The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, January 04, 1905, Image 6

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WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY mm mm A Ik 8 ft 8 OUR MODERN LAUNDRY Five years ago the Laurens Steam Laundry was started on its successful career. During that time it has enjoyed a growth in both its business and plant that would have been termed wonderful were not the reasons for this growth so clear. A laundry cannot extend its field of operation beyond its home town until it covers a whole state without there being something behind this growth of business. The rea= son must lie in the quality of its work. It must have been work superior in every respect to that of its competitors and must have been backed by prompt service and courteous treatment. We are termed "The Laundry That Made Laurens Famous" because we have given our patrons just such service as this. To enable us to turn out such work as this we have equipped our laundry with the most modern machinery,"adopted the newest methods, employed only careful competent help, and have carefully studied every detail of the laundry business. Our equipment embraces machines for the ironing of shirts, collars, and cuffs, that no other laundry in the State possesses. Our methods are the result of a careful study of the most approved systems in use in laundries through out the country. Our employees are each one experts in their particular part of the work. Our business has not only increased by a large amount here in our home town and vicinity but it has also spread all Our laundry is favorably known and is represented in a majority of the towns in South Carolina. The people in these places patronize us because we give them better work than they can obtain elsewhere. "The Top of the Palmetto State," should be your laundry too. over the state. Notch Laundry BEST BY TEST. The Laurens Steam Laundry, LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA. ft BEST BY TEST. FIVE SUSPECTS LODGED IN JAIL. Charged With Killiug Dan Fuller. PARTIES ALL NEGROES. Tho Arrests Wore Made by Deputies Ulcun aud Sullivan at Mount vlllo Saturday. ShcrilT Duekett's deputies, Waltor D. '.ilecn and Addison Ii. Sullivan ar rested live negrces at Mountville Sit urday, b.-ought them to tin cry that night in a wagon and lodged the bunch in the county jail. Tho mon whose ?Res range from 2"> t > 00 are hold un der warrants issued by Magistrate Eludgens, charging them with the brutal murilor of Uan Full r, tho old uegro, who was found dead In his cabin at Mountvble Christmas day with his throat cut and head crushed. Acting under tho direction of Solici tor Sease, Lawyer It. E, Babb went to Mountville aud proceeded with tho as sistance of tho town authori'.iei to nsako a .thorough cxaninitkn of the surroundings and a number of sus pects. This investigation r.r.d fot.o further detective work by tho ofllcerj led to tho arrest of Hob and Joe Item ing, Dan Caldwell, Claude Gcodnnn and ITcnry Steven-?. They will prolnbly remain In j dl un til Court which commences Fourth Monday, MERCHANTS NEWS Sec tho great lino of ginghams in new styles at our January Sale. O. 13. Simmons Co. Don't forgot our big January Salo commences Jar. nary Olfi, Monday morn ing ncx\ O. B. Simmons Co. It ad our big ad on the Ii rat p gj. O. 13. Simmons Co. Sec the big Mr o of cmbroldory at our big sale next week. O. B. Simmons Co. A great display of new silks for the Spring at our big January Salo. Seo thotn. (). Ti. Simmons Co. ( lunch Notes. 'I ho Ilnc8t city and vlllngo churohes arc painted with tho Longman & Mar tin. /. p.tints, and wo want every church to accept our donation whenever they paint. 8 ai d (> mako 14. thcroforo when you w .int foitrtorn gallons of paint, buy enly eight of Ij& M and mix?ix gallons of puro linseed o 1 with it, making actual 0 s' of pilot i.bout $1.20 per gallon. Don't pay #1.50 a gallon (or linseed oil (worth ?0 tents) which you do when you l.ty other paints in a can with a paint labol on it. M>my houses aro well painted with four gallons of L & M und threo gallons of linsotd oil mixed thorowith. Wears and covers liko gold. The.'o celebrated oalnts sro sold by W. h, Hoyd, laurens, 8. C. ( linton Pharmacy, C Inton. 