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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1905
Page
2
John W. Shelor recounts recurring floods on the Tugaloo River from 1840 through 1905, noting major freshets in 1840, 1852, 1865, 1876, 1887, and 1905. He describes crop damage, sediment changes, and farmer responses, urging resilience and adaptive planting while citing biblical reflections.
An advertisement extols Tutt’s Pills as a popular cure for dyspepsia constipation sick headache biliousness and diseases from torpid liver and bad digestion claiming it promotes good appetite and solid flour and advises avoiding substitutes. The notice also mentions a Farmers Education and Cooperative Union organizer in Anderson Texas and reports cotton crop pest threats in the county with references to bull weevils and Taxas sharp shooter worms found in fields awaiting examination at Clemavn College.
In a Memphis meeting the Executive Committee urged rapid construction of ten new cotton ware houses per association across the belt, funded by local capital where possible, to back a mutual insurance system. The plan links warehouses as security for one another, reduces insurance costs, and aims to lower storage fees while enabling a loan fund to aid weak crops. South Carolina’s KH D. Smith urges stock subscriptions and asks counties to copy the letter to promote the scheme.
In a letter on dispensaries Senator Tillman urges voters to decide now whether to keep or abolish the dispensary, arguing the next Legislature will not purge corruption and that the issue should be settled free from political influence. The Edgfield Advertiser notes the public desires a prompt, nonpartisan vote and warns against delaying until an off year when office seekers are active.
An explosion of fire damp at United National Colliery No 2 pit in Wattstown Ithondda valley Wales unleashed smoke and dust. One hundred sixty men worked in the shaft as rescue teams battled to reach the doomed workers and 68 bodies had been recovered by midnight Tuesday with no survivors expected.
Twenty four leaders of recent disturbances were hanged at a provincial location last Thursday. Gen Ignatieff expected to arrive with orders for further public executions. The battleship Pobledonosers brought a crew to Savastopol for court martial proceedings, with sixty seven men to face trial.
The Edgefield Advertiser reports Commissioner Tatum uncovered graft in liquor distribution to the State Dispensary. Some consignments carried more bottles than billed, with proceeds diverted to county dispensers. In a remaining case the Dispensary held $3000 of whiskey not invoiced. Suspicions of wide graft in daylight and executive sessions are raised.
A country resident twelve miles north of the county seat warns in Edgefield Advertiser that the dispensary corrupts rural youth. He cites boys buying cheap liquor in Edgefield and bringing it to church, urging action to halt the perceived moral ruin before the sought boy becomes a victim of forty-cent-a-quart corn liquor.
In Wilmington on July 15 a suit filed in Superior Court names Atlantic Coast Line as responsible for failing to provide adequate railroad facilities for handling the strawberry crop during the late frost famine. Chadbourn truckers seek up to 100000 dollars in the aggregate claims, marking the first of many actions.
A Southern Christian Advocate note describes Harry County’s past alcohol calm from 1876 to 1898, the 1895 dispensaries changing life, and a current push to restore the old ideal of sobriety amid calls to wipe out the whiskey problem statewide.
In Flaxelhurst Mississippi a circuit court convened to try Jim Collins for attempted assault on a young white woman. The grand jury indicted a black man who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years. On the train at Crystal Springs, Dickery, brother-in-law of the victim, fired three shots, killing Collins instantly and expressing no further information.
Western North Carolina lumbermen plan to force repayment of a 2 cent per hundredweight rebate on lumber shipped during a period when the 2 cent advance was in force. Judge Syour ruled the railway had no power to impose the advance, and the claim, about 100000 dollars, has been filed. if denied, the case will go to court.
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