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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1901
Page
4
The May carnival in Anniston draws neighbors from across a 300 mile radius with special rail rates and a festive street fair. Local Elks support, business displays, and show windows aim to boost attendance as preparations near completion.
The North Alabama Presbytery will convene at East Lake Presbyterian church in Birmingham tomorrow at 8 p.m. with 40 to 50 delegates expected. Rev. J. G. Snodscott will preach the opening sermon, and sessions will run three days daily including morning, afternoon, and night services. Special sermons are planned on foreign missions and baptism with discussion to explain Presbyterian baptism practices.
The State of Alabama vs Shaw will go to trial next Friday with a special jury to determine if Shaw is guilty of ending his wife’s life at Gilmore's restaurant on January 14. Defense attorneys include Mesars J. H. King A. N. McLeod and Knox Bowie & Black. Solicitor W. Tunstall Jr. leads the prosecution.
The McElreath Drug Company, a new ten thousand dollar retail drug concern, was organized in the city Saturday night with capital fully paid at $10,000. Officers are Lindsey L. Scarbrough as president and J. W. McElreath as secretary and treasurer. The firm succeeds a well known local retail department and its founder is noted as a leading Alabama pharmacist with ties to the Elam Drug Co. and Flam Drug Co. in Choccolocco.
The Elam Drug Co and McElreath Drug Co launch under new ownership with J W Meils joining the retail drug house line. The state board and stock intake mark expansion toward wholesale and manufacturing. Local customers welcome the move as the store opens soon.
Ad touts Bucklen’s Arnica salve as cure for piles and injuries with thousands of cures claimed. Mentions price of 25 cents per box and a guarantee. Sold by Elam Drug Co.
Contemplates trips to Colorado Wyoming Utah California or Oregon and urges consulting local agents for schedules and tickets. Highlights Pullman Palace Sleepers Buffet Smoking and Library Cars Dining Cars with a la carte meals and Pullman Tourist Sleepers. J F Agrar listed as general agent in St Louis Missouri.
The Choctaw Route will run three trains daily between Memphis and Hot Springs Arkansas starting in October. The service will offer double daily trains to Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory with connections to southwest Missouri Kansas Texas and the West. Boyer the tailor advertises spring suits at 20 np 18 tf.
Mobile April 1 Chief of Detectives Edward Morris and Police officers faced a desperate confrontation with a group described as Negroes in a developing incident. Details remain incomplete as reports emerge from the Mobile Police Department this morning.
At Birmingham a through sleeping car service from Birmingham to Jacksonville will start November 27 announcing arrival in Jacksonville at 8 30 a m via Atlanta. Two escaped turpentine camp fugitives were pursued at Monroeville Alabama. officer Davis was killed seven shots fired. officer Kilpatrick wounded.
Beginning October 1 Southern Railway runs an elegant Pullman Steeper train from Birmingham Alabama to Richmond Virginia. Train 36 departs Birmingham 4 40 p m and trains 85 returns to Birmingham arriving 12 35 a m. The service promises better travel than ever offered. For tickets and information write to the Birmingham Alabama office.
J N Boyer and Co offers an attractive line of samples for the Ruring sutta as cataloged under code R20up. The listing notes a detailed selection with potential pricing indicators and supplier contact options.
A London correspondent recalls a royal Sandringham dinner where a wealthy guest faced polite rebuke over grand shooting and fine wine. The piece shifts to a Klondike tale of two friends sharing claims and one man striking it rich, illustrating luck and risk in gold rush gambling.
A Minnesota legislature proposal to bar marriages with women over 45 sparks satire from the Minneapolis Journal. The piece mocks the idea and argues men would need a seasonal ban to keep balance, joking a closed season on hunting for men.
A Washington woman notes a 15 acre Nelson County farm fenced with steel rails cut from worn out saws. She mentions Schuyler soapstone quarries, where saws 15 feet long produce rails used for durable fencing, cheaper than sending rails to mills.
J M Barrie in Edinburgh Eleven sketches Professor Tait who has just resigned the Edinburgh University chair of moral philosophy. The vivid portrait notes his small twinkling eyes and rapier-like gaze. It recalls a golf calculation Tait made that his son later surpassed by 30 yards.
Over twenty years about 4000 duels occurred in Italy with 62 deaths. Jealousy and marital issues sparked most encounters, while religious disputes accounted for about one fifth. Old church and state feuds still flare in the era.
A Seoul magistrate issues a strict order forbidding long pipe use and swallowing fire as a health hazard. Violators face confiscation of pipe and pouch and, if offense warrants, 300 lashes. The appeal aims to curb risky smoking practices and protect public hygiene.
The Washington Post reports pages at the senate restaurant favor ice cream over traditional lunches. A dozen or so boys pile high plates during lunch, their faces alight with satisfaction, driving the freezer to the brink of closing.
The adjutant general reports a rising death rate among G A R members with taps sounding for about 1000 graves monthly. Over ten years membership declined by over a third, with Illinois losses especially severe. In 1900 more than 3 percent summoned. flags at half mast nationwide. The order faces rapid extinction within two decades.
The Railway Magazine envisions trains becoming fashionably entertaining, with bands of music during journeys and possible theater or music hall style entertainments. Advertisements may tout first class companies of star London artists carried, making railway carriages modern utopias of leisure.
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