Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-11-22
HERE, THERE AND YoNDEa.

There is movement on foot to
create q new county from portions
of Greenville and Spartanburg, with
Cheers as the county seat. a sur
vey of the proposed new county is
now being made.
Assistant Attorney General You
mans has decided that tent shows do
not have to pay license of 500
day to the counties in which they
exhibit. He says the license applies
to circuses only.
1t is very evident that while it is
easy to vote the dispensary out of
the various counties of the State it
is not always so easy to vote the
thirst out. We suggest to the pro-
hibitionists that they find way to
do that.-Florence Times.
The value of last years egg crop
was three millions of dollars. All
the gold mines in the world yield
little over half as much. The South
is the best place in the United States
for poultry raising. The long sum
mers and mild winters make it an
easy matter to keep chickens in good
condition.
A case of unusual interest was
commenced and concluded in the
Court of General Sessions at Lex
ington recently. The final decision
of the Supreme Court in the case
may affect the validity of several
marriages in South Carolina, where
one or the other parties to it OBJ
tained divorce in the State of
Georgia. 1t was the csse of a man
who was married in this State, went
to Georgia and got divorce and
married again in South Carolina.
He was convicted of adultery.
Columbia is not worrying about
other parts of the State voting out
the dispensary, but it is continuing
to drink dispensary whiskey in in
creasing quantities.. The dispensary
sales in the city last month broke all
records. In profits alone the County
Treasurer last month received
SS,O92.30, which is to be equally
divided between the county and city.
But it should not be forgotten that
the fair week sale, which were about
double any previous fair week, are
to be counted in this months re-
cord.
Mrs. Ann Bumbalow, the oldest
woman in America, died in Green
vile, S. c., November 10Th, 1905,
after brief illness. She was born
in 1897, and the day before her
death she appeared as woman of
rs, the only marks of age being the
deep seams on her cheeks. She had
wonderful memory and was veri-
table encyclopedia Of historical Incl
dents, Mrs. Bumbalow was born in
Gwinnett county, Georgia, and her
parents were killed by Seminole In
dians in 1917. She was born two
years before the death of George
Washington.
The Savannah river is said to be
the eighth longest water course in
the United States, and the people of
Augusta are making brave fight to
have it opened for the commerce of
the people living in the rich valley it
drains partly in South Carolina and
partly in Georgia. A meeting be-
tween representative of the adioin-
ing States and delegates took place
in Augusta Tuesday when United
States Senator Latimer, Governor
Hayward and a number of others
promised to aid in securing an APP
preparation from the Federal Gov
ernment for opening a seven-foot
channel. If the plan succeeds, and
there is every reason to believe it
will, the water highway resulting
will prove of enormous advantage
to the counties bordering on the Sa-