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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1902
Page
3
A stretch of Walhalla community news lists births, marriages, visits, and local notices. Highlights include births in West Union and near Walhalla, anniversaries, people travelling to Charleston Exposition, shop ads, and civic appointments. The column also notes tax time reminders, eclipses, and a charity medical testimonial.
Walhalla items include visits by James Phinney and remarks on Winthrop College, a Citizens’ Mass for mayoral candidates, pension notices, Seaborn Bros. store opening, Oconee County Alliance officers, a fatal tree accident near Fair Play, and a church burial for Joseph Douka. Local officials, families, and businesses are featured with dates January 1902 and community updates.
Frankfort Ky January 10 by a vote of 02 to 87 Hon Jamon I McCreary was named last night by the Democrats over Circuit Judge James R Cantrill to succeed William J Dobbs Senate of the United States McCreary has been prominent in Kentucky position and his tory for 0 years.
Tam NWOTRICK located in Senoon at the gallery over the post office offers photography services including enlargements. All work guaranteed. Photographer O. J. King.
At Cosuse Lodge No. 04 10 OJ held a meeting on the 10th instant and installed Noble Grand J. Ward and other officers for the ensuing year. Piedmont Lodge No. 7A reorganized on the 8th with M. W. Finagator V. J. Norman and others installed. Walhalla Lodge No. 67 Knights of Pythias elected officers for 1902 including Commander S. N. Pitch and J. A. Stock, with Trustees W. L. Verner, J. M. Ward, and O. W. Pitchford. Pitchford was elected representative to the Grand Lodge at Birmingham, Ala. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets advertised as curing a cold in one day.
A Bible Institute will begin in Cornelia Georgia on the 20th for four weeks. Courses cover Bible doctrine from Acts and related scriptures, Bible study, sermonizing, pastoral work, missions, doctrine and practice, parliamentary procedure, and Christian education. Instructors include Revs Jameson Graham Wynn Bell McConnell Ragsdale and others. Board is $2 per week or loan. Churches urged to release pastors. both men and women invited to attend. Women’s meeting proposed for February 4 or 6 with Mia Landrum to meet sisters. Write from Cornelia, Georgia.
A Virginia dispatch urges vigilance against Perry Davis’s Pain-Killer imitators amid a Lynchburg murder of Mrs Ralph Webber. The product warning precedes a brutal crime where the superintendent’s wife was found wounded with a nearly severed throat. a $500 city reward, later expanded privately, remains for clues on the unknown assailant.
In Springford Kentucky on a Wednesday a Black man named Mays accused of assaulting a white girl was taken from jail by a mob and hanged. They entered via broken jail door, found him, and left quietly. Officials report no arrests or mob member identifications.
The lease transferring control of the Anderson branch from the Southern to the Blue Ridge Railroad was recorded yesterday. The agreement runs one year with renewal, can be terminated by 30 days notice, and stipulates a monthly rent of 1250 dollars plus half the cost of plug up, with Belton tracks involved.
Beginning tomorrow January 18 a new weekday train will operate on the Blue Ridge road between Anderson and Belton. It departs Anderson at 6 00 a m and arrives Belton at 8 20 a m with a return trip leaving Halton at 9 00 a m and arriving Anderson at 0 20 a m. The service carries freight and passengers. The only schedule change affects the Walhalla afternoon train arriving ten minutes later.
Rov. R. M. DuBose announces preaching twice monthly at Westminster circuit with schedules for Virat Sabbath Hopewell Navaroth center Rock Springs Nazareth and other churches. Also notes weddings moves, a fire loss, community notices, and upcoming services in Westminster, Fort Madison, and nearby towns.
Anderson Daily Acorn reports Water, Light and Power Company directors met to sign a $125,000 contract with Flynt Construction for rebuilding the Portman Shoals dam. Work to commence immediately with machinery already ordered and shipped. Electric light and mailer industries expected to react by late February. Active work to start Monday at the dam site.
At Latters Inn N H January 11 Annie Bongdeley a second worker shot Jonnie Gagnon then killed herself with a bullet to the breast. Gagnon woman gravely hurt but not yet dead. Jealousy is cited as the motive in the incident.
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