Heiress on Storm Island Uses Fassel Aid for Flight
Rose Gaff, posing as Bess Hillyer, flees Cape Desolation with Paget Fassel’s help to claim Mrs Ellicott’s wealth. Arriving in Boston then New York, she enters Ellicott House as Elizabeth Hillyer, renamed Mignon, while a wary Susan Taylor suspects the ruse.
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Maine
Mr. Fassel
Carless
Terry
Mrs. Ellicott
Fassel
Paget Fassel
Storm Island
Cape
Bess
Caleb
Nigel Hume
Rose
Boston
Elizabeth Hillyer
Edith
Elizabeth
Andy
Paget
Ellicotts
Susan Taylor
Miss Hillyer
Cape Desolation
Susan Tay
Susan
Cape Desolation Cliffs
Bess Hillyer
Fishing at Thomson mill pond and bridge talks in Cherokee
Sharon people come to fish at Thomson mill pond with miller Mr Garner drawing off water for the occasion. A bridge at Howell's Ferry is hoped for by Cherokee and York counties with a route near Salem church and Hickory Grove road. Also notes on a Salem area meeting, dry weather, and a political column defending Attorney General Lyon against whisky interests.
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Thomson's Mill
Howell’s Ferry
Messopotamia
Wilkinsville
Sharon
Thomson Mill
Garner
J. P. Stevenson
Spartanburg
Geo. R. Ratchford
Salem
Cherokee County
Howell's Ferry
York
Cherokee
Broad River
York County
Salem Church
Hickory Grove
Dr. Wright Place
Messrs. Brown
Jane McCarley
Bullock's Creek
T. J. Estes
Messopotamia Church
T. B. Owens
Democrats Urge Voter Registration to Save State Seats
Democratic Chairman Wylie Jones warns in an address that neglecting to register under the new law could allow negro voters to tilt the state toward Republicans. He urges immediate registration before September 1 1908, noting district doubts and potential losses in Congress and the electoral ticket.
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Wylie Jones
Jones
Republican Congress
House of Representatives
Republican Party
Blease and the Grafters in South Carolina Politics
Cheraw Chronicle summarizes W F Stevenson’s letter on the Lanahan-Blease dispute. It recounts Blease’s alleged protection of grafters, questions if elected governor would pardon them, and attacks his handling of dispensary funds, appropriations, and veto power with reference to the Fleischman firm and Ulman & Co.
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Fassel
Maine
Mr. Lanahan
Lanahan
Blease
Cheraw Chronicle
United States
W. F. Stevenson
Lyon
Christensen
Samuel J. Lanahan
Lewis W. Parker
Parker
Gov
Ansel
Fleischman Company
Ulman & Co
Gov. Ansel
State Senate
Fleishman Company
Ulman
Receivers’ Commission
United States Court
Senate
Jefferson
Chesterfield
Big Corner in Cotton Stirs New York Market
A new cotton corner in New York, led by J. L. Livermore, has secured the city’s entire deliverable supply for August contracts. The Farmers' Union pledge to hold prices above 10 cents middling and a shrinking visible supply push prices higher, with October shorts reaching nearly 1,000,000 bales and a potential pool profit unseen.
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New York
New York City
J. L. Livermore
Farmers’ Union
South
Texas
The
Cotton Exchange
Livermore Pool
Daniel J. Sully
Sully
Building good roads with broad tires and local labor
Saml E White argues for low cost road improvement using annual measured labor, stone laying and broad tire wagons. He urges legislature to require road overseers and sectioned work, claims 1 to 1 1/2 dollar daily overseer pay, and suggests widening wagon tires to five inches after three years to reduce road wear. He cites personal experience of laying road and saving tax costs.
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Pong
Saml. E. White
Bond Issue Plan for York County Roads
In Tirzah, W B Wilson Jr outlines a plan to issue bonds of 400 000 for permanent roads, 250 300 miles, funded by two mill levy, with bonds repaid over forty years, under township control and a county engineer. He proposes a vote by freeholders and electors to approve the bond issue and details a road duty and township system.
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Tirzah
W. B. Wilson, Jr
York County
County of York
County Board of Commissioners
South Carolina Delegates Named for Tuberculosis Congress
Gov. Ansel appointed eleven South Carolina physicians to attend the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington, D C from September 21 to October 12. The list includes Dr. Walker Cheyne, Dr. T G Croft Alken, Dr. R A Lancaster, and others. Governors and delegates urged attendance to advance state interests.
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Columbia
Ansel
Washington
D. C
Walker Cheyne
Sumter
T. G. Croft Alken
R. A. Lancaster
John L. Dawson
Charleston
A. Bethune Patterson
Barnwell
William Anderson
Blacksburg
Frank Lander
Chester
Robert Wilson
C. R. MccGahan
Alken
G. A. Neuffer
Abbeville
J. T. McIntosh
Spartanburg
Newberry
Cole L. Blease
Caughman
Fishburne
Blease
W. H. Wallace
Newberry Observer
Wallace
G. A. Wright
Wright
Judas
Christ
People’s Bank of Union
B. F. Arthur
Chickamauga
Southern
Chattanooga
Central of Georgia
Lytle
Columbia Record
P. H. Nelson
Col
Henry T. Thompson
Col. Thompson
Darlington
Col. Boyd
Gaffney
Thompson
Bennettsville
Boyd
Thompson). As To Gen. Boyd
Gen. Boyd
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Etta W. Pierce
Lor
the News
J. Frazer Lyon
South Carolina
Laurens Advertiser
Chairman Jones
Newberry Man
Livermore
South Carolina News
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