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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1902
Page
4
The General Assembly faces a full term with urgent measures ahead while President Roosevelt, constrained by his son's illness, abandons a Charleston trip. The era’s pension debates resurface as calls rise for former presidents to receive annual stipends and wider federal spending looms over pensions, railways, and telegraphs.
Farmers are urged to use every suitable day for plowing to sow oats and break up land. An early energetic start is likely to keep a farmer ahead through the season.
Irom Our Own Correspondent, Columbia S C Feb 10 Special. A week of the Legislature's forty days in Columbia closed with twenty nine bills ratified by both Houses. Major acts include juror drawing reform and codification of the Statutes, plus measures on criminal costs, appraisal of es tate, boarding houses, firecrackers, railroad bonds, and university distribution of a code. The Senate and House also debated pay for Charleston travel, the Will extending to domestic fowls, and several rail and weapon acts, with key laws to take effect on specified dates.
Legislative notes record votes on proposed anti trust and labor measures. The cotton license proposal failed in the Senate after extended debate, while Henderson's bill to empower the Attorney General to secure testimony in trust violations progressed but faced opposition. House action on the labor bill ended with a narrow defeat, listing many named lawmakers and votes.
Lowndesville residents catch up with relatives in Anderson and Iva while local traders buy cotton in Elberton and Antreville. The week features visits to Augusta and Columbia, illness concerns for Wm. Moore, and the formation of a Lowndraville embroidery club led by Miss Vera Allen with officers including Miss Lillis Hooketee and Miss Ethel Speer.
Mrs Lane Ford, wife of John W Ford, died Saturday after a year of frail health and months bedridden with consumption. A daughter of Robert Marlin of Abbeville County, she and Ford had three children who all preceded her. She was active in the Methodist Church, noted for charity, and aged 70. Funeral services were held Sunday conducted by Rev J J Donce and burial was in the Presbyterian churchyard. Saml J Martin Townville S h 10.
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