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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1905
Page
4
The Keowee Courier lists subscription at 61.00 per year and advertises reasonable rates for notices. Obituary notices and tributes of respect under one hundred words are printed free. longer notices are charged at one cent per word if accompanied by manuscript.
In Walhalla on July 19 2005 a local endorsement argues H J Gignilliat of Seneca is best suited to succeed the late Tr Beattie as president of the Blue Ridge Railway Company. The piece cites Beattie’s work, Gignilliat’s thirty years in railroad service, county ties and strong showing in last year’s State Railroad Commissioner race carrying Oconee Anderson and Pickens counties by large margins.
A Montgomery telegraph reports a mob threat against five Black prisoners in Gadsden amid alleged rape and murder of a white woman, Mrs. Leith Smith. Troops under Capt. Lu Raney are sent to the jail as investigators describe a brutal assault and body discovery near Gadsden, with threats of further action.
Dan Edwards and cousin visit Uncle I A Edwards as Miss Dora Haley travels from Greenville. Miss Bertha Eubanks begins teaching at Cherry's. Miss Anna Moore returns for the summer. The Oakway concert on Friday July 21 features Cephas Myers and multiple acts with Moore string band providing music. admission is 15 cents adults and 10 cents children.
Thirteen deaths attributed to the hot spell in New York City were recorded today with many others overcome by heat and hospitalized. A strong warm breeze offered relief at night but the continuing high humidity kept temperatures near the day’s peak. Named victims include John McCarronn who collapsed on stairs in Third Avenue and died after breaking his neck, and painter Samuel Schuluts who fell five stories from a Bronx roof. Children comprise a significant portion of the fatalities.
Paris reports claim a diamond cure for consumption found there, urged by W T McGee of Vanleor Tenn. A man named McGee says a 14 year cough cured by Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. General B M Thomas died at his Dalton Georgia home last Saturday due to peritonitis, a West Point graduate and Confederate brigadier general.
Public auction for the estate of Lucina Phillips deceased will begin promptly at 11 oclock a m in Seneca S A on Saturday August 5 1905. The sale includes scales stools tables chairs graphophone records lamps beds bedding furniture dishes books and many household and farm items. JOAN A HARBIN qualified administrator of the personal estate of Lucinda Phillips deceased. July 11 1905.
Executor of J W Cary deceased conducts public auction in Poumeton near Poumeton Oconee County on August 5th 1905 to sell personal estate items. Includes feather beds quilts mattresses furniture cookware tools lumber farm supplies and harnesses. Sale begins promptly at Cotelook a m with items like a wagon clocks pianos and various household goods.
Announcement offering one scholarship per county in South Carolina covering free tuition and dormitory board valued at 40 dollars per year with $100 annual Boyce scholarships available for admiral candidates. Catalogue address: Harrison Randolph, President, July 1, 105, 2082.
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