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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
1
A historical speech argues business leaders and professionals should support farming. It urges funding markets, better stock, rural schools, churches, roads, and practical farmer education. The speaker notes railroads already back farm development, linking farmer progress to broader business growth.
Majors Concert Band will perform at the Murfreesboro fair when it runs over three days next week August 21 and 22. The group will remain in town through Tuesday with a busy schedule of concerts and local appearances.
Market reports an abundance of watermelons with prices described as high for the volume offered. Producers claim the crop is short and expect supply to exhaust in the next few days. Early morning, seven or eight wagon loads were observed at the market before 8 o'clock.
Notices require warning signs to be placed at railroad crossings or roads will be absolved from sounding train alarms. Authorities emphasize compliance to prevent silent crossings.
Special to The Herald Nashville Tenn Aug 18 Thos N Greer of Shelbyville a noted Democratic lawyer and former legislator was appointed revenue agent for Middle Tennessee by Comptroller Woollen. The move pleases fusion critics and marks a shift toward reform as Greer joins state funding board counsel background and long public service record.
Lightning struck the Porter barn on the Pualski pike at about 4 p m Friday, destroying a forty by fifty frame structure. About five hundred bushels of oats and several tons of hay were inside. contents and building insured. Neighbors’ efforts saved nearby outbuildings.
Nashville Aug 15 Visiting state Capitol for first time since boyhood CG R Orr of Giles county walked the grounds with his son Indiaw and Representative Spears. Orr recalled climbing scaffolds on the unfinished walls at about age 15 while the roof had not been completed. He is now 74 and noted the building’s completion in 1855 after a prior 19th century visit with his father and grandfather.
The First Presbyterian Church U S A is undergoing extensive interior renovations funded by more than $1,000 raised by the congregation. Walls will be repapered, woodwork refinished, floors recovered, and furnishings brightened, with no services held tomorrow due to the progress of the work.
Riverside Park remains a hub for a daily clash of rival reps in the national sport. Young Americas, from one to two-dozen, flock to the park with early openings and late closings. Mothers seek their missing Willie or Tommie as schedules blur amid teams and managers.
C Daughtry by attorney James Voorhies sues International Agricultural Corporation for ten thousand dollars. Injury occurred while employed and operating an engine near Mt Pleasant.
An elderly colored man driving John Smith's team of young mules near Bridge Avenue was pitched from the wagon when the animals bolted. He suffered a deep head wound as the wagon struck bridge timbers and blood flowed. HM. Gordon narrowly escaped injury while attempting to assist.
Miss Virginia Leftwich daughter of Frank Leftwich was severely shocked on a porch at her grandmother Mrs J Akin's Hampshire home during a Friday night rain. She collapsed unconscious after a flash, doctors worked several hours, and she recovered by morning though with nervousness.
The Chattanooga Athens Knoxville highway association held its permanent organization with Sam Thompson of Athens as president Geo L Hardwick of Cleveland as vice president and W D L Robertson of Chattanooga as secretary treasurer A state highway commission bond issue and federal plan for shared costs were urged Nearly 1000 delegates attended aboard a delayed effective train Several technical and general addresses were delivered.
In Nashville on August 19, most regular legislators are in the city and will attend the afternoon session. Fusionists are mostly absent. only a few present will not join the session. No quorum is expected this afternoon.
On October 1 the Cumberland and Phoenix lodges and related Masonic bodies will relocate from the old Masonic Temple on Church Street to the second and third floors of the Wrenne Building at 416 Union Street over Braley's shoe store. The new quarters are rented for one year and a temple project is under way with completion target around October 1, 1914.
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