The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-12-20
Personal AND OTHERWISE.
he Carnival is coming next week.

The Carnival is coming next week
The price of cotton touched the IL
cent mark again yesterday.
Christmas shopping is on in earnest
this week.
Miss Rucia Wolff visited in the city
Saturday.
Mr.. Sam j. Rasor, of Mountville,
was in the city Monday.
Mr.. Marvin f. Medlock of Merna was
in the city Friday,
: Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Gray attended
Conference at Spartanburg.
Mr.. Willie Crawford spent Sunday
at Greenwood.
Mr.. j. H. Madden of untville, was
in town yesterday.
Mrs. j. p. Simpson and family left
this week for months stay in Florida.
Mrs. r. B. Vance and Mrs. c.. Nj.
Bailey of Clinton were here yesterday.
Mr.. John Kern, of the Atlanta Col
lege of Pharmacy is at home for the
holidays.
Mr.. James H. Meyers, for several
years with DR.. Posey here, spent Sun
day and Monday in the city.
The City Schools suspended yesterday
for a two weeks holiday and will open
again on Wednesday, Jan. 3.
Mr.. Joshua Young, manager of the
Company Store at Wares Shoals, Wis
tied In the city Sunday.
Miss Olivia Burnside Of the Sandy
Spring school was in the city Saturday
with the Misses billiard of Tylersville.
Miss Annie Hoyt, of Greenville,
attended the funeral of Mrs. T. B.
Crews last Wednesday.
The window displays of Christmas
goods are unusually pretty and attrac-
tive this season.
Barkoot's Carnival is said to be first
class in every respect. 1t will come to
Laurens next Monday.
Mrs. Perrin Minter entertained the
members of the Fortnightly club at her
home on South Harper St. yesterday.
Mr.. Gus. w. Cunningham of Cornell
University arrived yesterday for a two
weeks visit in Laurens and Madden.
Misses Lola and Pauline Anderson
have returned from visit to their sis
ter, Mrs. j. L. Johnson, of Spartan
burg.
Mr.. John H. Turner, formerly as
sistant-supt. of the Watts Mills, now
of Enoree, visited friends in the CITY
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. j. Il. johnson and children, of
Spartanburg,. will spend Christmas in
Laurens, and it is expected that Con-
gressman Johnson will join them here
during the holiday recess of Congress.
The city will be alive by the latter
part of the week with college girls and
boys. 1t is to be regretted that the
Winthrop girls can't spend our most i'm
portant holiday season at home with low
ed ones.
telegram was received Monday by
DR.. j.. A. Barksdale announcing the
death that morning Of his nephew, Judge
Allen Barksdale, at his home at Ruston,
La. Judge Barksdale was born and
reared in this county. He was a dis
tinguished survivor of Company G. (The
Briars) Third S. C. Regiment and for
many years has been frequent attend
ant upon the annual reunions of his old
company.
An entertainment, consisting of mu-
sic and recitations, was given at the
Cotton Mill Auditorium last evening to
raise funds for the Christmas tree to
be given this week for the children of
the cotton mill school, The entertain
ment, which was decided success,
financially and otherwise, was in charge
of Miss Lillian Harris, the principal of
the mill school. Some of the attractive
features of the programme were vocal
numbers by Mrs. Claude l.. Fuller,
who sang several selections most de-
lightfully, and recitation by Mrs. w.
O. Prentiss