Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-07-10
County Convention.

County Convention.
Pursuant to Instructions of the County
& Executive Committee, tho County Demo-
cratic Convention Of Oconee County is
s hereby called to meet in the Court House,
4 at Walhalla, $. c., OH Saturday, the 10Th
i day of July, at II o clock "A. NJ. for the
purposes of reorganization, electing dele
gates ito the Congressional Convention,
and transacting such otller business as
\ may properly como beforeit.
WM.S j. STRIBLING,
! 5i3 IBS County Chairman.
The anti -1illman mon me organizing
lin Spattanburg. 48,&
a@ Capt j. G. Alexander has been elected
president Of the Oeonco County Alliance.
Mr.. John B. Thompson, of Bcssemer,
Ala Ala, has been on q visit to his family end
friends at Walhalla. .s5 Eli
Il Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
No talent, no self-dcnial, no character is
required to setup in the grumbling bust
) moss.
Congress has passed bills admitting
Idaho and Wyoming as States into tho
Union. This adds more Republicans to
d the Senate and the House.
Mr.. A. III. Adams, who lives on Toxa-
ways left ut our oflicc last week a stalk of
corn 1si fcot in height, Hc has fine pros
poets for a big corn crop.
M Gen. IIardcmal has withdrawn his
name rs n candidate for Governor of
Georgia. This leaves walk-ovor for
Col. Northern, tho farmers or Alliance
candidate
The Congressional Convention of the
+ Third District did not meet at Bolton on
Saturday last. Some of tho counties in
tho District could not get ready by that
time.
holders do not want to give up tho Offices.
Why notp The offices belong to tho pco-
pie, and they can bestow them on whom
they please!
Mi. and Mrs. w. G. Bcccha,n, of
Grccnvillc, S. G.. and Miss Lizzie Isbell,
of Cumberland County, Va, have re-
Gently bcon visiting their relatives, Mr..
and Mrs. j. d. Isbcll, Of our county.
Miss Eugenia a. Moss, Miss Florence
F. Norris and Miss Corric Crisp stood
tho examination last Thursday for the
winthrop Normal School Scholarship.
All the examinations were highly crcdta-
bic, but Miss Moss won tho prize.
The candidates for Govcrnor-M cssrs.
'rillnlan, Earle and Bratton-havc agreed
between themselves that they will not
accept the nomination for Governor if
it is rendered to cithor of them by the
August Convention. They will wait for
the September Convention.
Rcv. e. j. Meynardic, d. d., died in
Columbia last week from apoplexy. Tic
had long been an ablo minister of tho
Methodist church and at tho time of his
death was pastor of the Camden Mctho-
dist church. The news of his death will
cause sadness to many hearts
The Woolf Stake Alliance will givo a
basket picnic on tho fourth Saturday of
the present month. All the candidates
for State, Congressional and County
Offices and the public generally are cor
daily invited. a sociable and interest
ing time is anticipated. The picnic will
,bo held at Flat Rock mnstcl- ground.
Married, last week, at the residence of
tho brides father, Mr.. B. J.. Lowcry, at
Hamilton, Ala, Mr.. w. S. Glenn and Miss
CLARA Lowery. The happy young couple
are both natives of Oconee, and are on a
bridal tour to their many relatives and
friends in this county. May long life
and success attend them.
The farmers are rising in Kansas. The
farmers Alliance and other organizations
united III one of the grandest lcmOnstra-
lions on the lth Of July over held there.
The procession was five miles long.
Twenty-Five thousand people were in at
tendance. Tho speakers were l.. l.. Polk,
II. Beaumont and others.
j. G. Mcconnell, Sheriff of Franklin
County, Ga, was in Walhalla on Tuesday
armed with Il rcquisitiOn for Ferris Roach.
He placed it in the hands of Shcrin
Moss who arrested him promptly and
turned him over to Sheriff Mcconnell to
be carried back to the Empire State to
answer to tic charge OF selling wiiskcy
without license.
Tho Columbia register states that Mr..
T.. II. Levin, Dr., and family, of that city,
left for Walhalla on Friday last, for the
purpose Of spending portion of the
summer and enjoying tho cool brcczes
and other good things in Oconcc. Mr..
Levin and family arc the guests of Mf. G.
II. ID. Burns. lIc paid tho COURIER Office
a very pleasant visit on Tuesday.
Tho County Alliance met at Richanl
on Friday last There were largo num-
Dor of delegates present. No nomina-
tions were made for the Legislature or
for County officers. Every man will run
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