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Local notes and incidents in Pickens and surrounding counties
Hon J N King plans to run for Congress in this district while young lawyers eye practice in Pickens. A tale of a melon vine yields 39 melons averaging 50 pounds. A $15,000 gift to Erskine College funds a girls dormitory. Various local accidents, a murder over a bet, and a bridge collision are reported along with council notes on Greenwood schools and a judge’s grand jury remarks. A Charleston worker is electrocuted at 40 feet, and a mob mistreats Rev Mullinix. A large adulteration expose warns Southern flour buyers about glucose offal and white flour standards. A lengthy discussion on cotton prices urges acreage limits and currency reform to uplift Southern farming.
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J.N. King
Congress
Pickens
Dournal
Ailuda
Sid 51
Williford
Rock Hill
Joseph Wylie
Erskine College
Bristow Sherrard
Boyd
Saluda River
Bristow
Greenwood Journal
Aldrich
Grand Jury
Aleric
Mr. Gonces
Johnston
John Maya
Griff Mays
Griff Maya
John
Ellerbe
Uauseney
Abbevill County
Greenwood
Greenwood County
Cport House
Gary
Jonesy Sims
Ya County
Adolphus Coker
Clarendon County
Rosey Coker
Coker
Boséy
Rist
Erekine College
Denger
Gaindiva
Erskine
Henry Heyward
Charleston Electric Light Company
Heyward
Orce
Mullinix
Valhalla
Long Creek
Stumphouse Mountain
Tao
Bar of Justice
Walhalla
Ion
Zoud Eatius
Chicago
Porail
Ceauline
W. T. Bradley
South
Bradley
Atlanta