Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-09-11
NEWS FROM sENRCA.
Miss GignilIiat fSntertains Local
and Personal Paragraphs.

Ine seneca Graded Scho0f opened
yesterday with fine attendance. a.
number of patrons were present. and
save very Inadequate accommodate
tious. Professor Nicholson made
good impression, and 1t Is thought
the prospects for a successful school
arc the best in its history. The full
corps of teachers are. Professor
Nicholson, principal and teacher OF
ninth grade; Miss Minnis Kirkpat-
rick, seventh and eighth grades; Mrs.
H. o. Ray, nth and sixth grades;
Miss Thompson, Greenyille, third and
fourth grades; Miss Margie HOLLAND
first and sec ond grades.
Next Thursday, at IL o'clock a. M,
the annual meeting of the Ladies'
Missionary Society of the Beaver
dam Association will meet at the
Baptist Church In Seneca. Mrs.
Crutchfield, of Spartanburg, will de-
liver the address of the association,
and dinner will be served at the
church. The meeting will continue
for one day only.
A delightful meeting of the Cos
sipers" was held with Miss Maud
Hopkins last Tuesday. The presence
of number of bright visitors lent
additional charm to the occasion. A
jstcSiiSiouo pWSct COuTSS WIS served.
Our milliners are bringing in full
and splendid lines OF fall millinery.
and IL there's anything in the say
ing that competition is t4ie life Of
trade" Seneca's hat trade this sea-
son will be unprecedented.
s. X. Dendy is in New York buying
his fall stock OF dry goods and milli-
merry.
Tommie Harper and George Trib-
Bile Will leave next week for Green-
Vile, where the latter will resume
his studies and the former will enter
the Furman Fitting School.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. f. Alexander re-
turned from the Exposition last
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Nimmons are at
North. @li }E
Miss Mary Werner, who has been
visiting in South Carolina for some
weeks, returned to her home in Tus-
caloosa, Ala. on Friday last.
d. Hunts new residence is going
up rapidly, and. when finished, will
add to the nMmber of attractive SEN
eca residenc0E
Miss Annie Werner. Of walhalla,
visited Seneca last week, the guest
of Mesdames T. e. Stribling and
G. v. McCarey. @
Hon. ]. c. Carey, of Lockhart, is
In Seneca.
Miss May Hamilton visited MrAand
Mrs. G. B! Smith, in Westminster,
last week.
Singleton Werner, who has been
visiting his father, r. 8. Werner and
other relatives and lriends in the
county, returned to his home in,
Memphis yesterday.
We have heard that one of our
M. DIS was asked recently in a dis
tinguished company to define the diff
ference In the meaning Of the two
words sanitarium and sanitorium,
and that he took back water. y IL the
good doctor will call round some
time we will take pleasure in ex-
planning to him the difference.
Mrs. John X. Livingston isyisiting
Mrs. Frank Martin, in Greenville.
Mrs. Jasper Doyle, the versatile
correspondent to the Courier from
Bounty Land, attended the opening
OF the school here yesterday.
What appears to your correspond
ent as wise proposition is the sug-
gestion that part Of the large school
grounds be cut into lots and sold and
the money put towards building
school house. The lots at the rear
the new street which is being opened
up to Townville street, and could
be disposed of without interfering
with the grounds used for school
purposes. The above plan is worth
looking into, and we are prepared
TO encourage any plans whereby our
school accommodations can be i'm
proved upon. We hea d 1t said a
few days ago That when it comes
to bluster and blow Seneca Is there,
but when 1t comes to down right get
up and get Seneca is not there" and
when we look at our smaller sister
towns which have splendid new
school buildings and other like signs
of progress we are just little bit
| afraid there's something in this.
The fact Is, we have been on the
quf vive for ten years or more, ex-
lpectfng every moment some great, big
something to distinguish us as a
progressive, growing, wide-a-wake
town, and we are about to be
nervous wreck in consequence!
Miss Ivor Brown will attend the
| Due West Female College and will
leave next week for this popular old
institute. "
Miss Mary Earle leaves to-day to
enter school at Charlotte.
HiSs lSoma 1IBRlliitt was hostess
to large number OF her friends
here yesterday evening, the occasion
marking the bringing together for
the las time this vacation the school
mates and friends of the young host
ess who have been so closely and
pleasantly associated during tn, past,
and who now are Dispensing many
OF them to our colleges and schools
throughout the State. The handsome
home was brilliant with decorations
of pot plants, cut flowers, and. Ja-