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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1908
Page
4
Legal notice style fragment describes rates for obituary and personal notices per line or per insertion and free religious notices. It notes required real names of writers and post office filing details with a dated second class matter entry in Georgetown.
The Weather Bureau warns of rain spreading tonight and continuing into tomorrow. Expect showers across the region with damp conditions persisting into the following day.
At Wheeling an 18 year old Lila Zane Cook fights for life on a murder plot charge. Her 17 year old sweetheart Charles Bennett of New Kensington Pa was killed last fall with accomplices Joe White and Charles Cook, who is serving a life term. Prosecutors say she instigated the crime by luring Bennett to Wheeling Island, where he was robbed of $45, struck, and his body dumped in the river.
A political convention train halted by a water tank. delegates leaned from windows showing bald heads. An old sandwich seller jokingly asks what train it is, and a conductor replies Cannon Ball Express. The man quips it looks more like a billiard ball express.
A humor sketch in brief notes recounts Rufus Choate prompting a witness on absent mindedness with a joke about a man who checks his pocket to see if he has time. A Kansas butcher reports a note claiming the writer has butchered himself and asks not to be sent meat. In Boston an elevator conversation ends with the elevator boy answering the old lady’s questions about motion and stop.
A string of candidates announces runs for local offices in Georgetown County including Clerk of Court Olin Sawyer Sheriff Herbert Smith Scurry Had dock State Senator LeGrand G Walker Auditor W H Dorrill Treasurer Jas Detvens John Richardson Jr County Supervisor A H Holliday J B Johnson Coroner Galchr Fletcher and national seats US Senate RG Rhett and Congressman E Ellerbe P A Hodges BennettsvilleSC with pledges to support in the Democratic primary and prior-favor acknowledgments.
Announcements from Walter H. Wells P B Sellers C C Quattlebaum and W F Clayton seek the solicitor posts in the 2nd and 12th judicial circuits pledging Democratic primary obedience. The notes mention long service, past partnerships, Confederate Navy service, and a local advertising line for E J Marcus Jr.
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