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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1908
Page
1
Local and personal notes recount visits to Suttons South Carolina and Taylor Street. A.C U Fire Hall 10c admission. Firemen tournament changes and a dog impounded. Drunk and disorderly fined. D. C. Simpkins improves Electric Theatre. ventilation suggested. A humorous clothing band query ends with a clerk on a sheep ranch.
Baseball results show Charleston and Jacksonville tied 2 to 2 while Savannah defeated Macon 3 to 2 and Columbia beat Augusta 1 to 0. The current club standings reflect these outcomes.
H Inman advertises gold engagement rings made by J R Wood & Sons with a stamped guarantee and assay claims. Also notes a sewing job: Mrs F L Corson seeks a person to stitch at home for about two weeks on a sewing machine at 1 Front street.
The writer argues that excuse for canceling a subscription is common but insincere. Honest pay should be offered, followed by frank truth about not wanting the paper. Editors would respect frankness and value readers who settle arrears or stop subscribing honestly.
A Philadelphia Press writer argues for more generous praise to lift discouraged workers at home school church and world. He says gossip thrives in city elites but not country villages and that unkind or slanderous words in small minds drive much of the chatter.
Georgetown South Carolina minutes from May 18 1908 show the regular semi monthly meeting with Supervisor J B Johnson and Commissioners H T McDonald and G E Scott. Bids from Isaac Elliott Ollie Elliott and Ethridge for repairs to Horse Bend Bridge were considered and awarded to Isaac Eliott for $49.50 with 30 days to complete and weather caveat. Clerk Elizabeth K Doyle adjourned the session.
The luxury floating palace Kennesaw II, 67 by 17 feet with a 30 horse engine, arrived from Miami via Charleston and will sail to New York after a stay in this port. Charles L. Webber of New York owns it, and A F Gonzalez commands it. The eight hundred mile voyage will go up the coast to Morehead City before inland routing.
A fifty foot long whale was captured at Cape Lookout Sunday and towed to Beaufort where shipyard rails will haul it from the water. The monster weighs about twenty five feet around the body and will be shown for two or three days. Bone and oil are valued at six hundred dollars.
Ships and schooners listed arriving or sailing with cargoes and consignors. Arrivals include Str. Aragon with barge Vinetta to A C L Corp and Str. Richmond light to A C L Corp. Departures show Str. Geo Weems Charleston bound for B A Munnerlyn Co. and Schr. Richard Linthicum Baltimore lumber for Eddy Lake Cypress Co.
The following guests are registered at the Tourist Hotel today: R. C. Carnal J. W. Skinner True Blue A. A. Duncan Charleston J. W. Crocker M. P. Robertson Baltimore J. L. Bogan J. H. Staples N. C. H. M. Cullins New Jersey Leo W. Mehrtens Savannah C. E. Clark D. A. Groff Belton N. C. D. W. Richardson M. S. Burckhalter Atlanta C. H. Thomas Augusta
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