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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1907
Page
8
News notes from Walhalla detail visits by Greenville and Anderson figures, church announcements, land sale ads, hotel reopenings, and public meetings. Items mention Mrs. Groanman leaving, the Walhalla Bottling Works running late, Episcopal and Lutheran services, real estate offerings, and upcoming auctions and notices from local committees. Congressman Wyatt Aiken and wife visit Walhalla, drawing local interest.
Local notes report L B Abernethy of Columbia working in Walhalla for the Columbia Newberry and Laurens and the Seaboard railways. Also mentions a Lutheran church congregational meeting to be announced in July after services next Sunday. Anecdotes include Thomas A Ratliffe of Anderson visiting Valhalla and praise for Dr Kings New Discovery cough remedy with a trial bottle offer.
The Pythians and Grand Lodge plan the May 28 meeting in Anderson with about 500 delegates attending. The program includes a barbecue at the park, a D O K session, business sessions, a musicale, and a reception, along with entertainment between sessions.
A light earthquake struck Charleston at 3:90 AM causing a wave motion across Charleston and Summerville. The tremor lasted several seconds with no damage reported. Officials suspect a Mexican origin and stress the event’s limited impact.
J B Walker and John Dickson two electricians at a local power plant were drowned when their boat capsized in the Saluda River while visiting. Both bodies were recovered. In Spartanburg April 20 Fred Boyd faces 400 bond after narrowly escaping lynching for alleged aggravated assault on a crippled young woman in Saxon Mill village. lawman J A Law aided his removal to jail. Batesburg April 21 M E Rutland sells a bale of cotton weighing about 45% pounds for 155 48, a record price aided by improved farming methods and long staple cotton adoption in the upcountry.
Captain W C Coker, about seventy, died today at his Darlington home. He led the local bank as president and chaired the board of trustees for the Darlington schools. He helped organize the city’s ordinance era in Sousanlon. A pile of violent incidents followed, including a pistol duel in Campbell county and a pool hall shooting in Owensboro, with two men killed or wounded.
A severe wind storm struck Thursday night in Snow Hill area injuring residents and blowing a church pillar, with the Snow Hill colored church house damaged and need to rebuild. Marion Meredith and Robert Glenn suffered losses. a neighbor was trapped but freed as neighbors prayed for him. Additional notes cover local visits, church attendance, and remarks on an epidemic among area stock.
A fragmentary report describes John Waahingan of Bosqueville Texas bitten by a spider and suffering venous sores. He claimed relief after trying a remedy named Avnnci Salvi with ten initial units and four boxes, purchased at low cost. The readable text notes a curative belief but lacks verification and full context.
Hopewell items report a sermon by Rev G T Harmon Jr at Hopewell with his father Rev G Harmon Sr to attend at Korvico May first Sunday. Several local residents hosted visitors and attended events including Mrs Davis from Westminator visiting relatives, Hattie and Mary Adam guests of Mr and Mrs Smith, and Miller Marble family visits with kin in Marshall. Carl Bryan bought a new butter. Alpha Jonking and Lillis Land visited Amanda and Mamie Spencer. Julius Pickens visited his parents Saturday night. The Harbins spent Sunday with grandparents near Pleasant Hill.
Converse College in Spartanburg announced the commencement orators for the upcoming exercises on April 2. Dr J P Fell, college president, stated the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev C B Wilmer of St Luke's Episcopal Church Atlanta. The literary address will be delivered by Judge George Alden of Boston, brother of Converse faculty member Prof Alden.
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