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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
7
Local newspapers report Mrs. P. B. Brown won a gas range in the Anniston Electric & Gas contest. The event concluded yesterday with Brown as the fortunate possessor. Other notes mention cigar quality, new hats, and various local happenings including visits by notable Calhoun county residents.
Miss Beysie Fitzgerald returns from Bradidge Georgia with no reception planned this evening at 6 o'clock at Mr D B Fitzgeralds home in Oxanna for the Ladies Aid Society of Oxanna Baptist Church. The Sabbath school and congregation of Oxanna Methodist Church meet at the lake today. Mr W S Carter spent the day at Silver Run.
Miss Maud Lavender visits Mr John Shelnutt’s family en route to Athens Georgia. Athel Ledbetter travels to Choccobocco for a visit. M W Woodruff returns from Merrellton. Mr and Mrs W L Little and Bertha Little depart for Cook's Springs. Maydell Robinson leaves for Decatur. Mrs Sol Ultiman and children return from Tallapoosa. Mrs G B R Fiske leaves for Chicago after visiting her husband. Columbian club plans another German event in the club rooms tomorrow evening. Mrs J J Skelton of Talladega visiting relatives in the city.
The union council discusses a proposed move to pull Vandergrift workers into the Wood mill with Shaffer leading men from Vandergrift. Officials doubt success, noting skilled labor limits and imminent snow delays, and suggest broader targets like open hearth mills.
Hon. H J Bowie returned this morning from Columbiana. A N McLeod departed for Piedmont. Judge James W Lapsley left for Atlanta on a business trip. Rows Blackmon visits Piedmont today. An advertisement touts Cascareta candy cathartic for constipation. A druggist reports money. A chance customer becomes a permanent one for Boyer the tailor. 18-tf
The Queen and Crescent System started a fast schedule from Meridian to Shreveport on October 28 connecting with lines to Tezag, cutting travel time to Texas. The Southern Railway No. 87 links with Queen & Crescent to offer quicker service to western points. Check with your ticket agent for details on this new timetable.
In Anniston a meeting discussed reducing coal freight costs by linking Anniston Gadeden Attalla and other towns via a new L N railroad route. Committees from these towns would meet in Birmingham to press President Smith of the Louisville and Nashville line for action, with five members appointed on Judge Lapsley’s return.
A Parkersburg West Virginia notice claims a local druggist, Whelresse Drugzin, fully treated a cholera morbus case using Kernott's Extract Blackberry. The patient recovered after one bottle at a cost of 100 dollars and the remedy is touted as the best market option for summer ailments.
An old advertisement notes Cascarets Candy Cathartic tablets bearing the C C C logo and warns shoppers not to buy counterfeit products. It urges druggists to stock legitimate Cascarets and advises consumers to avoid inferior cigars and smoky goods priced high.
The article notes a fresh line of fall sarples with handsome stylish patterns and up to date fashions. Garments are made in excellent fits and praised for their satisfactory workmanship and growing popularity.
The owner can claim the found folding key at this office by paying the required notice fee.
Partial readable lines describe a medicine named Soley’s Roney and Tar Seals claimed to end a cough. The garbled text mentions a “noe One Pay Sold Cure” and a product called Cincole’s Lagative Quinine for a child with throat issues.
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