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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1899
Page
3
Vernon visitors and local business chatter fill this issue with plans for a livery stable, fall clothing, millinery openings, and new barrels. Widespread activity includes auctions, auctions sales, and street work. Mentions of farms, schools opening, and community events frame a bustling town scene.
Camp McMillan U C V will meet at McMillan s Cow pens on Wednesday the 18th day of October 1899. Come one come all. Commandant S M Robertson Adjutant J A Mathias.
J. Randal McGeachy, a Chipley businessman, marries Miss Addie Foxie Helms, a Jackson County schoolteacher, at J. P. Bryant's on the Kentucky Fruit Farm near Chipley. The ceremony occurred promptly at 8 o'clock on September 21, officiated by Rev. Bettyj Urton. Attendants were Williams and Susie Richards. Wishes for a long, prosperous life together.
The report notes Duncan’s business trip to Chipley on Friday and Lee Feckley of Chipley attending church services Sunday. Free Will Baptists hold a protracted meeting at Piney Hill amid local sickness. T E Gainer and wife of Econfina visited relatives here last week.
A note to mothers urges use of Chanderlain's Cough Remedy for croup and colds in children and adults. It claims no opiate or narcotic and notes wide approval in the United States and abroad. Fore rule by Patrick Bros.
The death of Mrs Birth of Alley is reported with burial at Piney Grove. George Tharp builds a 40 by 60 foot house on Mr Stokes farm. Tie cutters haul to the railroad. Stokes plans cabins on Stump Creek for winter timber. Dock and Charley Thay fished at Three Sisters Pond. trout weighed 40 pounds. Community health improves. cotton sold at Cottondale for 5.15 to J R Shoemaker. Dan Sapp has been sick. Laurance notes busy times locally.
On October 7 and 8 a Twentieth Century Educational Mass Meeting will be held at the Graceville Methodist church for the Pond Town Orange Hill and Chipley circuits. Ministers and laymen will speak as the worldwide Methodist church aims to raise over thirty million dollars as a special Thankoffering by year’s end.
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