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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
2
Oxford today hosts word of Rev W F McCain’s protracted meeting in Pleasant Ridge and travel updates for Lynwood Gray and others. Community updates cover church society meetings, library notices, subscription renewals, and local moves. Plus a medical ad feature praising Dean’s Kidney Pills with a local endorsement from J L Wikle’s drugstore.
Last week the school attendance was large enough to require an assistant for the lessons. Miss Katherine, Sarah Orr, Maxie, Mary Snow, and Niena Wright return tomorrow from Piedmont Springs where they spent several days pleasantly. Hon. John H. Wilson of Jenifer was in the city and urged full attendance. M. A. Knighton of North Oxford reports the first sweet potatoes, old yellow yam variety, as large as a man's wrist. Mrs. W. W. Whiteside, back from Tennessee, shared an interesting update.
Justice Draper taxed 35 dollars and costs in the case against Agniston Electric and Gas Company for killing a fine bird dog. Lost ring notice and church announcements follow with social notes on visits from Miss Elva Goodhue and Miss Maud Edwards.
The passage describes a Chinese practice of punishment fitting the crime. Vice royalty Shum, angered by continuous heavy rains, orders a guardian joss of Canton to endure punishment. A Welyuen is sent to uncover the Joss temple roof to give the deity its fair share of the rain.
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