Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-12-17
NEWS IN AND AROUND WESTMINSTER.

Westminster, December 17.-Messrs.
I'll. II. Buist of Charleston, T. E. Golden
of Columbus, Ga, and @. b. Foreman OF
Alfalfa, Ala, directors of the Cheswell
Cotton Mill Company were present at
the annual meeting of the stockholders
last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Finley are visiting
Mr. and Mrs j. e. Diokerson, of Frank
lin county, Georgia, this week.
Rev. John G. Law. of Walhalla,
preached two able sermons in the Pres
byterian church last Sunday.
The people of Westminster will well
come with pleasure the return of Rev.
Robert M. DuBose to this charge for an
other year. Mr.. DuBose and family
have been visiting at Camden and Dar-
lington since the adjournment of Con-
ference. We have not heard when he
will be home to take up his work again.
Col. r. e. Mason, of Charlotte, was in
Westminster last Thursday and Friday.
Miss Rosa King will be one of the first
of the coming Christmas brides of West.
minister. Her marriage to Mr.. Garnett
Milton Martin will occur on Tuesday,
December %.
Mr.. j. A. Dickson, Jr., has sold his
home place, below town, to Mr.. j. H..
Cowan and will move to the Kay place,
on Colonel's Fork creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb Freeman have
moved to Anderson.
Mr.. s. FL. Marett moved Monday from
East End to tho cottage which he re-
Gently bought from Mr.. w. p. Anderson,
on the road to Walhalla. We are glad
to welcome him among our neighbors.
Rev. II. l.. Singleton, of the South
Carolina Conference, is visiting his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Miles p. Singleton,
of Taber.
At the annual meeting of the share
holders of the Cheswell Cotton Mill
Company, of Westminster, held Decem-
Der 18th, the following directors were
elected to serve the ensuing year: Il. K.
Golden, Columbus, Ca; G. b. Foreman,
Alfalfa, Ala; II. r. Buist, Charleston
FL. G. Flietman, New York; w. f. Ches-
minister, and r. j. White, Baltimore
The report of President Cheswell as to
the net earnings and the condition of the
mill during the past year was very flat
tering and encouraging. The directors
have declared a dividend of per cent to
be paid on January /, 1908. This will be
welcome news to all the stockholders.
The first dividend is very good indeed
considering the fact that the mill has
been running only couple of years and
has been under construction all the time
and the expenditures have been 30 great.
After this year the mill will have in ope-
ration 362 looms and II 900 spindles and
will consume upwards of 5000 bales of
cotton annually.
Persons looking for holiday gifts for
old OF. young should drop in at Mrs.
McGee's store.
Miss Codie Parker, of Atlanta, will
come home next week to spend portion
of the holidays with homefolks.
A corps of railroad carpenters are here
doing some work for tho Southern Rail
way.
DR.. Chatham, of Greenville, was in
town on professional business last week.
Rev. w. S. Hamiter, of Seneca, will
preach at Retreat next Sabbath at II
o'clock in the forenoon.
Rev. John G.. Law, of Walhalla, will
preach at Oak Grove next Sabbath,
December 81, at II O'clock.
Mr.. w. M. Kay, has moved back to his
former ONE on Colonel's Fork.
Town Marshal A. l.. billiard captured
William Hunter, an escaped convict of
the Oconee chain gang, near Oakway
on Monday. Hunter, after leaving the
gang, forged an order on the county and
presented it at the store Of j. & j. s..
Carter.
The ginnery of the Anderson Phos-
phate and Oil Company has ginned over
1000 bales of cotton to date.
A. l.. Gossett.