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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1902
Page
6
Cotton brought eight cents on the market yesterday. Notices of visitors, farm sales, house rentals, and town council actions fill local columns. The new jury law requires weekly juror draws, with old grand jurors not holdovers.
A. W. Heath of Waxhaw is critically ill. W. R. Hagler of Monro e Hardware Co. moved his family from Lancaster to Monroe. Pete Brewer, the Crooked murderer who killed Albert Mann near Hornebore, has been captured and is jailed in Chesterfield. A number of Lancaster citizens face larceny charges, shocking locals. Dees is believed innocent by speakers who know his family.
Physicians treating the ailing Roosevelt express cautious optimism for his recovery as President Roosevelt telegraphs Charleston exposition authorities about a future visit. He plans to attend the exposition at a later date, signaling continued interest despite illness.
Mrs Martha T Crenshaw 57 widow of the late Joseph Crenshaw died at her son W J Crenshaw’s home in Van Wyck after several weeks of heart illness. She leaves children W J H Juhonie McGuirt J of Clyburn Maggie and others. A Van Wyck Methodist Church member she was respected as a devoted mother. Interment was Thursday afternoon in Van Wyck following funeral led by Rev Stricklund.
A brown Leghorn rooster owned by A. R. Rallinge endured eleven days wedged under a weatherboard trough after stable modifications to keep a horse from kicking. Found by a boy, the bird was living but unable to move or feed until rescued. it recovered afterward.
The obituary records the death of Miss Nannie Parke born May 23 1882 who died Jan 31 after four weeks of illness at 19 years 8 months 8 days. It notes she was a Methodist, cheerful, faithful to parents and siblings, with family abroad in North Carolina and Washington. It expresses faith that she has entered everlasting life and quotes consoling lines about meeting again in heaven. New Cut Feby 14 1902
Mr James Stewart and Miss Jenie Bishr of Monroe were married at 7 30 PM in Wadesboro at the home of Gl Go Baylin. Rev OO M Lituker officiated. The couple, popular young locals, plan a Charleston Exposition trip then return to Monroe. Mrs Bishr is Dr J H Blair’s daughter. Stewart works with Heath Sea Hardware Co.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis arrived in Birmingham en route to Jackson to urge Mississippi to buy Beauvoir the former Davis home for a Confederate soldiers home. She declined a $90 000 offer and proposed selling Beauvoir to Mississippi for 10 000 with the state maintaining a soldiers home.
The American Peace Society directors led by Robert Teat Paine and Dr. Benjamin F Truebloed forwarded to Congress a petition for the ultimate independence of the Filipinos from Boston on February 13.
The House passed the oleomargarine bill. It imposes a tax of ten cents per pound on oleomargarine when coloring is used.
Governor offers 100 reward for the apprehension of Will Brewer who killed Albert Mann of Chesterfield county on January 29. Over three thousand vaccine points have been sold in recent weeks by Rockford drug stores. Fire in Summerville Tuesday destroyed multiple properties including Southern railway depot building and stock, Sies & Bros. offices and stock, RL Lambs offices, Sires & Bros. stables, Walters bakery building and stock, P W Phelan building and stock, and Mrs. Guerin boarding house and furnishings.
Senator J M Brice of York returns from the ex position and praises the fair. He says the buildings are beautiful exhibits are complete and instructive and the grounds are the prettiest he has ever seen.
Reports from Dallas and Charlotte recount a Confederate Reunion meeting with travel fare details and a note on rail routes. In Charlotte, five Cherry Tree men were bound over on fraud charges with $1,000 bonds, summing to eleven bound over in two days.
The next regular examination for teachers certificates will be held in court house Hriday on February 91, 1902. Examinations begin at 10 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. Rowell, County Superintendent of Education, January 18, 1902.
Fragmentary text notes numbers and terms, mentioning daily entries and possible dates. It lists 82 and 88 as porate daily Cialis and various numbers 34 85 11 12 18 14 16 16 with a cryptic reference to “consections made by 5” and “UTE SR.”
All persons indebted by note or on account must come forward and settle promptly. Our merchandise and guano accounts were due the 1st of Now and we have waited patiently on our customers but must insist on prompt settlement. Heath Banking and Mercantile Co.
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