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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1903
Page
4
The notice outlines that personal communications in advertisements are charged, obituaries under one hundred words are free, and longer tributes cost one cent per word. It also mentions payment requirements and listing of the publication’s editors and contact details.
A Charleston News and Courier excerpt recounts a twenty foot snake killed near the exposition grounds by a mixed posse of negroes and whites. The creature, said to have escaped from Forepaugh and Sells last October, has been sighted around the fair grounds, fueling Munchausen tales and cautious belief among readers.
Eyewitness accounts describe a violent pogrom with Jews beaten robbed and mutilated. Victims include SeCol Secoul, Rachel Kormity and Hersh Bolgar among many others. Hospitals treat hundreds. panic leaves streets like a cemetery as shops close and fear lingers.
Pendleton Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy sponsors Memorial Day services led by Mrs. W W Watkins and Miss Bessie Morris. A parade from the Presbyterian church to the cemetery and Episcopal church culminates with Miss Louise Simpson placing a wreath on Gen Barnard Bee's grave. Orators J S Vernor and Prof W S Morrison stress preserving history and monuments for Pickens and Calhoun, marking the anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s death in a solemn, patriotic procession.
A Buffalo woman claimed to be the President’s ally on race death and mother of twelve, receiving a $15 check from Mrs. Roosevelt. The check was sent after she wrote she would soon be mother of thirteen and was in destitute straits. A charity officer found her well furnished home and only two of twelve children. payment was stopped.
Traveling is dangerous says a health note. It claims constant motion jars the kidneys and cites trainmen and drivers as suffering kidney disease. It promotes Koley’s Kidney Cure, with a testimonial from Geo EK Hansan, a Lima locomotive engineer, and notes it is sold by J W Bell in Walhalla.
A. H. Olphin, a Mormon leader, was beaten by a group near Lake City after an attempted assault on a young woman. Declared insane, he was taken to an asylum. EB. H. Nyne, Mormon business agent from Nephi, Utah, died at the asylum after a convulsion during a visit to seek permission to move Olphin to Salt Lake City. Nyne carried fifteen annual railroad passes as an emigrant agent.
May 10 report from Laurel Mississippi describes a violent race riot in which whites attacked Black residents after a dispute over a crop. One white man mortally wounded, several Black individuals killed, and heavy reprisals continue as white pursuers chase those who sparked the trouble.
The Beaverdam Baptist Association plans its next meeting at Seneca Baptist Church on the fifth Sunday in May with a Friday and Saturday pre-session. Devotions begin Friday 10 30 p m. Subjects include Why should each church and community have a Sunday school and others by various speakers. Beaverdam schools report superintendent, officers, attendance, months, and literature. two representatives from Beaverdam will attend. Honolulu report notes a native Hawaiian man beaten to death with a Bible by a kuhuna. manslaughter charge filed. Winthrop College scholarship and exams announced.
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