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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
3
Various local items from Tradeville and Dixie, South Carolina including births and deaths, marriages, property and road updates, school work progress, trades and contracts, crime notes, and upcoming church and educational events. Mentions Dr. R.S. Cauthen and W. Q. Caskey, local families Small Belk Funderburk Knight, and several marriages and public notices.
The Hampton Literary Society holds a debater medal contest Friday at eight pm in the court house. Afterward, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice will be presented in tableaux and recitation. Admission: adults 25 cents, children 10 cents. The question asks if wars of conquest are justifiable with Dessie Stewart and Waddy Thomson for affirmative and Paul Moore and Ethel Vanlandingham for negative.
All members are notified to attend a meeting of the County Democratic Executive Committee at Lancaster Court House on Monday June 23 at 12 30 p m. Chairman H E Coffey signs the notice.
Trustees will meet Friday to elect teachers for the next school year. Postings include the superintendent and five assistants for the white graded school and a teacher for the primary school. Applications must be filed with the undersigned by the date shown.
Terrifying weekend storms lashed the county with strong winds rain and hail. Crops in Dixie Rich Hill Fork Hill and areas south of Elgin were damaged with split corn blades and some cotton leaves knocked off. Several outbuildings were unroofed and a tree fell on a house in Wy Blackmon’s vicinity. Pleasant Hill’s A R P church nearly collapsed under the gusts while lightning struck structures and felled telephone poles near town. A tenant house on B Cunningham’s plantation burned from a lightning strike. occupants escaped. A county letter from Columbia dated May 20 1902 requests local Democratic chairmen to invite candidates to private homes for speeches to reduce lodging costs.
Applications filed today with the secretary of state seek charters for three telephone companies with a combined capital of 15000. The Lancaster Telephone company would have 5000, the Bedford Telephone company of Yorkville 34000, and the Blacks bury Telephone company 38000 in capital.
The board of trustees accepted Dr. Carlisle’s resignation from the presidency last Saturday. Rumor says Prof. H No Snyder, English teacher at Wotford, was elected as his successor. Carlisle remains at the institution as a professor.
Warning posted by W A Blakeney in Gills Creek township 44 miles east of Lancaster. The 72 acre tract, bounded by ID A Fonderburk Rev G W Gard ner and Wylie Porter, is forbidden ground. Law will be rigidly enforced against all trespassers. June 10 1902 im.
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