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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

The CITY OF LAURENS,
AN ORDINANCE TO DIVIDE THE
CITY OF LAURENS INTO SIX
WARDS AND TO PROVIDE FOR
ONE ALDERMAN TO BE ELECT
ED HEREAFTER FROM EACH
WARD.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF LAURENS OF THE
CITY OF LAURENS:-
SEC /: That the City of Laurens be
and the same hereby is divided into six
wards as follows:
Ward l shall include all that portion
of The City of Laurens, situate, lying
and being West Of Little River and
East of Church Street between Main
Street, and Laurens Street and North
Harper Street.
Ward 2 shall include all hat portion
of the City of Laurens, situate, lying
and being North of Laurens Street be-
tween Church Street and North Har-
per Street.
OF the City of Laurens, situate, lying
and being East of Little River between
East Main Street and North Harper
Street.
Ward 4 shall include all that portion
Of the City of Laurens, situate, lying
and being South of Main Street, and
East of South Harper treet and saxon
Street.
Ward 5 shall include all that portion
of the City Of Laurens, situate, lying
and being South of Main Street, and
West Of South Harper Street and Saxon
Street.
Ward 6 shall include all that portion
: of the City of Laurens, situate, lying
and being North of Main Street and
West of Church Street
SEC. Q: That from and after the sec.
ond Tuesday in March 1901 each Ward
shall be entitled to one Alderman rs a
member OF the City Council of Laurens
to be elected by the qualified electors Of
the respective wards and no person shall
be elected as Alderman from any WARD
who has not been q resident of sucf
ward twelve months Immediately pre-
ceding the day of his election
SEC. 3: That from and after the pas
sage of this ordinance in all elections
for Mayor Of the City of IAurens the
person otherwise qualified, receiving
the highest number of legal votes cas-
in all the wards shall be declared thu
Mayor.
Done and ratified by the City Coun
{~~ Gil of Laurens of The City o
SEAL Laurens, at The City of Lau
~~ rens, and the corporate sea
Of said City affixed hereto this End da.
of January 1901, in the year Of our Lore
one Thousand nine hundred and one
and in the n hundred and twenty
fifth year OF the Sovereignty and indie
pendence of the United States o
America.
w. X. RICHEY,
Mayor.
L. G. BALE, Clerk of City Council
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
LOST

In Young's Township on Christmas
Day, a young red-bone hound, black
back and yellow legs, belonging to w.
NJ. Powell. A reward of $1.O0 will be
gwen to any person returning the dog
giving. positive Information as to
where he is. Address Mr.. w. NJ. Powell,
laurens, at Rev. James Allen Martins,
Youngs' Township.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

NOTICE. The firm OF A. A. Madden
& Co, is this day, the 10th day Deem
Der, 1900, dissolved by mutual consent.
All debts contracted from this date for
ward / am not responsible for.
A. A. Madden, M. ID.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
B. +. Roper, ESD.

This young gentleman and bright
young lawyer, we regret indeed has re-
his profession. Good ability, industrious
habits, and the highest character ensure
him C and an honorable career
wherever he may finally settle.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

Mr. r.. Smith, a veteran and gal
liant soldier OF the Lost Cause, died on
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
a Life and Death Fight.

Mr.. w. a. Hines, of Manchester, Ia,
writing Of his almost miraculous es-
cape from death says: Exposure after
measles induced serious lung trouble,
which ended in Consumption. had
frequent hemorrhages and coughed
night and day. All my doctors said [
must soon die. Then | began to use
Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, which completely cured me.
| would not be without it ever if it cost
5000 a bottle. Hundreds have used it
on my recommendation and and all saw
1T never fails to cure Throat, Chest and
Lung troubles" Regular sizes 50 cts.
n Sl.W Trial bottles free at Lau-
rens Drug Co.
You can get the lowest prices on
millinery.
0. B. Simmons.
Do not send off for books, new or End
hand, but come to us.
Palmetto Drug Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
Latest from Columbia.
Another Veteran Gone.

