Seneca Hears Circus Parade and Fete Week
Local notes report Mrs. Adams hosting the annual lower show in Seneca on Sept. 27 with a Thursday circus, a forenoon parade, and an afternoon performance on Mrs. P. Lowery’s property near the colored Institute. Events include millinery openings, a Sunday school institute at Hoplist church, and a bride-to-be social honoring Miss Minnis Kirkpatrick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca
Hoplist Church
Mile Quartette
Hood
J. M. Vickery
M . Lowery
Hrockman
Wales
Mackburn
Methodist Church
KR. Belk
Atlanta
Minnis Kirkpatrick
Carrie Hunter
Margie Holland
4. J. Adams
Wot
Reid
Civic Association
Floral Econ
Lee Verner
Mes. Verner
H. J, Gignttiiat
Lois
Washington, D.C
Helen Cary
Spartanburg
McWhorter
A. Farr
Greenville
HG. Verner
Luke W. Verner
Alis. Cleland
Baptist Church
Orelock
I. G. Lavender
Ruth Wingo
Detroit magnate shoots woman then ends life in Cleveland
B W Yates a 48 year old Detroit business leader shot Mrs Fred Singer in a Rocky River wine room and, two hours later, hanged himself in the county jail. His sons from Detroit arrived as the victim’s attorney and Billman met Yates. The coroner will transport Yates’s body to Bradford Ontario. Mrs Singer, once of Detroit and now in a Cleveland hotel, is married to a traveling salesman and related by marriage to men in Cleves Inna.
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Cleveland
Ohio
B. W. Yates
Detroit
F Red Singer
Rocky River
Billman
Yates
H. W
A. W. Yates
Business Men's Publishing Company
Bradford
Singer
M Cleves Inna
The Cortright Advocate September Issue Preview
The Cortright Advocate for September offers bright breezy tips for builders and workers. Free to readers who request it, with 35 honorees receiving the issue. mail to Cortright Metal Roofing Company, Philadelphia, Pa., to be added to the mailing list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortright
Honred
Cortright Metal Rooting Company
Philadelphia
Polls, elections and school levies in Oconee district
A Courier notice discusses special elections in three Oconee school districts. It explains voting rules for residents, registration certificates, and poll lists. It notes that extra levies fund state aid and that forty two of seventy seven districts already levy extra taxes. Superintendent W G C Hugs outlines aims to increase county term lengths and improve funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oconee
Courier
Walehalla
Vestiay
W. GC. Hugs
Selling Lots at Your Own Price Advert
Mr. WR. Horton Hulwhikle Hi offers residential lots to be sold to the highest bidder on easy terms around mid October. Visit the street near John Ansel’s to see the improvements and what has been done.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WR. Horton
John Ansel
Westminster Social Tea Celebrates Summer Belties
Westminster news details a Tuesday evening social tea hosted by Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Pitts in honor of the Summer Belties. Guests enjoyed a cool drawing room, a formal dinner, carna tions and ferns centerpieces, hand painted souvenir plates, and a bridal card prophecy game. The piece also notes a Sunday School Institute with Baptist leaders, local real estate deals, and community visits and travels.
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Westminster
LS. Pitts
White
Hugh Bibb
Pits
Moon
and Leathers
Zimmerman
Mitchell
T Halr
Fort MU
Mackburn
Seneca
W. E. Steakly
N.C
St. 1B
Atlanta
Thursda
J. J. Quartermus
McDonald
Wilmington
Carter
Westminster Knitting
Wm. P. Anderson
Mills
J. Rler
Car . Carter
AL PL Mavett
Wea
Mulaski
Gordon Institute
Clemson College
TB Tec
Ada Wham
Abbeville
Russell
Anderson
George Marett
Grace Phillips
L. 2
Jones
Walter Dickson
Christian Shurch
Clemson
Mercer University
W. M. US
First Baptist Church
Harbert
C. J. Harbert
WH. G. Williams
Lee Leathers
Lagman
Southern
V. Anderson
The
Westminster Bank
George Dickson
Miss George
Union
Dickson
Siminster
Pearle Maret
Fair Play
Whitaker
Townville
Man Shot Dead Near Mountain Creek Home
A J Melwen aged 15 was found shot to death near Mountain Creek Soldiers Home in Montgomery. His nephew, the last person seen with him, is held on suspicion. Melwen from Birmingham was visiting friends and was last seen between 10 and 2 on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
A. J. Melwen
Mountain Creek
Melawen
Birmingham
Friends Mountain Creek
Doings at Bounty Land and Sunshine Quilting Stop
In Bounty Land on September 26 special notes recall Miss Bertrand Porritt visiting Charleston, Mr and Mrs Lowell Smith and Joe Gunthorp leaving for the West, and Mrs Walter Hubbard ill with typhoid in Pleckens. Sunshine quilting at Julia Shanklin’s yielded many quilts and chairs for orphans and homes, with a lingering village humor about a possum pilfering poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bounty Land
Bertrand Porritt
Charleston
A. S. Rollins
Winthrop
Hounty Land
Lowell Smith
Joe Gunthorp
Far West
Pemple
Oklo
Hon Hubbard
Walter Hubbard
Plekens
Mil
Poplar
Connie Maxwell
Wilma Newton
Pendleton
Smith
Ora Bagwell
Honen Math
Ora Rigby
Ernest Grant
Seneca
Bagwell
M.T. Waughs
Walhalla
George Dunthorp
Bille Moore
Shi- Joh
Presbyterian Pickett
Mekett
Ekett
Commissioner election results and local remedies noted
The report notes partial returns and low county turnout with early estimates suggesting Smith is the nominee. An editorial aside promotes a diarrhoea remedy as widely known and effective for bowel issues, claiming it cures griping diarrhoea dysentery for both children and adults and lists local sellers.
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Iain
R W. Bell
Walhalla
Chas. Welfe
West Union
Kholera
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Wickliffe
the Cortright
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B. Whitten
Baltimore
Medical College
Hutchinson
J. P. Anderson
Opelika
Ata
Ross McDonald
Mt. Alry
William Gibbs
Allie Addis
S. 11
Marett
Msg
Chamberlain
J. W. Iell
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Charles W. Wickilife
Madison
Mattie A. Cleland
Cleland
Matte Ann Watt
Kr. Henderson Cleland
W. Hunnicutt
Guy Watt
Charme Ga
Jim D. Jones
Dutta Ramsay
Ry Horton
Civic League
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Maton
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