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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1901
Page
3
Local items report visitors, births, and engagements along with business ads for groceries and bread. Notable notes include W T Gregory visiting Charleston, two births on May 17 and 18 1901, Mrs Crockett visiting Spencer NC, and advertisements for Mathis Co groceries. Also covers weather effects, police capture of a labor contract violator, medical board exams, and a Pan American Exposition opening with Roosevelt in attendance.
The piece notes Tillmanism may gain in the pending campaign due to the South Carolina party machine, but foresees a broader struggle to replace old ideas with a new regional outlook. It asserts the South has little in common with Populism and warns against accepting a leadership tied to destructive, sectional aims. It also includes church society resolutions and a lost gold palmetto tree notice.
Charleston Presbytery debated Rev Dr Brimm’s advocacy of faith healing at a special meeting in Second Presbyterian Church. He was told to abandon the doctrine, and later instructed at Walterboro to drop the teaching while under presbytery control, potentially appealing to the synod and general assembly.
In San Francisco on May 18 President McKinley and officials witnessed the launch of the battleship Ohio. Miss Barber pressed the button to send the ship into water, while Miss Deshier broke a champagne bottle on the bow proclaiming the Ohio a success in every respect.
London notes that Andrew Carnegie has given 2,000,000 dollars to establish free education in four Scottish universities Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen and St Andrews. He restricts beneficiaries to Scottish fellows with no English Irish colonials or foreigners. The fund will cover medical and commercial education and be managed by trustees who will pay student expenses.
Trustees of Lancaster School District call a public meeting in Lancaster Court House for May 31, 1901 at 4 p.m. to elect officers and five trustees and decide on a special tax not exceeding five mills on real and personal property for school maintenance. Signed by BF Miller, W T Gregory, W J Cunningham, JE Taylon, CT Connors trustees.
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