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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1905
Page
1
Retailers CW and J E Bauknight advertise deep discounts to clear stock. Men’s neoplique shirts in sizes 16 and 16 1/2 priced at 6s each, two-piece summer suits and oxford footwear heavily discounted, with sugar offered at 16 pounds for 1 dollar, urging cash purchases to move stock quickly.
John Moore a 20 year old Black resident was seized from Craven county jail by a mob of 109 men armed with public safety items. His hands were bound as he was led about a third of a mile to the Nenso river bridge and shot. The jailer was forced to surrender keys. Naval reserves were called to restrain the mob. Moore earlier entered George Eubanks store at Clarks seven miles from Newbern and assaulted the proprietor’s wife with a meat axe during a robbery attempt. He was later captured in a swamp and jailed. The incident followed Moore’s preliminary hearing setting bail at a nominal sum. The town’s pulpits denounced the deed. Public notices include unrelated local items about a Coast Line conductor injured by a drunken passenger and dogs poisoned by a Rock Hill merchant.
The Hopewell community notes a protracted meeting ending at Changa Gapii church last Wednesday. Entries mention A H Land and Walter Harbin improving, Miss Mamie Davis visiting Mia, Ada Prosly recovering after an injury at Westminster cotton mills, and a scheduled dispensary election set for September 26 in York County.
Westminster reports a strong sermon by Rev. T Mack Stribling of Perry Mo at the Presbyterian church while residents like Missen Appio May Mason and Mrs N A King visit relatives in Lavonia Lodi and Avinaton Cotton prices edge down amid farmer stockpiles as autumn weather arrives J G B Vandiver of Baldwyn Miss rents a Jones farm near Westminster plans to relocate to Oconos this winter Local families and merchants exchange visits and staff changes including Stribling store clerks and millinery staff.
Death notice records L A B Moss of Salem dying at home in Salem following typhoid fever. Funeral is at Salem Baptist Church tomorrow morning. He leaves a wife and several small children among many county friends. The item also lists local visits, travel, and community notices mentioning residents from Seneca to Walhalla with various events and illnesses.
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