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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
3
Aug 26 meeting at Godwitt Chapel adds seventeen members aged from sight years to seventeen. sermons by Bro Seay praised. protracted meeting planned at Philippi. church events touch local families with merry weddings and illness notes. community updates include school plans and charitable hopes.
TimMons reports a protracted meeting at Gindwin Chapel ended with sixteen new members. Mrs. Lige Dodson improves. Miss Lute Willis and Pokie Thomas visit Mrs. John Walters and attend Union meeting. J. Rushton stayed with his mother Mrs. W. Willa. Kate Byrom and brother from Robertson county guests of Anna and Ethel Stone. Mrs. Shorter Forgery returns from Primm Springs. Jim Brown and Shorter Lockhart of MS Piennante visit George Hay. Mattie and Susie Trousdale guests of Lena Williams. Mrs. Hite Timmons visited Columbia friends. Lite Rohe plans a visit to Williamsport.
The New York ethical clergyman notes personal crisis reports have tripled in the last century and calls it a civilization disease. He cites Germany as most advanced in this respect and links external conditions to the numbers, urging readers to confront pain and stay to solve life’s problems.
Ladies Oxfords and strap slippers reduced to 2.00, 1.75, 1.50, 1.25 with factory-cost bargain tones. This opportunity lets buyers snag Oxfords at markedly lower prices.
Monarch 1.50 colored negligee shirts at 1.00 and 1.00 colored negligee shirts at 75 cents. Famous 75¢ colored negligee shirts. Men’s undershirts 2 cents and drawers 25 cents. Elastic seam drawers 50 cents.
A severe windstorm swept through Harpeth in Williamson County, uprooting houses and blowing a barn apart. Crops suffered extensive damage, timber fell, and orchards were ruined. The storm path spanned about half a mile and three miles in length, with damage expected in the thousands. A later rain and hail worsened losses.
Resolutions note the July 1 1959 death of Mrs Angeline Guest a longtime member of Hope Rebekah Lodge No 67 I O O F The committee expresses love and sympathy and states the order has suffered an irreparable loss They praise her as a Christian mother and loyal friend and request minutes copies to family and city papers Adopted August 24 1900 by Laven Dower Mas L J Hocury Misa Alice Suchvan Committee.
In City Court Teel Meernan was fined five dollars and costs after a scrap with a negro woman. Red Will Booker Alex and Jim Armstrong, all colored, fought on South Main Street Friday night. Hooker was beaten and Alex Armstrong slightly cut. All were arrested. Red Will and Alex paid six dollars and twenty five cents, Jim Armstrong’s case was dismissed. Gus Cockrill, white, fined eight dollars for drunkenness and disorderly conduct on Main Street.
At a South High street crossing, a freight train switching along the tracks caused cars to detach and roll toward Mr Wave Paires in his buggy. Paires leapt clear as the buggy was struck, his horse bolted toward the depot, then veered back. no injuries reported to Paires though the buggy was badly damaged.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces a September 26, 1900 examination for clerk and carrier posts in the post office service. The program aims to create a substitute force at offices, about 25 percent of regular staff, to avoid delays in vacancies. The test covers practical intelligence and adaptability. clerk age 18 to 21 to 40, general eligibility for interested citizens. Applications should be filed promptly with the local board secretary and inquiries made about the closing date.
A seven year old girl writes to a young Higram official inviting him to her birthday party next Tuesday. She asks which he prefers ice cream or girls, mentions Japan and missionary work, and describes helping in Sunday schools with tracts and pipers. She notes witnessing people bow to wood and stone and dreams of returning to Japan to aid learning about God.
Fragmented reader text cites a medicinal candy claim and a drugstore refund line. The piece also includes assorted quips about bees towns in Kentucky and aphorisms on faults money and friendship, with garbled phrasing and misspellings throughout.
Misses Rebecca and Danny Erwin depart for Pulaski for two weeks. Paul Wilson returns from Sum mertown. Rayburn Vaughan stays Beaver Dam. Hiram Titcombe and John Perry visit Mt. Pleasant last week. Uncalled for letters for week ending August 28 list Aldersen Tah Pm M Brown Joe Kisdal Ella Massey W Y Oliver Edith Dixson Mollie Roberts T W Edmiston Mies Alice Whitchieer Ward Kiba Min Lacainw Hiram Ingram Wyatt Miss M. Parties calling for them note on P.M.
Yesterday near Ma. Puaasant James Keenum of section 1 was riding with his wife and children from Hummertown when their buggy rolled down a hill five miles from town. Mrs. Keenum sustained a broken arm and the children suffered bruises in the crash.
Execution loaned from County Court of ney Geena in Sallie P Campbell et al v S M Gilliam et al case. On Monday September 10 1000 at o'clock the courthouse door Colum will expose described property bound by Duck River and others in Maury County. Sale to be in favor of A L Wayne rk of the Court with cash sale subject to right of Se Northwest Havwtey Steril War ALA Cotnen Loputy beri.
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