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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
3
Fragmentary poem style prose praises a “Sunshine Boy” named Bunshine with repeated references to Sunshine in his eye laughter forehead and voice. The text wanders with oblique lines and exclamations urging readers to be a sunshine boy.
Oconee Sunshine Society reports appoints chaplains Rev J L Singleton Rev T B Wpting Rev M B Peabody Rev C B Blackburn and Rev L K Hubbard to represent each denomination countywide. Members discuss scrapbooks clipping society mail, jail reading, and Sunday school home department. Oska Pitts delivers Sunshine mail. Hortense Taylor forms Wolf Stake circle. Donations and seeds sent to Clamgay College. temperance convention invite extended. State organizer aided by college presidents.
Chronic throat and lung sufferers report relief with Foley’s Honey and Tar after other treatments failed. A Reasner, Iowa user says doctors diagnosed consumption but symptoms improved after using the remedy, stopping lung hemorrhages and healing like a wound.
Atlanta July 1 Governor Joseph Brown inaugurated last Saturday with simplicity has brought a country gourd with a long handle to the capitol. He installed the primitive drinking device at a water cooler in the reception room of the capitol building.
A clipped news item from the News and Courier discusses Governor Brown of Georgia and public suspicion of his integrity. A reference recalls Jonah’s gourd episode as a cautionary tale while Foley’s Honey and Tar is advertised for coughs and lung afflictions with local retailers cited.
A committee representing Georgia firemen began preparations last Wednesday to form a bill excluding Negroes from employment as firemen and trainmen. The measure will be presented to the current legislature. An earlier bill sought an educational tour for Negro firemen in the House.
A profile honors John G. Haskell the boy soldier who rose from a South Carolina College student to major and artillery commander, losing an arm but guiding Confederate artillery and later serving in the South Carolina House. The piece notes his quiet decency, leadership, legal career, and role in Redeeming South Carolina. Also mentions a 10 dollar fine for May Walker, a Black woman, for stealing trousers.
The Farmers National Congress gathers delegates from states to discuss agricultural issues of national scope. Since 1881 it has elected presidents mainly from the South, with sessions held nationwide. the 1909 meeting is planned for Raleigh North Carolina starting November 3 with strong Southern attendance expected and every state urged to send delegates.
A forthcoming volume titled Butler and His Cavalry by Muller and Hla Cayatey Bol Uy ity Avouka is in final proofs and will publish in about thirty days. Bound in Confederate gray cloth, the 600 page work is richly illustrated, indexed, and has seen serialized excerpts in state newspapers, stirring reader interest for this lasting historical contribution.
A California woman attempted to harm her husband by breaking a glass window and cutting her throat, an act seen as a costly lesson in a proverb about living in glass houses.
Mountain Grove notes describe a Sunday school event with recitations a Bible talk by Rev Cobb and a candy ice lemonade treat after a fifteen minute recess followed by a generous dinner. Also noted is the drowning death of Bud Price aged 26 from Chechero Georgia who died in the Chattooga River last Monday while swimming after cramps. Local observers report Farmora is behind on rulings daily.
In Atlanta June 27 Jolwon fell from a second story window of a building while attempting to flee her husband who had trapped her. She was taken to a hospital with prospects of recovery. Harry Wolford, companion to Jolwon, faced a disorderly conduct charge and was released on bond after firefighting exposure. The case moved toward divorce proceedings.
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