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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1899
Page
7
Cold weather sale features Eleven Jett ladies jackets in Mack and Tan with taffeta silk saled for 215.00. Next Saturday and Monday price cut to 89.00. Wool fascinators in all colors. Boys cloth loggins with buttons and buckles priced at 65 cents.
Our Correspondents continues with village news from Dec. 4, reporting Rev Lovell’s sermon, crowd size, visits by Miss Wilsford, Lanter relatives in Mt Pleasant, and departures for Texas. Also notes on horses lost, stock sales, sickness, and upcoming Santa Fe quarterly meeting. Adds ads for Cascarets and Otto’s Care cures.
This week notes Rev. M. Gupton’s regular appointment at Knob Creek and records a Nov. 25 wedding of Mr. T. F. Galloway and Miss Nettle May Fraser at the rear end altar. The bride, hailed as one of the community’s fairest towers, embarks with her husband for their home at Pheta. Also mentioned is Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson who survived months after a fetid fistula operation thanks to Hucksen’s Artion Salve.
A garbled reminiscence mentions Nan Suvewa and a brief contribution to the paper. It references Miss Delite, Miss Susie, and other unclear names in a disjointed community context near Smyrna, with no clear event or outcome.
An item promotes new buggy designs and styles with playful misspellings inviting quick visit. It highlights affordable prices and mentions a shop name SATIEACISLD & Dovsos, signaling a local merchant notice in a period newspaper style.
Snippets from Baltimore News and other papers reflect political satire and commentary. Mentions include Admiral Dewey, Washington, McKinley era warnings, and Southern industrial growth contrasted with Northern manufacturing. References to Harper & Brothers, Nelson, Hoover era figures, and Times dispatches color the collage of opinion.
Weab for 81 groups of any war ranted not to fade at Young's. Rev Jas E Scobey former Superintendent of Public Instruction Williamson county moved to Maury county conducting flour ishing school at Leftwich. Miss Effie Perry convalescing after typhoid fever. Mr T J Morton of Hohenwald visiting. Mr G W Hayes candidate for Magistrate to fill unexpired term of Judge Looney. The best buggy in town for the Mur Rowen vs Macuire & Lvecemesr. Ernest Jones of Franklin spent Thanksgiving with John L Jones family. Edwin Jones pupil at Granham & Hughes school Steing Hill visited family in Felereen. Excellent weather for killing hogs as many porkers died. Real estate ad by Adness McCallum on Gill county farms. Graham Debating Society to meet Dec 3 at 7:90 pm. GW Hayes rented old west end homestead and will live there next year. Penitentiary escapee Will Joiner and John Billington back after capture. sentences eight years. Garwood’s Sarsaparilla advertised for blood purification.
About 6 000 residents witnessed the unveiling of a 38 foot Confederate monument in Franklin on the fifth anniversary of the battle. Speeches by Gen G W Gordon Dr D C Kelley and Gov McMillin recalled Civil War memories. A long procession led by veterans featured a float of sixteen young women in white with Confederate flags.
We hereby announce G. WA Hayes as a candidate for Justice of the Peau of the Ninth Civil District to fill the unexpired term of Keg E D Leaves whose resignation takes effect January 1. The election will be in January.
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