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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1904
Page
4
Unity church lists Rev J O Whede for 1st and 3rd Sabbaths with services at 11 am Gills reel 2t and 4th Sabbaths at 11 am Pleisner HL 2t and 4th Sabbaths at 4 pm in a local notices style detailing schedule and times
Property for rent offers a five or six room house with contact for W P Bennett. A local district stewards meeting at Rock Hill is noted with Maj J M Riddle attending. Various short items include family visits, school openings, a basket supper to raise desks, pension board meeting details, and multiple local marriages and births.
Mr. A. J. Bullard formerly of Lancaster lost his Rock Hill home last Saturday afternoon due to a kitchen flu fire. He and Mrs. Bullard were away. only the home and belongings were destroyed. Insurance stood at 650 on the house and 150 on goods.
A promotion offers $38 in gold for ten winners. For every $1 of goods purchased over three months, customers receive four guesses in a jar-bean counting game. Prizes go to the nearest guesses: $20 for first, $10 for second, and $5 for third. Collected time and prize details urge participation.
Frankie Bruce of Heath Springs dies at 80 with burial in Bruce graveyard. Eliza Gardner of Kershaw dies at about 65, survived by three children, buried at Kershaw. Margaret Connor, mother of J B Connor, dies near Bell Town at about 80, burial at Camp Creek church after lingering dropsy illness.
From Kershaw Ere: Heath Banking and Mercantile Co absorbs Mungo Mercantile Co and S W Welsh & Co, acquiring stock of I W Porter & Co. A new operating name is not yet learned. Also announces F M Mobley leaves Kershaw for Haile Gold Mine to take a long held bookkeeper role.
The Rock Hill Journal reports the dam across the Catawba is finished and the dynamos will start generating electric power this week. W.T. Wohlford will join his family at Winston. The community will be glad to learn of the development.
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