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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
2
The notice lists advertising rates as reasonable at 91.00 per annum. It mentions items like Jaynes and Emittor and Ban larrion in brief. however the readable text centers on rate information and a subscription figure.
Anderson County resident W F M Fant died at his home near Townville after a brief illness at age 72. A magistrate in Fork township for almost forty years and a longtime deacon of the Townville Baptist church, he was highly respected. Survived by a widow and seven children, with siblings in Texas and Townville. Interment was held in Townville.
In Bennettville S C on January 26 trustees A J David and James Webster barred Buck Roller’s children from Edgewood School citing one eighth Negro blood. Roller appealed to the county board of education which heard testimony last week. Judge Townsend represented Roller and T W Bouchier defended the trustees. The case invoked state constitutional provisions barring intermarriage and requiring separate white and colored schools.
Victoria BC January 25 survivors recount Valencia disaster near Cape Beale. Among 164 aboard, only 85 survived after lifeboats capsized and a life raft battled seas. Boatswain McCarthy and Captain Johnson led efforts to rescue, with many passengers and crew lost. Survivors describe freezing conditions and dramatic attempts to reach the Topeka.
The Post Office Department announced retrenchment by pruning rural free delivery routes that handle fewer than two thousand pieces of mail monthly. The move, though not partisan, would hit the South hardest due to sparser settlement. Roosevelt declined to meet a delegation of colored Methodist preachers asking for a speech on suffrage, marking his first refusal to welcome colored visitors seeking an audience.
Advices report that all villages of Savaii Island have been destroyed by a volcanic eruption with plantations ruined and thirteen thousand people in extreme distress. In Albany Georgia a rare black bank plans dual opening after preliminaries. Deal 1 Jackson, the notable Georgia farmer, slated for president. State Board of Education to adopt textbooks in June for five years. A bill to repeal Richland Distilling Company charter introduced in the State Senate.
Andrew Thompson, a colored man, was found guilty in the General Sentany Count for a serious crime near Taylors seven miles from the city. He was sentenced to hang on March 2. An appeal may be filed to the Supreme Court. He was identified by Mrs. James as the offender. No public demonstration occurred during the trial.
An advertisement extols Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a safe headache remedy without opiates or harmful after effects. It claims relief within minutes by soothing overtaxed brain nerves, notes a money back guarantee with 25 cent price, and lists Dr Miles Medical Co of Elkhart Indiana as the manufacturer.
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