The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-05
Local News.
lola Locals.

Again with your permission. Mr..
Editor, we will try to give tho many
readers of the INTELLIGENCER few
gleanings from this community with
the sin cere hope that they will prove
Of interest to at least few of the ad :
nirers of Anderson COuntys best
newspaper. We know it to be contrar >
to human nature for some to be inter
csted in or see any good in the work
ings Of others.
Our inhabitants are all in vary good
health at present writing. Some have
been having the chills, but are now able
to be performing the many duties in
cumbent on the tillcrs of the soil.
Messrs. John 0. and Claude Harris
went to Columbia in order to be in at :
tendance at the reunion, which is held
IN such high esteem by SO many grey
haired veterans of the Civil War.
Year after year the ranks OF those who
gather at these annual reunions are
growing thinner, and it will not be
long ere the last one will have passed
into the land where no more hardsllps
and troubles will ever come, where the
body will not be rackeA witt. pain nor
the mind with thoughts Of things that
arc past and forever gone
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Hutchinson visit
ed their daughter, Miss May, ut the
Williamston Female College last Sat
urday.
A Sunday School is very much need
ed in this community, and we think
that the people should meet ut the lola
school house some time in the near
future and organize one.
We have had good rains and every
thing seems to have taken ON new life.
mir. w. -. Garrison, OF Denver,
passed through this community on his
way to Grccnvillc last week.
Mr.. Tom Bolt visited relatives in
this community last Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr.. Joe Erskine and family were
visiting in this section Il few days ago.
MI Adolphus Holder, one OF Iola's
dashing young gents. visited the Will
lis Chapel section last Sunday, taking
in the allday singing at that place.
The Debating Society is getting
along nicely. Our boys are beginning
to take II great deal Of interest in the
meeting. Some time in the near fu-
turc We are going to have special
meeting and invite everybody to come.
Mr. Claude Harris went to Central
last week to play ball with the Autun
boys in match between Autun and
the world at large, but called by some
the Central Base Ball Team"
Miss Cora Brooks has returned home
after spending several weeks with her
grandmother near Whitefield.
The wheat and oat crop is looking
very promising just now. The farmers
are elated over the good prospects.
There does not exist ut the present
time, never has in the past, and never
will in the future, moro pleasing ex-
ercise of the mind than gratitude. It
Is accompanied with so grent inward
satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently
rewarded by the performance. 1t is
not like the practice of many other
virtues difficult and painful, but at
'oSAOS0 WAoAA 81 1huCA UlldC
were there no positive command which
enjoins it, nor any recompense laid up
for it hereafter, generous mind would
indulge in it for the natural gratifica-
tion which it affords. If gratitude is
.iNc from man to man, how much more
from man to Maker. Tho Supreme
Being does not only confer upon lis
those bounties which proceed moro
dmmediately from His own hand, but
even those benefits which arc conveyed
to us by others. Every blessing wo
enjoy, by what means soever it may be
conferred upon us, is the gift of Him
who il the great Author of good and
the Father of mercics. If gratitude,
when exerted towards one anoth-
cr, naturally produces very
pleasing sensation in the mind of n
grateful man, it exalts the soul into
rapture when it is employed on this
great object of gratitude; on this bcnc-
ticicnt Being, who has given us every
thing that we already possess, and
from whom we expect everything we
yet hope for, w. G.. BARNETT.
May 30, 1901.