They Keep Phone 1016 Busy and Pay the Charges
A terse note states, keep phone 1016 busy while we cover the charges. The message implies coordinated activity and financial responsibility for resulting calls.
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
3
A terse note states, keep phone 1016 busy while we cover the charges. The message implies coordinated activity and financial responsibility for resulting calls.
Table and transient boarders can be accommodated at Mrs Burns 906 Prince Street. Several residents and visitors travel to Charleston Columbia Sumter Marion. Cabbage plants sold by Bourne and Co Sampit S C at 2 dollars per 1000. Nov 1861.
Due to the late season and heavy stock the Steele-Moses Co offers a ten percent discount on all cash purchases of dry goods dress goods shoes hats and related items from now until January 1 1909.
The page lists tonight’s theatre offerings at Mr Simpkins electric theatre and at the Opera House with titles such as Retribution Easter Eggs The Runaway Horse and For Hate of the Miller Also a death of Rev March Singleton aged about 70 a long ministry noted in Santee A Birmingham mine escape attempt by fifty convicts eight captured forty one missing one possibly suffocated and a small mine fire impact A hunting trip party of Mr and Mrs E J Meyer to Hagley then Lanes for quail hunting Local sales include a double barrel shotgun and a shipment of china and mattings from Phenix Furniture Co.
Since the cotton season began, Clyde agents moved 5 500 bales to New York from this port. Other shipments by Baltimore Line steamers to Baltimore and by Georgetown Western R A are noted, but figures are unavailable. The Tar Heel steamer’s boiler is on the Sampit river wharf for overhaul before reinstallation.
Shipping news from Georgetown Port lists arrivals and consignments. Vessels include the Mischelle C Thomson from Conway carrying cotton and naval stores for Waccamaw Line Steamers and the Theodore Weems from Hall bound for Baltimore with merchandise for Balti more and Carolina S S Co. Other ships include the Carib from Devereux to Clyde S S Co and the Lucy V from Sarvis to Bucks ville in multiple consignments to S M Ward & Co. The Brunswick from Bellune brings cotton and merchandise to BA Munnerlyn & Co, plus the Mitchell C from Thomson with Conway goods for Waccamaw Line. Also noted are the Merchant from Hopkins in Pee Dee trade and the Rebecca. R Douglas from Slocum transporting lumber for Win yan Lumber Co.
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