State News Notes From Across South Carolina
State-wide items report more than sixty lumber mills in Chesterfield, a new Columbia boat line on the Congaree, Dr. Geo B Cromer elected president of the State Teachers Association, and a $1200 barn fire in Newberry County. Storms bring fatalities and wind damage. county finances delay Banery County court sessions. Governor offers $100 reward for Elijah Edward tied to Kinard murder. Dispensary sales rise in Charleston prompting six new liquor outlets. Orangeburg conflict ends with a death. Congressman Sam Lapham from Spartanburg nominated in Texas. Faculty salaries rise slightly at the South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston. Wilborn and Mobley clash in Walhalla over railroad commissioner race. Tobacco sales open season in Marion with strong prices. Florence suffers a $15,000 fire injuring American Tobacco and others. Hon. Robert Aldrich to speak at Greenville Confederate reunion. J W Austin to represent Georgia. Aiken County horse thieves reward offered. A.E. Prioleau bound over for tampering with mail. Col M J Donaldson urged as U S senator candidate. Miss Mattie Joan Adams, first woman graduate of SC College, takes English chair at Leesville College. A negro worker killed in a Wando line wreck. South Atlantic Institute building burns in Charlotte. $10,000 insured. A U S pension exam board to be based in Greenville with three doctors. Oconee County to obtain a rock crusher and road equipment from American Head Machinery Co. Hale Evans dispensary raid may yield legal actions. Evans hints at civil action against Daily News and tied to criminal case.
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Chesterfield County
Columbia Ave
Congaree
Geo. B. Cromer
Newberry College
State Teachers’ Association
Banery County
Court of Sessions and Common Pleas
Elijah Edward
J. B. Kinard
Newberry County
Charleston
Orangebur
Lsborers
Southern Bellelephony Company
Tenao Smith
Degro
Sam Lapham
South Carolina
Spartanburg
Texas
Aiken County
A.E. Prioleau
United States
Orangeburg
M. J. Donaldson
Graanville
McLorin
Mattie Joan Adamy
South Carolina College
Meridian College For
Io Leesville College
Wodoesda
Toland Workman
C. N
South Tional Institute
Monda
D. Charlotte
Carolina Co-Educat
Edgefield
Tompkins
Bailey
United States Pension Examination Board
Upper South Carolina
Greenville
Horatofore Ee
Orsonville
Asheyi
Ooonsa County
American Head Machinery Company
Hale Evans
Evans
Nassat
Daily N
Vast 1902 directory counts and global events spill over
1902 Chicago directory shows 6000 Johnsons 4600 Smiths 400 Johnstons. Yale receives a half million gift. Utah mine disaster kills 33. Maine and Connecticut politics notes. China, Philippines, and US races and rail strikes reported. violent lynching in Georgia. notable deaths and curiosities thread through the year’s early headlines. The mix captures finance gifts, public safety, diplomacy, labor action, and sensational human-interest items.
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Frederick Vaanderbilt
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale College
Park City
Utah
Connecticut
Maine
Congress
How the Work of Completing the Rolls will be Done
A detailed outline from Chairman Sommerman Doyle on county and township enrollment committees for Confederate Veterans. It covers appointment of leaders, scope of enrollment, oversight by township veterans, and cooperation with Sons and Daughters of Veterans, plus steps for compiling and transferring township records into the county enrollment book as a permanent record.
Veterans meeting to elect ex Confederate rep in 1902
Surviving soldiers of the State and Confederate forces are urged to meet at 6 o clock in Anderson and Pelzer and at 7 o clock otherwise on the next Saturday in August to elect by ballot a representative for the Veterans. They must choose an ex Confederate soldier not a pension holder or applicant. John T. Green chairs the Bd with J. J. Gilmer as another member. Report to your representative promptly to avoid pension roll exclusion.
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Anderson and
Pelzer
Veterans of
and Township
John T. Green
Chm
J.J. Gilmer
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Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Urs Sill
B. O. Evans & CO
Spot Cash Clothiers
Lithia
White Stone Lithia Hotel
South
North Carolina
Georgia
White Stone Lithia Water Company
White Stone Springs, South Carolina
Carolinis
State News
Wilborn
Mobley
Walhalla
Marion
Florence
Ameriscan Tobacco Cominy
Robert Aldrich
Burnwell
Confederate Veterans
J.W. Austin
Atlanta
Sona
General News
Washington
Hig
Great Northern
Jefferies
Fitzsimmons
King Edward
John A. Rogan
Manila
Kivi
Russia
Spencer Mobley
Halsyondale
Gol. Bryan
Kansas City
B. Aycock
Dublin
Bullock County
China
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Smith
Philippine Islands
Lily
D Wheaton
Appomattox, A
Nancy Ann Jones
Jonesboro
Siast
Tennessee
Ferry Chesney
Copper Ridge
Knoxville
Mayor Swink
Rocky Ford
Cal
America
Hia Aes
St. Louis
Colorado State House
Denver
Louis Wilkins
Chicago
Anak
Charles Hill
Groton
Misa
Clayton
Mins
William Ody
Virginia Tucker
Miss Tucker
Mmerman Doyle
State Committee
Dutiea
Townahip
Veteran Township
Bons and Daughters
Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy
Sald Vateeraus
Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy
Staten
Volunteer
Provisional Army
Confederacy
South Caroline
South Carolina Military
Citadel) Academy
South Carolina Arsenal
Fairfield County
Sixth
South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
Chester County
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