Another Killing Near Battle Creek Leaves Two Brothers Dead
Edward Whitworth shot Jim Smith in a drunken quarrel near Battle Creek, about twenty-one miles west of Valhalla. Whitworth, 35, of Oconee County, faced with Smith in a yard duel, fired twice with a breech loading shotgun, mortally wounding him. Smith, from Rabun County, left a wife and three children. Authorities say a woman may be connected, Whitworth was jailed in Walhalla while Smith’s kin recall a history of deadly clashes among the families across Rabun and surrounding counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oconee
Battle Creek
Valhalla
Jim Smith
Ike Pointer
Whitworth
Smith
Pointer
Oconee County
Rabun County
Georgia
Miles Smith
Ed. J. Lee
Jas. Smith
Ed. Whitworth
Walhalla
Jas
Vin Rothell
B. B. Lee
Henry Smith
BAST in PAT.RR PLAY Amateur Drama at Pair Play
A five act drama presented in the school auditorium on Friday night at 8 o'clock December 23. The plot centers on Sir Francis Levison a murder suspect, Archibald Carlyle and Barbara Hare in romance and divorce, with a nurse role by Barbara Hare in the climax and a courtroom verdict against the true murderer Sir Francis Levison. Miss Cooney and Miss Vera Crawford star in strong dramatic parts with admission ten cents. Also notes on local visitors and a major fire in New York causing $100,000 damage and power outages in Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francia Levison
Richard Hare
Richard
Archibald Garlyle
Carlyle
Lord Mount Severn
Isabel
Barbara Hare
Archbald Carlyle
Francis Levison
Archibald Carlyle
Madam Vine
Miss Coyney
Archibald Dary
Jancis Levison
Murde
America
Miss Cooney
Vera Crawford
South Union
Mis
L. B. Marett
Tom Isbell
Cornelius Davis
Westminster
McDavid
Atlanta
Lynn
Sunbeam Band to Hold Christmas Eve Pound Supper
Concross Sunbeam Band members and parents plan a Christmas Eve pound supper at the Concross school house from 1 to 6 pm with each member bringing a guest and a pound of goodies. The band will perform with recitations, and Christmas Day remains the regular meeting day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concross
Rena Hunsinger
Greenvaile Memale College
Deaney
White County
Georgia
Minnie Vaughi
J. W
M. Abbott
Gaffney
W. Abbott
R. H. Dilworth
Six-Mile
Mary Dilworth
Kell
Bear Swamp
Y. W
Danville
Mr. DuBose
DuBose
Burt Hopkins
Toccoa
Zadie Hesse
Westminster
W. O. Keith
Amp
WW. G. Alexander
David
Wade Alexander
Hall
Pendleton
McAlister Kell Wedding Near Richland and Americus
Mary Agnes McAlister married Harmon Leroy Kell at the bride’s home near Richland with Rev. D C Williams officiating. The ceremony, piano by Paris Dillard, bridesmaids Minnie McAlister Sophie Kell, maid Cornelia Foster, reception with a hearty supper, and plans to reside near Americus, Ga. Also reports Felix Corbin, a Milton citizen and key witness in a U S case, was shot dead at his Milton doorstep after supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Mary Agnes
D. F. McAlister
Harmon Leroy Kell
J. H. Kell
Walhalla
D. C. Willams
Anderson
Baptist Church
Paris Dillard
Lenoen
Mendelssohn
Minnie McAlster
Sophia Kell
Cornelia Foster
Pensacola
Fla
Tfelix Corbin
Milton
United States
Collins
Santa Rosa County
Field
Savannah
Corbin
Unclaimed Letters and Fort Mill Shooting Report
Unclaimed letters listed for week ending December 12 1910 include Gilda Miss Mandy Moore Lewis Paugun Robert Todd and Mrs Barbery. In Fort Mill S C Fort Mill Me Assassinated A Nevin a prominent merchant was shot from ambush at about six o clock this afternoon dying almost instantly with no clue to the perpetrator. Nevin had been shot from ambush and seriously injured a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walhalla
Gilda
Fort
Mill
Fort Mill
Nevin
County Commissioners Meeting Notice 1910
Notice that the Boa County Commissioners will hold their annual meeting on the first Friday in January 1911 at 10 a m. Claims against the county must be presented attested the day before. The county delegation in the Legislature is asked to meet the board to discuss the appropriation bill. N Phillips County Supervisor. James Seaborn Clerk. December 14, 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boa County Commisssioners
Legisature
N. Phillips
James Seaborn
Oconee County Masters Sale Of Two Large Land Tracts
Public auction in Walhalla on January 3 2011 features Luther Williams et al vs Lee et al. first tract four hundred seventy acres with Creek waters and multiple adjoining lands, second tract two hundred fifty acres on Pall Creek with terms requiring half cash and balance credit at seven percent, with resale if terms not met and extra paper costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
South Carolina
County OF Oconee
Court of Common Pleas
Court House
Walhalla
S. G
Luther Williams
Lee
Oconee
James Lee
Samuel Lovingood
Purchaers
Prems
White
Oconee County
Allen Thrift, Plainart
Thrift Et al
Pall Creek
Pulaski Township
South Carona
John Moore
Southern Woodland Company
H. T. Shed
W. O. White
Sale of W R Phillips property in Seneca South Carolina
By execution issued by John I. Craig Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Oconee County I will sell at public auction in front of the Walhalla Court House on Tuesday January 3 1911 the following real estate parcels. The first parcel lies on Malin Alley Street in Seneca about ninety four feet deep to an alley and is a portion of a lot conveyed to W R Phillips by Mrs M J Harbin in 1908. The second parcel in Seneca Town fronts Main Alley Street about twenty six feet and runs ninety four feet back to an alley, conveyed to Warren R Phillips by John A Harbin executor in 1907. Sheriff W M Kay. December 14 1910. 60-52
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John I. Craig
Wsg
Court of Common Pleas
Oconee County
South Carolina
Farrand Company
W. R. Phillips
Court House
Walhalla Court House
S. C
Seneca
Malin
M. J. Harbin
R. J. Buchanan
Warren R. Phillips
John A. Harbin
Farran Company
W. KR. Phillips
W. M. Kay
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edward Whitworth
New York
West Twenty-third Street
Dempsey & Carroll, Stationers
Hdfson Electiia Company
Rockwell Place
Brooklyn
Coneross and Vicinity
Nbeams
At. H. Dilworth
Six- Mile
Bherit
Sunset Park
Srifi
F. V. Lippman
Hunter's
Kinsey's
W. S. Hunter, Seneca, S. C
W. S. Hunter & CO
W. Pitchford
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