The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-07-05

petition bearing seven hundred sigma
lures praying for the pardon of Hun
ter. The Governors action has been
freely commented upon in Laurens
One man said the performance was
perfectly consistent" and other SIM
liar expressions have been heard But
with apparent seriousness, some of his
loyal friends and supporters have de-
nounced the Governors action in this
case and express their utter disgust
with the Chief Executive.
"The Idler," in The Herald and
News, brings up the Greenville to
Charleston highway, making sug-
gestion that the automobilists con-
tribute a certain sum each to aid the
work along. That is good sugges-
ton, but we are somewhat pessimistic
as to the large body Of automobilists
contributing money for roads They
are very wiling to talk about them
ard to blame the county officials for
not working them, but when it comes
to putting down the cold hard cash
to help the work along, their enthu-
siasm abates. Like every other set of
men, there are exceptions and very
fine ones. A great many autoists
would contribute both time and money
for building roads but when it comes
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be hard proposition to get the ten
dollars each.
The suggestion is a mighty good
one, though. If the autoists would
furnish the money and the people
along the route would furnish labor
and teams, great deal of good could
be accomplished and the benefits
would be as valuable to the one as to
the other.
Moses Crawford, colored. tenant on
the farm of Comptroller General
Jones. was the proud bearer of cot
ton bloom at Abbeyille last Wednes-
day 1t was a beautiful red flower.
not one of the half dozen little white
blooms that found their way last week
into the editorial office of the Laurens
Advertiser. Half dozen little white
blooms do not count when we have a
red bloom And that red bloom had
some thing on it, Town gentlemen
who know all about farming examin-
ed it carefully. One part OF the bloom
seemed missing and searching for the
peculiar formations, one gentleman
thought he solved this question when
he discovered what he thought was a
boil weevil. The second gentleman.
with better eye sight, or possibly bet
ter Judgment, pronounced it red spi-
der The web and the little crawlers
or runners sent credence to the latter
solution. We are not prepared to say
what 1t was. but you can bet on it
beating anything to be found on the
Advertisers little old white blossoms
We1l have to give up to The Press
and Banner. Our blossoms were moth
ing like that pink bloom found on
some of those red hills of Abbeville.
Ours were just those plain white ones,
fresh from the fields of prosperous
and alert farmers, who had not al
lowed a single early blossom to be
born to blush unseen" Our Lau-
rens blossoms were In no wise the
like of those pink and faded Abbeyille
blossoms. AS much as town farmers"
searched and examined our blossoms.
they could not find single one of
those muchly treasured "crawlers or
trailers" nor could they for the life
of them find thing resembling a boil
weevil. And, woe to the Laurens
cotton crop. they couldn't even find
little red spider with its web stunt
ing the growth of the plant. No, our
blooms were nothing like that Able
Vile creation.