Local and Personal Notes From Georgetown and Nearby
Eighteen days after killing a priest at his altar a Denver archist was sentenced to death. Senator Latimer’s reported estate hints at political money. Bail disparities in crimes illustrate justice. Church services, lost watch notice, and a severe storm supper highlighted the day. Baseball, banking, and census items wrap the round-up with regional updates.
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Denver
South Carolina
Winvah Inn
Kaminski Hardware Co
BE. V. W
Ifn
Prince St
Ladies Aid Society
Presbyterian Church
Montgomery
Alabama
S. H. Smith
Alabama Polytenic Institute
Georgetown
Round House
Bud Poole
Spartanburg
Gresham Jones
W.P. Northrop
Charleston
Father Wood
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Morse and Hummel
Broadway
Mobile
Ala
McIntire Lumber Co
Washington
Resolutions of Respect for Sister L Varonee
The Daughters of Rebecca Georgetown Lodge No 31 I C C F adopt resolutions on the death of sister L Varonee dated February 14 1908. They note her as a much loved member and Christian example and express sympathy to her husband and family. Resolutions call for minutes blank page inscription charter draped and notices to papers and Tri State Oddfellow.
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Rebecca
Georgetown Lodge
I. C.C
Georgetown
S. C
L. Varonee
Varonee
Warni
Tri-State Oddfellow
Appreciation note for church aid society donation
Editor of Daily Item thanks the Ladies Sewing Circle and the Aid Society of the M. E. Church for their generous donation of 179 dollars toward paying the water works bill for the parsonage. Board Trustees M. E. Church L. C. Croft secretary and treasurer.
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Daily Item
Ladies Sewing Circle
Aid Society
M. E. Church
L. C. Croft
Sec
Treas
American fleet to visit Japan after Mikado invitation
The U S battleship fleet will visit Japan after accepting an invitation from the Mikado in cordial terms. A local scene on Front street features a hog chase with several darkies pursuing it after it escaped from the dispensary. The Globe Trotter and substitute Drug Clerk are set for tonight’s electric theatre program. Chief Rouse survived a fall when a horse spooked near the new school house, his buggy wrecked but no bones broken.
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Japan
Front Street
Globe Trotter
Electric Theatre
Chief Rouse
New School House
New City
Wood Street
Columbia Man Kills Himself at Hillsboro Hotel
Athol H. Miller of Columbia South Carolina committed death by his own action in Tampa Florida at the Hillsboro Hotel. He stabbed himself three times with a six inch dagger and drank 120 grains of morphine, dying at 11 25 this morning. Miller was in Tampa about two weeks and had been drinking and seeking narcotics with friend Henry Allen.
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Tampa
Fla
Athol H. Miller
Columbia
S. C
Hillsboro
Miller
Tampa Bay Hotel
Henry Allen
Tampa Bay
Landanum
Florence Book Music Co Offers Best Pianos at Market Prices
An advertisement urges buyers to purchase from a firm claiming control of the world's best pianos and offers savings by avoiding inflated prices. It warns against buying cheap pianos at high costs and invites listeners to call Florence Book Music Co.
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Florence Book Music Co
Georgetown Candy Kitchen offers the nicest candies at low cash price
The Georgetown Candy Kitchen invites citizens to sample candy before buying with groundnut candy six cents per pound coconut crystalized peanut ten cents and chocolate coconut eight cents. Address 813 Front St. 227-08. Cheese fifteen cents per pound at C P Foxworth Co Eggs twenty cents per dozen at C.
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Georgetown
Front St
C. P. Foxworth Co
Wife of Oyster Opener Seeks $1.1 Million Inheritance
Attaches of the American embassy in London notify Mrs. Else Sjoholm Ohlstrom of Station street East End that she may claim more than $1.1 million of an estate tied to the heirs of a Von Singler who died seventy five years ago. Mrs. Ohlstrom is married to Oscar Ohlstrom the oyster opener. An uncle of her grandmother left Sweden over seventy five years ago and bought a large London estate that later became entangled in litigation.
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Pittsburg
London
Else Sjoholm Ohlstrom
Station Street
East End
A von Singler
Ohlstrom
Oscar Ohlstrom
Notice to Georgetown licensees for 1908 due April 1
City notice states licenses for the year beginning April 1 1908 are due April 1 at the Clerk and Treasurer in City Hall. Unpaid by May 1 incur a 20 percent penalty. Licensed vehicles will receive a license tag to display conspicuously. W. T. Black C and T.
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Georgetown
City Hall
W. T. Black
Georgetown Dispensary Liquor Bid Notice 1908
Georgetown South Carolina invites sealed bids for gin rum rye and corn whiskey standard beer wines and case goods full measure delivered to Georgetown. Bids due by April 19 1908 with no bidder marks on envelopes and terms net ninety days. The board may reject any or all bids or adjust contract quantities.
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Georgetown
S.C
J. F. Deytens
S. C
Nien Acre
Florida Cracker syrup and buckwheat sale at Foxworth Co
Local offer from C P Foxworth Company advertising Florida Cracker cane syrup in tins and Buckwheat at cost. Readers urged to place advertisements in The Item for results.
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Florida
C. P. Foxworth Co
C. Foxworth Co
Municipal License Call Noted in City Column
Attention is directed to the municipal license call published in another column of the city page. The notice requests review or action by holders or applicants, with details in the adjacent column for compliance and deadlines.
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Charlotte N
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Methodist Church
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Schr
Marke Dock
Acme
Williams Coffee Coo
Arthur C. Evans
Carolina Holw Co
D. S
DW. J.crowley
Ice
Georgetown, S.C
Farrar & Wescott
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Brinkley
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Loyal McConnell Co
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Civil Engineering
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