Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-06-13
Tho New Hope Singing.

The all-day singing at New Hope last
Sunday was a success in every PAL ticular.
II was conducted by Profs. weams and
Baker, of Pickens, and Profs. Richard
w. Grubbs and j. F. MOTION, of Oconee.
These gentlemen are all splendid singers
and were ably assisted by the people of
New Hope and surrounding communi-
| ties.
We reached the place of the singing be-
fore Sunday school was over, and It waa
pleasing to hear the children sing a num-
Der of pieces. Their singing surpasses
that Of the congregational singing in
many of the churches. The Sunday
school is presided over by Hon. Jos. c.
Alexander, who has been at the helm for
a number of years The children love
him, and the work is labor of love
with him. The school is very large
one.
At II O'Clock Rev. w. c. Seaborn, the
pastor, preached an able and instructive
secmon. There was large congregation
of young people and his discourse was
practically directed to them, and If ad-
herec to we are sure will be of great
benefit in after life.
After dinner, which was bountiful and
sumptuous, end for which the ladies' and
maidens of the New Hope community
have an enviable reputation for prepar-
ing, the people reassembled in the church
and engaged in singing for several hours.
"Where is Mr.. Boggs?" That was the
question from nearly every mouth. He
did not come, and the people were sorely
disappointed. He was expected to de-
liver an address on Sunday school work.
The church building at this place is
good one, but is entirely too small to
seat the congregations on regular meet
ing days. A large part of the lumber for
q new building is now on the ground and
on Saturday the last of the logs, from
which to saw the remainder of the lum-
Der, were laid down at the saw mill. A
thousand.dollar church is contemplated
and members who have will and way
say it will be completed before the end
of the summer. This is great work,
and we wish them much success in their
every undertaking.
The day was most pleasantly spent by
all. Late in the afternoon the people
began their homeward journey, feeling
glad that they had been the guests of
such happy, pleasant and prosperous
people.
The crops in this section are splendid
for the time of year, and remarkably
clean. which is evidence of hard work,
and we are sure the farmers will be re-
warded with bonntiful harvest in due
season.
The finest cotton we saw was in the
fields of Clayton Smith, of Flat Shoals,
and Thos. M. Elrod, of New Hope. The
crop is at good stand in these fields,
and the stalks are twelve to fourteen in
ches high and of most desirable color.
1t was our pleasure to spend a short
while at the home of r. l.. Boggs. He
is the possessor of about thirty stands of
Italian bees. This year he expects to
gather from each hive about 90 pounds
Of honey, making total of 1880 pounds
from all his hives. The honey is readily
marketed at 12i and Is conts per pound.
(The sourwood honey sells for Is cents.)
Thus it will be seen he will have the
handsome income of about 1925 from his
bees. Mr.. Boggs handles his bees on
up-to- date ideas and has very little trou-
Bile with them. He has promised to give
us an article on bee culture in the near
future.
Throughout this section evidences of
prosperity are to be seen on every hand
new buildings of modern design, nicely
painted, and new fields with good crop
of stumps. Land is steadily advancing
in price. Eighteen years ago tract near
New Hope church was bought for twenty
five cents per acre, and during last fall
same was sold for over twenty dollars
an acre.
NJ. A. Wood conducts general mer-
chandise business short distance above
the church. This business was incepted
quite recently and bids fair to assume
goodly proportions. F.A. HIS.
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