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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
5
Miscellaneous town notices and ads show social events, theatre mentions, business offers, and local notices. Mentions include officers in Knights of Pythias, Meridian and Goodwater developments, photo studio Russell Bros, and Foley’s Kidney Cure.
Captain W. H. McKleroy hosted a Knollwood barbecue for about a hundred guests. The event featured generous barbequed meats, side dishes, cold watermelon, singing, a cake walk won by R R Stickney Jr. and Mrs Tebbetts, plus quartets and sketches in a festive fort atmosphere.
Clearance on Meo’s Tan Vici and Calt patent leather shoes with regular prices 3.00 to 3.50 reduced to 1.75. Limited to 200 pairs offered by Ullman Bros.
Effective October 7 the Choctaw Route will operate three trains daily between Memphis and Hot Springs Arkansas with double daily service to Indian and Oklahoma Territories and connections across Southwest Missouri Kansas Texas and the West. Mention of a local laundry employing white labor at Model Laundry 12th and Noble streets.
Shirt waists linen suits and duck pants look like new when laundried at the Model 12th and Noble location. The ad suggests professional cleaning tips and fabric care for garments from that store.
Colonel K L Higdon directed the Third Alabama regiment to a camp of instruction at the Birmingham fair grounds from July 10, 1916. Units must attend. regular National Guard members barred from tactical transport. The state allows transport for two servants per company under 40 men, or three for larger units. Each company must provide one servant as a waiter or cook to the commissary during the encampment. Field officers must apply to the quartermaster general for transport and schedules.
Rev J T W Vernon of Startwell Georgia endorses Electric Bitters and Bucklee Amica Salve for a long running leg sore with claims of curing skin troubles. The advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a blood purifier with a money back guarantee and notes other remedies for coughs and inflamed tonsils from Foley’s Honey and Tar.
The Queen and Crescent System along with the Southern Railway inaugurate a fast Meridian to Shreveport service on October 25 8 hours saving routes to Texas. Train No 37 connects with Queen and Crescent offering the quickest time to Texas points. Contact ticket agents for information before purchase.
An antique advertisement lists dental goods with prices: toothbrushes 10 to 40 cents, assorted tooth picks, five cents a box, tooth soap 25 cents, and tooth powder in bottles 25 cents each.
Excursion from Aniston to Pensacola departs Saturday at 5 p.m. and returns Monday at 5 p.m. Round trip price is 3.50 with separate coaches for whites and blacks. J G Lavery of L N KR KR CO serves as Excursion Manager in Buffalo New York. Southern Railway offers reduced Buffalo return tickets. contact C B Jackson in Birmingham or C A Benscover in Chattanooga for details.
Baggage handling available citywide with Calhoun Transfer Co requests for advance orders one to twenty four hours before train arrival or departure. Leave orders at Calhoun Hotel or by telephone number 35.
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