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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
4
The notice states personal communications and obituaries up to one hundred words are printed free. Advertisements beyond the limit cost one cent per word. Subscriptions are listed at one dollar per year. Cash must accompany manuscripts.
Walhalia News discusses the enacted postal rule changing how papers with unpaid subscriptions are mailed. It argues the change improves business by ensuring cash for materials and reduces fake or unpaid copies carried at public expense. The piece cites Assistant Postmaster General Lawshe and outlines expected shifts in second class mail, revenue, and publisher practices.
The rural school improvement effort in Oconee County is suspended for now as organizers withdraw from active work amid limited local sympathy. Despite this, residents remain committed, believing the core work is sentiment and support, and expect progress to continue without state involvement. A broader national context notes the era’s prohibition movement affecting commerce and politics, with Benjamin Tillman denouncing President Roosevelt’s handling of trusts and amnesty.
H Barnett of Westminster South Carolina advertises FLiNMINGs improved cotton seed promising farmer profits. He reports two-bale per acre yields on best land and one bale on ordinary land after two years planting. Samples from field show over 200 mature bolls per three stalks. Seed price is one dollar per bushel with hundred bushels available to instructors seeking one to two bales per acre.
Gash W. O. White as administrator will hold an auction at the late Preston Brown residence at 10 A.M. on April 2, 1908. Items include a wagon, fodder, hay, crosscut saw, harrow, plow stock, plows, corn, clock, seed cotton, wagon harness, a single barreled shotgun, and related articles.
South Carolina bank statement sworn by cashier J Mulkey in Oconee County. The document shows liabilities, capital stock, undivided profits after rent and taxes, and total liabilities and capital. It records balances due to others and deposits subject to check with figures likely reflecting totals. Signed March 11, 1908 by directors Kobler Butler and J Mulkey.
Bank report from Westminster dated March 13 1908 shows assets including loans and discounts 178642 59, checks and cash items 201 60, deposits 63078 74, time certificates 63781 51, and capital stock 190000 00 with undivided profits and other items totaling 240478 84. Notary confirms accuracy. directors note capital stock increase proposal for Oconee Knitting Mill to fifty thousand dollars via preferred stock with 7 percent cumulative dividends and later exchange rights, meeting set for April 18 1908.
A full blood Apaniah Jack described as four percent year old stands a mile south of Walhalla for the season. Rate for nerves listed at $7.50. Contact Charles Burnside, Walhalla, D. C., Route 1 to call and arrange.
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