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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
8
Local items report relatives visiting in Walhalla, illness and recoveries, engagements and weddings, travel between Anderson and Columbia, city improvements, and church services. The column lists residents visiting kin, a tax roundup, and upcoming elections for roads and revenue commissioner with Ben Fisher and Cannon noted in context.
Orangeburg prepares to host the State Baptist Convention December 1 through 11 with about three hundred delegates representing 125,000 Baptists and allied work. Injunctions restraining U. J. Rigby and Rudolph Ravenstrom in Charleston were served under the dispensary law after they failed to appear at a Supreme Court hearing. In Clinton a Seaboard Train incident killed Duncan, a Lydia Cotton Mills worker, whose head was crushed after an apparent day of drinking.
Last evening about fifty Pythians gathered in the Knights of Pythias lodge room at Anderson Mall Townville for an oyster supper. The event highlighted growing Pythian interest with several new Townville members recently initiated and speakers including J H L Craig and J J Glenaveen, dv, of Anderson.
List of unclaimed letters for the week ending December 2 1907 includes Abbott D L Bottoms Miss Lillie Chastaine M C Persona. Those seeking these letters should respond to the post master. J M Merrick P My
George Bea 38 and companions left a Brownsville house during a wedding feast when six men, believed to be scorned suitors of Wen's bride, sprang from hiding. One attacker fractured Bea's skull with a blow, leading to his death hours later. Guest John Jacovic was shot in the face and wounded.
Miss Mary Hampton of Columbia, daughter of the late Gen Wade Hampton, married John Randolph Tucker of Bedford City Va at her home on Columbian Wednesday evening. Ceremony conducted by Rev Dallas Tucker, brother of the groom, with only relatives present and 1000 invitations issued for the reception. A letter of warm congratulations from President and Mrs Roosevelt arrived, and gifts from India, Brazil and Panama accompanied the celebration.
John Mele more, 21, a Southern Railway worker, fatally injured himself while demonstrating a method of suicide. He placed a loaded and empty pistol to his head and, after saying a grim joke, pulled the trigger. He died from the gunshot wound.
Dr Lucy Hagenow nearly sixty one time described as a long practicing physician was found guilty of murder and sentenced to twenty years In the penitentiary for causing the death of Mrs Anna Horovite by an illegal operation. The case aired during closing arguments as the state contends she had practiced for thirty years and had caused four thousand deaths. One victim was Lota Madison sister of Mrs Bradley whose trial for murder of Senator Brown of Utah is in progress at Washington.
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