Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-23
sAYiNos FRoM QlO pIcxlNs.
sc" Pays Tribute TO 7. Y. Iiunnlcusi, John 3.
Keith and Or lanes A. Johss.

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Old Pickens, September u, Editors
Courier: Everything has been so dull In
Shis community FOR the past few weeks
that have fnrniahed nothing for your
columns, ard even now shere Is but sittle
TO say. 5 *.
Considering the uniayorable spring
and tho high watern In June, drops are
reasonably good-far better than at one
time expected; provided an early frost
does not injure replanted corn and late
cotton. II the harvest is not so great it
is encouraging to the farmer to realize
that he will get more for his produce
than 1t has brought for many years.
Fifty dollars for q bale Of cotton looks
something like adequate compensation
for ones labor.
When we read of the destruction Of
cotton by the boil weevll and army
worm in the West and the Injurious
effects of drouth on all drops in other
sections of the country, we should feel
that we are indeed fortunate. Since
what is known here as the s'seoond
flood" we have not suffered day for
rain and there has been none too much,
besides we have been exempt from the
hailstorms and cyclones which have
devastated crops in some parts of our
county.
Everybody is busy picking cotton and
pulling fodder.
Fulton Hunnicutt, acting for the
county, has graded and made an excel.
lent road from the Keith residence 20
Little river bridge, on the Seneca road,
avoiding what is known as the Keith
hill, which, in winter time, during wet
weather, was often we'll nigh impossible.
Further on the same road, near Cane
creek, some splendid work has been
done by w. l.. McMahan.
have never seen it mentioned, but it
is fact, that just after the freshet in
June the skeleton of human being was
found on the Lewis place, on Keowee
river, five miles above old Pickens.
Those who saw the same say the bones
were we'll enough preserved to indicate
that they were of person of unusual
size. From appearances the body had
been buried where found and unearthed
by the high water, but when and by
whom is unknown. This place is near
the site of old Fort George, and perhaps
these are the remains of some huge
Indian.
This neighborhood received with deep
sorrow news of the death of our former
fellow citizen, T. Y. Hunnicutt He was
reared here in our midst and was noble,
generous-hearted and promising young
man and the large concourse of mourn
ing friends who attended his burial
at New Hope church bespoke the high
esteem in which he was hold by all who
knew him. Our hearts throb with sim
cerest sympathy for those SO suddenly
| bereft of one so near and dear.
The burial of John r. Keith in Wal
halla last week sadly reminds us of his
death more than year ago. in tho very
bloom of young manhood in the distant
East, whittier he had gone as volunteer
in defense of his country. Though not
slain in actual battle, John r. Keith was
as much hero as if he had fallen amid
the fire of musketry or facing the can
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mons mouth. 1t is said that "It is
sweet to die for ones country" Many
in Walhalla and Oconee county remem-
Der John Keith as bright, handsome
youth, possessing many noble qualities,
who numbered his friends by his ac-
quaintances.
The announcement of another death in
your last weeks paper no doubt brought
grief and sorrow to the hearts of many
of your readers when they heard "Dr.
James A. Johns is dead" All who
knew him regarded him as pure, good
man, excellent physician, kind neighbor,
useful citizen, and, if good deeds and
charitable acts make Christian, surely
he was one in the truest sense of the
wore. How often are we reminded that
''In the midst of life we are in DEATH"
The high and the low, the great and the
small, the good and the bad, the bond
and the free, the old and the young, the
rich and the poor, the pure and beauti-
full, as well as the vicious and wicked,
'must all yield to that grim monster and
pass through the valley of the shadow
of DEATH" G.
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