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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1905
Page
4
The Beomee Courier announces Wednesday morning publication and advertising rates. Personal notices and tributes under one hundred words are free. longer items are charged at one point per word, with payment due on manuscript.
Walhalla pursues municipal improvements as workers lay hexagon block sidewalks on Main Street. The project boosts property values, signals progress by authorities and property owners, and aims to expand beyond the contract. Citizens and officials are urged to sustain steady effort for town up building.
A battered Anderson Mail column warns of errors in a series about Court Square renovations. It mocks odd spellings and misprints, cites a doctored medical claim, and notes a local marshal and a fatal shooting in Pretoria Georgia, with satire on regional papers.
A $2,000,000 syndicate plans a Watoree river power plant while scattered items report a Phoenix Indian appointment, a Sa jid ae shooting, cotton mill labor shortages, and various regional notes on agriculture, crime, and politics across multiple towns and states.
In Wichita Kansas on a Dia triot Court day Carrie Nation Myra McHenry and Mrs Licey Wilhoit were found guilty of destroying property and jailed by Judge Wilson. Nation fined 250 four months in jail McHenry two months and 140 fine Wilhoit twenty two days in jail and a 10 dollar fee. Sentences suspended on good behavior for all. Offence dated September 30 when windows were broken at a gale Vigor hone.
Ned Maok remains under the death sentence for murder with officials reporting no mental impairment after examiners and interviews. Governor Nas declined to intervene. execution scheduled for April 28 at Manning. In unrelated news from Indianapolis a riot caused multiple deaths and injuries as a crowd sought tickets.
Ambassador Porter reports the long search for Paul Jones ends with four leaden caskets opened in the St. Louis cemetery Paris. Doctors Capitan and Papil Jaut identify the remains as Admiral Paul Jones preserving in alcohol and wrapped in straw. The body will be kept in the American church vault while transport to the United States is arranged.
A Washington dispatch reports a strong warning against indiscriminate U. S. Negro immigration to Liberia. Dispatches from Kenya Mott note sixty Negroes from Kevin county, Gay in Mol, were sent to Liberia with scant funds and ragged attire, many needing rescue and aid after arrival.
Columbia Theological Seminary directors may vote to close the institution at least temporarily to allow a statewide canvass of control. Attendance has fallen and controversy has drained patronage, with prospects of relocation to Atlanta discussed. Charlotte April 3 Squire W C Bailes wounded his cousin Edward Bailes in a family feud, Bailes in critical condition and under arrest awaiting a hearing at Fort Mill tomorrow.
Notice from Too Many Suckers Kansas City April 1 reports the American Mercantile Association cloning its office, with many subscribers laboring people swindled as they paid one dollar weekly for eighty weeks to receive one hundred dollars. Henry Bruning president missing along with L H Milo? secretary and M N Nordeen field managers. About two thousand people lost thirty thousand dollars.
Atlanta based J J Maddox and J B Maddox advertise for arrival and dress of turkeys ducks fries and other items and invite offers of cash or similar consideration. The brief notice requests readers to respond with what they can provide.
The State of South Carolina, County of Caney Plona, John D. Verner files a master's sale action against a defendant, seeking judicial direction on sale of property and related proceedings. The document shows procedural posture and plaintiff details in a caption line.
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