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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1905
Page
4
The Shelor firm and partners outline obituary and tribute rules for the Reomee Courier. Notices of personal character or tributes under one hundred words are free. longer items incur a one cent per word charge. Aimed at assisting readers with affordable memorial notices.
In Walhalla on March 2 the editor celebrates municipal and private efforts to beautify the town. The piece urges citizens and officials to work together for steady progress, noting unity will bring prosperity and a higher quality of life for all residents. It stresses shared duty and continuous improvement across streets and sidewalks.
In Charleston Vincent Chicco fails to win a State Legislature seat, trailing with 55 votes as rival Van derhost takes the nomination. The item also notes civic plans to promote Valhalla as a summer resort and urges local outreach for boarders, while a series of brief notices detail public matters, including the death of Col. J. L. Tribble, the new ten hour workday at Seneca Mills, and various regional political shifts.
St. Petersburg reports Gen Kuropatkin dismissed amid a dire military position as Gen Linevitch is appointed to command all Russian land and sea forces against Japan. Emperor Nicholas approves the hard rebuke and orders a larger war effort with new armies and renewed sea action under Rojestvensky. At Harbin the toll rises with 70,000 wounded and sick Russians and five thousand dead last week from battle and disease.
An advertisement for PAZCO ointment claims it cures itching bleeding and protruding piles. Druggists refund money if it fails in any case, with a 50 cent price and postpaid return offer from Parix Medicine Co of St. Louis Missouri.
Jas Hi Peabody won the Colorado governorship last Thursday but pledged to resign within 24 hours to surrender to Lieutenant Governor McDonald. Alva Adams inaugurated January 1 and a canvass showed Peabody leading by 4,870 after excluding votes from Denver and other counties for fraud. The Legislature accepted the report, Adams ousted, Peabody installed, then again ousted with the lieutenant governor taking over. Congress adjourned March 4 after 1,142 measures were passed.
Spartanburg March 17 E D Smith on route from Alabama to his home will spend next week in South Carolina addressing farmers on the cotton situation. He plans to speak in Spartanburg Greenville and Anderson later this month and then visit Mississippi. He says farmers and merchants are united and that the cotton movement can shift market control away from speculators. The message emphasizes farmer allies among bankers and manufacturers and urges sticking together for better prices.
Richmond March 17 McKeen second steward at the Homestead Hotel Hot Springs Va was killed today by W S Hansboro a colored waiter McKeen had discharged Hansboro and re entered his office when Hansboro struck him on the head with a heavy bottle killing him within hours Hansboro fled into the woods and is being hunted McKeon from New York State unmarried his father a Kea captain In Kansas City Major William Warner Republican was elected US Senator for Missouri on Saturday ending a deadlock that began January 18 the first joint ballot January 18th and the 67th elective ballot was the one used
A report from Charleston dated March 17 states Sheriff Dukes brought William Johnson, a Black man, to Orangeburg with charges of a criminal incident involving the 13 year old daughter of Mrs. Howell in Cow Castle. The alleged assault occurred Saturday at Mowell's. Johnson was found in custody of several Black residents and later placed in Orangeburg county jail.
Columbia reports pressure to overturn a board decision restricting liquor purchases to bottled bulk only. The board affirms the resolution to avoid buying case goods and to bottle in bulk, with the order to be carried out in spirit and reality.
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