Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-05
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issading borrowed nowspapers ,tt Is said
to be injurious tn the eyesight.
One of our neighbors says he made
enough read trays out rs one 5.1,,,,laY
Tree 20 sell for sse,so. ..sS No. ~,
The Washington oorres p6ndent Of the
Charleston World says that T. E. Dickson
mas been appointed postmaster at Seneca.
Prof. NJ. $. stribling, Jr., principal 81
the Riohland High School adyertises the
opening of fall torn, October 2s, proxi-
mo. NJ H W. 4
The Presbytery of South Carolina win
meet at Abbeylllo, s. c., on Friday at 8
o'nlnck o. , =. Il, before tho 9th SaDbath of
September. 'fif.,
Mr. II. ID. A. Biemann has something
new in the line Of champion food for
horses, cattle, hogs and chickens. See
advertisement. i 4
Mr. s. NJ. YanWyck, Walhalia's big
furniture dealer, tails the people Of Oco-
nee this week what nice things he has
in his mammoth stock for the fall trade.
He carries full line of the very best,
and at the lowest prices. See advertise
ment. f : E 4 50 t'%, q
Wagenor Academy, Mrs. Julia M.
Johnson principal, opened on Monday,
with an enrollmont of forty-two pupils.
This is q good beginning, and all the
schools in town promise largo increase
of patronage this year. Let the good
work go on.
at the last meeting of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the Walhalla Me-
tiiodis5 Church tho following officers
wore elected: President, Mrs, "A. p. Mo
Clair; 1st Vice President, Miss Susan
Sharp; I'd Vice President, Mrs. N. A. Fow-
Ter; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. H. G..
Rcod; Recording Secretary, Miss Laura
Thompson; Treasurer, Mrs. S. NJ. Van
Wyck. The next regular monthly meet
ing will bo hold at tho church Friday,
September 9th, at 4P. NJ. A full attend
stnce is desired.
Judge j. j. Norton convened court at
Camdon, S. c., last Monday, whero he
begins his second circuit of the State. It
was hero that ho held his first court as n
Circuit Judge, nearly three years ago.
Since that timo he has boon engaged rid
ing the circuit, and at tho completion of
the past summer term ho had held a
court at every county court house in the
State. Oconee has reason to DO proud
that she is so well and ably represented
among tho judiciary Of the State. know
ing that as learned and pains taking
jurist Judge Norton stands second to
mono of the oight circuit judges. In the
honors which are won by him as an emil
nont and righteous judge, Oconee is
honored.
Messrs. Biemann & Erwin in their livery
business have most complete outfit.
Their stables arc 100 feet by 80 feet and
two stories, giving fifty eight stalls, four
pens, two large entries and large room
for vehicles. They keep thirty-fvo horses
and mules, many of them tho very best
and fleetost. Among their vehicles are
found seven hacks, two new carriages,
five road carts, fifteen buggies and two
large omnibuses. They do q big livery
business, having carried 80 far this season
to and from Highlands alone over three
hundred persons. Their teams are on thu
go all the time to various parts in North.
east Georgia, Western North Carolina and
throughout Oconoo county. Messrs. Bic.
mann & Erwin have eight genets and a
fine blue jack six months old. They have
already refused 500 for their jack and
intend keeping him for stock animal.
We would call upon all our friends to
help us in increasing the circulation of
the old reliable KEowEE COURIER 1t is
our intention to run our subscription list
up to two thousand bona .fde subscribers
by next New Years Day, and will promise
our readers if they assist us in so doing,
and We succeed, to enlarge our paper, SO
as to give one moro column on each of
tho four pages. We are endeayoring to
publish fresh, newsy and interesting
weekly journal, and are doing the very
best for our readers we can rs q cOmpen-
sation for the hearty support we now re-
ccivo. 1t is with pleasure VIC hear the
many kind words spoken of the COURIER
by her friends, and we earnestly solicit
them all to aid us in putting the paper in
evcry homo. When tho COURIER is read
around every fircside in Oconee, thcn,
and not till thcn, can we do our best
work.
Mr.. M. L. Whitaker, of Richland, has
just returned from a prospective tour of
nearly a month throughout Northeast
ToXas, during which he saw great deal
of different parts of the clone Star
State" lie has been contemplating a
move to Texas for several months, and
went for tho sole purpose of seeing the
country with view to moving, if he was
pleased He was in town Oh Monday,
and OH meeting him VIC asked, "What do
You think of TcxasP" He replied, "Well,
it will pay any man to 60 and sec Texas,
and-thcn stay at home." He reports a
very pleasant trip, however, but he has
not yet decided to leave old South Caro-
lima. After all, wo think ho will find ii
hard to better his present comfortable