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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
Latlmer's Plans to Secure Good Roads.

Anderson, May 5.-Senator A. G. Lati-
mer passed through the city last night
on his way home from st. Louis, where
he had been attending the convention of
the National Good Roads Association.
He was one of the principal speakers at
the convention. Mr. Latimer said that
he expected to visit every section of the
State this summer where an interest is
being manifested in good roads and make
speeches on the subject. He considers
good roads one of the most important
matters that can concern the people Of
the State and he is anxious to see them
become more Interested.
Mr.. Latimer's plan is to have the Fed
eral government bear one-half of the ex-
pense, the State one-fourth and the
county or township one-fourth. For in
stance, by this plan, if Anderson county
should vote $25,O0O worth of bonds for
making good roads she would get an ad-
ditional $4,000 worth of work done. He
says that he expects to introduce and
push legislation along this line at the
next session of Congress.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
A Model Mill Town.

One of the model cotton. milling towns
is Pelzer. 1t has population of about
1000, but has no municipal government
or officers except a few policemen, whose
role is evidently largely matter of pre-
caution. Pelzer has, at different times,
figured in the press of the country be-
cause of its peculiar, yet most gratifying,
status, ensuring the moral and material
welfare and development of the en-
ployees of the cotton mill whose estab-
lishment created the town. The popu-
lation consists of the mill operatives,
officers, superintendent, store ke epers
and school teachers. These are all en-
ployees of the Pelzer Manufacturing Co. +,
which operates total of 10000 ring
spindles and 5000 looms in the manufac-
ture of sheeting, shirtings and drills.
This corporation, through its president,
Ellison A. Smyth, manages the entire
community. It owns the churches,
hotels, schools, bank, armory and
lyceum. The best possible service
is rendered in the conduct of these diff
ferent requirements of modern home and
business life. The educational advan-
tages referred to and the facilities of the
lyceum, as well as all the other desirable
features of Pelzer, are furnished the
employees and their families by the cor
poration. One of the most peculiar regn-
latiOns in Pelzer is the exclusion from it's
limits of lawyers, editors, actresses and
negroes. They are not allowed to estab-
lish q domicile Observation-Disclosures
Record
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
State Summer School.

The Superintendent of Education has
received acceptances of invitations to
teach and lecture at the State Summer
School, which is to be held at Rock Hill
June 23.
Mrs. III. l.. Southwick, of the Emerson
College of Oratory, Boston, Is to teach
elocution and reading. This Is new
course In the summer school.
DR.. j. p. Kinard, Winthrop College,
grammar and rhetoric and library work.
Prof. III. d. Earl, Furman University,
mathematics.
Prof. w. FL. Eand, of Chester, will
teach history and civics.
superintendent Lawton b. Evans, of
Augusta, to lecture to class on school
supervision, and to give two general
lectures TO tho school and to the public.
Miss Minnie McFeat, of Winthrop Col
lege, will give course on kindergarten
principles.
DR.. George b. Cromer, President of
Newberry College, will give q lecture to
the school and also an address to the
public.
Miss Mary F. wickliffe, formerly of
this State, but now of Teachers College,
New York, will give course in manual
training.
DIR. Henry Louis Smith, President of
Davidson College, will give lecture on
the school and also deliver night ad-
dress to the public, as will also DIR. G..
Il. Glenn, agent of the Peabody fund.
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
q n - T @ IA EAs
Bears the H1ha Kind You lIars Always Bought
Of IatNZzzezsm
Fought Duel for Girl.

Morristown, r. l., May 15.-As
the result of duel fought at Whar-
ton over Rosa Latzsky, an 18-year-
old Hungarian girl, who told her
suitors that they would have to fight
for her, Henry VALDEZ is in the hos
pital in a badly damaged condition.
Rosa helped to arrange the duel,
which was to take place with clubs
in the presence of no witnesses save
Rosa and young man whom she
asked to accompany her to the place.
She watched her admirers cudgel
each other with their clubs until
neither could stand, and then she
departed with her friend, and they
were married by justice of the
peace. The duelists were fonnd
later by mine employees, both un-
conscious, and VALDEZ was 80 badly
bruised that he was brought to the
hospital.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
For Good Roads.

