Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-10-29

Misses Irene White and Annie
Crisp left this morning for Columbia
to attend the State Fair
Mrs. l.. NJ. Brown and daughter
returned to their home in West I'm
ion the latter part of last week after
brief visit to relatives at Anderson
Miss Gena Fennell is spending
this week in Columbia attending the
State Fair. She will visit relatives
in Greenwood and other places be-
fore returning home.
At the session Of the Lutheran
Synod last week Rev. J. b. Umberger
was named as one of the alternate
delegates to the United Synod, which
will meet in Columbia in November,
1914.
There are many friends here
who will be pleased to learn that Mr..
and Mrs. Luther Boggs expect to re-
turn to Walhalla to reside in the near
future. Mr.. Boggs will be connected
with the Carter Hardware Co. again.
The many friends of Rev. T. NJ.
Stribling, who has for a number Of
years been residing in Texas, will be
pleased to learn that he is returning
nearer to this section Of country. He
has recently accepted the pastorate
of the First Presbyterian church at
CedartOwn, Ga, and has moved to
that place. Mr.. Stribling is a native
of the RiChland section of OCOnee,
and has hosts Of friends who will re-
joice at his return from Texas.
There are many friends here Of
J. NJ. Ward and family who will be
interested in the following item
clipped from PelZer dispatch to the
Greenville News: THE people Of
Pelzcr are grieved to hear that J.
NJ. Ward and family are soon to
move from among us to Bolton,
where their future home will be.
Mr.. Ward has for a number Of years
been depot agent at this place. He
and his family have many friends
here who regret to give them up to
BeltOn."
Many friends in Oconee and
elsewhere will sympathize deeply
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. p. Stribling and
family, of Richland, in their be-
reaN tment, occasioned by the death
last Friday Of little Elizabeth Strib~
ling, aged three years. The child
was taken sick Tuesday night with
diphtheria, but her condition was
not considered dangerous until
Thursday. Though everything pos
sible was done for her recovery, the
little one passed away Friday night
about 10 o'clock, the death casting a
deep gloom not only over the grief
stricken family, but the entire COM
munity. Funeral services were con-
Quoted by Rev. |. f. Wallace, of the
Presbyterian church, at o'clock
Saturday afternoon, after which her
body was laid to rest in the family
plot in Richland cemetery.
Last Friday evening Robert r.
Jaynes, Esq, was summoned to Nor
ris Cotton Mill, in Pickens county, to
attend an inquest held there over the
body Of Eugene Saxton, white, who
had been killed about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon of that day. The inquest
was held my Magistrate Child, who
empanelled jury for the inquiry.
The verdict brought in was to the
effect that SaXtOn came to his death
by pistol shot fired by Jonn Meal
ister, and he was held for trial nn the
charge Of murder. The main points
in the case as brought out were that
McAlister, SaXton and another man
were drinking together near the mill
village and McAlister asked SaXton
for drink from a bottle in his pos
session. SaXtOn Is said to have re-
piled that the whiskey belonged to
the other party, and that if he said
he (McAlister) could have it it would
be all right. Thereupon McAlister
drew pistol, firing three times into
the body of SaXton, who fell NOR
tally wounded, dying almost instant
ly. Both S: XtOn and his slayer were
about 25 years of age, each having a
wife and one child.
Nature generates facts, but fiction
is manufactured by man.