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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1904
Page
3
Unity holds 1st and 3rd Sabbath services with Rev J M White. Gills Creek observes 1st and Alb Sabbath with him. Vlessant I schedules 21 and 4th Sabbath duties, with details point to a general church roster.
Mrs L. C. Paysour visits her daughter in Columbia. Tax deadline nears with Auditor at his office. Marriage reports: James Watson to Sallie Beckham and Rufus Pate to Robertson. Senator Hough and wife back from Columbia for a few days. Real estate listing: 211 acres north of town for sale via T. 8. Carter. Book agency promotion for Business Guide by Rev. I. A. Dabney. News of Joles Jordan death in Georgia after dispute. Tabernacle High students to perform Ten Nights in a Bar Room. Blake L. Robertson improves after injury in Charleston. Wind and rain cause minor damage. Duncan dwelling blown down but no injuries. Fire discovery at Crawford Bros. drug store. quick brigade action saves Lancaster. K. Miles and Cloud ads. Jno T. Mackey leaves for Camden. Mrs. Mary C. Mayes dies in Kershaw. Lemuel Parker injured by a negro worker. hospital updates. Episcopal services listed. Three houses for sale via T. S. Carter. Antioch basket supper fund drive details and committee. Deaths: J. M. Richardson of the Creek, 63, and infant Charles Irvin buried in Town cemetery.
Saturday night Bob Baskins a colored man was shot by J T Morrison near the Southern water tank south of Kershaw and died Sunday after an exchange over boisterous language. Morrison ordered quiet then fired the shot injuring Baskins who died from the wound.
The County Pension Board will convene at the courthouse next Friday the 12th at 10 o'clock in the morning. All parties with business before the board are urged to govern themselves accordingly. W.G A. Porter, Chairman.
J.B. Muckorell advertises a three month sale with 10 prizes of 35 dollars in gold and a guessing game. For each one dollar of goods purchased, customers may submit four guesses. The closest guess to the number in the jar wins 20 dollars in gold, the second closest 10 dollars, and the third five dollars. Participants are urged to remember the time and the gold.
Amos Cook of Texas died January 27 in a freak train accident in Palestine. While fireman on a locomotive he slipped and fell against the cab window, a fragment pierced his shoulder and severed an artery, causing his death. He was 26 or 61 years old in error reading. survived by a family, kin to county auditor J A Cook. Remains were met by firemen and townspeople, and carried from the train by loving hands. Items From Kershaw Era note local moves and events including marriages, resignations, and plans for a cannery nearby.
The Lancaster County Teachers Association met last Saturday in the graded school building at Lancaster. Despite threatening weather, many teachers attended, generating interest and enthusiasm. President R A Dobson led the meeting with discussions on topics assigned, including beautifying school grounds presented by Miss Gertrude Sherer. Other talks covered text book use in first grade, sustaining the association, and pupil control. A correction note clarifies a 1903 quarterly report misstatement about banking claims and payments.
Charlotte was hit by a fierce wind and rain storm that destroyed about twenty five chimneys and cracked plastering across homes. The Mecklenburg Fair Association grand stand collapsed injuring five horses fatally, with wind felling trees telegraph poles and parts of the Atherton Cotton Mill roof. The Mecklenburg Flour Mill smoke stack was wrecked and stables were blown down.
Report states San Domingo insurgents fired on and killed J. Johnson, an engineer aboard the United States cruiser Yankee. North Carolina Republican party convention endorses President Roosevelt and his administration.
New stock arrives featuring one two and three strap Sandals with Cuban and high Colonial heels. New styles in Oxfords priced at one two and three dollars in black. Russia feathers. Call to view the wonders.
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