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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1905
Page
1
The Colton Growees Convention in New Orleans recommends reducing acreage and loss of use of fertilizers. It will adopt bonded warehouses under local control to hold cotton and improve storage and handling.
The Sunday protest in St Petersburg escalates into street clashes as troops fire on crowds. Rioters demand reforms from the government but are met with mass arrests and a brutal suppression. The article warns of a growing crisis threatening the monarchy and echoes a plea for mercy and change.
Fragmented OCR notes reference Milanca Funds and Honiley Taduity with unclear names and a public election context. Mentions orphanage, a church, and a polling date near March 11 to 13. Contains multiple garbled phrases and names, suggesting a local notices page item.
A garbled OCR notice fromLouisville Kentucky announces a city event on June 14 and 15. It mentions officials and a planned parade or portrait event with unspecified participants and future naming terms.
In the State Senate discourse, most bills remain in committee with about a dozen of the 114 on the calendar deemed generally applicable. A vagrancy law amendment was killed to avoid peonage concerns. A bill to create a State Confederate infirmary was proposed with a $6,000 initial appropriation.
The Rev Mr Damos of the Content Presbyterian Church in Anderson plans to wed Miss Verna Voter, a well known Columbia social figure. The ceremony is set for January at the couple’s home with friends and family expected to attend.
Letter from J D Sheldon dated January 21 reports busy committees and bills, including a calendar crowded with measures and a bill on treat pansers advancing if Senate agrees. It notes adjournment sine die on February 1 and Sheldon’s absence until February 18 or 20. Describes asylum inmates, penitentiary tours, stockade, dispensary operations, and a warehouse fire causing $1000 damage. Smallpox in Columbia. several deaths among women. All delegation in slow health. vaccination underway. Sheldon hopes to report Monday.
A local Walhalla church and Sunday school publish resolutions mourning the death of Rev. James Michal McGuire. They honor his faithfulness, express condolences to his widow and orphans, and vow to publish the resolutions in the county paper. The document notes his work against evil and requests a memory page in church records.
A fifty foot waterfall on the A. G. Stapel land near Valhalla is offered for sale as an undeveloped water power site. The property, valued at 1500 to 2000 dollars, may attract a water power factory investor. Interested parties may contact J. D. Cappelmann at 40-48 Broad Street, Charleston, S. C. January 18, 1905.
Sale notice offering Early and Late cabbage plants grown in open air near salt water. Price $1.50 per 1000 plants with discounts on larger lots. Plants packaged in light baskets and shipped COD if no cash accompanies order. Towles and Son Meggetts S C and Towles Arnett Green Pond S C advertise guaranteed satisfaction.
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