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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
9
Local society notes recount Thanksgiving visits and guests from Nashville Louisville Huntsville Birmingham and Pulaski. Residents and relatives such as Mrs James A. Gresby Mrs Joe Jones and Miss Gertrude Johnson host or visit kin while travelers like Col John Edgerton and Bruce Campbell join hunting parties and trips to nearby towns.
Returned home Mrs Ewing remains for some time. Mr J T Peters and Miss Edna Peters depart tomorrow for Paris Tennessee to visit relatives. RG Mulline and John A Sketley left Wednesday for Memphis and Arkansas on a slumber probing tour. Mrs J L Pinney and family joined Mr Finney at the corner residence of High and Fifth Streets. Mrs John Harwood Jr and her little daughter of Pulaski are guests of Miss Hallie Fry.
Hugh Shelton will join James Brea Jewelry Co in December while Bynum Thomas leaves Braly Brothers for Nashville with B. H. Steff & Co. Connor Tucker becomes book-keeper at Waldbridge Drug Co. Ferdinand Petit of Berlin joins James Bros Jewelry Co to head repairs. Mt Olivet Home Mission Society invites an oyster supper December 8 at Rock Side school. Walter Dark leaves E W Gamble Grocery Co for Frank G. Cook Furniture.
Obituaries list: Mrs Elizabeth Kinzer aged 80 died Thursday at 2. Funeral at family burial grounds near Water Valley. Mrs Emeline E Thompson aged 84 died Thursday at home. Funeral service at Lasting Hope church. Mrs Adeline McMinns aged 81 died Thursday at daughter’s home on Twelfth street. Survived by six children. Funeral Saturday at 3 at Rose Hill cemetery. Mrs T J Tomlinson aged 65 died Friday of pulmonary tuberculosis. Interment in Theta. Ada Marshall infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marshall died Nov 22 at country home. See Thy Herald for Candidate Cards.
Special to The Herald from Nashville Tennessee December 2 1910 State Board of Education will travel to Memphis to fix exact site for the West Tennessee Normal School for Negroes bids to be received January 15 1910 for the location of the institution.
Hayes and Moore announce a December 6 sale at 1 80 p.m. featuring extra good sugar yearlings weighing 1000 pounds and up. The mules are offered to replace old stock, inviting buyers to attend the public sale.
In November the county trustee shows total year to date collections of 2,903.00, far behind 1907 when November tallied 8,408.00 amid panic. The piece notes lenders’ distrust in 1907 and restored confidence now as banks fill with coin while taxpayers delay payments until penalties loom.
A young white boy who gave the name Manners left for the world alone and was found at the local railroad station. Police returned him to relatives in Nashville after confirming he preferred not to join Randall-Cole School, then Tennessee Industrial school. The city morgue mor gan was notified and arranged the boy's handover.
The entertainment committee of Columbia Lodge No. 8, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, prepared to host a grand banquet in the city soon. About 160 plates to be laid, with several notable addresses expected. The lodge ranks among the strongest in Middle Tennessee, and the annual banquet draws wide attention. Subscribe for The Herald.
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