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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
8
A Walhalla area column lists visits by Miss Maud Hopkins and Miss Roxie Reid, Christmas shopping at Valhalla Drug Co., church services by Rev. Law and a new pastor, and notices about tax collections, land inquiries, and rental housing demand. It mentions Governor Franklin Means death, Judge Bleckley illness, and local society events.
The late Samuel Spencer President of the Southern Railroad has left a will filed for probate. The document, dated December 27 in New York, names executors James Laying and others and provides for wife Vivian Spencer. It assigns personal property over $11,000 and real estate valued around $79,000, with remainder to wife, executors in trust, and children.
A pleasant social afternoon at Mopday on December 10 featured a linen shower hosted by Misses Danny and Alice Strong at their Faculty Hill home. Guests enjoyed a China-pattered centerpiece of peanuts, a Chinese questions game, a tea course, and handsome presents for Mary Stribling, with Eliza Pettiker and Mina Pettiker among the helpers.
A North Carolina mother recounts a severe infant lung illness that nearly claimed her baby. After trying many remedies, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy saved the child, a testimony from Gov. W. Pease of Holly Springs. Available locally through J. W. Rolly, Walhalla. W. J. Linney, Seneca.
In Cheraw on a December Wednesday evening, Mina Mamie Malloy became Mrs John B Reid of Columbia. Guests included Mr and Mrs Judaon Matthews and family, with bridesmaids Roxie Reid of Walhalla and Carl Malloy leading the procession. The reception featured carriages, white silk gowns, ivory china, and a grand guest book. the couple departed for Brunswick and Columbia amid warm wishes from friends. Dr A Marks advertised eye care and free examinations at the Talmotto Hotel in Sencom.
Pastor G A Judd preached at Walhalla Baptist Church urging preparation to meet God amid recent town deaths. He urged repentance, faith in Christ, and daily walking with Jesus, linking Delays to eternal consequences before a funeral at Rocky Knoll cemetery for Willie Phillips. Four dead and twenty-five injured in a Michigan Central express wreck near Otter Lake.
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