Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-04-22
THE NEWS FROM BOUNTY LAND
What the People OF a Prosperous
Community are Doing and Saying

MI, and Mrs. j. b. Shanklin and chill
dren, Of Anderson, spent from Friday
until Monday with relatives in this
community.
i Mrs. Julia Davis, after a delightful
visit in Anderson, has returned to
her home here, to the delight of her
many friends.
Miss Bertie Smith delighted her
pupils with an Fuster egg hunt last
Friday afternoon.
Our people are rejoicing over the
prospective change in the public road
near Richland creek. Since the re-
cent heavy rains the road between
the Hamilton place and the creek is
almost impossible.
Miss Ora Bagwen is visiting I'm
Westminster, the. guest of Mrs. Sam
| Dickson.
Grover Davis. of Athens, is with
home folks for few days.
j. j. Davis is little in advance Of
the majority of the farmers in this
community. His crop Of cotton is up.
Mrs. Mack Milan and two children,
or Sandy Springs, are spending few
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Pickett.
Mrs. H. r. Smithson and daughter,
Miss Laura, of Westminster, suenS
yesterday ct the home Of j. M. Iilli-
son.
Mrs. D. A. Perritt entertained the
missionary society of the Seneca Bap-
ttst. church last Monday afternoon.
Sixteen of the members were present
c. II. d. Burns and wife and Capt.
| In hr
recent guests at the home of j. M.
Gillison.
A. G.. Whitten and Mr.. and Mrs.
Gus Shanklin, Of Clemson College,
| and Mesdames Matthew and James
Davis, Of near Seneca, were recent
| guests in, this community.
| j. j.. Davis's friends sympathize
with him in the recent loss Of a valu-
able horse, which is the eighth he has
lost within the last fifteen years.
d. A. Perritt and daughter, Miss
Leize, attended the burial of e. P.
Earle at the family burying ground
near Earle's Mill.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Lille Reese Doyle to
DR.. James Mendenhall Dunlap The
marriage will take place at the home
of her cousin, % DR.. and Mrs. q. l.. Com
nelly, in Atlanta. Miss Lille is
daughte' of the late Prof. E.R.Doyle,
of Westminster, formerly of Bounty
Land, and has host OF friends here
who wish her unlimited" happiness.
We can sympathize with our Rich
land correspondent In his or her Eve
do not know which, as there is no
clue as to who Is the writer) embar-
RAISING position In that the expected
guests who were reported will spend
Easter" at Richland did not arrive.i
"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind" and as we have been guilty
Of making errors oe like magnitude
we keenly appreciate the situation.
Now, as Richland has adopted the
aggressive policy, we feel that it.,
would not be objectionable in us to
remind Richland of the fact that
Bounty Land is wide awake, How
ever should Bounty Land feel inclined
to doze, she might take lengthy nap
and on awakening find ARichland far
In the rear in the production of pro-
fessional men. While Bounty Land
cannot boast Of having turned out.
more than one lawyer, she had an
active part In educating some Of
Richland's boasted lawyers, who
never received any part of their edu-
cation at Richland, but their early
| SpuNillohul lldlHlus WAS a
within the walls OF old Bounty Land
Academy Two of the Ave mentioned
lawyers received a preparatory edu-
! cation at Retreat. Unless Richland
counts the last admitted to the bar we
fail to see her grounds for boasting Of
more than two. One of her young
lawyers has entered the ministry, and
while the other Is brilliant and most
promising young lawyer, he has not
arisen to prominence in the profess
sion. We would not speak a word of
; encouragement nor hinder his efforts
to the highest attainments, but some.
times the most brilliant anticipations
| are blighted by the direct disappoint-
ments. ra,'"
Ah! Richland, you are too young
to take issue with as venerable old
place as Bounty Land. Think Of the
able men whom Bounty Land has
sent out--Judge William Doyle, of
Texas; the late Drs. John Doyle, s.
J. McElroy, George Phinney, and Drs.
VIM. H. Wright, w. r. Dendy, Revs.
John Phinney. w. B. and r. r. Doyle,
8. Y. Stribling, president OF Roswell
and Habersham mills, were all
bounty Land men, and we are edu-
eating Others 'In our QUIET way for
the different vocations OF life. Yes,
.sttll water runs deep" but somes
times the moss Of self-tonfdence will
accumulate on the pebbles in the
quiet depths of It's channel. Now as
70 our last mistake concerning the
school grounds at Richland: We are
sorry to have made such mistake,
or. rather we are sorry that 1t Is a
mistake, but we feel that any one
else would have arrived at the same
conclusion we did when the teacher
of this school reported to uB that they
ware In adXanno Of orr q isfdola 1,I, a.,