The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-09
ReItt1n Items.

Last Saturday was the annual pic mic
season at Cooley's Bridge, and Belton
turned out to witness the hand-shaking of
Anderson and Greenville across Saluda.
Mr. ). T. Rice kindly furnished seat,
and we joined the party of pleasure-seek-
ers. Buggies, road-carts and wagons
were pressed into services. It was a con-
venient day for our students, and they,
both Cadets and girls, took advantage of
it. Ofcourse, they preferred wagons, and
on wagons went the jolly crowd. An
hour was all that our fine roadster needed
to carry US over the well graded road. So
rapidly did We go that scarcely glance
could be had at the farms on the way;
many cultivate on improved agricultural
methods, with young crops growing beau
tifully. At the pic mic grounds we found
both banks OF the river and the cntire
island, apparently, covered with convey
ances and people. The number was vari-
ously estimated at from one Thousand to
three thousand persons. We began to feel
alarmed, lest our little party should be
lost and become scattered in this inn
mense crowd. No one else entertained
such fears, and all were soon taking part
in the dance, promenade, or other pleas
urable sports. Boys and girls alike did
their best-boys to win and merit the
championships in gallantry, and the girls
strove with each other in efforts to excel
in manifestations of appreciation, and
nobody seemed disappointed, or love-sick
beyond hope of recovery. In this bee-
hive crowd it was the extent Of our ability
to respond to the claims of our Bolton
party, though they needed no guardian
protection. Any one Of them, with nu-
merous old friends and newly made
acquaintance around, could have been as
gay as the gayest; but they had Joined
hands for days fun and pleasure in conf
mon, and they left nothing undone that
would contribute to the same. While
there were other handsome young men
and pretty girls-plenty of them-among
whom could have been found ready
partner for the day, yet they were under
obligations to each other, and besides
were conscious of the fact that loss
would have been sustained in such ex-
change. We left them for moment to
speak to Mr.. Langston. He will tell of
the crowds, the gay and happy, and the
perabundance Of the best dinner ever
set on any like occasions. That will be
left for him to do, but not all the dinner
for him to eat. Alas for him, were he
to do so in a months time. We both had
the good fortune to fall in at the table
of our old friend, J. M. Cox, who well
nigh succeeded in forcing each of us to the
conclusion that the INTELLIGENcER and
its correspondent get fully the worth of
their money at their respective boarding
house tables. Many others dined with
Mr. Cox, among the number, several Ca.
diets of Belton Academy and of Patrick's
Military Institute, who have played SOL
diers long enough to make proper use of
such opportunities, and they demon.
strated it to perfection, and did quite
right in it; still two.thirds of that splen-
did dinner was untouched. But your
correspondent had remained there already
too long, and as consequence was OBJ.
liged to decline an invitation to make
pic mic speech, and to force himself from
the company of many old Greenville
friends,| and hunted up his companion
for the day and beat retreat to Bolton,
leaving the remainder of the party to re.
turn later, which they did as comic sere-
naders. A more lively and happy party,
and composed Of handsomer boys and
girls, was not that day seen at Cooley's
Bridge. Altogether, the day was too
much for your correspondent. Sunday
found him holding the cover On his bed,
instead of getting the needed share of a
fine sermon delivered by DR.. Charles
Manly. He will try to be ready for the
Doctors next. The Doctor gives US his
best each time he comes down, and we
enjoy. them all.
The disappointment was too much,
though, in not being able to be at hand
when J. W. Poore invited his friends to
partake of his first mess of Irish potatoes.
DR.. Harris, too, has had his first served.
Mr.. MCGEE and Dr.. Todd, you are getting
behind. You promised to be first. You
surely are not eating them on the sly.
Don't do that. Let US hear from you. If
potatoes were little more like onions
than merely growing in the ground, there
would be no necessity for you saying,
II have had potatoes" Tt would be
known in due season.
Miss Gertrude Hoyt, of Greenville, is
visiting Miss Eva Stringer, and Mrs.
F. Fl. Rhodes, of Suawanee, Georgia, is
with friends in town for few days.
Judge Cox was here Sunday. Come
again. We are always glad to see you.
Those handsome new buggies that
Lewis & Moorehead are sending out are
going to cause some wedding dresses to
be made. Who else would ever have
thought that buggy trade should be 9
branch of tirst-class millinery store and
dress making establishment Their
splendid trade in both lines proves the
SUCCESS Of the experiment. Another ride,
another dress. KAPPA.