Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-12-29

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Miss Sadie Hutchinson is visiting
relatives in Columbia and Al, beville
this week. a
| Miss Maude Kay, of Bolton. Wis
tied her mother Mrs. J. t. Kay, dur
ing the holidays. H.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Brown, Of West Un-
ion, is visiting homefolks in Ander-
son this week.
Miss Sallie Hutchison, of Co.
lumbia, Is visiting her cousin, Miss
Mary Ellen Wilson. ra
Mrs. Mary Corley, Of Winnsboro,
is visiting her niece, Miss Sue Hutch
ison, of West Union.
Miss Sadie McPhail, of Pendle-
ton, and Miss May Hamilton, of Sen
eca, visited Miss Helen Beard the
past week. .
j. T. Mcpherson, after spending
Christmas in West Union with his
daughter, Mrs. w. p. Hutchison, left
Sunday for Abbeville.
Its coming. The most interest
ing announcement ever made to the
people of Oconee county. Southern
Utility Co., Walhalla, 8. C.
Big line shoes cheap at Nor
hioh .. iNS" CioIHluS Cutap, NOT-
mans. Hats and caps cheap, Nor
mans.
Jack Werner, who Is attending
Clemson College, is spending the
holidays with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. D. Werner, near town. .
Misses Jodie, Dora and May
Haley, of Westminster, were among
the fair visitors to the dance given
by the Walhalla Dancing Club Mon
day evening.
w. G. Loehr of Lavonia, and
e. G. Poore, OF Westminster, were
in Walhalla on business yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loehr are spending the
holidays with relatives in Westmin-
ster.
The dance given last Monday
night by the WaIhalla Dancing Club
was quite an enjoyable occasion. The
dance was participated in by about so
ladies and gentlemen, with a number
of visitors and chaperons not par
ticipating. Among the dancers were
visitors from Columbia, Greenville,
Spartanburg, Anderson, Seneca and
points in the county. The occasion
was pronounced one of the most en-
joyable ever given In Walhalla. Mu-
sic was furnished by the Trowbridge
orchestra of Anderson.
The Courier will soon tell you
about the greatest proposition ever
made. You will be astounded. Sou
thern Utility Co., Walhalla, S. c.
The play, Union Depot for
Day. will be presented at Wagner
Theatre at s o'clock on Friday night,
January 7th. This play will be
given by the best local talent and
under the auspices of the Monument
Association. 1t is copyrighted play
and has been given with great sue
cess in many of the towns Of our own
and surrounding States. Remember
the Gate-January 7th-and keep an
"open evening" for that date. Don't
miss it.
The Oconee Telephone Company
is making extensive improvements in
its system in Walhalla, changing con-
trail office to the G. l.. Reid old stand
and stringing 100-wire cable on
Main street. They expect to have
their work completed about January
lst, when decidedly better service
will be given the public. At present
nobody can't get nuthin' they call
for much" but THE is due to una
voidable disarrangement Of affairs at
central, and is more than offset by
the promise of better service in the
near future.
Mrs. j. E. Smith died at her
home in Midway last Saturday night,
aged about 63 years. She had been
sick for several days. She was a
quiet, gentle Christian woman, a low
ing wife and mother, and will be
greatly missed by her friends and
neighbors. She is survived by her
husband and several children, to
whom Is extended the sympathy of
! many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
and family moved to Walhalla from
upper Oconee about three years ago.
The interment took place at the
Neville burying ground, near Wal
halla, Monday afternoon. A year ago
a grown son Of the same family died
and was buried at the Neville grave
yard.
We regret to chronicle the death
Of Mrs. Arminda Thomas, widow of
the late Lemuel Thomas, which oc-
Cured at the home of her son, j. M.
, Fendley, at Pelzer, on last Friday
morning at 2 o'clock. She had been
. in feeble health for several weeks.
Mrs. Thomas was in her eightieth
year. Interment took place at Rich
land Presbyterian cemetery on Christ
mas day at 5 o'clock p. m. She had
been a member of Rock Springs
Methodist church, this county, for
many years. Mrs. Thomas was twice
married, her first husband being a
+ Mr. Fendley. To this union two
children were born. and are now liv-
ing-J. M. Fendley, Of Pelzer, and
Mrs. Mollie Grogan, OF Arkansas.
! TO the union with Mr.. Thomas five
children were born-three living and
. two dead. The living are: Mrs. A. L..