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Newspaper
Marlboro Democrat
Location
Bennettsville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
3
Marlboro County officers are listed with roles including mayor and treasurer. Various circuit appointments across Blenheim, Clio, and surrounding areas show ministers and meeting times, with details for First to Fourth Sundays and community churches. Local government and religious appointments reflect a historic town governance snapshot with multiple congregations and officials.
The Marlboro Guards and associated units held a meeting at 41:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. electing officers for the unit. Jackson Springs Hotel opened for visitors on May 25, inviting health seekers. Potential guests are advised to write Robi Irwin for rates and details.
A cluttered regional page promotes various goods and services including claims of curing ailments with Electric Bloffers, insurance offerings, wagon sales, laundry machines, groceries, and Kellum Sure Cure for T indigestion. It features names like J.T. Douglas, W. M. Rowe, and Kellum Medicine Company with sales pitches and free bottle offers.
A crowded column lists visitors and residents from Clio Marlboro and Hartsville including Mr George Welch Mrs E C Morrison Capt A E Bristow and Col Knox Livingston among others. Local events touch sports at Cheraw Monroe and College of Charleston plans, with notices on unions marriages weather and commerce.
Religious notes show revival and evening services at local churches with updated Sunday school times and midweek prayer meetings. Marion district appoints list includes many communities and fund appeal of $26,000. reports of local agriculture and community notices accompany the religious program updates.
A Mason returning from Ashville last week shared delight over the trip. The report notes his joy and hints at the pleasant experiences encountered during the journey.
A dense listing of church services, Sunday school times, and weekly fraternal lodge meetings. Names include Reverend Rufus Ford, H W Carroll, J P Dadley, Dr J A Faison, J W LeGrand, and others. Activities cover preaching, Sunday school, prayer meetings, and lodge gatherings at K of P and Masons across Bennettsville Clio and McColl areas with times noted.
AK Hustoease, formerly GLIO NOVELTY Manufacturing Works, announced name change to TH CLIO NOVELTY MANUFAG. TIMING WORKS with BPIL IVEY as owner director, unveils new improved woodwork machines for novelty building projects at living prices dated June 23, 1902.
Prepared for the Work. Mr. J. Pearson, the Jeweler, announces new engraving improvements for personalizing gold or silver items. Samples of work already done by china are available. Call to see it.
A fragmented ad filled with misspellings touts Andrew Leighton optician and S J Pearson with a sensational tale by a pastor from Marpersville NY. It mentions King s New Discovery for consumption curing coughs and urges readers to buy piano, plants, and flowers from local sellers.
An advert promises health from a new pill called Yee King’s Newbite Pills. It claims to end digestive troubles and liver pains, urging readers to visit J. L. Douglas’s drug store for guaranteed relief despite crude, sensational phrasing.
A local ad touts heavy and fancy groceries including canned goods, pickles, sauces, candies, cakes, and fruits. It promotes gloves, undergarments, novelties, crockery, tin ware, ready wear, and a large guns and ammunition line from Stavens. Special appeal to living prices and bargain baskets.
The piece explains that poor appetite and indigestion in horses and mules lead to fatigue and weak condition. It claims digestion and assimilation drive muscle and fat gain and promotes Ashe Craws Condition Powders as the best remedy in its class, sold with a guarantee through Mr. Smith Newton and McColl Drug Company.
A garbled OCR fragment lists times and names such as 705 Loy Dada 715 and 7300 mw with scattered place names. Readable items include Arrive Kollack 74301 and charges about eastbound directions. The text is incomplete and contains many unclear tokens.
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