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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1905
Page
7
A 19th century rural column recalls autumn changes in crops weather and community life. It notes harvests, shifting farm work, and local visits while reporting deaths including infant loss and Col. T. Stoba Farrow, with oblique references to medical cures and regional anecdotes.
Townville reports plans for the Anderson Trust Company to build an interurban line to Grons Valley with initial capital of 280,000. Directors vote a 10 percent dividend on current stock and open new shares to the public after pro rata allotment, with extensions to Belton Williams and Greenville.
While preparing cabbage pickles last Saturday Miss Mag Watkins found a genuine cabbage snake. It was alive and of varied colors. Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Cooley kept the reptile in a hotte for safe keeping.
The President proclaims Thanksgiving Day for November 30, urging national unity and gratitude for bountiful crops and prosperity. He calls on Americans to gather in homes and places of worship to thank the Most High and recommit to moral conduct and public duty for the nation’s future.
The Woman's Missionary Society and church mourn the death of Mrs Wed Stribling wife of Dr Mare Mitchell. She was faithful in duties as a Wrenstrer of their missionary aculemy and a devoted church member. Resolutions express sympathy to her husband brothers and sisters and plan to inscribe a page in the minute book and publish in the Baptisl Courier.
The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the convictions of Rawlings and others in the La two Carter child murder case near here. It ruled the evidence supported the verdicts for most defendants, but found Frank Turner’s accomplice verdict not justified and ordered a new trial for him next week. The Rawlings family learned of the decision this afternoon.
At a Washington conference, Frank Hammond was chosen treasurer of the Seneca and Pine Ridge mills with full financial control, while Col Duncan retains residency. The move follows troubled finances affecting the Union and Buffalo mills, with Touchstone resigning from Union operations and relocating to Greenwood. Marshall Jordan to stay on as secretary and resident manager at Seneca.
A brief note reports that the so called blues often stems from a diseased liver rather than external conditions. In Greenville a college women’s dispute tests the State Board of Education’s authority to approve or remove an institution’s name from public school listings, with the attorney general opinion backing the board’s power.
At Anderson on the 6th, B B P Earle the State Organizer was asked to call a Marmara Union State Council. The meeting will be at the Court House in Anderson at 11 a.m. November 23, 1905. Delegates from all county unions will be elected, one at large per county and one per each hundred members or fraction thereof.
In the Court of Common Pleas of Oconee County A G McCurry Maintitt vs John Pugh and Bon Pugh, to be sold at public auction in front of Walhalla Court House on sale day in December. Three parcels in Westminister named as Lot 55 57 and 59 with Spring Street frontage 624 feet, running 68 feet, conveyed by Ben Pugh and A Earle on May 2 1903. Property of the defendant Res Pagh. Cash terms. W M Kay Sheriff. November 4 Win.
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