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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1911
Page
5
An archival ad extols the Ford Model T as the world’s best known car. It touts a four year model with refinements and lists prices for Touring Car $690, Commercial Roadster $590, Town Car $900, Delivery Wagon $700, all with full equipment. Claims 80,000 satisfied owners and notes price reductions due to increased production.
Walhalla and Seneca met in a county relay race last Wednesday with a misstart by Walhalla’s first runner. Seneca built a large lead as Walhalla missed the course, but the Walhalla team rallied in later heats. Coaches expect a rematch next Friday with fifteen runners starting in Walhalla.
Members of the ninth and tenth grades will debate the topic Resolved, but the Indians were justly treated next Friday at the Janaquena Literary Society. Debaters include Myra Pant Gray Macaulay Earle Beards for the affirmative Marion Mous Charles etrick Wien Dun can. The program also features recitations and readings, with welcome visitors noted.
A belabored reflection urges readers to reject dependency and embrace individual effort. It extols willpower and self reliance, contrasting those who wait for help with those who act to improve their welfare and development.
A farmer to MG Holland exhorts perseverance in self sustaining farming across the South. He stresses sowing only when the ground is dry, tending corn and wheat in order, and plowing, harrowing, and dragging repeatedly. He claims success is possible if done yearly and remains aligned with the Lord's will.
Richland School plans to open Piebland on October 24. The article notes a cool week with no front angers, mentions visits from Miss Reynolds of Georgia and Miss Sonia Driver, and lists Grover Hubbard Jesse Hubbard and others from Clemson College visiting. It highlights plans for opening the Lehhindaelool next Monday and notes local interest in sports and early practice for upcoming races before Christmas.
A report from Dallas dated October 23 states Mrs Axel Dobson and six children locked in their Harmer residence, saturated kerosene and retired, resulting in their deaths. The message notes a frost in Texas and Oklahoma cotton belt regions, hurting cotton futures and suggesting widespread field damage.
The Piedmont Presbyterial Union will meet at Central Presbyterian church Anderson on Tuesday afternoon October dist at 4 o clock. Sessions run through Wednesday with Rev W T H Hudson addressing Tuesday evening and Dr Thorton Whaling president of Columbia Seminary speaking on home missions Wednesday evening. Missionary society in the Presbytery plans two delegates. Any church or missionary organization within the Presbytery is invited to send a visitor. Send delegate and visitor names to Mrs Raymond Beatty Anderson Paty Play Oct 23. Special: Rey and Mia I W McDavid of Pelzer visit at home of her parents Mr and Mrs Avat Marett Marner Land and filly of Ava
A Martin Wisconsin school visited home folks while Little Miss Annie Willie Barton of Lavonia visited her aunt Mrs W L Dobbs. Mrs J D Sheldon and Miss Helen Thompson visited Lavonia Friday. A crowd gathered at Pair Play to view automobiles last Saturday morning. Gilman Thompson of Westminster spent the weekend with his Mr and Mrs Thani.
Durham Oct 24 The Bin ford picture chaos grew last night when manager Wilkerson locked the projection room doors and warned officers not to enter. He threatened to shoot if interfered as a crowded audience gathered, and he announced the show would continue while tickets were sold for a later edition. Sergt Pendergrast sought a warrant via hat box device, later bond posted and shows halted for recorder court action. A passerby note mentions Electric Bitters as a cure for women’s ailments, offering health benefits with a money back guarantee.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens lectured at Winthrop College on My father's Life Work as England prepares the Dickens centennial in February 1912. Ladies of the Presbyterian church hosted Winthrop women. An educational rally in York County features O J Kern, famed superintendent, speaking twice at the college. The Vicrary remains a busy hub for study and magazine access with notable acquisitions like Littell's Living Age and Edinburgh Review. A coal mine disaster at Ogara No 9 in Morrisburg, Ontario, kills two and traps thirty others, with rescue efforts ongoing.
Two parcels of farmland listed for sale adjacent to a school building. Property details are limited in the readable text. The notice identifies a location near the school with no further terms provided.
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