Stevenson Ia elected Speaker of the
House, and Hamer, Clerk.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

Read this and you won't regret it.
No IA, Oak Wardrobe with two doors
and two drawers. Large size 3d.
S. NJ. Il Il. II. Wilkes.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
Peace on Earth,
Right Prices to iii.
Ready for CHRISTMAS 81

You'll enjoy giving at our prices, and what you give will be worthy,
if you buy from us. Talk is easy but we have the Goods to show for
our statements and we know a few things too. We can save any pur-
chaser, Of Clothing, Shoes or Dry Goods, money O these lines. From
now until Christmas we intend to sell the Goods. If quality and price
counts w e will win.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

Only $l.75 and you get THE ADvER-
User and Bryan's great paper, The
Commoner, for a whole year
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
State Of South Carolina,

COUNTY OF LAURENS,
THE CITY OF LAURENS,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

The following were installed by Lau-
rens Lodge, number 43, Knights of
Pythias, on Monday evening to serve
during 1901: j. S. Machen, @. c.; NJ. l..
Nash, V. c.. w. b. Sloan, prelate; j.
II. Peterson, M of w ; j. b. Brooks,
X. of II. and s.; G. T.. Gray, M. of e.;
j. f. Tolbert, NJ. of f.; G.. M. Babb,
master.at-arms; j. Mills Hunter, |. G.;
j. Lee Langston, 0. G..
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09

Of White Enamel and Aluminium finish marks the elimination Of
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We have in our barn an old three
tined fork. There is nothing peculiar
about it only that we have had ii in
constant use for 35 years. 1t has had
we do not know how many handles.
but the tines are as good as when it
was new. 1t handled the wheat from
the shocks of a big Minnesota wheat
field in the sixties: we have thrown big
piCkerel out of the slouEhs with it in
the spring of the year; we have used it
at the tail end of Il straw carrier all
day long when life hardly seemed
worth the living and the sun seemed
as though it would never so down; it
has been jabbcd into a vicious bull.
thrown ut the neighbors' hens when
they were tearing up our early sown
peas. 1t stands in the barn today Il
mute reminder of all the hardShips and
pleasures of the pioneer days spent in
developing western frontier farm-of
lazy OK teams, big breaking plows.
johnnycake three times a day, sor-
ghum sirup. prairie chickens mallard
ducks, prairie fires. markets 20 miles
away. faithful old friends and neigh
bors long since gone, six pounds of
sugar for 81 and - per cent for money
to pay taxes with. 1t is the only thing
left of all the farm equipment of those
early days. and we will keep it for the
sake of the old and bygone time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24
HOW GAVE ITR

We are asked how it came that the
beautiful and iridescent colorS of the
rainbow ever got mixed up in so low a
form OF organism as clam shell. whose
fate is to be buried in the mud at the
bottom of some stream. Tell MS why n
tiny violet hidden under its LEAKAGE will
nil a whole room with its delightful
fragrance; why a plebeian born wood
chopper could hew his way from the
primeval forest TO the place of Amer.
lcaS greatest man; why Poe from ont
of the filth Of the gutter could give TO
the world poems which will only per
ish with it; why a Millet. starving and
unappreciated, could paint an "Ange-
lus;' why the simple story of Uncle
Tom could shape the destiny of a
great nation. The rainbow colors are
heavens own tints. whether they span
the angry background of the retrcating
stormcloud, lie buried in a shell at the
bottom Of a mud swamp, break forth
in song, story or life of earths lowly
ones or become radiant and luminous
in the polished diamond The Creator
touched all his handiwork with some
of this pristine color, and let lis he
thankful that neither the mud of the
stream nor the filth of the gutter npf-
ther poverty nor environment, misfor
tune nor disaster, can obliterate or de.
stroy it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24
A SHEEP sToRv,

