Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-10-24
AFTERMATH OF THE SENECA FIRE.
MEssRs. RICHARDSON AND ELLISON VIII
REBUILD HOTELS At EARLY DATE.

Seneca, Oct. 23.--Your correspondent
has gathered the following information
relative to the changes and location of
the business concerns which were put
out of business by the late fire: r. AZ.
Richardson and G. Fl. Ellison will rebuild
the hotels (the Palmetto House and Oco.
nee lnn) Immediately, using the same
plans, with probably few minor changes
In the former In the meantime, both
men have secured the rooms over Hun.
ter d co. "a. and also over the So called
Lowery-B Byrd building. for the purpose
of continuing the hotel business and
holding the trade until the hotels are re-
built. Mrs. Tomba will conduct the
business as heretofore for r. M. Richard
son. G. ii. Ellison has also rented q
Seneca Ito go into the hotel business
there, while Mrs. Tombs will take charge
OF hotel in Anderson. Hunt q Harper
will open up In the Lowery-Byrd store
room, 30 also will the Seneca Pharmacy
and Luther A. Moore conduct business
In the Lowery-Byrd storeroom. Mr..
Moore will also open the dispensary
building and conduct his grocery busi-
ness at this erstwhile popular stand. 1t
is said that the latter concern will also
do business in the Carey building on the
corner. Whit Livingston, who rents the
Lowery. Byrd storeroom. says the whole
business has secured it, and he'd like
somebody to tell him "where he's at"
The semi-annual meeting of the Civic
Improvement Association will be held at
the home of Col. G.. w. Gignilliat on
next Friday evening and will probably
be one of the largest affairs in the his
tory Of the association. Neat invitations
have been sent out, and added to the
regular business program will be an
elaborate music program, interspersed
! with papers bearing upon various phases
of the work as follows:
Local Civic Improvement" DR.. f. A.
Hines.
"Civic Conditions in the Far East"
Rev. G. s. Blackburn.
"Civic Improvement in the School"
Miss Eula Barrett.
We are requested to say that in connec-
tion with late reporters interview re-:
lative to the Seneca fire, in which Mr..
Mckinney, the Superintendent of the
Seneca Cotton Mills, was one of the
principals, that the report which was
given the Atlanta journal was direct
perversion of the report as made by Mr..
Mckinney, On the night of the fire Mr..
| Mckinney left Seneca during the progress
of the fire and was interviewed in Green
Vile by reporters for the Atlanta paper
and the Greenville News. The latter re-
port was correct, but strange to say the
| report of the same interview was grossly
perverted by the Journals correspondent
to the effect that the fire was the result
of incendiarism directly due to the
negroes. Mr.. Mckinney greatly regrets
the affair and will demand a correction
of the report as sent out by the Green.
vile reporter to the Atlanta paper.
A notable and most pleasing acquisi-
| tion to the PRESBYTERIAN choir last Sab
bath was the violin playing by Mrs. II.
M. McCutchen. Nothing has 30 ap-
pealed to the congregation In long time
as the soulful expression given the
obligato to soprano solo, which was
rendered during the taking of the collec-
ton. The deep. full tones of the instru.
ment were also heard to distinct advan.
tage In the hymns.
w. M. Neil is moving into the residence
Gu Fair Play street recently completed
by DR.. John Hopkins.