Rebekah Lodge Installs Officers for No 81 on Jan 12
At the January 12 meeting of Rebekah Lodge No 81 the newly installed officers include N G H J Piiliker W G J K Freeman Sec Geo Easton Treas A J Dundas Chaplain Carrie Smith Warden Mattie Price Conductor F J Davis Pianist J F Lucas RS to NG Bessie Ham L S to NG Jennie Brinkley RS to VG L L Broughton JS Alar supporter Sarah Cannon Inner Guard J F Lucas Outer Guard Grace Easton Sec There will be an initiation at the next meeting with a surprise in store.
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Rebekah Lodge No. 81
H. J.piiliker
N. G
J. K. Freeman
W. G
Geo. Easton
A. J. Dundas
Treas
Heman Higgins
Carrie Smith
Mattie Price
F. J. Davis
J. F. Lucas
R.S
Bessie Ham
L. S
Jennie Brinkley
R. S
V. G
Sarah Cannon
C. E. Broughton
Grace Easton
Trenton Suicides At Lawrenceville Prep School
Clark H Tanby a Hopkinsville Kentucky graduate and Oxford Cecil Rhodes scholar and professor of Greek and Latin at the Lawrenceville Preparatory School in New Jersey killed himself in bed with a pistol after a failed first attempt. He was twenty five unmarried and there is no known motive. The school declined comment and the county physician closed the case.
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Trenton, Jap
Clark H. Tanby
Hopkinsville
Oxford
Cecil Rhodes
Lawrenceville Preparatory School
Tandy
Simon J. McPherson
Lawrenceville
London
Joe
Frank G. Scammell
Twelve Year Old Boy Preaches Sermon at Catholic Church
The youngest preacher in New York, Michael Rucci, twelve, delivered a Christmastide sermon at the Church of Our Lady of Loretto on Elizabeth Street. He wrote the sermon Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy as part of a church mission ceremony with Nativity procession and carols. Forty girls portrayed angels and as many boys were shepherds in the pageant accompanying Harker's cantata The Star of Bethlehem.
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New York
Church of Our Lady of
Harker
Lick Branch Colliery Mine Explosion Claims Over 100
In Bluefield West Virginia on January 12 an explosion in the Lick Branch Colliery killed more than 100 miners. Two weeks earlier a similar blast killed fifty. Women and children rushed to the mine mouth seeking any chance to rescue loved ones amid smoke fire and debris.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Lick Branch
Millionaire Dawson Hoopes in hotel gun incident at Berkshire Inn
Dawson Hoopes the Philadelphia heir known for police entanglements faced Miss Katherine Wilson sister of Mrs William Lyons at the Berkshire Inn Atlantic City after he brandished a revolver and threatened to throw Miss Wilson from a window. The hotel proprietor and others intervened leading to a peace bond set at 50 dollars if Hoopes keeps the peace.
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Atlantic City
Dawson Hoopes
Katherine Wilson
William Lyons
New York
Berkshire Inn
Young Hoopes
Miss James
Berkshire
Dickinson
Hoopes
Miss Wilson
Philadelph
Hypnotism Theory Shocks Widow in Adair Case
Mrs. Carmichael in Adair Mich says she is shocked by her husband being found dead in Carthage UK and denies hypnotism or mesmerism as factors. She recalls no quarrel over writings, knows little of Browning, and doubts any link between the two men. She fears rumors and hints her husband may have been unsettled by talk.
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Adair, Mich
Carthage
Browning
Carmichael
Mr. Browning
Mr. Carmichael
Philadelphia club scribe Buckshot incident linked to 1907 case
Townsend of Philadelphia, a devotee of club sire, fired buckshot into Charles A. Newhall in early 1907 at Ambler Pa. Newhall had Hoopes arrested, triggering a lengthy legal fight involving wealthy merchant clubmen.
Opening of Subscription Books for Georgetown Railway & Light
In Georgetown County South Carolina books of subscription to the capital stock of the Georgetown Railway and Light Company will be opened on Monday January 25 1909 at 10 o clock A M at the Georgetown Electric Company office. The company will have 4000 shares of $25 each and a capital of 100000 to operate passenger and freight transportation and to furnish light heat and power in Georgetown City. H C Case S C Case corporators.
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Georgetown
S. C
S.C
It Jars Us We Build Georgetown And Press Support
The piece defends local efforts to improve the city through railroads factories roads churches and streets while condemning outsiders who verbally attack country papers yet seldom contribute to their support. It notes readers often borrow or steal their newspapers.
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Georgetown
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L. L. Broughton
J. S
Self
West Virginia
England
Pheniss Sumiture
the People’s Bank
Georgetown, S. C
People's Bank
Ohe People’s Bank
Ralph ‘Connors
Terry
Alice Freeman
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