Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-10-28
New series No. S4s.--voIume Iax.--No. a.
NEWS FROM WESTMINSTER.
Drilling 50O.Foot Artesian Well.
General Personal News.
(By A. l.. Gossett.)

(By A. l.. Gossett.)
Westminster, Oct. 27.-Special:
Miss May Russell, an attractive
young lady Of Russell's, is visiting
her sisters, Mesdames j. G.. Brea-
zeale and J. .McLeskey.
w. ID. Lesly, of Abbeville, for
mer citizen Of Westminster, is here
to-day.
Rev. j. r. Moore, pastor OF the
Baptist church, will preach a special
sermon to the Masons, Odd Fellows,
Knights of Pythias and all other Sc
cret orders next Sabbath at 7.30 p.
m. Everybody cordially invited to
attend.
We are sorry to lose G. r. Phillips
and family. They moved yesterday
to one Of his farms a mile below
Seneca.
Mrs. Mary Mitchell, wife of M. N.
Mitchell, has very fine lemon on her
lemon bush this year. 1t is 1 5 inches
in circumference and measures nine
inches in length. 1t is still growing
and we expect to hear from it again
when full grown
Rev. P. B. Grant, of Greenville,
was here yesterday
Ira S. Pitts, our efficient postmas-
ter, is in Columbia in attendance
upon the fifth annual association OF
South Carolina postmasters. This is
the first vacation Mr.. Pitts has had
since he assumed charge of his du-
ties at the post office at Westminster,
something over three years ago.
Miss Grace Phillips was just If
teen years old on October 16 and
asks us to correct the mistake we
n q VIZ n on Io- -, h4,,
year before she is Sweet sixteen"
Miss Mary Louise Carter, one Of
Westminster's fairest and most cuI-
tu~ed young ladies, left Friday even
ing for Raleigh, N. c., to engage ~
school teaching. Miss Carter is the
eldest daughter of Mr.. and MrsgiT.
N. Carter, and graduated at the Col
lege for Women at Richmond last
June. She will teach In a graded
school at Raleigh.
Jesse r. Mitchell, OF Bolton, is
visiting relatives here.
Jas. Agnew, colored, got one bone
of his right arm broken one day last
week while loading some cotton I'm a
car.
Mrs. D. S. Hull is on an extended
visit to relatives in Newberry.
William A. Dickerson has the po-
nent Household, Columbian Wood
men of the World. This is a branch
of the Woodmen of the World. 8 Mr..
Dickersons position ends December
81, 1912. He has organized a camp
here of fifty members. The members
arc called worthy guests, and their
policy is good in case of accident or
disability.
A brilliant wedding occurred at
Conner. Ga, last Wednesday after
noon, October 81, at 4.30, the con-
,racting parties being Miss Grady
Grimes and William Thomas Moon,
both of Conner. The happy event
took. place at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Allen Grimes, the par
ents Of the bride, and the ceremony
was performed by Rev. l.. A. Simp-
son, pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Danielsville, Ga. Samuel
G. Moon, Of Westminster, was the
best man and Miss Ellen Grimes, of
Conner, was maid Of honor. Misses
Lula Grimes and Rubie McWhorter
were the ribbon girls. After the
Atlanta, Westminster and Canon.
While here they were the guests of
Mrs. DR.. J. H. Stonecypher and s. C.
Moon, sister and brother Of the
groom. Mr.. Moon Is a wide-awake
merchant at Conner, and has numer-
Gus friends on the Carolina side who
congratulate him on winning the
heart and hand of such sweet
young lady. ..s...
d. l. Mulkey has returned from a
trip to Chattanooga and other cities
in Tennessee. Mr.. Mulkey is now
selling cigars for Garnett, Carter &c
Co., of Chattanooga. His territory
includes North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, New Mexico and
Oklahoma.
Mrs. II. F. McGuffin received a let
ter a few days ago conveying the sad
news of the death of her brother,
Andy Hull, Of Hart county, Georgia.
Mr.. Hull's death was very sudden.
He started to Hartwell on Saturday
morning, October II, and it was un-
derstood he died on his way there.
The deceased was 81 years old and
was a nephew of our townsman, ID.
S. Hull. He leaves widow, but no
children.
Frank Shirley lost winter lap
robe from his buggy Friday between
Wa!halla and Westminster. Every
body here and at Walhalla knows Mr..
Shirley, and If the finder Is an hon
est person 1t will be easy for him
to get the lap robe to him.
John Miller of Laurens, is here
with his we'll driller and is drilling
an artesian well for the Westminster
Oil and Fertilizer Co. 1t is SIS
inches In diameter and will be about
800 feet deep. They got to a dept;1
OF ninety feet yesterday and are drill
ing through rock to-day.
Cotton market, SIC.