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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1906
Page
2
The Westminster Oil and Fertilizer Company promotes its large cotton seed meal and hulls supplies in Oconee County and boasts capacity to handle fifty bales daily after improvements to its ginneries. It offers bagging and ties at cost for seed customers and urges families to use cooking oil as a healthy affordable kitchen grease.
Representatives of over six hundred thousand cotton producers meet in Texarkana Texas to fix a cotton price. The call urges publishing these prices like cotton exchange quotes and warns against selling below the minimum price while advocating cooperative warehousing to hold the market steady and protect producers from speculative traders.
A farmer notes rising costs and labor hurdles in crop production, detailing cotton yields and prices, corn and fodder values, and rent deductions. He warns against rising cotton prices when paid laborers are scarce, urging fair pay to sustain farming and prevent emigration. The excerpt closes with an assault report from Oakland City, where Mrs. Kimmel was attacked. a swift response followed, highlighting community concern.
Announcer appeals to all youths to write for plans at a modern business college in Macon Georgia. Typhoon news from Hong Kong reports 500 to 1,000 deaths with many ships missing, causing millions in losses. Edgefield Sheriff W H Outus dies after 28 years in office, Civil War veteran. Governor Heyward notes a reported crime near Bennettsville with calls for swift trial. Clemson student Maxie Crawford, five, breaks arm after falling from a muscadine vine. son of W H Crawford.
Two members of the Jesse James Jr. gang in Hellartown were arraigned before Judge Scott, pleaded guilty to larceny at the public sea building, and sent to the house of refuge. William Trast, 15, captain, and Floyd Etweln, 18, confessed their oath on a skull and stated further plans to kill or harm others for loyalty to the gang. A police chief testified to the confession and muttered details of the gang’s brutal code.
On Saturday September 16 Sailor Now witnessed an unusual ceremony. George Jayhoe, a young Syrian, was jailed for refusing to marry a woman whose trust he betrayed. Seeking freedom, he married Mamia Rary with the aid of Magistrate Stradley. The episode ends with a curious twist as the couple vow success under arrest.
A dated notice urges avoiding risk from coughs and colds by using Foley's Honey and Tar for protection against serious bronchial or lung trouble. Dr J We Bell endorses the product as a preventive measure.
The Fred W. Brock & Co store was burglarized Tuesday night a shop window broken and jewelry stolen. Authorities expect losses near 1000 dollars with several fine diamond rings taken and no strong clues yet. A reward is promised for the capture of the guilty party.
An old notice touts Foley's Kidney Core as a supreme remedy with Dr J W Hell endorsing its efficacy. A fragment recalls the acquittal of Wilbur Mitchell in Columbia on September 14 for a fatal altercation linked to union activities during fair week, noting both men were young Leesville residents from good families.
The State of South Carolina Oconee County issues summons in Common Pleas against Julia Erakine James Erakine Ernest Erakine and James Erakine infant defendants. Guardian ad litem may be appointed if no appearance within twenty days and publications to follow.
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