The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-02
p OF III HOUR.
SALESDAY NOTES-MARCH CONES
IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

IN gOFTLY-PERsONALITIES.
Mr.. L. w. Boyd went to spsrtsnburg
on Saturday.
Rev. w. s.. Holmes, OF Florence,
spent q few days in the city last week.
The streets were alive with people
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Matthews
spent Sunday at Enoree.
Miss Emma BENJAMIN, who has been
visiting relatives and friends in the
city has returned home.
Mrs. J.. d. Bowen and Miss Mary
Bowen went to Clinton Saturday to
visit Mrs. ID. A. j. Sullivan.
Mr.. Gibbon Traynham spent Sunday
In Spartanburg, with"his brother, Ry-
land, at Wofford College.
Mrs. G. F. Young and daughter,
Ramelle are visiting relatives in Ben
nettsville.
Miss Mary Rivers came down from
Ora on Friday to visit Mrs. w. L..
Gray.
Miss Lucille Wright, OF Clemson, af-
ter spending ten days with friends
in the city returned home on last Fri
day accompanied by Miss Allie Webb.
There was a fair attendance yester-
day Of our sturdy citizens. Public Of
acers made no sales. Fertilizers and
were looked after.
MI. N. o. Pyles has prepared q neat
directory Of the present Legislature.
II you want a permanent record OF its
constituency send 10 cents to Mr.. Pyles
at Columbia.
A correspondent of the Columbia
Register over the signature "Lau-
rens" commends Mr.. s. w. Vance for
~dispensary commissioner. Mr.. Vance
is q gentleman Of judgment and char
actor and will make an efficient official
for the place.
A very unfortunate runaway &C.
Cured in this city on last Wednesday.
A horse, belonging to Captain j. r.
Nolan which was being driven by a
colored man to q wagon, took fright
and ran into another wagon breaking
It's own back in the fracas. The other
parties concerned escaped without
hurt but it "a Of course necessary to
shoot the injured horse.
Cards are out for the marriage on the
10th Of March Of one of the most attraGr
tive young ladies Of the city to q we'll
known travelling man, who In his fire.
quent visits to Laurens, has made
friends OF a large number OF its in
habitants. The bride to be Is Miss
Lydie Irby, a daughter of DR.. w. @.
Irby, of Laurens, while Mr.. 7. D. OAR
lington Is to be the other contracting
party on this interesting occasion.
At Nashville, on May first, as is we'll
known, opens the Centennial EXPOSE
ton Of Tennessee. The Southern
Railway system proposes sending an
exhibit Of the products of the States
through which it passes. South Caro-
lima Is included Of course and any one
or any thing In fact, which would in
terest would do we'll to communicate
with the Land and Industrial Depart
ment OF the Southern Railway at
Washington.
The News and Courier of Monday
has a splendid "write-up" by J. e.
N9rment of the sturdy, growing and
progressive town of Clinton. Not a
word in it fulsome or overdrawn as to
the splendid citizenship of our Hospitals
BILE and cultured neighbour. Emphasis
Is given to the enterprise of Mr..
Bailey in establishing a Cotton Mill,
but it is we'll earned and the Mill will
prove an Aladdin's Lamp in lighting
the way to prosperity.
A very sad death occurring hero
was that Of Mrs. NJ. s. Beeks on last
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Beeks had
boon i'll for some time and her death
was not unexpected. She was the
widow Of Frank Beeks, Of this county
and a sister of Messrs. James and John
M. Clardy and Mrs. O. B. Simmons, of
Laurens. Four children survive her,
sympathy in their afhiction. The
burial services took place at Poplar
springs's Baptist church in the pres
ence Of numbers of friends and rela-
tives on last Wednesday,. The loss of
this noble christian woman Is a great
misfortune to the community and es
pecially to her church, as we'll as to
her personal friends and intimates.
The editor OF the Review of Reviews
comments in the March number on the
Spanish program Of reforms In Cuba,
the United States Senate's attitude to-
ward the arbitration treaty with En-
gland, the immigration bill, the pro-
posed International monetary confer.
ence. President-elect McKinley's cab
met selections, the recent Senatorial
elections, the New York Trust ~investi-
cation, the famine situation in India,
the affair OF the Greeks in Crete, the
foreign policy Of Russia, the position
of England, France, and the other
great powers, and many other matters
of current interest.