The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-04-05

April 10th.
Aiken has contracted for an avia-
tion station. Things must be look
ing up.
There is Il man in ,his tnwr who
has the biggest head in the world"
says the Charleston News and Cour-
ier What about. pray?
Judging from the rings and knots.
tree experts estimate that a certain
fig tree in this town is fifty centuries
old. and ii has been dressed just like
Eve all that timc.--Ncws and Courier
How? With nothing but leaves
Frank Nash purchased an auto one
day last week" says the Rabun cor
respondent of The Fountain inn Tr-
bune Must be an every day affair in
that section
With her railroad facilities and
plentiful supply of water and electric
power, Laurcns should he growing in
leaps and bounds. No city in the
State is better located
Our Winthrop College correspond
ent says that the average age of the
girls at that institution is eighteen
years. We Judge that the youngest
must be sixteen and the oldest twenty
Ideal conditions UP there.
Governor BlCasc says that he gets
twenty-five or thirty letters every day
telling him to go ahead and pay no at
tentior. to tho courts and the news
papers Reckon these letters como
from the same source rs the one that
requested special term of court to
try the murdcrers of Hipp in New
berry county
The Greenwood Journal says:
There is one mighty good thing about
Greenwood people. They may have
sharp differences. but when the hour
comes to strike for Greenwood. they
get together everytime. That is one
thing they know how TO do and they
always do it," That's mighty good
dope on how TO build a town and n
little more of the same spirit here
would accomplish wonders. Laurens
should be doing more t!lan she is right
now.
a telephone line should stretch out
into every section OF the county from
this city, In this way the farmers
are put in touch with Us and are able
to order by telephone what they would
set elsewhere Think of the conve-
nience it would be for farmers six,
eight ten and twelve miles from Lau-
rens If they could take down the re-
ceivcr and ask some of the city mer-
chants to send them out a package by
neighbor or perhaps have a package
ready for them when they call for it,
IT certainly would keep our business
together.
Judging by the amount of whiskey
which is reported being sold in the
little town of Pomaria, in Newberry
County, II seems as If mighty good
field is open for Governor Blease's
new rural policemen to do a little
work in. No doubt. though the fact
that all of this whiskey, which Is fig
ured out as being shipped to that lit
tle town. was unknown to them It's
pretty hard for those Newberry law
protectors to see a little thing like
barrel of whiskey, perhaps. BY the
way, have they still got constables in
Sewberry County or was 1t found that
they were not needed when the time
came recently for them to be reap
pointed?
The base ball season is about here.
Laurens ought to get In the swim
somehow or other. Newberry, Green
wood, Clinton and Laurens might stir
up little interest along this line.
A salary limit need not be considered
at all If either town cannot get out
as good a team as IL wants, let 1t
lire somebody. If IL can put up the
coin. AS no certain schedule will be