The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
AND BRIEF NOTES OF RECENT
EVENTS.

MIR. James Park, of the Greenwood
BAR, was In the city Monday.
Hon. L. w. Simkins is attending the
Federal Court at Greenville.
Two hundred bales Of cotton were
SOLD yesterday at 1925 and 1856.
Mrs. Joe Bailey, aud Misses jamie
ana laura Vance, Of Clinton, spent
Monday in the city.
Mrs D. G. Brown and Miss Lii
brown, OF Cross Hill, were the guests
OF friends In the city this week,
The socalled small pox near Lanford
and Ora is not spreading and The rem
sation is about over.
Yellow Fever is reported n Yemas.
see, which VIC believe, Is i'm beaufort
county.
The Woodruff Stock Show was
largely attended from Laurens and is
reported to have been O great success
Mrs. Cockerel and children. of J ok
sonvllle, Florida, are visiting lis. j.
7. Simpson.
W%ashburn's Minstrels MONDAY night
proved a good show and drew a large
audience which laughed itself almost
i'll.
Mrs. Virginia Miller and daughters
have arrived in the city and are occu-
plying DR.. McCoy's residence on Main
street.
Rev. Robert Adams and Col. j. w.
HnTOlICnn ~ Al~
byterian church at Synod which met
at Newberry last evening.
MISS Mary Simpson came down from
Chicora College and spent last weeL
with her parents, DR.. and Mrs. j.. T..
Simpson.
Mrs. Crawley and children, of Homo
lulu, arrived from North Carolina on
Thursday to visit Capt. and Mrs. j. w.
Clarke.
F. p. MCGOWAN, ESQ :, has been APP
pointed q member of the Board of Ed
ucation in place OF Prof. j. B. Watkins
resigned.
Policeman a. r. Simpson has re-
signed his place and gone 70 Knox
vile, Tenn, where he has Il position.
He was a faithful officer.
Deputy Clerk, Jones f. Bolt, went TO
the banks Of the Reedy on yesterday
to see his mother who has been quite
sick, but is reported improving.
Ben Cunningham, colored, charged
with the killing of Morgan Cunning
ham, colored, has been granted bail in
the sum Of $4,000 90 before Judge r.. G.
Watts.
Mr.. w. d. Pyles, a young farmer of
Mountville, dropped in upon us and
speaks very hopefully of the future OF
Mountville. There is every reason
that it should grow.
a handsome residence is going up
on lrby Hill, the property Of Mr.. II.
ID. Darlington. Laurens is exceeding
ly glad that in future she can claim
MIR. Darlington as one of her citizens.
Rev. Albert G. Wardlaw. pastor OF
Westminster Church, Charleston, and
formerly pastor OF the Presbyterian
Church in this city, is a welcome visi-
tor TO the city.
A magistrate in Sumter county
named Barrett has been removed by
the Governor for ~"rOttenness." His
trick was to collect fines and not enter
them on his books. The Grand Jury
found him out.
Mr.. ). w. Ferguson, Jr., has return
ed from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, where
he has been pursuing q course at the
Eastman Business College. His many
friends In town are delighted to see
him back again.
A meeting G. the Daughters of the
Confederacy has been called by the
President, Mrs. w. E. Lucas, to be
held at her residence at 4 o'clock Fri
day afternoon. The meeting Is of I'M
usual Importance and q full attendance
is earnestly requested.
AT the meeting Of the Ladies' Mis-.
sionary Union Of the Euoree Presby-
terry at Greenville last week the Lau-
rens Presbyterian church was repre-
sented by Mrs. w. l.. Boyd and Mrs.
J. o. @. Fleming. Mrs. Fleming
was elected Treasurer Of the union
for the coming ear 1t was also ar
ranged that the next meeting OF the
union will be held with the Laurens
church.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook will contri-
butte to the November number of Nc
Clure's the story Of his adventures with
the Belgian Antartic expedition OF last
year. The members Of this expedition
were the first men to pass a winter in
the Antarctic; they were in the south
polar ice-pack continuously for thIr-
teen months. DR.. Cooks article will
be II ustrated from photographs taken
by himself.
Laurens did great things at the
Woodruff fair. Mr.. Warren Bolts
trOtting horse carried of two purses
and Mr.. Eugene Hudgen's racer out
distanced every competitor and proved
herself the leetest footed animal seen
on the track in this section of the
state. Both Of these horses will prob
ably show their speed at the State Fair
next month
Coming Events.