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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1903
Page
3
Local minister Rev J M Witlie announces preaching holds at Unity on the first and eighth Sabbaths at 5 acreek. He will also serve 2d and 4th Sabbaths at 11 Fivasanit Hill and 20 and 4th Sabbaths at 4pm.
Miss Minnie Harris visits sister Mrs Ayers in Rock Hill. Birth of a daughter to Judson and Mrs Beckham on Nov 5 1903. Newent school opens Monday with Martha Mobley of Chester as teacher. Stray yellow fire with name Trix. reward offered. Please return missing Three Decades in Federal Legislation to J T Green. For sale items and local ads including a Jersey cow and a breech gun deal. Magistrate Mobley reports fine collections. Local hog losses to cholera noted. Post office notices list uncalled letters. Editorial urges settlement of subscriptions. News items cover naval arsenal explosion in New York and a dramatic black community crime near Primus with multiple theories and a shooting death.
Rev. W. Ewart of Abbeville, erstwhile pastor of the A. M. P. church, preaches at Shiloh at 11 a m tomorrow and at the A. M. P. church here at night. He has received an unanimous call to pastor the A. R. P. church at Yorkville. Meanwhile cotton trade notes show prices rising with yesterday’s market activity.
The Southern railway settled two heavy damage cases from the Fishing Creek wreck, Fireman Rhyne and Conductor Turner. The clerk of the court was notified yesterday. terms not yet made public. Also, voter registration books open in Lancaster court house for November 1908, with A McManus supervising.
Death notices report Mrs. Cooper aged over four score years dying at her son’s cotton mill home with burial in town cemetery. Infant Louella Snipes died at 18 months and was laid to rest at Union Baptist church. Olin Parks aged about 13 months died of membranous croup and was interred at Camp Creek Baptist church. Marian Coleman of Lindsay died at age 2 years 2 months after a stroke and was buried at old Waxhaw Presbyterian church.
A quake was reported felt yesterday in multiple Tennessee and Mississippi cities and also in St Louis, causing tremors that surprised residents and prompted brief safety reminders.
Rev Dr J L Thornwell sustains injuries when local passenger train No 23 on the Charlotte Columbia and Augusta branch collides with a material train three miles north of Chester at 7 50 Wednesday morning. Engineer George Fenner of No 23 is wounded and Gus Boston a colored employee on the material train is killed. The material train’s engineer and fireman escaped unharmed after leaping clear as the flat car ahead was pushed forward. Several other passengers are shaken and bruised in the crash reported by the Charlotta Observer.
A Comanche saloonkeeper displays on his front board the names of every prohibitionist who owes him a nickel for drinks, listing the indebtedness in a public shaming move that highlights the heated tax and temperance tensions in the town.
A ten day sale promises customers who spend $100 or more a bonus of 10 feet of common cloth or bleaching at one cent a yard. The retailer claims unusually low prices across departments and offers heavy 66 inch wool dress goods at 39 cents per yard while stocks last. A small quantity of 27 inch dark Percales is priced at 5 cents per yard with no offerings below 7 cents.
Readable textile offer lists 12cts double width plaids and figured mohairs at 85 cents per yard, 52 inch all wool broadcloth at 1.25, 44 inch broadcloth at 1.25, 45 inch broadcloth grades 1.75 and 0.75, with 5 cent items and additional colors.
Local shop promotes its footwear as the best in town with reliable options and a guarantee on every pair. The message emphasizes quality and customer satisfaction, aiming to reassure shoppers about durability and value.
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