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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1906
Page
3
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In Walhalla on March 1 the Brice Act is set for another Supreme Court review via a writ of certiorari. The State board of canvassers sustained Laurens county’s dispensary election, rejecting alleged irregularities as non-violative, and noted the Brice Act panels apply to both special and regular elections, per Assistant Attorney General Youmans. Welsh for the dispensary seeks certification of the record to the high court, while Laurens dispensaries remain open pending further action.
A Census Bureau bulletin reports about 106 per 1000 Americans over ten cannot write, about one in ten. Illiteracy varies by group with 46 per 1000 native whites, 128 foreign born, and 445 among negroes. Comparisons show decline since 1890. Ad notice ends with a Liver Pills sales pitch.
The U S Supreme Court fixed April 2 for arguments in the Rawlings brothers case against Georgia and granted pauper pleas. Three defendants face death sentences and one life imprisonment for the 1905 killings of a boy and a girl in Lowndes county as part of an assassination attempt on a family. The appeal stems from alleged irregularities in the jury.
The Edgefield Chronicle remarks that political life fits good form for the community. It suggests babies bring interest to cotton market tides and chrysanthemum church entertainments center local attention.
Nellie B. Tramilton notes in the Atlanta News that Arlington, the estate of Gen Robert E Lee, served as Union headquarters and a hospital, then a burial ground. The 1864 sale to the government and 1877 settlement with Lee’s heirs resolved ownership with $150,000 payment, while the grounds preserve the life and history of the Confederate leader as visitors reflect on his legacy.
A Granite Oklahoma paper recalls its flirtation with a Pampered broker scheme soliciting Bland Mining stock. Readers were urged to invest in “top” ore prospects, and the author muses on lost money, noting Bland Mining’s share price jumped from 15 cents to $14 after a strike, lamenting the missed chance to invest $1,000.
A Washington Star item recalls a Kaat Washington wedding where the groom balked at public displays and demanded change from a $5 bridegroom fee. The minister received the bill as the bride pressed for reception of the customary blessing and a gaggle of remarks about marriage costs.
The Raleigh Progressive Farmer warns farmers about a stock food swindle advertising prepared stock foods with cheap additives to alter taste. It cites high prices per ton and notes an exposure in a Southern farm paper, recalling an editor’s plea to publish a letter against the fraud. The Chronicle supports exposing such frauds to protect farmers.
In 1904, Hillis County Texas led production with 125,844 bales of cotton. Orangeburg County South Carolina produced 87,101 bales, and Boliver County Mississippi followed with 82,123 bales.
A chemist analyzes soil to recommend fertilizers for different crops. If blood is poor a doctor prescribes what to add to renew it, typically a tonic or concentrated fat food. Fat is the lacking element and needs easy digestion and absorption.
Pauline Webster, the young South Carolina woman who caused a sensation by marrying a Kansas City woman and facing bigamy charges, was released and passed through Spartanburg on her way to Cowpens. A large crowd gathered at the station to glimpse her, and she was joined there by her brother J. K. Webster of Gaftay.
London reports King Edward in frail health after a tendon injury from a hunting accident last October. Aged about sixty, he cannot stand without support and walks haltingly even with a cane and ankle brace. The injury is described as a lasting disability. In Texas, Houston Thomas, a young Black man, was sentenced to ninety nine years for attempted assault on a young white girl after pleading guilty.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream is to do it. Scott's Emulsion is always the same, always profitable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults.
The South's Greatest System offers unexercised dining car service and through Pullman sleeping cars on all through trains with convenient local schedules. Winter tourist rates to Florida points are now in effect. For rates and routes, contact a Southern Railway ticket agent or division passenger agent J. W. Hunt in Charleston, Brooks Morgan in Atlanta.
A clubbing arrangement with the Charleston Semi Weekly News and Courier allows purchase of The Keowee Courier and the Semi Weekly News for 1.50 per year. The Keowee Courier is praised as a top paper in Oconee County and among the best in South Carolina while the Semi Weekly News and Courier is a Wednesday and Saturday issue with South Carolina news and full Associated Press dispatches. The offer lets readers get two papers for about 50 cents more than one paper, delivering three papers per week for a low price.
A scheme in Arkadelphia Arkansas uses a calendar plan to build a church. One man is chosen to fund a year totaling 8500 and recruit twelve others each giving 800. Those twelve appoint four more who contribute 150 each, who then appoint seven each to contribute 50. The plan aims to raise 813 700.
Greenville reports show marked public improvement after dispensaries were shut. Police note fewer drunks, cleaner streets, and fewer court cases, with officers observing a wide change in behavior and reduced municipal case load. In Columbia, creditors press for status of liquor house debts tied to dispensaries, potential half a million dollars involved, with conferences planned to resolve claims.
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