Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-01-11
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daughter OF Judge Whitner, who,
though he had moved to the new
town Of Anderson, sent his children
back 10 Pendleton to school. On Fri
day afternoons they came home for
the weekend. On one such occasion
the girls brought with them their
beloved teachers, the Misses Bates.
On the following day they were hor-
ritied to hear MISS Bates ask their
stately mother to take her and her
sister to visit some Of the negroes in
their homes, as they wished to be-
come acquainted with them at close
range.
Neither were the small children Of
the village neglected. For many
years they were taught their a b c's
also readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,
by Miss Mary Hunter, until they at
tatned' the dignity Of academic age,
when they probably entered the
higher inst tutions Of learning. T.,ey
ATTENDED school, brought in all kinds
OF conveyances, buggies, sulllies, car
riages, carryalls, and even wagons.
Many rode horseback. When thnre
were both boys and girls to go 10
school from one house the boys
drove their sisters to the female
academy first. then went on 10 III ::
own, where the horses were kept and
Il ff>r
which was well nto the late aftc1-
noon, for school in these days lasted
from early in the morning until the
shades of evening were growing
very long. Then the boys would
drive, with many flourish, up to
the door Of the girls school, wnere
u bewildered group Of maidens we're
always waiting to be called for. and
many were the sidelong glances cast
Ny bashful boys at some other nl-
lows sister, while their own were
climbing. unassfsted, into their serts
ito be taken home for he night
Never Closed School.
In 1884 there was a new venture
in education made in the town. A
manual labor school for boys was
started under the care Of the Rev.
U. L. Kennedy, afterwards the dis
tinguished head Of Thalian Academy
at Slabtown, in Anderson county
one Of the best known and most
widely patronized institutions of
learning in the State at that time.
The labor school, however, lasted
but short time. Typhoid fever
broke out, and the people of that
day, knowing nothing Of polluted
water, attributed 1t to the heat of
the sun beating on boys who were
luna ccOslumyl to outdoor work. and
deciiing that to be lie coi.sa Of the
giInes3 %, Nhr pupilS, CLOSED the IN
un% Iia school.
The pyoVie ~ PeNdl"tuu Norc sap
piled with literature by William An
derson, who kept book store, which
was in existence in 1918. and prob
ably some years, both earlier and
later. In that year, through an ad-
Wertisement in the Pendleton Mes
senger, he offered his patrons first
a long and detailed list If medical
books, then Il similar lis. Of theol-
ogy-only eight historical volumes.
and one OF those was Il natural his
tory. There were, however, several
biographies and books of letters. For
light reading, Shakespeare, The H.
lad, Cooks Voyages, several of "The
Waverly Novels" a number Of 18th
century English poets, Don Quixotte,
Gil Bias, family receipts, astronomy,
music books. "Tales Of Fashionable
Life" "Think | to Myself" "Hea-
then Gods" geography, "Botanic
Gardens" "rhaddeus OF Warsaw
Scottish Chiefs" "Senecars Nor
ais "Vicar of Wakefield" besides
Blackstones Commentaries and
Johnstone's Dictionary. for those
wished or needed them. Those back
woods folks were not much behind
the cultured people Of Charleston or
even Of London in the books they
read.
Published Paper Early.
rThe first newspaper in the state
published elsewhere than in Charles
ton appeared in Pendleton-Nliller's
Weekly Messenger, its editor, owner
and publisher being printer John
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