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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
1
Reported advance news from St Paul notes the extension of the St Paul railroad toward the Pacific Coast offers permanent unskilled labor jobs. The project has passed Miles City Montana and aims to push grading deeper into the mountains before winter.
A U.S. Civil Service competitive examination for the Clerk-carrier post at Georgetown South Carolina will be held December 9 1908 starting at 9 o clock A M. Applications on prescribed forms must reach the undersigned before 4 30 P M December 2 1908. Obtain blanks from Mr Local Secretary Georgetown Post Office or from Geo S Donnell Secretary Civil Service Board Atlanta Ga.
A list of guests registered at the Tourist Hotel over Saturday Sunday and Monday includes Samuel Bendheim New York J D Montgomery Marion F W Harper Lake City J Eppstein Cincinnati Ohio AS Boyles and wife Savannah Georgia Geo B McBlair Norfolk Virginia Miss Connie Arthur Columbia W P Thompson Spartanburg Sunday guests Lewis Ballenberger F J Vassar Charleston and Roanoke area visitors Monday adds Hirschburg Charlotte N C W H Barnes New Lebanon N Y E B Turnes New York Wm Simpson Knoxville Tenn J C Smith Harris Springs J H Staples North Carolina J L Coogan Charleston W H Perkine Mr and Mrs E J Meyer Mr and Mrs W C Dudley A A Duncan Charleston SM Ellis Rosemary A Morgan Charleston J R Taylor New York J H Dudley Knoxville Tenn A R Summers New York F D Ross North Carolina W A Jeffery New York.
The Forest Service will shift receipts from Washington to six western banks after December 1. Banks in Denver Ogden Albuquerque Missoula Portland San Francisco will handle timber sale, grazing, and special use funds, depositing to the Treasury. Districts cover Montana Idaho Wyoming Dakotas Utah Arizona New Mexico California Oregon Washington and Alaska.
Special to The Daily Item reports 217 of 531 Winthrop students, all girls, called home due to typhoid fever. Classes are reduced but continue. 11 cases with no suspected cases on Sunday. Extra nurses and Rock Hill doctors assist, while the acting president Kinard communicates daily reports to families.
The proposal requires months of Treasury and Forest Service officials to finalize a system. Remittances will be assembled and checked at the end of each Gaya single certificate issued by the bank and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury. The change aims to speed business for National Forest users and district foresters and to deposit receipts in western banks to boost local circulation.
Georgetown South Carolina Board of County Commissioners met with Supervisor J B Johnson and Commissioners H T McDonald and G E Scott. They received 130 dollars for communication road taxes and note 128 dollars spent repairing No 4 Township roads. A Canton Culvert Co order for 100 iron culverts was placed. Scott to study cost to bridge Long Branch causeway and report next meeting.
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