Commencement Days Highlight Entertainment Scene
An immense audience gathered for an attractive entertainment last night, marking the commencement days with widespread excitement and notable turnout.
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1900
Page
6
An immense audience gathered for an attractive entertainment last night, marking the commencement days with widespread excitement and notable turnout.
Class Day activities conclude with operetta Cinderella in Flowerland staged by primary and intermediate departments. Students perform piano solos, duets, violin numbers, and choral pieces as part of a three day commencement program. Rev. Harris B. Kirk will preach the commencement sermon at First Presbyterian Church.
In Wy Superior Pa patrons praise Jebeles Brus Our specialty is CANDY We manufacture it and our stock of dainty confections is at all times large and complete.
Daily shipments of the choicest fruits from the tropics on Noble Street. Ready made clothes truly look well on a dummy and that seems to be exactly what they are made for. Tailor mate clothes are made to look well on men and suit those who like to be well dressed.
An Illinois judge ruled bloodhound testimony worthless without corroboration in a burglary trial. Hounds traced the thieves from the scene to a house with four men, but the court dismissed the evidence because the witnesses were not voters or taxpayers of the venue. The piece mocks the ruling and argues the dogs were unbiased and diligent.
Scientific American describes a long eight inch diameter oil pipeline in the Caucasus linking Baku wells to Batoum on the Black Sea. The underground line runs from Mikhailovs station with three pumping stations and 150 horsepower steam pumps, capable of about 90 tons daily.
A new lunch stand on East Tenth Street near the Fountain offers hot coffee, a variety of lunches, and fruits. It will stay open until ten o'clock at night and invites patrons to try the offerings.
There will be an adjourned term of the circuit court beginning Monday June 4 1900 and continue two weeks. At that time all civil causes now in issue will be disposed of. All parties interested please take notice. L E Warsos Circuit Clerk.
An old advertisement touts Kermott’s Chocolates as a cold remedy. It promotes a “Lawative imine” candy for head cold and sore throat and suggests quick relief. The copy implies consumers can take them for cold symptoms.
Epworth League state conference in Talladega elected officers led by Rev. F. P. Culver of Tuscaloosa as president and Rev. E. May of Montgomery as first vice president. Other officers include Miss Mabel Wheeler Birmingham and Miss Dollie Hall Mobile as vice presidents, J. K. Watkins Opelika secretary, L. H. Carre Anniston statistical secretary, J. D. Patterson Tallassee treasurer, F. P. Cooper Anniston district secretary. Next year’s meeting set for Huntsville. Also offered is a pasture near Weavers with water and no wire fence for horses and cattle at reasonable rates.
Arrangements made with Louisville and Nashville Railroad for a special train to transport the Alabama Division of Confederate Veterans to Louisville Kentucky. Schedule shows legs from Montgomery Calera Birmingham Decatur Athens Nashville and final arrival Louisville with times and dates adjusted for promotion and parade. Major General Commanding directs camps to ride as a body to Alabama Headquarters in Louisville.
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