Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-04-11
NEWS FROM WESTMINSTER.

Westminster, April 9.-Miss Hattie
zimmerman is visiting in Atlanta this
week.
Miss Bonnie Freeman entertained to-
night in honor of the Misses Cooper, of
Avalon, Ga. The invited guests in
cluded Misses Katie Harris, Ada Marett,
Mary Messer, Sallie Dickson, Hattie and
Mayette Brown, Margaret and Ethel
Cooper, Eva Reeder, Rula Singleton,
Ethel Leathers, Ada Durham, Beulah
Poore and Rosa Mcdonald; Rufus Brown,
Marvin Sewell, Will Hull, j. M. Benson,
9; H; stonecypher, Arthur Finley, Burt
John Durham and Alden Dickson,
Our town has enjoyed the blessings of
a gracious revival of religion. The ser
vices conducted in the Presbyterian an
church by Rev. Frank ID. Hunt, of Green
vile, closed on Sunday night, resulting
in eight additions. There we're con.
siderable number of adults and children
who took the stand for Jesus. Rev. Mr..
Hunt Is close Bible student and his
plain, practical discourses were delivered
with effect. He was faithful and earnest
in urging repentance of sins and back
sliding and the necessity of the sinner
asking Gods help to begin anew. The
church has been helped spiritually and all
lives frightened, beautified and uplifted.
Revs. Harmon and Moore and other
church workers attended the services
and rendered valuable help. At the
close of the meeting Sunday Bro. Harrell
thanked the congregation for the Chris
tian unity which was so strongly mani
tested throughout the meeting.
Furman Simpson, a student of the Bal
timore M Medical College, arrived Saturday
and will spend the vacation months with
his mother, Mrs. Ida Simpson, in East
End
Mrs. r. A. Hester, of Pickens, and
Mrs. w. ii. Hester, of Spartanburg, were
here last week to see their mother, Mrs.
Lay, who is quite sick at the homo of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Cox.
Miss Rosa Mcdonald is at home after
teaching fiourishing term of school in
Anderson county.
w. ID. Lesley is in North Carolina
travelling for Cincinnati firm.
j. w. Wilson, colored, who lives on
the CASTOR place, lost his house and
Wilson and wife were at church when
the fire started.
j. Il. Gaines has begun the erection of
2 residence on a lot he bought of w. p.
Anderson near the Walhalla road. That
portion of town is being rapidly filled
with handsome residences.
Rev. Frank ID. Hunt, after conducting
a weeks meeting in The Presby yterian
church, returned to his home in Green
vile Monday.
Miss Marye r. Shelor, historian of An.
drew Pickens Chapter ID. A. r., and Mrs.
L. III. Nell, of Clemson, are in position
to mark the graves of Revolutionary sol
diers buried in Oconee and Pickens
counties. neat marble slab will be
sent free of cost to the nearest depot, but
the friends of the soldiers must put up
the stone at the grave. Those wishing
their ancestors graves marked must
send in at once the soldiers name written
in full, date and place of birth, time and
place of death, service rendered and all
information that can be had. Historical
Revolutionary spots will also be marked
These applications will be sent to the
Secretary of War. Congress has do
lated money for this cause.
Misses Minnie Traylor, Gussie Sprott
and Bertha Davis visited in Spartanburg
last week.
Miss Lille Bellotte, of near West
Union, was the guest of her sister. MIS-.
s. M. Bibb, last week.
N. B. Carey, ESQ, of near Old Pickeps
was in town one day last week.
h Il. White, of Greenville, was here
last Wednesday.
Conductor Walter M. Zimmerman had
his left foot crushed between the draw
heads of freight train last Wednesday
while using his foot to make q coupling.
He was taken imm ediately to the Office
of DR.. @. M. Walker and was treated by
Drs. Walker and Mitchell. The physi-
cians amputated the email toe and later
in the afternoon Mr.. Zimmerman was
taken to the home of his father, III. b.
Zimmerman. Conductor Zimmerman