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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1904
Page
3
Local trade and personal notices fill a Lancaster page with ads and updates. Mentions of Mackorells selling Best flavoring extracts and rifle cartridges, births, visits, church preaching, and various local events. Also reports on marriages, students home for summer, legal notices, and a note on the Hampton Monument fundraiser progress.
Mrs Sallie Q Plyler died at Columbia State Hospital in Kentucky. Her remains were transported to her husband C A Plyler’s home after services conducted by Rev W G Winn and Rev W H Hodges. She was born January 4 1833 and raised by her aunt Miss Emwa Britton of Sumter. She leaves a husband and two children.
Boara notes Monroe drug stores including the colored man run shop obtained state and county liquor licenses costing 50 each and a United States retail license of 25. Licenses allowed only physician prescriptions. Prior to June 1 only one drug store held a license. County records show taxes and revenues, including 52 138 93 tax charged, 104 083 penalty, total 52 243 61. Uncollected nulla bona etc. 21 06, making total collected 52 030 55. Dispensaries for eleven months ending April 30 paid 11 242 46, road tax 206 50, fines 1 096 17. Expenditures already published in treasurer’s annual report.
Reports from Greenville and Saluda detail multiple violent incidents. A prison detainee faces charges for arson and attempted escape. A man is shot dead near a grave roadside after a dispute. Trials close within days with juries disagreeing or rendering verdicts in murder cases involving white and black defendants.
Padmne LL Abner McKinley brother of the late president was found dead in a bar at his home at 8 o'clock this morning. Cause reported as Brights disease following his brothers death three years ago. Local families affected by hardship and seeking medical aid amid deteriorating conditions.
Destructive hail struck Iowa counties, with stones two feet deep and five to six inches across. Ground remained covered this morning as crops were ruined along an estimated twenty-mile path. About twenty-five farmers reported wholly or partially destroyed crops, affecting one of the state's finest cotton farms.
An OCR fragment shows a garbled phrase about Amree and a note on a national issue or event. The readable bits mention people and places loosely tied to a medical or official post, with unclear context or action. Further text needed for precise framing.
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