Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-01-30
WESTMINSTER.

Westminster Jan. 29.--Z. Smith Brown,
at one ame wealthy business man of
Wichita, Kan, died at the home of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. r. f. Brown, in West
minister, yesterday morning shortly be-
fore II O'Clock. He had been sick only
three or four. days with la grippe and
the announcement of his death was
great shock to his friends. Mr.. Brown
was bornsin Mecklenbprg county, North
Carolina. and was in the 10Th year of his
age. He livedswith his brothers. family
the past thirteen years, coming here
from Oakway' o couple of years ago.
After the war between the States he sat
tied In the West and WAS successful in
life. He has son living somewhere in
the West whom he has not heard from
lately. Mr.. Brown was member of the
Presbyterian church. His body will be
carried to Oakway to-day and the inter
ment will be in the cemetery ef Center
Methodist church.. Mr.. Brown was a
ripe scholar. 1t is said that he had been
in nearly every State in the Union.
Ahtoo AsOod VaouOiiy VI 0IocuNllI6, Nlb-
tied her sister, Miss Leua Waddell, at
the home of Mrs. Ella s. Waite, las.
week. Miss Lena is a teacher in tho
graded school.
The Sheldon Furniture Company will
conduct an undertaking business in con-
neotion with their furniture trade. Their
first lot of coffins and caskets were re.
ceived yesterday.
Caoy Poore and Misses Bonnie Free
man and Beulah Poore were in Oakway
short while last Sunday.
j. #, Mitchell, of Bolton, is in town
to-day.
One of the most enjoyable events of
the season was that at which Miss Alice
Puckett was the charming young hostess
in her home in East End, on the evening
of January,19, Tho guests on their ar
rival at E30 were hidden into the parlor,
where they were m ost graciously enter
tanned by the hostess. Miss Puckett's
guests included Misses Annie Miller,
Mary Reeder, Myrtle Zimmerman, Ruby
McGee, Fostelle Thornton, Beulah Nc
Donald, Lila Reeder, Sarah Anderson,
Hattie Crawford, Maud Ballenger, Carrie
Hull, Hortense Jones, Rena Harrell,
Bessie Simpson. Blanche Honea. Ida Lou
Breazeale. Louise Breazeale, Lucy Cobb,
Eva Leathers, Laura Smithson, Ida Kay,
Mayette Brown, George Hull, Errett
Zimmerman, Frank Sheldon, Rntledge
Zimmerman, Andrew Norris, Fred Hunt,
Will Mitchell. Sam Reeder, Ottaway
Marett, Appleton Johns, Sidi Perkins,
Ben Simpson, X. b. Honea, Roy Bfca-
zeale, John Ayers, R,bert Parker, Ar
thur Cobb, Rhomie Brownlee, James
Mcdonald, G.. o. Simpson and G.. G.
Trice. All hope that Miss Puckett will
give another party some future day.
Miss Sudie Jones, daughter of j. r.
Jones of Madison, was in town last Fri
day.
A Zimmerman has returned from a
trip to Arkansas. He was in Clay, Ran
dolph and Sharp counties. Mr.. thinner
man says the section through which he
travelled was fertile, but the lowlands
were all flooded while he was there.
The tributaries of the Mississippi river
are backed up for hundred miles or
more.
Prof. John G. Clinkscales, of Wofford
College, will lecture in the Methodist
church on the second Sabbath, February
10, at IL a. M, and at Rock Springs in
the afternoon; also at Center at 73O
p. m. He will fill all of Bro. Harmon's
appointments on that day. Prof. Clink-
scales is an excellent Christian gentle
man and lecturer of no little ability.
He has been before audiences here seve-
raj times in the past and it is treat to
hear him.
}. S. Iwloss and family arrived one
day last week from Spartant .rg.
John b. Williams, of the williams
Music House, Greenville, was in town
last week.
Miss Lila Ford has returned from
Liberty and has opened up her millinery
stock in the store room vacated by the
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