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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
3
Central Hotel and local businesses advertise services while residents report on district meetings, shipments, and plans. Various names like Dekle, Williams, Vernon, and Chipley appear alongside reminders for job printing, shingles, school notices, and the Corn Fair pushing community enterprise.
Mrs Eliza Gay visiting here. Prof Golden to teach music. Graceville trip for several residents. bicycle ordinance discussed. Chamberlain's remedies praised by Dr Robey Olney Mo and sold locally. railroad chatter and town improvements noted. various residents and merchants referenced with social and business updates.
County Superintendent Lockey praised for securing an eight month school plan across four county locations. The board will run seven months with patrons supplying one month, giving the local High School a full eight months. Patrons urged to organize, circulate notices, and boost the school to a high standard.
The August Ladies' Home Journal is a mid-summer fiction number overflowing with stories and sketches. Gibson offers a clever Dicken's sketch of Pickwick, and Mr Bok's editorial page emphasizes reading by young girls nationwide. Price ten cents per copy from Carts Publishing Company in Philadelphia.
Last Friday afternoon Mr F W Stephens died at home after returning from Pensacola where he attended the Corn Fair. Soon after, his wife also died. The couple, long-time residents, are buried together. Relatives have been notified and will arrange disposition of their effects.
A Vernon report describes a productive town meeting with the new commissioners, several public works orders, and brisk commerce. It notes a courthouse needing window protection, a trial for May and others with mixed outcomes, and medical amputation of a shot Negro’s leg by Drs Coleman and Dawkins amid ongoing county improvements.
A Broadside from W C T U urges residents to vote against saloons citing Chicago court findings and social harms. The piece argues men must reject party pressure, defend homes and women, and apply immediate action to curb liquor houses.
Henry Steiberger of Ailentown Pennsylvania writes that after trying many medicines he was cured by a fifty cent bottle of Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He served in 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers and urges others to try the remedy. Local note: J. K. Johnson has joined the P and Q as flagman or breakman and is visiting family this week.
Cordealia Ann Bracken is alleged not to reside in Florida but in Alabama and over 21. She must plead answer or demur to the bill by September 6, 1807, the first Monday in September, or the bill will be confessed. Publication ordered weekly for four weeks in a Florida paper. Clerk W B Lassitter. Counsel W O Butler. Washington County Florida.
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