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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1902
Page
3
Local items report the highest market prices for butter and eggs and a carload of fresh lime for sale. Multiple community notices detail club meetings, an upcoming Memorial Day observance, and local road improvements. Several personal items note marriages, relocations, illnesses, and incidents. a death in Columbia prompts a family funeral in Kershaw.
The notice advertises a biography of T. DeWitt Talmage by his son and Christian Herald associate editors. It claims strong family endorsement and large agent profits, offering an outfit for ten cents and urging immediate writing to Clark & Co., 2228 4th St., Philadelphia, with a reference to this newspaper.
Readers are invited to pay one year in advance for The Ledger and receive the Home and Farm section free for one year. The ad promotes prepaid subscriptions and adds a complimentary issue package to attract customers.
In Lexington County a 10 year old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Pierce Hendrix, when a gun discharged while he fetched it to scare a hawk. The fatal wound tore the femoral artery and she died within 15 minutes at the home near the courthouse.
An ordinance sets an annual assessment of one per year due November 1 1902 and each year thereafter on all persons occupying premises within Lancaster for every privy located on the property. Failure to pay incurs a 15 percent penalty and legal costs per state delinquent tax laws. The provisions may be punished by fine or imprisonment at the mayor's discretion. Ratified April 14 1962 by Mayor A Wylie and council.
The Democratic Clubs of Lancaster County, South Carolina, are notified to meet at their headquarters on Saturday, April 26, to reorganize and elect delegates to the County Convention at the Court House in Lancaster on Monday, May 5, at 7 pm. The County Convention will elect delegates to the State Convention in Columbia on May 21 and handle other business. Each club sends one delegate per twenty five members and one for a majority fraction, and will select a county executive committee member. The convention will also elect a County Chairman and a member of the State Democratic executive committee.
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