Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-08-20
Tugaloo Items.

Tugaloo, August 1.-THE correct
answer to the question, "Why the flag is
called 'Old Gloryp'" is, "Where the flag
goes there is glory and the cause OF
Christianity is advanced," but where
and who gave it the appellation of "Old
Glory" is the question:
The first flag to float over public
building in Oconee was raised last year
on White Rock School by South Caro-.
lina's greatest worker for village and
school improvement, and it will be graft
flying to her when she returns to America
to SEQ the "Old Glory floating over
White Rock, Seneca and Richland schools,
as as last years banner schools; This year
Walhalla Graded School will receive q
special honor flag, with three others in
the country. What school will win in
NovemberP So far the banner schools
are Bear Swamp, The Block and Oakway.
Mr.. Craig has been asked by the
Youths Companion committee to set
apart one day in August for the parents
and trusteees to meet and organize a
School Improvement Society.
To those who wish to read the follow
ing libraries are open: Bear Swamp and
White Rock libraries in the school build
ing. The travelling libraries are sta
toned at the following schools: For
White Rock, with Miss Marye Shelor;
Tabor, Miss Lula Adams; Bounty Land,
Miss Birty Smith; Westminster, Mrs.
Q. K. Anderson; Tokeena, Mrs. Isbell
Fair Play, Miss Helen Thompson; Town.
vile, Miss Lizzie Bruce. These libraries
are doing great work.
1t is with regret that we learn Miss f..
II. Mccullough is to leave Oconee. She
has done great work here. AS part
ing gift, her school library will be given
to some school. The committee will
decide later what school will got it.
We have listened with great pleasure
to the speeches on education by the can.
didates in the county. If all this talk
was put in practice we would have
model schools. Let us go to work on
the day MIR. Craig set apart with oul
hands at work, not our tongues, to ad.
vance this great work.
A member of the Andrew Pickens
| Chapter of d. A. r., received a very in.
teresting letter from Mr.. Clinton, OF
Tuscaloosa, Ala, about James Robinson,
| better known as Horseshoe Robinson
Mr.. Robinson moved to Alabama, settled
on Black Warrior River, nine miles from
| Tuscaloosa, 1917, and died 1888. On his
monument, erected by his children, is:
Maj. James Robinson, a native OF
s. c., died April 26, 1898, rs years old
lies buried here. Well known as Horse
shoe Robinson, he earned just fame in
the war of Independence in which he
suffering. He lived fifty.six years with
his most worthy partner, useful and
respected and died in hope of blissful
| immortality. His children erected this
monument as a tribute justly due good
father, husband, neighbor, patriot and
| soldier. The name Horseshoe derived
| from bend in creek in S. c., horse
shoe round the bend"
Major Robinson is buried on his farm
| in Alabama 0unnI hu hic
grand. children. Mr.. Clinton speaks il
the highest terms of this family. Ken.
| nedy's novel, Horseshoe Robinson" car
be found at Fants Book Store in Ander
son. The price is twenty-five cents
Each school child should read it, as Mr.
Robinson lived here in Oconee.
Mr.. G: j.. Rea, of Woodruff, a graduate
OF South Carolina Military Academy, is
spending the summer here.
Mrs. Jane McJunkins Cleavcland, with
her daughter, Miss Kate, of Texas, de-
lighted her aged father with visit OF
several weeks.
Capt. and Mrs. r. d. Long and George
Shelor are visiting friends in Greenviile
and attending the reunion.
The friends of Ryland Shelor and
Lealan Marett will meet at the Byrd's
Falls August !3, to have a picnic, to cele
brate their birthday. The greatest at
fractions of the picnic will be the music
by the Misses Turnbulle and Walkers, or
guitar, banjo, mandolin and violin.
TO the delight of the club women OF
Oconee Miss Ida Turnbulle has been in
vited to visit friends here and will go tC
the Once-a Week Club at Seneca. Miss
Turnbulle is gifted young woman that
Georgia is justly proved of, having wor
q scholarship at the Georgia Industrial
School; graduated with honors. She
then became a stenographer and type
writer. The Dread Institute offered 9
scholarship of two years. She at once
accepted and went to Worcester, Mass.
graduated with honors, and now il
teaching domestic science in Athens
Ga. She had cooking school at the
fair i'm Atlanta last fall. She plays the
mandolin very sweetly, and with her five
sisters, their music on piano, guitar
banjo, mandolin and violin is delightful
II the Georgia Federation of Woman's
Clubs can give to her State such tai
ented young woman, why not the South
CarolinaP
Rev. j. G. Shive breaches at Retreat
the first Sunday and welcome is ex.
tended to all to come and enjoy his fine
sermons. Retreat is in luck in getting
such an able preacher and pastor.