Aiken Recorder in Aiken, South Carolina

White voters convene at court house for state and federal conventions

The Aiken County white voters meet at the Court House on the first day to select delegates to the State and Congress conventions. A State Normal Institute for white teachers opens August third in Greenville with professors from New York and Philadelphia, plus a full program in pedagogy and science. A terrible accident on the North Eastern Railroad June 7 claimed six lives and injured thirteen, with one later dying. The document lists local figures and supporters tied to the Democratic movement and race-based civic discourse of the era.