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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
2
A strained OCR fragment notes that individuals Avner, Byelok, Emith and Breok face charges connected to an advertisement matter. The text mentions a communication about a persona shursctor and an obligation to pay one cent per word, cash to the company for manuscript processing.
Prof Br N Hrackett, secretary of the Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association, urges subscriptions for A History of the Old Stone Church. Proceeds fund perpetual care and endowment. Book to cover church formation, notable figures, cemetery burials, addresses, land plan, and a survey with plates. price $1.00 for subscribers, $1.20 for others.
The South Carolina Railroad Commission faces a petition from state commercial bodies alleging freight tariffs by Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line, and Seaboard Air Line are significantly higher than Virginia and North Carolina rates. They argue the higher charges shut SC markets from regional trade and seek rates no higher than those in North Carolina or Virginia, urging adoption of Virginia’s Washington and Richmond divisions as a standard.
A long column blends reflections on vanity and virtue with Christmas wishes, local news notes, church notices, and community updates from Westminster in 1908. It covers the pope money tale, railway schedule changes, social events, a jail incident, and local clergy, teachers, and families preparing for holidays.
A narrator warns young readers about alcohol and moral decline, urging restraint and self respect. Ontoon narrowly escaped instant death after a collision with a southbound train at a railroad crossing, the buggy wrecked and Ontoon badly injured. he died Tuesday, about 70 and hard of hearing.
The text compiles letters and notes from Ashburnham Ontario to South Carolina and Kansas reports, discussing Lincoln era politics, cotton shortages, labor, education misdirection, and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It weaves agricultural decline, race discourse, economic figures, and local notices with brief medical and commercial references.
The Board of County Commissioners will bid the ferry contract for Maxwell's Ferry on Seneca River for 1904. Sealed bids must be filed by 10 o clock on letting day at the Court House, Walhalla, with D. Fy McAlister, Supervisor, reserving the right to reject any bid.
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