Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-11-21
Local and special. ~

Read tho COURIER and keep posted.
Have your strawberry bed prepared for
the winter.
Mrs. a. p. McClair is visiting friends
in Atlanta.
Mr.. G. w. Pratt has moved into Mr..
John Joosts new cottag, on Tugaloo
street.
Mrs. f. T.. Harrison returned last week
from Il pleasant visit to relatives and
friends in Charleston and Summcrvillc
Send in your ''pcrsonal' items, if you
arc leaving town for Il visit, or have
friends visiting you.
Old newspapers, suitable for wrapping
paper or for cutting patterns, for sale at
this office, in any quantity desired.
Mr.. J. II. Kcil, :, showed us on Tues
day II turnip whicl, takes the cake. 1t
weighed six pounds! Who can beat thiso
Misses ID. B., Ethical and Minnie Ilcaton
and their brother Willie. of CaShiv. =
Valley, y. G., are in Walhalla going to
school.
Drop us Il postal card every week or
fortnight, giving us the news il your
part of the county. Keep your own see
ton always to the front.
Let our farmers put in all the small
grain possible. Full smoke houses and
cribs will aid greatly the laudabc ends
of the Alliance.
If you have any friends in the North.
South, East or West you can't please them
better than by sending them the COURIER
for one year. Try it.
Call and see us when you come to town.
and, il you are not already subscriber
t" the COURIER, why you chad nuyht'rr
be-"
Badly reared children develop into
worthless men and women. This is the
rule. The exceptions, either way are not
numerous.
Let the wheat go in the ground. Al
though one may buy flour mt SLID TO
$500 barrel, it is better to raise your
wheat at home and be independent.
If you have Il relative or friend at "A
distance, who would like To- read the Cor
nEH, now is the time to call at the office
and subscribe for Il copy To send him.
Jones. ''lhc rrd-handcd murderer" has
had his firth trial in Edgrlirl,l for the
killing of his fa,hcr-in-aw and two
hr"thcrS-in-law. The jury failed in agree
and miStria WAS ordered.
Woman is an enigma. She will face a
frowning world and cling to the man She
loves Through the most bitter season of
trial and advrrSity, hul She wouldn't
wear Il hat three weeks behind the sivlr
To save the government.
The school commissioner is receiving
school books which he proposes; To sell to
the people at least ten per cent below III
troduct"ry prices. This offer is good for
oniy "jn'iy IoH~. The law requires tl.r
exchange of books To hc made mot later
than the fail Of l>So.
Western farmers must hc grumhlinw 1T
the prices received for grain and hogs
corn, &c.; oats. l"lr.: lard, &C.; short
ribs, 500 to $500. In Cincinnati hoes
were selling ut $50 to ,IOO and the
market was dull.
Mr.. Robert Crisp, of our town. is no
small turnip raiser. ON TT one eighth of
IN acre hr has made this season about
fifty bushels of large fiat Dutch and pur-
pie top iuilnil'S. many of them weighing
as much as >! pounds. The prospects
are good for an abundance uf iurnip
like turnip Gr"rn>:'
Some me. try advertising rs HE ln,iian
tried feathers. lie took one feather. laid
il on Il board and slept on il aIl night
In the morning hr remarked: "Whitr
man say feathers heap soft: white man
heap big foul.' Some business men in
vest quarter or Illy cents in advertising
and then because they do not at once re-
alizc great increase of business declare
ilat advertising does not pay.
Mr. =. W. y. Freeman. Judge of Pro-
bate of Grr"nvillr county. spent Saturday
and Sunday i'm Walhalla. From the fire.
qurn visits recently of Mr.. Freeman to
our town we are beginning 10 NurniSC
there is something besides professional
business that is bringing Grrrnvillr'S
gallant and handsome Judge of Probate
!" our community. lie has Il perfect
right to come and we are alwavs clad io
see him.
Mr.. \. l.. Wa>hbuin. OF Aiken. spent
last Saturday and Sunday in Walhalla.
visiting thr family of his father Gen. W.
\. Washhurn. Mr.. W. is ihr ynun~ in
vcnlor Of the machine for mam,lact turin..
pine straw ha%Ging. lie is now engaged
in lis manufacture, with his mills 1T
troitS. III Marion county. and with only
one loom We are informed hc puts cut
over seven hundred yar,l;; Il tIaN. He is
preparing to add other looms. and will
soon Inc able to manufacture large QUAINT
Complaints have been filed hy the
officers Of the 3t'S Eailrnad in the Fcdc-
raj Court in South Carolina against the
County commissioners Of Lancaster and
York to compel them iu udclivrr the bonds
Of certain luwnShipS subscribed l,y them
to the capital stock m ihiS road. THESE
bonds were declared invalid ly the SUI
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