we are asked as to the relative prof
us to be made in raising sheep as com
pared with hogs. horses or cattle.
mere are so many conditions associat-
eu with such question that it is not
easy TO frame an answer There are tho
dlHerence in men. the difference in
farms and many other things. This
may be said, however: The sheep is the
eleahest animal on the farm. 1t is also
as general thing the healthiest. II
produces two crops in Il season-one of
meat and one of wool. 1t is the bast
and most effective farm fertilizer we
nave. 1t is an omnivorous feeder and
most practical weed destroyer. 1t is
the incest animal TO care for and the
most easily cared for of any kind Of
farm animal. If to the foregoing he
ADDED the fact that a pound of mutton
can be produced just as chcaplv and 4
niue more 50 than pound of beef or
pork and that it will one year with an
other bring just as good a price in the
market we think pretty good arcu-
ment has been made for the keeping Of
sheep Perhaps, taking a series of ten
years the rate of dividend received on
capital invested in any of these varie-
tes OF live stock would not vary very
much. but we believe that such divi-
dend may be secured by the owner of
such stock with less fret and worry
and with more ease from sheep than
from either of the others.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24
SINEss WOMEN.

We often think it is pity that wOm-
en- do not have better chance to show
what they are capable of in a business
way. Our social and economic system
assigns her to matrimony, maternity
and homemaking spheres wherein she
has but small chance to display any
business ability save as she may be
able to work through some man who
is her husband. Here and there some
bright woman who did not think that a
man was the greatest thing in the
world, preferring Independence TO any
other thing, starts out with poultry or
bees or horses or some other sort of
stock or develops fruit or flower farm
with the most signal success. \ bright
Dakota girl has lately invested her lit
tie capital earned as a clerk in a ranch
and has stocked it with cows and sheep
of good blood and will without doubt
make success of the business. provid-
ed she does not fall a victim to the
wileS of some tree claimcr in the shane
of man. There are opportunities of
this sort awaiting any bright girl who
does not want to marry Just for a
home. Many a woman might lust as
we'll do farm work for herself as to do
1t for some old stick Of a man.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

a friend of ours has recently bought
an so acre tract of brush land out Of
which to make a farm. 1t is covered
thickly with growth Of jack and bun
oak grub timber, with plenty of hazel
brush thrown in. He plans to clear this
land by taking the grubs out with a
machine, and he has a good many
years hard work laid ont ahead We
would go at this job in n different
way, We would get 30 Angora goats
hundred would be better-and turn
them loose on this tract As they
would only eat bark and leaves and
would not touch the grass, other stock
might be also turned in BY cutting
off at the ground the larger trees it
would not take many years to clean NJ
the whole tract at a minimum of labor
and cost.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We passed by an abandoned cream
cry the other day. The windows were
all broken. the doors hanging by one
hinge and the interior used only by the
bats and the sparrows. Thirty-hve
hundred dollars was wasted in this
enterprise, and when we learned that
it was the result Cf a useless COM
petitive strife between men who should
have co-operated to promote their best
interests we did some thinking. There
are others just like it.
The west will have to brag on its big
crops when the east brags on the good
roads Of that section. Good corn land
is a poor material out of which to make
n good road and always will be.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

The week in which this is written is
blossoming week in the orchard, and
the air is fragrant with the delicious
odor of cherry, plum and apple bloom.
And the bees have had a busy week.
swarming all over the trees, performing
their delicate and mysterious work of
fertilization. Only one specter arises
to mar all the beauty and pleasure con
nected with this fascinating part of
natures wonderful programme, and
that the possible breath of a Manitoba
wind to blight in a night all the rich
promise of frutage.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

You will be reading this along in
June, just when you want to be plan
ming for some sort of forage crop to
help out the haystack next winter.
Here are two or three methods: Take
your barley stubble as soon as possible
after the crop is removed and SOW it
with millet. Plant four or five acres of
corn thick-about three pecks of seed
to the acre-the last of June, cut with
corn harvester, shock, cure and then
stack. This is hard to beat. For late
fall feed sow piece of rye when the
oat crop is removed and feed it off this
fall and next spring and then pillow the
land for corn. The odd corners of the
farm may well be used for these spe-
cial fodder crops.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24
A Rare Chance to Improve Your Stock.
BREED ONLY TO THE BEST.
Strive to Get Size, Style and Speed.
GOOD HORSES ALWAYS IN DEMAND.


