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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1907
Page
4
An editorial urges Georgetown merchants to advertise actively to attract local and regional trade. It argues readers lose track of available wares when ads are scarce and questions why residents patronize other towns and mail order houses. It emphasizes collective civic and commercial benefit from sustained advertising.
A citizen complains about Home Telephone Company and Electric Light Company workers cutting and mutilating city trees on Prince Street. He urges legal action for vandals and calls for penalties proportional to the damage to preserve the city’s beauty and shade.
The notice warns that light wires broken from insulators risk burning trees and calls for immediate rectification. It also condemns guy wires attached to trees as unnecessary and harmful.
In Abbeville on Friday night Clayton Smith a teenager employed at Abbeville Cotton Mills killed Seymour a boy of similar age during a quarrel. Smith was arrested by Sheriff C J Lyon and jailed. Also noted a hotel land sale and a convict guard shooting incident with limited details.
Florence sees higher tobacco sales than any five year period, with prices climbing to peak levels previously reached in that era. Local merchants report strong demand and steady activity across the market.
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