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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1909
Page
1
Columbia reports the Farnum jury was hung after four hours of deliberation at 3 o clock. There is no indication of a verdict. The judge will keep the jurors overnight if needed.
Sampit notes visitations and homecomings as Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bourne Sr. host relatives. Miss Donie Deal returns from Charleston. Mrs. M. L. McClain visits her mother. Albert Flowers and daughters visit Bourne home. D. N. Bourne returns from Hendersonville. Mamie DuRant visits Waterloo. Miss Afitia Bourne returns from the mountains.
New York broker James A. Patten, famed wheat corner, is in New York building a cotton pool of about a million bales. He expects cotton to climb to 17 to 20 cents due to a short crop, woolen tariff effects, rising demand, and stronger apparel spending as prosperity grows.
In Chester on Sept 23 Mr J Martin Grant recounted a danger at Mr A Ross Durhams home last night. Charlie Durhams sleeping on the porch with a biscuit was approached by a large moccasin that grabbed the food and threatened the child until a colored servant killed the snake with a hoe.
Jefferson De Mont Thompson and colleagues arrived aboard the Oceanic after a Rheims aviation week tour. They report European fever for airships and airplanes, noting the British dirigible and the Nau monoplane, with plans to fly soon and to compete in the American aviation meet.
A Munsey's Magazine article cites Nevada leading in divorce rates with 860 of 100,000 couples, linking Reno to broader U S divorce patterns. It notes nearly one in thirteen marriages ends in divorce since 1887 and attributes many filings to cruelty and desertion.
A telegram to John Ritchie Jr from Prof Percival Lowell at Flagstaff Arizona claims recent Mars observations show polar canals reappearing. Lowell says the canals imply irrigation networks and support the theory that life may exist on Mars.
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