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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
4
The issue blends brief items and stray quips about campaigns, germ fears, and social scenes. It cites Mr. Taft’s Georgia visit absence, party tactics, and a long passage praising orderly conduct at a Baptist gathering with large mixed-race attendance, while lamenting political rancor and urging restraint. References include Mr. Blease, Sherman, Beveridge, and local state politics, with scattered remarks on drinkage and public notices.
Reported partial results from Tuesday's voting show shifts in key precincts as candidates and parties await final tabulation and certified outcomes. Local officials urged voters to remain patient while counts continue.
The West Union Town Council will sell the Town Hall Lot to the highest bidder in front of the town hall on Monday September 7, 1908 at 2 PM. Cash terms. Purchaser pays for papers. Intendant J C Shockley and Clerk W I Hutchison announce the sale from West Union. Also notices of second hand bags and burlap buyers in Richmond Virginia.
Greenville Aug 28 John Cary aged 62 prominent South Carolina businessman died last night at 10 80 He led the Lockhart Cotton Mill and Greenville Interurban Railroad He was brother of Hon J P Carey a House member His life sketch cites Confederate service and lifelong ties to mills railroads and engineering in Greenville Oconee and Union areas.
Mr MM Davison of Gifford avenue and Sindoe Cub report the Bitters as a general family remedy for headache and digestive torpor. They claim the product improves digestion and overall health, asserting no other remedy compares for stomach and liver ailments.
Train No. 38, known as the Southwestern limited, left Atlanta and wrecked four miles north of Suwanee. Engineer B. P. Dewberry died from injuries after being pinned under the engine. Fireman Maxon Watkin was killed instantly. Cars left track, one rolled down a fifteen foot embankment. no passengers injured. Suspected sabotage noted as bolts were seen on the track. Sheriff and railroad officers investigating.
In Asheville North Carolina on August 23 J W Randall of Madison County was found guilty of murder in the second degree for dragging his wife for two miles beating her and finally beating her brains out near his home The court sentenced him to thirty years in the state penitentiary his defense claiming insanity
A Maine man from West Franklin, Mia Chas. E. Smith, endorses Dr. King New Life Pills as a painless, effective family remedy sold at all druggists. The notice mixes several unrelated items including a violent incident in Virginia and a bizarre historical machine, presenting as a single fragmented newspaper item.
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