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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
1
A collage of city briefs reports visitors arrivals departures and business notes including hires relocations and travel from Newberry to Charleston Georgetown Sumter and Monroe North Carolina. Mentions of an architectural inquiry in Columbia and local firms launching promotions and theater plans.
A comparison urges choosing one locomotive and one car over wheelbarrows for railway needs and one inch of newspaper advertising over circulars for a store. It argues posters are cheaper but less effective, then discusses why boys leave school early while educated youths gain long term benefits, and ends with a local advert for Phenix Furniture Co and Steele-Moses Company listings dated oct 7-8.
South Carolina officials announce reduced rail passes for Northwest homeseekers with 21 day validity and stop over options. Special rates at 80 percent of a straight fare apply to routes from St Louis Evansville Hickman Cincinnati and other points to the Southeast. Tickets go on sale October 27 and November 24 with Washington excur sionist pickups and further line concessions from Southern Baltimore and Ohio and Mobile and Ohio. Commissioner Watson funds outreach at fairs and agricultural papers to attract North West settlers.
Belgrade crowds demonstrated yesterday demanding the cabinet's resignation and King Peter's abdication unless he declares war on Austria Hungary. Austria Hungary has refused Servia's protest over Bosnia and Herzegovina's annexation. About ten thousand Austro Hungarian troops guard the Drina frontier with a potential to mobilize 150,000 into Servia within a day.
In a Baptist church tomorrow Rev Cahall will discuss The Church Communion after service and The Jealousy of True Love. Baptism follows service. Duncan Methodist holds morning and evening service with Rev Morris preaching. A five year old defends her father's riches as love over money, reflecting on wealth of home life and loyalty.
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