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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1909
Page
3
Washington reports a Bureau of Labor bulletin analyzing annual U S accident mortality among adult wage earners at 30 000 to 35 000 and 2 000 000 total accidents. It urges factory inspection legislation and control, aiming to apply European industrial methods to reduce needless risks.
New Hope records a string of holiday visitors including John Burroughs of Pickens and families from Seneca and Anderson. Local gatherings feature Miss May Belle Tollison hosting Edna Wood and others, while Henry Glazener buys the Austin place. The school, led by Miss Bessie Wood, progresses well as residents recount visits to Spartanburg Pickens and Poplar.
Westminster Presbyterian hosts the Oconee County Interdenominational Sunday School Association January 28–29 1909. The program lists devotional periods, addresses by college presidents ministers and secretaries, teacher training and organizational talks, and reports with election of officers. Westminster invites all Sunday schools to send two delegates and bring statistics and a pledge.
County officers include Prof. Thos W Keitt president and T Peden Anderson chairman. S ecutive Committee lists S H Burgess county secretary and Leah Harper assistant secretary. Reception Committee chaired by KK Marett with B C Whitten Frank Sheldon and Miss Mar gle Stribling.
Washington January 8 The House with 212 to 35 votes tabling most of the President’s message that reflected on Congress rebuked the President. It also declared it would not consider communications not deemed respectful. Gardner of Massachusetts sought substitutes and postponement but was defeated. the House adjourned at 1:27 p.m.
Night riders are charged with setting fire to Wilson Brothers cotton warehouse in Russellville. The blaze today destroyed 500 bales valued at 22,000 dollars after oil was poured on the bales. Fire brigades prevented spread to adjacent holdings. One hundred bales owned by individual farmers with no insurance were burned.
A Walhalla resident named J. H. Cobb touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a reliable remedy, claiming rapid relief from uric acid buildup and kidney pain after short use. The ad notes availability at Dr. J. W. Bell's drug store, price 50 cents, and Foster-Milburn Co. as U.S. sale agents. Dean's Ointment is also advertised for eczema relief.
In Mobile Alabama a kerosene can exploded injuring two young children, Rosa Lang their Creole mother was away briefly. Harold Lang died at once and Beatrice perished next morning from severe burns. Neighbor Thomas Roden saved the house with quick actions.
Texas Ranger Doc Thomas, stationed in Amarillo, was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff James Keaton in the courthouse. The men reportedly clashed after a prior jail-smuggling incident involving ether Binister, tied to the Ada Riecher murder case. Keaton was arrested.
Henry Garrison of Laurens county will surrender to begin a two year hard labor term in the South Carolina State penitentiary in Columbia. Convicted October 24, 1908, of manslaughter for the July 21, 1908 shooting death of Louis Williamson at Gray Court following allegations of improper relations with Williamson’s visiting fiancé, Miss Mary Garrison.
An ad touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a quick cure for grippe coughs that may lead to pneumonia overnight. It claims the remedy heals inflamed lungs and prevents danger, urging use only the yellow package from J. W. Bell in Valhalla and Stonecypher Pharmacy in Westminster.
John Martin Speyer of New Orleans, who killed his five year old son Freddie in 1902, was released from the county jail in Kansas City Missouri. He had been convicted three times but the Supreme Court reversed each decision and remanded. Virgil Conkling the prosecuting attorney argued the release, stating it was impossible to convict again as most witnesses were untraceable.
Daniel Buell, a farmer near Bowling Green in Clay County, sold a hickory tree 38 inches in diameter with a first limb 70 feet from the ground to a German government representative. Claimed as the largest tree in the county, it is to be sawed and chipped for cannon carriage engines for shipment to Germany.
Washington Jan 7 Judge Frank Dodd aged 58 of Stafford County Virginia collapsed with heart disease while talking with a friend and died yesterday morning in the lobby of Congress Hall Hotel in Washington. Local officials were notified and preparations for his burial are underway.
Waycross Ga dispatch reports Henry Revel a well known Confederate veteran aged 60 died by his own hand Wednesday near Waycross firing a shotgun with the aid of a stick. The entire load caused fatal injuries. Revel was a respected figure in local circles and Civil War memory. Authorities stated no other persons were involved.
The Auditor of Oconee County South Carolina announces open hours from January 1 to February 20 for personal property tax returns. Areas listed include Westminster Adams Crossing Clemson College Newry Seneca Clark's Store Salem Little River and more with 10 am to 1 pm daily. All male citizens 21 to 60 must file unless exempt. note real estate transfers since last return and school district and town or country location. Penalty of 60 percent applies after February 20.
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