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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1900
Page
3
The item lists Porter Bros offerings including ties and rugs, plus a sales pitch for shoestrings and hats. It notes Miss Beile Stover as a milliner for Lancaster, road improvements near Gills Creek, and the 1900 week letter ads. Also mentions church events, Confederate Veterans reunion details, and local farming notes. It records community updates from Monroe to Lancaster.
In Magistrate Caskey s Court Lee McManus of Col is convicted for stealing a fish basket and pays a ten dollar fine rather than thirty days in the gang. Alfred McKenna and Ed Boyd are convicted for non payment of poll tax and sentenced to twenty days in the gang or a five dollar fine each. Deputies search Henry Magill s home for Eli Caskey s meat stolen from his meat house last Sunday night. part of a ban identified as Caskey s meat is found and Henry is brought to town by the officials. Mrs JR Turner and Miss Basie Killian of Fort Lawn are the guests of elder Purdue.
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