The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11
RECORD
OF THE WEEK-CLINTON DRAWS
A CROWD-MEMORIAL
OBSERVANCES.

toIlo COublDuSS fSEH Ill ~
h1s home In Greenville.
Mr.. @. D. Barksdsle visited Spartan.
burg last week.
Laurens sent her representatives to
the Anniversary this year on wheels.
Mrs. S. M. Wilkes visited her sister
Mrs. &c Darlington, OF Spartanburg,
last week.
The Greenville News chronicles the
presence OF Mr.. j. d. Watts in Green
Vile on Saturday.
Rev. w S. Holmes is at Anderson
this week attending the Diocesan Con-
vention.
Messrs John Brooks and Niles Craig
left last Thursday for Philadelphia and
New York.
Miss Caroline Holmes went to Spar
tanburg last Thursday to attend the
May Festival.
Mr.. Walter Gray, of Greenville, has
Deen visiting for several days at MIR.
5. w. Vances's.
Mayor Richey and Aldermen J. S.
Bennett and @. III. Roper attended the
Convention of City Fathers at Spartan
burg during last week.
Mr.. Casper Simpson, OF Glenn
Springs, was In the city several DAYS
last week with his brother, DR.. j. il.
Simpson.
Miss Catherine Jones, of Laurens,
passed through the city yesterday on
her way to Union to visit relatives
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a California Firm has brought suit
to test their. right to sell wines and
brandies In this State. 1t is believed
that the constitutionality OF the Dis
pensary law will be settled in this case.
Mr.. w. H. Minter, Of this city will
be graduated this week from the
Theological Seminary at Columbia =
He Is an alumnus Of Davidson College,
N. c..
Those who attended the Anniversary
from Laurens were as usual delighted
with the hospitality OF Clinton, and re-
port Its increasing advancement and
enterprise on all lines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Matthews spent
Sunday at Enoree. Mrs. Matthews will
not return to Laurens for some months
as she has gone from Enoree to Vir.
GINA to visit her family.
Among the delegates attending the
Southern Baptist Convention were
Rev. j. A. Martin, Rev. j.. d. Pitts,
Mr.. A. III. Martin and Capt. G.. W.,
Shell.
Mr.. James Park, a Laurens boy and
young Attorney who has recently
united his fortune to those Of the new
county OF Greenwood, was here yester-
day.
Todd, Simpson & Co., now occupy
q store under the Ben-Della.-
This temporary move means that a
new modern building is very soon to
take the place Of their old block:
The up town telegraph Office, which
several Of the business men have been
working for months to secure Is at last
being fitted up in the Masonic build
office.
Prince Parkins, colored, living on the
place of Mr.. Clinton Babb, Diais Town
ship, descended into a we'll on Friday
last to get a bucket. The wall
fell in from behind him, and he lost
his life. The body was recovered.
Mrs. w. E. Lucas and Mrs. John
Wells Todd attended the musical fes-
tival In Spartanburg last week and
were also delegates from The Wednes-
day Afternoon Club of this city to the
Federation Of Woman's Clubs which
met there.
Closing exercises Of Highland Home
Academy will take place May 18th and
10th. Childrens concert on Tuesday
evening, P. NJ, May 18th. Address
by Hon. G. r. Wallace, 10 a. NJ, We'd
nesday, May 10TH, after which there
will be a picnic. Everybody be sure
to bring baskets.
Brother G. e. Moore, the hustling
Editor Of the Honea Path Chronicle
was in our Capital on Friday. Friday
is an unlucky day and we all know to
what dark and gloomy abode the noisy
blue Jay fits on that tabooed day Of
the seven. Brother Moore was looking
after the interest Of the proposed
county Of Honea Path.
On the Goth of May Mrs. Charles
Davis, OF New York and also a leading
member Of the international associa-
ton OF Kings Daughters is to be in
Charleston for the purpose of organic
ing a State branch OF the association.
MISS Perrin Farrow has been elected
to represent the Laurens Chapter at
the organization.
Intelligence has reached relatives
Of the death of Mrs. Mary E. Brag-
we'll, at her home, Bell Green, Ala, on
the Sd instant. She was a native of
Laurens and aged fifty-three, and sis
ter of Mr.. e. Y. McQuown, OF this
county, and here she had other rela-
tives. She left this county twenty
eight years ago, where she was a IA
vorite, was a member of the Baptist
church and a noble The
family and friends here have the sym-
pathy of their large circle OF friends.
One Of the most horrible ca%tastrophes
OF the century occurred at Paris on
the 4th instant. A great Bazaar de-
voted to a number OF charities took fire
at 4 p. M. when occupied by thousands
OF people. A panic ensued and it Is es.
timated that two hundred persons,
mostly Of the leading ladies' OF the
city were trampled and burnt to death.
They were there in the interest OF
charity.