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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
3
The city sees visits from State Liquor Commissioner W Q Tagam and Misses Davis and Porter, while ships on the Waccamaw report steady trips after a shaft adjustment. Prof O K Showmake departs for Norfolk and James Town Exposition. local voters hear on license collection. a deaf and dumb romance is told. a midshipman’s body is found. a dog campaign and electric fan plea brighten public life.
Marine brief records arrivals of Stmr Wilhelminia Smammon bound for New York to Atlantic Coast Lumber Co and Stmr Eutaw Turpin carrying railroad ties to B A Munnerlyn Co, plus Stmr Katahdin Queen listing New York lumber shipments by Atlantic Coast Lumber Co.
Telegraph market wire shows July wheat at 914 corn at BR 46 ribs at 8 50 and lard at 8 65 as prices. Owing to demand free eye examinations offered for three days by The Georgetown Glass Company. Joseph Silver Oculist conducts the event for the best people in the community.
W. W. Barton a Jasper carpenter shot his wife and three children and killed himself at home last night. A five year old survived to convey the family tragedy. Neighbors found Barton on the front porch and his wife on the back porch after the doors were battered down. Unhappy domestic relations are blamed for the act.
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