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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1930
Page
2
Walter E. Duncan editorial urges Aiken readers to stop shooting robins and squirrels in parks and homes. He cites Boy Scout laws and federal prohibitions, arguing modern life values aesthetics over survival and that youths should learn to protect animals and obey the law.
The piece notes how new inventions like telephones lights and flights moved from miracle to commonplace over centuries. It compares past reactions from witch trials to modern curiosity, highlighting the January 22 call between Captain Riley and Admiral Byrd and the evolving view of scientific progress.
The Hotel Henderson, completed by the Aiken Community Hotel Corporation, opened to visitors from 3 to 11 PM led by leasee J Mason Alexander of Greenville and manager Gilbert A Martin. Located at Richland Avenue and Chesterfield Street, the brick three story hotel offers 50 outside light filled bedrooms, a large early American lobby, dining room, shops, and a fireproof design.
The Chamber of Commerce hosts a forestry program at the Motel Henderson tonight with State Forester Lewis E. Staley and USFS lecturer Jr. N Wheeler. Wheeler will show slides on forestry work as civic leaders are urged to attend while a banquet for Aiken Fire Department members and city council precedes the meeting at 7 30 p m. Mayor Frank P Henderson chairs the public session and aims to gather winter residents and locals for the event.
Mrs Eugenia Ann Victoria Bailey Bolin widow of M M Bolin died last Friday at her Orangeburg County home near Salley She was 75 and had been ill a short time Funeral services were at Pleasant Hill church Sunday and she is buried beside her husband She is survived by sisters Armenia Hughes Abbie Hughes Addie Hughes of Neeses and Ursula Carter Langley and by children including David Henry and others
Lucius Martin Bolin and Thomas Eliza Bolin of Cordelia Ga and Benjamin Tillman Bolin live with Alfred Leroy Bolin in Winnsboro. Mary Cornelia Williams of Columbia Ida Magnolia Williams and Cora Ethel Williams of Oakland also survive. Deceased children include Mrs Emma M Phillips Willie Benson Bolin and infant Sallie and George Bolin. Twenty four grandchildren survive.
Warns readers of self poisoning from constipation and toxins in the body. Promotes iterb ine as a vegetable cathartic said to work naturally and urges readers to obtain a bottle today.
Want ads include rental offers for farmland and piano, sale items such as a solid mahogany drop leaf table and boxwood juniper plants, and employment pitches from Rawleigh's and Furst and Thomas. Notable entries list C N Oliver Belvedere 4 and Caroling Nursery Fast Flat Rock North Carolina, with details on prices and contact methods.
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