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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
1
The Calhoun Rifles from Oxford and the Anniston Rifles paraded for Military Day amid Carnival crowds. Oxford won best drilled military company and Sergeant Neilson Bell of Anniston captured the best drilled individual medal amid judging by Majors and Captains.
Local and visiting units competed for two prizes from the Anniston Elks. The Calhoun Rifles from Oxford won one prize and Sergt. Neilson Bell of the Anniston Rifles won the other.
Tomorrow the school children will attend an inning and gain half price access to all shows on the Midway. Confetti battle is set for 5 PM tomorrow night. Already confetti has been thrown as crowds gathered, with ample supply ready for tomorrow.
A local veterans group meets for a reunion today, gathering members and community supporters to share memories, honor service, and strengthen postwar connections within the community. The event features speeches, photographs, and a moment of remembrance.
Spanish-American war veterans converge on Anniston for the annual association reunion. About seventy five to one hundred veterans attend, greeted by local comrades. New officers are elected led by Commander Col. B B Higdon of Birmingham and other posts. A dinner at the Calhoun is hosted by Anniston and Oxford vets with toasts.
Gas House, who was shot several times in a fight below Oxford a couple of weeks ago, is rapidly recovering and will be able to be out in a short time.
In Jacksonville Florida on May 9 officials report broad destitution with clerks bookkeepers and three young physicians among the unemployed. The labor department aims to place clerical workers and reopen a laundry while colored laundries resume. New York relief train delivered clothing provisions and potatoes. Ladies’ Relief Association and local volunteers aid those in need.
An anniston meeting yesterday formed a strong fire insurance company named The United States Endowment and Trust Company of Anniston Alabama. John B. Knox chaired. Eugene M. Blalock named secretary as plans to open capital stock subscriptions were set in motion by Cobb and J. Wallace Comer. The adjournment was sine die after approving the charter and appointing a subscriptions committee.
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