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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1910
Page
3
There is no market in Georgetown for crude turpentine but Bourne & Co. furnishes quotations. Virgin turpentine at 4.00, yellow dip at 4.00, and various staples with prices listed such as cotton 14 3 4 and corn 8 D S. Other items include rice, flour, pearl grain in sacks, and bellies and butts priced in the note.
Colder tonight with frost then fair Wednesday with light west to northwest winds. Knights of Pythias elect officers at their hall including Dr. Olin Sawyer and S. G. Smith. Christmas balloons floated by W. L. Harrigan. some readers owed subscription for the daily paper. Dr. Clifton to visit Georgetown for eye ear nose throat exams December 21 22. Funeral honors for Adj Gen Boyd to be held at Greenville. Several residents and visitors in town for holidays. Republican committee spent 74 373 to lose Congress. New Duncan Methodist pastor Jones arrives tomorrow.
Local notices advertise Christmas groceries and brands like Smoked Halibut Pickled Salmon Beachnut Peanut Butter Sunbeam Coffee and Radium Oil. Also promotions urge buying gifts, clothing and jewelry from The Steele Moses Co and C P Foxworth & Co with limited time offers and store hours.
The Board of County Commissioners held their regular semi monthly meeting in Georgetown South Carolina on December 49 1910. Present were Supervisor J B Johnson and County Commissioners H T McDonald and G E Scott. With no business of importance they adjourned. Elizabeth K Doyle Clerk of the Board.
Tax notice states books for State and County taxes open October 15 1910 and close December 31 1910 with penalties for late payment and executions for delinquents. It lists tax rates including state and county mills school tax poll tax dog tax and road tax with amounts for Good Hope School and County Line Fence townships and signs by County Treasurer J Hem ingway 2.00.
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