Spartanburg, May 7.-Spartanburg
county is wide-awake as to good roads
and to securing the best machinery for
improving and permanently benefiting
the public highways. The county pos
sesses six steel Champion road machines
and each of the three chaingang squads
has an additional machine. Recently the
commissioners purchased a portable rock
bin, two spreading cars and one traction
engine, securing a complete rock crush
ing plant which has the great advantage
of being portable, and is easily moved
from place to place. This machinery
was bought from Col. w. A. Neal, State
representative Of the Good Roads Ma
chinery Company, of Kennel Square,
Penn. This engine and rock crushing
plant was taken to Hillsville, whore q
road about two miles in length is being
macadamized from Hillsville to Enoree.
The engine was put in order and the
plant made ready for rock crushing and
macadamizing. Yesterday County Com
missioners Thornton and Wingo in
spected the new machinery and are thor
oughly pleased with the results. Ma
cadam roads are what this county needs.
Col. Neal stated that 1t costs from 5000
to $500 per mile to build these thorough
years ago the cost of macadamizing was
from $4,000 to 5000 per mile. Col.
Neal stated that since January /, 1908, he
has sold $4,000 worth of road machinery
throughout South Carolina, which shows
that the spirit for better highways is
general and growing.
Kershaw County has purchased $4,000
worth of road machinery.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
Summons for Relief.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF OCoNEE.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF OCoNEE.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
Halle d. Grant, as Administrators of the
Personal Estate of Matilda e. Grant,
deceased, Plaintiff,
against
Thomas Grant, John N. Grant, Samuel
Grant, William Grant, Bluford Grant,
Harriet Simmons, Francis Mays, Luz
cinda Marett, Jane Clark, Thomas r..
Clark, Noah Clark, Hattie Grant, Co
lumbus W. Daniels, Minnie L. Shaw,
Nellie Johnson, Fannie Webb. William
Grant, Preston Grant, Anna Osborn,
Belle Godfrey. Matilda Mays, Eva
Smith, Lille A. Crooks, James l..
Grant, William A. Grant, julius N.
Grant, Defendants.-Summo ons for Re-
lief.-(Complant not Served.)
To the Defendants above named:
VOU are hereby summoned and re-
IL quired to answer the complaint in
this action, which was filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for the said county, on the 9TH
day of MAY, 1909, and to serve a copy of
your answer to the said complaint on
the subscribers at their office, on the
Public Square, at Walhalla Court House,
South Carolina, within twenty days after
the service hereof, exclusive of the day
of such service; and if you fail to an
swer the complaint within the time
aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
will apply to the Court for the relief de-
manded in the complaint
Dated May 4th, A. d. 1908.
JAYNES & SHELOR,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
@. r. d. BURNS, @. G. P. lSeal.1
To the Absent Defendants: William
Grant, Bluford Grant, Thomas T.. Clark,
Minnie I. Shaw, Fannie Webb, Matilda
Mays:
Take notice that the Summons and
Complaint in the above entitled action
were filed in the Office of the Clerk Of
the Court of Common Pleas of Oconee
county, South Carolina, on the 4th day
of May, 1908; that the object of this
action is the sale of the undivided one
fourth interest belonging to the Estate
of Matilda E. Grant, deceased, in and to
the tract of land described in the COM
plant, situate on Conneross creek, in
Oconee county, South Carolina, in aid of
assets to pay debts owing by the estate
of said deceased.
1928 plaintiffs Attorneys.
May q, 1908. Walhalla, S. G..
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20

