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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
8
Walhalla Drug Co advertises as dealers in drugs medicines paints and oils with fine toilet articles soaps brushes and perfumery. Prescriptions are carefully compounded by a pharmacist and customers are promised no substitutions.
Walhalla Drug Company highlighted with bargain bugles from W M Browns shop. local society notes, visits, and dances fill pages. Mentions include Miss Atley White visiting, Mr and Mrs By Reid in town, protracted revival meetings, baptisms planned, and several residents traveling between Walhalla and nearby towns. Local church events at Bethlehem and St John Lutheran outlined with installations and missionary services.
The Sunday School Normal at Walhalla Lutheran church runs three days starting August 31, 1808. Sessions cover Sunday school purpose, teacher training, music, lesson prep, primary work, round tables, and home and church departments with focus on Bible history and Sunday school methods. Attendees are asked to bring tablet, pencil, and Bible.
Post office records list unclaimed letters for the week ending August 24, 1908. Names include Dodd Ja Dorn A Reaves Roach Th Waithon Tom Pernons and J. M. Merrick P. M. Requests are for the addressees to respond or claim their mail.
A most delightful meeting of the B. M. Club was held with Miss Sophie Rose last Thursday afternoon at the Blue Ridge Hotel, West Union. After toll call quotations from Longfellow and a reading of Hiawatha's Wooing by Miss Annie Verner, members discussed club business and enjoyed a social hour with poker like games and a prize drawing won by Mrs. Bonnet.
A massive fire swept Stam boul quarters of Constantinople on the evening of August 25. A strong wind fanned the flames as the conflagration destroyed 1,500 houses and shops. By 8 o'clock the wind had eased but burning continued in the area.
The New Galilee Baptist church officers and members thank Walhalla's Mayor and Aldermen for maintaining order during their three days of association. They express gratitude to Col R T Jaynes for his address and to Mint Rack Baptist and Trinity Methodist churches for courtesies. Signed by Rev J S Stuned, Pastor. D Gadaden, Deacon. A Acker, Deacon. and Choir.
The Lower Division of the Beaver dam Union Meeting will convene at Double Springs Baptist Church in Antersan county next Saturday at 10 a.m. The topic is Better Sunday Schools. All interested in Sunday school work are invited to attend and speak on their own theme. Deacons of Double Springs will arrange preaching on Sunday. Vandiver Reeder McDantot Committes.
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