McCormick and York County News Highlights
The report notes a recent opening of new businesses and causes in McCormick and York County. It covers the 1925 Wednesday event, a large 800-attendee Presbyterian convention ten miles from York, a Safe theft at Gulf Refining Co. leading to arrests, and local crime including a jail incarceration for Claud Doyle connected to an automobile theft. Also mentioned are a failed self-harm attempt by a Florence man and the Beasley family death of a six year old in Anderson.
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Florence County
Claud Doyle
First bale of Orangeburg cotton sells for seventy and a half
The season's opening sale at auction brought 70 1 2 pats per pound for Orangeburg county’s first bale, grown by a local firm. Other items report drownings in Mullins, a fatal shooting involving Officer Bethea, a petition to discontinue passenger and mail service, a botched sandwich causing damages suit, widespread weevil rise, a Barracuda bite in Folly Island, magistrate E M Martin’s conduct inquiry, and summer fiddlers gathering from multiple counties with Dixie tunes.
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Orangeburg County
Charles
E. M. Martin
Swansea
McLeod
Specifaci
Florida Land Boom From McGhee Tale Reaches Tampa Bay
The McGhee family story in Florida real estate shows rapid gains in property values from Bradenton to St. Petersburg and Tampa. Mr McGhee, new to Florida, turned a modest lot into Edgemoor Estates and shifted 400 acres into easy payments with help from friends. He foresees price readjustment but sees continued growth in cities like Miami, St. Petersburg, and Bradenton.
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Sy Ries Setinen
McShee
McGhee
Edgemoor Estates
St. Petersburg
Florida
McGee
Wiseacres
Miami
Tampa
Bradentown
Catawba Nation Faces Modern Constraints on Its Lands and Rights
The article traces the Catawba once powerful tribe in the Carolinas from early colonists to a state ward with a 652 acre reservation in York County. It notes population decline, wartime service, a 1764 land treaty, smallpox impact, and ongoing limits on citizenship and property rights with the tribe surviving on state support and a chief elected every four years.
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South Carolina
Carolinas
South
King Haigier
Haigier
Augusta
Catawba
Noble
York County
River Bend
Rock Hill
Andrew Jackson
Legiseture
T. O. Flowers of
King Business Colleges One of Carolinas Finest Schools
King Business College of Raleigh and Charlotte North Carolina led by president and owner E L Layfield. For fifty years Layfield has trained many students now in lucrative positions nationwide. The schools enroll youths and adults from eighth grade upward with class and individual instruction and strong placement help through two schools.
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Carolinas
King Business College
Raleigh
Charlotte
N.C
E. L. Layfield
Layfield
King Schools
National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools
United States
Canada
King
American Legion Elects Officers at Charleston
John G. Galbraith was elected commander of the South Carolina Department American Legion at Charleston, succeeding E R McIver of Florence. Union was chosen as 1926 meeting place. Auxiliary reorganization elected Mrs Jo Lyles Glenn Jr of Chester as president. Other officers include Andrew H Macauley Chester vice commander Col J Monroe Johnson Manion national executive committee Gee Warramaker St Matthews historian Fred Graham Greenville service officer and Rev R F Blackford Charleston chaplain.
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John G. Galbraith
Department of South Carolina
American Legion
Charleston
E. R. McIver
Florence
E Union
the Legion Auxiliary
Jo Lyles Glenn, Jr
Chester
Andrew H.macauley
Col
J. Monroe Johnson
Manion
National Executive Committee
Gee W. Warramaker
St Matthews
Fred Graham
Greenville
R. F. Blackford
The Real Tax Problem
A Pickens Sentinel opinion argues that the main state tax issue is obtaining the taxpayer money. The writer critiques the appointed committee studying tax problems and urges attention to revenue collection concerns.
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Pickens Sentinel
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Pegaso
Association Rmed Presbyterian
York
Gulf Refining Company
W. C. Mayo
Cliff Jolly
Spartanburg
McCormck de McCormick
Carolina
North Carolina
Beck
Elizabeth Gabie
Ajamine
Angus W. Beasley
Anderson
McCormick
Abbeville
Ne Connerly
Poe
Moore
Mullins
Pee Dee River
Sancho Bacchus
Harvey C. Bethea
Pichshs Railroad
Mamie B. Greer
Pelder
A. K. Anos
Pee Dee
Folly Island
W. K. Kahrs
Faith
Pickens
Greenwood
Nerm
Wittens
Notihee
Eicher
Firiae
England
Fort Mill
King's Business Colleges
Veedol
Neji
Argo Development Compa Y
Harold Eubanks
Pres
Loan & Exchange Bank Building
Webb’s
Columbia, S. C
Church
Home Real Estates and Insurance Co
Gibbes Machinery Company
Tobacco Growers Co-Operative
Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association
America
The
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
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