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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1911
Page
6
Notices for personal character acts and obituaries or tributes under one hundred words are printed free. Advertisements beyond that are charged at one cent per word. Cash must accompany manuscript.
In two separate incidents on August 17 a Southern railway wreck near Lula Georgia killed engineer C. B. Jones of Atlanta and injured several crew members including brakeman Drayton M. Clodfeller and Robt. Morgan. Four hundred feet of track were destroyed and two wrecking trains moved 200 workers to the scene. trains north and south were delayed. A Seaboard Air Line wreck five miles east of Lumberton North Carolina killed Bessie Jones of Montgomery Alabama and injured fourteen others when a chair car and sleeper derailed following a day of extreme heat with a rail kink suspected as cause.
A Charleston County tale reports a couple secured a marriage license at the Probate Court amid onlookers at the Fireproof building. The scene included a celebratory embrace amid spectators, with the couple’s names whispered and public interest high as the ceremony was planned in a quirky local context.
The act dissolves the United States Circuit Courts effective January 1, 1912. Pending cases move to district courts with the same status and records. Sections cover appointments and tenure of officers, and prior offenses from the act’s scope may be prosecuted in district courts. The reform aims to operate under one lower court, the District Court. Also note medical ad for Mooley Kidney Pills.
Mary Walinsky of Wilkesbarre awakened from a 21 day trance following stomach cancer surgery without anesthetics. She died minutes later from general weakness and exhaustion, though she had been recovering. The unexpected death occurred in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
Three men including Joseph Schofield Norman Price and Geo Stoll were arrested in Coatesville Pennsylvania on murder charges linked to the burning and killing of Zachariah Walker. Stoll is named as a key mob participant while Schofield and Price admit involvement but differ on presence at the hospital fire. Kennedy Boyd was freed after authorities acknowledged an incorrect arrest.
A writer notes that applying wood ashes to turf boosts clover growth. In a nearby fifty acre farm ashes raised yields, with four barrels per acre over years, allowing a man to grow hay, oats, corn and potatoes. He bought manure worth $25, then later sold crops for $1,200 after paying $800 for the land.
Bought Cotton Pickers, Charlotte, Aug. 18. I A Lee & Company received this order for three Price Campbell cotton picking machines shipped from Woonsocket, R I on August 12 to Charlotte. They will operate on arrival of company representatives if enough cotton is ready. otherwise the machines will be unloaded and shipped to Georgia for a demonstration. Theodore H rice or his representatives will supervise the experiments.
A powder mill explosion near Cresson, Pennsylvania, killed two men Herbert and William Weirton, with one body blown into a mill race. The accident occurred at Crescent Powder Mill Company after a mysterious explosion in the chaser mill. Also reported, Major Honey Reed Rathbone, Lincoln’s military aide, has died in a German asylum after killing his wife, the famed incident in the presidential box.
A fragmentary regional note with mock dialect suggests Abbeville would suffice for a Greenwood Journal reference amid weather and mood remarks. The text uses rural humor about rain pleasure pain heaven and hell, reflecting local voice and tone.
The Easley Progress editor features a small yellow dog named Cole Blease. The stray arrived mid January, likely linked to Governor Blease, and exhibits strong temper and aggression toward other animals. The piece notes the dog is affectionate at home yet troublesome, and invites anyone wanting such a dog to contact the editor.
Tutt's Pills claimed to stave illness and aid digestion boosting appetite flesh and muscle, promising cure for sick headache and better assimilation of food. In Darlington on August 17 Henry Garland, an elderly resident near a mineral spring, was attacked two miles south of town, robbed of 4.90, and left bruised and semi conscious before dawn.
In Middle Georgia Laurens county famous for cotton, a 2 550 acre plantation near Montrose lies beautifully with good water and healthful location. It offers tracts from fifty acres on liberal terms to wind up an estate. For details contact Executor Box 23 A Atlanta Ga. Also buyer and seller notices from Ligon Land Co Sumter S C.
County commissioners of Oconee County will let to the lowest responsible bidder at the bridge site on Saturday August 26 1911 at 3 o clock p m for repairing the John Taylor Cox Bridge across Chauga Creek on the Walhalla to John H Patch road. Bond required. N Phillips supervisor James Seaborn clerk of board August 16 1911 68 34.
In pursuance of a Common Pleas Court decree dated July 10 1911 J W Parris vs Carolina Mutual Fire Insurance Co will sell to the highest bidder on sales day November 2 within six hours at the courthouse door Oconee County South Carolina. The real estate includes a lot with a storefront frame building a livery stable and outbuildings on Main Street adjoining D Gosnell and other noted properties. Also listed is a two story frame dwelling with a tenant house and cotton house, a storied board roof structure and barn and sheds. Ownership of the properties listed under the court record of Hensee Look Ship. The sale is of the property of Mrs Sallie M. King as residence with details of the buildings and improvements noted.
Advertises multiple parcels in Oconee County near Andersonville and Townville. Describes one and two story shingle roof frame buildings with barns and storage facilities, occupied in 1906, adjacent to properties in Seneca Fair Play Townville areas. Mentions sale as Mrs King and other owners with sale terms and record references. Auction date not specified. cash terms.
State of South Carolina County of Oconee in Common Pleas in the case Bank of Valhalla plaintiff vs Hl Butt and Mrs Kate Vandiviera defendants will offer for sale to the highest bidder in front of the Court House door Walhalla on September 4 1911 between legal hours of sale two parcels of land totaling about 300 acres adjoining M A Lee estate P Dendy Russ Smith and others and bound by Brasstown Creek and noted as conveyed to Bill by Mrs Kate Vandivier Purchaser to pay cash and papers fee. Master White of Oconee County presiding August 1911.
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