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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
5
Advertisement notes that men appreciate neckties and mufflers and encourages selecting from a carefully chosen assortment to please the gift recipient. It emphasizes the giver’s pleasure in choosing and the recipient’s delight in new neckwear.
Miss Kate McClellan visits Franklin students for Thanksgiving. Mrs Clarence Williams of Sheffield visits her parents Mr and Mrs W D Cameron. Linda Powell has fever. The Mooneys welcome a baby girl. The Russells celebrate arrivals. Tom Cook moves to a South High Street cottage.
A canoe trip on the river ended in disaster when Lents fired at a moving object, overbalancing and falling into eight feet of water. He was rescued but half frozen, while the other man remained submerged as the gun discharged. A local postmaster’s unrelated ad copy appears among the fragmented text.
Marriage licenses issued include P Hawes to Christine Wat, Houston. J Thomas to Nettie Fleming. Walter Richardson to Birdie Chadwell. Lonnie Potts to Zale Holder. Odd line about stock of furniture and incomplete phrase follows.
Seaboard area social news lists numerous Misses and Misters visiting relatives and friends in Columbia during Thanksgiving. Names include Miss Annie Law Houser, Miss Louise Frierson, Mr. Bruce Tekone, Dr. John P. McFerrin, and many more from Nashville, Birmingham, Owensboro, and Kentucky towns. Visits span Ashwood, Carter's Creek, Nashville, and Galveston, with travel for weddings, opera, and storms noted.
The shop advertises heavy discounts on hats and bonnets to clear inventory before spring. Hats marked down from 85 to 2.50 and 82.00 hats to 21.95, plus 15 cent black wings and new fall patterns at reduced prices. A full line of capelets for babies is offered as part of the sale as the store aims to move stock and buy spring goods.
Mrs. M. E. Williamson is tied to a sizable freight bill as The City Grain & Feed Co. paid the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. last week, settling charges amid ongoing business activity.
Promote the store’s Christmas collection featuring cut glass and sterling silver items, bisque and cameoware, atomizers, perfume, leather goods, crest ware, lamps, onyx tables, and more. Encourages early shopping to complete engravings before the holiday rush.
Obituaries from Maury County report the deaths of J C Stallings of Riverside age about 68 owner of a Enat Seventh street livery stable. Knox Polk died in Nashville at 31 after typhoid fever. Thomas Lockhart of Mt Pleasant died November 27. Remains sent to local cemeteries for services. Reuben J Chappell formerly Maury County City Marshal. Mrs Albert Porter of West Point died. Funeral and interment details noted with sympathy expressed.
Edward Petty died Friday at his Snow Creek home at the advanced age of seventy six. The burial was held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Godwin graveyard. Also reported is the death of H. D. McCulloch in a sanitarium at St. Louis, Mich, father of Mrs. Warren Clark formerly of Columbia.
A neighborhood store advertises prompt service for grocery orders and maintains new stock at reasonable prices. It lists hay, corn, bran, field seed, turnip seed and sweet country hams as available items.
A fragmented church hymn measures praise and prayer to Heavenly Father with lines urging grace and the Holy Spirit to rest on the faithful and renew divine blessings. The text appears garbled with imperfect phrases and misspelled names.
A mess of brief notices reports Mariah Wilson and Sam McGaw illness and recovery, Mrs BP confined, Ed Hendley leaving for New York to join Theodore Opera Co. and a host of local changes. The article lists new hires, estate admin, street repairs after a tornado, school and club meetings, store moves, hunting trips, and community events with scattered dates and names across Meade County Tennessee.
J. Rosenthal notes cooler weather has energized life and doubled trade, but shelves remain crowded from a warm season. Prices have been revised accordingly to reflect the market shift.
Fragmentary text mentions profits and clothing, with apparent exclamations about God and Perry. No discernible person, place, date, or event provided.
W. M. Davison opens a new grocery in the Brown Block with partner W. H. Bell to serve the public. Mrs. M. E. Williamson advertises special bargains including Amazon plumes and Ostrich tips at below wholesale prices and half price on fall patterns.
A historic-leaning ad lists SPAGIALS Blue Seal Flour per barrel and various coffees, evaporated fruits, cheese, candy, dates, and fresh produce. It promises fireworks and other items at prices cheaper than any house in the city, with Bell phone 2a for contact and mentions a location two doors from the old jail.
Mr George Addison brought up a number of mules from Savannah for Maxwell-Crouch Mule Co. Monday was busy in Columbia live stock circles with many mules sold to buyers. Shipments included Joe Mc Adan three loads to Atlanta Gray Hopkins two loads to Atlanta Abraham Bros two to Montgomery Stezan Bros one to Abbeville Ala K P Duncan one to Alabama and visits by buyers such as W T Stegall A B Stegall Alm Dany Abraham Montgomery John W Fox Dr O T Kenyon Dawaco G W Buck Gaay Lebanon Tenn Duean E J Duncan Alexander City Ala J P Hudson Louisville Ky Gray Hopkins Pulaski Tenn Chas Wright sold two mules to Abraham Bros.
Frest car ere 7 P. Stamer & Co.
A sale notice describes auction of farming implements and household items including mower horses stock wagons cattle and two bor Jesneta. Sale begins at 108 m at the farm near Isom with items from home and kitchen furniture and livestock.
Renter in the lower floor of Jon Ritt’s building announces a leather and harness business. The ad invites customers to Bell Phone 165 or Citizens’ Phone 85 for inquiries and outlines quality and reasonable prices. It lists Oct 26 as the posting date.
Bishop Gailor and various pastors preached at Advent and Methodist services on Saturday and Sunday in Columbia. Messages covered salvation, sin, and natural causes of the cyclone, with baptisms at Peters Church and confirmations at fourteenth candidates. Church workers and Epworth Leagues reorganized at South Columbia ME Church and Flint Methodist, signaling active youth involvement.
Advertises photograph enlargements for Christmas presents urging customers to bring in images soon to allow time for production. Promises artistic results and claims satisfaction if given a chance.
Report notes the reservoir on the Knob was drained but resulted in no notable discoveries beyond possible debris. Local observers speculated about past animal remains but no dead bodies or substantial evidence were found.
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