11ETRUSP?CTIV?-1845-1005. Col. Crews? Connection with Tito Herald Covers Period of Half Century. This issue of I ho Herald is the last for the year 1004, This newspaper was founded October, 1845, consequently it is in the sixtieth year of it-? existence The writer's oanneotlon with it began when the paper was in its comparative infancy, October, 184!), moro than fifty live years ago?ibis connection, how ever, being broken by a residence o! four years in another county imme diately precet Ing^nd four years in tho war between the Slates. Thus, bit as soc'ation with this paper, in one capac ity or another, covers a period of noar ly half a century. As wo grow older it is natural for ns all to live more cr le:s in tho j/art; ht-nci this biief retrospect. Th*i writer tame to I.aurons when sixteen years of ego. The placo wasfchon but a hamlet, comparatively?consisting perhaps of not moro than eight hundred inhabitants, all told ? yet small as it then was it embraocd an honorable, dignified and, in several Instanco?, dis tinguished citizenship. Today, ai we P3n these li^nes, with a population of more than six thousand, and of all who were of maturo age?thos-?, wo mean, who had atba:ned thoir majority?when wo first knew this town, only throo persons me Jiving, so far as wo know rnd believe. Many of our ow.i age, and o'der, who ?. ?ro hero In tho latter fifties and early sixths, went to tho f out in tho great conlliet of. '(il-'<i.">, but never returned; whilo "Time, the tomb builder," has carried the more aged ones to "tho hills of tho dead. " Now, on the eve of tho ndvont of a New Yoar wo extend hearty greetings and good wishes to all our rouders, nnd bid a final good-bye to tho Old, soon to-be Dead Year.?Tho Laur?nsvlUe Herald, Dec. 30. Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Crowdcr of At lanta arrived In tho city Saturday and have assumed tho management of tho Hun Dolla. HBaLTUY MOTHERS. Mothers should always kcop In JSLod bodily health. They o*o It to their children. Yet it is no unusual sight to sco ft mother, with babo in nnns. coughing violently and exhibiting all the symptoms of a consumptivo ten dency. And why should this danger ous condition exist, dangerous alike fco mother and child, when Dr. liosoheo's German S<?rup would put u stop to it, nt once? No mother should be without ihis old and tried remedy in tho houso ?for its tlmoly use will promptly cure any lung, throat or bronchial (.rouble In horsolf or her children. Tho worst cough or cold can bo speedily ourod bv German Syrup-so can hoarseness and congestion of tho bronchial tubes. It rankes expectoration cssy, and fflvcs instant roiiof and, refreshing rest to tho congh-rakod consumptive. Now trial bottlon, 26o? largo slzo, 7f>c. At all druggist*. A FINE FAMILY. "I have ns.d Dr, King's Blood and I liver Pills In my family hw! with my tcn.mts. Am eixty-nlne, anu have rftlied nine sons twonly-ono years old, and fourd^ugbtprs, Imvo used all tho leading liver medicine?, hut lind KiugV to bo tho best of all. "Reuben F. Cbrilonbury." CLINTON WAS GAY CHRISTMAS WEEK. A Hound of Delightful So cial Functions. ! F1MENDLY DOZEN FIUST T!?*a Followed Mrs. Owens' Dinner Party, Misses Thornwells' Enter tainment- K. of P. Banquet. Clinton, Jan. 2.?Th3 Friendly ' Dozen were charmingly eutertuinrd on Tuesday afternoon at a progresplvo tea by Mrs. W. J. Bailey. Unique H vors wero given rach guest, infking souvenirs of a delightful occasion. Mrs. John Leth of Boston, Mrs. Cnoip of Morth Csrolina and Mrs. Water? Fer guson were the guests of the Club. On Wednesday, Mra. W. B. O.vcns entertained fourteen ladles at a very attractive Innchoon. The table was beautiful In red and silver, with center phcoof vt bite hyacinths and smilax A delightful seven oourso lunch was served by Misses Dickson end McCas ' lan. One of the most plearant dances of , the season was at Copeland's Hall on Wednosday evening. The visitors j wero Misses Agnes Midor of Creen- j Vllle, Inez Dickson of Seneca. Mrs. Ar- j thur Shoekloy of Sj>artanbnrj>, Messrs. j Sanders. I lodgers and Baconotliarivns. : Hill of Atlanta, Owens