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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1925
Page
8
The Greer Citizen is sold to C. A. Herlong and B. F. Head, veteran newspaper men, signaling a new era for the paper and its readership.
Wilson G. Harvey, former governor of South Carolina and ex-president of the Enterprise Bank of Charleston, faces four trials in Allendale this week on charges of violating the State banking law tied to the bank's closing. He was acquitted on the first charge tried last year.
Congressman Thomas S. McMillan of Charleston will be the orator at the Rivers' Bridge Memorial and Monumental Association annual celebration on May 8. The grounds lie about a half mile from Rivers' Bridge where on February 2, 1865, about 400 men of the 32nd and 47th Georgia regiments held back roughly 10,000 Sherman forces for 24 hours before a strategic retreat.
South Carolina shipped 229,114 pounds of poultry in March earning 51 401.94 dollars. Greenville County shipped 9 000 pounds, Pickens 48 126, Anderson 20 000, with 21 counties sending car lots. Pickens and Chesterfield led the state in largest shipments. Pickens and Chesterfield each moved significant volumes, Chesterfield surpassing prior state records.
New York hosts a bronze tablet portrait of General John J. Pershing at the Keith-Albee Hippodrome on April 25 in a ceremonial by the American Legion. Newton D. Baker will deliver the presentation. John Philip Sousa conducts the Army Band. a tableaux honors war orphans and disabled veterans. over 100 artists participate. nationwide radio hook-up will broadcast the events.
Union Sedalia road completed. Clemson College ground broken for a $30,000 store and a $5,000 ice cream plant near York. Hard surfacing roads planned countywide. Varnville and Georgetown work on bridges and paving. Spartanburg mill supply firm forms with $100,000 capital. Beaufort and Georgetown consider street and sewer bond issues.
The piece praises radio's popularity led by chief figure H. KB Philips. It argues radio diminishes ticket speculator influence and lets listeners escape bad entertainment easily. It mocks theatre as unable to match radio until patrons can instantaneously alter shows with a button.
A Washington Star excerpt shows a visitor and Cactus Joe debating Crimson Gulch’s decline. They lament motors and radio eroding old spirited life and entertain a tongue in cheek plan to rename the place Pink Ravine.
The Camden pageant has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 1 as the new official date. Organizers announced the postponement due to ongoing arrangements and invited participants to note the updated schedule.
An old graduate and a student reminisce about the past at college. The elderly man claims the campus youth miss the excitement and asserts the old days had real queens and more fun, citing his class as nineteen twenty three.
A Houston Post-Dispatch report notes an Ohio proponent urging life sentences for Volstead Act violators urging harsh penalties. He even proposes death for cigarette smokers, sparing few groups from severe penalties.
Report from the United States Department of Agriculture warns boll weevils survived winter and could cause damage if spring and summer weather favors reproduction. The advisory urges strict cultural controls and timely use of calcium arsenate dust as weevils puncture a portion of cotton squares.
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