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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton prices and various commodities listed include Spirits Turpentine at 44 1-4, Corn 1.10, Meal 2.15, Feed Oats 74, Rice whole 1-2, Flour 4.50, 6.00, 6.25, and Pearl grist in sacks at 2.10. The figures reflect current market values with a few unit abbreviations implied by historical ledger notation.
Local showers tonight with Tuesday bringing light to moderate variable winds. Notices cover a funeral for infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Smith at Front Street with burial at Penny Royal. Also included are health remedies, church-building plans, stock-fence petition, regional travels, new hires, Pawley s Island popularity, a Stork visit, sermons at Duncan M E Church, and political commentary on Champ Clark and William Bryan.
Unclaimed letters remaining in Georgetown C post office for period ended July 6 1912 include: David Diness C C Doughty Frank Doday Copshires Ford M L Foster Ben Funey Josh Gallant Small Huggins HE C Johnson Pleasant Johnson Cenzer Keith G J Managoo Nestion Miller James Rich Jedkiel Small Daniel Tomkins Jim Whalle rson Mrs M A Allen Eliza Allston Miss Lucease Brown Annie Breston Ida Brown Sadie Fishborn Anna Glenn Miss Aline Hardy Annie Johnson Mary Livingston Annie Belle McDonald Mary Mc Keith Miss Jorgam Mirht Georgia Pringle Bessie Smith Caline Williams.
An invitation announces a big farmers meeting in Georgetown on July 17 at 10 am in the Court House. Speakers from the department of Agriculture and Clemson College will attend with air farmers invited. R T Allston, collaborator, notes the event dated July 16.
A testimonial extols Electric Bitters as a foundation of health for women. Eliza Pool of Depew Oklahoma praises the tonic for overcoming fainting and dizziness and shares gratitude for its effects, claiming it made a world of good. The ad guarantees availability through all druggists.
Abram Ward testifies before the Danville notary public in 1910 that Milam cured his scrofuline consumption symptoms after a decade of poor results with physicians. He reports improved appetite, strength, and digestion and praises Milam as a valuable remedy for blood disorders.
Notice of an election for seven trustees in the Winyah Indigo School District to be held Tuesday July 9 1912 from 7 am to 4 pm at a polling place near the Atlantic Coast Camber Corporation pay office and Georgetown Court Halls. Voters must show registration certificates and 1911 tax receipts. Ballots must be 2 1 x 5 inches with names and office in black ink. Scratched tickets not counted. Chairman Jos denenk and Secretary Emerson signed.
Notice states all claims against the County must be signed and approved by the purchaser before payment. It also requires that any person doing road work have an order signed by the County Supervisor or a County Commissioner H. D. Munnerlyn.
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