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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
2
Per square inch nonpareil line ten lines first insertion. Additional insertions priced at 0c per line. Obituary notices and special rates apply per line five cents for personal notices. Religious notices published free. Communications must include writer real name. Drafts or money orders payable to Item Co. Manager W Rouse. Entered second-class matter July 25 1907 Georgetown SC.
John Wesley Shedd, convicted of first degree murder in the Ridgeway case, was hanged in the county jail at Winnsboro. He spoke to the crowd urging them never to touch whiskey, confessed to the crime, and died after the trap failed to break his neck, with death certified 13 minutes later. He was buried in Ridgeway.
Henry Codman Potter seventh Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of New York died at Fernleigh his summer home near Cooperstown after several weeks illness. He was unconscious all day and passed peacefully at 8 55 p m. He was 74 years old.
Charleston 1 Columbia 2 Jacksonville 1 Savannah 0 Augusta 1 Macon 0. Quick rundown of recent results in regional baseball action.
A collection of campaign notices from lawyers and a senator announcing candidacies for Solicitor in multiple circuits including the 12th and 2nd, with pledges to abide primary results. Also includes RG Rhett Me and ObIN Sawyer seeking legislative seats and veteran sentiments from candidates.
Former Clerk of Court for George Town County Herbert L Smith requests fellow Democrats' support in the upcoming Democratic primary, praising past support and announcing his candidacy for re election.
The record shows CW Scurry JA Haddock and PA Hodges along with Eellerbe Bennettsville and Legrand Walker declaring candidacies for Sheriff of Georgetown County Congress and State Senate. They seek Democratic primary votes and pledge duty and service.
A series of public notices show auditors treasurers supervisors and coroner candidates in Georgetown County pledging to run in the August primary. The statements name JAS F Detvens John Richardson AO Holliday JB Johnson GALCHR and OT Fletcher with vows to serve if elected and to abide by primary results.
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