Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-07-01
LOCAL MATTERS


There will be preaching at tho Baptist Church
on next Thursday night, st instant, at o'clock,
by Rev. 4. p. Bell.
The regunr monthly concert of prayer for
foreign missions will be held in the Presbyterian
Church on next Sunday night.
Tho weekly prayer meetings in the Methodist
Church will now be held on Thursday after
moons at 81 o'clock, instead Of at night as here
toforc.
Tho grand tournament at Westminster has
been postponed until the first Saturday in
September next.
On Saturday next tho ladies will have ice
cream in abundance for salo at tho brewery
Park. Give them II call and get something
to cool the inner man.
Messrs Wright & Sigh arc fixing up their
drug store very neatly and tas'crully. They
have recently added show eases, prescription
GcSk and counters.
Tho blanks for making agricultural returns
were not received by tho Auditor uull the l0tE
of June, and as good many farmers had made
their personal returns before that time, Mr.
George would be glad if they would call at his
Office before the 2Olh of July and give him The
agricultural statistics called for
Typhoid fever is now regarded by our best
physicians as filth fever, and in many eases The
Immediate cause is 10 be found in access Of Glth
OF some sort to the we'll or place from which
the water is obtained for domestic purposes.
We regret to learn that Rev. Thos. Dawson.
OF Pond'eton, died on tho morning Of the 2oth
Juno Mr.. Dawson was one Of the Oldest
Baptist ministers in the county, and has in
his long life accomplished much good. We
hopc somo ofhis friends will furnish us with
history Of his life.
We have before us tho premium list of tic
State Agricultural and Mechanical Society for
the twelfth annual fair, to be hcia at Colum>
bia, ). G., beginning on Tuesday, the 9th of
November, 1880, and ending on Friday.
November IL, 1880. Tho premium list is
liberal enc and embraces stock, field crops.
&c. Wo hopo the people Of oconcc will
take an interest in tho fair and be well
represented on this OCCASION
typhoid fever crccps into the house through
The cellar. Decaying vegetables and accumu-
lations of debris and dirt arc tho seeds of
miasmatio diseases. II s now time as The warm
weather has set in, for every cellar in the
country and in town 10 be thoroughly cleaned
and lined. In fact, Il cellar should never bo
allowed to get in an unclcanly conditions and
II choice must be made between the parlor and
tho cellar, clean tho cellar first. Tho doctor
may lose, but you will gain by it, Residences
that have no cellars should havo plenty Of ven
tilatlon underneath and be kept perfectly dry
and clean.
one OF tho greatest obstacles q Southern
newspaper has TO cncountcr, in our opinion,
results from the pernicious habit of LEADING out
tho paper TO friends and ncighbors. In nino
cases out of ten tho borrower would become a
subscriber If he were unable to get tho news Mt
his ncighbors expense. 1t is hard sruaalo nj
best to sustain newspaper in this section with
The small and scattered population to get at, and
those who persist in accommodating tho borrow.
crs arc dealing tho most deadly blow to tho
efforts OF Tho newspaper men TO give them rood
papers. Take almost any newspaper and IL
will bo found that everybody in tho locality is