of N. U. Misses .Tul a and Bert Vhornwoll wero tln> guests of honor at a luncheon given by MIrb Kuthcrino Do an to a dozen young Jadios on Thursday. The Christmas mopting of the Act aeon Book Club was at tho lovoly bomo of Mrs. C. M. Bailey. In tho adver tisement contest Miss Ko3D Bailey won tho prize, a lovoly Dgurn in hronzo. On Friday afternoon Mrs. T- Tj. W. Biiley wus "at homo" to ) ,er friends from 4 to <i. A floral conte st was the feature of tho afternoon, Mrs. Jack Young bearing off the hon> >rs. A de lightful menu was eorvjd during tho hours. Ninety gue?ts were pr *8ont at tbo Knights of Pythias ban quet Friday evening. A. E. Spencer \ i?s toast mas ter and tho wclcomo was. given by J. I. Copdand. Bbv. J. b\ Jacob*, Bev. T. E. Simpson and Jol in Mo^wain of Qroenvllle and other a responded to toasts during tho ovetv-.ing. During tho boliduyu MifSCfl Julia and Hort Thornwell of I ort Mill am! Joe Dean of Coorg'a wor- 3 with Miss Kuytho rino Bean. Tho fallowing fi cm Lauren?, vtfere down for tho birnqu et: Mtesos Lyl lr by, Mary Howcn arid ' flartha it Its; Jot tso | Vanco ami R, r;opoland. Miss Ethel ar. f. Oenev ovo lloor..?r ..of' Newberry spoo 0 .New Year's day wife.'? j Miss Anna Boo>.?r. Miss llond jfimmed tober li?me Im Baltimore yos-jwrday, after spending'1 phrhnims wee (c wltb Miss Ina/Var.na-) (From second 1'age.) Hearts Courageous. The StoouTnsIdO ns she entered the hull. Through the half open door of the drawing room she saw braided uni forms grouped about n tnbjo from which floated out the sound of laughter and the clink and 1 inkle of glasses, filled from the cellars. "And they tell mo," rolled a full voice, With a bantering chord in it, "that yon would have snored tlx; lot of them at Chnrlotlcsvlllo wero it not for n girl. Flo, colonel! A dragoon should have a Hterncr heart! Come, now, make n clean breast of it. "Who Avas the light heeled damselV" ".Mistress Tiiiotson of Gladden Hall," announced (he aid at the door. Anne went ml and white nt this contretemps, and Tn riet on siwang up with such an exclamation that Lord Cornwollly, who had risen also, looked astonishment from one to the other. Then the commander caught the situa tion and laughed, as did the whole com pany. The merriment sent resentment to Anne's face, and (he general sobered 111* tstantly into courteous contrition. "You bear easy honors, mistress," he said, "therefore overlook our hilarity, which, I do protest, was yet ill timed In the pain which the hard usage of such a noble mansion must hring. I_ regrot," he added, "that Hueb things must he. War in not a tender game, and beauty must suffer with the rest." "Von mistake," she told him quickly. "I come not to complain, but to nsk a favor. A negro was taken on this jproporty and is now held by your men. He bus been my own body servant all may life. Surely you cannot lack for servants. I nsk you now to give him back to me." "It's the nigger named John the Bap tist, I presume, sir," suggested one of the officers. "Colonel Dundns has him." CornWUIlls bowed, with an easy, good humored smile on hi:: big, confident, 'masterful face. "We who enjoy the hospitality of this mansion can scarce refuse HO light a favor (o her who, un der happier elrcuinslancos, should bo Our hostess. Von shall have your body servant, mistress." "I thank your lordship," said Anne, witii dignity. Scaling himself, Cornwallis wroto a hasty line, folded the paper and band ed it to her. "Colonel Dundas* brigade lies with Slmooo at Spencer's ordinary on the WllliniusbUl'g road," ho said. "Ho will give you return pusses." The Officers rose as she swept n low courtesy from the threshold. The old held her stirrup with deference, and ,\Jie cantered down through the gates ai\l took the west road with a Joyfulry beoftng heart and the written order lu the packet of her gowu. ]\\ti who did not finish the journey. She had fared scar o half the Avay when i\ far popping came from the distance. The next hill showed puffs of smoke hanging above the trees, and she knew thai the sound wns the rattle of Ott? gaging musketry. Could her eye have plen cd beneath that follngo she would have uoen the first skirmish of La fayottc'n campaign, the brilliant charge of MtThorSOU'S dragoons upon 81m coo's rangers. ?ha had pulled up, startled at the round, when n low but familiar voice OA Hod her from the thicket. ".lohn the Itaptlst!" she cried. ' Vas'm, Mis' Anne, et's me," bo re upended, with a moist grin, parting the bushes. "I warn' gwlnter curry no Britisher bosses loop! 