Clemson Winthrop car visit draws Halla crowd in rain
A Clemson Winthrop agricultural and home economics car toured Walhalla on Monday. Up to 700 attended at peak with live stock displays and cooking and sewing contests led by Miss Hyde and Walhalla circle members. Bruce Stribling won bread making, with many local youths placing in various categories. Weather limited attendance but interest remained high. towns hope another tour next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walhalla
Clemson- Winthrop
Miss Hyde
Winthrop
Paul Hayne
Richland
Courier
Bruce Stribling
Valhalla
Hayne Circle
Bruce H. Stribling
Mary Bien Wilson
Gena Wennell
Theodosia K. Hughs
Gena Fennell
Mary Wllen Wilson
Lula Busch
Mary Ellen Wilson
Anna Darby
Ida Riemann
Irene White
Belle Stribling
Isabel Macaulay
Mary Elen Wilson
Grace Hamby
Confederate Veterans Meet to Form County Pension Board
Surviving Confederate soldiers from each township in Oconee county gather at their usual voting places on the first Saturday in August to elect a chaplain and secretary and, by ballot, one township representative for a Walhalla meeting the first Monday in September to elect a County Pension Board as prescribed by Pension Commissioner J. J. W. Holleman.
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Oconee County
Ehate
Walhalla
Jan
J. W. Holleman
Quick cure claim for Ruellen's Arica Salvo in Oklahoma note
D Frankel of Stroud Oklahoma writes that his wife used Ruellen's Arica Salvo to cure a boil on their son after a doctor recommended treatment. The ad touts it as fastest healer of burns scalds cuts corns bruises sprains and swellings and claims best pile cure on earth. Available for 26 cents at all druggists.
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D. Frankel
Stroud
Okla
Ruellen
Land Grant Document for Major Slaton from 1784
A much worn original land grant to Major Slaton for two hundred acres on the Tugaloo River, issued by South Carolina in 1784 under the state acts of 1778 and 1784. The certificate by Surveyor General Phraim Mitchell and plat dated June 21, 1784 accompany, with signatures of Governor Benjamin Guerard and D L Thomas Lewis. The item dates to 127 years ago.
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J. W. Shelor
South Carolina
General Assembly
Slaton
Tugaloo River
Major Slaton
Benjamin Guerard
Esquire
Charleston
United States of America
Phraim Mitchell
Thomas Lewis
D. L
Social Club Men Convicted At Anderson Mall
I M Adams of the Farmers Social Club and J M Pearson of the Workingmen's Club were found guilty of selling intoxicating beer. Adams and Pearson faced separate juries. more cases against others remain on the mayor's court docket as a special session tries eight beer sales cases. Simpson pleaded guilty, fined 100 dollars with suspended sentence conditioned on good behavior and avoiding the clubs.
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Anderson Mall
I. M. Adams
Farmers’ Social Club
J. M. Pearson
Workingmen's Club
Adams
Pearson
Tomorro
L. M. Adams
J. Neese
W. R. Simpson
S. A. Jordan
S.C. Hargrove
L. V. Guest
Wisconsin Bulletin Urges Training Women In Household Economics
A Wisconsin bulletin estimates over 10 billion dollars yearly go to food shelter and clothing in the United States with 90 percent spent by women lacking money value knowledge. It argues for disciplined training to curb waste and ensure better home results while noting Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for constipation.
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Madison
Wis
Cor, N
United States
University of Wisconsin
Lfe
Picnic at Fair Play Promises Big Turnout in 1911
A notice invites the public to a W. O. W. picnic at Fair Play on August 16, 1911. Organizer W. H. Leathers, Clerk, urges all to attend with well-filled baskets. Speakers will discuss Woodcraft education and agriculture. All welcome for a big day.
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Fair Play
W. H. Leathers
Blue Ridge railway plan gains Southern railway backing
A letter to General Bonham from President Winley of the Southern railway expresses confidence in completing the Blue Ridge road. Officials plan a September directors meeting after a data gathering conference, highlighting the route's importance for meat and grain markets, coal regions, and port access via Charleston and the Panama Canal.
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L. E B. Norryce
Anderson Chamber of Commerce
Daily Mail
M. L. Bonham
Chamber of Commerce
Blue Ridge Railway
W. W. Minley
Southern Railway
Blue Ridge Road
Southern
Blue Ridge
Winley
Iinley
Hig
Knoxville
Queen & Crescent Road
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Chicago, Indianapolis &Louisville
Chicago
Carolinas
Charleston
Panama Canal
Soldier’s Home in South Carolina Welcomes Needy Veterans
Col John M Hudson reports from the Old Soldiers' Home in Columbia that Walter Keowee Courter arrived to a cordial reception. The facility houses eighty two veterans from Oconee County and offers clean rooms, three meals daily, good cooking, and freedom of movement with permission. The commandant, adjutant, and inmates are described as kind and considerate with no excess drinking.
