Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-07-27

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wessminstee, JoIy u. Miss Mamie
Tenesl bias returned sfom pleasant
visit % seletises aud fsiends iu FrSnklin
county, Ge0vgia.
Miss Jessie Dobbins entertained few
friends last Thussday evening compli.
mentary TO the Mieses Lay, her visitors.
sited guests. Delightful refreshments
were served
Miss Hattie Stewart has returned
home, after spending two weeks with
her sister. Miss, Mamie Stewart.
MIR. and Mrs. j. s. Carter and Miss
Virginia Norris have bsen spending q
] while In the mountains.
Ar. Logan, of Atlanta, was here last
Miss Minnie Traylor win leave to-
m0rr2w for an extended visit to Ashe-
vile, N. @.
Mrs. O. O.. Simpson has received let.
ter from her daughter, Mrs. A. Flynn, of
Atlanta, stating that their homo was
destroyed by fire one night last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Flynn lost nearly all their
household effects.
Miss Hattie Zimmerman left Friday
for Anderson for visit to Mrs. @. L.,
McLiu.
Misses Mary and Birdie Lay returned
to Pendleton n few days ago. They were
accompanied home by their cousin, Miss
Jessie Dobbins.
Miss Vera Prince has returned to her
home in Anderson.
Miss Ploma Tannery visited the family
of w. II. Moore last Sunday.
Miss Inez Dodson is on an extended
visit to relatives in Spartanhurg.
Married, July II, by S. ii. Johns, Esq,
at his residence, Glenn Whitfield and
Miss Reatrice pitts
All interested in the Old Westminster
cemetery are earnestly requested to meet
there at z q. M. on Saturday before tho
third Sabbath in August for the purpose
of cleaning off the graves.
Mrs. j. A. Terrell and children, of
Lockhart, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. M.
| A. Terrell and other relatives in this
section.
Prof. David Conger, of Gainesville,
Ca, was here last Saturday.
Errett Zimmerman is spending fow
weeks with the family of b. NJ. England,
on the Georgia side.
Mrs. Hugh Neville and children were
visiting here and at South Union last
week.
Miss Maude Gaines, of Augusta, and
j. ID. Witherspoon were quietly married
| last Tuesday evening. They will reside
at Moundsville, in this State. The bride
is n most lovable lady and has host of
relatives and friends here, where she
was reared and grew to young woman
hood. Mr.. Witherspoon is one of our
States largest planters and is a member
of distinguished and influential family.
He is to be congratulated on his good
fortune.
r. p. Hammett, a carpenter, fell from the top
of Major Cross's brick stores last Wednesday
and was picked up In an unconscious condition.
He fell about twenty feet, striking his head and
body against the timbers below. SO heavily did
he fall that brace between the slcepers was
but the skull was @ not fractured His spine n was
injured and there are cuts and bruises on his
face and body Medical @ aid was SUNNI summoned % and
where DIR, Walker dressed his wounds Late in
the afternoon he was carried to his home above
fit on the roof when, it is supposed, his attention
was diverted to something else or he missed his
footing and fell. lie has been working at his
trade thirty-iive years and this is his first acci
dent by falling.
Everybody Interested in farming should visit
Oakway and see the growing crops on L. A. Ed
wards's fertile farm. 1t would he an inspiration,
we think, to see his excellent crops of corn and
has field Of corn, planted May 18th, which is
ahead of any we have seen. The rows are some
nm m of about "a inches in the drill i'S Tere 1
is one acre that will easily yield 100 bushels If no
unforeseen disaster takes place. The whole field
will average about 10 bushels per acre. In another
field Mr.. Edwards has several acres of young
corn, planted about June l, which is equally as
promising as Gnc OtueT Helu, DuU VIII not mature
so early. He has 80 acres or more of good aver
age cotton. From some of it he is expecting to
gather two ivy 10, bales per acre & Judging from the
he will not be disappointed. Mr. Edwards gives
his cotton plenty of room to spread. Only a few
years ago it required from three to five acres of
this same land to produce n bale of cotton. Here
Is an example of what energy, application, sound
indgmSnt and proper attention ute will do. Ar.
getting his land in high state of cultivation.
On the 18th of last August he had the misfortune
l,tg II.,l. ,tnI
on the same site two-story, eiSht-room house
We enjoyed our visit to Oakway last Saturday
and the nice fruit MIR. Edwards treated us to.
He has a fine melon patch and a lot of grapes
that are beginning to ripen and invited us to
call again. "Nubbin Ridge" has quite lot of
wide-awakc, progressive farmers. They are all
in good spirits now. Crops are fine and good
showers are beginning to fall.
We are reliably informed that tho mail service
wii confluence ON No. IL in -iugust. Tho exact
date cannot be fixed, rs the company is unable
to say definitely when it will be able to furnish
the department the apartu cnt cars.
Miss Marye II. Shelor returned last week from
Rock Hill, where she went as a delegate to the
south Carolina Conference of Education and
State Teachers Association, of which she is q
member. This trip was complimentary to her,
She Yy to ehe oera
where the Piedmont Summer School is in ses.
sion, and from there to Mooresville n. c., to
visit friend Miss Shclor is more in love with
her work than ever and stands ever ready to help
the schools.
ID. j. Boatwright, a farmer residing on Tugaoo
river, was in town Saturday selling corn.
Arthur Brady and his sister Miss Gertrude, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, visited Mr.. and Mrs. j. Il.
Simpson last week. They are brother and sister
of Mrs. Simpson.
s. Leo St'ibling has returned from a months
stay in Atlanta.
MIR. and Mrs j. G. Center visited Newry last
Saturday.
T. E. Golden, prominent business man of
Columbus, Ga, was in town last week. lie has
been one of the directors of the Chcswcll Cotton
Mill Company from its origin and attended a
meeting of the board of directors held at Seneca
Wednesday. Mr.. Golden is Secretary of the Col
den Foundry and Machine Works OF Columbus,
anu Is also president and treasurer of several
other large enterprises.
j. Il. Dodson paid n visit to Pickcns last Sat
urday. A. l.. GOssctt