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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1925
Page
6
A jumble of 1920s advertising rates and local notices blends with quips on labor, politics, and society. The column jokes about tariffs, birth rates, air mail, and a mock call for a bootleggers' convention, reflecting wartime era concerns and wit.
A speaker urges those who claim Bible knowledge to read at least the first chapter of Genesis. The remark emphasizes beginning study and understanding before asserting expertise.
Aiken County Junior Agriculture Club, started three years ago by local bankers and business leaders, convenes its third annual short course at Camp Arrow Head and Camp Kiwanis with 123 members registered. Special programs run Thursday and Friday, featuring guests from Aiken and Augusta, plus lectures on thrift, crop identification, pig judging, dairy cattle judging, and a talk by Congressman Hare.
Stone Mountain Memorial Coins are available through banks in the county. Citizens may obtain them at local financial institutions to support the memorial project.
An advertisement lists ice prices: 30 cents per hundred, 15 cents for 50 pounds, 8 cents for 25 pounds, and 12 pounds for 5 cents. It invites readers to call The Aiken Ice Co. at phone 52 for overcharges.
The Primary department of the Baptist school and the mothers of the little folks enjoyed a picnic at Coker Spring last Wednesday afternoon. Four carrier pigeon coops were released in the post office square for their return to the Palmetto Pigeon Racing club lofts in Charleston. Mrs. Bailey and Mr. and Mrs. Newell Anderson of Savannah visited Mrs. Bock, Sr. Clarence Clay Jr. returned home in St Mast after a two month stay with his grandmother, Mrs. E. A. Sommer.
A county club member recounts attending Clemson College Short Course in 1924. He describes sessions on dairy science and milk cow selection, horticulture and fruit, cotton seed treatment, and farm topics, with lectures, farm visits, a ball game, group stunts, and a certificate ceremony.
Notice as administrator of the estate of Margaret Mills Mays, deceased, to be filed with Probate Judge Lord Aiken County at the court house in Aiken on the 23rd of August 1925 at 11 o clock for final return and request for final discharge.
Notice of a stockholders meeting for the Aiken Agricultural Club in Aiken South Carolina on September 2 1925 at 1 PM. Meeting to consider issuing a note for 1066 10 to fund additions to the club house secured by a mortgage on club grounds and to authorize officers to arrange the loan and mortgage.
Mr B O Williams plans to attend the Aiken County Junior Agricultural Club Encampment from the 4th through the 7th. The event drew 25 counties and 87 boys this year, with club members urged to keep improving. Judson Fulmer signs off.
An archival notice from the Board of Education and Board of Registration lists the coroner and clerk details. The document shows monetary figures 1 191.61 6 666.72 19.22 17 387.52 and is signed W. Ashhurst Jr Clerk to Board dated July 15 1925.
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