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Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Oct 27, 1908

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West End Sunday School Officers and Members

The West End Sunday School lists total enrollment and names of officers for the various departments. At a October 26 business meeting of the Reliable Bible Class officers were elected including Beaty as teacher Harling as V President and Savage as Treasurer. Members are urged to submit criticisms and suggestions on class work.

B. L. Beaty W. H. Murray I. &M. Overton Arthur Mettital Jno C. Lawrimore Samuel Veroni N. C. Savage Annie Shaw L. M. Overton Jac. L. Brinkley J. B. Dawson Nellie Sykes M. J. Andrews T. S. McConnell A. B. Harrelson Cecil Curtis Pearl Harling H. Houge Harling J. L. Brinkley Reliable Bible West End Daisy Mettital H. C. Savage John L. Brinkley C. L. Mitchell M. H. Mettital

County Teachers Association to Meet at Court House

The county teachers association will hold a session at the Court House on Saturday October 31 at 12 o clock. President O M Mitchell of Union Graded school will preside. Officers for the present scholastic year will be elected. Attendance is urged. Mrs Mattie B Price Secretary and Treasurer Dry Goods Dress Goods and Novelties Steele Moses Company October 7 8

County Teachers Association Court House O. M. Mitchell The Union Graded School Mattie B. Price Secy Treas

Night Riders Arrests Climb at Camp Nemo Tennessee

Fourteen more prisoners were brought into Camp Nemo at Reel Foot Lake on October 26 in ongoing night rider outrages. The total in custody rose to sixty one as a mounted scouting party went out with two returning and the third not due back until tomorrow night. Captain C B Rogan led tonight's detachment. A prisoner’s wife identified a ringleader amid scornful townsfolk, and she will be summoned before the grand jury. Major R E Martin planned to search Obion for the masked assailants. The Obion rumor about a breakfast demand by the same man was found baseless after Col Tatum investigated.

Nemo Reel Foot Lake Tenn C. B. Rogan United States Army Rogan Grand R. E. Martin Obion George Beard Col. Tatum

Deaf Mute Robert Glover Found Dead in Union Woods

Robert O. Glover a 26 year old deaf mute printer recently returned to Union to work at the Union Times is found dead in woods west of Union with a pistol wound to his mouth. No witness to the act but it is regarded as suicide. Parents from Spartanburg took the body home for burial after an illness and despondency related to past grip and afflictions.

Union Robert O. Glover Glover Progress Union Times the Times Spartanburg

Gompers Replies to Roosevelt on Labor Clash

Samuel Gompers accuses President Roosevelt of a change of front and says his letter to Knox attacked labor, insisting he deceives no one but himself. Also notes the Steele-Moses Company in a dated catalog line marking a grocery display.

Samuel Gompers Roosevelt Knox

Bryan in New York Confident of Democratic Victory

William Jennings Bryan and his traveling party arrived in New York and met with Norman E. Mack and Nathan Straus. Bryan spoke of gains among farmers and professionals, criticized Republicans, and urged votes for Democratic candidates and the State ticket in Indiana, Ohio, and nationwide.

William Jennings Bryan New York Mr. Bryan Erie Depot Jersey City Norman E. Mack Nathan Straus Mr. Straus No. 12 West Seventy-second Street Mrs. Bryan Herman Ridder Hoffman House Bryan Republican Party Indiana Ohio Oxford College England Congress

Man with shotgun drives family to street in Newton New Jersey

Martin Hughey armed with a shotgun forced his wife and four children from their home on Woodside avenue. A crowd gathered as Hughey fired toward neighbors but missed. He kept people at bay for three hours before constables entered the house and arrested him.

Martin Hughey Newton N. J Woodside Avenue Hughey Droors George Booth

Orville Wright to remain crippled for life

Orville Wright, the aeroplane pioneer, is reported to have a permanently crippled leg from the Fort Myer airship crash. Doctors measured a shrinkage of over a quarter inch in the injured thigh, though the limb is healing and he may depart for Dayton soon.

Washington Orville Wright Fort Myer Wright Selfridge Dayton

Woman interrupts wedding declares child of groom at church

At St. Peters Church Fall River Charles J Reagan marries Miss Mary B Chadwick when a strange woman appears during the wedding march holding a four year old boy. The bride collapses fainting as the woman forces the child on Reagan claiming he is the father and demanding support. Reagan identifies the woman as Miss Sullivan.

Fall River Mass St. Peter’s Church Charles J. Reagan Mary B. Chadwick Charles Reagan Miss Sullivan

Daily Market Quotations From Bourne & Co

Prices for iron corn meal oats flour and meal are listed along with pig hides and butter figures. Quotations include Virgin at 2.50 Scrape 1.25 Old dip 2.50 and flour ranges from 5.50 to 5.75 for patent and 5.00 to 5.25 for spring wheel. Readable commodities include iron corn meal oats and feeds with rates noted.

D. S Bourne & Co

Georgetown Dispensary Liquor Bid Notice in 1908

Notice from Georgetown South Carolina dated October 23 1908 requesting sealed bids for wine beer gin rum rye and corn whiskey standard beer wines case goods full measure delivered in Georgetown Bids due by November 23 1908 with 90 day terms and possibility to reject or modify bids Board of Control officers Ehrich McQuade McDonald listed.

Georgetown S. C Jas F. Deytens L. S. Ehrich J. E. McQuade W. H. McDonald County Board of Control

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West End Sunday School J. M. Butler S. G. Smith Home Department L. B. Inman Teachers’ Meeting Steele-Moses Company Deaf Mute J. M. Herring Taylor and Highmarket Streets M. L. Altman Eaddy Livery Stables Hartnett & Day Green Grocer Front Street Choice A. Moore Jos. Ward Carly Heaty Beaty Railtoa’s J. W. Wingat Georgetown, S. C H. Kaminski Brazilian Optical Company M. Baumrind Graduate Optician King St Charleston
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