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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1904
Page
3
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Small town notices from Lancaster and Heath Springs include social visits by Mrs. T. L. Clyburn and Mrs. J. A. Cook, weddings of J. Z. Belk to Decia Ellis and Hoan Small to Ida Wright, school events, a new head of Tabernacle High, and plans for summer classes. Also reported are a typhoid death of J. A. Baker, election of school trustees, a 44 mill levy, and an attorney general ruling on pension payments.
A schedule change on the L and N will shift passenger trains from Lancaster to Chester at 10 50 am and again later daily, with returns at 12 45 pm and 8 30 pm. Southern schedule changes began last Sunday with southbound trains at 7 55 am and 11 40 am and northbound at 2 23 pm and 6 25 pm. The Moriah Baptist association met here Friday to Sunday with strong Sunday school discussions and visits from Rev J W Little and Rev Dr Hatcher, and plans for Camp Creek church’s fifth Sunday in July. Resolutions thanked Lancaster residents for hospitable entertaining of delegates.
County Summer Schools begin Monday June 20 1904. Aim to offer a broader program with emphasis on Hughes Mistakes in Teaching Civics Drawing and Primary Methods as required subjects. Teachers securing or applying to teach in the county will be paid eight dollars to aid defraying expenses. Further details to follow from A C G Rowell Supt of Education May 31 1904.
The May meeting in Camden voted a good majority in favor of a new court house. The location is not yet decided, but the project promises a handsome building for the county.
Presbyterian assembly in Buffalo announces a broad unity move by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The report notes overwhelming support for a new cooperative framework and ongoing reforms to church governance and mission.
A court opines on whether the 1904 05 levy of a special tax on dogs and other property could be authorized by an act approved February 25, 1905. It held the act took effect March 16, after the 1904 assessment period had expired, so the levy for 1904 could not be validly imposed. The opinion discusses Section 2 timing requiring taxation in the same season as other property.
A blaze in Montgomery Alabama on May 29 at the Alabama Cotton and Storage Company known as the Atlantic Compress Company destroyed the building and 4 600 bales of cotton. Loss estimated at 280 000 plus 100 000 for the building. Insurance on the building 65 000 with cotton largely covered by marine insurance.
A wartime style plea urges readers to support national development by sending money to mail order houses in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. The note urges subscription to the Ledger and warns against trusting foreign trade schemes. It frames contributions as essential to the country’s progress.
The trustees will meet on Wednesday, January 1th, at 8 oclock p.m. to elect a Principal and six assistants for the white graded school and a Principal and assistants for the branch at the Lancaster Cotton mills. Applications may be filed with the undersigned Chas. T. Connors, Lee, and Treas. Bd. Trustees.
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