Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
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Mrs. w. +. Field. OF Elberton, Ca,
has been on visit to the family OF j..
II. Stewart, of Toxaway.
| r. b. Elliott has returned from North
Carolina, where he has been engaged in
| the lumber business for several months
Miss Lettie Dobbins has returned tc
Spartanburg, after q short visit among
relatives and friends in Westminster.
| b. M. England and family, Of Haber
sham county, Georgia, were visiting rela
tives here the first of this week.
Washington Swafford, of the Ions
Creek section, died on May 1, and WA
buried in the Long Creek cemetery the
following day. Mr.. Swa.ford was quite
an old man and leaves large family.
AN election viii DO held ut the graded
school building next Saturday afternoon
May Ia, for the purpose of electing three
No. n. Polls will open at 8 O'Clock and
close at Q p. m.
Prof. ]. A. Durham has returned from
Bishopville.
]. ii. Elrod. of Seneca, was in town
Sunday and Monday.
g. Blackwell, of Danielsville, Ga, was
visiting in and around Westminster last
week.
Mrs. Sloan Bruce, Miss Ethel Bruce
and johnnie Morris, of Franklin county,
Georgia, and Miss Glare Harden, of At
lanta, visited Mr.. and Mrs. M. s. Strib-
ling last week.
Miss Maude Gaines, of Augusta, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. }. s. White.
Jacob Durham went to Bolton and Pei
zer last week.
Rev. J. T. Dendy, wife and daughter,
OF Kershaw, expect to visit Oconee the
latter part of May.
Luther Stewart, Of Fountain Inn, died
at the homo of his brother, Crayton
Stewart, of Clifton, on April 80. Mr..
Stewart was just entering the State of
young manhood. He was brother of
Miss Mamie Stewart, of Westminster.
The many friends of Mics Stewart ex-
tend coincidence. The remains were
taken to the old home at Fairview, in
Greenville county, for burial.
Rev. T. Mack Stribling arrived one
morning last week from Louisville Theo-
logical Seminary. He graduated few
days ago. After spending awhile with
his mother at Richland and other rela-
tives in the county, Mr.. Stribling will 20
to Perry, Mo-, to take charge of the
Perry and Florida churches.
Rou tonight at o'clock, to continue for
some time. The services will be held at
night and will be conducted by Rev. Don
Cain and others. Everybody invited.
j. M. Hull, our genial hotel man, has
been having good patronage during
the past week. The following are the
arrivals for the week ending yesterday
J. F. Harris, Winston, N. c.; H. A.
Dewitt, New York; J. H. Tate, Lynch
H. II. Long, d. l.. Palmer, James Miller,
Atlanta; A. p. Carter, w. P. Cowan,
Anderson; j. G. Her, r. G. Hudson,
Greenville; j. II. Barnes, Baltimore; w.
w. Moss, Walhalla; j. e. Zachary,
Seneca; j. r. Moore, city; D. Conger,
Il. A. SHELTON, GAINESVILLE; Edward q.
Jackson, Athens; w. G. Powers, Rich
mJnd; w. Martin, Bostick.
w. Jackson Reeder left last week for
Atlanta, where he goes to take a special
course at the Southern Shorthand and
Business University. This is one of the
most thoroughly equipped business
schools in the South. We wish for him
perfect success.
The Westminster Graded School will
close on Friday, June II. The COM
mencement sermon will be delivered on
Sunday, June 10, at IL a. m. There will
be exercises both morning and evening
on Monday and Tuesday, June 2O-2i.
On Tuesday State Superintendent of
Education, o. b. Martin, will deliver an
address. The name of the minister who
breaches the commencement sermon
will be announced later. Public cor
daily invited to attend all the exercises.
Dowis and Standridge, both white
men and both employees at G. G. Simp-
sons saw mill, got into difficulty Mon
day. Dowis fired three shots at Stand
ridge, one taking effect in his leg.
Special services will be held at Holly
Springs Baptist church on tho fifth Sab
bath, May Goth. 1t will be an all-day
service and the public are cordially in
vited to como out. The members hope
to have the new church ready to worship
in by that time.
S. c. Moon, of Conner, Ca, is now
clerking for the Stonecypher Drug Co.
His many friends are glad to see him
back here again.
Thos. F. Gossett, of West Greenville,
was in town this week. He is the
youngest brother of w. M. Gossett. This
was his first visit to this place in eleven
years.
d. Conger and T. A. Shelton, two of
here the first of this week. They looked
as if they enjoyed their visit to Carolina
very much.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Collins and little
daughter, of West Union, were in West
minister last Wednesday.
About 20 or 25 workmen met at Holly
Springs on the day appointed to work on
the church. They have appointed next
Tuesday to meet again and they invite
They want to get it weatherboarded and
covered so they can conduct services in it.
I'll. l.. Werner, of Retreat was at Mar
tin, Ca, this week.
A good man and one of Oconee's life
long citizens has journeyed to that un-
discovered country from whence no
traveller has ever returned. The angel
of death knocks with equal force among
the inhabitants of the earth, and the old
and the young have to succumb to the
inevitable. 1t behooves us all to be
ready, as was Alfred Washington Tan
merry, who passed from earth on Thurs
day, May 5tb, in the 82d year of his age.
He was prepared for death and the end
was peaceful. Mr.. Tannery was born in
this county, which was then Pickens
District, about three miles below West
mirster, on June %, 1922, With the ex-
ception of his absence during the civil
war as private soldier, his life was spent
in Tugaloo and Center townships, in and
near Westminster and Return. He set
tied In Westminster little more than
three years ago. His love for his homo
and family was tender and beautiful.
Mr.. Tannery leaves his wife, who was
Miss Elizabeth Land, together with seven
children, forty grand and twenty great
u0 lOllOWlnR are the
surviving sons and daughters: Ashmore
p, l.. F. and l.. A. Tannery; Mesdames
r. A. Moore, w. s. Prichard, Eva Cleve-
land and Ella S. Waite. The death of
his eldest son, j. w. Tannery, was an
nounced two weeks ago. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tannery had been married nearly fifty
eighG years. 1t is said that only about
one couple in thousand live to celebrate
their golden wedding. hr. Tannery had
been devoted member of the Baptist
church for more than fifty years and
generally manifested keen interest in
spiritual affairs. His membership was
with the Old Westminster church, from
which the funeral services were con-
Quoted by Revs. A. p. Marett and j. r.
Moore Friday afternoon. His body was
laid to rest in the cemetery close to the
newly made grave of his first-born.
Mrs. j. j. Werner is visiting relatives
at Elberton, Ca, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Clinckscales, of