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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
1
Local and personal items recount entertainment at the Tourist Hotel Barber Shop and electric theatre listings with a Thaw trial, plus a stray robbery line and health notes. Community praise for the Chamber of Commerce fundraising and river and harbor support in Georgetown.
Supervisor J B Johnson reported to County Commissioners that all magistrate docket books were examined except one and praised the Hucks docket aside from pencil notes. The Sheriff held ten warrants with several held for prosecutors or transferred to other officers. Four warrants involved parties who had left the state or county and one for a $100 reward was denied by the Governor. Public concern centers on record keeping rather than Sheriff neglect. The piece also notes coffee company HQ activity and local prices.
Georgetown readers may soon enjoy a new tea line from Arthur C. Evans of Cream Java Blend Coffee fame. The move follows his acclaimed coffee by promising merit and favorable pricing, signaling a special addition to local beverage offerings.
A Duke Street resident awakened near 10 o clock Wednesday night to a noise from her henhouse. She saw a Black man flee with two sacks believed to contain chickens, dropping them as he escaped. Chickens were recovered, thief unnamed.
Former county judge James Hargis was shot five times by his son Beach Hargis in his Kentucky store. The younger man, reportedly intoxicated, was arrested amid a violent confrontation after a long family quarrel. Both men died in a sequence of sensational fatalities surrounding a family and community.
Mary and Adolphus Bennett, wed forty years, died within ten minutes of each other at their Brooklyn home on Seven ty-ninth Street and the Shore Road. The couple had prayed to live and die together, and this wish was fulfilled as Mary died at 9:00 am from heart disease and Adolphus followed soon after.
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