Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-05
Walhalla as Seen by a Charleston
Contemporary.
Translated from tho Charleston German
Hoitung.]

TRANSLATED from tho Charleston German
Hoitung.]
WALIALLA, S. c., Aug. 81, 1889
The sun shines hot and ripens the
grapes, but already the leaves of the
linden and cherry fall to the ground
and there make yellow hue in the
green grass.
The fall of the year draws near
and the golden crops arc being gath
cred. Rye, wheat, oats, etc., are
already in the barn, and now the
grapes arc gathered. Perhaps never
there was better crop in the noun
tains. The grapes are sent to all
parts of the United States and a
great deal of wine is made. Mcssrs.
Wanncr, Wiccking, Ochmig, Will
son, kaufmann, Picpcr, Gerber and
others arc busy gathering the golden
crop, and scarce can they get baskets
and barrels enough to store the rap
idly ripening fruit.
The corn crop is also nearly ripe
and is waiting for the husbandman,
while the cotton crop promises a
splendid yield.
There is an abundance of fruit.
Apples, pears, peaches, ounces etc.,
are plentiful and everybody is happy
on account of the splendid crop.
Others arc already busy preparing
the land for the winter crop. Tur-
nips arc being sowcd. Under these
circumstances, and since from other
parts of the United States similar
reports come, everybody in the cities
expect good fall business, and so
should our old Charleston be awake,
stretch out her hands and invite to
her Gala Week all our friends from
the country and have this festival as
grand as possible.
Walhala received yesterday
fine lot of fresh immigrants. Mr..
II. Bicmann, of Thctinghauscn, Pro
vince Of Brunswick, brother of Sen
ator ID. Bicmann, came here last
year on a visit, and as he liked the
country and people well, he returned
to Germany, sold his all and came
with his relatives and friends, about
33 persons, to Walhalla. This valu-
able immigration will be blessing
to Walhalla. Then these pcODlc arc
not only excellent farmers who un-
dcrstand their business, but they
Will in few years draw many Of
their friends after them, if they are
treated rightly. The climate here is
excellent, the ground fruitful, and
with German energy and German
frugality, they will in a few years
in these blessed regions, be wcll-to-
do farmers.
Walhalla received also another
addition. In the German Lutheran
church they had no pastor, and
few weeks ago Rev. ]. G. Rcitz came
here to accept the official call as pas
Tor Of the congregation, and in the
short time that he has been here he
has made many friends. For the
present he breaches every other Sun
day in German and English, but
when the German colony will be
strengthened by the arrival of new
comcrs, the church will again be-
come German entirely and Walhalla
will be, what its founders intended
it to be, Il home for our German
countrymcn in the South, and n
summer sanitarium for the dwcllcrs
on our coast lands.
The following are the names Of
the newly arrived Germans: Ere
drich Bicmann, August Otcrscn and
wife, August Otcrscn, Jr., John
Oterscn, Andrcas Otcrscn, wife and
three children, Henry Otcrscn, wife
and two children, Friedrich Tcilkuhl,
wife and five children, Dicdcrich
Rabcns, wife and eight children, Miss
Rebccca IIclmcrs and Miss Annie
Schumacher.
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