New Silks and Voiles In Varied Patterns
New silks and voiles offered in a varied assortment. Voiles and voilettes featured in multiple patterns for dress fabrics and accessory use.
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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
5
New silks and voiles offered in a varied assortment. Voiles and voilettes featured in multiple patterns for dress fabrics and accessory use.
Local residents and visitors are listed with trips and calls across Nashville Huntsville Decatur and surrounding areas. Names include McLean Appleton Shelton Bailey Neeley Wighey Burt Meecham Friel Pariss Caperton Yeatman Harlan Crabtree Hight Burns Buchnan Forgey Freeman Warren Fleming Ogleby McLaurin Williams and others with multiple short travel and visiting updates.
Society items report invitations for Miss Annis Kittrell and John Conven tion Flanagan to marry at First Presbyterian Shreveport Ala. Dalton-Durham couple, Bessie Durham and H C Dalton of Columbia, wed quietly. Rosa Bell and Charles Paul Stanley wed at bride’s home. Mrs Briggs invited to niece’s wedding. Woman’s Missionary Society sews for pantry. Myrtle Sidney McAlister and Coy Richard Smith wed at bride’s parents’ home.
Local personals note visits and stays across Santa Fe Nashville Mount Pleasant and Columbia. Names include Camille Herndon Tate Jenkins Mrs Ben Mullins Richard Wilkes Claire O Neal Mike tlerteell Altyne Church and Mrs George Prenzel. Travel and hospitality tied to families in Pulaski Nashville Baltimore St Petersburg and Lawrenceburg.
The Federal Land Bank agency presents a loan program at 6 percent for farm property for a term of years. The approach promises the cheapest money on the market and invites interested farmers to learn the details from B D. Looney & Co.
The home wedding was small with only immediate family present. Mrs. Smith wore a midnight blue tricotine suit and black accessories, carrying bride's roses and valley lilies. After the ceremony the couple left for a northern trip and will reside in Nashville. Mrs. Smith, longtime Columbia Produce Company employee, is popular. Mr. Smith is a bookkeeper there and son of local residents. Gifts included a silver chest from the groom's brother.
Field crews from Bell Telephone and other lines rushed to the disaster zone to repair thousands of downed wires and broken poles. Manager Petway was seen at Jami son’s store repairing post holes as crews work to restore service, a task expected to take several days in the widespread damage.
The case involves B A Caldwell versus O Thomas and others over Lewis county lands. Courts ruled alternately, Caldwell winning then Thomas, with Buckner and others as sellers appealing. The litigation centers on an imperfect title and successive judgments, with appeals to the supreme court.
J F Parker, a special representative for Frakes Bros, demonstrates the Eden washing machine in Columbia. He touts the device as eliminating the drudgery of washday and has sold several units through liberal Herald advertising. Parker argues modern machines save time and effort over old washboards and tubs.
Torrential rains from a cyclone have crippled farm work in Maury County delaying plowing and corn planting. Farmers mend fences and restock tools while awaiting drier ground after two months of abnormal rainfall.
Regular army troops from Camp Lewis Washington were ordered to Butte Montana in connection with the miners strike and reported disturbance where fifteen men were wounded in clashes yesterday. The Herald notes a parcel post shipment of typewriter ribbons and features cheap column ads.
The bottom dropped out of the hog market with drops of one dollar on Lowville hogs and heavy and medium weights down four to six dollars. Markets elsewhere show declines while poultry eggs stay firm. Local corn prices remain high, with dealers paying about a dollar more per barrel than Chicago prices for corn.
Cattle receipts 160 head. market steady for steers and work. Hog receipts 4 200. market slow and about 1 dollar lower. Prices 250 pounds up to 260 pounds 15 16 dollars. 120 to 165 pounds 15 dollars. pigs 10 to 12 dollars. throw outs 11 50 and down. Sheep receipts 100. market steady with quotations unchanged. sheep 4 dollars. lambs 15 dollars and up.
Special to The Herald Nashville Tenn April 22 hogs receipts 2500 light to heavy watch and mediums five cents lower others down one dollar heavies 15 medium 16 tights 14.75 to 12 roughs 11.50. Cattle receipts 107 head market weak. Eggs 34 to 40 cents medium 26 hens fry ing chickens 32 cents stags 20 roosters 14 to 16 packed butter 2 1/2 cents lb turkeys 83 cents lb ducks 23 cents geese 18 cents. Corn per barrel 9 dollars oats per bushel 1.09 flour patent 14.00 barrel best patent 12.60 barrel bran 60 per ton shorts 68 per ton. Clover and grasses red clover 27 bushel alayke clover 25 biné grass 4 bushel orchard grass 4 by timothy 6.75 herdsgrass 2 20 lb oats 1.00 per bushel. That Ribbon is here for you. Come and get It. The Herald 17)tt.
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