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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1909
Page
4
The notice outlines that personal communications charged as advertisements, obituary notices and tributes under one hundred words are printed free of charge. Any message exceeding the limit costs one cent per word, with cash accompanying the manuscript.
A local notice urges Walhalla voters to approve a bond issue to fund a municipal electric lighting plant. The plan promises reliable service from dusk to dawn and lower overall costs, calling on Freehold residents to unite and attend the Business Men's section meeting at the Court House Friday night to back the bond vote.
The citizens of Walhalla are urged to attend a September 7 meeting at the Court House to discuss road improvements. The note criticizes the old road system as costly and inadequate and asks attendees to advise, offer suggestions, and learn about permanent highway fixes.
The piece notes prohibition spreading through the South and beyond, with most counties voting to end dispensaries, leaving South Carolina near dry status behind Georgia and Tennessee. It cites Henry W. Grady on alcohol’s harm and urges enforcement of existing laws as statewide prohibition looms, reflecting the era’s moral fervor.
The speaker condemns alcohol as a moral and social scourge, arguing it saps liberty and harms the weak. He asserts prohibition as a duty to protect others and calls for nationwide dryness, asserting only tangible proof of benefits justifies allowing drinking. The argument favors limiting individual rights to curb vice and poverty.
Dusby of Cincinnati claims a Washington patent for a compressed air system that powers machinery without external fuels. He asserts the device can run any engine by compressing air, with no coal oil or wood needed, and compares his success to Tesla's work on liquid air. He cites engineers supporting his theory and suggests vast industrial impact.
A neighbor in Mort Holward, Y, troubled by asthma, used Dr King’s New Discovery and found relief. The ad claims the medicine cures throat and lung ailments, coughs, colds, croap, hemorrhages, sore throats, hay fever, and whooping cough. Includes pricing and free trial bottle offers.
A live sheep vein, ten inches long, was transplanted to a man with arterial aneurism to restore circulation. The patient reportedly recovered completely. Dr Doyen in Budapest plans to present details at the medical congress. The operation is described as the first of its kind using a lower animal vein in a human.
Dear Bristol Aug 20. In a sequel to the murder of A. J. Slagle the wealthy Jonesboro lumberman whose body was found in the river at Newport Tenn a relative named John Spencer jumped head first into a rain barrel and died. He had been suspected of Slagle's murder.
Clayton Georgia August 30. After a long chase by officers Bradley who killed George Welborn Jr near the locality last Monday night shot himself Friday afternoon in an old field near Mountain City with his son nearby. Officers hesitated after the blast, then found Bradley face down with his brains blown out. Robert Nix who saw Bradley earlier reported the shooting to Sheriff J J Jones, who led a posse in pursuit. Bradley 27 years old and unmarried.
A noon explosion on the Florida East Coast Railway near Hocuechia, twelve miles from Key West, killed twelve workers and fatally injured five others. About a dozen sustained serious injuries as 700 pounds of dynamite detonated when a lighter sparked by a railroad worker allegedly tossed into fuse boxes. Debris and water from the blast hurled workers into water four feet deep, with bodies badly mangled and scattered.
In Albany Georgia during an Elks Lodge initiation Cleve Cox was shot in the leg by a blank-looking cartridge misfired from practice gallery rounds mixed with blanks. The lodge floor bore several bullet marks as doctors treated Cox and the initiation was halted.
Mrs ALA Thiele aged 73 fell from her second floor window in Charleston and broke both bones in her left arm. She is not expected to live. Her 18 year old grandson was with her. She’s been taken to Spartanburg hospital.
Five residents of St Louis were killed when the automobile they rode in was hit by a fast Chicago Rock Island and Pacific passenger train near Vigues station in St Louis county. Theodore Witte drove, his brother Fred beside him. both were thrown from the car. The Witte man survived briefly before dying in hospital. The two women in the party, relatives of the Wittes, were crushed in the wreck.
Notice of sale to the highest bidder for cash on Tuesday September 7 at 10 a.m. at the King Residence Westminister S C for the estate of Elizabeth J King deceased verified by W T Grubbs administrator with McCullough 8 Attorneys at Walhalla South Long Hina. Also a probate notice from D A Smith judge of probate for Oconee County cites all heirs and creditors of R M W Dilworth Sr to appear September 9 1909 at 11 a.m. to show cause why administration should not be granted.
By authority of an execution directed to me by the Court of Common Pleas of Oconee County I will sell to the highest bidder at the Shattooga River Lumber Company plant near Madison S.C. all lumber on the yard and in the dry as needed to satisfy the execution The lumber includes oak pine and poplar boards The sale will be during legal hours on a sale day in September 1909 W M Kay Sheriff Oconee County August 25 1909
A scarce advertisement from Brown's store in Valhalla South Carolina promotes Buggy Wagon and Harness values. It claims superior High Point Wheels Hickory timber and skilled workmanship, with Two-Horse Wagons priced to 60 to 75 dollars and One-Horse Wagons 30 to 37.50, plus a free $75 buggy with every $10 purchase. It also notes a final settlement notice for HMMA L. Anderson and the administrator S.N. Hughes with court date September 30, 1909.
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