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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
10
Social events fill pages with gatherings at West End and Balt homes. Includes birthday tributes to a president, entertainments for guests from Covington and Birmingham, a faculty appointment for Miss Mary Cole Figuers, and plans for the Tennessee Fair horse show. Invitations extend to weddings as Naomi in Memphis is planned for September.
Simmie and Mr John Stenson Davis plan a wedding on Wednesday morning September 12 at 9 30 at the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church Miss Hosu Barnett and Mrs Mary Hine host bridge on Friday August 21 at 4 and again Saturday afternoon at 4 A merry Sunnyside party led by Mr and Mrs John Matthew and Mrs Jamee Gladens spends the day at Rattlesnake Palla Mrs Wash Taylor entertained a few friends Thursday evening on North High street in honor of her mother Maud Wilson of Shefield Als Interesting games and an ice course followed the late hour
President Roosevelt orders phonetic spelling across the government. A meeting of department chief clerks appointed a committee to draft rules for implementation. An official list of 300 reform words will guide executive correspondence and future additions.
Branham and Hughes school for boys opened at Spring Hill with 297 pupils enrolled. The day featured remarks by Dr. Sousa of Sewanee and Y M C A official W E Willis along with local ministers. Prof. David Anderson of Washington and Lee joins the staff to coach football this year, aiming to restore the team’s athletic strength with stars Alexander and Ramsey returning.
A poetic piece from the Houston Post celebrates little girls, mothers, and the charm of infant days with images of pearls, curls, lullabies, and tender family scenes. Separate note: the Washington Post reports Seattle police ordering prize fighters to leave town or seek work, implying their likely departure.
J Howard Sledd writes from Knoxville that he will visit the Poultry Show in September and the Fair in September while Gledd will judge the poultry and lecture on Poultry. J Leon Hoffman of Waverly Alabama plans to visit and lecture on Incubation in November. Advice covers feeding, housing, disinfectants, vermin control, molting, culling, and caring for hens and chicks. Early planning urges wetting hens, keeping water clean, and using lime and disinfectants, with emphasis on profitable breeding and avoiding overfeeding.
Mr John A Markin Jr of the Southern Poultry Magazine announces the world famous Feathers the Cat Hen will be exhibited free in the Floral Hall Poultry Department at the State Fair in Nashville. The cat, owned by George Jones of New York, has shown at Madison Square Garden Luna Park and Coney Island and will appear in Boston and Nashville this winter. Feathers is a true cat mother caring for chicks hatched in Columbia as she tends a brood hatched there, demonstrating hen like maternal care.
Tom Black, a young man, was released from jail on bond of 250 dollars in the pistol case stemming from a Sunday shooting of his brother.
The Tennessee Valley Fair Association postpones the first annual Huntsville fair from September 18 to October 2 after agreeing with the Southern Racing Circuit to provide racing features. The delay follows unfinished buildings and tracks and a decision by the Executive Committee that completion would not allow a fair this year. W. P. Erwin of Columbia is named Assistant Secretary.
Programme outlines Devotional exercises and talks across Friday to Sunday including The True Object of the Journey The Benefit of the Organized District Work and The Work Before Us This Year with speakers Colton Richardson Cheek Cherry Seay Kern Williams Parker. Leaders urged to send two delegates per church. invitation to pastors and officers.
In Murfreesboro on Wednesday afternoon a three o’clock pace race injury scene involved Mesare Alex McKay and Smith Thomas of Columbia and another driver. McKay sustained serious hip and back injuries after a collision that wrecked his sulky during the second heat. he won the first heat with Elk Rose but could not continue. Thomas, driving Japalac for H. B. Cochran, avoided the fallen due to limited space, hitting the fence and suffering slight ankle and back sprains but remained in the race.
Some friends in Nashville say Hon. M R Patterson will personally challenge Hon. Clay Evans to a joint date. The report comes from local circles on August 30 in Tennessee.
The Republican Congressional Convention will meet in Lawrenceburg Saturday. Robert H. Haggard of Wayne County is mentioned as a likely nominee if he accepts. Flour noy Rivers of Giles County and Col. A. M. Hughes of Columbia, who ran two years ago, are also named. The Montgomery Advertiser comments on Roosevelt and Cannon opposing tariff revisions and the president’s shifting positions.
The Gaekwar of Baroda did not notice many beautiful women in America, but his wife accompanies him on the trip, as reported by Mexfoam Herald.
Wm Jennings Bryan lands at quarantine on the steamer Prinzess Irene and is greeted by prominent Democrats in New York. He appears fatigued but hopeful, planning to address party matters in coming days at a Madison Square Garden event. Bryan and his family stay with friends at Tompkinsville after high level meetings.
Auction notice states a load of large mares and four months old colts offered for sale cheap at the Stock Yards. John Fraser listed as contact, listing year 2042.
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