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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1906
Page
4
The Reowwee Courier lists obituary notices and tributes with free prints up to one hundred words, charging one cent per word for longer submissions. Advertising rates apply per annum at sixty one dollars. ads for personal notices require cash with manuscripts.
In Walhalla on March 24 E Frank Purcell a Piedmont Hotel barber was acquitted of murdering his father Henry J Purcell after a court hearing before Justice Ormond The elder man confronted Purcell s mother and wife with a knife. Purcell fired three shots killing him The mother and wife cried with relief as Purcell left for home Purcell will return to work in a few days Nearby items report on Clark Martin s quarterly discounts by the New Board of Dispensary Directors in Columbia and other local notes.
Columbia March 26 Attorney General Uriel Gunter died at his Batonburg home yesterday morning at four o'clock He was thirty six and had risen to the office of Attorney General of the state In ten years he served as private secretary to Governor Evans as assistant to Attorney General Bellinger and then as Attorney General A valued colleague and friend he was born December 5 1870 in Batesburg Lexington county He practiced law in Aiken Spartanburg and Batesburg and held various legal posts His death led to the State House closing in his memory The funeral set for three o'clock this afternoon with officials and citizens attending in Batesburg n In the same column Chamberlains Cough Remedy is praised by W W Kearney editor of The Independent Lowry City Mo as a trusted household staple for colds and croup n A note of thanks from William Wylma of Valhalla to local editors and Dr Thode for aid in traveling to Atlanta is included n Several unrelated items follow including a pilot New York sky scraper plan and a Virginia law on passenger rates but the main obituary centers on Attorney General Gunter and the State House tribute
State weather map reports isothermic and precipitation patterns across the state highlighting heavy rainfall in Greenville Pickens Oconee area and a central Charleston Berkeley Dorchester edge zone. Tobacco watermelon and fruit belts are noted with Columbia listed as normal. annual seasonal totals and 1905 tobacco company figures also appear. Local notes from Ramsay Creek mention good health, home enlargements, a new bridge, and spring farming as peaches suffer cold damage.
Berlin reports from Vorwartz show in the year 100 the repressive empire era caused 14 130 executions and hanged orders, 524 wounded, and 16 political prisoners executed since year’s start. In Sumter, March 24, John Gaylord was killed at Horiot’s crossroads after a quarrel at a dance. Grover Mathis fired once, death rapid.
Capt Charles Inglesby dies peacefully at the home of his son in law Liv Whaley in Columbia. He had lived in Columbia over a year with bright days marked by tender ministrations from his kin and the local bar will mourn the former secretary of the Grand Lodge ALE M and respected attorney.
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