The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-03
HAPPENINGS
OF THE WEEK IN AND AROUND
THE CITY.

Much correspondence is crowded out
this week by urgent advertisements.
Mr.. John Langston, OF Ninety Six,
was in the city Saturday.
Miss Kate Bobo visited relatives and
friends In the city Of S~partanburg dur
ing last week. .
iting her daughter, Mrs. f. p. Nc
Gowan.
Mrs. MCGOWAN, wife of Capt. Willie
McGowan, OF Abbeville, visited friends
In the city during last week.
Subscribe for THE ADVERTISER and
| the Southern Cultivator il you expect
to be up on planting and farming.
The State Convention of the U. @. ".
will be held in Charleston in April
next.
Mr.. T.. L. Ewbanks, representing the
News and Courier was in the city o.
Thursday last.
Mayor N. B. Dial went to Columbia
during last week. He should have hur-
ried up adjournment.
Mr.. Harris has resumed sending up
weekly installments of his famous
Lithia Waters.
A newly constructed dam at the cot
ton mill gave way last week, but was
promptly repaired and made substan-
tial.
Saturday was @ real live day. Wag-
ohs, drays, carts and pedestrians COW
ered the square and merchants did a
lively business.
A pair of our young townsmen were
trained to patience on Sunday last
losing their dinner-and they will re-
call the circumstances.
The Weekly News and Courier and
THE ADVERTISER are dubbed for the
benefit of those who want all the news
Of the county, the state, and the world,
at reduced rates.
Our farmer friends pushed matters
the first days of last week and got their
spring oats largely in the ground be-
fore the rains on Friday. Some garden
ing has been done.
Miss Genevieve, the accomplished
daughter of CO.. Wharton, Clerk Of
the Court has q seat in the office. CIV
ing assistance in keeping up the work
this busy season.
Salesday, yesterday, brought a good
attendance. There was no sales by
public officers. The chief attraction
was the auction sale of Western horses
and mules. They brought fair prices,
$50 to 800 cash.
Gen. I. G. McKissick, Commander
I'd Brigade, S.. @. Division, U.C V.
has appointed J. F. J.. Caldwell, Esq,
of Newberry, Adjutant General and
Chief Of Staff, with rank of Lieutenant
Colonel.
Our good farmers say that corn can
be raised on .uplapds in this county at
20cts per bushel. Then why pay sixty
and seventy-fve cents to Ohio and
Iowa farmers? Let us look we'll into
this and have our own hog and hominy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Heffernan, we regret
to know died recently near Ninety Six,
in Abbeville county. She was formerly
Mrs James Summerel Of this county. u
good christian woman, leaving many
relatives and friends to mourn her loss.
Wofford College Journal for Feb
ruary is on our table. It's literary
work is good. Its friends are backing
1t-but 1t deserves q great support
Wofford men are all around and they
should be-proud of its cleverness.
There is no more useful or pleasant
reading than the Southern Cultivator
for farmers, stockmen, and the ladies
who delight in the kitchen garden
THE ADVERTISER with that sterling
monthly at 81. rs for whole year
Messrs. James T. Crews, Captain of
City Fire Department., James Boyd,
Engineer, and l.. A. Langston, Chief
of Police visited Greenwood last week
to observe tests of q chemical engine
on exhibition in that city.
Laurens is growing TO be proud of
her thriving village, Gross Hill. 1t will
soon be atown. Her citizens appreciate
schools, lead the papers and mean to
keep abreast with the times. The site
is naturally beautiful and her citizens
appreciate their advantages. The strik-
ing feature Is the taste shown in their
private residences and grounds.
Hon. Jno. s. Wolff, our immediate
Representative in the General Assem-
bly,, sends us q copy Of the Bill propos-
Ing changes in the sittings of the
Court for this county. The summer
term v the third Monday in
July, n week, the first Monday in
| October and the second Monday in
February, these two terms of two
weeks. The Bill will probably pass in
| this shape.
The commencement of the Medical
College of South Carolina occurs on
the 10Th OF March and the exercises
will take place at the Academy of Mu-
sic, Charleston, on the evening of that
iday. We are indebted to our young
friend, Joseph M. Owens, OF Gross
Hill for an invitation, very beautiful,
by-the-by, to be present. The class is
q large one, numbering twenty-eight,
including besides Mr.. Owens, our young
townsman, Mr.. j. Conner Mock.