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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1904
Page
3
Jurors will convene at the court this Monday March 2 with Judge G W Give presiding. Names listed include Gr as Tu Rows and many jurors for the first and second weeks, with jurors drawn next Tuesday.
Reads like a community roundup with births, marriages, visits, sales notes, and local announcements. Includes births in March and February 1904, marriages by magistrates, pox rumor, church events, school terms, a railroad wreck injury, a few obituaries, and a physician schedule. Mentions Richburg, Rock Hill, Lancaster, Heath Springs, and Kershaw with names such as J N Crocket, Bowers, Hammond, Tillman, Brown, Gibbs, and Rowell.
An ad offers $35 in gold for a bean jar contest tied to purchases. For each $1 spent over three months, customers get four guesses toward the jar’s bean count. Prizes go to the three closest guesses: $20, $10, and $5 in gold. J. b&b. Mackorell promotes the scheme.
The Rock Hill Bottling Works formerly run for years in the rear of the Rock Hill Drag Co by S A Wright and others has been purchased by S N Sowell of Kershaw. It will now be operated on West Main Street. Sowell brings years of manufacturing experience and aims to expand trade in the area.
In a brief bereavement notice, Darby family expresses sorrow over the passing of a relative. The statement notes community sympathy and requests respects for the departed and family during this time.
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