Cotton Leud Buyer Seeks High Market Prices
I am prepared to do shat day ginning and will pay the highest market price for cotton leud.
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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1905
Page
1
I am prepared to do shat day ginning and will pay the highest market price for cotton leud.
The Board of County Commissioners will let contracts to the lowest responsible bidders for rebuilding four bridges in Tugaloo and Wagenor townships. Bids open on specified September dates at bridge sites with county furnishing materials. Bonds required equal to twice the bid. right to reject any or all bids reserved. notices by Supervisor TL V. Hobson.
Notice restricts entry across lands of the executors Keith Hatate and Shel or rev Gar Sept 7 1905. Prohibits entering, felling timber, cutting, hauling wood, digging roots, or trespassing with penalties to be pursued by law. All persons forbidden to trespass on the property of Me GAR as named.
September 11 report from the Southern Cotton Association details funding plans for national, state, and county bodies. A general field agent and organizer for the national association was proposed to raise funds via a levy of three cents on each bale of cotton, with FE J. Smith of Columbia named as field agent. proposal met vigorous debate and was not adopted.
In Sandy Level Virginia W Harbor reports a severe throat ailment from dust irritation that resisted other remedies until Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs and Colds relieved his cough and lung trouble. The note promises a guaranteed trial bottle free at the drugstore.
Seneca on September 11 reports a light rain easing dust and offering comfort to residents on Front Street. The community notes visitors, school meetings, and ongoing local developments including street paving, electric light talks, and home upgrades. A missionary sermon and music program at Palmetto House reflect Augusts’ social life. school resumes with new term plans and a fall weather mood. Local business expands with J Brock adding stock and a jewelry shop next to the Cincinn Bank. The note ends with a Bromine Quinine cough remedy reference.
Westminster items recap family visits and travels with J. Carter in New York, Mattie Singleton en route to North Carolina, and Joseph Gwinns and K Carter moving through Piedmont and Liberty. Social events include a Pendleton fair guest list, a Saturday purse theft near Lamassee and Walhalla, school enrollment at Westminster Graded School, and Father Moore’s upcoming Baptism sermons. Community updates cover church events, fire at Saley mill, hotel moves to Lula, and missionary Jav. W. F. Juckin’s talk on China, Japan, and Christ’s command.
In Saluda on September 8 State Senator E. L. Bloase shot and killed Jon Bon Coleman amid alleged infidelity with Mrs. Bloase. Bloase surrendered to the sheriff and is jailed. The victim, a former dispensary constable, was linked to a past raid that left Mrs. Stuart dead. Other local notices recall visitors from Atlanta and Royston, and a child burial at Old Westminster.
An advertisement touts a stomach remedy tablet as superior to prior treatments, claiming safety and effectiveness for digestion. Separately, a Ninth Avenue elevated train collision at Sixth Street injures dozens and kills twelve as a car derails, with a crushed car and toppled wreckage described amid chaotic morning streets.
A September 11 letter from ED Smith of the Cotton Growers Association urges county meetings on September 18 to gauge support for a minimum price and the Southern Cotton Association’s aims. It calls for reports on cotton retention, yields, and mutual aid plans, praising Asheville’s convention and warning of a fight to obtain a better price amid a 11 cent target.
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