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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1900
Page
1
We offer special bargains in Lawns Piques Ginghams and Percales All yard-wide sheeting at five cents per yard. A new line of Kabo Corsets is now available, described as the leading model for 1900.
A fragmentary OCR page lists salary and budgeting items for the Keowee and Oconee County boards. It references the county auditor coroner and figures for delinquent or allocated funds, along with a mention of the Board of Education and likely a printing or publishing item in Keowee County.
In a curious tale from the era, millionaire Barrett disinherits his daughter Monaire Barrett after she wed against his wishes to a man named Hammund. The young couple, living in a repurposed box car on the Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis line, were supported privately by Hammund's family as they pursued a cautious life in the improvised railway home.
A Confederate era clipping reports the return to Sumter penitentiary of white convict John Stuckey, jailed after Spartanburg murder. He faced a twenty year sentence for fatal mill slaughter, with reports of contraband gin and alleged bribery tying Scarborough to the case, and a return to work in the commissary area amid controversy.
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