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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1902
Page
6
Local items note trades and sales at 822 cents EAM. Davis ty repaints store front. Widespread visiting relatives from Kershaw to Heath Spring. Lancaster Mercantile Co. loses fine male. Mrs Katy Simmons dies aged about 75. Millinery hire for Minnie Pardue. For sale and rent notices. Church services tomorrow. Various local anecdotes and adverts.
A Waxhaw special to the Charlotte Observer reports Hattie Nichols, a colored woman, was shot on a Saturday evening by Willis Barnhill, also colored. Barnhill, drunk, fired as she approached in low light, mistaking her for a dog. the bullet hit her thigh and caused a painful wound. Doctors searched for the ball but could not locate it.
Citizens east of Lancaster sign a petition for a rural free delivery route from Lancaster along Ginger Cake road to Rocky River road to Primus and up Redfield road to Lancaster. One hundred nine heads of families, mostly beyond a post office, back the plan, with Senator Tillman endorsing and forwarding the petition to the Post Office Department.
A Wednesday evening fire at Waxhaw burned the post office and a neighboring building housing Mr W P Harrie’s store and Mr J S Plyler’s tin shop. Fire saved stamps mail records and stock. insurer says $200 per building. Cause unclear whether incendiary or accidental. wind could have spread flames.
Message from Columbia states Gen Wade Hampton died yesterday morning after a recent illness worsened. He had just turned fourteen, with frosts noted in the area. Also report Hoke C Secrest’s death at Caledonia State Farm following a infamous Burke County murder case and insanity ruling years ago, with recapture and twenty year sentence served.
Rev R G Bascom of Indiana was playfully given stock in an abandoned Colorado gold mine by a jokester named Ellis. The mine later yielded rich veins, and Bascom was offered 100000 for the stock but refused the windfall. The tale originates from the Wilmington Star.
The Rock Hill Herald notes a rare April snow event starting about seven in the morning, lasting six to eight hours with an estimated six inches. A cold snap followed, killing vegetation and peaches. Mentions locals like Mrs W W Perry and Mrs JA Dabney visiting Kershaw, and remarks on spring growth and early wheat.
Charleston and other cities may bid for the State fair this year as Columbia withholds funding. For nearly fifty years the fair has been held annually in Columbia, except during the Civil War, and a committee meeting here called for bids from other cities citing insufficient financial support from Columbia.
Attention Democratic Clubs County Executive Committee Lancaster April 12 08 The Democratic Clubs of Lancaster County are notified to meet at their headquarters on Saturday April 26 for reorganization and to elect delegates to the County Convention to assemble at the Court House in Lancaster Monday May 5 at 12 pm The County Convention will elect delegates to the State Convention in Columbia May 21 and address other business Each club will send one delegate per twenty five members plus a majority fraction and shall select one member of the county executive committee at its meeting April 26 Also electing a County Chairman and a member of the State Democratic executive committee.
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