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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1902
Page
2
The Reploce Courier announces a subscription price of $1.00 per year and lists advertising rates. Personal character communications charged as advertisements, obituary notices and tributes under one hundred words are printed free. items over that limit cost one cent per word, with cash accompanying manuscripts.
Clemson College settles tensions after a near destabilizing dispute involving faculty and students. Col. R. W. Simpson says the board will consider the sophomores' return petitions at the June meeting, while urging prudence and counsel before rash actions.
May 2 dispatch reports over 1 000 deaths in the April 18 earthquake in Central America. The quake left thousands homeless, with Que naltonango town heavily affected and an aid appeal launched.
The May 6 1902 County Convention at the former tobacco factory met to reorganize the party for two years and elect delegates to the State Convention. Joseph G. Alexander presided. Col. Robert A Thompson named president. R E K Mason vice president. C R D Burns secretary and treasurer. Delegates from clubs across Oconee were enrolled, and Major Wm J Stribling was endorsed for Congress. The body appointed delegates to coordinate a separate district congressional primary and approved two campaign days for national and state office candidates. The convention adjourned at nine, with the County Executive Committee meeting afterward.
Senator John Lowndes McLaurin declares he will not run in the South Carolina Democratic primary. He denounces the primary system as tyrannical and says it suppresses free speech and independent voting, citing machine influence and factional dictation. He vows to seek a general election path aligning with his independent stance and warns opponents aim to exclude him.
An advertisement praises Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney bladder and related troubles. It claims wide testing in hospitals and private practice and offers a free sample bottle and a book by mail. Readers are urged to send address to Kilmer and Con in Binghamton New York.
Claude E. Chapman of Greenville South Carolina was jailed in Toccoa Georgia for bigamy after marrying Miss Gussie Lovell while already married to another woman. Evidence from Greenville County and a 13 year old witness named Hertha Attaway led to Chapman’s arrest and imprisonment awaiting trial.
LW A Dickson notes Gen Robert Anderson's riverfront grave site near Andersonville on the Seneca in a desolate yard. The lone tombstone marks a drowned traveler from 1819, with the Anderson family burial plot nearby and details on the Andersons' rise, marriages, and children.
John McJunkin a 19 year old from Toccoa Ga attacked his father after being restrained by two policemen in the Alexander Hotel Atlanta. The youth struck the elder and sent him head over heel down the stairs. He was placed in custody with further care sought for his unbalanced condition.
A short ad style note from Anderson Daily Mail recounts J Frank Gambrell proposing a folk method to kill potato bugs using cedar twigs and a home brew. The item also criticizes a patent tonic claiming to cure ulcers and other ailments, promoting Botanic Blood Balm with promotional language and pricing details.
Salina Green executrix of Garrison Green's will brings notice of a final settlement before Judge D A Smith at Walhalla Court House on Thursday June 19 1902. The executrix will then be discharged. Defendants include Wm E Groon Ervin Groon and Margaret E Pickelsimor and the heirs at law of Virginia A Wright. May 7 1903.
At the regular monthly meeting of the Board of County Commissioners on May 2, 1902 the following claims were audited.
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