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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1912
Page
2
A compact price list shows middling cotton and 11 1 2 Spirits Turpentine, alongside corn meal feed oats and rice values. Flour and pearl grist in sacks are quoted, with several odd or abbreviated entries including D. S. bellies and DS butts.
Generally fair tonight and Thursday with light westerly wind. Memorial Day Friday May 10th, city bars will be closed. Notable movements include Mesdames George Erson and H J Theiker to Orangeburg and A A Springs of New York with St Julian Springs of North Carolina visiting Georgetown. Local coroner candidate C C Dantzler is noted. Mrs Wright's death in Brooklyn is reported. remains to be interred here. Georgetown County Club sends representatives to the Carolina Golf Association tournament in Wilmington, N C, Thursday to Saturday. Dean Rotottom returns from Beaufort after the Mrs Wright death telegram. Sheriff and Bolick intercept a Columbia couple intending marriage and failing to obtain license. the groom is jailed and the bride held at a hotel awaiting relatives.
The fragment promotes Footer's Cleaning and Dyeing Works Cumberland Maryland claiming superior cleaning methods and economy. It hints at household wardrobe care and spring readiness with references to modern appliances and household improvements. The text also mentions Senator La Pollere and California in a vague political aside.
An ad promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as a remedy for the blues and sluggish liver. It claims the pills aid stomach, liver, and kidneys and are sold for 25 cents at all druggists.
A church committee list from the Methodist and Baptist congregations includes Mrs. Henry Young Mrs. Sampson Mrs. Gilbert Jedi Mrs. C V Fraser Mrs. Josep Bull Mrs Jack Brinkley Mrs Isaac Butler Miss Ida Vord Mra 5 V Emerso Miss Lenarich Miss Annie Ford Miss Nannie Beaty Mrs O J Butts Mrs Julia Pope Miss Bessie Cannon Mrs T W Briggtman Mrs J C Hazelden Miss Visauski Mrs Kate Moran Miss Chan Tamplet Mis H Kaminski listed as Chairman cmottm Day Committee
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