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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
6
The Keowee Courier lists rates and policy for notices, stating obituaries and tributes up to a hundred words are printed free, with charges applying for additional length. Communications of personal notices cost as advertisements. cash payment required with manuscript. Subscription is one dollar per year, published weekly with advertising rates noted.
A 1908 Wall Street Journal story summarized by Dr. Lyman Abbott lauding Taft as independent, able, and a great brain and heart. Roosevelt’s remarks described Taft as able to work with Harrison and business leaders, while Roosevelt’s vigor is noted as a driving force for reform. Also mentions an appendix on appendicitis remedies and a Pythian Convention invitation in Spartanburg.
W R Coffman, a passenger on the Dictate, reports from New Orleans that about sixty whites and Indians have died in Nicaragua's bush warfare sparked by Mosquito Indians on the Caribbean coast. Engagements include February attacks on Prinzapolca Ber and fighting near Cape Gracias with several Indian casualties and reprisals.
The State Medical Association closed its annual session in Anderson with high papers quality and strong attendance. Dr. S. C. Baker of Sumter was named president. Summerville won the bid to host next year’s meeting, following a joint invitation from Dorchester and Charleston societies. Other officers and delegates were elected, with Walter Cheyene of Sumter serving as secretary and as a delegate to the American Medical Association group.
An old advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters claiming to boost health and wellbeing. It presents a healthy man as a king and an unhealthy man as a unhappy slave, linking vitality to the product. The phrasing mimics period promotional language and market tones.
Three Negro employees died from inhaling poisonous gases at the Royster Guano Company factory in Macon on April 16. Four others are critically ill. Coroner Young impaneled a jury and held an inquest accusing supervisor Stahms and foreman Gonzalo of incompetence for the deaths.
Dr John R Meller of Fair Play Oconee county has spent a few days in the city. He is a graduate of Patrick Military Institute and has many friends here who hope he will be sent to the next Legislature by Oconee county voters.
James Gleneatrn Thompson, sole surviving grandson of Robert Burns, nears eighty and faces financial strain. Proposals seek him a civil pension while placing him alongside Burns’s granddaughters Mrs Sarah Burak Mute Mion and Milas Annie Beckett Burns of Cheltenham, England, who receive £100 pensions for their grandfather’s enduring legacy. Laurens’ C Featherstone withdraws from the Governor race.
A South Carolina legislative committee met in Augusta to study the Augusta locks dam and its impact on the upper Savannah River fish supply. The panel inspected the dam and will report its opinion that the dam does affect fish passage, continuing a long running dispute. Separately, Greenville police arrested James Payne of Salisbury for taking whiskey orders and funds, with bond set for six cases.
Poetic bereavement short. laments R D Talley death with biblical imagery. Readers are reminded of the shepherd and savior gathering souls to paradise. The verse frames loss, hope, and reunion in heavenly terms for mourners.
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