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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
3
Market quotations for turpentine and related commodities are listed alongside local items from Georgetown. Editor Robt Lathan arrives for the Winyah Indigo Society banquet with the Charleston Evening Post’s T. P. Waring as orator. society events include memorial rehearsals and singing. Community notices include sales, rentals, band programs, and local business networking via the Chamber of Commerce.
P. H. Hodges files to run in South Carolina Sixth District as a Democratic primary candidate under party rules. He states intent to represent district in Congress and follow primary process requirements.
Residents of Bennettsville hear Mr P A Hodges announce his bid for Congress. Hodges, former candidate who won a strong vote two years ago, serves as financial agent for Columbia College and campaigns to raise funds to rebuild the college burned a few months earlier.
Friends of James W. Wingate urge him to seek solicitor of the Twelfth circuit. Wingate, a Bennettsville lawyer practicing in Georgetown for about three years, is praised for a rapid, enviable record and broad approval from the city administration. The Pee Dee Advocate notes his recent election as attorney for the city of Georgetown and mentions handling important matters.
A powerful quake destroyed much of Cartago Costa Rica with at least five hundred dead and many injured. The earthquake also shook San Jose leaving damaged buildings and panic. Telegraph lines to Cartago were down and the operators there were killed. The Palace of Justice and other structures collapsed amid widespread destruction.
May reports at the State House show Adj Gen Boyd proposing Col Brock resign. Brock refuses to act on the request and questions Boyd authority, saying such a move should come from the Governor.
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