Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-01
4 Visit to Georgia.

\ Visit to Georgia..
| While III Andcrsonvillc, July 9th, We
met our old college friend, DR.. W. r.
Stod,lard, who is now the leading prac-
ticimg physician of IIartwcll, Ga, and
nothing would do him but our visit to
his home in this thriving little town. II
was not hard to hc persuaded of the
royal pleasure it would afford us to visit
our "chu.n" of that halcyon period of
life, which is spent by the youth in col
lcgc, and ,I"cnr,lingly we bid atiicu ia our
friend Strihling, and as The shades of
evening began to fall on the scene, we
drove with DR.. and Mrs. Stoddarl to
their elegant home in IIartwcll. which is
only ten miles distant from AndcrSull-
Vile
DR.. Stodlartl is Il son-in-law of our
towmSman, Mr.. J. 5. Bauknght, and is
well known in Walhalla, where he at,
tended Adgcr College in her palmy days.
and has many warm friends who are
pleased to learn nf his eminent sue
cess as Il medical practioncr. We spent
Thursday with him and were shown
Ilmtwcll and Il good portion of the sur
county seat of Hart county, and is Il
beautiful little town of about Loco in
hahitantS. It's citizens are cultured.
thifiy and rntcrpriSing. They have an
abiding faith in the future of their town
and county; and well they may have,
FOR nature has been Lavish in her gifts to
this people, who have only to utilize and
develop their many natural resources, to
become rich, prosperous and happy. This
work they are fast doing; their forests
are being frllcd, new fields opened new
houses built. churches for the Worship
of the only true and living God
and academies for the education of
there. SO that verify the desert has been
made t" blossom as the rose. Ci>liza
ton and christianity have here their vo-
tarirs. AMI all is we'll We had the plea
sure OF forming the acquaintance of Sc
vcral Of lIartwrlfS prominent citizens
and business men, among them being
C"l. J. II. Magill, editor of the Hart
well SIM. lie is a ready and easy writer
aud an ornament TO the press gang of
the Empire state.
Friday morning ut five o'clock we
boarded the ,.'ain on the lIartwrll branch
Of the Elbrrton and Air Line Narrow
GuaCc Railroad, made connection at
l"wcrS\ lie with the up train on this
road, and arrived at Toccoa, Ga, at S:lj
\. NJ. While waiting there for the North
bound ,..,in on the Richmond and Dan
Vile Railroad, we spent the three hours
try ,ng To take in the town. Tuccoa
has crown wonderfully during the last
few years and is hcginning to assume
the proportions OF city. There are
several large brick buildings on the blocks
where the wooden houses were DESTROYED
by fire few years ago. Her citizens
and business men have caught the spirit
of push and pros icSS of the present day,
and do not hesitate to boom their town
We chanccd to meet Col. j. ". McI.aury.
the able editor Of the Toccoa Ncmx.
which is one OF the strongest wccklicS of
Northeast Georgia.. Col. Mcl.aury is -
comparatively new conner to the Pied
mont SECTION OF Georgia and Carolina
having lived i'm Florida until two years
ago. when ne became Il refugee from
yellow fever. lie is not entirely um-
known to uiu Or"ncc people, In. ing
written and published the descriptive
pamphlets of Seneca and Westminster Il
few months ago. lie is fa&, becoming
identified with the interests of the Pied
mont Belt. both in South Carolina and
Georgia.
And why should not the GcnrgianS and
Carnlnial,S work together more in the
future than they have ever done in thc
past for the up-brilding and develop
mrnt Of their material resources? ? Ma
turc has made them one people. one in
resources. one in interest. one in dcSti-
ny, and should they NOT b" one in effort :
There is nothing hut Il small river to
separate, aud the fact of it being the
border line Of both sta. $. makes it none
the harder to span with Il helping hand.
Let there bc Il still greater union Of
sympathy, interest and effort for our
common good.