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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1902
Page
4
The Reetree Courier notes that obituary notices and tributes of respect up to one hundred words are printed free of charge. Notices exceeding that limit incur a charge of one cent per word. Payment in cash with manuscript.
Labor famine grips Mississippi with scarce workers hindering cotton harvests. Farmers blame labor agents who lure workers to railroads, levees, and lumber districts, evading capture. Amite county groups plan secret action against agents.utu Boyd Earnhardt sues Laura Updegraff for 38 dollars with counterclaim for 137 dollars for meals during courtship.
A Black man burned at Darling Mississippi by a 4000 strong mob. He confessed involvement in a double robbery with two white men, who were seized then released after alibis. Authorities hold the two white men pending investigation as further mob action is feared if guilt is proven.
Newry readers recount a Halloween gathering hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Unger last Friday night. Guests wore ghostly masks, pumpkins lit the hall, and fortunes were told amid games and taunts. The event concluded with refreshments and envelopes detailing fortunes for future suspense. The Newry debating society met at Courtenay ball with talks on education.
Lon Ross and Poinsette Trammell, two young farmers, quarreled during a corn shucking near Chingapin about twenty miles north of Greenville. They drew knives and fought. both were severely wounded. Ross died yesterday from his injuries, Trammell is in critical condition. Drunkenness and a nearby blockade distillery are suspected to have contributed to the incident.
Reports note plans for a new Baptist church in Newry with an estimated $2,500 cost. The Gilman estate dispute ends with Fearler Gilman receiving $200,000 as his share from Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company interests. In Norris Station, Pickens county, Nero Hollama was shot dead. bloodhounds tracked a suspect, with no arrest at last report.
Captain John H. Montgomery president of Pacolet Manufacturing fell from staging about sixteen feet at the Pacolet cotton mill in New Holland Gainesville fragmentary injuries followed by death that evening. Victor Montgomery of Spartanburg was with him when he died. Interment to be in Spartanburg Sunday. He led Pacolet mills No. 4 and the Gainesville plant and had wide cotton mill interests. He lived in Spartanburg and was a Baptist. He leaves a wife and four children.
New York on October 31 General Botha of the Boer commission in Europe reports to The World on the mission's results. He says words were misconstrued and motives misjudged. He asserts no desire to alter peace terms, seeking immediate help for distressed farming districts of South Africa.
Men and women are urged to consult Dr Thatha as the leading and most trusted specialist. The notice claims long experience and top reputation, promising cures where others fail with no patchwork. It cites Dr Hathaway providing personal attention and expert changes by associate physicians, offering free booklets and questions by mail if calling is not possible. Confidential service claimed with address in Atlanta Georgia.
In Cripple Creek district a street with ore from the Pharmacist mine waste was found to yield about $20 per ton on assay. Men began hauling rock from the dump toward their reduction works until police halted the activity. The Pharmacist company stopped giving away the dump.
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