For
OF horses many farmers breeding. to-day diff
cult to find yearng colts Good during
always brought good prices The trouble the
farmers bred to inferior horses being unwilling
in order improve their stock the
with scrubs, which a
and after reaching three earthly
How many fine carriage be fond this
how many fine stylish horses sixteen hands high weighing
eleven twelve hundred with
III neghborhoodhary
demand and bring from two to three hundred dollars. There
great demand for carriage the they
good size style and action To these
style and action Do with cheap stock
farmers examine the of CURRTO beautiful
size and royalty bred He has record the
23 His colts small good
very stylish and have lots of speed This grand young
number OF colts all of whom speak for themselves.
To give the farmers chance who have fine large
$50 for
return privilege given with foal
RlTO has proven a fOal geter
GASPARD, by Sea King and OF a producing mare il
grand sire having the county-fne
size, style and action.
Mr. Chas Hagett President of the Agricu-
tua Society, has by GASPARD beat Mr.
Arthur POTTS. Mr. John Weller besides
kind of colts this
sixteen hands high and pounds-iust
horse to get carriage and coach horses.
GASPARD will stand the for prices
low, in hopes of being able buy
mares only solicit fne goodsize
colt from either of these horses and will have something
be proud of for days rid
costs as much to raise it does feed good
MICHAEL KNILL,
Manager for COL [. VICTOR BAUGHMAN
Near Frederick City, Md.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

1t is rather discouraging to learn that
the man who made the prize tub of
butter exhibited at the National Dairy
association meeting at st. Paul was
fired by the board of directors of the
creamery which he managed while he
was looking after his prize tub at the
convention. This would seem like base
ingratitude and a strange lack of ap-
probation on the part of the men who
employed him.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We made a trip recently through a
section of the country which in an
early day was considered too wet for
any other use than pasture land. This
tract of country, embracing three or
four counties, has by reason of CON
tinued pasturage. roadmaking. open
ditching and cultivation become so
much dried out that land which would
mire Il team 20 years ago now pro
duces as fine cereal crops as can he
grown anywhere. But we notice that
through this territory there is much
land broken up and being cultivated
after a fashion which, not being suffi-
GENTLY drained, is not getting worked
and cropped with success. Until tile
drainage can be secured for this class
of lands it will be found to be far bet
ter to keep them in grass and not at
tempt to cultivate them, as in a wet
season the only crop which they can
be depended upon to produce is weeds.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

a certain railway company Of a
western state is fortunate enough To
own a gravel pit where the gravel is
of such a make up ana texture Thar
when it is used for ballasting the road
bed it gradually settles into an almost
solid cement making the most perfect
natural material we have ever seen for
this sort of work.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

Fifteen or 90 boxes a foot square and
six inches high, without top or bot
tom. covered with a piece of mosquito
netting, will protect the squashcs. mel
ons and cucumhcrs of any family gar
den from the striped bugs better than
it can be done in any other way. \
pane Of glass laid over these boxes Will
be great help to the young plants dur
ing the cool days of the early summer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

Twelve million dollars is a large sum
to invest in the effort to raise body of
water 80 feet. but that is what English
capital is doing with the dam across
the river Nile at Assouan. in Egypt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We passed over four miles of graded
highway recently left SO full of holes
and ruts that it was almost impossible.
and we just wondered why the road
supervisor of that district did not have
sense enough TO have run a drag over
the road a couple Of times. There is
no tool so effective for improving the
condition of our dirt highways as a
drag used at the proper time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We commend the Golden Glow as a
very hardy and SNOWY plant for lawn
decoration. From the middle Of Au-
gust until frost comes ii will produce
an almost unlimited amount Of yellow
bloom, the blossoms being almost equal
in beauty to those of the yellow chrys-
anthemums.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

