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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
7
Editor notes a citizen letter arguing for balanced clerk and county officer salaries, favoring competent, well paid public service over cheap staffing. Calls for merit, honesty, and accountability to reduce indebtedness and improve laws while urging solid governance and qualified leadership.
A Baltimore dispatch reports the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Temperance Society mobilizing 2,000,000 adherents in a campaign to back the prohibition bill. The movement, steered by a 616-member board named by the bishop, urges members to vote for Congressmen who will support the measure. The address criticizes Speaker Cannon and urges Christian allies to cast ballots for pro prohibition candidates. Meanwhile Miss Anna Rowe, 18, prepares to camp for four weeks at the Western Land Office in Duluth as settlement lands near Fond du Lac reopen for allotments, Rowe aiming to be first in line.
County records show a list of election managers appointed for primary duties on specified dates across towns such as Belmon Clemson Cherry Hill Damascus and others. The notice names J W Shelor as county chairman and lists multiple managers by district with affiliations to Clemson College Damascus and other locales. If any appointed managers cannot serve they should notify at once per the notice.
Oakway Aug 10 special: Rev Mr Herring filled his regular capacity at the Hantlst church Sunday. Westminster visitor L Melin called on J J Bearden and family last week. Taylor Barton and two daughters of Anderson visited T B Manon. J A Chandler and son Oscar of LaGrange Ga. visiting J F Carroll. Mrs J O B Haley of Westminster visiting relatives. Ligon Meredith left for Atlanta to study bookkeeping. S and 2 Sanders of Westminster visited William Moore family. Mrs Andrew Herring and children of Anderson visiting relatives. J B Haley and children of Lavonia Ga. visiting J J Haley. Mrs J M Leslie and Myrtle of Greenville visiting J P Carroll. Reena and Lilla Snolgrove of Anderson visiting relatives. Russell Bearden and children of Westminster visiting. Furman Bowen and family of Anderson visiting. Wayman Mason visiting Wesley Mason. Bolt and Selma of Westminster visiting relatives. Sam Shaw of Westminster visiting sister Mrs David Spearman. Dora Haley visiting homefolks. L H V Hobson visiting relatives. Stokes Meredith visiting friends in Anderson. G C Bearden of Athens visiting parents. K Thomas Kane aged 82 arrested in Philadelphia. He is sought in several countries. Weather notes and fashion remarks end.
Mrs. Rhoda Downs of Wy Main Street Walhalla South Carolina testifies that after suffering back pains headaches nervousness and irregular kidney secretions Doan's Kidney Pills from Dr J W Bell's drug store relieved the pain and restored normal secretions She urges neighbors to use Doan's and warns to remember the name Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
At Asheville North Carolina the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers Association discussed the cotton crop for the year. Members estimated the total crop around 1 178 000 bales slightly below last year's. North Carolina projections reached about 867 000 bales with around fifty members in attendance. Doans Ointment advertised for itching and skin ailments.
At the regular meeting August 1908 the County Commissioners passed claims for road and bridge work, mules, supplies, and salaries. Notable items include G W Rowland road work, Strother & Phinney supplies, J B Sanders road work, Seneca Mercantile Co supplies, W J Schroder and L Crow salaries, and numerous entries for county road Districts 1 through 73. All claims were allowed for the amounts claimed unless noted as laid over for investigation.
Fork Ratlavuan commissioner seeks re election to the railroad post pledging not promises but record. He cites mobility to Columbia for oversight, personal visits to rail lines and stations, advocating lower freight and passenger rates, safer travel, better schedules, and public convenience.
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