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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1902
Page
4
Judge Gage questioned the constitutionality of county government and the new road tax in a long analysis of appellate cases. Critics fear counties lack boards to enforce the road law, while supporters claim the bill, prepared by county representatives, will endure legal tests and provide needed funding and administration.
Report notes how waste products from cotton and steel industries gain value as the industrial world seeks to reuse byproducts. German example shows beet tops, once worthless, now processed into nutritious materials, signaling a broader move to turn waste into wealth amid rising production and demand.
The Charleston General Assembly shows pace with two sermons daily, eyeing a busy week as they pass the appropriation bill and begin supply measures while weighing a strict anti trust law modeled after Texas Toys Law and a new road statute. Senate resistance to radical corporate repeal emerges alongside debates on a state fertilizer factory and a five mill levy for the general supply bill. Domestic fowls are threaded into the stock law story but die in committee as a conference and free conference process unfolds.
The Senate passed a McGowan bill after hours of debate, redrawing districts from Seventh to First and shaping a new congress districts map. Biennial sessions failed in the Senate. the House approved most appropriations, with Winthrop funding set at 350000. Representative Bott died of pneumonia prompting tributes. Anderson County levy set at 4 mills total.
Mrs Veggy Simpson widow of Wm Simpson died last Thursday at her home in the Corner. She was about 00 years old and died after taking malaria. Remains buried at Cross Ronda the next day. The biggest snow of the season fell Friday night about seven inches. Rabbits have been seen, many trapped. Farm work is at a standstill but locals are up with their finess. Reports say sow spring oats this week but Providence intervened. Last Friday was said to be the time to sow cabbage seed, but few were planted. Messrs Clayton and Wade West on visit to parents in the area. Their cousin Lavelle Dean will return with them. Health generally good in the community. Burke
Denver reports the February snow season as the longest on record with daily snowfalls for over two weeks and a 10 inch storm on the 1st. Much of the ground remains white except where spring sunshine has melted it. Farmers see optimism for a good wheat crop despite late work delays and damaged early sowing from freezes. Local residents Ella Johnson and Prod visited Denver, Lary Heaton and Florence Roberts wed in Denver, and Cadet Will Garrison, away at Memegn, was remembered fondly.
The funeral records the death of Mrs Robt M Cummingo who died in Charlotte on the 1th inst and was brought to Worker's Creek Cemetery for burial. Rev Hawkins led services. She was daughter of the late Lewis Green and widow of Robt M Cummings with two children alive. The youngest child is three months old. The two year old Kathleen called farewell at the grave with the line I will eat A Pricath.
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