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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1908
Page
1
Local notes announce a surprise party at the Rebekah hall tonight at 8 30 with all members urged to attend. Other items include visits from Pinckney Maxwell of Florence and A M Parker’s trip to Hendersonville.
Charleston 2 Savannah 2 Macon 3 Columbia 1 Jacksonville 5 Augusta 2. Charleston cannot win the pennant. Savannah rallies threaten Jacksonville. McQuillen of the Nationals finishes season. Sumter favored to win flag. Guy Gunter quietly stays on Richardson at first base regularly.
The Cheraw Chronicle reports a July 7 festival featuring two monument unveilings, speeches by prominent men, an 11 mile auto race on a triangular course, horse races with large purses, a baseball game, steamboat excursions by the Cheraw and Georgetown Steam Boat Company, and cheap railroad rates with eight excursion trains.
The Tourist Hotel registers include W M Butts Denver Colo W T Liles Jne Richardson Jr Rosemary S D Montgomery Marion S C A A Wright Conway S C P Varley J A Dean A Rascover B V Brewer Baltimore G W Reese Stamford Conn James C Fraser WR Kim ball Lillian V Berry Norfolk Va F C Adams N C C H Adams Savannah Ga E T Townsend A R Rugheimer J S Till Charleston A W Phillips Charlotte N C L B Phillips Columbia Wm M Harden Suffolk Va H R Stanton Atlanta At the Georgetown Hotel entries show A C Jones F C Adans NY W H Dorrill Jr Columbia W H Coachman R W McAdams S J P Tanner OM Mitchell Dr Walter Hemingway Rome S C H W Morris Jae Thrailkill F C Abernethy N C Dr J K Stalvey Bucksport P J Maxwell Richmond J F Byers C C Scurry City
J B Johnson defends his stance as a citizen not an official, argues the Drainage Commission must appeal to the General Assembly for funds and that local supervisors cannot subsidize mandated duties. He suggests Beaty & Beaty begin work in No 3 Township and questions prior money offers by Steele and Detyens.
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