The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-12
lola Items,

This is to give notice that this com mu-
nifty, heretofore unnamed and therefore
unknown, has now taken upon itself q
name and desires to be known and called
by that name. With us 1t has been as
child whose doting parents could not Sc
lect q nams pretty enough, or dear
enough, for their precious little one, and,
consequently, it went By the pet name Of
Deary, Bud, Siss, Honey or Shug, forget
ting chat the name is endeared by the
loved one bearing it. Dick is pretty
name If manly boy bears it. What name
is sweeter than Sapphira when borne by q
modest, innocent, sweet little arGless Miss ?
So with this community. It has been va
riously designated as lower Lebanon,
South Five Forks, the Eight Mile Fork at
Hntchinson's, etc. Not so nov. We
have built for ourselves 9 name: Tho
decree has gone forth. It shall be called
lola. This is pretty name on paper, eu'
phonic in sound, poetic In form, Indian in
origin and easily spoken. No longer
shall these people be known as Labanon-
ties, Five Forkers or Eight Milers, but
Iolians are they.
AS the name 80 Is the country. It is
sufficiently elevated to give an extended
horizon, whose blue tinge commingling
with the blue above, falls upon the eye
with pleasing effect. Then looking north
ward the eonyoluted peaks of the distant
mountains seem to emile with enchanting
beauty upon the samensss of the three
winds of this little world. Look which
way you may, you see clumps OF brown
and evergreen forests, surrounded by OK
tended fields with snowy carpeting, dot
ted here and there as if soiled with dark
spots of corn, darker ones Of sage, stubble
and pasture lands, Creeping out OF and
through and by and round these Varie-
gated spots and dots and splotches are
se-pentile rills of the old Six-and-Twenty,
marked by the scattering red topped ma
pie and orange colored poplar, which
tower far above the narrow line of shrub
berry that would lead the eye beside the
rippling waters. Upon many little emi-
nences that stand opt to view, nestle
white Cottages, humble cabins, or the de-
caying walls of the more ancient dwell.
ings, from each of which curl the spiral
lines of evening smoke rising heavenward
and finally commingling in the etheral
beyond. Within these dwellings live and
upon these fields sweat the Hollands,
Hackets, Harpers. Holders, Hutchinsons,
Welborns, Wallaces, Wilson's, Williamses,
Waterses, Walkers and the rest of the
alphabet.
And, as are the name and the country,
so are the people. They are pretty, too.
It is conceded fact that "pretty is as
pretty does" They do prettily. Let an
Iolian heretofore turn his face in the
direction of Anderson City, as he passes
by each house you hear from door, yard,
or field the inquiry: "Going to town."
If answered affirmstiyely, then eP[ease
mail my letter." OF "Please bring my
mail ?" No? never. But, "Only too glad
to do the favor" This having been the
custom from time immemorial, the habit
of postal courtesies extends to the higher
offices Of life. For neighbor to feel his
/ liability to confer q desired favor upon
another Ia to him source of modification:
Entrusted purse or secrets are in his hands
or breast as sacred as in the owners.
Your good name whenever used is inva-
riably returned FURNISHED to flaming lus-
tre by respectful use.
Pretty name! Pretty country Pretty
people!
And now, Mr.. Editor, having been po..
litelv granted space for our debut, and
expecting all eyes, especially those OF
your local correspondents, to turn
stranger like upon US with searching
look from head to foot, we retire with hat
in hand, that you may deliberate upon
the question of expediency of admitting
lola to standing space in your local col"
umns, and Of recording at the loot OF your
local iist the name of 1oLUS.