Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15

Chesweil cotton Mill Co., and handles
the products of this mill exclusively.
The railway is making prenarations to
| make some iuI rovements at the depot.
An addition will be built at the east end
OF the present building to be fitted up
with nice waiting rooms. This will serve
a long-felt want, as the passenger accom-
modations here have not been in keeping
with our prosperous town. The new
addition will be twenty feet long.
Major w. Gaines, of Hartsville, will
please accept our thanks for his illus
trated catalogue of Welsh Neck High
School for l003-19O4, with announcements
for 1904-19O5. The eleventh session of
this popular school for boys and girls
begins September Id.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Neville and two
children have returned to Atlanta after
spending several days with his sister,
Mrs. Joe McJunkin, of South Union.
Mrs Rosa Arnold, of Pendleton, paid
visit to friends here during the past
week.
Ebenezer Strbling returned from At
lanta last week, whore he had been at
tending the Groceis' Convention.
j Carter, of Gainesville, was here last
week.
Mrs. Lucy A. Dondy, of Richlapd, Wis.,
tied the family of NJ. A. Terrell last
week.
Rutledge Zimmerman spent day or
two in Atlanta last week.
In an article few weeks ago Miss
Marye r. Shelor asked the readers of
The Courier to save periodicals to put
on reading shelves in depots, road work
crs' camps and Jail. A Sunshine in
to respond. Periodicals are still wanted
Who will be next to respond?
The Westminster Inn is receiving a
new coat of paint.
Mrs. w. j. Vickery and little son,
George Lowery, of Atlanta, are visiting
her sister, Mrs. G. w. Marett, at the
home of O. K. Breazeale. They will
spond month in Oconee.
j. M. Carter, of San Saba. Texas, Wis
tied his brother, T. n. Carter, last week
Mr.. Carter moved from Georgia to Texas
| about 20 years ago. 1t has been about
II years since his last visit to this place
He is leading citizen of San Saba.
| L. G. Cartee, prominent farmer of
Liberty, Pickens county, visited his
friend, j. a. Durham, this week. Mr.
Cartee is aspiring for the Office of coro-
ner of his county.
Owing to serious sickness among his
congregation Rev. j. j. Harrell did not
go to Piedmont Saturday to attend the
adjourned meeting of South Carolina
Presbytery.
j. NJ. and T. N. Carter visited Ander-
| son last week.
The fare to Charleston for persons re-
siding in this community on June 81 is
$500 for the round trip. The train
leaves Seneca at a. m. The special
price is made to parties here for the
reason that they will in all probability
| have to incur extra expense in getting to
| Seneca. For further information see j.
w. McGee, the ticket agent.
| j. B. Sitton, machinist at the Chcswell
| Lost CO hntt ,,,l, l., -
father, F. l.. Sitton, of Townville.
Hon. II. d. Long, of Tugaloo, was
here last Saturday.
| John Queen, who has the contract to
| buildMajor b. ii. Cross' brick stores, is
moving right along with the work.
| o. d. Hall, of Duluth, Ga, was in
| town this week. He las been student
of the Atlanta Medical College for the
| past two years. Mr.. Hall is pleasantly
| remembered here, having sold fruit
| trees TIN ough this section for number
of years.
Mrs. Icie McGee, one of our milliners,
will occupy one of the new brick store
rooms which Major Cross is erecting.
A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Morris died III the mill village on Thurs
| day. Its remains were inferred at the
cemetery of the Old Westminster church.
On Sunday afternoon w. p. Anderson,
the superintendent of the Shuttle Fac
tory Sunday school. delivered a short
address on what he saw of the repre-
sentation Of Jerusalem and the Crucifix-
ion at st. Louis during his visit to the
Worlds Fair.
c. G. Williams visited Piedmont this
week.
Miss Verna, daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
S. Y. Jamison, of Atlanta, is spending
| the summer with relatives in and near
| West minister.
| Hugh Mason Bibb, on June 9TH,
| arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs
James Hugh Bibb, of Atlanta, Ga.
Carl McCurry, promising young man
of Hartwell, was in town on Monday.
He is salesman in the store of his
brother at Hartwell.
Will the Keowee Courier please inform
us where the dividing line between Geor-
gia and South Carolina is? Is it in the
middle of Tuga.oO river or does the
| whole stream belong to Georgia? There
| is difference of opinion among some
of our citizens and we would like for
you to settle the question for them.
Miss Jennie McGee, a charming little
lady of Due West, is visiting her sister,
Miss Lnla McGee, and other relatives
here. She will remain until after the
close of the school,
j. f.. Dodson visited Seneca Monday.
j. II. Dendy and sister, Miss Mariah, of
Richland, visited relatives and friends
here Sunday.
w. }. Vickery returned to Atlanta yes
terday. after spending three days with
friends in Westminster. Willis numer-
GUS friends were pleased to see him and
learn of his success in the Gate City. He
is the proprietor of a fancy grocery
store on the corner of Williams and
West Harris streets and by faithful ap-
plication to his work is gaining fayora-
bic impression among the business
| world.
The citizens of Westminster are glad
to learn that the mail service is soon to
be reinstated on passenger train No. II.
Just one year ago a petition was for
| warded to Congressman Aiken calling
atteDtiOn to the incOnveniences caused
| by the taking off of the mail car on No.
| II and requesting him to have the ser
vice reiDstated if possible. He took up
| the matter at once. In his last letter he
stated that he hoped to succeed in the
long run. Our people will surely remem-
Der Mr.. Aiken for long time on account
of his interest and help in various mat
ters.
The receipts at the Westminster post
Office are ! 90 per cent better than last
year. Grcenville claims only IL per
cent increase over last years receipts.
We are right on the heels Of tho "Pearl
of tho Piedmont"
The friends Of Miss Ethel Leathers.
the accommodating operator at the CEN
trail telephone Office, are glad to know
| that she has recovered from spell of
| sickness lasting about two weeks.
Our banker, w. p. Anderson, has a
patch of tho best cotton we have seen
He has q town lot planted on which he
used quito a lot of fertilizer and has
given the plants plenty Of room to
spread.
Rutledgo Zimmerman, tho son Of ano.
ther one of our neighbors, has planted a
town lot in cotton. 1t surely means bet
ter times ahead when we can look
around and see bankers, merchants and
druggists experimenting in the cultiya-
tion of the fleecy staple.
On Tuesday the Cheswell Cotton Mill
Company shipped car load of cloth