The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-05-17
GLEANINGS
OF A PERSONAL CHARACTER-vIS.
ITORS IN TOWN-LAURENS
FOLKS ABROAD,

" hOi OhiO III S~ICOhNiil0.
Mrs. T. ID. Darlington and little
daughter are at DIR. w. O. Irby's.
Cole l.. Blease, Esq, of Newberry,
Is military Secretary OF Gov. Ellerbe.
Mrs, w. e. Lucas is visiting friends
in ~Spartanburg.
Mr.. II, III. Hudgens made a business
trip to Now York last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Simpson, OF
Cross Hill, spent last Friday with rel
atives in the city.
1t Is the order Of the day now to or
ganize Military Companies for future
emergencies.
Perry M. Martin, of Clinton, is a
volunteer in the Newberry Guards, Co.
"B." In the First Battalion, S. G. V.
The Episcopal church was closed on
Sunday, Rev. w. $. Holmes holding
services in Winnsboro on hat day.
Editor N. G. Gonzales, Of the State,
has gone to Tampa to join the army Of
liberation in Cuba.
N. b. Dial, Esq, and j., A. Copeland,
OF Laurens, wero in the city yesterday.
-Greenville News, 18th inst.
Misses Helen and Julia McGhee, two
attractive young ladies OF Greenwood,
are visiting Mrs. w. H. Gilkerson.
Rev. w. S. Holmes attended the
diocesan council which met in Char
lesion last week.
Mrs. John Bell Henneman, Of Ton
nessee, arrived last Tuesday to visit
Mrs. e. NJ. Matthew'S.
The revival services being held on
Factory Hill for the past fortnight
closed on Sunday night.
Editor Darlington, of the Spartan
burg Herald and his little son, Gordon,
were in the city Sunday.
Mr.. L. G. Bale is making handsome
improvements on his residence on
Main Street.
Children's Day will be observed at
New Prospect Church, Saturday, May
21st inst.
Mrs. J. w. Grafton and children, of
Bessimer city, NC, are visiting their
Pc, ohvo, LII. anu "tss - l. oole OF
this city.
Mrs. l.. M. Evans, who has been the
guest Of Miss Azile Wilson for a fort
night past, has returned to her home
in Cheraw.
Mr. a. @. Jones, OF Newberry, Of tho
State Prohibition Committee, an old
Laurens boy, was In the city during
last week.
Hon. w. r. Richey attended the con-
v%ention OF Mayors in Georgetown dur
ing last week, and was reelected
Secretary and Treasurer Of the Asso-
ciation.
Mrs. Thomas j. Sullivan, Of Tum-
bling Shoals was In the city on Friday
last engaged in that delightful lady's
task-shopping.
Rev. Robert Adams, Of the Presby-
terrain church is to preach the bac-
calareate sermon for the young ladies
of Chlcora College, Greenville, on the
Goth inst.
The friends If Rev. s. G. Byrd
throughout this his native county, will
be glad to learn of his election to a
professorship In the Theological Semi
nary at Columbia.
AT noon tomorrow the State Demo-
cratic Convention Assemblies in Column
bia. They Will arrange for a State
Primary, appoint n State Chairman
and probably tinker a little with the
constitution of the party.
Late Saturday afternoon a hand car
capsized on the s.. A. T.. tressel near
Cross Hill. Six men were thrown 80
feet and three of them, the Section
Master from Mountville, Hayne Bry-
son of Cross Hill, and a colored man
were very painfully injured.
In Il issue of this week we give
the rates of the Neel 81 Heverlo Bust
ness College of S~partanburg. Miss
Neel was in the city in the interests Of
the school last week, made an exposi-
tion Of the work in the Court House
and made an excellent impression.
The following Carolinians have COM
missions from the President to serve i'm
the Volunteers: A. e. Gonzales to be
Captain in the Quartermasters depart
ment; j. Gary Watts and j. Gary Evans
to be Captains and A. A. G.
The Clemson Glee Club expects to
make a tour of the State IN a few weeks
and will give Laurens a date early in
June. The boys no doubt will be
warmly welcomed and given a good
house.
At the recent Council of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church for South Gs-~
lima held in Charles.oon Tho c,,r'o
Epiphany, Laurens, Which ba si hit6nrt OF
peen a Mission Station was unanimons.
y admitted into the Council aa an or.
gained Church,
The first through train between
areenV1lle and Charleston via Laurens
was put on Sunday. This NEAR that
hereafter there will be no changing of
cars on the entire trip but the time re.
CURED for 1t will not be lessened,
Mr.. r. p. Fair, OF Newherrv. has
come to L%aurens to take charge of the
interests OF the Standard Oil Company
at this point, Mr.. Fair held the same
position In Newberry and has merely
been transferred,
The Lillian Tucker and Charles c..
Vaught Comedy Company occupied the
Opera House Wednesday and Thursday
evenings OF last week, drawing fairly
good houses on both evenings. The
audience behaved noisily and ap-
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