The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-05-01
FACTS Personal
AND BRIEF NOTES OF RECENT
EVENTS.

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/ week on business.
Mrs. T.. NJ. Caine and Mrs. j. w.
Jones went up to Greenville last week.
Mrs. Webb is visiting friends in
| Augusta.
l.. w. Simkins, Esq, visited rcla-
tives at Woodruff on Friday last.
The shrrt-waist and the picnic season
are close on our heels.
Col. II. Y. Simpson was in Spartan
burg on Monday.
G G. Featherstonc, Esq, was in Co.
lumbia on Monday.
Young men of the city-get your
balls ana bats. Business men should
help during the season.
DR.. DeFoiN Wilson, Of Spartanburg,
visited bis sister, Mrs. Alex Long, dur
ing last week.
Rev. n. j. Holmes was here on Mon
DAY, where his friends are legion and
always glad to greet him.
MIR. Watts Hairston, prominent
young business man of Goldvillc, was
in the city on Friday last.
Mr.. John w. Ferguson, Of Walhallu.
was down Sunday to see his father and
family.
Mr.. II. II. Ward 'aw, Of Abhcvillc, is
on visit TO his friend, l.. W. SImkins.
Esq.
Mr., NJ. l.. Burdine, of Cray Court,
q leading farmer, was in the city on
Monday.
Mr. J. A. Baldwin, Of suliivan'S,
was among his friends in the city ON
Saturday.
Mr. II. T. Nabors, of Cross Hin, re-
presented that pretty little city, 50
savory of roses, on Saturday last.
Clinton has an Automobile and
l'resident M. S. Bailey, of the Cotton
Mill, is the progressive pioneer
See Mr.. White Jones beautiful
patches Uf barley, oats, etc, and fall
in love with intensive farming.
Fred Shell, q son Of the late Hon. G..
w. Shell, of Fort Worth, Texas, is
home, after an absence Of five years, on
visit to his mother and family.
Mr.. John A. Barksdale, of Green
wood, whore he is prominent in bust
ness circles, visited kindred in the
city last week.
Mr.. |. l.. Curry, Of Laurens, was
one OF the Sophomore speakers of Wof-
ford on Monday night, his subject:
True grandeur of Nature"
Miss Clara Duckett, daughter of
Sheriif II. j. Duckett, came mp from
Clinton Saturday, visiting her lather
and other relatives.
Rev. j. T.. Carlisle preached morn.
ing and evening at the Methodist
church on Sunday last to large audi
cnces.
Miss Mary Waller Camp, Mrs. w. e.
Lucas, Mrs. Willie Anderson go to
Spartanburg to day to enjoy the Fes-
tival of Music.
Mrs. ID. G.. lsuckman left Tuesday for
her home at Staunton, Va. Miss Rosa
bell Moore accompanied her and will
spend the summer there.
1t is said that the Cuban Commission
got no encouragement at Washington
and have returned to Cuba with lleas
in their ears. Democratic sympathy
can't help them.
Observers say that there were fewer
people in the city ON last Saturday
1t was an ideal day for the pl0w to
move and this is the explanations
Judge Allen Backsdale leaves to-day
FOR his home in Louisiana His visit
here has been greatly enjoyed by rcla.
tives and old comrades, who wish him
q safe return to family and friends.
Rev. w, B Duncan, of the 1st Metho-
dist church, this citv, is IN attendance
on the great Methodist Missionary
Convention now in session III New
Orleans.
Dir. NJ. G. Cox, of Houngs, was In
the city on Saturday, and had the
honor Of dining with the old soldiers
OF Co. "G." Dir. Cox is a veteran and
knows all about the gay johnny Reb
The 18TH Of May should inauguratc Is
O'Clock closing with the usual excep-
tons. Middle aged business gentlemen,
should have some rest and recreation,
don't you know
We are requested to state that there
will be no service in the II. Il.
Church, Clinton, next Sabbath Rev. Mr..
I,aXco will be assisting Rev. A. J..
Patterson at Mt. Carmel.
Mr. A. NJ. Robertson, now OF Andcr-
son county, but an old and hOnOred citi-
zen OF Laurens, was in the city on
Monday visiting his brother, MIR Reu-
ben Robertson, and will visit other
kindred in the county.
l.. s. Carson, OF Sumter, Just COM
m ssOnod as u Lieutenant in the army,
and who has been fighting In the Phil
ippincs came honestly by his soldierly
trend. His father is f.. Scott Carson,
who was captain OF Co &C." Hampton
Legion and surrendered at Appomat-
tOX.
Some Ten days ago, near Owens,
CliT Abercrombie, colored, shot with n
pistol n co!Ored woman, Mamie Sulli-
van, who died on Saturday last Of the
pistol wound. Abercrombic is in Jail,
and claims that the pistol was acc-
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