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The next meeting Of the Beaverdam
Baptist Sunday School Convention will
be held with the Seneca Baptist church
on the fifth Sunday in MAY and on FRIDAY
and Saturday before.
LIST. Devotional exercises will begin at
TO- 80 q. m. on Friday.
I'd. Organization.
Sd. The following subjects will be dis
cpssed:
lat. Why should each church and CON-
munity have a Sunday school By j. u.
Shockley, j. w. Shelor and b s. Boggs.
I'd. Does Sunday school work aia the
progress of Christianity? BY III. A.
Wood, j. E. Crosby and VIM. FL. Mon
gold.
reached in Sunday school work ? BY O.
K. Breazeale, J. b. Harris and s.. X.
Thompson.
9TH. What the mothers are doing to
aid Sunday schools. BY Il. NJ. Elrod,
N. Q. Farmer and j. #. Morton.
9Th. Can Sunday schools increase the
spirit of giving TO benevolent objects
n. Q. Barton, Fred. Unger and @. r. ID.
Burns.
9th. What is the most needed qualifica-
tion for Sunday school teachers BY Z.
A. Sullivan, s. O. Smith and Will E. Bar
ton.
Each school in the Beayerdam Baptist
AssOclatlOn Will send two representa-
tives and every Sunday school having
over 90 scholars will be entitled to one
representative for every 25 over and above
the 80 scholars.
The schools will each report to the
convention first the name of the super.
intendent; second, the number of teach
ers and other officers; third, the average
attendance; fourth, the number of
months in session during the year; fifth,
the kind of literature used.
Il. M. Elrod,
Secretary Executive Committee Beaver
dam Sunday School Convention.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
revivify the torpid LIVER and restore
Its natural action.
A healthy LIVER means pure
Pure blood means health.
Health means happiness.
Take no Substitute. ALI Druggists.

The Western Missouri Court of
Appeals has decided that member
of a church congregation is not liable
in law for the payment of the pastors
salary, and that a minister of the
gospel must depend upon the good
consciences of the members of his
flock for his pay and has no legal
hold upon them for it. This decision
was made in the suit brought by Rev.
j. II. Rife against the congregation
of the First Baptist church of Mon
roe City, Mo. Rev. Rife was en-
gagged at salary of $500 year, but
was not paid that much, so he sued
for the balance. The clergyman won
his case in the trial court, but the
Court of Appeals reversed the judg-
ment.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature sssss sss Of Ge<AkA25Szs<

Atlanta, which has been entertain
ing the National Association of
Charities and Corrections, had a
severe shaking up from their guests.
These busy philanthropists went
about in high places and low to see
what their hosts were doing in the
matter of penal and charitable insti-
tutions and discovered most shock
ing state of affairs in the city stock
ade. Men, women and children of
both races were herded in little
room, almost pen, without privacy,
without shame, and without decency.
They spoke of what they saw, telling
the Atlanta people that they prefer
red to speak Of it in their presence,
rather than wait until they returned
home to make their reports. Atlanta
has been greatly mortified by these
revelations and the agitation raised
in this way will more surely lead to
reforms.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
Laughed tor Three Days.

Glassboro. N. j., May 15.-For
three daye Lewis Krechner, of Mon
roesille, laughed and laughed. The
doctors who attended him said il
was hardly possible for him to re-
cover. Krechner has finally stopped
laughing, however, and he will get
well.
Krechner was seized with laughing
hysterics in the midst of the excite1
ment OF the burning of his home Fri
day night. Relatives and friends
did all they could to stop him, but
they did not succeed. The aufferer
kept on laughing at intervals of o
few minutes until he,was weak and
practically helpless.
Many physicians wers called in
consultation, but their efforts were
in vain for long time. Finally,
however, the paroxysms became less
violent and finally ceased.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20

King Williams, negro farmer
living near Mount Zion, Spartanburg
county, invited Mary Tucker, neigh
Dor and long standing friend, to come
over to his house and cook him some
ginger bread. She agreed and was
accompanied by her friend, Hattie
Giles. On arriving at the house,
Williams said something about get.
ting his lover to cook for him. This
aroused the ire of his visitors, one
of them remarking she would kill
"her," the lover. This caused Will
liams to go to one corner of the
room and bring forth double barrel
shotgun, which, in fit of frolic and
fun, he exhibited as premonitor to
those who would hurt his chosen one.
Mary Tucker grabbed for the gun,
and while she and Williams were
struggling for it's possession the wea-
pom was discharged. The woman
fell to the floor fatally wounded,
dying in few minutes afterwards
Special to The State, May 18th.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
MASTERS SALE.
The State of South Carolina,
County of Oconee.
In the Court Of Common Pleas.
Nettie Hesse ct al, Plai. Ifs,

