Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-01
Go to T. e. Alexander, Walhalla, fol
high grade fertilizers.

Miss Agnes Hildebran, of Asheville,
N. o., is visiting at the homo of Rev,
and Mrs. j. G. Schaidt. -
MIR. Geo. A. Harrison, of Landrum,
s. c., is on a visit to his mother, Mrs.
Harrison, on Faculty Hill. / q.
Everything in the line of spring mil
lInery at Seaborn Bros. Opening days,
Thursday and Friday, April and 10.
Call and examine their stock.
There will be meeting of the mem
6ers of the Lutheran church next Sun
All members are urged to be present.
United States Marshals Aiken and
Corbin destroyed 45-gallon copper still,
cap, worm and 1000 gallons of mash
eight miles north of FUrt Madison on
Tuesday.
Palmetto Leaf, March %: "Annie
Crisp is expecting to go homo next week.
She will stay for a week with her parents.
She says that her sister may come here
with her ere long"
MIR. w. l.. Ballenger closed his school
in Neville district last Friday, after q
successful session. He left Tuesday for
Avalon. Ca, where he will spend some
time with his parents. He expects to
return to Oconee and resume school
work later.
Tho many friends of Miss lula Jones
will be pleased to learn that she expects
to be able to return to Walhalla the lat
ter part of this week. Her physician, DIR.
Mayer, of Newberry, reports her condi-
tion as greatly improved, and thinks she
will be able to resume her duties at the
Graded School very soon.
Mr.. Lucius B. Lee, of Keowee, was
among friends in Walhalla last Thurs
day. He has become a practical farmer
and successful one, too-and he and
Messrs. Thos. r. and James r. Keith are
engaged each year in showing what the
fertile lands along the Keowee river will
do in the way of producing large yields.
Miss Georgia VauDiviere returned to
Walhalla last Saturday evening, after an
absence of several weeks spent in Green
wood, where her mother has been quite
sick. Mrs. Lawrence r. VanDiviere
arrived in Walhalla Monday. 1t is ex-
pected that Mrs. II. S. vanDiviere will
be sufficiently recovered to enable her to
return to Walhalla in about week.
Work on blasting for the wheel pit
and tail race for Lockhart Mill No. was
begun this week. BY an extension of
water power these mills will have 1900
horse power, with possibility of 10000
horsepower, should it be needed. Mr.
j. @. Cary is president of the company.
The new mill will be completed and In
months.
AT a recent meeting of tho Hayne
Circle of Walhalla Mrs. DIR. j. w. Bell
was unanimously elected a delegate to
the Woman's Federation, which meets in
Columbia the latter part of April She
will be accompanied by Mrs. Kate p.
Lewis, President of the Circle. With
two such talented and accomplished
ladies the Walhalla Circle will be ably
represented.
The Oconee Telephone Company is
laying down poles in Main street to re-
place the poles now used. The new
poles measure from 35 to so feet in
height They are much heavier and
stronger than those formerly used and
their use is made necessary on account
of the heavy cross-arms carrying in
creased wire weight. The poles will be
used, according to the rise or fall of the
ground level, 80 as to give a uniform
height of wires of forty feet from the
ground.
1t is reported that new schedule
will soon go into effect on the Blue Ridge
railroad. The morning passenger train
from Bolton, now arriving in Anderson
at 80 a. M, will run through to Seneca,
returning to Anderson in time to make
the 2.45 :, n. trip to Bolton and return
to Walhalla in the afternoon. The mixed
train now leaving Anderson for Walhalla
at 11.30 a. m. will leave earlier and re-
turn on about the same schedule as at
present. The schedule of the regular
passenger train will remain practically
unchanged.
Mrs. V. L. Norman and children will
leave Walhalla on Fridays noon train
for Concord, N. c., their future home,
where they will be met by her husband,
who has been filling an important posi-
tion as bookkeeper in a large mercantile
establishment in that city since January
1st. We regret to part with this excel
lent family and wish them much happi-
We most heartily commend our friend
"Vic" and his accomplished wife and
their interesting Family of children to
the good people of the "Tar Heer'
State. We shall be glad to welcome
them back to Walhalla at any time.
The "White Ribbon Society" gave
quite pleasant entertainment last Fri
day evening at the Walhalla HOTEL Short
talks were made by Revs. j. Steck and
j. NJ. Mcclure, excellent music was rem
dered by Messrs. @. w. Pitchford, B. s..
Seaborn, and number of recitations
were given by wee tots and others.
Selections were read by Mrs. j. II. Kay,
Misses Mamie Ansel and Corrie Phinney,
and Miss Irene Strothor recited admirably
the poem entitled, "Lips that Touch
Liquor Shall Never Touch Nine" Deli
cate refreshments, consisting of cake
and chocolate, were served, after which,
the program was continued for q short
while. A number of new names were
added to the membership roll of the
"White Ribboners." The gathering was
pleasant one, and will doubtless bear
fruit in the future.