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

daughrors arc winning laurels. Miss
Ettie is well known to be one OF the beat
teachers ia the country. Mas Jessie
graduated with hopor In Charleston last
May and took charge OF the kindergar-
ten department. Of the ,3elton schools OF,
the 18th instant. Miss Maude won n
scholarship IN Winthrop in 1909 and was
highly complimented by Prof. johnson
FOR studiousness and good department..
Miss Allie won scholarship in the same
institution July 10th, making high
average In her examinations.
Rev. j. Il. MoLin and family, OF Ander-
son, are at III. d. zimmerman's. Mr.. Nc
Lin was taken quito sick on his return
from Presbytery. His many friends
wish for him speedy recovery.
George and Broadus Bagwell and their
SISTER, Miss Efiie, of tho Bounty Land
section, were visiting at the homes of
w. II. Moore and Il. ID. Poore In West
End the latter part of last week. George
Bagwell returned to Birmingham FRIDAY.
j. t. Simpson is building new beef
market house in rear Of the Bank build
ing.
William N. Wilson, of Clearmont, had
as his guests last week his two brothers.
Richard Wilson, of Greenville county
and j. j. Wilson and daughter, Miss
Licena, of Anderson county. They came
unexpected. These three brothers sepa-
rated 40 years ago and had never all
been together at once since. 1t was n
great pleasure for them to meet together
and talk over the joys aud sorrows and
the ups and downs of the days gone by.
On last Saturday Warren ID. Wilson. the
eldest son of William N, gave dinner
and entertained these three brothers at a
reunion. There were twelve members of
the family connection present including
Mr.. Wilson's family. VIM. N. Wilson
has boon living in Oconeo for more than
thirty ears, and has reared large
family OF children and is proud of them
all.
Miss Daisy Deaton returned to her
home at Toccoa Saturday, after spend
ing two weeks with Miss Julia Cheek, at
the Westminster Inn.
Miss Ethel Leathers, the clever and
accommodating manager at the tele-
phone exchange, spent last Wednesday
in Walhalla with her friend, Miss Ella
Reid.
X. e. Stamer and Miss Robins were
united in marriage few days ago by
Magistrate S. II. Johns.
l.. p Smith will run his last excursion
of the season to Atlanta tomorrow, Sep
tember 10. The fare for the round trip
from Westminster is $1.s5. j. w. Nc
Gee is ticket agent. Train will arrive
here at p. m. Returning, will leave
Atlanta at midnight on September II.
Miss Cora Duffie has returned from n
visit to friends at Simpsonvile.
Miss Jessie Dobbins has returned from
Shelby, N. C.
mong the pleasant social events of
the season was party given by DR.. and
Mrs. Burt Mitchell at their beautiful
home, "Halehurst,' on the evening of
August 81, in honor of the visiting young
ladies and gentlemen. Dr. and Mrs.
Mitchell possess the happy faculty of
entertaining guests in most congenial
manner and make them feel at home, it
matters not how large the number NAV
be. Enchanting music was rendered by
a number of musicians. The music rem
dered by Cleveland Heidtand Miss Sarah
Anderson will bear special mention.
Miss Mcconnell sang beautifully. She
has charming voice. Additional in
tcrest and pleasure was added to the
occasion by the serving of delicious ice
cream and cake. About seventy guests
were present.
jog Harbin is employed as night
watchman at the oil mill.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. M. Shelton, of Wal
halla, were visiting Rev. r.. l.. Duffie and
family in East End last Saturday and
Sunday.
j. w. Munson, a baggage master re-
siding in Charlotte, visited his father, II.
X. Munson, near Westminster, last week.
Rev. w. Il. McAlister began meeting
at Pleasant Hill Baptist church last Fri
day, which closed on Sunday, resulting
in additions-3 by letter and 5 by expe-
rience. The ordinance of baptism was
administered in Ramsay's creek on Sun
day.
at recent meeting of the veterans of
the civil war M. A. Terrell was elected
delegate to represent Tugaloo township
before the county board.
Rev. A. c. Cree accompanied Rev. John
r. Moore here last week and preached a
forcible sermon in the Baptist church
Thursday evening.
The second horse swappers' convention
for Westminster will come off on Sep
tember Is, 16 and II. r. II. Smithson is
president, II. n. Hall is vice president,
5. w. Dickson secretary and treasurer,
and j. M. Morgan, general manager. A
premium of $3.50 is offered for the
ugliest horse and man. Large crowds
are expected.
Mrs. Leila Martin, of Birmingham,
Ala, was the guest of her cousin, Miss
Ida Jones. last week.
A trio of sweet girls, from neighbor-
ing towns, have recently arrived and
will be quite an acquisition to Westmin-
ster society. They are Misses Lucy
Conger, Lula McGee and Mary Sheldon,
all teachers in the high school. Misses
Conger and MCGEE are boarding at the
Hull Hotel and Miss Sheldon is board
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. q. E. Anderson.
A. B. Stewart, clerk in the store of
Dickson & Co., is spending short vaca-
ton at his home on Toxaway.
The high school opened Monday with
an enrolment of more than one hundred
pupils. For the first three months the
fve-hours- per- day system will be used,
opening at 0a. m. and dismissing p. m.
M. s. Stribling went to New York last
Wednesday on business.
G. G. Simpson sawed 3,100 feet of
lumber from one pine tree last Thursday.