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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1911
Page
3
The State Pension Board defends pension integrity against General Irvine Walker’s charge of widespread fraud. It explains that applications undergo county and state review, with probes year round by officials at no pension cost, and notes only a few cases verified as fraudulent.
Washington reports a government experimental farm will be set up at Timmonsville in Florence county South Carolina with work starting now. The Bureau of Plant Industry says the farm will study tobacco cultivation and crop rotation and assess effects on yield and quality benefiting the state tobacco belt. Arrangements to begin work are to be made immediately.
Comptroller General and Pension Board chairman urge public scrutiny of Confederate pension rolls. They note incomplete records, call for data from Gen. Walker on 29 missing HK Company HK enlistees, and stress cross state pension practices. They oppose creating a pension inspector, invite examination for fraud, and emphasize careful action on substantiated claims.
A Hampton dispatch reports Judge G. Prince at the Court of General Sessions urging grand jurors to supervise the South Carolina school system. He called for higher salaries for teachers and superintendents and suggested recruiting qualified educators from other states. He warned that trustees should be named if any pupil could not be whipped due to parental prohibition, aiming to shame such parents publicly.
On Tuesday night John Moorer and John Glover, both Negro men, were jailed in Orangeburg County on a murder charge tied to the Friday night killing of a Negro woman and child in Providence. A house fire was set in an apparent attempt to conceal the crime, with one prisoner claiming he was present and fired the house while the other denies involvement.
Earl Wade was shot and wounded at a home where Claude and Carl Walker under seventeen were arrested on an assault with intent to kill charge. Wade says he went to the invited sister's home. the shooting followed as he fled the house with a shotgun and a .44 pistol firing multiple rounds into his back but missing several shots. Wade did not know the woman well, and the incident arose from an invitation. Also noted is the will of John Reit Wannamak er of St Matthews, detailing real estate and cash, with minor bequests to local churches. the son is to receive the bulk of his estate. In Rutland Virginia, a tuberculosis diet trial at the state sanitarium tests Boston baked beans and pork, under Superintendent Bartlet.
Mrs Mattle A Dodd of 220 West Market Street Anderson Ohio reports Doan's Kidney Pills cured her frequent kidney secretions and kept her house supplied. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets them in the United States for 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's.
Special: visiting relatives and a string of social notes from Downyit Vownville Georgia. Marriages, births, travel to Atlanta and New York, visits to Anderson and Buford, district Knights of Pythias, and a noted local elder Uncle John Williams’ death marked the week’s community happenings with names, places, and small-town ties.
The General Assembly failed to provide a $5,000 appropriation for a state summer school for teachers at Winthrop College. The Bodard of Trustees had allocated $1,400, but the amount is insufficient and will not be used. Also notes a cough remedy mentioned as safe for children.
Women employed by the Russian State telegraph and post departments rebel against a rule forbidding marriages to non functionaries. They petition a parliamentary opposition member to question the postmaster general on matrimony. The ad notes Woolford's Sanitary Lotion, sold by J. W. Bell.
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