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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1905
Page
4
Auditor Keith reports in Pickens County that a dog tax and high dog numbers inflate school district funding. In Pumpkins town district a three mill school levy is outweighed by a $51 dog tax, yielding a total dog census around 8,000 across 52 districts, roughly three dogs per voter.
Georg e A Kyley Cumberland Md recalls his baby girl’s illness at 11 months with throat trouble. Two doctors gave her up but Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Cough and Gold did relieve after four bottles she recovered to perfect health. Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co and Funderbur Pharmacy sold it.
Six white men and eight colored men were part of a riot at Jacksonville near Langley last Saturday. A preliminary hearing before Magistrate Lee of Langley was held in City Hall due to many witnesses. Two murder warrants targeted John Mitchell Sim Cobb Jr Hamp Williams Minke Mitchell Davis Williams. An indictment charged Fred Butler Abney Boyd Henry Jackson Ross Mealer Loss Donaldson Calvin Mealer Lon Mabrey Eliot Spencer with murder. Witnesses Sarah Mabrey Jane Hampton Margaret Banks and W. D. Wright testified. white defendants bound over to the Circuit Court, colored men discharged.
Public appeal extols Electric Bitters as a remedy for sick stomach liver and kidney with a Columbus Ohio resident Mary H Walters detailing months of illness and near death before relief and recovery after using the tonic. The ad notes guaranteed availability at Crawford Wy J FL Mackey Co Bandeybuik Pharmacy for 50 cents.
The notice states that inquests will be held in the county and provides a contact through Pleasant Mill residence for communication. Coroner L. C. Fol and Tar No opiates are mentioned in relation to the notice.
Preparations are underway for a 50000 dollar wattle and poultry farm about ten miles from Columbia in Richland county. H. A. Mortimer of Baltimore will establish the venture with Savannah poultry interests as associates. Land purchases close, construction to start immediately, aiming for spring operation with cattle as the main money maker and poultry as a side line.
A damaged OCR fragment promotes Murray Drug Co of Columbus Colorado offering large bottle quantities of a cough remedy. It references Mutlein and Tar cud stop coughing and hints at a product from Murray’s Core Hound line.
A giant of a man named W B King, likely the largest in South Carolina, stood six feet seven inches tall and weighed about 400 pounds when he was in Manning last Friday. King once drew attention as a prominent police figure in Anderson. Mothers are advised Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and cattle, as it contains no opiates or poisons. sold by Funderburn Pharmacy.
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts a quip aimed at J Arthur Josephs of the financial center. A well known figure asked to borrow five dollars from a friend in distress, and Josephs replied he would help if he could but claimed he has no friends left in the world.
Hampton Feb 10 Dock Grant a negro who killed a man at a negro frolic near Scotia last April and escaped to Georgia was captured in December and convicted of murder with mercy recommendation. Andrew G. Glover a negro was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to four years on the chain gang for killing C. R. Jenking last February.
Special to The State Nashington February 10 Senator Clay of Georgia introduced a bill to prohibit dealing in options and futures for raw or unmanufactured cotton wheat corn oats rye barley flour pork lard and bacon. The measure follows the Hatch anti option bill and carries penalties of at least one thousand dollars and one to three years in prison. It also makes mailing contracts for options or futures a misdemeanor with the same fines and terms. Plans move forward to extend the old Three C's road into Tennessee coal fields, adding about 100 miles toward Johnson City.
On January 16 1905 W M Moore County Superintendent of Education notes regular office days are Saturdays and first Mondays with offices near L and C depot. He will keep school books at both offices and may awaken you any day. Captain Charles L Williamson of Sumter County reports a gin house loss Wednesday morning including 100 bales of cotton 12 bales of seed cotton 100 bushels corn and fodder and hay. fire suspected incendiary and partially insured.
In Lexington on February 7 the first prosecution under Kentucky’s co-education ban targets Jit Richmond. Judge Benton overruled Berea College’s demurrer to an indictment for enrolling white and black students. The court upheld the law, case to trial on disputed facts. potential $1000 fine. Counsel include John G Carlisle Fay Mallon and Curtis P Boream. likely appeal to the U S Supreme Court.
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