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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1911
Page
8
Local items list visitors, sales, church events, farming ads, and community news from Walhalla and surrounding towns. Mentions visiting relatives, cement prices, livestock for sale, church services, a school picnic, a storm, and baseball results with Seneca and Richland.
Change at Colored College Orangeburg on June 30. E Miller hands over leadership to newly elected Rt S Wilkinson as board completes audit finds books in good order. Miller’s tenure expands the college from about 50 000 value to an estimated 200 000 to 250 000 now.
About forty guests at a Plains area wedding near Americus Georgia were stricken with ptomaine poisoning after a mixed salad served at last night’s wedding. Today officials reported all guests are out of danger tonight despite initial alarm.
Week ending July 1, 1914 lists unclaimed letters for Maggie Gulevin Mary Lucag Mamie Prather Miss Mamie Warner M T. Persons advised to say advertised when calling. A C Merrick P M.
A dozen masked men stopped a fast mail and passenger train five miles from Hiie PA on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. They lifled mail and express cars injuring a mail clerk, a conductor, and forcing passengers to flee. The engine struck obstructions, guns fired, a passenger was thrown over a 30 foot embankment, and authorities launched a statewide hunt as night searches spread across the countryside.
A Lincoln Nebraska girl reports chronic constipation and stomach trouble, saying three days after taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets she could be up and getting better. She declares herself the proudest girl in Lincoln to find such a good medicine. Sold by all dealers.
In probate court at Walhalla SC on July 6 1911 D A Smith judge of probate issued a notice to kin and creditors of R B Bell deceased to show cause why letters of administration should not be granted The notice was published June 28 and July 6 1911 in the Keowee Courier and at the courthouse door.
Aiken shows a fatal shooting at the Aiken Augusta Railway substation near Graniteville on Saturday night. Lawrence Wise, intoxicated, shot John Duncan six times after a dispute over a report to the station manager. Both men worked the night shift and were described as the best of friends.
Nettlemerson declares she did not sign nor authorize a pardon petition for Chas. Tn Angel who was convicted in the murder of her husband. She states any name on the petition is a forgery and likely placed to influence signatures.
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