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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
2
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In a New Orleans Planter piece from Walhalla a practical inquiry compares feeding cotton seed to feeding meal and hulls. It estimates meal 760 pounds hulls 978 pounds oil 259 pounds per ton, valuing meal at 32 a ton hulls at 10 and oil at 25, totaling about 20.75 per ton after deductions for dirt and oil mill value, noting variability and experiments from S. Fraps and Mississippi experiments.
The president’s annual message to Congress, read last Tuesday, calls for a thorough overhaul of the currency system, federal oversight of interstate commerce and major corporations, and centralization of control. It urges reforms from taxes and labor protections to inland waterways, forest preservation, and postal savings banks, with statehood for New Mexico and Arizona and broader government guardianship of resources. A separate note reports a train robbery attempt halted by masked men, thwarting a $20,000 cash haul in the baggage car.
A premature blast at Bas Obispo near Colon killed ten and wounded about fifty as a large charge of dynamite exploded during loading. Officials say the final hole discharged, setting off twenty two tons, with men nearby shocked by the blast and debris scattered across the area.
Washington December 9 Captain Joniah Minds of the 8 Army has been ordered before a retiring board to examine him for retirement due to ill health. Captain Minus has commanded the cadets at Clemson College for several months. It is not known who will succeed him upon retirement.
Clemson College December 7. State Veterinarian M. Ray Powers explains county by county tick eradication work begun July 1. Inspectors quarantine infested cattle to prevent tick fever and meet federal restrictions. Movement requires inspection and written permits. cooperation from cattle owners is urged to prevent spread and support livestock industry.
Wakefield retired from Columbia after attending a meeting of the business agents of the several County Carriers Unions of the State. The gathering aimed to choose a State business agent. M. Molmnan of St Matthews was elected amid some dissension, while other matters were minor. The main task was selecting the State agent to represent Union interests in cotton buying and selling.
A long school roster lists names across grades from first to seventh with scores for each student and teachers noted, followed by a separate Spart aburg report: Luther Thompson of Inman was strangled to death after his buggy dash board punctured his head, believed caused by intoxicated fall after returning from North Carolina.
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