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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1902
Page
3
Local notices report church services and sacraments, weather notes, and health updates. Community members announce marriages and travel for medical treatment, while shop closings and post office hours shape daily life. Wrecks, market meat notes, and a crime alert underscore town activity.
Local notices recounts residents traveling to Charleston Exposition, marriages and church events, trades and wanted ads for blacksmiths and general goods, and upcoming sales near Timsco. Mentions names like Maxwell, Murphy, Beardon, Clarkson, and Garter Co. with various moves, visits, and civic notices.
Lightning struck a newly built frame barn and caused a fire that burned two barns and related farming contents. Mr Earle and family were in one building during the blaze. Insurance with Anderson Mutual Company noted but amount undiscussed. The town population and damages implied but not fully specified. The report also touts Dr King’s New Discovery for lung ailments. Trial and large bottle prices listed.
A Daily Mail observer reports Hon. Geo S Mower of Newberry suggesting he will likely run for Congress this year. Mower, respected lawyer and former Newberry county state senator, has chaired key committees and held banking and business roles in Newberry. The piece notes his popularity and leadership as a potential congressional candidate.
From the Anderson Daily Mail: a passenger train collided with a work train near the Blue Ridge yard. Two men seriously injured and may die. others hurt. Fire and wreckage described. investigation expected. Engineers and conductors named. track cleared by late evening. delays to Belton service.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a CS scene at Tromqtaraar with unclear details. Readable elements point to a location called Tromqtaraar and a CS reference, but full facts are unavailable in the provided text.
April 18 news from Broyles notes a Dalhee reunion trip by N O Farmer and W Martin with Henry Farmer. A. W. Valmer of Central visited Mrs Graham at her bedside during a fatal illness. Mrs Maria Graham, wife of Ernest Dawkins Graham, died aged 23 from typhoid pneumonia. She was the oldest child of A. W. Palmer of Pickens county, born March 12, 1874, married November 4, 1898, with three sons and two daughters surviving. The report covers a monater reunion planned for W A Dickson’s pupils in the Fork, Dickson’s twenty-seven years of teaching, and mentions church baptism and funerals. Dr. King's New Life Pills are endorsed for cleansing and health. An Alabama Department of Agriculture spring planting report notes uncertainty about 0 per cent cotton and '$ per cent' figures with farm work delayed by heavy rain. local hopes rise as cultivation resumes.
Several Democratic groups including Poplar Springa, Oakway, Cherry Hill, Tokoona and South Union announce neighborhood gatherings to reorganize and elect delegates to the county convention. The events urge full attendance and address other club business. In Laurens, George Kilgo, a colored man, was acquitted of murdering white constable D. E. Thomson in the Sonsiona Court.
A column of local notices reports railroads in Cherry and surrounding states, noting high collision totals and damage to cars and engines. Prominent figures include John T. Long and Mina Mamie, with discussions of railroad work, a college address, and local gubernatorial candidacy signals.
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