Local and Personal notices and community thrift
A mix of notices from W. E. Lang seeking work, Young's dairy offering dinners, a sunflower measured at 38 inches by a local editor, Naval Militia drills on Pawley’s Island with top marks by G. E. Esborne and Niamby, departure of Raymond S. Farry to Maplewood NH, and editorials urging a city trolley system with liberal franchise terms to attract outside capital.
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Columbia State
Columbia
Daily Item
Georgetown
Pawley’s Island
G. E. Esborne
Niamby
Bishopville Magistrate Merrick Dies by Suicide
In Bishopville on August 4 Magistrate J. M. Merrick, temporarily insane, shot himself in the head with a pistol. Miss Kate Morgan sister of Hon. W. D. Morgan, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Wasdin at Orchard Beach Maine and will stay for the rest of the summer.
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Bishopville
J. M. Merrick
Kate Morgan
W. D. Morgan
Orchard Beach, Me
Eugene Wasdin
Miss Morgan
Graves in a Hospital and Georgetown Triumph
A New York dispatch reports John Temple Graves, Independence League vice presidential candidate, in a hospital awaiting an operation. In sports, Georgetown beat McClellanville 9 to 8 in a lively baseball game with strong pitching from Adams and Morris. Georgetown then shut out McClellanville 4 to 0 as E Morris delivered an unassisted double and McClellanville players departed by boat.
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New York
News and Courier
John Temple Graves
Independence League
Georgetown
McClellanville
Jones
Adams
Olin Morris
Morris
E. Morris
George
Good schools churches and roads build a proud community
The piece urges reading the home paper to educate youth and foster civic pride. It notes Lieut Hamby expects no encampment trouble next year after a successful event and highlights local cases: Nesbit and Small punished for vagrancy and street rock throwing. William Gibbs jailed 30 days after a prior escape.
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Happings
Lieut
Hamby
Robert Nesbit
Frank Small
William Gibbs
Bull Dog
Gibbs
Excursion to Rosemary Baseball Game This Saturday
The Georgetown and Western Railroad will run a special train from Georgetown at 8 30 a m on Saturday August 8 for spectators to the Georgetown versus Rosemary baseball game. Return from Rosemary after the afternoon contest. Round trip fares are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. W H Andrews and R C Snipes Supt CrP A.
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Georgetown
Rosemary
Georgetown & Western Railroad
W.H. Andrews
R.C. Snipes
Crp. A
Florence Prepares Grand Labor Day Celebration
Florence gears up for Labor Day events starting September 2. In New York, Mr. Er W Kaminski bought a large naptha launch that now travels down the coast under its own power toward Georgetown.
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Florence
New York
Er. W.kaminski
Georgetown
Market Prices for Cotton Corn and Grains
Today's market notes list cotton at 10 percent, corn at 93, meal at 2.00, feed oats at 70, D S bellies at 94, D S butts at 77, flour spring chest at 5.50 to 5.75, patent flour at 5.00 to 5.25.
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D. S
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Allround
W. EK. Lang
Prince Street
Young's
Raymond S. Farry
Maplewood
New Hampshire
Farr
Wm. C. Bynum
Winyah
Newberry
Mr. Skinner
Col. Nesbit
Nesbit
Butler
L. S. Ehrich
Court House
McCleartville
John I Hazard
John I. Jr
Ashevill
N.C
A.C. L
E.” J. Marcus
Bourne & Co
Royal
McConnell Co
George Pollock
Front Street
Dunmore
P. O
Georgetown, S. C
J. M. Herring
Taylor and High Streets
Georgetonw
Ss. G
C. D. Cook
True Blue
Dudley
J. B. Steele
F. Rhem
O. B. Skinner
S. J. Flaum
B. W. Cannon
H. W. Fraser
D. N. Bourne
John Bourne
R. Y. Cathou
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