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Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 05, 1911

Page

3

Market Reports and Local News From Georgetown

Market quotes show spirits turpentine at 74 cents and cotton at 14, corn 30, meal 1.45, oats 10 to 60, rice 8 3 4 to 4 14, flour 6.25 to 6.7, with no local crude turpentine market. A stenographer position is open until June 8. A nursing fountain project follows Mr Lewis M Seaver visit, courtesy of Hon Wm D Morgan. The new boat Grade 1 by Claude Lachicotte built by Pink Leonard debuts at the market dock. Tonight vaudeville and films at Come.

Georgetown Messrs Bourne & Co Lewis M. Seaver National Humane Alliance Wm. D. Morgan Claude Lachicotte Pink Leonard

Weather and social notes from Georgetown SC and surrounding area

Fair tonight and Saturday with moderate to brisk northeast winds. Visitors include Mrs A McP Hamby and Miss Ruth from Columbia. Mr Hamby, secretary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, to attend the Winyah Indigo Society dinner. Colleague Mr W P Goldfinch, manager of Kingston Furniture Co, visits. J R Sparkman’s party joins his daughter. Also reports: Caldwell Construction Co contract for Fire Hall cancelled over military methods. J M McKeithan to run the Carolina steamer Conway to Georgetown daily with Capt Dusenburg. local ads for Heinz apple butter Wesson Snowdrift oil Banquet Tea and other goods. J A Purcell to take monument orders.”

A. McP. Hamby Ruth Columbia Evshing Hamby Columbia Chamber of Commerce Winyah Carolina Conway Kingston Furniture Co Goldfinch Caldwell Construction Co North Caro J. M. McKeithan Georgetown R.G. Dusenburg Harry Herald Heinz

Cotton Sale At Darlington Attracts Four Hundred Forty Bales

Mr L S Welling sold to Mr J A Buck man cotton buyer for Sprunt Son a lot of 440 bales at about 1 cent per pound in found numbers total value around 30000 dollars. Since Monday about one thousand bales have sold on this market with more than half fetching 15 cents per pound.

Darlington L. S. Welling J. A. Buckman Sprunt & Son

Dogs Over the State Camden Struggles With Mad Dogs

Camden reports widespread canine rabies risk as numerous mad dogs roam streets. Officials warn residents to keep dogs restrained to prevent possible human exposure before summer ends.

Camden

Rooms and board offered at Central House with steady boarders

Central House advertises boarding at 85 per week with rooms for rent furnished or unfurnished at reasonable rates. C A Robbins, Proprietor. A recent game between the Elks and the Red Men ended 15 to 13 in favor of the forest men, with Prof Ballard as umpire and praised for fairness.

C. A. Robbins Elks Red Men Forest Col. Ballard

Seasonable Goods from the Carolina Hardware Company

Seasonable sale notice for screens and household items. Window screens priced five cents to one dollar, doors one dollar to two fifty, plus oil stoves, ice cream freezers, water coolers, lawn mowers, garden hose, and tools offered in various grades and sizes.

Carolina How.Co

Watson Probes Georgetown Drainage Project

Commissioner EB J Watson departs for Georgetown to study the drainage district and attend the Winyah society banquet now in its 156th year. Accompanying him are Prof F G Eason and Sgt Tra W Williams, with W D Morgan heading a local development company. The Georgetown district is the first to begin actual drainage work under the new program.

EB. J. Watson Georgetown Winyah Society Watson Sft Tra W. Williams State Farm “Demonstration Work W. D. Morgan George Town Georgetown County F. G. Eason

Lake Steamer Boiler Bursts Injuring Twenty in Cleveland

The State of Ohio steamship on the Cleveland and Buffalo line exploded a boiler at a dock inside the breakwater. Twenty people were injured with five and ten sent to hospitals. Fatalities feared include Engineer Hull of Euclid and Antonio Zallaconi of Cleveland. The injured were workers near the boiler room while twelve others escaped.

Cleveland, O Buffalo Line Engineer Hull Euclid O Antonio Zallaconi Cleveland

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