Domestic Tragedy in Tillman Lum Plant at Sellers
J B Whitehurst foreman at Tillman Lum Co plant in Sellers was shot dead by Morris Blum after a dispute with Mrs Goldstien, sister of Blum. Blum surrendered. bail planned. The incident occurred at the Blum and Goldstien store, with prior threats and an ongoing family feud cited. Also noted: a Taft party eagle sighting and Pee Dee county seat funding efforts in Little Rock.
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Whitehurst
Tillman
Lumber Co
Morris Blum
J.B. Whitehurst
Tillman Lum Co
Sellers
Blum & Goldstien
Goldstien
Mr. Blum
Mr. Goldstien
Blum
Standerd
Wilmington Star
Taftani
Orton Plantation
Contenders Named For Pee Dee County Courthouse Location
Columbia State notes signs omens and predictions point to a new Pee Dee county in the heart of the Pee Dee region. Dillon Latta and Little Rock emerge as rival county seats, each backed by local leaders and business circles. A Little Rock gift of 25 000 to cover courthouse costs signals strong efforts. Dillon and Latta respond with similar backing. Public spirit in the region is praised as pivotal regardless of which town wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. W. Hamer
E. R. Hamer
Little Rock
Dillon Loan & Trust Co
Hamer
Marion
Pee Dee
Dillon
Latta
J. W. Hamer
E.R. Hamer
New County
S. C
Dillon Building, Loan and Trust Company
Commission
Board of Commissioners
Jess Dillon
South Carolina
James W. Hamer
Marriage at Fayetteville Hotel for Watson and Mumphrey
In Fayetteville the LaFayette Hotel parlor hosted a quiet Thursday 3:00 pm wedding uniting Mr A B Watson and Miss Lucy Mumphrey of Lumberton. The couple, honeymooning briefly, will reside with Watson’s father on First Avenue Dillon. The bride, daughter of Robeson County Clerk of Court Humphrey, is popular locally. the groom works as a salesman at Dillon Wholesale Grocery. The article then shifts to farming notes from Marion County, where Mr J R Richardson reports on an intensive plot yielding 800 pounds of oats, 645 pounds of fodder, 50 bushels of corn and 2 bushels of peanuts on nine sixteenths of an acre, suggesting land is still scarce in the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaFayette
Fayetteville
Dillonites
A. B Watson
Lucy Mumphrey
Lumberton
Jas. Carmichael
J R. Watson
First Avenue
Humphrey
Robeson County
Dillon Wholesale
Marion County
Jr. B. Richardson
Richardson
Mrr. Richardson
Tillman Denied Champagne At Taft Day In Columbia
In Columbia South Carolina during Taft Day Governor Taft’s dispensary closures kept Senator Ben Tillman from buying champagne. He pressed the governor’s secretary who said no sale was allowed. Tillman then found a friend through the secretary and obtained two quarts, linking to his own dispensary law background.
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Columbia
S.C
Taft
Tillman
South Carolina
Benjamin Rk. Tillman
Trenton
Columbia Taft Day
Taft Innchenn
Repentance Meeting At Cotton Exchange
A notice posted at the Cotton Exchange announces a repentance meeting for traders who sold cotton for October, November, and December deliveries. The meeting at Masonic Hall in Greenville is set for Saturday evening with timed arrivals for different delivery months and prophetic talks by November sellers, followed by a Never Again resolution and a closing hymn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Johnson
Greenville
Masonic Hall
Buckner Installed as Pastor at Pee Dee Presbytery Service
Installation services will be held at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath afternoon at 3 30 with Dr Buckner installed as pastor by a Pee Dee Presbytery commission. Rev Viehe and Hon J P McNeill will deliver the pastor and people charges respectively. A preparatory service and communion precede the main installation with sermons by commission members.
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Presbyterian Church
Dr. Buckner
Pee Dee
Split-Log Drag proposed to improve roads in South Carolina
In a Florence Pee Dee Convention address Mr Better Mr Winslow of Le Parlement at Wiskempton urges adoption of the split-log drag to level roads, fill ruts, and ease transport. He claims four miles of ramshod highway could be improved monthly with limited mule labor, criticizing costly road-scraper schemes and urging practical, inexpensive road maintenance.
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Winslow
le Parlement
Wiskempton
Pee Dee
Florence
Desgn
South Carolina
Easien
J. PL
Stackinaise
Romahway
Puble
Montyranergs
Farmer's wardrobe mixup at State Pair trip goes viral
A well known upper Marion farmer visiting the State Pair missed his early morning train after a humorous sequence of mislaid garments. He awoke to find himself wearing another man's collar tie and shoes while the roommate woke shirtless, with no open dispensaries on the day before.
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Upper
Marion
Ted Wallet
Havin
Fairwee
Toom
Morality by Legislation as a Civil Law Principle
A Charleston era debate argues that laws cannot moralize society but can prohibit injurious conduct. Police and criminal law protect virtue, not preach morality, with lectures by university officials in Dillon and reflections from the Chesterfield Advertiser on human nature and rectitude.
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Ariinkardanakers
Persius
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Norfolk
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Snow
Sherii
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Columbia State
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LAW
Snovelock
Sc, Mitchell
University of Seth
Chesterfield Advertiser
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