Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-22
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Death o. Mr. Alfred o. Adalr-z Local News
In Brle'-- Mr. Dickson's Fine Crop.

Death % Mr. Alfred o. Adalr--. Local News
In Brie'- Mr.. DIckson's Fine Crop.
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Gee, of Due West, Is visiting her uncle,
j. w. McGee.
w. Il. Rhyme will return to morrow
from Pell City, Alabama, where he has
been at work the past six weeks.
Misses Bessie and Nellie Norris have
returned from weeks visit TO Mrs.
Walter Mason, of Layonia, Ga.
L. Z. Jarrard, of Fair Play, was In
| town Tuesday.
of Lynohburg, Va, is the guest OF her
friend, Miss Kate Jarrard.
Miss Hattie Simpson returned last
her sister, Mrs. A. FLYNN, of Atlanta.
Crayton Moore and his cousin, j. O..
Howell, spent last Thursday at Mount
Airy, Ga.
Glenn +. Lesly spent week with home
folks at Abbeyille recently.
j. @. Howell, OF Birmingham, Ala, was
visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. III. Moore last week.
Hovey Smith, of Spartanburg, was in
town last week. This was his first visit
to Westminster, but in all probability
he will come again.
Mrs. b. E. Gossett and little daughter
and Miss Isabel Granger, from near
Greenville, have been visiting in this
section the past week.
Jesse l.. LeGrande, of Lynohburg,
Va., was a recent visitor to our town.
Mrs. Sallie Eohols and Miss Minnie
Traylor spent an afternoon in Seneca
last week.
Clyde White, of Marietta, Ca, has ac-
cepted position in the marble shop of
~ IV 10 l,rn 80
White, of~this place.
Mrs. II. NJ. Simpson has returned from
the Presby terian Hospital in Atlanta.
Rev. Il. M. DuBose attended the ses-
sion of the Greenville District Conference
which was held at Williamson last week
Remember the farmers institute at the
mineral springs on July 2Sth.
Miss Kate Jarrard expects to return to
Lynohburg about August 10.
Mrs. l. s. Pitts visited her sister, Mrs.
l.. ID. Bearden, of Greenville, recently.
Mrs. Robert Lee Honour, of Charles
| ton, is spending the summer with the
| family of r. K. Norris. We are always
glad to welcome this estimable woman
| to our midst.
Alfred o. Adair, which occurred at his
home at Conneross last Sunday morning,
July 10, at 7.3O, after an illness of seve-
raj months. He was in the 10th year of
his age and was lifelong resident of
Oconee. "Unole Alfred,s as he was
generally known, had sunny disposition
and was loved and respected of every
| he looked on the bright side of life, and
when he won a friend he was his friend
forever. He was the last member of q
large family of boys and girls. His
widow is daughter of the late Thomas
Alexander. Two daughters and nine
grandchildren survive. His eldest
daughter is Mrs. G. w. Leathers, of
| Westminster. The other daughter is
Mrs. NJ. A. Jafferson, of the county.
The interment took place at Conneross
on Monday, after appropriate funeral
services conducted by Rev. A. p. Marett.
| Mr.. Adair had been u devoted member
of Conneross Baptist church for great
| many years.
Our marble man, G. e. Gray, has
greatly enlarged his quarters, and will
soon operate his tools with pneumatic
power. About September 1st he will put
in six-horse-power engine and ar air
compressor. The power will he conducted
from the air comp essersrto the tools by
| means of a rubber hose. All the polish
ing and, Lettering will be done by pneu-
ElaJic power. Mr.. Gray will expend a
thousand dollars or more in the new inn
provements.
| "o ObJoyCu low hOuTS Ill
| the hospitable homo of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sloan Dicksof, last Saturday and partak-
| ing of the evening meal with them. Mr..
Dickson is one of Oconee's best citizens.
| He has been little feeble for the past
| year. and it is a source of great pleasure
for his friends to call and chat while
with him. His youngest son, j. Wade
Dickson, manages the affairs of the farm
| and is wideawake, progressive young
| farmar. Ha all kipdp nf
ern farming implements and does his
work quicker and with greater ease than
the average farmer. He has six acres of
| the best averaged cotton we have seen
this summer. He is counting on gather
ing 800 pounds of lint per acre, and it
looks now as though he will get it. 1t
was planted May 8. Wade has IA acres
Of corn, planted on May 20, that is hard
to beat. Six acres of this will yield 100
bushels per acre if no disaster comes. 1t
is the Coke's prolific variety. Each stalk
| usually has two good-sized ears. Besides
his prospects of large yields of cotton,
corn and forage, Mr.. Dickson has thirty
colonies of bees, from which he antici-
pates getting at least 600 pounds of choice
honey. He already has it engaged at 123
cents per pound. There is only one thing
that Brother Dickson lacks to complete
his happiness, and that is life com
panion.
The Southern Flour Mills have not
started up yet. 1t is not definitely
known whether they will run this season
or not, as tho wheat crops were 80 sorry.
j. 9. Spears, of Townvile, was in
Westminster one day last week.
A 5000 chapel is being built at the
Shuttle Factory to accommodate the
large and growing Sabbath school at that
place and to hold divine services in.
The builing committee is composed of
NJ. S. Stribling, w. p. Anderson and d.
l.. Norris. The size of the building is
26x36 feet. 1t will be neat and commo-
dious chapel when completed.
The excursion train which runs from
Greenville to Tallulah Falls next Friday
will not stop here to accommodate per.
sons wishing to go. The train goes via
Bolton and the limit for taking on pas
sengers does not extend this far south.
Miss Ethel DuBose, of the Epworth
Orphanage, is visiting her uncle and
aunt, Rev. and Mrs. r. M. DuBose.
DR.. II. M. Moriwether and j. l.. Single
ton attended the Greenville District Con
ference at WILLIAMSON last week DR..
Meriwether will spend while at Ashe-
vile before returning home.
Mrs James Brewer, of Poplar, is spend
ing few weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. w.
III. Brewer. A. l.. Gossett.
Very Remarkable Cure Of Diarrhoea.