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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1903
Page
3
John Joost proprietor of the City Meat Market advertises cattle for feeding purposes and pork ready for boot and pork. Bar phone 69 invites prompt attention. Office Main Street Walhalla near post office.
Walhalla residents report family births and deaths, visitors from Anderson Greenville and Spartanburg, farm sales and livestock notices, and community events. The iron bridge over Keowee at Steeles Ford is completed, Oconee Conclave 127 meets, and local businesses promote goods while public notices urge agricultural and civic actions.
Local notices report new ownership at City Meat Market with T J Todd, and A O Carter staying on at the counter, plus a milk of community events including an educational picnic at Reeders Ford, a school board election, and a Confederate reunion trip discount to Columbia for May 11 through 15.
The text appears as garbled OCR about voluntary wastellation and rewards with Long mand Martinez Pore Malta. It mentions painting, orange Be Teak Notoy, and a line end instruction. It references The palat and Ute OLY HOME Chen Test with unclear dates and details.
The Westminster column reports on local election results with Mr. Gossett’s modesty in vanity and votes tallied, noting uncertainty if Gossett was elected. It also covers incidents: Mr. J. K. Smith’s head injury while erecting a smokestack near Whitewater Falls and a tribute to Mrs. J. W. F. Thompson, detailing her death, family, and funeral arrangements.
In Walhalla a movement seeks to restore rail service via the Blue Ridge line to mountain resorts, with local leaders pressing Governor Hayward and Blue Ridge Railway officials. Senator Herndon urges South Carolina to back a St Louis Exposition exhibit, and the Walhalla Board of Trade endorses state-wide citizen support and a $100 donation to fund the exhibit. The note mentions a May 1 dispatch on frost damage to crops.
Fragmentary report from Lone Creek on April 2 mentions Charley Philips and Maney Huttall of Oconee, with Henry Canny and others tied to local family affairs. County commissioners address quick arrests after a county incident, with references to Verna and Abbe election results and a planned event at Mai vane Tall.
Fragmentary OCR prose mentions names and a room, with garbled phrases about paint and a person named ADU Other Hall. Content is incomprehensible. no coherent event or facts can be established from the readable portions.
A garbled local notice describes a theft incident by a Greenville youth and warns youths to stay vigilant. It also reports a windy storm at Madison on May night, with late night hall drift and several inches of snow, causing no serious damage.
Vincent Muosman a nine year old boy of New York sues the Metropolitan Railway for 30000 after being run over and injured. He previously sought 39000 and on a prior trial received 40000. The report notes other local notices and historical references including Dr King and Col. Jas Gibbes with scattered biographical mentions.
An odd colonial ad touts Scott's Emulsion claiming a thin young woman gained twelve pounds after using a bottle purchased at one dollar, priced eight cents per pound. The copy invites readers to request more samples and provides a New York address for free offers and sales terms.
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