Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-03-17

Hosiery Mills. Apply at once.-Adv.
Mrs. J. f. Stone and child, of
Anderson, spent the past week in
Walhalla vitising at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Cross.
Miss George VanDiviere's many
friends are pleased ITO have her again
in Walhalla. She arrived last week
and will spend some time here visit
ing at the home Of Mrs. C. G.. Strong.
Mrs. Geo. w. Dyar returned last
Saturday from a pleasant visit to
Mrs. y. l.. Dyar at Tallulah Lodge,
Ga, the latter being the mother of
Geo. w. Dyar. For many years she
resided in this section Of South Caro-
lima and is we'll known to the people
Of Oconee.
For Rent--6-room house, near
Court House and depot. Apply to
j. w. Davis, Walhalla.-Adv.t IT,
The Blue Ridge mountains pro-
per are covered to-day with snow,
bringing a snow-clad range into plain
~" vi w dIildllt. NtDollS lioIl
highlands, n. c., yesterday stated
that there were five inches Of snow
then lying on the ground. The ther-
mometer reading in Walhalla at
O'Clock this Wednesday, morning
was %.
-Rev. f.. VI. Bolding. Of Pickens
county, was in Walhalla for a short
while Monday on his way to his
home. Rev. Mr. Bolding has just
been chosen as pastor of the Pleas
ant Ridge Baptist church, this coun-
ty, and he has accepted the pastorate
He is now serving four congregations
in Oconee, and he contemplates NOV
! ing to this county next year in order
! to better serve his churches. Services
| are held monthly at each of his four
! charges. Those at Pleasant Ridge
will be held on Saturday before the
second Sunday in each month at 3
O'Clock in the afternoon, and at II
O'clock in the morning each second
Sunday.
II. e. Alexander sells Rock Hill
buggies. Walhalla. S. G. adv.-tf.
Mrs. T.. S. Rowe died at her
home at Liberty, Pickens county, last
Thursday at the advanced age OF SO
years. She was we'll known to many
in Oconee. having been connected
with a number of families in this
section. Her daughter, Mrs. w. c..
Owens, OF West Union, was called to
her bedside Thursday OF last week.
Mrs. Rowe was a consistent men ber
Of the Baptist church, with which she
became identified when quite young
woman. She is survived by four
daughters: Mrs. w. C. Owens, Of
West Union, Route l; Mrs. w. o..
Willard, Of GrAnville; Mrs. R. L..
Ballenger, Of Little Rock, Ark. Ind
Miss Belle Rowe, of Liberty. There
are numerous grandchildren and
great-grandchildre also to mourn
her death. Funeral services were
conducted Saturday afternoon at Lib
crty. the interment following in tie
y
vices were conducted by Rev. T. NJ.
Galphin, Of Seneca. The sympathy
Of many friends of the bercaved ones
goes Out to them in their sorrow.
Seed oats-Red rust proof, Burt
or 9O-day and Black. c. w. & ]. e.
Bauknight ADV.
There was quite a bad fire a few
miles south Of Walhalla Sunday af-
| ternoon, by which w. II. Butler lost
a house valued at $500, and his ten
! ant Anderson Young, colored lost
practically everything he had in the
! house. The building was a four
room structure, with large piazzas,
| being well built, the house ceiled
| throughout. Just how the fire origi-
| Young and his family-all except one
| boy of about Is years-had gone to
a special religious meeting at West
minister, and there was no one home
except this boy, and he was not we'll.
| He stated that he had been in bed
all the morning and about noon had
| gotten up in order to heat some wa
! ter. Shortly after making fire in
the fireplace he heard a roaring noise
and discovered that the house vas on
| fire over the ceiling and on the roof.
! He used what water there was in the
| house, checking the flames, but by
the time he got to the we'll and drew
| moro such headWaY had been made