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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
1
The notice highlights Mr. D. J. Crowley’s Easter window display and urges a visit. It also reports events such as a Baptist Sunday School egg hunt at Myrtle Grove and a Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid egg hunt on the Tourist hotel lawn. Multiple civic notes include weather changes and a governor race withdrawal.
Special to Daily Item Bloomington Illinois April 17 thirty Italians employed by the Illinois Central at Clinton fled the city after a mob fired fusillade shots. Public anger followed a black hand letter threatening Mayor Edmondson. Railroad hiring favored Italians over hundreds of unemployed Americans and authorities have no clues to arrests.
The article argues efficiency favors electric irons and motors, reducing time and fuel costs amid modern life. It urges attaching electric motors to machines and simplifying tasks with four button Presto style operation, and reflects on Palm Sunday and the Easter season as a unifying spiritual observance.
The church outlines Sunday Easter services with High Mass at 10 30 A M Vespers at 8 P M and a morning service featuring Mendelssohn pieces and traditional hymns including Hail Him Lord and Leader Wide Aquam. The evening service includes Wagner and Chopin notations with psalms and hymns culminating in The Day of Resurrection.
Capt Hamby offers a $10 gold piece prize to the better of two crews in a rowing race from the boat house to the red spare buoy and back. Crews of 12 oars and a coxswain, under Lieuts Taylor and Fraser, will be supervised. Judges to be announced later. This marks the start of summer water drills expected to interest all citizens.
In Alberta Canada near Lest Callagary a massive landslide in the mountains last Wednesday night buried sixty five Japanese laborers employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The mountain canon roared as tons of snow ice and rock surged for miles. Only five bodies recovered so far with telegraph wires down.
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke was released from jail in Chicago on a $1000 bond signed by Robert Burke. She had been incarcerated since Saturday on a charge of passing bogus checks at the Great Northern Hotel.
In New Castle Pennsylvania on April 17 Ernest Mornes nine was accidentally shot by thirteen year old Fred Kerr while playing cowboy. The incident ended in Mornes death.
The Jewish Passover begins Wednesday evening at 6 o clock and lasts a week. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea. Families eat unleavened bread to remember the hurried departure and hardships endured during the flight from Pharaoh.
A gentle tepher relates resolutions offered by a friend this morning. The list includes promising to avoid drinking unless very dry and to forgive enemies, with others about privacy, charity, and supporting local trade. The final items appear facetious and raise a humorous note.
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