County OF OcOnee.
In the Court Of Common Pleas.
Nettie ,Hesse ct al, Pla'. Ifs,
against
Thomas Smith ct al, Defendants.
HpY virtue of Decretal Order in the
D above entitled action, signed by his
Honor r. 0. Purdy, Presiding Judge,
l will sell, AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
In front of the Court House door, in
Walhalla, South Carolina, on salesday in
JUNE, 1908, between the legal hours of
sale, the following described real estate,
to-wit:
An that certain peice, parcel or tract
County of Oconee, State of South Caro-.
lima, on the North side of Cane Creek,
bounded on the East by lands formerly
belonging to Carson Wendelkin, on the
North by lands formerly belonging to
Hencken, and on the South by Cane
Creek, and cornering at the West with
lands, purchased by Theodore Meinhardt
from w. j. Neville, and being portion
of the hundred and sixty-eight acres
conveyed to j. T.. Neville by Frederick
Schulken, and known as Lot No. 43 of
the lands of the German Colonization
Association of Charleston, containing
fifty acres, more or less. Sold at risk of
former purchaser.
TERMS: One-half cash on day of sale,
and balance on credit of one year,
credit portion to bear interest from day
of sale and be secured by bond of the
purchaser and mortgage of the promises,
with leave to purchaser to anticipate
payment. Purchaser to pay extra for
papers. w. o. WHITE,
Master of Oconee County, s. @.
May 10, 1908. 1921
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
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At 20 of Heart Dis
ease Contracted
During Civil War
Veteran Grateful.
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Effected Cure.

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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
ADMINISTRATORS Sale Of Personally

DY an order of the Probate Court of
I'D Oconee County, South Carolina,
granted on the 11th day of May, 1908, the
undersigned will sell, at public auction,
to the highest bidder. for cash, at West
minister, S. c., on SATURDAY, the 3Oth
day of May, 1908, beginning at 10 o'clock
a. M, the PERSONAL PROPERTY be-
longing to the estate of w. q. Smithson,
deceased, consisting in part: One Milch
Sewing Machine, Set of Scales, and other
articles too numerous to mention.
FLORENCE S. SMITHSON,
Administrative of the Personal Estate of
w. G. Smithson, deceased.
May IS, 1908. 1921
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
Summons for Relief.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, |
COUNTY OF OCONEE,

COUNTY OF OCoNEE.
In the { ourt of Common Pleas.
r. G. Gaines, j. II. Gassaway and w. l..
Gassaway, as partners in trade, doing
business under the style and firm name
of r. G. Gaines and Gassaway Broth
ers, Plaintiffs,
against
Hiram a. Leroy, as Executor of the
Last Will and Testament of John Reid
Dodd, deceased, Francis G. Hopkins,
Nathan Jamison Dodd, Millie Francis
Dodd, Ella Christine Dodd and Readea
Pauline Dodd, Defendants.-Summon
for Relief.-(C"mplaint not Served.)
To the Defendants above named:
VOU are hereby summoned and re-
Il quired to answer the complaint in
this action, which was filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for the said county, on the 18th
day Of APRIL, 1908, and to serve a
copy OF your answer to the said COM
plant on the subscribers, at their office,
on the Public Square, at Walhalla Court
House, South Carolina, within twenty
days after the service hereof, exclusive
of the day of such service; and if you
fail to answer the complaint within the
time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated April 18th, 1908.
JAYNES g. SHELOR,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
H.. S. @. r. d. BURNS, @. G. p.
To the Absent Defendants: Francis G.
Hopkins, Nathan Jamison Dodd, Millie
Francis Dodd, Ella Christine Dodd and
Readea Pauline Dodd:
Please take notice that the Summons
and Compliant in the above entitled ac-
tion were filed in the Office Of the Clerk
of Court of Common Pleas of Oconee
county on the 18th day of April, 1908;
that the object of this action is the par
tition and sale of the tract of land de-
scribed in the complaint belonging to
the estatsof John Reid Dodd, deceased,
containing fifty-four acres, more or less,
among the parties to this action, accord
ing to their respective legal rights.
JAYHES g. SHELOR,
Plaintiffs' Attorneys,
April "a, 1908. (l8-23) Walhalla, S. @.
Tho Atlanta Semi Weekly Journal
and THE COURIER for $1.75 n year,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20

