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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
3
Cotton brought 84 cents on yesterday's market. Notices of births marriages and deaths along with local incidents fill this Lancaster area page. New home moves, illnesses, livestock events, and harvest notes illustrate life in the community with multiple named residents and neighboring towns.
Yorkville attorneys Measin W W Lewis and E P McCain argued before Justice Ira B of the Supreme Court last Wednesday to block a dispersary election in Yorkville set for March 7. Judge Jones had earlier denied the injunction after hearings. The election occurred yesterday. outcome not learned. Additional local notes cover moves, pensions, school fire, mumps in Heath Springs, a runaway horse incident, and other small items.
Mrs. Cole wife of Mr. lawn t Cole, born 1859, died February 6 after long illness. She was active in Beaverreek and Heath Sprite Baptist churches, a devoted mother and Christian, survived by husband and children, and funeral services held with church support. The article notes her loyalty to her church and recounts lines from a memorial ode. Also mentions flood losses affecting the Southern railway between Morristown and Asheville, estimated at 800000 dollars.
A violent mob incident over a Black victim near Florence ended with a sheriff guiding the suspect to the Florence jail. Prominent locals aided in averting a lynching as calm returned. Also reported: a bank cashier’s death in Elkhart amid a $32,000 shortage, a major snow storm from New York to North Carolina disrupting rail and telegraph service, and a congressional push by Senator Lodge for Filipino self government after the war.
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