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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
2
A roundup of visits and local notices across the county. People travel to Andrews Fountain Creek Rock Springs and Santa Fe while engagements and greetings fill the week. Also listed are sales items including landreth seed turnip and Triumph seed potatoes.
Miss Roberta Sowell of Cleburne Texas visits Mitchell sisters and travels to relatives in Williamson County. Mrs Jennie Thomas and daughter Virginia return to Clarksville. Sam Thomas clan from Bigbyville plan Buffalo river fishing. Pleasant Mountain church hosts a Sunday picnic with cream sale for church funds. Miss Whoise Brooks leaves Hampshire to teach near Dallas. A bay horse taken up on Columbia streets with harness. owner to recover with proof and expenses. Bear Creek neighborhood youth camp and fish near Ferevale Bend. Ned Daimwood and sisters among party. Sam Voorhies nearly drowned saving cousin Horace. ill since. Stray or stolen light fawn colored horned cow horse. reward offered. Godwin baseball team hosts ice cream social at Knob Creek schoolhouse next Tuesday. Country correspondents urged to write on one side of page. waste-basket rewriters if needed.
Potato barrels crafted from tested stock by experienced coopers offered by Moury Harrel Co Citizens phones S10 H11.
Two colored inmates Haare Nelson and Henry Morgan escaped after prying a plank from the cabin floor where they were confined, Wednesday night. Authorities are investigating the breakout and recapture efforts are underway.
An item noting the Maury Barrel Company with phone numbers 810 and 811 dated May 3. The text appears garbled but indicates a business contact or notice from the firm. No additional context or events are clear from the fragment.
A Columbia Bar meeting honored Chancellor Andrew J. Abernathy on his last court appearance. Members presented a silver token, and officers read resolutions praising his sixteen years on the bench for courtesy, dignity, integrity, and impartial justice, expressing deep respect and best wishes for retirement.
Local notes recount visitors returning home to Obion county Meridian and Meridian area relatives visiting relatives in Columbia While several families attend a Holi meeting in Will iamsport Tennessee and nearby towns The Columbia Mill and Elevator Co continues upgrading equipment and resumes work on new wheat handling Mrs W T Branch and son Frank visit Groveland and Odean Branch visits Lewisburg Other social calls include Miss Kate Lowell and John B Dobbin from Birmingham and Miss Napier party from Nashville lodging with Miss Florence Napier Calls include many local residents visiting relatives and attending meetings across nearby towns and counties.
A Nashville Methodist meeting debated handling runaway marriages. Participants urged ministers to refuse ceremonies when parental or other objections exist, noting many hasty unions end in unhappiness and frequent divorces. Dr Trawick cited few happy outcomes among such marriages. Dr Tillett urged denying underage brides and parental objections, urging ministers to combat rising divorces.
By request of the Comptroller the clerk notes a property is to be rented to redeem delinquent taxes by August 20. The notice references Section 55 Chapter 174 page 346 Acts of 1001 and directs parties to proceed accordingly.
Officer Good arrested Clifford Milhouse, a colored man, at the depot on Tuesday on charges of house-breaking and larceny. He allegedly entered Lou Trotter's home on the A. D. Frierson lot and fled with a woman's trunk. He was waiting for a train when captured. his home is listed as Athens, Alabama, though he has been in the area five or six weeks.
Senator Carmack reached Capitol City from his New England trip and planned quick Tennessee return after aiding Democratic literature. He described Boston as holding a vast tent meeting and Rockland Maine at 8 a.m. with a large, enthusiastic crowd. Also a local ad notes 300 barrels of Triumph Seed Potatoes for sale by G. W. Nichols or H. Frank Alesse in Columbia, Tennessee.
A Scotch scientist argues that nations with higher chess play display greater civilization. He notes Spain during its Renaissance housed the best players, followed by Italy in the same era, while modern Spain and Italy show far fewer chess enthusiasts.
Thea Racket offers crushed roses and Verons violet taloom powder in large glass bottles at 126 with a wide assortment of toilet soaps children Pareade new line collars parasols writing tablets stationery undergarments shirts sweaters and travel goods. They feature White Mountain Arctic and Queen ice cream freezers and a broad stock of wall paper and garden tools.
A tramp near Lewisburg a few miles from Columbia rested on the railroad track Wednesday afternoon and dozed between the rails. A passenger train approaching from Columbia halted just in time when the engineer spotted the sleeper, averting a fatal collision.
Traffic men and grain statisticians predict a corn harvest of two and a half billion bushels, the largest in U.S. history, boosting rail traffic with 46 thousand six hundred sixty trains needed to handle the volume and bringing widespread prosperity to farmers, merchants, and related industries.
A young man from Columbia secretly wed his bride last Thursday before departing for a pleasure trip. A local minister performed the ceremony and the couple will be surprised by the early disclosure when he returns. Names are withheld at present and will be released later.
To farmers sell Burt oata and contact City Grain and Feed Company for the highest market price by phone.
An advertisement touts Owens Pink Mixture with the claim that the signature on Coxe F appears on every bottle as the baby’s friend from birth until teething. The copy targets druggists and implies nationwide distribution.
Fragmentary ad copy touts selling Burt oats and promising high market price. Mentions two phones for contact. Details incomplete.
A fall sized crowd witnessed a Wednesday afternoon game at the Arsenal between the Arsenal and Godwin teams. The Soldier boys led to the eighth inning before Godwin surged ahead to win by 11 to 10. Batterfield & Dodson advertise Wire Fence American boat sale.
Recent burglaries in Columbia show thieves still at large with two arrests nearby for other suspects. Wednesday night two houses were entered, a locked window at Wortham's East Seventh street storehouse pried, with flour bacon and small money stolen. Maxter McLaan’s South Columbia home vented unguarded while family away. neighbors found nothing definite. Police lack clues to the robbers' identities.
Supt T E Brooke of the Louisville and Nashville announces the contract for building Columbia’s new two story depot with a slate roof and tile floors has been let to A E Hawthorne Co of Nashville Ground breaking is set for early next week with two shifts of workers and a five month construction window Nashville firm bid against rivals from both cities The building will include six offices on the second floor and aim to be the finest depot south of the Nashville station Also notes two small buildings to be removed and ornamental tile roof possibility
In Washington on July 2 the Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Babcock announced efforts to push the campaign. They forecast a 22 seat gain in the next House, despite the current 47 seat GOP edge and a small anticipated loss due to the apportionment bill. At Oyster Bay President Roosevelt is reported to have a solid New York delegation headed by Senator Thomas Platt and Col. George W. Dunn for the next Republican national convention following a Sagamore Hill conference.
An opinion from W. J. Stone of Missouri is cited in Republican papers accusing pension laws of being misused to despoil the people under the guise of patriotism. The Courier Journal notes the Contional Record’s failure to reveal truth in this instance.
The Big Buggy Store presents the largest stock of buggies with a wide variety for customers. Curators Bea Sarreavikio and Dopsox present options and invite shoppers to find anything they want.
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