Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-11-07
Local and Special.

time Of the year.
Mrs. Walter Gibson, of Bolton, is visit
ing the family of ii. a. ii. Gibson, Esq.
Tho is gala week in Charleston and tho
next will DO fair week in Columi Ia.
Tho Court of Common Pleas and Gene
raj Sessions will convene here next Mon
day, with Judge r.. b. Fraser presiding.
Mr.. J. II. Shelton, Jr., II young att0r
ncy, of lIartwell, Ga, spent few days
in Walhnlla first Of the week.
The open season for bird shoot ng COM
mcnccd November |. SpOrtsmcn, get
your guns and dogs ready for game.
Mrs. DR.. l. l.. McCurry and son, of
Fair Play, were visiting Mr.. J. G.. Mckler
and family this week.
1t is encouraging to hear many of our
farmers say they have made enough corn
this year to last them Two years.
A female drummer visited Anderson
last week. She was representing patent
medicine firm.
Mr. Walter l.. Hodges, q talented young
member of tho Ilartwcll, Ga, bar, was
in town Oh salcday.
Persons reading our advertising col
nmns will know where to get goods the
cheapest and thereby profit by it.
Mrs NJ. J.. CARLISLE, who has spcnt soy.
oral weeks with her parents in Orange
burg, returned to Wahala list Thurs
day.
Mr.. l.. Brandt has three large hogs,
two of which he thinks will weigh over
four hundred pounds each, and one five
hundred.
Mr. d. Pink Robins returned last Sun
day from recent trip to Montana. He
has our thanks for late papers from that
new State.
Dir. t. Brandt informs us that he made
nearly one hundred and twenty-five gal
Ions Of molasscs from less than one acre
of cane.
Make all the money you can and do the
most good with it, remembering that he
who lives for himself lives for the mean
est man in creation.
Mr.. Robert l.. Reid, Of Westminster,
was married to Mrs. Lou T.. Bearden, at
Adairsvillc, Ga, October 2Gth, the Rev.
NJ. A. Mathews officiating.
Walhalla is pretty well represented in
Charleston, the dear old city by the sea,
this week, while she has on her gala at
tire. TwcntysiX cXcursionists have gone
SO far.
MI Silas NJ. Neal, Of Alabama, was i'm
Walhala on salcday. lie went to Ala
bama soon after the war, and this is his
second visit to Oconcc and relatives, who
arc living here.
Mr.. Il. a. Gilmcr came to town last
Saturday for the purpose of placing his
daughter III school. She attends Wage
ncr Academy. Miss Birdie expects to
devote special attention to musi..
Mrs. l.. ID. l,rcnncckc exhibited to us
last week some ripe raspbcrrics whicl,
were grown in her garden, and which
wore the second crop of this delicious
berry gathered from the same vines this
year.
Hon. Walter Hazard, editor and pro-
prictor of the Georgetown Enqnircr has
sold his newspaper and job Office to Mr..
Josiah Doar, editor and proprietor Of the
Georgetown Times, who will consolidate
the two papers and run them as one.
" Hotel Chiquola " has been selected
as the name for Andcrson's new hotel;
" Chiquola" was the Indian name for
South Carolina, and was also the name of
famous Indian Chief whose tribe oc-
cupicd this section years ago.
Judge Norton ran up from Columbia
on Saturday and spent Sunday and Mon
day ut home. lie returned to the capital
city Tuesday to finish the work in the
Common Pleas Court for Richland county
this week. He goes from there to Edge
field, where he opens Court next Monday
Ex-poiccman j.. B. Abcrnathy, who re-
moved from this city to Walhalla some
time ago, is now commercial traveller
He is spending IL few days in Columbia
and his many friends here will be glad to
see his smiling face again. n.-Coh,nbja Pcy-
letter.
Mr. ID. Oelkcrs has enlarged his store
room by building an addition to the rear
thereby increasing the size twelve by
twenty feet. The increased volume of
his business ncccssitatcd the enlargement
Of his storage capacity. Advertising
pays, you see.
Mr.. David Dickson lost fine horse last
week by accident. Under a shelter by
the side of his stable was horizontal
pole about five and Il half feet from the
ground. The horse was i'm the lot and
when Mr.. ID. went to catch him he ran
and struck his head against the pole and
fell to the ground instantly killed.
The County Commissioners have dccd-
cd TO put up new Sign-boardS at all the
the forks and cross roads in the county.
The contract will be let at the next
monthly meeting in December. This is
move in the right direction, and one
which will he highly appreciated by the
travelling public.
Mr.. l.. Brandt has our thanks for srvc-
raj pounds of nice honey which he left at
onr office this week. lie is one of Geo.