Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-22
WESTMINSTER.

westminster, MAY III. - Lester HAM
cock, of C',rdele. Ga. * visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs w f.. Hancock. of
near Westminster
Westminster and Tnccoa played
match game of baseball at the latter
place on last Thursday. resulting in
favor of Westminster Nv the score of ls
to II. IL,
Clifton F. Adams and Miss Ada Dur,
ham returned Friday from weeks visit
to Pelzer, Hnnea Path, Piedmont and
other places
NJ. N. Mitchell had an operation per.
formed for cancer of the neck in the
Baptist Tabernaole Hospital, of Atlanta,
week before last. Mr.. Mitchell returned
home Wednesday. He had been suffer
ing for some time before gcing to At
lanta. .l
Ted Sisk, of the law firm of Sisk &
Tntt, Of Elberton, Ga, has been here
the past week. Mr.. Sisk is son of Rev.
4. l.. Sisk and wa9 born in Westminster.
He is here working in the interest of the
Farmers Mutual Life Protective Asso-
citation, of Atlanta. =
D.. c. Ward, who died on May IS, had
eight children. The four we failed to
mention are Miss Walterine Ward, Mrs.
Joe Leverett, Jesse and Mack Ward.
Miss Odoil Dunbar, a handsome young
lady of Newberry, is visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. d. s. Hull.
Stoneoypher and Harrison we're the
first grocers to receive lot of Irish po-
tatoes, beans and tomatoes of the new
Drop. They got the vegetables Saturday
and sold them quickly.
On Friday, May II, at 6 p. M, w. Fl.
jennings died at his home about two
miles below Westminster. He had been
suffering for the past month with indi-
gestion. Mr.. Jennings would have been
70 years old had he lived until the second
day of June. He was a native of Spar
tanburg county, but had resided in
Oconee Oh the plantation where he died
for more than fifty years. He was
good and true man and had been a faith
full member Of the Old Westminster
Baptist church for a long time. He had
many friends, who deeply sympathize
with the bereayed widow and family in
their sorrow. Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings
had been nisrried 53 years. They had
eleven children, nine living and two
dead. All of the children were at the
burial, which was the second time the
family had been together in twenty
years. The following are the names of
the children: Mrs. jamie Hunter, Mrs.
Eta Goforth, Mrs. Addie West, of West
minister; Mrs. Laura Simpson, Easley;
Mrs. Lula Lanford, Spartanburg; Mrs.
Sallie Symes, Mountain Rest; Mrs. Eva
Harbin, Walhalla; W. e. Jennings, Ian
drum, and j. L. Jennings, of Glendale.
There are twenty-th three grandchildren.
On August II, 1904, Mr.. and Mrs. Jen-
nings had family reunion aud enter
tanned all of their sons and daughters
and sixteen of their grandchildren. Mr..
jennings served through the civil war
and was good soldier. Last Saturday
afternoon at five O'Clock the remains
were laid to rest in the cemetery of the
Old Westminster Baptist church in the
presence of many sympathizing friends.
II. A. Windgate, a popular young man
OF Roanoke, Va, stopped In Westminster
few days week before last while on a
trip to Georgia and South Carolina.
II. W. Moore, student of Clemson
College, spent Saturday and Sunday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Berry
Moore, of Oakway.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. b. Garrison, of So
pris, Colorado, returned home Saturday
after spending few days 10 Westminster
as the guests of Mrs. Andrew Gilreath
and L. A. Tannery. Their many friends
were delighted to see them and learn
that the health of Mrs. Garrison has
greatly improved since residing in Colo
RADIO. Mr.. Garrison works for three rail- |
roads--Colorado Southern, Colorado and |
Wyoming and Denver and Rio Grande.
Coke Dickson has returned homo from |
Lee county, where he has been teaching
in high school.
William D. Barnett, of Clemson Col |
lege, spent Sunday at homo.
Ashtabulah Gaines is erecting a nice |
dwelling just at the rear of the residence |
of Rev. A. p. Marett. j. s. Carter is |
also building q good sized house in the
same locality to rent.
w. K. Maso: is having material laid |
down to commence building a two-story
seven.roomed house on the lot he pur-
chased of Glenn Sheldon.
Prof. John A. Durham and julius
Martin are also building for themselves
dwellings.