The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16
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A. FROM THE COUNTY
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GIVE LOCAL NEWS
Happenings Of Interest to Many Peo-
pie all over the County and to Those
Who Have Left the Family HEARTH
stone and gone to Other States.

Mountville, Aug. 14.-We were glad
to see at Harris Springs a few days
ago Prof. Glenn Parrott of Cross Hill.
He is using his summer vacation as a
profitable way as bookkeeper for the
Springs Company. In September he
will move to Whiesburg, Ca, where
he will have charge of splendid
Graded School. Mr.. Parrott has been
at Cross Hill for two years and has
done good work there
Last Wednesday a light hasty rain
accompanied by wind and hail visited
small section here The hail fell in
large blocks but slowly. No damage
was done save the beating off of some
foliage from the growing crops.
Mr.. Ulaud Goodman had his motor
. cycle badly wrecked near Laurens one
day last week. He had been to the
city and was starting home, when the
machine exploded. He himself escaped
any hurt.
Miss Mary Wilkes of Laurens re-
Gently spent severla days here as a
pleasant guest of Miss Edith league.
Miss Marie league has returned
from very pleasant visit to friends
at Greenwood. .-..r,
Mr.. B. r. Fuller of the firm of Rasor
& Fuller left Sunday for trim TO
Baltimore and other places of inter-
est.
The largest watermelon we have
ever seen was raised this year by Mr..
Frank Waller near Exon. Mr.. Walk
er lives on Mr.. A. b. Culbertson's
farm on which the melon was grown.
We did not learn the variety of the
melon, but by measurement we found
1t feet, 3 inches in length and feet
inches in circumference at the mid
die 1t weighs 56 pounds. Hoke Smith
, has but little of which he can boast
D fl his 5S FOUNDER grown by Georgia
gfarmer.
Messrs Frank Vaughan and John
son of Union county are visiting their
friends, Charley and Robert Thornton.
Rev. Mr.. Grier, young minister OF
Due West, preached at Head Springs,
A. r. P. church Sunday morning and
at Mountvile Presbyterian church
Sunday evening,
Mrs. Lucy Crisp and little Ruth of
Grover, N. c., are here with parents
and other relatives,
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in town last Tuesday seemed to be
strangers. They appeared to be white
people. Upon enquiry, it was learned
that they were mother and daughter.
The mother was a white woman and
the daughter an octoroon The hus-
band and father is mulatto. They
belong to a family of white people
who intermarried with negroes before
the law forbidding such marriages
was passed. The younger woman,
though at least an octoroon could pass
for a white person. They live sew
eral miles west of here.
One of the lady teachers elected to
teach in the school here has declined
and Miss Wilma Ramey of this place
was unanimously elected to the place.
Miss Ramey is graduate of the CO.
lumbia Female College and is well
qualified for the position.
Miss Rhidora Owens has accepted a
position to teach the Vaughnville
school and Miss Kate Austin has been
elected to a position In the High school
at Mccormick, s. G. Miss Sara Beeks
has been elected teacher in the John
ston High School and Miss Blanche
'inson will teach again at Youngs
Messrs. c. ID. Nance, Lambert Nance
!! and j. o. Dendy spent a few days in
Atlanta last week mailing the trip by
automobile.
DIR. and Mrs. r. G.. Davenport of
Augusta are with relatives in town.
Master Eldridge McSwain of New
berry is with his grandmother, Mrs.
jamie McSwain.
Mrs. j. ID. Beeks and children are Wis
4 ting relatives in Abbeville
y There will be an election for cotton
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