The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-12-26
FACTS PERSONAL
AND BRIEF NOTES OF RECENT
EVENTS.
Mr.. T. r. Webb is in the city.

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is the guest of Captain j. w. Clarke.
( Miss Mary McCarley arrived in tn,
l city Saturday to spend the holidays.
: Miss Leila Thompson, of Spartan
, burg, is visiting Mrs. w. T.. Lucas.
t Mrs. S. l.. 'Frierson has returned
from q visit to S~partanburg.
Rev. w. s. Holmes visited Spartan
burg last week.
Mr.. James Minter, OF Sedalia, viii
VIII be in the city for the holidays.
Mr.. Jack S~itgreaves, of Greenville
will be in the city for Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Casper Smith, of Wa.
%terloo, were in the city last week.
Mr.. s. f. PARROT has returned to the
city after an absence of several weeks.
Mr.. While Richardson is in the city
for the holidays.
Mr.. Henry Holmes is visiting his
mother, Mrs. S. p. Holmes.
Mr.. Allister G Holmes, of Pendle-
ton, is in the city.
liz hs j Willis, Ol bfUcIlNlllc, Is
visiting in the city.
DR.. DeFoix Wilson, of ~Spartanburg,
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Long.
Mrs. j. G. Darlington and children
of Spartanburg, are visiting in the
city.
Miss Galbraith, of ~Spartanburg, is
the guest of Mrs. Alex. Long, in Brook
lyn.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. II. Johnson, of Spar
burg, are visiting at Mr.. n. w. Ander-
sons.
Miss Sallie Watkins returned from
Ashville Oh Saturday to spend the
holidays in the city.
Mr.. McCucn has accepted the posi-
ton OF book-keoper at the Furniture
Factory.
Brooklyn to a cottage on Main Street
near the depot.
There are several swell social af-
fairs on the programme for Christmas
week.
Mr.. Edwin Lucas, President of the
Walhalla Cotton Mill, is visiting his
brother, Mr.. w. e. Lucas.
Messrs. James w. Henderson, of this
city, and James f.. Woods, of sullivan,
will be deputies for Sheriff Duckett.
Miss Mary Bellinger, of Gadsden,
Alabama, is the guest of Misses Marie
gene and Lillian Caine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Evans and chill
dren of Spartanburg, are at DR.. j. A.
Barksdale's for the holidays.
Mr.. Conway Dial is building a hand
some residence near Cross Hill, where
he will reside in future.
Mrs. Rufus Dunlap, of Mouutville,
was the guest of relatives in the city
last week.
Miss Mary Boyd is at home from the
College for Women, Columbia, for the
holidays.
Misses Willou Gray and Mary Fike,
students at the Columbia Female Col
lege, are spending Christmas at home.
Mr.. Albert Todd, who is a law stu
dent at the South Carolina College, is
in the city for Christmas.
There were services at the Episco-
cal church on yesterday, Christmas Day,
at eleven A. NJ.
Mrs. C. C. Fuller and Miss Mamie
Sue Wharton, of Waterloo, were in
the city last week.
Mr.. John Mills had his eight fine
boys in the town yesterday all in a row.
They run from - down to 4 and are a
noble coterie.
We have hurried THE ADVERTISER
this week to give our faithful co.labor
ers, the typos, a little taste of kind,
generous, noble old Sanity.
Misses Louise Rithey, Meta subj
van, M~ariegene and Lillette Game,
Emma Hudgens and Bessie Todd are
at homo for the holidays.
Mrs. C @. Featherstone gave a beau
tiful reception at her charming home
on upper Main street on Friday after.
noon.
Misses Lii Harris and Ida Fuller gave
their pupils at the mill school a Christ
mas tree on Friday. The little folks
spent a very happy afternoon.
Mr.. w. E. Gray, who has been with
the Mercantile Company for the past
two years, has moved with his family
to the residence of the late Captain
Albert Dial, five miles out of Laurens.
Keep in mind that January 1st is q
legal holiday and do your business
in the Banks according to law on the
following day should you have paper
maturing on that day.
On Saturday last near Gray Court,
one Burnside, a negro shot Sherman
BOho, colored, emptying both barrels
of a shot gun into his body 1t is thought
the wounded man will die. No arrest
as yet.
The Jerome Hotel and other property
in Columbia was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night. Loss set down at
800, 600, but it is estimated that Phoe-
nix like, much more splendid structures
will rise out OF the ashes. 1t is q con-
soling view.
Miss BelleWhilden prominent in mis-
sion work in South Carolina and q most
gifted woman and entertaining speaker,
addressed the ladies of the Baptist
church on the subject of missions on
Sunday afternoon. Ladies of other de-
nominations were invited to be present
and greatly enjoyed a most interesting
and profitable occasion.
Mr.. Durham Witherspoon, the young
gentleman who was so terribly hurt In
fLa -tr 4. h, fhn ~. nfta~ " -.