The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-03-17
HAPPENINGS
OF THE WEEK In AND AROUND
THE CITY.
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Mr.. G.. p. Mathews, 81 Enoree,
spent Sunday in the city.
Ryland Traynham is on a visit TO
friends and relatives at Princeton,
the West end of the county.
Miss jamie Vance, OF Clinton, came
up on Saturday to visit Miss Lydie
Irby.
Saturday was a lively day with mer,
chants. The crowd was as usual for
Saturday.
Politics are beginning to e~ffervesce
and by July the whole State will be in
a stew.
1t is announced that Solicitor O.. L..
Schumpert will be q candidate for re-
election.
The regular Convention of Palmetto
Lodge, Nc. 10, A. L. M. will be held
Friday, 9th, at Z o'clock p. M.
Mr.. Pastel Yarbrough,~ recently Of
Enoree, in Spartanburg county died in
this city on yesterday morning of pneu-
monia.
= Mr.. A. II. Martin and Ex-Congress.
man Shell returned on Saturday from
q visit to the Eastern section of the
State.
Mr.. Will Bowen, who has recently
been very i'll with pneumonia . in
Raleigh, N. c., is at home recuperat-
ing strength.
The Annual Report of the Board of
Elirnnf0pc op1 SpoarfnforIan nf tho
State Peniteptiary for the year ending
December 81, Is on our table.
The Clinton Cotton Factory is not
dead. Well have some good news to
report soon, we 'hope.-Clinton Ga
zette.
Mrs. Lucas, the mother of President
w. e. Lucas, of the Factory, returned
to her home In Darlington on Thurs
day last, after a visit to her son.
There was a slight fall of snow at
Aiken and Edgefeld on the morning of
the 18th instant. Yes, and they are
bound to freeze out the rest of the
State If it needs q snow in June.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, of Birmingham,
Ala, is visiting her brothers, Rev.
David Todd, DR.. T. E. Todd and j. w.
Todd. Her many friends are charmed
to meet her,
There apprehension that the peach
and other fruit crops were injured by
the cold of last week. In this county
the peach buds are as yet little blown
and we trust that little hurt has been
done.
This is ST. Patrick's day in the Cal
endar. The st. is about fourteen cen
turtles old. The Great Irish heart will
respond with gladness from every point
of the great Globe this day;in honor of
their illustrious and good patron.
Mr.. Jno. A. Davenport, of Mountville,
brought to the city last week eight
or ten fine pOrkers weighing some $50
and 200 pounds. Mr.. Davenport will
survive If there is anything in the
doctrine of the survival of the fittest.
The Womans Missionary Society, of
the Spartanburg District, South Caro-
lima Conference, will owen here in
the Methodist Church on the Sd of
April next, at 8 p. m. Delegates from
the bounds of the District are expect
ed, and all Ministers are invited.
1t is said that State Treasurer Bates
will not seek reelection. He has given
universal satisfaction. Lieutenant Gov.
zimmerman is spoken of as his succe
sor and should he consent to be q can
didate, 1t is not probable that he will
have opposition.
Miss Mamie Christopher ard Miss
frankie Bradshaw, young ladies Of At
lauta, are in the city projecting a cir
culating library. These libraries are
valuable to towns in view that all can
not afford private libraries, and we
their enterprise.
Cadet John Jerry by reason of ill
health has peen forced to leave Glenn
SON College, where he has made q good
record as a student. President Craig
head speaks of him in most hattering
terms. We trust he will be restored to
health at an early day to pursue his
studies.
That live Laurens merchant w. A.
Jameson who is at the great North
ern markets selecting dainty Ghings
Tor his customers sends US q batch of
the great dailies. You have indeed
n of the wonders of the world in the
great Sundays World Of last Sunday.
oOhuVOI Ivy oOnuo no dEIl0tS DullS-
tin No. 20 issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Washed soils ia the subject. 1t is O
very valuable paper on an important
subject, to those of us engaged in man.
aging hill sides and the Senator will be
glad to forward it to your address.
The South Carolina Tobacconist is
published at Sumter, s.. g., James H.
Wilson, Manager, $500 per
We urge or encourage nobody to smoke
but as tobacco is a big interest, our
Laurens soils should be tested for this
great staple of the time. Corn, wine and
were formerly the staples and now it
begins to read tobacco, corn, oil and
wine.
Thomas Foster Simpson, a handsome
and dear little two year old boy, son of
Mr.. 7. Foster Simpson, of this city
died of pneumonia on the morning OF
the 18th instant and his remains were
tenderly laid away in the village GEM
etery on the following day. His little
mound was covered with beautiful and
fresh fowers-the large body of our
ing friends OF the afflicted parents at
tending the remains to their last rest