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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1901
Page
5
A vintage advertisement touts the establishment as offering the most complete fountain the best up to date drinks the finest ice cream the unique Pineapple Snow and the leading prescription druggist with a refined soda water clerk and Huyler's Candy.
Anniston Star items list travel notes for C D Woodruff and others, local job moves, sale announcements, coal delivery, and social notices. Mentions Oxanna Knights of Pythias supper, a 10 days cash sale on fancy china, and a Philippines Argonaut copy from Lieut Hamilton Bowie. Also notes Longshoremen, barber, and lodging updates with prices and locations.
The column lists local notices including lodge meeting for Calhoun No 205 I O O F with a group photo planned, advertisements for parrots fish and canaries, and a report on Capt Leroy Lyons being assigned to Sandy Hook. It also mentions J P Reynolds Plumber advertising bath tubs and supplies, pond drainage work on West Eleventh Street, and the death of Mrs BE R Diden at seventy with funeral arrangements at Myrtle Hill cemetery.
A series of short notices lists A. R. Driver visiting Jacksonville. W. C. Merritt of Savannah visiting sister Mrs Constantine. Lon Baker returning to Birmingham. M. Timmons Walker leaving for Fort Madison Iowa after weeks here. J. H. Hall and John Reaves in Birmingham. Capt. A. W. Bell at Seddon tending his farm. Others travel to Gadsden, Dadeville, Alexandria, Addison and New York for work, rest, or shopping.
The Oxford Baptist church welcomes Rev. F W Watkins from Birmingham to begin his pastorate. He is a Howard College graduate who won the college state oratorical prize at Anniston Cha tauqua. Other notes mention a infant death, local store improvements, and social visits across Oxford.
Stock taken up for running at large will be sold at the city hall Friday August 2 at noon for wound fees unless claimed. Items include a spotted sow with ears cropped, a spotted sow without marks, a red cow with white face no mark, a white Jersey cow split ears. J C Mayes Chief Police. Fresh imported segars among Levi's leaders.
In a city boast, Model Laundry on 12th and Noble streets emphasizes employing strictly white labor, highlighting its exclusivity as the only laundry in town to do so.
Miss Ida Crook hosted a lawn party for guest Miss Hannah Crook at Judge Crook's lighted Jacksonville home with lanterns on the lawn. Guests included a long list of local misses and gentlemen, with refreshments and a lively veranda crowd.
The notice touts Pansy Lotion as a remedy for redness from sunburn and skin irritation. It urges readers to carry a bottle on vacation and claims the product soothes pain, priced at 25 cents.
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