Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-02
THE NEWS FROM SENECA.


morning and evening and as usual in the
Episcopal church at the evening hour.
Ruskin Anderson will begin q man.
moth mll-end sale on Thursday morn
ing, the Sd instant, and there will be the
usual rush of customers from over this
and adjoining counties, seeking bargains.
The store is closed for three days pre-
vious, during which time the necessary
preparation will be made. During this
sale the practiced eye will recognize un-
doubted Bargains.
A travelling concern, with tent and
other necessary properties, including a
full cast of characters, is billed for this
place TO. night. when "Ten Nights in a
Barroom" will be given.
Some months, or years ago, perhaps,
there were constant reports or COM
plants made to your correspondent
about cruelty to dumb animals here, and
after harsh and, we regret to say, re-
peated attacks on tho offenders, aud
authorities through this column, we sue
ceeded in drawing the attention of the
grand jury to the matter. Since then no
complaints have reached us until last
week. Now, we do believe, and are
positively certain that we have a mayor
and council backing him who will not
submit to such brutal conduct within
the borders of their jurisdiction. This
being the case, we feel that all that is
necessary is to direct their attention to
the offenders and there will be no
further trouble. We mean business,
and if the names and witnesses are oe.
sired they will be given. The grand
jury will please take notice.
An Anderson man asked a Seneca citi-
zen few days ago if it didn't make
him little nervous to ride on tho street
car when he came to Anderson" The
quick-witted Seneca man replied, mot
near as much as it does one of you An
derson meu when a vestibuled Southern
train passes you!" Truly, there are
times when fools rush in where angels
fear TO tread"
On April 2l Masters Willie Austin and
Willie Werner celebrated their birthdays
in delightful attractive parties, to which
number of their young friends were
invited. Games and delicious refresh
ments constituted the program which
afford ID these bright, happy, young
folks charming evening.
The Seneca council has made some at
tractive improvements by the liberal use
of whitewash the past week. A vigorous
fight is being waged against Offenders of
sanitary laws and our town bids fair to
reclaim her former reputation for clean
liness and health The prevalence of
typhoid fever Last year, the first for
many years, showed there was some.
thing wrong and our board of health and
council are meeting all suspicious con
ditions with the harsh measures that
they deserve
The Seneca Graded School begins this
week the final examination, and the 18th
of this mouth will mark the close of
another successful year with our school
1t is source of regret to the patrons
that the present principal, Prof. r. p.
Clinkscaes, will not be an applicant for
re election, as he has decio d to make
the study of law profession and will
fhprnfnrn hnpip of 10
studies the coming fall. We wish the
professor unlimited success, and to say
that his success as teacher may measure
that of his chosen profession, is but Civ
ing mild expression to the hearty wishes
of a long list of friends, for indeed the
close of his work here marks one of the
most successful periods in the history of
the school
News reached here last Sunday night
of the burning of the barns and contents,
Including machinery, roughuess, eight
mules, eight cows and one horse, near
Pendleton, belonging to f. j. Pelzer. of
Charleston. Il. II. Hopkins was super
intendent of the place and was severely
injured while in Pendleton, where he
had gone to telegraph Mr.. Pelzer of the
disaster. Mr.. Hopkins, while talking to
the agent at Pendleton, the agent being
upstairs in his residence, stepped back
on the sidewalk and fell eight or ten
lcct, tnc Walk Delnp lnuS eieVatcu from
oh0 street. iii iophiis suffered great ~
and has probably sustained serious in
ternal injuries. The loss from the fire is
not estimated but is considerable. Mr.
Hopkins is the father of Julius and
Frank Hopkins, of this place. Origin OF
fire is not known.
John SittOn ls in Seneca again from
Ashevillo, whore he has been for some
weeks for his health. His friends arc
pleased to note improvement in his con
diton.
Miss Eleanor Richardson spent last
wcck in Spartanburg in attendance upon
the Music Festival
Miss Mary Cherry visited Greenvillt
last week. where she was the member o
delightful house party at the home OF
Miss Felicia Perry.
DR.. j. S. Stribling visited Mrs. ID. p
Werner, at Greenville, last week, re
manning over Sabbath.
Mrs. G.. X. Livingston is in Greenvill,
for visit of a month.
The three Pickert Sisters, with theil
brother, Willis PiCkcrt. as manager, viii
open three nights engagement at the
opera house the Sd instant. The man
agement assures the public that the com
E)any, of tw olive members, is a strong on,
and there will doubtless be full attend
ance. The management has seen th,
company and offers the show-going citi
zens full assurances of a strong play
Prof. III. 7. Boggs is the first to repor
mess of English peas from his garden
Mrs. Joe Lawrence, of Toccoa, spen
yesterday with Mrs. f. l.. Sitton.
Our milliners report Unprecedented
sales of hats, etc. NJ. V. 3.