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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1899
Page
5
Train schedule notes fast mail departures from Pensacola and Jacksonville connections. Train No 21 mixed service reaches Chipley at p m and River Junction by 6 00 a m. Northbound No 10 and No 6 35 p m trains join with the F C P for Jacksonville and other southern points.
Our Clubbing List advertises yearly subscriptions to multiple papers with prices. Local items include shop sales, travel plans, visitors, illnesses, and upcoming events. Notes mention fish, turpentine shipments, mail routes, and February 1899 health stats for Washington county.
Mrs. J D Forrester and children left for Cairo Ga to visit a sick mother. Deputy U S Marshal Watts arrested a man for selling liquor without a license and sent him to Marianna. Depot work and postmaster Hawk report improvements. Advertisers Campbell Butler and Lee Thomas feature price cuts and changes. Chamberlain Pain Balm touted with claims of quick relief. Local officials Coleman Gaskin and J M Allen attend family matters. Rev S B Rogers and Rev R Harris begin ten day meetings. Sponsor Katie Wilson for Camp McMillan U C V. An inspection train tests the new depot led by Geo W Watts. Railway rate set for Tallahassee reunion. Died Miss Jennie Gainer aged 24 after burns. Thanks offered to helpers.
The text extols electric power as the cornerstone of commerce, describing it as essential to start and sustain trade, an infallible customer lure, and a key medium for business growth and efficiency. It likens electricity to a limited express on the road to success, propelling wheels of commerce.
A publisher prints the chorus of a song noting two figures one silvery gray and one young yet both loved as mother and sweetheart. The complete song with music can be ordered for 20 cents from Greene Music Publishing Co. at 32 Fifth Street, Cincinnati.
The House discusses measures including prohibiting dogs from roaming near worship places, granting first grade certificates to State Normal College graduates, limiting liquor near schools and churches, railway passenger protections, road repairs by logging operators, and signals interference on trains. Several bills are referred to committees and amendments noted.
On Tuesday the 18th the Senate and House met at noon and cast votes for U. S. Senator. Taliafarro led the Senate with 16 votes to Pasco 13 and Call 2, with 1 blank. in the House Taliafarro had 30 to Pasco 26 and Call 6, with few scattered. No election achieved the 51 needed for choice.
The joint ballot shows Taliafarro winning the Senate with 59 votes to Pasco 30 and Call 6, while Pasco trails in the House tally. Dr W E Coleman supported Taliaferro. The piece notes Florida governorship promises tied to supports and mentions Chamberlains remedy aiding diarrhoea cases.
Dull business week as rain arrives and garden work begins. Mills run smoothly, new blacksmith shop opens, Mobley fences property on Church Street, and Parish adds a picket fence. Farmers complain of crow damage, and a new barge led by Captain Wyatt Parish arrives with merchandise and naval stores tied to the Vernon near Miller's Ferry.
A West Virginia reader reports a wife bedridden with rheumatism for over a month was up and walking after using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The testimonial describes rapid relief and no subsequent attacks. Sold by Patrick Dros, druggist.
The mill resumed operation last Monday after weeks idle and plans look for a long run. A daily mail from DeFuniak Springs arrives and departs at 8 30 a m. Postmaster Thomas McLeod added new mail boxes and office fixtures, done neatly by Ben Powell. School ends May 5 with a literary and musical event on May 6. all are invited.
Local readers report strong relief from severe cold and cough after using Chamberlains Gough Remedy. A customer from Andersonville, Indiana credits the bottle with curing symptoms before finishing half the bottle and endorses it as the best medicine for colds and coughs. Sold by Patrick Bros. druggist.
Department of the Interior announces that John Beunner of Wrights Florida has filed for final proof on his land claim in section 15 and 22 township 6 north range west. Proof will be before the Clerk Circuit Court Westville Florida on May 22. Witnesses listed are Williams Williams Moody and Carswell of Wrights Florida. W G Robinson Register.
By virtue of an execution from the Circuit Court of Washington county Florida in favor of J S Bashaw against G W Shear I will expose for public sale to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door in Vernon on the first Monday in May 189 A D the described property in Chipley Washington County Florida levied upon as the property of G W Shear a certain lot beginning 570 yards east of the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section four township four range thirteen N W running north 218 yards then east 70 1 2 yards thence south to seven degrees east 218 yards thence west 83 1 2 yards to the point of beginning containing 34 1 4 acres more or less purchaser to pay for deeds C G ALLEN Sheriff
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