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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1905
Page
4
The Restore Courier outlines ad rates and personal notices. Obituary tributes under one hundred words are free. longer pieces incur a penny per word charge and require manuscript inclusion.
In Walhalla a controversy erupts as A W Brabham claims no cotton acreage cuts while President Smith of the Southern Cotton Growers Association argues farmers will reduce cotton and shift to other crops. The Courier presents Smith’s defense plus letters and data on fertilizer sales, tax tags, and market pressures shaping planter decisions to Stand Pat and diversify.
A. H. Ellison defends the Southern Cotton Association plan to cut acreage by 25 percent to prop up cotton prices, urging farmers led by A. W. Brabham of Olar to join the pledge. He argues reduced fertilizer use and wider crop diversification will raise profits, while opposing acreage expansion would bring ruin. Also notes rheumatic pain relief ad and library hours closure.
TPPAEvert announces a teachers examination to be held in Walhalla Court Hall on Friday May 19 1905. The exam opens at 9 in the morning and closes at 4 in the afternoon. Applicants must prepare with all necessary stationers and tools. J S Colley Co Supt of Education April 12 1905.
County will not host a County Summer School this year. State Summer School starts June 21 at Clemson College for four weeks. Anderson Pickens and Greenville counties will not run County Summer School and will send teachers to Clemson. County board urges cooperation to make the State program a success. Colley, County Superintendent of Education, April 18, 1900.
The State of South Carolina in Oconee County lists a master sale in the Court of Common Pleas. John D. Verner sues Vasa Stolbranc and others, with sale to the highest bidder in Walhalla on May 1, 1905, for cash, detailing the land conveyed to Stolbrand and bounds near the Tugaloo river. The sale includes resell provisions if the purchaser fails to comply within five days.
April updates show Annie Cobb visiting Oregon sister W M Brown while Henry Glazenor and the Talley couple recover from ailments. A five year courtship hints at a wedding soon as Beaufort Lodge K of I members celebrate securing county officials and judge R. W. Mom mingor to host the Grand Lodge K of Y convention in Beaufort May 10 and 17 with transport schedules arranged.
All persons instituted to the estate of James H. Robins are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned and all persons having claims against said estate will present the same duly attested within the time prescribed by law or be barred. L. N. Robins, Committers, April 5, 1905, Way
Coroner's jury finds four mine operators wilfully and criminally negligent in the Virginia mine disaster near Person County Alabama. Explosion February 20 1905 caused by coal dust accumulation. Names cited include Everett T Schuler George H Schuler Amble We Rood and Sam Hardy among others.
Bowman April 6. About 12:80 o'clock today Thomas J. Jackson, son of J. Pyjluckwon, a 21 year old resident four miles from town, was driving a wagon of fertilizer home when a limb from a falling tree struck his head, causing instant death. He was a graduate of Georgia Alabama Business College at Maoun, Gay.
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