The man who owned a good Quarter
section farm in any of the northwest
ern states during the past year has
made over $1,000 In the rise In the
value of his farm. In very many eases
1t has been more than this sum Such
farm is still good proposition to
stay by. and many a man selling out
at the advanced prices is finding it Il
hard job to better himself.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

Some writer commends the fact of
the large barn and the small house as
an evidence Of agricultural wisdom and
thrift. We take exception to this.
No man has a right to take better care
of his stock than he does of his family,
and still We often find men doing this
very thing The mans home, his wife
and children, are the most valuable pos
sessions he has and should always have
his first care and attention. We know
OF more than one poor woman who, did
she but possess a cash value equal TO
that of a good COW in the big barn,
would at least get as good treatment
as the COW, but as it is she does not.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

a friend Of ours fed 80 head of cat
tie the past winter. He fed for seven
months, and, figuring his feed at last
falls prices, he made 500, which is
really only very moderate profit.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

The seemingly small difference be-
tween 10 below zero in the winter sea
son and so below as a maximum de
gree of cold means more to the man
who raises fruit than many people
think. y large number of our very
choicest varieties of fruit will endure
the 10 below zero temperature with
out harm. but utterly fail when expos
ed to the so degrees below.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

An Iowa farmer in 1897, competing
for premium offered for the acre Of
land producing the greatest number Of
bushels of corn. won the prize for a
crop of 2l5 bushels, hut he grew this
crop upon queer shaped acrc-a strip
of land ten feet wide running along the
edge of slough far enough to make
one acre of land
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

Fourteen million three hundred and
twenty thousand hogs were sold
and slaughtered in the packing house
markets between the LIST of March and
the LIST OF November last year. Allow
ing 20 hogs TO occupy one square rod
OF ground this total number would COW
er All acres, or % farms of 100 acres
each This is big lot of grunt ana
grease
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

The township road district plan is
meeting with much favor wherever
tried. 1t puts the highway administra-
ton of the township under the control
Of one supervisor. and more and better
work is done. The change to this sys-
TEN is the one sensible and practical
improvement which is within the reach
of all communities.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

So long as it is by all means best to
let the poultry of the farm have the
run of the farm homestead. it becomes
Indispensable that the garden patch
should be fenced in with a chicken
tight fence. For your own sake do not
compete with a lot of old hens in try
ing to have a good garden.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

When the new things in cabinet work
made from the rich and rare woods Of
the country's new island possessions
come on to the market, there will be an
artistic surprise for the people.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We notice that the agricultural de
partment is making a special effort to
find new markets for our dairy prod
ucts. This move is much to be com.
mended. but it will prove almost use
less unless some method of govern
ment inspection of the butter and
cheese exported is rigidly enforced,
American dealers in dairy products not
being wise enough rs yet to see that a
good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

The west furnished no less than Sc
100000 worth of horses and mules for
the prosecution of the late Boer war.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We are top grating 80 apple trees
this spring. 2-year-old Duchess, as an
experiment We are using scions of less
hardy understandable which are
not hardy with us root grated or upon
their own roots. From what we have
noted during the past % years we are
led to believe that we shall meet with a
fair measure of success in the expert
ment.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We are wont to think of Iceland
ts country of fishermen, glaciers and
Eskimos, and it is of interest to note
that a short time ago there We're in
that far north country %. 1909 head Of
cattle, 754,l15 head of sheep and A.
40 ponies. The only farm crop pro
duced was hay-17O, 900 tons.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

The best time of the year for the cow
to freshen is from the middle of Sep
TENDER to the middle of October The
average COW is well fed and cared for
during the fall and winter and may he
more cheaply fed than during the sum.
mer months. Her product also brings
better prices, and her calf goes on to
grass the next spring a strong and lusty
animal
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-24

We have laid out one flower bed
as follows; The bed is circular. In
the center is Golden Glow, which will
grow to the height of five or six feet
Surrounding this is a row of Dwarf
Cannas; outside these a row of coleus,
or foliage plants; then circle of gera-
NUNS. 1t is 4 new plan, but we think
that the bed will make pretty appear.
ance in August.