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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
1
News brief notices and personal items from the Daily Item include shop closures for a holiday, rent ads, lodging offers, local visits, travel summaries, and promotional pitches. It notes a dog in the city pound to be shot, and mentions several residents traveling or visiting Charleston, New York, Columbia, and Asheville.
The remains of Mr Richard H Holmes were funeralized yesterday at 5 p.m. in the Episcopal Church with Rev George H Johnston conducting the services. The choir sang several selections and pallbearers included Capt Oscar Bourne Eugene S Read Eugene Tucker John Allston Arthur Ward and M W Pyatt. The body was later taken to the depot and escorted to Charleston by relatives.
The regular City Council meeting in Georgetown South Carolina on September 23, 1908. The second reading of the trolley line franchise was postponed. Health inspector Johnson reported markedly improved city sanitation due to disinfectants. Fritz Young received approval to add to his house at 620 Front Street, subject to the Fire Limit Ordinance. Council adjourned after no further business.
A reader reports a note found with a small envelope requesting donations on an Epworth Orphanage work day dated October 3 1908. The writer asks whether to place all money raised in the envelope and deliver it to the Methodist Sunday School Shades op Ceesar. The message also mentions local eateries and oysters at Westbury's.
A health test for hair using a pulled hair sample shows whether the bulb is white and shriveled indicating disease or pink and full signaling health. Georgetown Drug Co promotes Rexall 93 Hair Tonic with a money back promise after 93 of 100 cases grew hair.
G W Foxworth announces he has joined Morris Cigar House of Cincinnati as their city agent and invites friends to inspect a fine line of cigars for retail and wholesale. He notes telephone number 203 and the dates September 15 to 31.
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