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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1911
Page
2
Middling cotton prices noted while turpentine shows no local demand in Georgetown. Quotations from Bourne & New Virgin, Yellow, Diplon Scrape list rosin and tar as traded. corn, meal, oats, and flour priced with indicated futures and sacks. Rosin and other spirits cited with NY rosin quiet.
The Weber Report for South Carolina notes fair skies tonight and Wednesday with slightly warmer temperatures inland. Light to moderate northeast winds accompany the dry conditions.
Weather mild and reports from Georgetown include civic changes and church appointments. The death of Miss Thomasine Ford is noted with a 9 am funeral at the Episcopal church and a gas launch voyage from New York arrived with a rough crossing. A municipal primary yielded a 58 vote count with no opposition.
In a Rivesville letter Dora Martin describes three years of womanly pains and sleepless nights. She credits Cardui with curing her condition after a doctor proposed surgery. She urges others to try Cardui and mentions a 61 page home treatment book from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
Registration books for Georgetown South Carolina will open December 15 1911 at City Hall for the municipal election and stay open until January 5 1912. Office hours are 10 to 2 daily except Sunday. T E Arrowsmith Superintendent of Registration.
Hen Henderson's Succession advertises cabbage plants for sale in Charleston Wakefield. The listing mentions contact T. S. McConnell and a date of November 9.
A Wilmington party led by Thomas B. Cooper sails down the river in his gasoline launch for a first night out at Punch Bowl. They plan a deer drive this day at Galivant's Ferry with hunter Davis Altman and his hound Drive, then continue to shoot ducks and squirrels toward Georgetown with some members possibly returning by rail.
Municipal election for mayor alderman and commissioner of public works in Georgetown South Carolina set for Monday January 15 1910. Two polling precincts at City Hall and near the Southern Mercantile Co store. Polls open 8 a m to 4 p m. W A Black S&T.
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