Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-02-05
RroHLANp NEWS IN nRrEF.
Shower rendered Miss Davis, Bride.
to-Be--Other Local Matters.

Richland, Feb. 4.-Special: w. H.
Coe spent last week with his wife
and children at Glover.
Mrs. j. p. Blackwell and children
and Little Miss Edith Foster are on
a visit to relatives in Reidville and
High Point, N. G.
Miss Ada Wyly has returned to her
home here after having taught a very
successful school at Evatt.
G. w. Davis, of Atlanta, is visiting
here.
S. N. Hug6s spent last week with
his work in Georgia.
Mrs. Lucy Burriss is visiting in Co
iumbia and attending the Corn Expo
sition.
Miss Lalla Ballenger expects to
leave to-day for Atlanta, where she
goes for medical treatment.
Charlie Werner and Will Coe left
yesterday for Columbia to attend the
Corn Exposition.
Mrs. G. o. Walton, Sr., is visitii g
in Jacksonville, Fla. ~ ...
The latest "get up" from the Old
Maids Convention was a farewell
shower given to the bride-to-be, Miss
at the "Haven of Old Maids Rest"
Coneross, on Saturday afternoon last.
This hospitable and roomy old coun-
try home was becomingly arranged
for this all-important event At $50
the few remaining old maids, some of
the young matrons and several OF the
siXteen-year-old maids (called in to
make quorum) gathered in, and the
performance began. AS the roll was
called 1t was plainly seen that out of
a score Of original members all had
crossed the great divide (matrimony)
except as many as could be cunted on
the fingers Of one hand. Surely
Cupid Is blind and deaf, too, or some
OF those remaining would have been
taken long ago. Each guest was
asked to write a sentence Of advice
to the bride-to-be, and If all this ad-
vice is carried into execution the
groom will be a very mixed up"
man In the days to come. A parcel
post contest was engaged in to see
who could tell the most articels that
could not be delivered by parcel post.
The bride-to-be won the prize After
this contest the guests repaired to
the dining room and enjoyed a deli
cious salad course, after which Misses
Lynn Werner and Laura Smithson, as
parcel post deliverers, entered fa-
tigued and out of breath from bear
ing their heavy burden of packages
through post and they showsred
them upon the bride-to-be. Fortu-
nately no bones were broken, but the
bride-to-be suffered some slight in
juries and will hardly be herself
again, though she will be some one
else soon. The many useful, dainty
and artistic remembrances spoke vol
umes as to the popularity Of this
member Of this quaint old convention.
A goodly number were present and
the evening shadows were dwindling
into twilight as the association ad-
journed.
A little more advertising in our
,time-honored, we'll edited, splendid
|ly-published county paper and the
original Old Maid Convention will be
thing of the past.
Misses Laura Smithson and Hor-
tense Jones, OF Westminster, attend
ed the shower given in honor Of Miss
Davis.
We suggest that branch associa-
tion be organized in our sister town
and advertise in Tugaloo Tribune
and allow the handsome and versa
tile editor of that thrifty paper to
frame the advertisement Surely
this will bring him and his paper
fame and very likely fortune" We
think this would bring him around.
Frank H. Shirley, one of Oconee's
Representatives in the Legislature,
was In our town Sunday and was seen
vending his way to the "Old Maids
Haven of Rest"