'Twai n' no uso'n 'cm waliopln' me?meh hide's toughor'u whit leather." "They let J'OU go?" He threw back his head like a bay ing hound and laughed loosely. "Norm! Dem BqUltlch eyed seoun'ls nuvver let nuttin' go. I kep' meh eyes Bkunt (mi tuk ter de hresh <lis ve'y mawnln' slleker'n er weasel. Qrcnscd lightnlu1 couldn't ketch me: Whut yo' doin* heali, Mis' Anno? Wltnr yo' been?" "At Bnrwell's." "Yo' jes' ride llckoty cut down dar ergnln. Dot's do bos' place. 'Speck Mars' John be down dar Mreekly." ? <.?*?*? For a fortnight Burwoll'S heard the grind and rush of the armies so near. At length this lulled. Cornwnllis had withdrawn sullenly into Yorkflbwn. Then in early September a momen tous mcssngo How from lip to lip. Washington was comlngl The wary Commander in chief, pretending plans against New York, had led Sir Henry t'lluton to recall pint of his force from the Chesapeake and then, tui'n?ig front, had marched with speed for Virginia, where Cornwnllls lay with all his army in the elbow of the bay, leisurely forti fy in;,'. Hack of this swift inarch of 400 miles lay vital tidings. A new French licet was on its way to the Chesapeake. Lafayette drew his troops between tho British ami a retread into the Carolinas. Tin- patriot army Avas hastcu?ng down upon them from the north. Would Clinton scent danger and send ships to snatch Cornwallls from tho closing jaws, or would tho French licet come In time to block the sen way out'/ Hut Virginia knew nothing of this at first. She only know that Washington was coming. One night Anne was awt.ikened to an unusual sight. Out on tlie Jasper col ored river cauio a succession of huge barges, and from them, nbove the plash of oars and erouk of cordage, rose the hum of a multitude. She lcwied fur from the window to listen. ICow like phantom shadows the brist'Jug deals swept past! "What can it be?" she cried. " 'Tis the French, come in \tho fleet of De Grosse," said Mr. Burtwcll. "It must now be at anchor In Hampton Bonds. Thank Godl Thank -Cod!" There was a thrill of rejoicing in his tone, but Anne's heart beat painfully. Hope and help wore come to ber land to Virginia the bOf.Utlful, the-tragle, tho tender. The first promise of this help had come to it. when strong arm called to counsel and counsel to strong arm and both feared to answer. And ho who bore4bOft messnge? Denied by her Hps that "ailed to him, dishonored by her baud 'that ached for n touch of him, what thougjit now had his heart for her? Tho dark shapes passed on to the notch of Jamestown Island that night and dtstforgorfN an army. Silently they filed up Archer's Hope c reek and drew, with Lafsyette/f? troop", the fatal cordon nbout YorkU>wn. Tho fleet 'that brought them lay in tho river mouth below, and when the British ships ,AV.hi<h Cornwallls had been prrfinisod tore to that smiie-day, with fourteen hundred guns, Do Crasse's wntcblfnl frigates battered tl "m away. The would bo, rescuers sailed back, and Cornwnllls fwoke to find himself entrapped. ^.^ | ?? ?--???-? On the day Washington's allied ar mlos marched Into Wlliiumsburg, Anne stood with Colonel Tillotson on tlio steps of the cnnltol to see them pass. Tho Continentals were ragged, worn with painful marches In heat and rain, with stained rags covering old wounds, but with tho unquenchable resolvo In their faers. Rochttinbonu's French wero uniformed in white, with rose colored facings, eager, debonair, carrying gold wrought standards that caught thesun. Anno watched through smarting eyes. Somewhere, waiting these, among those other troops lying panting against the hills nearer Yorklowit, was the one faee which meant the whole war?the whole world to her. Steadily, under (lie enemy's lire, bat teries rose along the parallels. From one to another of these rode Knox, placing his gunners, his round, jovial face creased in smiles, in