A movement has been started in
Georgia to raise handsome purse
for Miss Louise Hadley, the Indian
apolis chambermaid, who refused to
make up bed which had been occu-
pied by Booker Washington, and
was discharged for her refusal. AL
ready the citizens of Senoia, Ga,
have made up purse of $25 for
Miss Hadley, and an appeal will be
made to other towns, so that it is
probable that handsome sum will be
realized. Many congratulatory tele-
grams have been sent to Miss Hadley,
a. suring her that Georgians appreci-
ate her action.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20

OF twenty-seven National Democratic
Committeeman, interviewed on Cleve-
lands candidacy for Presidency, only
three of them favor it.
The Protestant Episcopal church, both
of England and the United States, have
taken q decided stand against the prac-
tice of marrying divorced persons. The
other denominations should do the same.
The Michigan Underwriting Co., of
Detroit, has completed combine of the
peanut industries. The American Edible
Nut Co. will soon be Incorporated in
New Jersey with capital of S4,O00,000,
and will absorb the 18 plants near Nor
folk, Va, whore the general offices will
be located. The yearly output of pea
nuts within 80 miles of Norfolk is five
million bushels.
Because the congregation of the Sec
ond United Presbyterian church in Pitts
burg, Pa, voted to install an organ in
the church, the pastor, Rev. DR.. j. s.
Littell, last Sunday resigned his church
to date from the day of the organs in
stallation. Mr.. Littell, who is prominent
in the denomination, says the innovation
amounts to a desecration and is opposed
to the laws of the church.
At it's meeting last Monday night the
Common Council Of Richmond, Va,
made an appropriation of $4,000 to the
Confederate Memorial Institute. This
appropriation was the sum needed to
meet the donation of 100000 made by
the late Charles Broadway Rouss, the
millionaire veteran. Gen. G. A. Evans,
of Atlanta, president of the association,
has announced that the Battle Abbey of
the South is an assured fact.
Lavonia, Ca, is making an effort to
have the court house removed from
GAINESVILLE to that place, and as an in
ducement to the voters of Franklin
county to secure their votes to bring
about this much desired change they
have made an offer to build, free of cost
to the county, a magnificent court house
and Jail. An election, will be called
some time soon to decide this question.
--Hartwell (Ga.) Sun.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20

William H. Jackson, Republican
member of Congress from the First
Maryland District, announced on the
18th instant that he will ask for the
discontinuance of the post Office at
Quindocui, in Somerset county, to
which Andrew j. Day, negro, was
recently appointed. This is said to
be the first colored postmaster ap-
pointed in that State. Congressman
Jackson says he will ask for the dis
continuance because it is unnecessary
and because Day is not proper per-
son to hold such an office.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20
A child Rallied.

Peoria, Illinois, May 15.-The two
months-old son of Major and Mrs.
Smith, of the Salvation Army, was
ratified by the division meeting last
Monday night. The affair drew a
great crowd. Some one put the
name of the Lord on a ticket and
this ticket won the baby. The
youngster was thereupon dedicated
to the service OF the Lord amid much
applause and singing of hallelujah
songs.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-20

Presbyterian creed revision seems to
be near at hand, after prolonged, and
at times, acrimonious struggle. 1t has
been learned that 227 of the 235 Presby-
teries in America have voted solidIy for
creed revision, as based on the eleven
overtures sent down by last years Gene
raj Assembly. At the meeting of the
General Assembly, to be held in Los
Angeles this month, it is believed the
been overcome, and the demands of the
great majority of the Presbyterians
granted.