Walhalla News Buys and Barters In October Items
A parade of local notices lists sales offers and business visits in Walhalla. Ads promote No Darn stockings, 100 bushels of oats for sale, Remnant sale at A P Holden, and Carter Hardware offerings. Community updates mention church meetings, school openings, and residents traveling to Charleston and Greenville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Ballenger
Richland
Walhalla
John P. Reese
Westminster
K. Mills
T. J. Todd
Charleston
D. P. Bearden
Hopewell Baptist Church
B. M. Dickson
R. T. Jaynes
J. R. Anderson
Lida Keith
Anderson
J. W. Shelor
EB. L. Herndon
Federal Court
Greenville
Anderson grand jury cites officials in Emerson escape matter
The Anderson grand jury completed its inquiry into the Emerson escape issue. No criminal charges were filed and no person appeared, but officials faced a sharp rebuke for carelessness and negligence. An advertisement by Jas. H. Darby real estate lists West Union residence lots auctioned there on November 9. West Union grows as Walhalla neighbor town. Dowls, a prosperous farmer, visited Walhalla on county business. Clerk R. D. Burns has been ill. Ex-Clerk James Seaborn now presides. In General Sessions, Ley Swift was found not guilty of larceny. F F Collins was acquitted for dispensary law violation. John G. Reeder pleaded guilty to dispensary law violation and was fined or imprisoned, sentence suspended for good behavior due to health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyatt Aiken
Walhalla
J. G. Riley
Anderson
James Phinney
West Union
B. C. Reid
Seneca Mercantile Co
Seneca
John B. Breazeale
Valhalla
M. E. Johnson
Tme
Oconee
St. Louis
Kansas City
Springfield
Prank
H. Him
Harry
Victoria
N. C
Helen Norris
Hill
Land of the Sky
Carter and Co
Carter & Co.'s
Anderson Grand Jury
Emerson
Jas. H. Darby
James Seaborn
Ley
Swift
F. F. Collins
John G. Reeder
State Penitentiary
Public Works
County
Town Name Is Changed as President Roosevelts Visits
In Stamboul Louisiana on October 21 President Roosevelt left town prompting a name change for the town. All plantation workers and nearby business paused as employees and employers walked to the station. Nineteen twentieths of attendees were Black, illustrating the area’s racial makeup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamboul
Roosevelt
Train Hits Buggy Near Johnstone Injures Augusta Woman
Augusta Georgia October 21 A vehicle carrying Mrs Mary Toney and her son Span Toney was struck by a Southern train one mile from Johnstone, South Carolina. Mrs Toney was fatally injured and her son severely bruised and gashed. The horse was killed. The train halted and the injured were taken to Johnstone. Mrs Toney, 50, widow of a former prominent planter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Mary Toney
Span Toney
Southern
Johnstone
8. C
Help Wanted at WORTHYer Business College headline
A call for young people to apply for a half-rate business training offer from the Ga.eAla Business College in Macon Georgia appears, urging prompt action. A New York dispatch notes Seth M. Milliken elected president of Mercantile National Bank, with William Skinner and G. H. Milliken named vice presidents and director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Mall
Willa
Ga.eAla
Business College
Macon
New Yorke
South Carolina
Millikens
Mercantile Naional Bank
Seth M. Milliken
F. Augustus Heinze
Willam Skinner
G. H. Milliken
Deaf inmate story shocks convention in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia Record recounts a deaf and mute inmate at a city institution who, while alone in a partly filled well, fell to the bottom and was rescued hours later. He had worn his fingers to the bone signaling for help in sign language as a result of the perilous event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Oconee County Land Auctions Under Court Decree 1907
State of South Carolina Oconee County Court of Common Pleas sale notice listing multiple parcels on Snow Creek Bear Swamp and White's Creek near Oakway and Seneca River. Describes terms: half cash, balance in one year with interest, resale on default, purchaser pays extra for papers. Master W C White to oversee sales on November 4 1907 and October 16 1997 notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Eubanks
E¢ al
Oconee
Snow Creek
Joseph Bearden
Thomas J. Eubanks
W.T. Gibson
Oakway
Aaron Eubanks
Jsald
W. C. White
Oconee County
8. C
Clara Davis
South Carolina
Bear Swamp Creek
Conncross
Seneca River
Ben Dean
W. O. Alexander
Davis Abbott
Edmund Davis
H. EB. Hayne
W. O. White
Peter G. Gilliam
County of
State of
Dmerson
von Holland
Hunnicutt
Knox
White's Creek
Little River
Keowee
Uch
Notice of Final Settlement in Minnie V Hopkins McConnell Estate
The guardian J. M. McConnell will apply to G R D Burns Clerk of Circnutt Court Acting Judge of Probate in Walhalla South Carolina for final settlement of Minnie V Hopkins McConnell minor and final discharge as guardian on Saturday November 16 1907 at 11 oclock forenoon or as soon thereafter as heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. R. D. Burns
Circnutt Court
Oconee County
South Carolina
Walhalla Court House
Minnie
Hopkins McConnell
J. M. McConnell
Notice of Public Sale of Bank Shares in Walhalla Court House
In front of Walhalla Court House on Sales day in November next within legal hours I will sell to the highest bidder ten shares of the Capital Stock of The Citizens Bank stock per Uflate No 30 issued to J J Haley on February 28 1905 Terms cash L A Edwards Cashier October 16 1907
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Reese
Eleanor
Westminster
Walhalla
Seneca Mercantile Co
Iron King
Liberty
Carter Hardware Co
Comcross School
J. H. Cantrell
Cheohee Public School
St. John's Lutheran Church
Court House
8. C
John A. Eubanks
Walhalla Court House
Citizens’ Bank
J. J. Haley
CASS
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The
Walhalla Drug Company
Q. K
Best
A. Haynes
Honea Path
Marie Isbell
L. M. Murphy
G. F. Clarkson
Union
Houshold
A. P. Holden
Main Street
T. B. Alexander
A. Rae Dendy
Canton
Capt
Mra
K. Dendy
O. K. Mills
Irene Cater
J. D. Isbell
Cater
J. TH. Moore
Nunnally
Express
H. BE. Rosser
Abbott
Greer
Court of General Sessions
Kay
Julius E. Boggs
Pickens
Lucien Maxwell
Pendleton
Valhalla Drug Co
J. N. Hesse
Highlands
Burss
West Nd
Huyler
Bell’s Drug Store
Seneca Mercantile Company
S. M. Milliken
Senega Mercantile Company
T, BE
Alexander
P.O
Bey
Moss
Court of Common Pleas
Jease C. Neville and
Mack Neville
Moses L. Emerson
Wot, Knox, Plaintiffs
J. W. Byrd
Alent
M. S. Stribling
Westminster, S.C
Doubtious
Spero
Michael
Iw.s.huntera
Bucklen
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