Local Notes on Goods, Education, and Arrests
Mixed county news covers Mathis & Co bread, Miss Bruce visiting Heath Spring, Rev White sermon at Newcut school, new cottages on Secrest lot, Plyler well boring, businesses on Main Street, magistrate Hull’s fines, and summer school for teachers. Robert Summers, the longhaired beggar, arrested in Charleston for theft. girl in his care sent home. Summers laments misfortune.
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Charleston
Robert Summers
Nancy Jane McAteer
Chester
Florence Crittenden
Summers
Lancaster
Misa
Xet
Pension Checks Distribute for County Pensioners
Clerk of Court Porter began issuing pension checks in the county for 222 eligible recipients. Eight are in class B receiving 19.60 each, while 214 are in class C drawing 14.70 each.
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Porter
Death of an Aged Lady Mrs Adeline Snipes
Mrs Adeline Snipes widow of Alfred Snipes died Sunday afternoon at her home near Dixie and was buried Monday at Union Baptist church where she was a member. She leaves seven children including three sons John William and Franklin Snipes and four daughters Mrs Hiram Steele Mrs John Gardner and Mrs I A McGnirt
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Adeline Snipes
Alfred Snipes
Dixie
Union Baptist Church
Letter From W A Newbold Reveals Threat and Offer
A letter from W A Newbold claims funds to back an offer and warns the Magnolia hotel proprietor to avoid supper. the writer notes the man’s reputation in Oxford and asserts he can only harm where he is unknown. Also public notice invites Tabernacle Children’s Day on Saturday June 5 with a 10 am program and a picnic lunch, urging attendance.
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Magnolia Hotel
Oxford
Lancaster graded school district public meeting notice
Trustees of Lancaster School District call a meeting for May 31 1901 at 4 p m in the Lancaster Court House to elect a chairman and secretary five trustees and decide on a special tax not to exceed five mills on real and personal property for public school maintenance authorizing participation by voters meeting criteria in the district May 10 1901 signatures of B F Miller W T Gregory W J Cunningham J E Taylor C T Connors
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Teo
Lancaster
Court House
F Miller
W T Gregory
W J Cunningham
JE Taylo
CT Connors
Mr Newbold Makes an Offer
A letter from Chester S. defends his integrity amid claims of bribery in the Reese case. He offers two hundred dollars for proof that R Stevens and Marion R Reese are the same man, plus expenses, as he recalls Stevens faces multiple federal charges and potential life in prison.
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Chester S
Inet
Lancaster
J. A. Montgomery
Oxford
Reese
R. Stevens
Marion R. Reese
Stevens
United States Court
United States
Messrs. Porter and Montgomery
Mr. Heath
Local Medical Licenses Granted and Political Echoes
J. C. Foster, Dre, and R. C. Brown passed state board exams Friday and earned medical licenses. A Comptroller General Derham’s young son contracted smallpox and both were quarantined in Columbia. Senator McCalla of Abbeville traveled to Greenville to hear McLaurin and returned a McLaurin supporter, while retaining his Tillman alignment.
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Dre, J. C. Foster
R. C. Brown
State Board
Derham
Ile
Oatakitts of
Columbia
McCalla
Abbeville
Greenville
McLaurin
Flood
Tillman
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Iammatutrs
J B Mackerel
Mathis & Co
Mabel Bruce
Heath Spring
J. M. White
Newcut
Mr. Plyler
Secrest
D. F. Bridges
Alg. Mintz
Blacksburg
Winthrop
Jane
Sth. Han
W F Stevenson
Alice Mackey
West End
Steadman
W. McD. Brown
Main Street
Porter & Deale
Owen& Griffin
D. K. Hull
Pleasant Valley
Meantine
Thorugh
Oseas
Portant
W. F. Moncrieff
A. A. Dunbar
W. A. Newbold
Tabernacle
The
Tabernacle Sunday School
Messrs. Sanford
James Rowell
A. C. Rowell
WM Varnad
City Meat Mar Masonic Building
Mr Newbold
Canton
Pietenhuis
Authorartes
Newell
Keitz
Jones St
Sioux City
Paate
Dovod
Naver
Gripe
Mer Memrary Comnice
Montreal
New York
Drogeisia
Rutland
Healian
A. J. McNinch
Lancaster Mercantile CO
Madras
Bates
Heath
Heath Banking & Mercantile Co
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