The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-11-30
THANKSGIVING
BRINGS VISITORS, SERVICES AND
SPORTSMEN.

Remember the ADVERTISER when
you sell your cotton and feel flush.
Christmas comes on Saturday and is
now twenty-five days off.
Sow Wheat. See Col. shaw's adver.
tisement.
E,ev. w. s.. Holmes made n brief
visit to Spartanburg last week.
If you come to town on Salesday set
tie your subscription.
Mr.. L. ID. Pitts, of Furman spent
Thanksgiving with his parents.
The birds had the best Of the sports
man last Thursday.
Miss Blanche Moore, of S%partanburg
spent Thanksgiving with Miss Emmie
Meng.
The Badgett farm advertised for
rent is a valuable one and convenient
to churches and schools in the city.
Mrs. J.. G. Darlington and children
of ~Spartanburg came down to Laurens
on Thursday to visit relatives.
The State Supreme Court is now in
~ opIcdlb lEOIu LduE6nS Will
be heard about the 18th Of January.
Mrs. William Matthews left a few
days ago to spend sometime with her
daughter, Mrs. MCGOWAN, OF Abbeville.
DR.. II. e. Mott and Mr.. Luke of Spar
tanburg, spent Thanksgiving with Mr..
w. e. Lucas.
Mrs. Calhoun Wallace and children
spent a few days with relatives in the
city last week.
Mr., T. G. Lucas, of Wofford College,
is spending a fortnight with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. i. Lucas.
Ex-Governor John Gary Evans is
now gazetted to be married early In
December.
Mr.. Pierce Caine, of Furulan Uni
versity, came home to spend Thanks
giving.
We must insist that our friends set
tie their accounts with us. No matter
how small the mount you owe, it is
important.
Thanksgiving turkeys were smoking
hot all over the county last Thursday,
many people around town spending the
day with their country friends.
Mr.. J. A. Mette, of the Register, is
in the city. By the way, Sundays edi-
ton of the Register, sixteen pages,
with illustrations, shows how that pa
per is fully up-to-date.
Treasurer Babb says that taxes are
behind the same date of last year. He
desires it stated that the communication
for road service is collected with the
general axes.
The Methodist, Baptist and Episco-
the PresbyCerians worshipping with
their Baptist brethren. The con
~gregations were creditable in size and
the excellent.
Our farmer friends tell us that the
acreage put to wheat is large, and like
wise of oats. There is a good crop of
hogs also. This looks like settling the
cotton problem. Spare ribs in plenty
and bread to spare.
Mr.. j. Murk Sanders, Of Tylersville,
appreciates the talk about diversified
farming as shown by the prettiest,
smoothest yams In the world which he
brought to THE ADVERTISER on
Thanksgiving. And it is a talent to
know what to do with good things.
AT a cake walk on the Enoree River
on Saturday night, Gary Irby, colorcd,
is charged with cutting the throat of
another negro whose name we have
not learned. The man has since died,
tbs reported. On Sunday evening Sher-
if McCravy and Deputy Sullivan ar
rested Irby on the other side of .the
river in Spartanburg county and he is
now in the Laurens Jail.
The Legislature convenes on Tues.
day, the 18th Of January, and that date
is due in forty-one days. The Legisla-
ture a sit as long rs they please and
draw their per diem. but after the
annual session of 1899 they cannot
draw pay for over forty days. In view
of the dispensary problem steps look
ing 10 amend this constitutional pro-
vision should be taken at once.
Very few people seem to realize how
important it is to settle with q news
paper. The subscription price OF
this paper Is only Sl;OO per year in adj
VANCE, but from twelve hundred people
1T Is a considerable sum, and if 1t is not
paid 1T is very conspiciously absent
VIII every man owing us Il dollar or
even fifty cents for subscription, ad-
vertising or job work, who comes to
Laurens next Monday kindly call and
settle.
The chronic low price of cotton and
the call for n convent n Of representa-
tive cotton growers looking to the l.
protection has brought out Il large
discussion in the State Press. There
is good evidence that tho Cotton States
south OF us are taking an interest and
hat the Atlanta Convention in De-
cember will be fully representative
While the discussion evolves no scheme
as yet apparently practicable to secure
u Legitimate price for our great sta
pie. a discussion by intelligent repre-
sentative men, looking to cooperative
action, may eventuate in success In
the meanwhile, diversiication OF crops
by independent farmers is clearly on
the way to a soluation OF the problem.
Encourage the meeting on Monday
next, called by Col. Wharton, though
you may not have a word to say.