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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1904
Page
3
Local notices report poultry prices at 50 cents per setting from J N Crocket, births in Lancaster and Kershaw counties, and numerous community items. A heavy frost damaged fruit crops, a barn fire at Judge Jones and cotton mill employment changes are noted along with church services and upcoming elections.
Mr John E Holmes of Spartanburg will succeed TR Clyburn as chief clerk to the comptroller general and will relocate to Columbia in a few days. He previously led clerical work for the Spartanburg sheriff's office.
Charleston city court fined twenty seven violators twenty five dollars each for the blind tiger cases. One defendant tried in absentia faces fifty dollars or ten days in jail. Police made forty cases and more docket work will occur later in April. Edgefield prison escape attempt injures jailer Faulkner as two prisoners pepper him and flee. Suspects Jeff Henderson and John Henry Callahan involved. Henderson captured, Callahan at large. Advertised property near Edgefield offers 211 acres, two story dwelling with outbuildings, via T. S. Carter.
Seed sent by Congressman Finley for distribution has been exhausted with the final packages handed out last Saturday morning. The article notes all seed supply to the community is now depleted and no further distribution is planned at this time.
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