Try 7 days of FREE access to billions of articles

Start Free Trial

Georgetown Daily Item in Georgetown, South Carolina

Page 1

We have 1,205,085 pages in South Carolina

View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.

Start Free Trial

This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!

Start Free Trial

Cancel anytime, risk free

Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles

Advanced Search

Articles on This Page

This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.

Newspaper

Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Aug 17, 1908

Page

1

For Sale and Wanted Notices plus Local Social News

Local notices list an auction of an entire business at 820 Front St with cash terms. Wages and job openings seek an all round man and a branch office manager for The Morris Wholesale House Cincinnati Ohio. Social notes report visitors at Pawleys Island, church work at Spring Gully Church, injuries to Capt W A Black, draymen Thomas and Alex Pope losing mules, and other city happenings including a new baby boy in the Broughton household.

R. M. Manigault Front ‘St W. E. Lang Prince Street Georgetown Morris Wholesale House Cincinnati, Ohio

City court rounds up cases from morning docket

Mamie Williams, colored, disorderly conduct fined 100 dollars or 30 days. On assault and battery she was sent to the higher court. Ned Coplin, drunk and disorderly, 25 dollars or 30 days. Larry Cubs, vagrancy, 15 dollars or 30 days. Jessie Catlin, drunk, forfeited bail of 10 dollars.

Mamie Williams Ned Coplin Larry Cubs Jessie Catlin

Trenton Editor Hides After Cattle Show Report Mixup

The editor of a Trenton Missouri paper fled to a swamp on Grand River bottom after mixing a cattle show report with a concert. The item praised sixteen young ladies as the finest breed of shorthorns and noted their brown and white coloring and promising heifers. Also referenced: a Bayside shooting in New York and a preacher urging debts at home before foreign missions.

Trenton Missouri Grand River Bayside L. I Peter Hains U.S. A Wm. E. Annis New York Burr McIntosh Annis Captain Peters T. J. Hains H. K. Thaw Greenville Moses H. Galloway No Heaven Corsicana Texas Prince Street E. J. Marcus

The Returning Dollar That Lost Its Circle

A farmer remembered a dollar marked with his initials that circulated through town for years. It returned four times for produce and appeared in neighbors’ pockets, then vanished after he sent it to a mail order house. It will not fund local schools or roads again, having left his circle of usefulness.

Democratic fund drive spans the nation in election push

The Atlantic to the Pacific reports a broad fund drive for Bryan supporters with subscriptions to the Democratic National fund. The Daily Item notes local contributions, a list to be published twice weekly, and warnings about mail errors and a call for action. A county campaign speech closing, a riot-guard, and a pond complaint on Highmarket Street are included as nearby items.

Atlantic Pacific Bryan Daily Item Democratic National Fund For the Promotion of Democracy Sinewsoftwar H. L. Oliver Highmarket Street Elmwood Cemetery Richard Esdorn S. M. Gladstone

Also Mentioned on This Page

Pawley’s Island Alethia Davis Summerton S. C Daisy Bennison Laurel Miss Bennison C. C. Richardson Sam Sparks J. J. Powers Martin Myrtle Beach Spring Gully Church Laurice F. Rhems Rhems W. A. Black City Thomas Alex Pope C. T. Tucker F. Read & Co G. S. Southerland Trolley Sunday Outlook Recorder Atlantic City Harrigan Woodcock Kansas Sheers Court House Democratic Committee Bob’’ Evans Springfield Ill E. W. Palmer Atlanticville 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 W.H. Andrews R. Y. Cathou Georgetown, S. C Dunmore P. O. Box Red Store Hartnett & Day W.H. Robinson Highmarket J. M. Herring Taylor and Highmarket Carolina Hardware Co H. Kaminski
Search Courier

Search the Georgetown Daily Item Today with a Free Trial

We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.

Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Georgetown Daily Item?

People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!

Looking Courier

Browse Newspapers

You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!

By Location

By Location

Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.

Browse by Location
By Date

By Date

Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.

Browse by Date
By Publication

By Publication

Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.

Browse by Publication