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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1901
Page
1
The State Fair will be held in Columbia from November 16 to 22 with events and exhibits featured. Other items note a reappointment at Columbia, a major factory expansion, and various local incidents including a fire at Seneca and a large hog exhibited in Spartanburg.
A Washington dispatch summarizes mixed verdicts on the Schley case and Roosevelt’s dinner with Booker Washington. It notes Gage’s bond purchases to ease Treasury excess, Aldrich blocking reciprocity, and brewing Democratic talk for 1904. The piece also critiques census reform schemes and civil service implications in Congress.
Mr W A Orton assistant pathologist in Washington visited Charleston after a Georgia Alabama trip arranging field experiments on cotton wilt in South Carolina. He notes immune seed from healthy plants offers a path to resistant cotton and that government led programs aim to develop upland varieties not subject to wilt, with seed distribution from James Island grower E L Rivers and other planters. The work seeks to protect cotton regions including Georgia Florida and the Sea Islands and may save hundreds of thousands of dollars while also pursuing a long staple upland variety.
A compact retail note recalls a shop selling clothes shoes hats and furnishings located on Granite Row between Brock Bros and Wilhites drug Store. The message invites shoppers to think of them for their apparel needs.
October 20 report from Columbia notes the Confederate Home committee of the South Carolina division of Confederate Veterans Association met at the Columbia Hotel. Gen T W Carwile chaired with Gen W E Jones Col T H B Crow and Col Iredell Jones present. The group reviewed reports from other states, discussed laws and management, and authorized a draft bill for later assembly consideration. The committee stressed the Home should not affect state pension laws and urged aid only for distressed Confederates with no home. The meeting was harmonious and the panel prepared a careful bill for submission and adjourned subject to the chairman’s call with hopes all members attend the next meeting.
Kililor Littellizgencer thanks Anderson Maton Wire Insurance Company for prompt liberal settlement of barn and contents burned October 21, 1907, in Piedmont South Carolina. W D S barn An.
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