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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1920
Page
6
BN and women in hard labor and heavy brain work seek renewal of strength. Zirion Iron Tonic, a medicinal iron tonic, is recommended by H. B. Converse of McEwen Tennessee. He reports rapid strength gain after starting, with continued work unchanged. A money back guarantee accompanies the first bottle.
The Tennessee Children's Society outlines July 1920 figures for state wards in care. Key data include 62 children cared for during the month, 46 others in facility care, 2 adoptions, and financial adjustments adding 9000 to the receiving home and 1000 to furniture. Representatives toured Morristown Knoxville Jackson Memphis Dresden and Paris as the superintendent addressed social workers.
A 40 member council of directors led by Be W Ogden of Knoxville was elected president. Monthly meetings will review each affiliating agency to coordinate welfare efforts statewide. Superintendent Mrs Claude D Sullivan signs report noting aim for correlation of services.
City Marshal Bailey Peyton takes a thirty day leave of absence from the Columbia police force. Street Overseer Ed Morgan serves as acting Chief during Peyton's absence while he visits his son in Dixon.
Mrs Hattie Day wife of J D Day died Friday night at her home near Scribner s Mill at seven o clock aged about seventy two years after a week long illness. She was a longtime active Christian church member respected in the community. Survived by husband and six children J A Day Iron City J A Day Culooka Mrs Della Reed Marshal county Mrs Dina Roberts Mrs Rosa Davidson Culooka Mrs Lizzie Young Spring Hill. Funeral Saturday at Bethany Church at 2 pm Elder H N Rutherford Lynnville officiated with interment in the family burying ground. Maury Undertaking Co in charge.
Tennessee business leaders anticipate a national capital home as the Chamber of Commerce fund for the Washington site reaches the paid-for total. The plot, once Webster’s, faces Lafayette Square near the White House and cost 750000 dollars. Construction will start after the remaining 2000000 dollars is secured, with communities already pledging allotments to support the project.
NINE ARE KILLED IN MILL EXPLOSION Nine men died and two were seriously injured when a premature powder blast at the pounding mill limestone crusher on the Norfolk and Western Railway in Tazewell County Virginia occurred early today. Operatives said a fuse ignition from a spark from a drill caused the blast. Seven bodies remained unrecovered from the debris. George Brewster, a Black man, was thrown about thirty feet and badly injured. All of the dead leave families.
The Sparks Circus brings a lively menagerie to town with many babies including a baby named Osh Kosh born July 20 in Oshkosh Wisconsin. A baby camel, a litter of Lon city monkeys and a Java Monkey family also share the spotlight as the Circus visits Columbia with Mary and her newborn.
A drunken chase through Columbia ends when Nix plunges off an embankment near Mayor Cherry's shop, injuring his head. Patrolmen Cook Lamar and Hight pursue, one fires into the air, Nix heads to King's Daughter's Hospital for treatment. a charge of public drunkenness is expected. Citizens are awakened by pistol shots and whisky rumors accompany the pursuit.
Louis Barker, a dealer, notes hides have fallen from forty to ten cents per pound for green hides, persisting after wartime highs. Wool prices also dropped to about thirty cents per pound, with the bulk of the U S wool crop held in warehouses as cotton surpasses wool in value.
District boards chosen last Thursday include R C Elam W B Jones and 8 R Sewell in the first district Elmer Fracer M A Taylor W J McKnight in the second Pat Kinnard and H Ayres St Andy Williams in the third Dodson and two Vas concies in the fourth R L Moore J Bencon Redding L Lo Lee in the fifth W B R McKispens elected in the sixth Bighyville results unclear Jos A English Will Workman Elgit district W F Dobnine J Frank Porter J W Brown in the ninth Rabezh Hopkins J Clinton Moore and W J Alexander in the tenth Moore Heashty Pat ten Hampstire not in. The western South American border fences are used by outsiders as bow kets, light strong and waterproof.
Alabama editor John Trotwood Moore responds to Huntsville Times praise of Madison County by claiming Maury County can outpace any county. He praises the editorial voice, recalls past local anecdotes, and asserts regional pride with rustic imagery and personal recollections.
Mrs Forgey and Mrs Mary Dale Rossette performed at a Methodist Sunday school lecture. Miss Margaret Ambrose, president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Knoxville, Tenn, spoke on "A New Force" and the role of women in modern life. Local club members, visitors Miss Shadden and Miss Dodson, joined a luncheon at Miss Farris and a social at Athenaeum Place. A Tennessee Valley history note praised Alabama’s Middle Basin and Deninesaee region.
Mr and Mrs Walter Adkisson of Brewton Alabama and Mr and Mrs Henry Devis with four children of Albany Alabama visit CT parents Mr and Mrs E B Davis at West End.
J Rusternittlefield retires from the Columbia Insurance Agency but will remain at the old stand to handle a full slate of companies. He has not chosen a new location yet. The Columbia Insurance Agency, a prominent county firm, is respected and well known to the public.
County officials sent Pugh to oversee the workhouse after an escape by convicts. In Columbia, Commissioners Murphy and Fight learned of the exodus and ordered immediate control handed to Pugh. Nearby, RB Hilliard and family visit Lorain relatives in Ohio.
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