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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1876
Page
3
The Intelligencer urges all candidates and supporters to pay the nomination fee of five dollars per entry. It warns against writing articles to promote specific candidates under advertising charges and notes other local notices including weather, charity appeals, and a fatal inquest, with various community updates from Anderson and surrounding areas.
Young men of Anderson organize a 60 member company named Rite Company. Officers elected include Pi. McCully Captain J Baylis Lewis First Lieutenant J D Maxwell Second Lieutenant John E Williams Third Lieutenant. Proposed Palmetto Rifle Club name and aim to uniform soon. Citizens urged to aid arms and equipment. Also Col Smalley lecture tour announced by Pomona Grange with dates in Sandy Springs and Anderson C H June 1 1876.
A pre 1644 tale recounts West Allen Williams, Esq. dreaming of a mineral spring near Williamston South Carolina. He wanders with a rifle, dreams a town forming around the spring, and verifies a real mineral spring later. He funds land allotments for the spring, rail line, churches, and town improvements, earning the town’s naming in his honor. The piece notes his generosity and hospitality, linking the dream to the town’s growth as of 1876.
Hopewell Democratic Club met at J M Hamblin s school house on Saturday with President B Williams presiding. Members signed on new entrants and Capt J W Daniels spoke. Plans set for next meeting at Tucker s Mill before the second Sunday in July at 10 AM. Invitations extended to James L Orr and Dr H J Epting to address the gathering.
The Slabtown and Honea Path Democratic Clubs meet in June with minutes read, new members added, and support voiced for the Central Executive Committee actions on primary timing. Broadaway and Anderson County clubs adopt resolutions endorsing primary plans and invite Independence Day activities, while nominating and praising party fidelity and preparation for the November elections.
A discussion on botany and medicinal plants describes Hepatine a plant from Southern Nubia that supposedly changes color with atmospheric shifts. It claims Hepatine cures liver stomach and bowel diseases and offers a free facsimile of the flower after sending a stamp and address to a Philadelphia firm. it also criticizes false testimonials and promotes various tonics.
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