Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-04-22

/, on few days visit to his parents,
Mr.. ard Mrs. F. e. Harrison.
| Misses Julia and Olive Maxwell
are in Anderson to-day among rela-
tives and friends. 4
w. l.. Werner left this morning
for Columbia to attend ythe meeting
of the State Bankers Association. +
| Mrs. j. d. Werner and Mrs. G.
| w. Bauknight are visiting vat the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ Strother
in Woodbury., Ga. a 4ul
Louis A. Brennecke left this
morning for Laurens, where he will
have charge OF special sale for a
mercantile firm.
j. w. Hollenan is in Columbia
attending the meeting of the Grand
Lodge knights Of Honor. He Is req
resenting the Walhalla Lodge of that
order. =
MIR. ana Mrs. D. G.. McAlister.
of Columbia, arrived in Walhalla
last Saturday on visit to Mrs. e. A.
Bell. Mr.. McAlister returned Mon
day, but Mrs. McAlister will remain
In Walhalla for more extended
isit.
Candidates announced so far
are: For Sheriff, w. NJ. Kay; Su-
perintendent of Education, J. H.
Cantrell, Il. A. Smith; Clerk Of
Court, J. F. Craig, c. r. D. Burns;
State Senate, J. r. Earle; County
Auditor, r. w. Grubbs; County
Treasurer, w. ]. Schroeder, d. H.
Rowland.
Last Monday revenue officers
captured from w. D.. Roach, near
Walhalla, six gallons of corn whis-
key in transit. Mr.. Roach was ar
rested and his horse and buggy, har-
ness, ETC., confiscated to the General
Government. About the same time
John Smith and Will Carver were
caught in the act of transporting IL
quor. The officers seized from them
a mule and buggy and harness and
four gallons Of whiskey. The cases
against these parties will probably
be tried in Greenville this week.
Mrs. S. B. Hubbard died at her
home in the Fairview section last
Monday evening, after an illness of
several months. She was most
excellent Christian woman and
consistent member of the Baptist
church. She leaves her husband and
several children, and numerous rela-
tives and friends, to mourn her
death. She was daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. NJ. Hunnicutt. Funeral
services were conducted vest day,
and the remains inferred in the New
Hope cemetery, in the presence of
large gathering Of sorrowing rela-
tves and friends. The bereaved
ones have the sympathy of many in
their hour of sorrow.
News was received in Walhalla
this morning of the death, at Cal
houn, Ga, of Mrs. Virginia Carolina
Wright. Her death occurred at 7.45
o'clock last Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
Wright was born in Oconee county,
July 2S, 1S43, and was daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. r. Shelor. She
moved with her father to Gordon
county, Georgia, in 1872, and was
married to Calvin j. Wright in 1876.
She leaves four children and her hus-
band and many relatives to mourn
her death. She was a sister Of Jos.
w. Shelor, Esq, Of Walhalla. There
are many relatives and friends in
Oconee county will learn of her
death with deep sorrow.
Mart Hopkins, who was recently
caught transporting liquor through
Walhalla, and was lodged in the Oco-
nee Jail, escaped from the jail last
Thursday afternoon while Sheriff Kay
was engaged in official business else
where. Hopkins made his exit from
| the Jail by means of diligently dig
ging with a spoon In to the brick cas-
| ing about the bars at one OF the back
windows. After digging into the wall
and taking out few bricks and
| burning the wood casing a mole was
made through which he escaped.
| Hopkins's case for violation of the
| internal revenue laws will be tried
at the present term Of United States
Court at Greenville this week. He
stated to a negro prisoner several
days before he escaped that he was
not going to attend Greenville Court,
as he would go to Oklahoma in a
few days, but Sheriff Kay was not
| apprised OF this until after the es-
| cape. Hopkinss home is near Bel
| ton, and the team and outfit captured
with him and his liquor are adver-
tised for sale by the General Govern
ment.
Last Sunday morning at 10
o'clock, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. A. Waite, in West End, Walhalla,
the marriage Of Miss Jessie Mae Far
mer and j. F. Cooke, of Pell City,
Ala, was solemnized, Rev. c.. L.
Craig performing the ceremony. The
bride is a handsome young woman,
we'll known here, she having been
raised in Walhalla, where she lived
until about year ago, when she
went to Pell City with her brother
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Alb
bott. The groom is a substantial
business man of Pell City, being man.
ager Of the st. Clair County Tele-
phone Company, Of which his father
Lafayette Cooke, of Cooks Springs,
Ala, IS the principal owner. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cooke left Walhalla Monday af-
ternoon for Jacksonville, Fla, and