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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1929
Page
2
In Virginia Pollard, the regular Democratic candidate, won the governorship by about 60,000 over the Republican anti-Smith coalition. The Virginia bishop’s exile in Brazil frames a two party dynamic for the South, while national investors note volatility and the era’s political murk.
Friends of Frank R Wilson regret to learn of the passing of his brother Malcolm last week in Denver. Details are scant as the family prepares notices and arrangements.
Melvin J. Ashley, Abbeville County representative, announces in a letter to lawmakers his candidacy for Warehouse Commissioner opposing J Clifton Rivers. He highlights farming and cotton trade experience and pledges to assume duties after the General Assembly adjourns. Also includes a Master’s Sale notice in Aiken County detailing parcels and tax liens with sale date.
Notice of tax executions levied by the County Treasurer of Aiken County. Purchases at public outcry will be sold to Jeanie Weeks and others for numerous Windsor and Shaw properties including 201 acres, 77 acres, 64 acres, 58 acres, and 101 acres with all improvements, plus Pine Lodge Club 6 acres. Details show associated names and estates.
Want ads show Easterling Brothers selling wholesale hot casings with prices for 1, 2, 5, 10 and 25 pounds. Also promoted are a 22 acre Springfield South Carolina farm with a mill pond and multiple mills, plus a distributor needed for a soap business in Hartford Connecticut and rental ads for two furnished apartments in Augusta Georgia. A lost keys notice from Aiken Standard is included.
In The Court of Common Pleas D Avery Williamson as administrator of John T Williamson. S P Williamson et al defendants. By order dated November 1929 the court will offer at public outcry in front of the Court House at Aiken on Monday December 2 1929 the 88 acre tract on Ninety six Road bounded by Walter Poole Elizabeth Williams estate of J Dempsey Jones estate of J Alfred Jones William Toole Arch ie Corbitt and marked as Tracts 1 2 3 6 per 1887 division plat by John O D Knotts Deputy Surveyor.
A sale of real estate in Windsor Township, Aiken County, South Carolina, is ordered by the Court of Common Pleas. The bid deposit required is $100 as good faith. a $50 deposit may be required and the premises will be resold if not met. The property is a 50 acre tract, bounded by Mundy and Spires lands, to be sold at public outcry on Monday, December 2, 1929.
State court filing in Aiken County involving Courtney and Sisley as plaintiffs and defendants Tekoah Sisley and others in a civil action. limited readable text shows party names and docket style without full context or details.
The narrator describes a missed 7 and 8 o'clock from Don causing frantic worry. Mrs Brown and a nearby friend failed to relay messages, prompting a personal lesson in reliance on a telephone. The incident leads to the decision to buy a telephone, valued as essential despite cost.
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