Ickes Eyes Pee Dee Valley Railroad From Winston to Georgetown
President Ickes told the Pee Dee Advocate editors last Thursday that the Pee Dee Valley Railroad will be built. Proponents plan a route from Winston to Georgetown via Richmond Marlboro and Marion Counties with Richmond bonds tied to the project. Construction could start at Rockingham and run to the Atlantic Coast Line, with service possibly to Bennettsville by early next year.
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Ickes
Pee
Advocate
Rockingham
Richmond
Richmond County
Atlantic Coast Line
Marlboro
Bennettsville
Georgetown Antiquities Highlight Dr Wolling Letter
Dr Wolling delivers a Georgetown lecture noting the town’s 1705 land grant to Pierrie heirs and its aging aristocratic past. He visits Indigo Hall once a high class school, the old town hall with English bells, and the Westminister church with ivy grown from sprigs of Westminster Abbey. He hopes to plant a sprig by Central church tower.
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Georgetown
Lords Proprietors
Province of
Carolina
John
Edward Pierrie
England
Charleston
South Carolina
Westminister Abbey
Oxford
Georgetown Farmer Delivers 30 Basket Snap Beans
Mr W M Parrott of Rhems brought about 30 baskets of snap beans to Georgetown, 27 sent to New York markets. He notes this was his first picking from a small eighth acre plot, praising Georgetown soil as a strong producer.
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W.M. Parrott
Rhems
New York
Georgetown
Brutal Wife Murder in Norfolk by Insane Husband
In Norfolk on May 21 a young iron moulder named Eugene Peebles killed his wife with an axe in the presence of their young daughter. He appeared insane and was arrested. Peebles had traveled from Savannah Georgia, while his wife and children had followed from Augusta Georgia.
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Norfolk
Eugene Peebles
Peebles
Savannah
Augusta
Visit to Busy Clyde Line Docks and Local Methodist News
The writer notes large lumber mills and heavy machinery at the docks served by the Clyde line between Jacksonville and New York. He reports strong church attendance and music at services, praise for Prof. W. C. Bynum who directs local schools, and a light personal note on his colleague’s marital prospects.
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Clyde Line
Jacksonville
New York
W. C. Bynum
Police Dragnet Detains Two Youths in County Court
Primus Rivers, 19, arraigned on vagrancy and fighting and ordered to 60 days on the chain gang to learn soap and a comb. Louis Brown, also charged with fighting, fined 2.50 and paid.
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Primus Rivers
Louis Brown
Bargaining Made to Measure Clothes at Detmar Woolen Co
The Detmar Woolen Co offers reduced prices on select thin all wool fabrics with new Spring Line styles. Visit for fabric designs priced to surprise, plus a Cleaning and Pressing Club at 1 25 per month. J Schwartz at All Front St. Up-to-date Tailor.
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Detmar Woolen CO
J. Schwartz
Front St
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NEWS
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Newberry Observer
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Georgetown Shipping Beans
Police Dragnet
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Modern Homes
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