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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1907
Page
4
Personal classified communications advertised at one cent per word. One hundred words or fewer obituary notices and tributes printed free of charge. Unframed cash with manuscript. Babocription rate stated as one dollar per annam.
From Washington comes word that permanent improvements on the Southern railway will be discontinued. North Carolina and other Southern states face blame as passenger fares are cut two thirds of a cent per mile, while many northern regions retain two cent rates. The piece argues the claim is an excuse to discriminate against the South and notes the system has long underperformed Northern routes.
Local notices recount patient testimonials and family health struggles, praising Dr King’s New Discovery for throat and lung cures. Reports mention asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough and other ailments with prices and trial offer, plus local personal updates and church notes.
In Fair Play September 9 issue a letter denounces horse swapper conventions as harmful to community morals, urging residents to reject them. The piece argues such events degrade youth and urges support for reform, alongside local social notes and notices about gatherings, church events, and a legal estate notice for Wm. F. Ervin.
New advertisements describe an October 1907 auction near Oconee Station for a 106 acre farm with 75 cultivated, 20 acre bottom, a good house and outbuildings. Terms: one third cash, balance over one and two years. Also notices about Westminster stock subscription opening and district school election details with dates, places, and voting instructions.
The State of South Carolina county of Oconee in the Court of Common Pleas offers for ante to the highest bidder in front of the Walhalia Court House door on October 7, 1907 a tract of land of about 809 10 acres in Center township. The property is described as the land deeded to the bidder by James Bates and later conveyed by J N Bates to James Bates with exclusions to R A Reeves. Bounded by Reeves Zackery Gibson and Holland. Terms cash. extra for papers. Master W O White. September 11, 1907.
Union School District No 67 orders an election at Union School House on September 21 1907 to decide uniting with Wentminator No 17 for a high school. Polls open 3 PM and close 5 PM. Trustees serve as managers under General Election Law.
Notice is hereby given that a special election to decide a three mill tax will be held at the School House on September 1907 between 3 and 5 PM The ticket options read If In favor of the tax and No if opposed Voters must show last year’s tax receipt and registration certificate Any irregularities may void the election Trustees are appointed managers of the election Signed RTOSC CRAIG Superintendent of Education
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