Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-07-07

common pleas on the l2th instant.
Meantime, Judge Norton is spending the
short vacation at home.
Mr.. C. ". Wiecking and son, Mr.. Fritz
Wiecking, of Atlanta, Ga, are visiting
their many friends in Walhalla this week.
These gentlemen are Well known. to our
citizens, who extend to them a cordial
welcome. They were at one time hon
ored residents of town.
MI. J. Hermie Ostendorff, of Charles
ton, is spending a months vacation with
his parents in Wafhalla. He is one Of
the most successful young business men
OF Charleston, being now a junior part
ner of the large grocery firm OF John
Hurkamp & Co., on the corner of King
-opd Broad streets. His many friends are
pleased 60 learn OF his success zrd note
his bright prospects for the future.
The competitive examination for the
scholarships in the Winthrop Normal
GeIlesc viii be held at each county court
house in the State on Friday, August 5,
and will include arithmetic, grammar,
geography, United States history, COM
position, reading, writing and spelling.
There are two scholarships for each
county. The first is worth $50 a session
and the second entities the winner to
free tuition.
The following is a list of letters re-
naming uncalled for in the Walhalla
post Office for the month of June. 1892:
David Elrod. l.. G.. Hembree, Lazerus
Bolden, Saler Goodwin. W. S. Howard,
Louis W. Owen, George W. Williams.
Mrs. Amanda Sloane, Miss Alice Simp-
son, Miss Josie Hinton, Mrs. Gen. X. F.
Hoke, Miss Annie Bonnet. Miss Maggie
McNinch. Parties calling for any of the
above letters will please say they were
advertised.
THos. c. FAHSESTocK. P. NJ.
Quite a number of friends repaired to
D, I. G. c. Fahnestock's residence, near
Walhalla, on Monday. the Glorious
Fourth" and engaged in picnic festivi-
ties. a pleasant day was spent. DR..
Fahnestock's place is we'll improved, not
only h~is-AAe11aas. being in abig state Of
cultivation, but his gardens are especially
fine. A complete system of irrigation
is arranged for his vegetable garden.
although it has not been needed much
this year. We are told that he showed a
radish which weighed p pounds; also
tomato plants five or six feet high, we'll
filed with fruit, many of the tomatoes
being several inches in circumference,
and many other things in similar proper
ton.
Mr.. j. G. Abbott. who lives near Wal
halla, is the most happy and contented
farmer we have seen in q long time. He
never complains OF hard times" because
he makes nearly everything he eats or
wears at home, and owes no man any
thing. He now has on hand between
200 AID 300 bushels of old corn, plenty OF
meat and bacon to do him till he kills
again, vegetables in abundance, has
saved in good condition over 200 dozen
fine oats, besides harvesting twenty
lit bushels of wheat from three
he laas also about -four acres OF fine cot
ton.W Which is about the extent Of his cot
ton acSeage each year. His cotton is a
surplus crop and is not covered with a
mortgage for guano or supplies. Mr.
Abbott, who is ably assisted by his son,
Mr.. John Abbott, is certainly a prosper
Gus and model farmer. See him and let
him tell you how he manages his farming
operations so well and so successfully.