Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-04-30
To Rent-Two nice rooms on Faculty
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To Rent-Two nice rooms on Faculty
Hill. Apply at this Office.
Pie apples at Schumaohers. Two
3-pound cans for only fifteen cents.
Rev. l.. X. Probst, of Atlanta, is
spending to-day in WaIhalla at the home
of his brother, DIR. G.. G. Probst.
The first chapter of serial story,
"The Romance of Her Stephens" by q
young girl, will be found in this issue.
Mr.. VIM. Jose, representing the
American Cycle Manufacturing Co., was
in Walhalla for a short while this morn
ing.
If you want first-class buggy or
wagon cheap for cash, or until fall, see
Carter e Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse II. Maxwell, Of
Anderson, spent Monday and Tuesday
in Walhalla visiting the family of Mr..
and Mrs. G. X. Maxwell.
Miss Mamie Ansel returned yester-
day from Charleston, where she spent
| several weeks visiting the family of her
brother, Mr. John A. Ansel, and other
relatives.
Phone the Walhalla market for your
beef.
New candidates announced this week /:
For Supervisor, S. M. Pool, w. M. Cobb,
Edward CAN'T; for Superintendent of
Education, Rev. G. l.. Craig; for House
of Representatives, Dr. T.. G. Doyle.
The second quarterly conference of
the Walhalla Circuit will be held at
Whitmire's Methodist church on Satur-
day and Sunday next. Preaching both
days at II q. m. by Rev. j. B. Wilson,
Presiding Elder.
-Remember all tho stores will close at
7 o'clock p. M, beginning tomorrow
(Thursday). If you have shopping to do,
do it before O'Clock. You will make
fast friends of all the clerks, for they
fail to see "what's the use fer to keep on
hangin' around"
The second quarterly conference of
the Seneca and Walhalla charge will con-
vene at Walhalla Methodist church on
Friday night at eight o'clock.i Rev. j.
b. Wilson, Presiding Elder, will preach
in the Walhalla NJ ,hodist church on
Sunday evening at eight o'clock.
Going to paint? Call on Jas. ii.
Darby, druggist, and get estimates and
color. cards Of the New York Electric
Ready-mixed paint, for which he is
call on him. Paint adds to tho valuo of
a house moro than double tho cost of
painting.
The oldest girls boarding school in
the South is at Salem, N. G. The Salem
Female Academy was founded in 1902
and has continued for one hundred years
without interruption. The celebration
of its centennial will take place May 23d
to 20th, 1902. We acknowledge receipt
of an invitation.
Mr.. o. FL. Schumacher has recently
purchased the entire output of canned
string beans of Mr.. j. III. Barnett's can
MING factory noor Wastmipctar Tb;s
stock of goods is unusually fine, and sur
passes in every respect the product of
many of the large canning factories of
the North and East.
Mr.. j. G. Shockley, of West Union,
informs us that the lumber business is
quite brisk at present. He has orders
ahead for lumber which will amount in
the aggregate to $1,000 Mr.. Shockley
is one of the most successful lumber
dealers in tho State and is thoroughly
Verscd in all the details of the business,
Mr.. l.. G. Craig, at Seneca, after the rob-
bely had taken place, is a piece of per-
sonality belonging to Arthur Owens, now
in the county Jail. He was arrested the
night after the robbery on the charge of
resisting an officer. Little Importance is
attached to his ownership of the dog,
however.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage on May 7th of Mr.. G. c. Newman,
of the horticultural division of Clemson
College, and Miss Grace Strobe, of Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Newman is a son of Col. j..
S. Newman. professor of agriculture at
the college, and Miss Strobe is daugh-
ter of the late president, II. A. Strobe,
who was Clemson's first president and
professor of mathematics.
Mr.. w. j. Nicholson, of Mount Vale,
Pennsylvania county, N. g., paid us a
pleasant visit Tuesday morning. He
spoke encouragingly of the projected
Irailroad running through his country
and into Oconee county to connect with
the Southern Railway between Seneca
and Westminster. He informed us that
the Sapphire Company were building
another big hotel and lake on their
property in the valley.
For the purpose of convenience to a
larger number, the woman's union
prayer meeting has decided to resolve
itself into two divisions for this week,
and each hold meeting at the same
hour a o'clock p m. Friday, but in diff
ferent parts of town-Division No. 1 at
the home of Mrs. S. N. Pitchford. to be
led by Mrs. Pitchford; Division No. 2, at
the home of Mrs. w. FL. Reeder, to DO
led by Mrs. J. S. Floyd. Chapter for
reading and discussion, 18th of ST. John.
Mr.. Robert l.. Symes, of Mountain
Rest, this county, sold in the Walhalla
market last week $50 bushels of corn at
one dollar per bushel. He has more for
sale, which he says he will market at
home without hauling it away, getting
good prices at his crib for it. He informs
us that there is good lot of corn in his
community for sale. Mr.. Symes has vet
to bny his first bushel of corn or pound
of meat, as he makes these neces-
sary articles in abundance for home use
and always has some for sale. He is one
of Oconee's best farmers.
Says He Was Tortured.
81 suffered such pain from corns /
COnll hardly walk - ,uritea LII Rnhinnnr