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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1919
Page
3
Ladies learn exact gift ideas for husbands fathers and brothers with suggestions for useful gifts. Gentlemen are urged to dress up for Christmas with suits overcoats ties shirts and underwear. The store promises high quality and value on Christmas merchandise.
Judge Turner aims to investigate the absence of Gen White from court. Pending questions arise about if a pro tem attorney general will act and whether further grand jury action will follow. The scene centers on the attorney general’s absence, Turner’s plans, and potential sensational developments within 24 hours.
An advertisement touts Ziron a pure inorganic medicine claimed to put iron into the blood, build strength, and aid pale weak nervous individuals. It cites a testimonial from Sidney Try of Rock City Alabama noting improved digestion and reduced stomach pain after one week, and promises a money back guarantee if the first bottle does not help.
The Knoxville court completed the jury for Maude Moore on the billing of Lesley D Hart. The panel adjourned for the afternoon awaiting the arrival of State's principal witness W Hallgeefer from Atlanta.
Fry and Jones plan a new North Main and Sixth streets garage, with 100 foot front and 200 foot depth, two stories at front, fireproof steel and concrete interior, four sprinklers, team heating, and a total floor space of 36000 square feet. The old building will be razed. work begins after year start. The complete plant near $100,000.
Fragmentary classified item notes a special column for sale with garbled text mentioning cheap columns, a sale listing, and telephone contact hints. The readable pieces reference a Spring Park area and a local phone number style, suggesting a relic ad from an old issue.
Mrs Claude Godwin died at 2 PM at her Glendale home after a weeks long illness. Born Susie Fraser, she was 43 on July 12, married about twenty years to Claude Godwin former county sheriff. Survived by husband, daughter Rachel, brother Walter Fraser Columbia. Funeral tomorrow at 11 AM at First Christian Church Columbia conducted by Dr W B Ricks and Rev Paul Slayden with pallbearers named Dalton A Oliver James A Bostick Jr William H Wilson Alfred A Brazier Dr Paul H Faucett Dr J S Covey.
Report notes warm weather after a cold spell prompted hog butchers to kill thousands early last week. If meat chills well before storage the risk remains low, but warmer days later in the week raised potential losses for farmers who slaughtered later.
The Herald declares the situation intolerable and urges immediate correction while praising its demand for an investigation into the attorney general's conduct. Lawyers and citizens, including Columbia bar members, express support citing fears over undermined justice. Judge Turner is urged to follow the paper’s lead.
At the meeting of Columbia Belge No. 71 F and A M officers for the ensuing year were elected. Geored Hughes Jr, WM Wittlun Oakes senior warden, 1) HK Journey junior warden, WS Plowing deacon, James W Ridley junior deacon, John N Pigk Secretary, J E Littlefield treasurer, MM Hatta tyler.
Supervisors announce the district is ready for the grand census count with enumerators named in every county under Supervisor English. The list covers all counties and indicates full staffing for the operation.
The census drive highlights enumerator appointments across counties with pay increases and a January kickoff. Supervisors report strong participation, minimal county hurdles, and plans to complete data collection within January as the drive extends to December 21 with expected oversubscription. Separate notes mention Friendship Baptist Church surpassing its pledge and statewide oversubscriptions, plus unrelated items on Southern California fish, and Irish elk remains.
On Saturday the Sellars kitchen cabinet demonstration at Columbia Hardware Furniture saw fourteen of seventeen cabinets sold. Four sales were by telephone as rain kept buyers away. The sale runs through Friday with about fifty cabinets available. if weather had been better, results could have been larger. The expert demonstrator is pleased with the turnout and expects stronger demand if conditions improve.
More than one hundred indictments were returned by the grand jury in its final report. Major Horace Frierson drew the indictments, including ten for dog law violations, fourteen for road tax, five for assaults and battery, three for illegally transporting liquor, one for malicious threats, one for first degree murder, two for assault with intent to murder, and one for passing a forged check. The murder charge targets Wallace Craig for the killing of Constable Neil Primm. No action on the attorney general’s conduct. further county indictments to be published later.
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