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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1905
Page
5
C G Jaynes offers sixty head of mules and horses, all kinds, broken and ready to work. Prices to cash buyers promised to favor bargain seekers. Sale offered this week for choice bargains. T M Lowery, Seneca, 8 C 1-4.
Local items include births in January from Moss Grant Reid families, visits by J I Bryan to Walhalla, and C E Fineannon from the railway mail service in town. Ads note W F Theekston cotton seed and Seneca Pharmacy. Also mentions trades for butter eggs and chickens and a tax road receipt book at Seneca Bank.
Extra choice year old cocks for sale at Oconee Poultry Yards Seneca S C with breeds Barred Plymouth Rocks Built Orpingtons and White Leghorns Eggs offered at various prices Also notices of business visits by C W Pitchford E P Tucker W S Cooper and others plus stock subscription opening at Edwards Mercantile Co Oakway and tax reminders for 2005 with penalties After February 20 50 percent penalty for late returns Cotton convention in New Orleans draws 4000 delegates and Seneca farmers discuss holding cotton to lift prices and reduce acreage and guano use Keowee Produce ships 13000 pounds of produce from Walhalla marking a major local shipment and cash market development
All ladies in Oconee county interested in erecting a Confederate dead monument are urged to meet at J. W. Holloman’s residence Friday at 3 PM. The Ladies Monumental Association, organized ten years ago, seeks reorganization and added funds, with Mrs. J. M. Mosa as treasurer.
T M Lowery of Seneca announces a liquidation sale to clear a large stock of buggies wagons harnesses and implements for land preparation with cash discounts offered to reduce the inventory.
A Kansas editor was killed in his office and then killed himself. Greenville votes to enforce compulsory vaccination by February. Georgetown Probate Judge B. H. Henderson dies of heart disease in Georgetown. Easley Progress reports on Prohibition era blockade liquor and Pickens county. The Atlanta Constitution notes cotton content near mid January. D W Perdue of Griffin wins first prize 3500 for best guess of bale counts. A man named Stuart Pearman is whipped after capture near Donalds. no trial. Senator Tillman travels south for health due to severe cold. House naval panel favors a 10000 appropriation to raise the Niagara, Perry’s flagship, for a museum. Warner proposes restoring old spellers and grammars to schools. Education progress lauded in Newberry.
A M Jones, who resigned as overseer of carding at Brogon Mills, will move his family to Westminster in a few days to take the position of second hand at Westminster mills. He was formerly overseer of carding at Anderson Cotton Mills and is described as a skilled mill man.
Capt Billie Smith, veteran conductor, resumes his familiar route between Columbia and Greenville. He piloted train No. 11 on its first trip yesterday amid broad local cheer. Smith, a Greenville favorite, was personally welcomed at the depot.
Oakway January 23 report notes Rev J Spinks preaching at Center and welcoming Rev S A McDaniel and family. Miss Mattie Moore and Frank Blackley wed January 5 at the bride’s home. Ed Gambrell recovers from grip. A new L A Edwards and Co store opens in the old Dobbins stand. Leard Moore praised for finest turnout in town. Mocking bird menace warning to girls.
R A Child prominent Pickens county farmer died at his home January 17 aged 65. He leaves a wife and several children. A good citizen and brother of Rev A Child of Spartanburg. Remains buried with Masonic honors at Camp Creek church.
A county farmer letter responds to Theodore H Price of Wall Street, denouncing his 13.5 million bale crop estimate as guesswork, warning against Wall Street speculators, and praising Southern farmers’ resolve to control cotton prices. It notes Bryan’s election as president of Illinois College with a $2,500 salary.
Attorneys announce private sale of three tracts totaling 38.70 acres on Snow Creek Oconee County South Carolina estate of John B Sitton deceased. Asking price 8.50 per acre cash or half cash and balance in 12 months secured by mortgage. Minor heirs require court for title at owners expense. Also probate notices inviting administration letters for James M McGuire and annual returns for January February.
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