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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1901
Page
8
The Self Culture club met at 5:30 P.M. at Mrs W R Backaway's residence for its annual election. Officers elected were Mrs J B Aderholt president Miss Birdie Brock vice president Mrs W R Buelanan secretary treasurer and Mrs W W Whiteside literary directress.
Chas C Bilis of Lisbon Ta faced waist deep icy water while repairing a flooded telegraph line and suffered a severe cold and cough. Doctors in Oakland Neb Sioux City and Omaha told him he had consumption but he was cured after using Dr King s New Discovery taking six bottles. Trial bottles free and price 50 cents and 1 00. blam drag co.
Be Swift, representing J N Murdoch Wholesale Druggist of Parkersburg West Virginia, reports that a cholera morbus patient was cured with one dose of Kermott's Ext Blackberry. He would not be without it even at high cost and praises Kermott's Ext Hinckberry as the best remedy for summer complaints, dysentery, and cholera morbus.
Oxford selected Miss Alice Bullard as queen of the Kids Carnival after a lively contest. Bullard won 6,280 votes to Miss Mims’s 4,109 amid active campaigning and large public interest. Her grace and beauty are praised as she represents Oxford’s festive season.
A high quality concert in the parlor of Anniston College featured Miss Bessie Russell with strong numbers from Mendelssohn Chopin and others. Vocal pupils substituted for Miss Sibert, including Myrtle Robson Merrill Frank Lillian Stewart delivering Life's Merry Morn Dreams and Angus McDonald.
Local notes list several residents and visitors including Mr L F Bellingrath traveling to La Grange Georgia Deputy Revenue Collector T Fowler from Springville J H Callahan to Edwardsville R J Miles visiting Edwardsville M Sheehan returning from Birmingham A E Blinsberg and son guests of Rudolph Hertz Col W W Draper of Atlanta visiting his sister Mrs Ledbetter and C M Noble home after Birmingham work.
Miss Bullard has been elected queen of Oxford and is praised in Anniston for her popularity and gracious manner. The item notes Oxford and Anniston supporters rejoicing over her selection. Miss Anna Alexander visits Miss Myra Mitchell in Gadsden as social ties remain strong. A musical club meeting was postponed to next Thursday evening for important business. The Oxford Lake picnic opens the season with teachers and boarding pupils from Anniston College enjoying the day.
Frank Britton of this city emerged as the central bridegroom in Maplesville last Saturday when a sudden change in the groom altered the nuptials. Reports in The Birmingham Age Herald and The Montgomery Advertiser cited C A Britton and Henry Britton as alternatives before confirmation of Frank Britton as groom to Miss Sarah Abney.
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