Georgetown Daily Item A Busy Local Chronicle
Local market notes show turpentine prices and cotton quoted with minor shifts. several names travel through the city from Clemson to Charleston. Fire damages two two story buildings on the railroad side near Duke Street. insurance partial, cause unknown. Public notices and town happenings include band finances, rifle guards elections, postmaster salary update, and local legal fines. Taft visits Washington. diverse brief items cover arrests, debt, and civic plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. B. Sanders
City Council Minutes 1910 Change Street Name and Tax Exemption
The June 8 1910 City Council meeting approved bills from Breslaur Lachicotte Co and others, granted a name change for Church Street through Winyah Place to Winyah Avenue, and denied a request to move Wingal horses and hose wagon to a tournament. The Clerk informed the AC L Fire Department chief and 45 men that they would be exempt from a communication tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breslaur Lachicotte&Co
Docher-Gardner Co
J. J. Scurry
W. H. Andrews
Southern Mercantile Co
Sampton & Springs
Carolina Hardware Co
Georgetown Grocery Co
John J. Cain
Atlantic Coast Lumber Co
Daily Item
W. W. Taylor & Son
R. E
EN. Beaty
Steele-Moses Co
Iseman Drug Co
L. Altman, A. Lohr Martin Realty “Corporation
Church Street
Winyah Place
Winyah Avenue
A. C. L. Fire Department
Council Adjourns After Brief Fire Department Meeting
City council adjourned after completing routine business with no further action on fire department matters. W A Black presided as clerk as meeting concluded with expected formalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Black
C. and
Bluefield Crisis Grows as U S Vessel Threatened
In Bluefield Nicaragua Gen Rivas defies Washington's May 31 proclamation and threatens to stop any vessel entering the harbor. Commander Harold K Mines of the Dubuque warns that firing on the American flag would mean annihilation of Madriz troops. Tensions rise with threats against American counsel Thomas P Moffatt as parties brace for possible US involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Nic
Harold K. Mines
Dubuque
Rivas
Madriz
Bluefied Bluff
United States
Washington
Hines
Thos. P. Moffatt
Beware of Mercury in Gatarrh Ointments Warned
Advert sees cautions about mercury in gatarrh remedies and urges prescriptions. Claims Hall's Catarek cures by affecting blood and mucous surfaces, with Toledo Ohio production and testimonials offered. Also notes Steele-Moses Co furnishing gents wear such as hats and underwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ol Tolag
Ohio
Toledo
Ft Cheung & Co
Atton
Steele-Moses Co
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Loral
Specter
Market Reports
Georgetown
Messrs Bourne & Co
Virgin
Rosin
London
Root
Mr. Hearst
Roosevelt
W. H. Dorrill
Landrum
S. C
City
Frank Tarbox
Clemson
Price
Duke Street
Scriven
Joseph Schenk
B. Lachicotte
Clemson College
W. H. McDonald
Charleston
Guardon Tarbox
I. McG. Carraway
Jao, Richardson
T. Darling
Herbert. Medlin
Andrews
Jas. H. Porter
Sumter
Capt. Porter
South South Carolina
John Gibbs
Walter Fraser
Recorder
Tom Gardner
W.H. Hodges
Kingstree
F. G. Davis
A. L King
Columbia
J. W. Smith
Columbia Steamboat Co
Winyah
Foley
Tieman
L. C. Croft Drug Co
William Howard Taft
Mr. Taft
Reflecton
W. B. Avant
Atlanta
Scurry
Avant
Marion Star
Epworth League
Braver
B. T. Woodward
Fraser
Siau, Brinkley
Munnerlyn
Tion
Nicaragua
Coal Crane & MacMahon
J. H. Loyal
Front Street
Mitchell C
Conway
J. E. McElveen
Guems
Sciatica
J. H. Read, JR
Notary Public
Plantersville, S. C
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