Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
PIEDMONT POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
FACTS ABOUT THIS HUsTLiae MAHUFAC.
TURING TOWN-PEOPLE YOU KNOW.

Piedmont, April 16.-Editors Keo-
wee Courier: Perhaps your readers
would like to know something of the
dOings of the town of Piedmont, that
you read about in the papers.
w. E. Beattie il the much loved
president of the Piedmont Manufac.
turing Co., and r. D., Sloan, a
nephew of your fellow and esteemed
townsman, James Seaborn, is the
secretary of this company.
The town of Piedmont has a popu-
lation of about four thousand people.
There are over one thousand names
on the pay roll. The amount of
money paid for wages alone is one
quarter of a million dollars per year.
The company has every spindle in
operation. The mills manufacture
n carload of cloth per day, which
is shipped to various parts of the
world. The value of this cloth will
average FIVE thousand dollars per
car. If the mill should run every
working day in the year it would
manufacture one and one.half million
dollars worth of cloth. The export
trade to China has almost ceased
since the Boxer rebellion in that
country.
A. r. Dodson, who at one time
lived in Oconee, is located here.
Dodson is a good man. When one
runs up against him he feels like he
has struck real timber. Mr.. Dodson
has one son in the office of the Pied
mont Manufacturing Co.; another is
attending the Piedmont Graded
Schools and gives promise of a USE
full citizen. These boys, or one of
them at least, used to turn the red
clods over near the prosperous and
enterprising town of Seneca.
Bill Hembree, as he is commonly
called, is also a citizen of. this town
and is prospecting fairly well. Since
Bill has parted company with John
Barleycorn he has made quite an
improvement in many ways. His
daughter, Miss Exile, is in the en-
ploy of the Hampton Mercantile Co.,
and recently returned from New
York, where she has been purchas-
ing their new stock of spring goods,
Charley Bartlett, who formerly
lived at Walhalla, Fair Play and
Townville, has been living here TO,
about eighteen years. Mr.. Bartlett
has raised a large family of boys and
girls and they are a blessing to his
declining years, he having to 60 on
crutches all the time. He is cheer.
full and happy and wears the same
peaceful, calm and patriarchal ex.
preston that he always has. His
faithful companion is known for he,
Christian character and happy dis.
position. When these faithful ones
shall have been called up higher,
heaven will be made richer for their
coming. I mention these as 1 know
there are many who would like to
hear of their whereabouts.
Our town has a very efficient pas.
senger service now, there being ter
daily trains to stop here. 1t is re.
ported that the Southern is trying to
Guido itself in an effort to discour.
age the building of the new proposed
electric line from Bolton to Green.
vile. Be that as it may, if the rail.
roads will do better by us with on,
freight we will table all the motions
made against the Encouragement,
SO evident in these galloping times.
A car of freight, recently shipped
from Tennessee, was delivered a;
this point on the third day from day
of shipment. But any one-horse fell
low might order a sitting of eggs,
and if shipped by freight from
Chicago, they would have time tc
hatch, eat up two or three sacks Of
corn, lay, set and raise anothe,
brood before reachin0 their deat;pa.