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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1909
Page
1
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce holds an important meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in their rooms. Topics include the Florence railroad proposal long distance telephone farming extension of city limits agricultural fair and other county and city matters requiring action. Members urged to attend promptly.
New York reports list nine vessels wrecked along Massachusetts coast with the probable loss of the big five masted schooner Davis Palmer and crew of twelve. Nan Tasket, Belle Halliday, A K McLean, Stoning ton, Maude Seward, and Bonita are among ships saved or stranded as Cape Cod remains cut off and Martha's Vineyard shores endure heavy seas.
Wesley Telfair, a colored laborer, lost his left arm near the Town Creek area while attempting to board an Atlantic Coast Line train. He wandered nearby after the accident, was taken to Union Station then City Hospital for treatment, and authorities note his history of mental illness.
The Lexington Dispatch lauds Columbia’s reception of the Lutheran Theological Seminary as a city’s greatest achievement. It honors Columbia representatives who presented the claims in Salisbury and notes Hon. C. M. Efird, a local leader, as a committee member coordinating the institution’s relocation from Mount Pleasant to Columbia.
Four violent deaths, three homicides, occurred in Birmingham within 24 hours ending tonight. William R. O’Rourke, groceryman, was fatally shot by rival M. C. Screws after a quarrel over alleged arson. John Turner died from a pistol shot in a friendly scuffle at Woodstock as a friend tried to take the weapon. Essie Crockett, a Black man, was killed by a shot from an unknown assailant. C. S. Henley, a Pinson Georgia youth, was electrocuted at East Lake while seeking a light switch in darkness.
Nashville December 27 demand for Christmas Red Cross stamps grows daily as stores run low. War Department shipments expected soon to restock. Philips & Buttorff's reports 1180 stamps sold Monday and 1283 Tuesday as clerks actively promote the sale and a prominent stamp table is kept near the door for shoppers.
Capt Edgar Bigelow his wife and child and four crew members of the American schooner Eugene Borda wrecked November 29 off Nova Scotia were brought to port today after a perilous storm voyage. The vessel carried lumber to Philadelphia and sustained heavy damage before the rescue.
The Star Line steamship Vaderland aided a perilous rescue on its final eastward voyage. It brought survivors to Antwerp and then back to the United States. The captain’s wife described the tiny boat reaching within twenty feet as a four year old was hurled aboard. The crew endured hunger aboard the rescued schooner before救 signals finally lit using dry material. American consul secured passage home for the shipwrecked at Antwerp.
South Norwalk Connecticut December 26 William Knorr of Cranbury known for water feats tried to swim through a ten foot snow bank to entertain friends. He was found unconscious blue in the face after a half hour of resuscitation and saved from death as relatives dug him out during a family reunion.
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