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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1908
Page
1
At about 2 30 p m today the four year old son of Mr and Mrs Riggs was playing at the residence of Mr Louis Riff on High Market Street when a single barrel gun under a sofa discharged. The load struck the child in the right shoulder and side, tearing the arm. The child died instantly and the community offers deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
Mr Joseph Schenk reports Cheraw and Georgetown Steam boat Co directs regular use now that railroad track reaches the river landing. Derricks are set for heavy freights to and from Georgetown. Bennettsville builds a trolley freight line to the landing and Florence eyes a line to Allison's landing. The Cheraw Chronicle predicts strong success for the Georgetown Cheraw steamboat route.
Dr A B Clarke and Judge Haenel of Plantersville were in the city yesterday. A Mexico City special reports Chilpa was destroyed by an earthquake yesterday morning but no lives were lost. Bowling at the Tourist Hotel Alleys drew attention with Prof Frost’s 211 high score after a 40 point handicap. Two film pieces titled the Revenge and Lightning sketches show at the Electric Theatre tonight.
Special To Daily Item report from Baltimore dated March 28 states Louis Cohen caused the death of his infant daughter by applying a lye solution to her face to treat a rash. The child was rescued and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where her face was raw and her eyes were eaten out.
The March 27 trading of Thos. W. Lawson’s Yukon Gold shares drew wild excitement as twenty thousand shares changed hands in minutes with extra police required. Thousands watched from windows as expectations rose to five hundred thousand shares more before close. The Yukon mines are controlled by the Guggenheimers.
F A Norwood, a retiring Columbia council member in South Carolina, admitted stealing a shotgun from his roommate and was arrested last night. Norwood, about 25, failed to win re election in Mills district.
A major blaze in Spartanburg South Carolina destroyed all telephone cables this morning leaving the city without service for about a week. No casualties reported. The cause is under investigation with cross wire suspected.
The Williams Comedy Company brings two nights to Georgetown starting Thursday April 2 at The Armory Opera House. Manager T P DeGafferily aims to raise business records with new plays vaudeville and continuous performances. The opening production Under The Lions Paw showcases leading talent with elaborate wardrobe and scenery plus nightly specialties.
The Item advertises eggs at 20 cents per dozen and cheese at 15 cents per pound from C. P. Foxworth Co. Also offers Florida Cracker cane syrup, buckwheat at cost, and other groceries. A theatre program lists The Fisting Boat and Burglar Cannings as tonight’s features at the electric theatre with fruit and seafood offerings at the market dock.
John B. Culpeper Lloyd F Murphy and E T Yowsend visit Georgetown praising the town as one of the finest in South Carolina. Culpeper, Remington manager for Virginia and Carolinas, is called the Typewriter King. Murphy and Yowsend, L C Smith and Monarch district managers, are popular figures and tout Georgetown as set for great future success. They stay at The Tourist Hotel described as cozy and well appointed.
Dom inick Bugreen, a watchman at Ninth Avenue and Fifty third Street, Brooklyn, was found unconscious beneath sacks of cement and bricks after two masked men beat him with blackjacks and robbed him of thirty cents. His son, a mason, discovered him when he didn’t hear his father’s morning greeting. He was taken to the Norwegian Hospital with probable skull fracture and a broken arm. surgeons say he might have died if not found.
A Augusta merchant used the Savannah River for a small shipment of 2040 pounds and saved 4.29 dollars compared with Boston route freight. The article urges Florence merchants to consider a Pee Dee waterway and local transport line to boost savings and efficiency.
Cotton middling and various grain figures listed with prices for meal oats bellies butts rice flour and turpentine. The report compiles current market values and commodity bids.
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