Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-09

i MRS. u. ". m1Ckler VIII leave To-
morrow morning for short visit TO her
husband and friends at Dyson's.
ID. s. Hull, of Westminster, spent
homo of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Eaton.
! wv. l.. Verner's many friends are
glad to see him at his usual place in The
| Bank of Walhalla, after an absence of
1 several weeks during his recent illness.
The Clemson boys are off to the
barracks again. Julian Dendy and
Bruce Crosby left Saturday morning for
the college, and Anson Merriok returned
this morning.
Call and see Ruskin Anderson,
Seneca, at his new quarters. He will be
delighted to sec you.
REV. g. #. Clarkson, pastor OF the
Seneca and Walhalla charge, has been
given months vacation.
The woman's union prayer meeting
| will meet at the residence of Mrs. A. p.
Holden on Friday afternoon, 11th instant,
at A o'clock. Mrs. j. o. Hicks will lead
the service.
| Henry e. Thompson and family, of
Columbia, are visiting James Thompson
and Miss Lille Thompson. Their many
Walhalla friends are pleased to meet
them again.
."Flag Day" will be celebrated at
Block school house on Saturday, Sep
tember 10th. Good speaking, good
music and good eating will DO the order
of the day. The public are invited.
The singing at Mount Tabor, an
nounced for the third Sunday in Septem-
ber, will be held next Sunday, Septem-
Der 18th. Parties desiring to attend will
please take notice of the change of time.
-Ruskin Anderson, Seneca sells twelve
pounds good green coffee for 81. Ten
pounds good roasted coffee for 81.
After spending three weeks as the
guest of Mrs. Guy II. Grove, Mrs. Ade-
lade Jennis Vogt has returned to her
home in Charleston, much pleased with
the people, climate and scenery of Wal
halla.
Miss Kate Williams, after spending
several weeks pleasantly at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. 9. l.. Dean, left last Friday
for Marietta, Ga, where she will spend
a week before returning to her home at
Fernandina, Fla.
| Married, Sunday, September 6, 1908,
at the home of the officiating minister,
Rev. d. l.. Whitaker, in Center township,
Miss Eta Outzs and Ledford Whitfield.
The contracting parties were from An
derson county.
On September 1st the Oconee Tele-
phone Company inaugurated ito night
ooiflCc. loI0dlIcI ptttEOuS VI inc CON-
pany will be given an all-night service
without extra charge. Teay Hutchison
is the night operator.
To .Rent-My two-story dwelling
house on Main street, containing eight
rooms, together with barn, stable and
other outbuildings. Everything in good
condition. For further particulars ap-
ply to Mrs. Adalene Olkers, on the pre-
| misses.
L. p. Smith will run his last excur-
sion to Atlanta tomorrow. Train will
pass Seneca at 1890 p. M; fare 50.
Leave Westminster p. m.; fare $1.S5.
Returning, train will leave Atlanta IL
o'clock midnight, September II. Take
| in this trip.
-Ruskin Anderson, one of Seneca's
wide-awake merchants has an advertise
ment in this issue. He has moved in
new quarters, next door to the Seneca
Bank, and now has 1000 feet of floor
space and is better prepared to serve his
customers than ever before. Give him
| call.
be continued through this week and
next Sunday. Revs. B. l.. Padgett and
j. G. Brewington are conducting inter-
esting and edifying services at O'Clock
in the afternoon and 8 o'clock in the
evening The meetings are we'll at
tended and much interest is manifested.
| Misses Maude Logan and Italee
Brockington, who have been spending
some time at the home of Gen. and Mrs.
VIM. Z: Erwin, are spending two weeks
at the Blue Ridge Mineral Springs Hotel
in West Union. 1t is probable they will
pay short visit to Walhalla again prior
to returning to their home at Kingstree.
We have the largest line of calicoes in
town--pretty styles. Jno. f. Craig.
| DIR. and Mrs. S. l.. Morris, of At
lanta, have been visiting their special
| friends, Maj. and Mrs. S. p. Dendy, and
family, in Midway. Dr. Morris is attend
ing the various Presbyteries in South
| Carolina, which are now holding their
fall sessions. He is well known in Wal
halla and other portions of Oconee
county, where he is greatly honored and
| loved.
DIR. j. r. Wilkerson, of Greenville,
delivered an instructive and interesting
| lecture in the Walhalla Presbyterian
church last Thursday night on China.
He is at home on furlough, after spend
ing several years as a medical missionary
and teacher at Soochow. DIR. Wilkerson
spent three years in Walhalla as a stu
dent in Adger College, and has many
| friends here who were pleased to meet
him again. He is doing good work in
the Celestial Empire.
Col. August Kohn, of the News and
Courier, arrived in Walhalla Tuesday
afternoon and remained until this morn
| ing. He is interested in procuring arti-
cles for the centennial edition of his
paper to be issued this fall. The News
and Courier purposes to celebrate it's one
| hundredth anniversary by getting out
special edition, giving complete write
up of the State during the century along
all lines of growth and development. It
will De most valuable paper and merits
the support of the people.
| The many friends of A. Lay, Sr.,
will regret to learn that he had the mis-
fortune to have his leg broken while on
his trip to Alabama to see his son, John
Lay, who is quite sick with fever. Mr..
Lay had gone to the train to see his wife
and daughter, off on the return trip. to
| Walhalla, and in leaving the cars made q
misstep and fell, his leg being broken by
the fall. Both Mr.. Lay and his son are
reported to be improving. Their many
friends here and throughout the county
hope for their speedy recovery.
katherine Simmons, the seven
m onths old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
A. Thayer, died at the home of its grand
mother, Mrs. l.. r.. Simmons, in Wal
halla, Monday, August 81, 1908, at 12
o'clock noon. The babe had been a suf-
ferer for several months, and few
weeks before it's death it's mother
brought it here from her homo in Mont
gor. ory, Ala, hoping the change of
cli!n ito would effect cure, but it was
too Iate. The remains of the little one
were carried to Montgomery on the after
noon following it's death for interment.
The bereaved have the sympathy of
many friends in their hour of sorrow.
-Ruskin Anderson, Seneca, will sell
kerosene oil at only ten cents per gallon
on Saturdays, September 10Th and 10th.
Only one gallon to each customer.
I The largest pumpkin we have seen
| so far this season was brought to town