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Columbia
Walter Keowee Courter
South Carona
Mixon
Oconee
John M. Hudson
Richland social notes from July events and visits
Richland residents and guests share a busy week with church travel in Greenville, family visits from Commerce Texas and Roswell Georgia, sisters from Spartanburg and Atlanta, and gatherings at Pickett home. Visitors from Columbia Greenwood Pendleton Union Westminster explore reunions and local hospitality as townsfolk recall older friendships.
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Richland
Rey
Tr. M. Stribling and
Commerce
Texas
South Carolina
J. P. Stribling
Greenville
Second Presbyterian Church
Cornelia Foster
Mississippi
Fredda Hughs
Pickens
Abbie Stokes
Stiles N. Hughs
Stokes
Arkansas
Tennessee
Sue Archer
Spartanburg
J. D. McMahan
M R. D. McDonald
Greenwood
Nell Stribling
Roswell
Annie McMahan
John B. Pickett
Bounty Land
Carrie Stribling
Atlanta
Burt Moorehead
Susan Lewis
Helena
J. D. Shanklin
Georgetown
Recording 50 000 000 Mortgage Sets Record in Anderson
The Anderson county clerk and staff prepare to record the largest mortgage in the county history. The 50 million dollar loan from Southern Bell to Bankers Trust and Jon H Parsons of New York secures 60 million dollars in thirty year sinking fund gold bonds maturing January 1 1941. Indenture spans 75 pages. recording fee not yet calculated.
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Anderson Intelligencer
Anderson County
Pearman
Southern Bell ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bankers ‘Trust Company
Jon H. Parsons
New York
Clark
Real Daughter Proctor Dies in Bartow County Cabin
Mary Tarwick Proctor aged 112, a noted real daughter of the American Revolution, died in a small Bartow county cabin. Survived by daughter Mary aged 90 and two great great grandchildren. Funeral by Etowah Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Cartersville
Mary ‘Tarwick Proctor
Bartow County
Proctor
Mary
Etowah
Daughters of the American Revolution
Coronation of Powhatan in Jamestown Chronicle
The Chicago Tribune recalls Jamestown's 1608 coronation of Powhatan as a king by Newport and colonists. Despite a regal setup, Powhatan resisted kneeling and was overwhelmed. later he exchanged a cloak and shoes with Newport. English frontier authority followed to keep him in line.
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Chicago Tribune
Newport
Virginia
Jamestown
Powhatan
London
Capt. Newport
Werowoecmoco
Dale
James
York
Whittles His Own Teeth by Century Old Mail Carrier
Frank Forbis aged 90, claimed oldest U.S. mail carrier, ran fifteen miles from Mumfordville Kentucky to Cub Run for pension. He whittles and uses homemade teeth to crack walnuts, saying one tooth lasts years and he never used a dentist. He notes rheumatism often is muscle pain from cold or damp and touts a local remedy.
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Frank Forbis
United States
Mumfordville
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Cub Run
Frank
Guard Killed as Convicts Escape in Waynesboro
George Deck, a guard and recent Legislature candidate, was shot and killed this morning during trouble with convicts in Waynesboro. Several convicts escaped. the sheriff with bloodhounds is in pursuit.
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Waynesboro
George Deck
Hustling for three million votes in piano contest
In the Upton Piano Contest at C. W. Pitchford's store only a few weeks remain to secure votes. The tally to Wednesday July 26 shows three contestants nearing the three million mark, and the winner will receive a handsome piano.
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C. W. Pitchford
Man kills wife then takes own life in Georgia
In Gainesville Georgia on July 20 Addie Green son of W D Green a respected farmer shot and killed his wife during a separation meeting over custody of their young son then calmly fired three more shots into his own body on the back porch dying after the fatal sequence.
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Gainesville
Addie Green
W. D. Green
Green
Notice Final Shuitment And Discharge
Notice is given that P Nimmons and Stark s executors will apply to Judge of Probate D A Smith in Walhalla South Carolina on Tuesday August 29 1911 at 11 00 am for leave to make final settlement of the estate of James Nimmons deceased and to obtain final discharge as executors of said estate at Walhalla Court House
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D. A. Smith
Oconee County
South Carolina
Walhalla Court House
James . Nimmons
P. Nimmons and
Starks
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