Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-30
LOCAL MENTION.

9ASS
from a pleasant visit to relatives in Eas-
ley and Central.
Mrs. Sallie Hardin and daughter, Of
Pelzer, are visiting her brothers, Messrs.
Noah A. and W. W. Burley.
An infant child of Thomas Adds died
at his home, near Poplar Springs. last
Sunday night, aged ten months.
Mrs {. Furber Jones is quite i'll at
Tomassee. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Clark
son, of Charlotte. \. c., is visiting her.
Mrs. j. c. Murray and two children, of
Savannah, Ca, are visiting her sister,
Mrs. CIV. Pratt. They will spend a
month.
Three more new candidates this week
E. L. Herndon for the Legislature, W.
Y. Cox for Sheriff and J. l.. Reeder for
County Commissioner. !
Miss Carrie Strother. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. w \. Strother, of West Union,
is at home, after completing another
Aseasin the Columbia Female. College.
Fred, the thirteen-months-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Diedrich Robbins, died last
Friday, and was buried in the Lutheran
cemetery Saturday morning at ten o'clock.
Miss Cairo Cooper. of Mayesville, S. c..
is visiting ner aunt, Mrs. c. G. Strong.
She will probably spend the summer
Miss Cairo was formerly a student in the
Walhalla female college.
Mai. S. P. Dendy left Wednesday morn
ing for Abbeviile to participate in the
ceremonies of laying the corner stone of
the graded school building, and will
deliver the Masonic address at Y NJ. to-
day.
Mr.. Z. J. Harris, who has been quite
sick with intermittent fever at the home
of Mrs. Keith. in Walhalla, is GONZALES
; cent. He was able to return to Atlanta
last Friday. and will soon resume work
again. ,
Messrs. C.. H. Campbell. of Colleton
county, and L. W. Matthias, of Lexing-
ton, were in Walhalla this week repre-
senting the Palmetto Teacher, also sell
ing the Americanized Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica.
Laurens Adrertiser:: Conductor Wal
ter Gibson is again on the road. having
been off for a fortnight's vacation. There
is a young assistant Conductor Gibson
now and the Captain. his father. is happy
. all the day"
Mr.. S. y. Pitchford has decided to go
to Atlanta this fall to engage in the gro
Gerry business. and is now closing out his
stock of goods in Walhalla at cost. Great
bargains are going at his counters every
day. See advertisement in another col
ann.
- Hon. John D. Cappelmann. of Charles
ION, spent Sunday and Monday in Wal
halla. on his return from Knoxville, Ten
nessee, where he had been as a delegate
to the Synod of the Lutheran Church,
South. His wife and children are
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. W.
Pieper, for the summer
The eleven-year-old daughter OF Mr.. j.
E. Phillips died on Tuesday last. She
had been greatly afflicted iiom birth.
death is a happy release from her
Suffering in mind and body. Her body
was buried in the family burying ground
-eathe= PAfAsf S2S2ztead "Wednesday
afternoon. Ne
There Will be a game of base ball Mon
day a~fternocr at . o'clockin IVES: Union.
The boys promise an exciting game. and
everybody invited. They 90 to Ander-
son for a game on Tuesday, July 9TH. a
crowd of Walhalla citizens will 60 down
to hollow for the boys and we hope ley
will come out victors. The game viii be
called at l.45, so that the boys can return
home the same day.
Capt. J. A. Dodson has been appointed
superintendent of the Charlotte and At
lanta Railroad, and Capt. Y. E. McBee
takes his place as Superintendent of the
Columbia and Grcenville, Charlotte, Co
h1mbia and Augusta, S~partanburg and
Asheville, and Western NORTH Carolina
Roads. Both of these gentlemen are
1irst-clasS railroad men. We wish them
much success in their business.
Wash. Sloan dropped dead while plow-
ING in the field on the Sloan old home
stead, near the Flat Shoals, Wednesday
morning. His brother, Alfred Sloan,
who was in the field with him. saw him
fall, and on going to him Immediately.
four. him dead. He was about fifty
years old. An inquest was held We'd
nesday night by Coroner Herndon, the
verdict of the jury being that he came to
his death by visitation OF God.
80 Among the honors conferred by New
berry college, at it's recent commence
ment. Rev. VI. NJ. Kinard, pastor of Ebe-
nezer Lutheran church, of Columbia,
was awarded the degree of Master. OF
Arts, he having successfully completed
the non-resif at two years post graduate
course in mental and moral science. Rev.
Mir. Kinard is well known in Walhalla,
where he has many friends, who are
pleased to note this evidence OF his attain
ments in scholarship
- Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Kelly returned last
week from Texas, where they had gone
last fall With the intention OF making
their he ,e in the one Star State. But
a few months stay there convinced them
that there was no place like Oconee
county. South Carolina, and hence their
return. Any person h%ereabouts contem-
plating the pulling up Of stakes to
cast his lot in that far off land, should
call on Mr.. Kelly and get a word picture
of the land which he thinks flows with
anything but milk and honey.
apt. J. A. Ballenger, who recently
visited Easley, gives US some facts of an
interesting nature: With his "better half,
he made the trip through the country IN
his buggy. The roads il Pickens have
undergone many changes, and he hardly
recognized the road in a number of places
between Old Picsens and Easley. Cot
ton is looking remarkably well. Wheat