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

In our jottings from this place last
week, we ended up on the old pottery
plant, soon to be revived under the
management and proprietorship of
James f. Neville, who needs no intro
duction to the readers of The Courier.
Intelligent, enterprising, understanding
the business from long experience i'm it,
we foresee and foretell for him success
full career.
COTTON SEED OIL Mill.
On the south side of the railroad, di-
agonally across from the pottery and
just back of the Strother & Phinney
store, is seen the cotton seed oil mill
nearing completion. This is the initial
start for a new industry in this section
ana bold venture, requiring a large
outlay of capital for buildings and ma
chinery, but Strother & Phinney have the
needful and the enterprise is bound to
succeed. The mill, built of brick and
ready for the roof, is 120 feet long and 32
feet wide, while the storage binding.
nearby, and very substantially construct
ed of wood, is IS feet long and 80 feet
wide. They already present an impos-
ing appearance, aud when the new cot
ton crop is gathered the farmers of this
section will have convenient market for
their cotton seed rs we'll as their cotton,
Enterprises of this kind build up towns,
give employment to laborers, and at the
same time help the agricultural class,
without whose labor the world would
speedily drift to ruin. y
ANOTHER ENTERPRISE AFOoT.
The Stolbrand property, of about seven
acres, to which Mrs. Paul Gibson fell
heir, was recently sold to S. l.. Richard
son, of Old Pickens, who is about to es-
tablisb a planning mill plant on it, the sec.
ond of the kind in West Union. This
place is really getting on a boom, and
Walballa must wake up, or she NAV in
the end suffer eclipse by her less preten-
tious neighbor.
a PREACHER IN LUCK
Rev. G. d. Mann, on account of i'm
paired health, located in West Union.
at present occupying and owning
the Mlckler mansion, has purchased
beautiful four acre lot near the
depot on which he may soon erect
time ago he purchased the Stolbrand
property for $3.50, and then sold it to Mr..
Richardson for $500, realizing over 1CO
per cent on his investment! This may
be considered partly as an evidence Of
West Unions progress, and partly as an
evidence that retired preachers as well
as laymen may succeed in secular pur-
suits; We apprehend, however, that
Brother Mann may experience some diff
Guilty in singing John Wesley's Pilgrim
hymn, beginning with
''How happy is Che pilgrims lotr'
lie may have some freedom in tho first
staDza, but when he opens out on the
second
''Though no foot of land possess,
Nor cottage in this Wilderness
we fear "hosannas will languish on his
tongue" because of the contrast between
acres and mansion with mo foot of land
or cottage" If he should have occasion
to NIL brothers pulpit, and this familiar
hymn should fit the text and sermon, we
can imagine him directing the choir
thusly, please omit the second stanZa"
We can suggest way out of the diff
cuity. John Wesley was very great and
good man, yet he was human, and had
his moods and lenses. He was in n pe-
cuiiar mood when he composed that
hymn, which gave it an earth loathing
and heaven aspiring cast that it would
not have possessed had 1t been written
under other circumstances. He loved a
lady that did not reciprocate his atten-
lions. Not wishing to be the wife of an
ltenerant preacher without home, she
declined his offered hand and heart. 1t
MADE him very sad and gloomy for
awhiie. Then by prayer and great will
power he became himself again, and i'm n
sorC Oi ccstacy of soul composed the IA
nous pilgrim hymn. In IL he presses
analogy unduly,. making poverty, home
lessnness, a wayfaring lifo, contempt of
earth, and heart only in heaven the
characteristics of the true Christian pill
grim. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were
all pilgrims and they were all rich. Jacob
had trust on ring -streaked and
speckled cattle! These and all the Old
Testament pilgrims were imperfect men,
who developed n ost sanity lives In their
latter days.
We suggest therefore that Brother
Mann and everybody else omit not only
the second stanza of the hymn in ones
ton, but the whole hymn, and all others
that do not contain the element of prayer,
praise or Thanksgiving TO God. s.