Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-12-05
A Trip 10 GlenviIIe, N. C.

Editors Courier: On tho morning of
the 18th instant, in company with my
son j. II. IT,, we started for Glcnvillc, u.
G., via Gum bottoms. The new road,
known as the Sapphire road, is getting
in bad condition. If the county officials
don't see after it and have it worked it
will soon be impossible. We reached
: Whitewater about noon; stopped, fed
our horse and ate lunch. Tho roads on
the North Carolina side are much better
and we made faster time We reached
Cashiers about p NJ.
The first thing of interest that we
noticed was an old saw mill-and old
sash saw mill-sawing lumber. We saw
this mill back in the COS Most of the
old buildings arc gone and new ones
have taken their place. The old Zachary
house still stands. Geo. NJ Cole has a
fine store house, and is doing a general
merchandise business. We stopped a
few minutes with Mr.. Riley IIo oper. He
is the same jovial Riley that ho was
back in the COS when We first knew him.
He is ready at any time for a horse swap.
Next was Mr.. McAdams. lie keeps Il
first class hotel for the accommodation
OF summer tourists. Next is Mr.. f..
Rochester. He is postmaster and runs Il
blacksmith shop.
We then proceeded on our journey,
crossed the Blue Ridge We then started
down stream. Hero Wm. Buchanan is
operating a saw mill on Hurricane creek.
1t is the toughest place we have ever
snaked down the mountain side with
cattle.
We arrived at my sisters (AIrs. a. r..
Moody about sundown, and spent the
night very pleasantly. The wind blew
hard all night. Wednesday, tho llth, wo
four miles to the wool cards of S. H. Nc
Guire, run by his son, w. c. McGuiro
We spent several hours very pleasantly
with him. We returned to my sisters
for dinner. In tho afternoon, with w.
j. Moody for our guide, we set out for
Upper Hamburg, over rough road. We
arrived at n. a. Lusk'S, our DrOthcr-in-
law. about dark. Ilo lives on Cedar
creek, under Glass Rock, and spent the
night very pleasantly with him Here |
think the road stops, but they say not
did not go any farther. On the 18th we
went back the same trail and proceeded
to the beautiful little town Of Glcnvillc
The business men of the town are: W.
a: Fowler & Son, B. j. Moody, John
Nicholson. B. j. Moody is also post
master. The hotel is burned down, but
Mrs. Ebert Watson runs boarding
house. The High School is presided
over by Prof. Chas. Cooper, from
Whittier, Swaync county, North Carolina.
The farmers around Glcnvillc are indus
trious, hard working people. They have
plenty, and make corn to sell. They
raise cabbage, turnips and all kinds OF
vegetables they want to. Mr. Alfred
Wilson has fine corn, so have others
Mr.. j. ID. Frasicr, Of Oconcc, has
moved out there and is running some
mills for Mr.. Jasper jennings.
Friday, the 10th, at 10 a. ~, we started
for home, leaving the good people of
Glenvillc for while, hoping to see them
again. We want to go back in the spring
and carry our fishing tackle and stay a
week or SO. If we ever move to the
mountains we will never pitch our tent
this side the Blue Ridge. We reached
home about dark the 10th. Mckinley is
elected, but the water on the other side
of the Blue Ridge runs north just the
same. j. l.. TAII.EY
Little River, S. g., November IS, 1900.
At Clifton, Spartanburg county,
on November 2Sth, Edward Coleman
shot and mortally wounded his bro
thcr, Tom. They are negroes and
the shooting was the result of 4
family row in which their wives