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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
3
The local notice announces the appointment of Rev J Wieepe for Ist and gd Sabbath at Gib Creek with services at 4 pm on the sabbath. The posting highlights 1st and 2nd sabbaths and mentions pressant HUM 21.
Beaulair area notes record a local school opening, births, and family visits to Asheville North Carolina. Community members plan cemetery cleanup at Beaver Creek and announce church meetings and a new RT PD Route starting September 1. Local businesses and farm activity are noted along with postal notices and temperance work events.
A. P. Spratt of Bolari an prospering farmer sold thirty two bales of last year’s cotton this week to Roadman Heath Cotton Mill at 134 cents per pound, clearing over $2300. He grows corn and other grains and keeps hogs at home, noted as one of the section’s most systematic farmers.
Constable Nannamaker seized two kegs of cider on July 25 after police tip and sent a sample to Columbia for analysis. Result showed high alcohol content and officials vow to seize illegal sale cider statewide. Also, Sumter polo stables and Mrs George T Little barn burned in separate lightning strikes causing about $2,500 in losses.
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