Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-16
{ NEWS IN AND AROUND WssTMINsTER.
The News u Gsnerel About Our Sister Town
De- j.A,Johns and Mrs. King Pass Away.

Irene Miller went to Atlanta last week,
and will board with her aunt, Mrs. Rosa
wooten, 2i2 Grew street, aud attend
school.
Westminster received her first bale of
new cotton last Thursday. 1t was sold
oy B. III. Glymph, of Fair Play, to I. S.
Pitts. The bale weighed 521 pounds and
the price paid WAS 12} cents. Mr..
Glympb received $85. 12---the biggest sum
paid here for bale of cotton in long
/ time.
Mrs. j. j. Arnold, of Fayetteville, Ga,
accompanied by her little son, Julian
and sister, Mrs. Clayton Carriker, OF
Marietta, Ga, are visiting their sister,
Mrs. r. @. Peden. Mrs. Carriker is
pleasantly remembered as Miss Lillian
Smith, who visited here couple of
years ago.
| The horse traders have been somewhat
retarded in their swapping business. 1t
has been raining.
One hundred and fifty three pupils are
enrolled in the Westminster Graded
School to date. Miss Copger is teaching
the first and second grades. Miss Shell.
don has charge of the third and fourth
|
the fifth and sixth grades. Superintend-
ent Conger has charge of the seventh,
eighIa and ninth grades. A music
| teacher will be added as soon as the new
building is completed. We were in error
last week as to the hour of opening. It
| is $50 instead of o.
Fifty-five persons boarded the Smith
excursion train at this place last Thurs
| day. This was almost a car load. All
were pleased with the trip with the ex-
ceptions of the vexations of the Atlanta
mosquitoes. Some had to defer sleeping
until they got back to South Carolina. :
Married, on September 13, 1908, at the
o. Crenshaw, j. l.. Virgins and Miss
Lola Crenshaw, of Seneca, Rev. w. II.
McAlister, of Westminster, officiating.
The many friends of the couple wish for
them happy and prosperous journey
| through life.
Married, in iacg Fair Play, on Sunday, Sep
| ter of Hiram King, of Tokeena, to w. j.
McLeskey, Magistrate d. V. Wright
officiating.
| G. II. Lemmons and Miss Vashti Lem
| mons, of Atlanta, are on visit to Mr..
and Mrs. w. w. Lemmons, of Oakway.
They arrived Monday.
A. V. Leathers, of Fort Madison, was
| in town last Sunday.
Miss Kate e. Harris arrived from Vir-
| ginia last Thursday and has taken her
place as governess and teacher in the pri-
vate school at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Il. N. Carter.
j. l.. Boggs has recently moved hero
| from Greenville.
Rev. w. s. Hamiter, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Seneca, was over to
see his friend, Rev. j. l.. McLin, last Fri
day. Mr.. McLin continues to improve
| slowly.
Mrs. Mamie Barron attended the big
| millinery opening in Atlanta this week
and learned the latest styles, fashions,
novelties, etc., in millinery. Ladies', call
around and see her pretty line of fall
| goods, which is now beginning to arrive.
DEATH OF DIR. J. A. JOHNS.
A prominent physician and one of Oco-
| nee's influential citizens has joined tho
| silent majority. DR.. James A. Johns, n
leading physician of this county, died at
| his home, three miles below Westmin-
| ster, last Friday evening about IL o'clock
| from paralysis. He was in the 72d year.
He was in town Friday afternoon attend
ing to business, apparently enjoying his
| usual health. Soon after returning home
he was stricken with paralysis and so
| rapidly did he sink that it became evil
dent to his wife and friends that he
could not last long, and message was
sent to his son, DR.. j. III. Johns, of At
lanta, informing him of his fathers criti-
cal condition. The young doctor ar
rived six hours after his father expired.
DIR. Johns was born near Retreat, in this
county, and was son of the late James
Johns. Harrison nj. Harbin now resides
at the Johns old homestead. DR.. Johns
had the advantages of good education,
having been educated in the best schools
of Due West, and later attended the
South Carolina College at Charleston,
from which he graduated in medicine
more than forty years ago. He was
sworn in as Lieutenant of Company +,
the 2lst of July, 1861, and served
until the close of tho war between
the North and the South. He was per-
haps one of the best known physicians
in tho county. Having located in this
section, when physicians were few and
far between, he enjoyed wide and lu-
cratve practice. Few indeed are the
has not made professional visit and
many are those whose hearts are sad
because he has made his last call. DR..
Johns was partner in the first MORGAN
tile firm to do business here. The
we'll known firm of Zimmerman e Johns,
which. began business in the early seven
ties, was tho first business partnership
at this point, and the firm occupied the
first store house erected here. The firm
was composed of A. Zimmerman. now
secretary of the Cheswell Cotton Mills,
and DR.. j. A. Johns. Later he identified
himself with the Farmers Alliance store,
which was destroyed by fire in 1902. His
now physician and surgeon in the ST.
Joseph's Intirmary, Atlanta. His stop
daughters are Mrs. j. II. Cowan, of this
county, and Mrs. John NJ. Cobb, of
Pelzer. Mrs. DR.. Johns was Mrs. Mamie
Fullerton Smithson, daughter of Daniel
Fullerton, who came. to this country
from Ireland when fourteen years of
age. The body of DR.. Johns was inter
red here Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
in tho presence of many sorrowing
friends. The services were conducted
at the grave by Rev. John Gordon Law,
of Walhalla. The deceased leaves one
brother, S. III. Johns, Esq, of Westmin-
ster.
DEATH OF MRS. KING.
Died, at her home near Westminster, on
September 4 at 8 p. M, Mrs. Eliza King
She was daughter of the late George
w. Newell and leaves four sons and
several brothers. She was born October
81, 1884. Mrs. Kings sons are James
a., w. L., B. T.. and George S. King.
All were present at the funeral except
w. L., who resides at Harmony Grove,
GA. The youngest son, George, had al
ways remained at homo TO take care Of
his mother, To whom he was greatly de.
voted. Mrs. King was a member Of the
Baptist church and lived a Cody life and
died a triumphant death. She was bed
ridden for nearly one year and it is COM
forting to her children to exercise the
hope that she has gone to that home
where there is no pain to disturb the
crest that remaneth to the people of
God.' Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. II. NJ. DuBose at the Old West
minister church on Thursday, after
which her body was lowered in the
grave.
AIKEN HELPS THE SUFFERERS.
Hon. Wyatt Aiken, our Representative
in Congress-, has forwarded contribu-
tion for the storm sufferers below town.