The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-16
SPICY STUFF
AFFAIRS OF THE STREET CORNERS
PEOPLE wHO'yE DROPPED
IN FOR A FEW DAYS.

are crowded out this week.
The new woman will be largely In
attendance on the Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons entertainment tomorrow.
Miss Florine Bolt, @ pretty and popu-
~larsyoung lady of Easley Is visiting in
town at Mr.. d. O. Barksdale's.
Mrs. Chas. w. Bostick went to Lau-
rens yesterday to visit her ~parents.--
Greenville News.
Governor Ellerbe has ordered an
election OF county officers for Cherokee
county on the 9th instant.
Greenwood county will hold primary
elections on the 18th and 25th instant
to choose candidates for various offices.
Miss Eva Gary, Of Newberry is Wis
iting her sister Mrs. j. A.. Barksdale,
Jr., OF this city.
Miss May Singleton, OF Acton, is In
town, the guest OF Miss Name Fergu-
son.
G.. w. Culbertson, died at her home,
LSo AAANbay ~ ShEo SSoboJ VIA ShS "
inst. after q long illness.
Township Commissioners are not
commissioned by the Governor. They
simply take an oath OF Office before the
Clerk of Court.
Great floods prevail in the great
rivers of the North West. The Mis-
sissippi threatens to change It's bed,
and Memphis is in danger.
Miss Sarah Sullivan, who has been
spending several weeks with Mrs. ].
e. Burnside, returned to her home in
Laurens yesterday.-Greenville News.
The friends of Miss Emma Jones
who has recently been 81 extremely
i'll will be glad to learn that she Is now
confidently expected to recover.
Enoree Presbytery has been called
to meet in the Presbyterian church
here this morning in order to dismiss
Rev. Barnwell Anderson to the Pres
bytery Of Cherokee Georgia in which
he is o to assume the passionate Of o
church.
The Southern Railway proposes to
give the low rate of n tirst-class fare
for the round trip to Wilmington In
May when the Southern Baptist Con-
%vention meets there.
Rev. Y. j. Holmes, Evangelist for
Enoree Presbytery Is to begin on next
Sunday evening q series of services in
the Presbyterian church here. This
will doubtless be agreeable intelligence
RI oil Mr. Hnlmna5 Ianran0 frian6s
in the State has been largely reduced
by Governor Ellerbe. John II. Lang
ston, Of this county, is retained, and j.
Z. Ellege, a new man appointed.
The Hon. H.. II. Evans, Mayor Of the
city of Newberry, has been in the city
for several days and Laurens seems to
put on q ~livelier look. He was formerly
our Chief Magistrate, but u city
has not outgrown him.
The Laurens Harness Company have
just completed some Of the best har-
ness that has been made in the South.
Laurens should be proud of this new
enterprise as you do not have to send
off from home to get fine harness.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons as repre-
sented in pictures are fine Herculean
fellows with ~"foreheads villainously
low" After the fight the winner
will be a monkey and the loser a
baboon.
This ia Augusta's grand week Of at
t~ractions-all should 70 and have a good
time. The rail way fares are reasonable
and the hospitality of the city is unex-
celled on the continent. THE ADvER-
TIsER acknowledges an invitation to the
Banquet to the Press on this evening
and must loose the glorious occasion, as
many. delightful occasions aforetime
| have been missed.
William N. Wharton, Esq, a prom
incnt farmer of this county, died at
the home of his son Col. j.. II. Whar-
ton on March the 4th, and his remains
were buried at Beaverdam on the fol-
towing day. He was seventy-eight
years old and had been q member of
Beaverdam Church for forty-nine
years. He was a good neighbour, dis
tinguished for modest, unassuming
worth, public spirited, a true patriot,
and universally respected.
IL Is by competent author
ity that the cotton crop of the South
will be twenty million bales O quarter
of q century hence. The possibilities
of the crop in Egypt is giving anxiety
to Southern planters largely Interested
in this plant. This estimate for the
future does not take in improved meth
nds Of cultivation and handling, but
has reference to the natural develop
ment of the labor supply.
Mayor Dial resigned his Office of
Mayor during last week and was
elected q member OF the Commission
Of Public Works, in place of w. r.
Richey, who resigned to accept the
office OF Mayor. This Board held a
meeting on yesterday to receive bids
for the construction of Water and
Electric Light Works. A number of
bids were fled and the city has been
lively for several days with anxious
contractors from all parts of the
country.
The South Carolina State Press AS
s~ociation will meet at Newberry on the
25th of May. Hon. Patrick Walsh, of
the Augusta Chronicle, Is expected to
make the annual Grafton. A trip to
Nashville has been arranged. Editor
Aull Is president of the Association.
The Association will visit Nashville,
taking in the great Southern Exposi.
tion, soon to open In that city. They
i will afon hu Invitation az tho ocoyytn,