The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-01-25
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IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS PEOPLE
COMING AND GOING.

berry on Sunday.
Mr.. e. o. Ingrahm went to Able.
vile Tor q few days last week.
See change in ad of the Laurens
Cotton Mill Store next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom McManus, O
~Greenville, have been in the city Wis
iting friends for several days.
Mr.. w. A. Johnson has Just returned
from a visit to Providence, New York
and other Eastern cities.
Ellerbe, Watson, Archer, Schum,
pert and G. ID. Tillman are scheduled
as on the Gubernatorial track.
Treasurer Babb asked us to note that
the 10Th OF this month Is tho last day
ior paying taxes without penalty.
Mr.. Ryland Trayuham returned to
Wofford College with the opening OF
tho @ session.
Mrs. Malinda Crews returned to At
lanta a few days age after visiting
relatives In the city for several weeks.
Mr.. Will Bowen sitter railroadipp in
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the city visiting his mother.
Rev. S. r. Guignard, Of Union and
Mr.. 3ean, OF SeWanee, were the guests
OF Rev. w. S. Holmes last week.
Col. and Mira. II. Y. Simpson went
10 ~Spartanburg last Thursday to visit
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Simpson.
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leave Thursday for Florence where
they will spend the remainder Of the
winter.
The school house at Poplar Springs
was burned down on Wednesday morn
ing last at 3 o'clock. Tho origin Of the
fire Is unknown.
Col. j. II. Wharton is mentioned in
the Register as a possible candidate
Tor Superintendent Of the Peneten-
tary.
The Senate having taken a recess
until noon to-day, Senator Wallace
came up Saturday and returned to Co.
lumbia yesterday.
w. G. Wilson & Co. have Just opened
up a beautiful line Of nainsook and
hamburg embroideries, which will
prove a delight to every feminine eye.
~ read THE ADVERTISER with in
terest." So writes u prominent gen.
tleman OF another State and u native OF
Laurens, enclosing his subscription.
Mr.. O. B. Simmons has purchased
the store house on Factory Hill at
present used for the Factory school
house.
New England is all right. Snow to
to the chimney tops and 40 below zero.
III must come lower to pinch the aver
age Yankee.
A Ninety-Six correspondent of the
Greenwood Index, notes the presence
OF Mrs. Rosa Bell, Of Rocky Springs,
IN thai town during last week.
Miss Ida Fuller leaves in a few days
Tor chapel Hill, \. c., where, to the
regret OF her innumerablc friends at
home, she will make a long visit.
The Governor has pardoned John f.
Hunter, a white man, convicted and
sentenced last July for stealing a horse
OF Mr.. Childress.
Laurens a now call up Greenwood,
Coronaca, Hodges nj Ninety-SiX and
the phone has been new ali over again
these last few days.
ME-. G.. G. Cannon, who has been re-
presenting the Enoree Mills i'm the
cotton market here for several months
has returned to Spartanburg.
A writer over the signature of
'Orangeburg" suggests ex-senator j.
l.. M lrby as the right mar for Gov
ernor.
You have until the 10th Of this month
to pay your taxes without the penalty,
should you have neglected that patrio-
tic duty until this moment.
The Annual Report of the State Pen
etentiary OF which Col. w. a. Neal is
Superintendent makes n good showing
FOR the management. The State Com.
pany, the printer, aid well done.
WILDWOOD" the home of the Misses
Hampton and Gen. Hampton near CO.
lumbia was burned last week Tt Is
the Bird or .4th time the "Millwoodn
residence has been burned, inclusive
OF Sherman's pyrotecnic exhibition.
vi ACCOUNT Oh tnc Jockey Club Race
Meet 1T Augusta, Ca, February 9Th to
10th, the G. d w. G. Railway will sell
round trip tickets to Augusta at five
cents per mile Tickets on sale Feb
ruary 7th to 10th, inclusive with final
limit February 18th.
D.. Warren Blakely, a charter sub
scriber Of THE ADVERTISER and n
veteran, called on last Thursday, a
mighty cold day and inquired into his
financial standing with the p He
had a clear record to Jandary 1893 and
made 1t square with the same day 1899.
Mr.. j. o. G. Fleming returned on
Thursday last from Baltimore whore
he attended as q Director of the Char.
lesion 81 Western Carolina Rail Road
at a meeting OF the Directors OF the
Atlantic Coast Line. He was In the
sno from the time he left this lati-
tude and reports quite a cold snap.
We were shown last week a sample
of a bale OF cotton, sold by Dick
Hunter, .eolored, for 81 cents which he
held for eight years and lad refused
ten cents for. The sample is beau
uful. Dick has six other bales OF this
ten cents cotton, which he is holding
for a rise. 9
Mrs. Matte McCaslan died at her
home a few miles from town on last
Monday. She was before her mar
riage Miss Mcdaniel and a sister OF
Representative Chesterfield McDan-
lei. The funeral took place at Mount
Pleasant last Sunday. Mira. McCaslan
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