodist Conference which
meets at Abbeville this week.
If you want to clear your counters
and tables of the handsome things you
have provided for Christmas advertise
them through the ADVERTISER.
The Mozart Symphony Club, of New
York, will give a Musical Concert in
Wednesday, December the 9th.
The Wofford College Students have
sent out their monthly Journal, which
as usual shows considerable talent and
the ability to get up a fair all round
Magazine.
Mr.. D. F. Balentine brings us a sam
pie of second crop horse a%pple-fully
ripe from the Yeargin place The
bloom dates LIST of September. Laurens
is up with the procession.
An i'll wind that blows no body
good. The colored men of the city who
could do nothing else received from
fifty to q hundred dollars on Thursday
last for ~shovelling snow from house
tops.
The County Auditor publishes to-day
his appointments for official visits.
They will appear for four insertions.
Keep q copy OF the paper or cut out
and preserve and you will know when
he will appear at your precinct. E
Chief Langston after the circus de-
parted picked up on the circus grounds
the biggest horseshoe ever seer in
these parts. He presented the mascot
to Clerk Bale who will suspend 1t over
the city hall door for luck.
A dainty little pamphlet-in the form
OF q Christmas Diary has been sent
out by the Laurens Drug Company and
also u list of the Christmas goods
purchasable at that up-to.date estab-
lishment.
Maj. J. K. Vance, the father of Mr..
s. w. Vance of our city is on q visit to
his son, Mr.. w. w. Vance, in Baton
Rouge, La. Maj. Vance was quite fee
bic In the early autumn but we hope to
see him return with renewed vigor and
youth.
The lads in town had a great battle
royal of snow on Saturday afternoon
enjoyed with zest by participants and
spectators: The fusilade was occa-
sionally directed to a wayfarer of
larger growth--some half dozen gray
boys again.
Rev. A. j. Stokes, the able and be-
loved pastor of the city Methodist
Church will be the guest at Confer
ence Of Mr.. George White. DR.. w. Fl.
Dial the earnest and jealous lay dele
gate will have for his host at Able
vile Mr.. w. w. Bradley. Next weeks
ADVERTISER will give the appoint
ments.
The clothing OF a colored child be-
came ignited on Wednesday last by APP
preaching too neac the fire. 1t was In
charge of q ten year old boy who en-
deavored to extinguish the flames by
rolling the child in the snow. 1t was
so much injured, however that it died
that night.
When we become ''grown up chill
dren" and the cares of this world are
upon us, with all their worry, we Joy
fully recur to the few short and happy
days of childhood. You will find every
thing to make children dance with
joy If you read the ADVERTISER and
see where to place O few nickles for
useful and beautiful Christmas knick-
nacks.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Caroline Simmons, and Mr.. Rob-
ert Lee Fielder in the Methodist
Church., this city, on December the
10th. Miss Simmons Is a sister OF Pres
ident o. B. Simmons of the Bank of
Lauren5 and has numerous friends
here. MIR. Fielder, the groom prospec-
tive, is a popular merchant OF Claren-
don county, this State.
The December Salesday Is usually
an immense occasion. The late down
fall OF snow caused somewhat of O fall
ing of in this years crowd however as
the roads are in rather q bad way.
Enough people were here though to
crowd the stores, the post Office and
banks, and to give a very busy aspect
TO the square. a sale OF horses CEN
tered the crowd In that locality for o
considerable time.
Christmas is travelling on our heels
and 1t may snow on Christmas Eve and
In any event there will be a mighty
crush; so go at once and get your
Christmas goods and goodies from jam
i%eson's, Davis & Roper's,. Wilkes, Min
ter's, Burns, Laurens Drug Company,
Wilson's, Posey's, and a half dozen
other reliable houses, all of which YOU
will find down in the ADVERTISERS
columns.
Mr.. Bray, electrician, employed at
the Cotton Mill, occupied lodging in
the Gilkerson Boarding House on Fri
day night last on the ground floor. A
setter dog occupied the room with his
master. About 1890 at night Mr..
Bray was aroused by the growing OF
his dog and finding an intruder In the
room he fred two shots with his pis-
toll. The burglar escaped, but blood
stains we're found on the floor and only
the mark of one ball on the wall and
1t is inferred that the rascal was hit,
Two jolly old vets from Waterloo,
and among those we named last week
as ready to tackle the Spanish fleet,