Itemize and Scrutinize 1928 Appropriation Bill
Governor Richards leads hearings with the Ways and Means chairman and the Senate Finance chair to craft an itemized budget for 1928. The drive pushes for district itemization to show exact uses of funds, plus critique of the State Tax Commission and overlapping duties among constitutional officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
John K
John G. Richards
Ways and Means
House
Senate
General Assembly
Ways and Means Committee
University of South Carolina
Winthrop
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
H. H. Gross
Senate Finance Committee
Robert E. McCaslan
Walter E. Duncan
Treasury
Europe
Human and the Divine sermon at St John s Methodist
The Rev P L Bouknight will preach at 11 15 Sunday morning at St John s Methodist church on The Human and the Divine. Sunday school meets at 10. No evening service due to a special Baptist church service. Schultz Hill Agricultural Club met at the Clubhouse with Lee Gowan addressing turkey sales vatsmut and farm program improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Methodist Church
P. L. Bouknight
the Baptist Church
Schultz Hill Agricultural Club
Lee Gowan
Gwendolyn Randall Visits Mrs. Frank Thorpe
Miss Gwendolyn Randall from Tampa Florida is visiting Mrs. Frank Thorpe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwendolyn Randall
Tampa,Fla
Frank Thorpe
Annual Flower Show Opens This Afternoon
The Flower Show at Highland Park Hotel Sun Parlor opens at 3 p.m. with large crowds expected for displays hoped to surpass previous years. Supper in the tea room starts at 5:30, and an Armistice Day musical program will follow. Admission is twenty five cents. prizes for best exhibits in each class attract amateurs and professionals, with displays previously shown at 1010 Park Avenue. The Civic League sponsors the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken
Highland Park Hotel
Sun Parlor
Highland Park
Park Avenue
Civic League
Aiken Institute to Meet Barnwell in Rivalry Clash
The Aiken Institute football team faces Barnwell High at Eustis Park this afternoon in a long standing rivalry. Aiken seeks revenge after a 37-0 loss at Orangeburg last week, while Barnwell aims to prove as determined as the locals. Coach Gregg says the squad is ready with a few injuries but the regular lineup expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken Institute
Barnwell High
Eustis Park
Aiken
Jay Birds
Orangeburg
Gregg
Bar Prepares for Court in Aiken session
The Aiken Bar met to organize the Court of Common Pleas term. They plan two weeks and half of a third for jury trials and reserve the rest of the third week for equity and non jury cases. A long rial roster was drawn, with over a hundred cases listed. The court expects a busy docket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken
Court of Common Pleas
Equity
Rial
Captain A. W. Sanders Improves From Illness
Captain A W Sanders who has been ill is improving his condition according to recent medical reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Sanders
Armistice Day Reflections From A World War I Veteran
A former American Army officer recounts Armistice Day memories from the front nine years earlier. He describes the tense last hour before 11 o'clock, the roar of guns, the pause at the moment of ceasefire, and the emotional boundary between a fallen world and a safer democracy. The piece notes Governor Richards urging a two minute silence at 11 am and reflects on Armistice Day as a mix of memory joy and sorrow. Holley Motor Co announces gas at 20 cents per gallon in a local sales push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argonne
Chateau Thierry
France
American Legion
Tosh
Richards
South Carolina
Holley Motor Co
Henry E. Holley
Aiken
A. Frank Lever Addresses Aiken Kiwanis Club
A. Frank Lever of Columbia and former congressman spoke to the Aiken Kiwanis at Hotel Aiken. He urged rural school reform and leadership, predicted industrial growth would replace farming, and warned the sector must raise living standards while eliminating inefficient farmers. He discussed cotton decline east of the Mississippi and the role of big operators and capital in farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Frank Lever
Columbia
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Federal Farm Loan Board
Smith-Lever
First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank of Columbia
Aiken Kiwanis Club
Aiken
Lever
Mississippi
International Harvester Company
Texas
Oklahoma
Evangelistic Services Draw Large Crowds at Baptist Church
Rev. Porter Bailes of Lakeland Fla delivers forceful sermons at the Baptist church with B B Pickens in charge of music. A Wednesday night crowd, among them thirty two grandmothers and two great grandmothers, heard Bailes on The Mother in Behalf of her Daughter stressing a mother’s influence and responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
Porter M. Baiies
Lakeland
Fla
B. B. Pickens
Bailes
Negro Dies After Landslide Buries Gravel Digger
Harold Montague a Black laborer from Denmark while working for Climon Wynn at a gravel pit near the Columbia highway Shaw's Creek bridge three miles from Aiken was buried under five feet of rock clay and gravel when the bank collapsed He died at Aiken Hospital four PM after being extricated and having his back severely injured A warning from another gang overseer went unheeded indicating danger from the overhanging bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Montague
Denmark
Climon Wynn
Columbia Highway
Shaw's Creek Bridge
Aiken
Aiken Hospital
Montague
Also Mentioned on This Page
National Tax Association
Canada
Atlanta
Association of Tobacco Tax Commissioners
South Carolina Tax Commission
Augustus Caesar
Banwell
Bar
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!