Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-03-06
wALHALLA, SOUTH oARoIINA, MARCH q, 8, 1907

brother had passed away. The inter
mont took place iu Gainesyille, Ga, the,
former home OF the deceased, on last
Thursday. Mr.. Gaines had many friends
in Westminster, who will hear of his
death with deep sorrow. About sew
enteen years ago he worked here in
the blacksmith shop with his brother, j
e. Gaines.
Mrs. John Drake, formerly of North
Carolina, died at the home of w. Il.
Dickson In the Cheswell mill village on
March 1. She was a victim Of oonsump-
tion. Mrs. Drake was only 90 years OF
age. He husband, one son, aged two
years, and brother, IS. e. eBatson. sur
vive. Mr.. Drake is an employee of the
Three State Lumber Company, of Madi-
son. The body was taken to Riyersiew
church, 20 miles north of tho city OF
Greenville, on Friday for interment.
The grief.strioken husband and brother
accompanied the remains to their last
resting place. The bereaved relatives
have the sympathy Of many friends In
their sad affiiction.
Rev. j. j. Harrell, pastor of the Pres.
byterian church, has announced that II
the weather 10 favorable next Sabbath
the subject of his discourse will be the
eighth commandment, 'Thou Shalt Not
Steal. Public cordially invited to at
tend theSsryices. -
Mr.. Gwyhn, of Greenviiie county, Wis
tied his uncle, DR.. j. M. McClanahan,
this week.
Samuel e Erwin and Miss Missouri o. |
Hammett spent Monday ct Newly. Is
Rev. J.S. Beasley, presiding elder of
the Anderson district, preached excel.
lent sermons In the Methodist church |
Saturday and Sunday. He also preached |
an able sermon In the newly orgapiEed |
church in the old Masonic hall on S1ns
day night. Rev. Beasley was the guest
Of Rev. Geo. T. Harmon, Jr., dnriag the
quarterly conference. M
The next lyceum attraction will be |
"seven Oaks" impersonated by Everett
Kemp. ON Monday, March IL, In theI
school auditorium. Admission twenty.
five cents, Be,snre to attend. 8aef
e. g.. Poore spent day or two inj
Hartwell, Ga, last week. 3 3gI
Henry Werner, of Retreat, returned |
Friday from three weeks trip In the |
middle section of Georgia. s4si
SJ. i. Gaines returned Friday from
Brunswick and Gainesville, where he |
had been on the sad mission caused BY
the sicknesB and death of his brother. |
Philip Gaines.J ..,s ,
+ Miss Susan Leathers, residing one
mile south, of Westminster, had the mis-.
fortune to fall and break her left arm In |
two places one day last week. The limb
was badly crushed, the fracture extend
ing, to the shoulder. Miss I.eathers bad
just returned from the spring with buck
cts of water, when the vsssel she was
carrying on her head struck the top of |
the door, causing herto fall backwards |
on some rocks in the yard. DR.. Burt
Mitchell dressed the wound and set the |
broken limb
M. A. Terrell has been sick the past |
week. Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell had planned |
q trip TO Texas this week, but had to |
postpone it indefinitely on account OF
the sickness of the former.
The Westminster Orchestra, composed |
of six young men, John A. Durham,
Anthony b. Stewart, Creighton G. Moore,
Thornton p. Moore, G. G. Trice and
Sloan Harkey, furnished enchanting
music at the Odd Fellows hall last FRIDAY
evening.
e. p. Keys visited his daughter, Mrs.
John Griffin, this week. Mr.. Keys re-
sides in Anderson county.
Miss Eva l.. Dunning, the lady eloou- |
tioniet and impersonator, arrived on
schedule time last Friday and took her
departure twenty-four hours later for |
Easley. Inclement weather interfered to
some extent with the attendance and the |
program. She recites very we'll, but she
is not the success the testimonials and
comments on the hand bills would have
one believe.
James Jones and Joseph Frioks, of
Madison, were in town yesterday.
Samuel Stribling, eldest son of John |
V. Stribling, of Anderson, was visiting
his uncle, VIM. j. Stribling, this week.
Thursday and Friday nights, March Z |
and 8, the entertainment will be given
under the auspices of the cornet band,
In the Odd Fellows Hall, which was an
nounced to tako place Monday and Tues.
day evenings of this week. There will |
be comic music, dialogues, eto. We
have not learned what the entrance fee |
will be.
Mrs. VIM. stegall lost a $6 cape on the
streets, somewhere near the poet Office,
last night about dark. Somebody picked