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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1907
Page
1
The first shipment of dry white corn for bread is secured from Virginia after hard effort. Each sack is guaranteed and sold at 90 cents per bushel.
The New Hope community reports the death of Mrs. Ellie Robinson age 82, after years of declining health and a fall six weeks ago. Funeral services are set for today at eleven in the family burying ground near the Smith plantation, with Rev. W. Seaborn officiating. The note also covers school events, upcoming church activities, and local notices including the Helping Hand Society and Sunday school programs. Community members and teachers are named, detailing engagements and visits. An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a remedy, noting a testimonial and price.
The Thaw jury failed to agree after forty seven hours eight minutes of deliberation and was discharged by Justice Fitzgerald. Jurors reported seven for first degree murder and five for acquittal with debates over insanity and wronged womanhood shaping the discussion. District Attorney Jerome plans to oppose a venue change and predicts a possible autumn retrial, as other murder cases await decisions.
Mrs Fannie Cannon of Georgetown Tennessee describes persistent coughs and lung troubles end after using Dr King s New Discovery. She calls it the only remedy that restored her lungs and promises a guaranteed cure with trial bottles offered.
Westminster items report famine relief collection near 615, Capt. W. E. Choswell buys an automobile, Rev J. J. Harrell attends South Carolina Presbytery, weddings and marriage notices, a runaway injures a horse, Dr Len G. Broughton lectures to a large crowd, Westminster baseball uniforms ordered in red, and various visits and community events across Fair Play Retreat and surrounding towns.
Rev. Howard Mears of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in New York was deposed from the ministry by Bishop Groor after a church committee found violation of his sixth ordination vow. He admitted visiting the tenderloin with a negro woman for sociological inquiries and resigned, while a magistrate discharged him after accepting his explanation of the incident.
Willeet and the Fopewell Baptist church invite all singers and music lovers to the semi annual singing convention on the second Sunday in May 1907. J Furman Morton serves as president and extends cordial invitation to the public.
In Seneca on April 16 J M Myers attends South Carolina Presbytery session at Pelzer, while local folks trade visits and discuss church and library activities. Seneca Third nine beats Anderson seven innings nine to three to catch a train, with civic meetings planning park work and an ice joke about indigo blue. Northward in Columbia W H Wolfe the whiskey dispenser under the Carey Cothran act is charged with embezzlement of 1500, bond set at 5000. later released with help from friends as authorities review the case.
J B Mokett the county organizer explains missing the blizzard on the 18th and states he will attend again on Saturday the 27th at seven o clock pm to organize a Farmers Union at Oak Grove Seneca April 15.
Governor Ansel today ruled the Richland county beer bottling dispute is a judicial matter and declined to order the county board to grant or revoke a bottling permit. He referred the issue to the Supreme Court and found the board did not act willfully or criminally as alleged, urging a proper Supreme Court decision on section 30.
A Mexico City dispatch reports ongoing severe earthquakes across the country with massive loss of life. Chilpancingo Chilapan Tixtile Aytula and Ometepec reportedly wiped out. The west coast from Acalpulgo to Salina Cruz badly damaged. Fourteen dead in Chalapa. About 100 bodies recovered in Tixtlab.
The State reports that the dispensary commission decided to refuse a large whiskey shipment illegally purchased by its directors, totaling around two hundred thousand dollars. Goods not received by Commissioner Tatum remain in warehouses, with no payments made until auditing completes. Separately, George W. Bundrick surrendered in Downey California claiming he killed John Shroeder in 1902 Georgia, recounting a Georgia prison escape.
The community records the death of Henry Gole at seven years old near Fair Play on April 10 1907 his funeral officiated by Rev S A McDaniel and Rev F M Cole at Beaverdam cemetery. Also reports illnesses and visits including Miss Matilda Marett Mrs Jesse Barton Miss Emily Compton and other locals with brief notes on attendance and travel.
A Bonque ville resident in Toxna suffers poisonous spider bite sores. Doe reports Bucklow's Arnica Salve relieved pain and healed wounds after four boxes, selling for 25 cents at all druggists.
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