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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
1
A jumble of local notes recalls chores and duties around Marsh places with weathered descriptions, odd phrases, and scattered items. It mentions a wedding, a vessel lost in a storm, a train robbery thwarted by a conductor, and various ads for furniture, gloves, and boxes, all from a Daily Item page fragment.
Mr and Mrs J M Brickman hosted a large gathering with Dr and Mrs Farris and Mrs Fred Young assisting. Guests played progressive whist, Gertrude Haselden won first prize, and Herman Carraway took the booby prize. A city wrestling event was praised as strictly scientific, and oyster stew was offered at Westbury's Pool Room. Found lighter boat drifting near North and South Islands. The City Council discussed a Sunday bicycle ban to protect churchgoers. New guests from Brooklyn arrived, with winter plans in the South and comments on local duck shooting. Market quotes: Cotton middling 10 54, Corn 85, Meal 180, Oats 70, Rice 41-205, Flour 5.00 to 3.75, Turpentine 45 3/4.
Carman, a veteran barber, recalls twenty years ago shaving John D Rockefeller and another scene at Forest Hill. Rockefeller refused to tip, saying his arrangement with Waldheim was to give seventy five cents to Waldheim. He says Rockefeller never tipped him or his guests.
A deer swam 20 miles down the icy Hudson River and reached Grassy Point near Haverstraw where several young hunters captured it. The deer, part of a herd seen around Tuxedo Park, swam ashore after straying from the group. Because deer season was closed, the youths released the animal rather than killing it.
A vicar sought to define lies for a school class about truth. He asked for student definitions and a bright pupil answered that a lie is an abomination to all yet a pleasant help in time of trouble. The exchange appears in the Lutherian Observer.
After the jury failed to reach a verdict for a fourth time the judge grew frustrated and abruptly discharged the panel. One juror remained unsettled as the courtroom reaction mixed outrage and confusion.
An old advertisement offers Buchan's Soap called Cotton Bloom as absolutely pure and hygienic. It invites readers to mail 10 cents in stamps to Buchan's Soaps Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave in New York City if their druggist cannot supply the product.
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