Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-11-03
OUR WESTMINSTER BUDGET.
CONDUCTED BY A. l.. GOSSETT.

WESTMINSTER, November 2.-Tho 4th
quarterly meeting of tho Westminster
circuit will convene in tho M. e. church
here on Saturday and Sunday, Novembor
IL and 10. The presiding elder, Rov. w.
@. Power, is expected to como and preach
on each day. Those attending on Satur-
day are requested to carry their dinners.
Rev. A; w. McGufiin will preach at
Holly Springs on Sunday, November IS,
ut ii A. NJ. Thore will be song service
at 10 O'Clock. Not long ago this reverend
gentleman got very sick, and he Expressed
q great desire to be able to preach ono
moro sermon.
Tho union meeting held at tho old
Westminster Baptist church on last Sat
urday and Sunday was we'll attended on
Sunday. Rev. E. l.. Sisk, of Bowman,
church, was present on Saturday. The
programme prepared for each day was
carried out. On Sunday tho morning
exercises were concluded with q sermon
by Rev. d. w. Hiott, from Romans 1871,
which was very impressive and touching,
and tho congregation were apparently in
sympathy with tho preacher.
We are glad to see Mr.. James A. Kay
up and about again. Ho was very ill
during tho heated term and his friends
were apprehensivo about his recovery.
Mrs. r. l.. Honour, who spent tho past
several months in Westminster, returned
to Charleston to-day.
There were two moro marriages in
Westminster this week. Sunday after
noon Mr.. Joseph Norton and Miss Com
mon King, OF Toccoa, Ca, accompanied
by two friends drove to this place,
arriving at So, and Miss King and Mr..
the thief of time, proceeded immediately
to tho residence Of Rev. P.J Virmillion,
who was ready to say tho coromony and
thoy took their departure as husband
and wifo. Yesterday afternoon at 8
o'clock whilo almost everybody was busy
at work span of horses hitchod to q
hack in which was seated two ladies and
two gontlemon, stopped in front Of tho
Baptist parsonage: Mr.. John T. RarlIor
to bo alono." He and his sweetheart
Miss Essio B. King, alightod aud told Rev.
d. w. Hiott thoir business. In less than
two minutes the preachor tied the knot
and they returned to their homo at
Toccoa seemingly happy. Tho brides
are sisters.
We clip tho following item from tho
Sunny South of October Goth: cat Vest
minister, S. c., on tho Southern Railway,
Tho Southern Shuttle and Bobbin Com
pany has recently enlarged its plant by
placing machinery for making tools.
Tho Westminster Oil Company, with a
capital of $4,000, has begun tho erection
of n twenty ton oil mill and three seventy
saw gins. The gins viii. bo ready for
this years. cotton crop, and tho oil mill
will be completed about November T."
Westminster appreciates the pleasant
remarks of tho "Sunny South" and
wishes that tho oil mill was complctod.
Tho truth is no "a:is has begun ~ wards
its erection, owing to some unavoidable
hindrances. We hope to havo mill
running horo before noxt October.
ID. &. Spalding's residence is going up
rapidly. It will contain five rooms.
Mossrs. l.. H. V. Hobson and II. j. Wal
drip arc engaged in building it,
Mr.. o. II. Bnrchnold paid pleasant
visit to Westminster this wook. IIo il
running between Charleston and
Augusta.
A great deal of cotton was weighed al
the depot platform yesterday. Farmers
were settling their guano accounts.
Rov. j. l.. McI,in, wife and little son
of Anderson, were visiting Mrs. McIin's
sisters, Mrs. III. B. Zimmerman and MIS-
E. A. Norris, tho first of this week.
Mr.. w. II. Goer, of Bolton, n repre-
son tativo OF tho Grc0nvillo News, was in
town Tuesday in tho interest of his paper
Mr.. j. w. Williams and his daughter
Mrs. S. p. Smith, of Hartwell, Ga, arc
visiting tho family of Mr.. II. N. Carter.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Diclorson aro al
homo to thoir friends at Mrs. John M
Dickson's. Mr. Dickersou expects t(
bnild annn and they will 90 to keep
ing house then. -