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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1902
Page
5
The Replace Courier advertises personal communications charged as notices. Obituary notices and tributes under one hundred words are printed free. longer items incur a per word charge. Cash accompanies manuscripts.
Columbia reports 165 General Assembly members will change with 91 new in the House and 15 new in the Senate. Three Senators were defeated. successors include Warren Davis and Butler. Several incumbents retire or hold over. Speaker Stevenson leaves politics temporarily. Recent primaries show few nominees with prior legislative service.
An article by M A Veeder MD argues typhoid can persist in soil and through organisms or decay products, not just water. Burial of excretions without disinfection sustains epidemics. soil, vegetables, dust, and flies spread infection. Instant disinfection of stools with copper sulfate is urged to curb outbreaks. soil disinfection could nearly wipe out typhoid within a year.
The piece contrasts preachers who win souls with Spirit power to those who placate crowds for conscience relief. It recounts patience, self-denial, and heartful exhortations, then includes a card from W. J. Talbert thanking supporters after a gubernatorial defeat, pledging loyalty to Gov. Hayward and the Palmetto State.
Fragmented ad text touts a cure for stomach and digestion related diseases. It claims to heal heart liver lungs kidneys and other organs when disease originates in the stomach. The copy uses dramatic imagery of bondage and torture to illustrate illness and promises restoration of appetite and system performance.
The final grand jury presentment reports Greenville County's bonded indebtedness at $184,500 with $182,500 in railroad bonds. Details include Greenville and Laurens railroad bonds of $41,000, Air Line refunding bonds totaling $80,500, past indebtedness bonds of $52,000, and a note that interest is 4 percent, semiannual. The county has run one year behind in tax collection since 1876 and borrowed about $62,000 this year, to be paid from this fall’s tax receipts.
In Montgomery Alabama on September 16 two men named Robert Anderson and Jesse Lawson died in a quarrel over a woman. They fought and fell into a ditch, breaking their necks. Lawson was found on top of Anderson with a knife in hand.
An advertisement promises free booklets on diseases and weak nerves and lists a series of ominous titles. It touts Dr. Hathaway as a leading expert and directs readers to send for sealed free copies from an Atlanta address. The notice sits beside a brutal murder story from Beatrice Nebraska about a woman assaulted, killed, and burned, with locals fearing lynching and a hound-led chase.
A Paris Texas report tells of a wholesale poisoning near the Red River and Kiamitia forks. A farmer had spread paris green on cotton to combat bollworm damage. After several dry days seven workers two men and five women toiled in the treated patch and died overnight from inhaling poisonous dust.
A coroner's autopsy on Rudolph Haller, a laborer, concluded insanity leading to death was caused by a 60 foot tape worm. The worm irritated spinal structures, affecting the brain and triggering alternating fits and normal periods. The case adds a bizarre medical detail to a death investigated in New York.
Guardian Mary G. Cherry minor seeks leave from Judge D A Smith of Oconee County Probate Court to make final settlement and discharge of guardian duties. Hearing set for October 11, 1902 at 11 in the forenoon. Stribling, guardian, September 10, 1902.
Seneca 8 C September tat 1002 announces dissolution after the death of senior partner M W Coleman. The estate will be wound up this fall with final settlement and debt closure. Settlements and remittance are authorized until December 15, after which the business passes out of their hands.
Probate judge D A Smith in Oconee county South Carolina cites heirs and creditors of James F McCarey to appear October 4 at Walhalla Court House to show cause why letters of administration should not be granted. Published September 17, 1902 in The Keowee Courier.
In Oconee County probate court Judge D A Smith announces that Mena Brandt has filed to obtain letters of administration for the estate of Frederick H Brandt, deceased. A hearing is set in Walhalla on Monday October 6, 1902 at 11:00 a.m. to show cause why administration should not be granted. Published September 17, 1902 in The Keowee Courier.
Public notice given that Tennessee Georgia and South Carolina Rail Road Company to file on September 6, 1902 a declaration and petition for a charter in South Carolina. They seek power to condemn lands for rights of way depots side tracks and other necessary purposes across Anderson and Oconee counties including Westminster and Walhalla with terminal points in Anderson and near Geonee County. Witnessed August 25 1902 by Frink Skinner Baugh.
Fragmentary timetable lists No 62 68 trains with times to Sumter Florence Darlington Wilmington and New York. Mentions Pullman sleeping cars New York to Tampa and dining cars Savannah. Includes agent contact W J Craig TL M Emerson Pickens and others.
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