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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1903
Page
3
Record of church related appointments listing key figures for Gills Creek Pleasant Mill and Unity with 1st and 2nd Sabbath duties and female member inclusion across locations and Sundays.
On Saturday night Mr H W Sistare of Riverside lost his stables crib two barns oats hay tools gears and a car load of timber in a fire. The origin was in a barn about 10 o'clock and rats are thought the cause. Loss about 8600 with no insurance. A heavy burden on him and his friends.
On Friday last Mr J E Mc Donald of Winnsboro filed with the secretary of astute articles of the Southern Development company of North Carolina capitalized at $1,000,000 The company will have offices in Winnsboro and is interested in developing power at Catawba falls.
The first bale of new cotton weighed 104 pounds and sold for 19 cents, shipped by Wy a Culp from the Hood farm at Croville and bought by L. M. Co. At Rock ai, Addison underwent an appendicitis operation at the hospital last Saturday with Dr. Fennell and others, recovering well and likely back on duty within 30 days. Various local moves follow with personnel changes at Lancaster Mercantile, Heath B. & M. Co, Porter & Stephensons, and the L. M. Co. A granite specimen from W. M. Crawford’s land near the Southern Railroad was sent to Prof. Collier Cobb, who praised its high-grade Scotch granite for monumental work. The Moriah Baptist Union met at Fork Hill with D. A. Williams moderator and W. P. McManus secretary. Dr. Harvey Hatcher preached, education was discussed, and next union set for New Hope church November 27–29.
Sudden death claims two local men near Monroe and Lanaster County. Wun Griffin, about 20, a drayman for Mr. Aycock, collapsed on a piazza while waiting for a train and died from heart disease after days of illness. his remains were sent to Monroe. An elderly citizen, Mr. Aycock Outen, died at his stepson’s cotton mill home after months of illness. He would have been 75 in November, served in Co. A With S. CO. Regt., wounded in the thigh, and was a Taxahaya Baptist church member. survived by a widow, two sons, and a daughter.
Card of thanks from Mrs Eprron thanks friends for aid after a fire that damaged her stable barns and crib. A local man with long nervous illness settled a long overdue county paper subscription, then left a year in advance and slept well. Farm for sale Willis Gregory homestead six rooms repaired 80 acres on Flat Creek near Haile Brewer Jefferson and Ker shaw terms to T S Darren Lancaster SC
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