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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1927
Page
6
A humorous column notes odd inventions such as a hog milker that swallows milk and a South Georgia alarm clock that wakes couples via a rooster tied toe method. It recalls a failed cotton picker and around church fundraising schemes, satirizing local thrift and heathen relief donations.
The Court of Common Pleas jury pool for the second week opens Monday November 21 with Judge T J Mauldin presiding. Names include Hollis Busbee Clearwater Co E Weaver Warrenville H T Bodie Wagener R H Rogers Ridge Spring J R Parker Langley M Tanner Ellenton A C Haskell Augusta No 4 J E Evans Bath Lloyd Widener Vaucluse J A Green Jackson Ezra McDaniel Warrenville H H Jackson Windsor A L Eidson Salley W D McNair Aiken G H Beck White Pond J J Galloway Langley Brantley Garvin Wagener L A McMillan Salley W H Scott Vaucluse H O Ward Wagener Cc L Martin Vaucluse J W Gregory Windsor L H Lamar Augusta No 1 Pierce Y Hitt N Augusta Cc E Walton Vaucluse J B Harmon Langley E S Willis Ridge Spring J E Brodie r M H Goldman Samaria Dan H Sawyer Salley D O Jones Eureka T T Derrick Warrenville WH Windsor C A Eubanks Windsor
About 80 Chevrolet dealers and salesmen gathered at the Aiken Inn to celebrate the October sales contest. The event highlighted that nationwide sales exceeded 112000 cars with South Carolina delivering 2163 retail units, outperforming North Carolina and boosting the state quota by 85 percent. Key attendees included P A Watson and other Chevrolet executives. A film from the GM proving ground was shown and the Jay Mac Chevrolet Co. led with 39 cars sold in October.
A fierce brush fire driven by a strong west wind menaced several homes in the Kalmia Hills area near Aiken last Friday. Firefighters stopped the blaze at the city edge with help from volunteers while protecting properties belonging to Mrs. R. H. Wilds, B. F. Holley, Mrs. Mattie Hall, and Dr. G. Y. McMurphey. The origin was linked to J. L. Jones at Kennedy's Crossing on the Augusta Aiken interurban line, with prior smoldering fires in the valley tied to a larger Graniteville Manufacturing Company blaze. No property damage beyond burned brush.
Bejamin H Marshall and associates of Chicago began its $3,006,000 tourist hotel and cottage colony project by selling four thousand acres near North Augusta and Belvedere at public outcry on November Sales Day. Hendersons and Sallee bought the land for $25,000 to clear title as master in equity Edward S Croft offered many tracts, with about twenty sales. Farms long held by families changed ownership.
Mr and Mrs George A Copeland of Clinton announce the engagement of their daughter Ethel to James Jeter Cornwall of Aiken The couple plan a wedding in the near future Cornwall is district representative for Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company and a graduate of Presbyterian College of South Carolina Class of 1926
The Carolina-Georgia Service Company announces a stock offering of its $7 cumulative preferred to customers and friends as part of a customer ownership program. The plan mirrors public utility practices where customers become part-owners, share in earnings, and support home investments.
Miss Annie Belle Wise former Aiken resident and Clinton native died at 24. Funeral Tuesday at Millbrook church with burial in the church cemetery. Survived by parents the late Mr and Mrs Boon Wise and brothers and sisters including Harold Berry Orangeburg Cusanc Timmonsville and Charles Wise Rock Hill.
The American Society of Agricultural Engineers reports a farm labor surplus raising production costs. Farmers, already urged to mortgage for machinery, face contested income gains as bankers brokers speculators and engineers shake the industry. unity among producers is urged to apply stronger business principles.
Over five years the Har mon Foundation at 140 Nassau Street New York City loaned about 300000 dollars to 1723 college students. Repayments with six percent interest indicate losses will be under two percent.
The sheriff of Aiken County will sell at public outcry on December 5 1927 in front of the courthouse the truck and Whippet Coach automobile levied under a judgment against L R Garvin and William Robins. Nollie Robinson sheriff notes the sale date and venue.
State of South Carolina Court of Common Pleas files a civil action by L B Jumper and J E B McElrath against B W Hayes Lottie Hayes and G hk Toole seeking relief as stated in the complaint The summons requires defendants to answer within twenty days from service and indicates the filing date November 10 1927 in Aiken County clerk’s office Williams Croft Busbee are the plaintiffs attorneys
After ten years of experiments a California chemist claims rubber can be made from the spiney cactus plants. If valid this could end United States dependency on foreign rubber.
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