The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-04-10
HAPPENINGS FEW.
UNEVENTFUL EASTER-PEOPLE
DROPPED BY THR TRAINS,

DROPPED BY THE TRAINS.
Easter came with clouds and rain.
Mr.. T.. II. Watts, Of Abbeville, spent
last Tuesday night in the city.
Mr.. T. O. Lucas was in the city on
Wednesday night.
Mrs. w. w. Jones spent last week
with relatives in Greenwood.
Exercises at the Graded Schools
were suspended on Good Friday.
Miss Lille Miller, of Couvsrse Col
lege spent the Easter holidays at home.
See change of s. NJ. & e. II. Wilkes
" Co.'S ad mex week.
Announcement cards Will be pub
listed this year only on q strictly cash
basis.
Severe frosts and freezes last week
did much damage. 1t is thought u
fair crop of fruit is left.
Mr.. Everett Posey has returned
from Baltimore where he has been at
College for several months.
1t is promised that Laureus and
Greenvllle will very shortly be in
speaking distance with each other.
A merry crowd OF boys and girls
went picnicing Friday in spite of the
re-appearance Of Jack Frost.
Mrs. l.. n. Boyd accompanied her
son, Mr.. l.. w. Boyd to Lockhart
Mills last Wednesday.
Remember the Ice Cream to be had
at the Library room on Friday. You
can certainly arrange to go either in
the afternoon or evening.
a 'phonic message states that in a
row near Cross Hill on Saturday in
which negroes were engaged four were
shot, one probably fatally.
Four bright young students of Con-
verse, Misses Louise Richey, Pauline
Anderson, Ella Roland and Lou D.
Hudgens came home to spend Easter
with their parents.
We are requested to that
Revs. N. j. Holmes and S. G.. Todd
will begin a series of protracted
services in this city early in May.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Davis have
rented their home on Main Street to
Mr.. J. r. Nolan and are boarding at
DR.. l.. S. Fuller's.
BY the creation OF new counties Lau-
rens will have but one beneficiary
Cadet at the State Military Academy.
She drew a short straw and loses one.
A large meeting on yesterday af-
ternoon adopted resolutions asking
the Board OF Visitors to reconvene
and reinstate the Cadets.
DeShields g. Waldrop's Store at
Lanford was burned on Saturday
morning before day. Supposed to be
incendiary. Partially insured.
Rumors got circulation that small
pox was in the city. There has been
no suspected case even. Laurens has
quarantined against Columbia and
other pest infected districts.
a special term of the Court Of Com
mon Pleas for this county, for the trial
OF cases not requiring a jury com
mences next Tuesday at 10 A. M
Judge Benet to preside.
The ladies Of the Library Associa-
ton will give ar ice cream festival in
the Library inc the rooms adjoining
on Friday afternoon and evening. The
first ice cream of the season will be
particularly good cream and everyone
should turn out and investigate its
fine points.
President II. II Hudgens, Of the Oil
Mill states hat the machinery for the
Ice Mill has been purchased, and in
thirty days they hope to be supplying
the market. The output will be ten
tons a day. Cold storage attachments
will be provided.
Miss Perrin Farrow was elected
Historian Of the Laurens Chapter of
the Daughters of the Confederacy at
Its meeting last Wednesday,. The
membership Of the Chapter is increas-
ing and it i6 greatly desired by the la
dies in charge, that the organization
become q county rs well as a town af-
fair. The object of the Chapter is to
interest as great a number as possible
in the history Of the Lost Cause" and
those who gave their lives in it's de-
Tense. Women In the city and
county who have not the necessary re-
cord will be found the exceptions to
the rule and 1t is hoped that they will
all be sufficiently interested in the
cause, to become members Of the Chap
ter, even If they are mo- living near
enough to be present at all its meet