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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1902
Page
3
A fragmented assortment of notices, appointments, accidents, and community updates from Lancaster and surrounding areas. Highlights include school elections, teacher appointments, tax and census notes, property rentals, business moves, a smallpox vaccination update, obituaries, and local road and railroad items.
A Lancaster youth writes from Willy Point Texas praising the thriving town, its schools and churches, and noting dry conditions, wages of twelve to fifteen dollars a month on farms, daily work at about one dollar, cistern water, cattle tanks, and land sales on good terms. He compares prices and livestock to Lancaster, remarks on the healthier climate, and signs off from Wille Point in 1902 addressing old friends in Lancaster.
A suit threatens over an embankment crossing a river near the Gideon place in Laver county. Vaughan claims flood waters worsened by the embankment threaten Gibson bottoms. attorneys Hart, Hart, Allinen, and Allison represent the railroad. Misses Gibson own the river bottoms affected. injunction and damages are sought if removal does not proceed. Rock Hill Herald reports the contested embankment sits where a long trestle once stood.
Fragmented OCR notes detail probate actions and bannister items in a South Carolina case. Names and dates are garbled but reference a will, a probate court, and a hearing date in January or February with witnesses and possibly a marred testament.
James Young, about fourteen, of 12 miles west of Lumberton New York, died Saturday from effects of a mad dog bite. The dog bit him last October and though the wound seemed minor at first, it worsened in January. For the past three days he suffered fits every ten minutes before death.
Mrs BLA writes from Winnie Virginia praising Dr Kings New Life Pills as a cure for headaches and constipation. The letter notes relief from long term migraine and neurosis with claims of total recovery and improved health.
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