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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1907
Page
2
A Macon Georgia Telegraph discussion notes the unsettled impact of new immigration on domestic help. It contrasts Western Swedish servants’ efficiency with Southern Negro maids’ chores, citing loneliness from language barriers and the potential future easing as more European workers arrive.
Largely a local update from Changa Iowa area reporting visits by James Burch field to W Tannery, Mrs Jane Aldridge visiting aunt, Beulah Tannery with relatives, Ida Jenkins with P P Owens, and improving health of Jesse Bryan. Mention of grip illness and school attendance. Preaching planned at Changa on the second Saturday and Sunday in March at 11 o'clock.
An advertisement asserts there is no record of a cough or cold after using Foley's Honey and Tar, claiming it stops coughing and breaks up colds quickly. The message emphasizes the genuine product in a yellow package and mentions J. W. Bell as the seller or signer.
Mountain Rest community notes report J H Brown improving after illness while Mrs Freeman endures cancer with little relief. Rev Yongue from Valhalla preached at Double Springs and Rev Lyda spoke at Bethlehem Baptist. Beasie Brown teaches at Cheohee. New dispensary law requires liquor seizures in counties without dispensaries be publicly destroyed by the sheriff.
From Tugaloo Feb 27 report, the local school managed by Miss Estelle Bruce closed due to insufficient funds. About 62 pupils had enrolled with strong attendance. a library was created and read with keen interest. The closure followed a trustee dispute over extending term credit.
Washington February 28 Mrs Mary A Jackson widow of General Stonewall Jackson has been granted a twenty dollar monthly pension by an Act of Congress. The pension honors the widow of a Mexican War veteran and was pushed through by Senator Overman and Representative Webb. Mrs Jackson now resides in Charlotte North Carolina.
A vintage ad touts Helliater's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy to aid digestion and prevent ailments. It markets a tonic or tablet format with claimed health benefits and a price around 35 cents.
Australia’s rabbit industry grows with over 20 million rabbits utilized in the year for export. About 1.8 million exported frozen, 10 to 12 million skins shipped, and a large number of rabbits canned and disposed of.
Ex Governor Heyward Commissioner Watson and P H Gadsden will sail from New York March 12 to meet head officials of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. and press for making the Charleston immigrant line permanent. They travel as representatives of the South Carolina Immigration Association, with Watson arranging quarters on the Kaiser Wilhelm II and planning further preliminary visits.
Sufferers gain vigor and tone as Herbine regenerates blood and lifts drooping strength. Mrs. Belle Fy Sheiel of Middleborough praises it for liver trouble and poor blood, saying she would not be without it. Available at Walhalla Drug Co and W. J. Lunney in Seneca for 50 cents.
Washington Star reports Missouri historian Arthur Herkimer telling a St. Louis dinner tale about Gov Claiborne F. Jackson who married five sisters. A deaf father-in-law presides with a sharp quip about future wives. Anderson county voters face two measures next summer Smiths bill for a county court system and Rucker s two mill levy bond issue for road work. The election is set for the second Tuesday in August.
Townville notes show Mrs. Cleveland and her Florida-bound son visiting Mrs. Bruce, Miss Giles able to be out, and Mrs. Campbell returning from Alabama. Rev. J. A. Campbell was ordained with Dr. Chapman, Rev. J. R. Moore, and Rev. C. S. Blackburn attending. sermon by Moore, large crowd present. Prayer meeting planned at Presbyterian church. medical testimonial ad for Foley's Kidney Cure from J W Bell.
Feb 28 Montreal tragic blaze at Hochelaga Protestant school traps 250 pupils. Twenty four bodies recovered. fears for twenty more including teacher Miss Maxwell. Heroic act by Miss Maxwell halting upstairs flames save others as doctoring cough syrup ads pepper the page.
No printers in the Ohio penitentiary. While inmates were confined they issued a publication that was discontinued after it was learned no printer remained in prison. The piece jokes that bankers preachers and brokers stay, while printers vanish, praising the craft and noting their loss in a light exchange tone.
Chicago officials probing the missing $178,000 from the subtreasury say they cannot trace the funds to any person and doubt a theft occurred. Teller George Fitzgerald was tailed by a Secret Service agent after threats. no arrest is planned as no evidence of theft exists.
The North Carolina State Senate adopted a resolution to place the statue of Zebulon B. Vance in Statuary Hall within the Capitol at Washington.
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