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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
4
Brief newspaper notice indicates a weekly publication with a biweekly schedule. It lists a subscription price of 81.00 per year and advertising rates, noting obituary notices up to 100 words printed free and longer tributes charged at one cent per word with cash required. The text reflects old style publishing boilerplate and a personal communications policy.
Townville Presbyterian young ladies held an ice cream social at the home and front lawn of Misses Sallie and Mattie Mc Carly on the 16th instant. A large crowd attended, a small charge was collected for each scoop, and proceeds will fund a church sump pump and other needs. The event followed their earlier organ purchase for the church.
Rain improves crops as Whitewater residents report on farm news and visitors from North Carolina, Washington and Montvale. Anecdotes include a cow loss to lymophobics, travel to Walhalla and Pendleton, and a wedding near Montvale. An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy via J W Bell Walhalla and Linney Seneca.
A birthday celebration last Friday at Miss Ethel’s home featured parlor games, graphophone music, and a biographical contest where guests selected partners. A white birthday cake, fruit, ice cream, and candy were served. guests departed with hand arranged gift cards as souvenirs, and Miss Ethel received many presents signaling her popularity.
Whetstone reports heavy rain and wind over the weekend while visitors include Col J S Newman of Walhalla and relatives from Westminster. Local social chatter notes parties and birthdays, with several residents visiting family in nearby Warwoman and Layton Georgia. Coppice crops are threatened by a recent harvest scare and talk of an upcoming wedding bells adds local anticipation.
Public notice lists two items from August 1907: an auction of fourteen head of mules at the Courthouse steps in Walhalla on September 7 at noon, with bids to be rejected if needed. Also a call for bids to install a water and sewer system, with plans on file, at Walhalla Courthouse on August 29 at 11:00 AM, bonds required double the bid, and right to reject any bid.
The notice lists Oscar Jobun as plaintiff and Alice Miller and several Johns or Verner heirs as defendants. It states to answer the complaint filed August 1907 in Oconee County Court of Common Pleas, with 20 days to respond, and mentions a partition of real estate of Samuel John and a special school tax election in Brower District 64 on August 24 1907.
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