Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-01-09
SENECA.
TOWN 10 BEING REsuRvEiED-0THER
ITEMS OF NEWS.

oeuech, Jan. GA survey mas Deen
instituted by the town council for the
purpose of defining definitely the COR
porate limits of Seneca. It Is thought
that the, original survey was not a cor,
rect one, and st is deemed wise at this
time to havesa resurvey made, which
will be done by Decamp & Cnnning-
ham, civil engineers, of Anderson. The
survey will be done at once.
A delightful occasion last Sabbath
was the union service, held at the
Methodist church at the evening hour
for the purpose of welcoming the new
pastor of that church, Rev. @. u. Nc
Cain. 1t was regretted that Rev. q. s..
Blackburn, pastor of the Baptist church,
could not be present. Rev. M. r..
kirkpatrick, of the Presby terian church,
and Rev. X. G. Finlay, of the Episco-
pal church, made hearty, delightful!
talks, commanding the spirit of broth-
erly love and cooperation which exists
thanked the ministers and congrega-
tion, for the visible evidences of the
same, following up his remarks with
an edifying discourse. An attractive
music program added greatly to the
pleasure of the occasion, notable
number of which was beautiful vocal
and cornet duet by. Miss May Hamil-
ton and Ben McElreath.
At the regular meeting of the Ladies'
Aid and Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church, held yesterday at
the manse. the annual election of Off
GERS was held. resulting as follows:
Mrs. M. r. Kirkpatrick, president; |;
Mrs. w. s. Hunter, vice president; !;
Mrs. T.. e. Stribling, secretary and
treasurer. The society is in fine work.
sncr ord or nouy ,,,nn,har.r hasnc oddaA
to the roll from time to time. A beau
tiful feature of yesterdays meeting
was the solo by Rev. Kirkpatrick,
"Will there be any stars in my CROWN"
the sentiment of the song proving pc
culiarly appropriate. to the occasion.
The members of the library associa-
tion will bear in mind the quarterly
meeting, which will be held Fri
day, the 18th instant. The entertain
ment committee is working on the pro-
gram, which promises to be most at
tractive one.
DR.. and Mrs. I. M. McCutchen have
returned frem-A visit to relatives in.
Greers, where they spent the holidays.
James Myers left Monday for At
lanta, where he resumes his studiesin
the School Of Pharmacy. Mrs: Myers
will visit her homefolks in Concord, !,
N. O., for few weeks before joining
Mr.. Myers.
Miss Cema Sitton, of Autun, was the
attractive guest.of Miss Eleanor Rich
ardson last week.
1t is a pertinent fact that after the
successful effort on the part of our
Chamber of Commerce to bring the
terminal run of trains Nos. Al and 40
here the crews of these same trains are
walking the streets in fruitless search
for homes. 1t is serious matter now
when the hotels are closed and the pri-
vate boarding houses are flooded with
regular and transient boarders. What
is to be done? Cannot our citizens
offer rooms for the present accommo-
dation of these and others who would
settle here, and thus relieve the cen :
gested situation for the time being?
Later when the hotels are rebuilt, mat
ters will adjust themselves without the
active interference of private citizens.
That competition is the life of
trade" is strikingly exemplified in the
newspaper business here.
(. A small boy, but an erstwhile popular
beau among the younger set was seen
by his best girl to be struggling with
the cigarette proposition. The contrast
was 80 striking that she was prompted
to declare that ----- was drinking
(milk, we infer) from bottlei But
what of that? Doesn't any boy or man
for that matter, look small with cigar
cite in his mouth?
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Y. III.
Lowery will be panied to learn of the
serious illness of the former at his
home here. 1t is thought that Mr..
Lowery is some better at this writing,
and his friends will hope for steady and
no iY,,n nj in, bs
tion.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. ,R. Moore, of West
minister, are with Mr. and Mrs. r. Y.
III. Lowery. -
Mrs. CHARLES Neill, of Greenvlle, is
with Mrs. VIM. Neill for a few days.
Mrs. w. e. Austin and son, Willie,
are at home again, after months
visit to Mississippi.
Capt. and Mrs H. Il. Alexander re-
turned to Seneca last week, after de-
lightful stay of two weeks i'm Texas.
Mrs. Alexander's friends will regret to
learn that she is not we'll after her re-
turn.
Seneca Chapter, No. 113, Order of the
Eastern Star, will meet i'm the Masonic
hall on Tuesday, January 10Th, at 7.8O
O'Clock p. m, for work and instruction.
BY order of the w. M.
Your correspondent enjoyed rich
treat when. on last Saturday night, she
was waiting on connection and over
heard scraps ofinteresting phone chats.
One dear girl was endeavoring to bribe
a young man with two big slices'' of
cake, while in the other case the sweet,
innocent creature was promising to
marry the man at the other end of the
line "if he would give her time to make
her clothes" In the former case the
young man was too busy to eatcake,"
in the latter the ardent lover too inn
petuous to wait on clothes. Now there's
no law enforcing silence on the part of