Local Lancaster items reflect town news and notices
A compiled Lancaster era page lists varied notes from community life. Mentions of sales, church events, visiting relatives, a fatality in Bascombville, marriage at a local home, a hunting goods dealer, and upcoming entertainments. Several brief notices cover civic roles, rail travel, and letters remaining uncalled for at the post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Emma Love
Nancy Cunningham
W. ©. Jordan
A. J. Brasington
Walter Alford
W. E. Fureron
8. Scull
Appointments of Rev J White Unity Lat and Sabbath
Local matters note appointments of Reverend J White to Gills Creek with duties on the 24th and 4th Sabbath and Freasant Hill with duties on the 2nd and 4th Sabbath. Times referenced as ap m and on 9. White is assigned to Unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White
Gills Creek
Freasant Hill
Burglars Blow Safe At Florence Cotton Mills
Burglars blew open the Florence Cotton mills safe in Forest City North Carolina last night and secured between 1000 and 2000 dollars in cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Florence
Forest City
Man Surrenders After Fatal Shooting at Blackmon Mine
Walter McManus surrendered to Sheriff Hunter at Kershaw after shooting and killing John Ranchcol near the Blackmon gold mine on August 10. He fled to Virginia, returned home, and plans bail with attorneys E. D. Blakeney and T. Y. Williams. Ros Hagins, formerly of this county, died in a Southern Freight wreck at Bessemer City N C. buried at Steel Hill colored burying ground Osceola. Engineer T. J. Pettus and fireman John Thompson also killed. McCowns, a white tramp, died in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter McManus
John Ranchcol
Blackmon
Hunter
Kershaw
Virginia
E. D. Blakeney
T. Y. Williams
Ros Hagins
Bessemer City
N. C
Steel Hill Colored Burying Ground
Osceola
T. J. Pet—tus
Greenville
McCowns
John Thompson
Cough Syrup Ad Promises Quick Cure
An old advertisement touts Sopa the Cough and Works of the Cold as a one day cure with a no cure, no pay guarantee. It lists Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and pricing at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sopa
Prico
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mackerell's
Cloud
N. E. Moore
Charleston
J. N. Estridge
White Bluff
A. J. Baily
U. S. Court
W.S. Lee
Anderson
B.C. Hough
W. C. Winn
Tabernacle Church
G. P. Watson
Chester
W. M. Carnes
Cleveland Carnes
Robertson
Ladies of Elgin
St. Luke Church
Crenadan School
W. T. Hilliard
Magill
8. C
B. C. Hough
W.C. Ewart
Abbeville
Shiloh
J. M. Riddle
The
Woman’s Missionary Society For
Rock Hill District
Yorkville
Wm. Hays
Tabernacle
Malvin Guthrie Hicklin
Malvin
M. Hicklin
Bascomville
Chester Lantern
Nettie Hallman
Nannie McCain
Unity Sec—Tion
W. E. Laney
Chesterfield County
Our Town
J. C. McDow
KR. E. Mollwain
South Main Street
Paysour
L. C. Paysour
Lincoln Oll Co
Cleveland, O
W. H. Hodges
Kingstree
Camden
J.J. Owen
Poinster
Monroe
L. ©. Small
South End
Turner Funderbark
Dudley
Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Spartanburg
J. D. Funderbark
W. A. Rogers
Souther Christian Advocate
R.E. Allison
Belle Nance
P. M
W. G. A. Porter
J. H. Kirk
Columbia
Mias Mayo Hasseltine
Jacksonville, Fla
Trenholm Hasseltine
R. S. Cauthen
Baltimore
Alice Horton
Hornton
Jessie Clyburn
Charity Lowell
Buffalo
Mount Pisgah
Edith
E. C. Brasington
Ld.o. Freeman
John C. Edwards
Misa Lizzie Evans Laney
J. P. Laney
J. D. Funderburk
J. H. Boldridge
D. D
Mrs. Edwards
Wiley’s
T. Eugene Funderburk
jLinware
Nesses Srs Ney
Erie
Honey Moon
Itye
Clover Seed
G. C. Carnes
Western Union Telegraph Office
Rule
Sea Island
Alamance
Kalamazo
J. B. Mackorell
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