Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-07-12
a NEW HOTEL WANTED.

That Walhalla needs now and modern
hotel building it is needless to try to
prove by argument. One has but to listen
for very short while to tho comments
of the travelling man or the mountain
tourist to realize that every day the town
Of Walhalla is being underestimated,
and not only that, but actually injured,
by reason of the old building that has
served it's generation and for years has
been out of date.
Not long since gentleman came to
Walhalla inquiring as to the noeds of the
town, and at every turn he was told that
che greatest need is modern hotel build.
ing. This gentleman is in position to
render material assistance in securing
improvements. He looks after the in.
vestment department of a largo corpora
zion, seeking opportunities to start new
enterprises that will attract men who
hSve money to invest. Why" he said
TO us, "hotels are the easiest things |
have ever tried to build, and have built
lots of them. If your local men will
raise half the capital I'll got the balance,
out we want to know that the people of
a community are. interested enough and
confident enough to do something" He
also remarked that from his observations
he knew of no better point than here at
Walhalla for modern-.-hotel. Aside
from the commercial patronage, we have
every advantage in securing tourists,
both winter and summer
SO long as we have an antiquated hotel
building we may expect to be rated about
twenty-five years behind the times. Pe0-
ple will talk, and you can't stop them.
Give them something good to talk about
and you will hear praise. The reverse is
true when there is something lacking
and seriously lacking-in the most public
place of town. The travelling statesmen
cnss the hotel building at Walhalla, and
rthe best the citizens of the town can do
Is to play shut-mouth when the question
Of hotel with modern oonvenences is
Drought up. We owe it to the town that
she should have a new and modern hotel
and every citizen should feel an interest
and lend hand in occurring it,
Think of it--ovcr $4,000 standing on
deposit in the banks OF the town, and we
are ZOO poor" to build hotel that
you'd represent the town as it is, not as
: was twenty years ago
Think of it-a town where every ten.
-tntaele house is occupied and others
%ho want homes can't got them. And
get we have hotel building about as
'*nnquatcd as any building in the place
IAink of Improperly advancing in price
's"sry day, the town growing and improv.
NJ, the population increasing, with
Paenty of work for everybody who will
work, and yet we stand in our own light
:'fna Iet those who otherwise would 90
'Tat and advertise our good points, rep
resent the whole town az out of date be.
cause OF an antiquatcd hotel building.
we can expect nothing else 80 long as
G3!ngs stand as they are. The first need
'oi Walhalla is q modern building for the
entertainment of her guests. We owe it
20 the town and we owe it to ourselves
20 see that modern hotel is built
Within block of tho present site
Ehere are four pieces ot property COM
prising town square, and we are told
chat at least three of the owners are
ready to dispose of their property at