Iiis element at last. And these gunners for live days, from sunrise to sunset, hurled iron and flamo upon the defenses. Tho Inner parallels crept toward (he rlwr bank, tightening the line. Hero their advance was stayed by a redoubt on the high bank, thirty feet above the river. It had resisted aill the force of tho gunners. "If we take that redoubt," said Wash ington to Knox on the afternoon of the fifth day of tho bombardment, "Corn WalllS must surrender." Colonel Armand, with a handful of his troopers, rcconnoitCl'Cd that after noon on the rigid, came near the river and in advance; of tho foromosl Ameri can battery. From the redoubts far to tho left camo a scattering whistle of grape and now and then the grinding belch of a carronade. Tho air was full of the heavy, pungent smell of burned powder and the reeking sc ut of fresh turned earth. His gaze had sought tho wide river for a moment and turned up the stream with a look that was fixed and far away. "A prisoner, coming from tho town, captured under the river bank, sir." The voice recalled him. "Bring him here." Tho man brought before him looked With a start, then smiled with a gleam of mockery on his ruddy Hps. Ar inaud's face was Immovable. "Still the same, colonel," the new comer flaunted, with n glance at the other's uniform. "Still captain ?Tarrat. My Philadelphia wound, as you see, proved not so bad. I am on my way now out of the precious rat trap yon der. I have small liking for these pe culiar delays. Suppose you scribble mo a pass through the Hue ." "Sergeant," said Armand, "lake this man to tho trench and glvo him ten minutes to go back to Iiis own re doubts." A swarthy red came to Jar rat's face. "I would speak with you alone a mo mcnt. I have a communication to make." At Armand's nod the others fell had;. "What is your communication'/" ho ?asked etornly, "You have covered your pn i very Woll, but I know you. Do you i nn in ker that day at the congress? Well, I ?in not dumb. Now, will you lot me goT For answer Armand recoiled his B< r goant. "(Jive this man ten loshes," ho commanded, "boforo you start hlra from tho trench." Jflrrat looped back, snarling like fl ?OX_ttt hay. "You would da re 7" To bo Continuod. I CITY OPERA HOUSE, t (| ONE NIGHT ONLY $ __January 10th, 1905. 'S THE <S LAUGHING EVENT ^ Frank S. Davidson in % The New | Old Revised and Re=Written @g Up to Date : A Little Beyond || iS "Tsel^cted'olw ' gl ?8 ACTORS THE IMPERIAL Jfa ? SINGERS and SOLO ? 6$ DANCERS ORCHESTRA S1 ? 2?Tlx^W::2^"*C "T^OSquarc & ?g 20 -ARTISTS?20 Magnificent Scenery gl Reserved Seats on Sale Monday January 9th, Jl at Copeland's. Jgg Cabbage Plants. I have for sale Succession, Wakefield and ICarly Spring Cabbage Plants, giown in open air on sea coast from seeds bought from the best and most reliable Seedsmen in the United States .a llic following prices F. O. B. Lots 1,000 to 5,000 $1.50 per M. ?? 5,000 to 10.000 $1.25 per M. Lots Over 10,000 Special Prices on Application, SPECIAL, INDUCEMENTS TO DEALERS. Any information as to the cultivation of Cabbage will be cheerfully given on application. S. J. RUMPH, Adams Run, S. C. Final Settlement. Take notice that on tho ITtti diy of January, ]!)or>,j will rendo? a flail no count of my arts and doinga as Admin* ist rut ?r of the- estate of Fannie <'. Parks, decoascd, in the c ilicn of Judge of Probate of Laurens county at 11 o'c'o k a m ., anil on t Im same date will . I'p'y for a liuil discharge from my 11 ust as such Administrator, All per uh having demmd i against f?aid estate will nleate pr. sent them on Of before thai date, proven and authen t'cited, or bo forever barred, and all persons indoblod to said ostuto must mako payment to the ucdertignid bo fore that date. W. M. HUNTER, 10 in Administrator. ?Mra ILo f? gnatUO, of jfVM Kind Vo-i llavn Always BougM we want all interested in MACHINERY > lO HAVE OUR NAME BEFORE THEM DURING 1905 Wrlto ua slating what kind of Machinery you uso or win Install, and wo will rmll you Free of All Cost A HANDSOME AND USEFUL POCKET DIARY AND ATLAS OR A LARCH COMMERCIAL CALENDAR Gibbcs Machinery Company, COLUMBIA, S. cT~" A STOOK OF HORSE POWER HAY PRESSES TO BE OL03EO OUT AT SPECIAL PRICES