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Newspaper

Columbia Herald

Location

Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1916

Page

4

Countywide Bridge and Lyceum Plans Prompt Local Happenings

County projects bustle with bridge work across Little Bigby and Duck River crossings while the Alkahest Lyceum System opens December 18 at the High School. Five act season includes Morrow Brothers Quartette and other acts through February 1 with season tickets for children and adults.

Alkahest Lyceum Atlanta Morrow Brothers Quartette Lyceum Howard Robert Manlove de- Ancator Gladys Beulah Powers Company County Highway Commission Little Bigby Creek Hampshire Pike Little Bigby Campbellsville Pike Duck River Lowell Mill Columbia McCutcheon ‘Creek Graham Fountain Creek Cullooka Green Lick Creek

Intimidation Examples Cited In Rail Headlight Hearings

Railway Age Gazette reports that during Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on high power locomotive headlights, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers officials allegedly ousted members who opposed the plan. An engineer testified he was reassured by Brother Stone that truth-tellers were not expelled, though two others claimed expulsion at Stone’s direction for testifying.

Railway Age Gazette Interstate Commerce Commission The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood Engieers Washington Gazette Stone Commission UN Favor

Unusually good hogs fetch high prices at farm sale

Wallace Sowell received a large check for a small hog lot sold to Fred Journey on Saturday. Eight hogs weighed about 500 pounds each, at nine and a quarter cents per pound, nearly fifty dollars per hog. Fifteen hogs brought about seven hundred dollars total. The hogs were extra fine and fat to the last possible pound.

Wallace Sowell Fred Journey

Many Tourists Over the Dixie Highway Boosting South Travel

Clerk Mora B. Paris returned from Springfield and Adairville Kentucky. Mr Fariss noted the Dixie Highway has drawn a huge flow of tourists from the North and East to the South. He predicted even more when the Jackson Highway is properly advertised and improved.

Mora B. Paris Springfield Adairville Fariss

Officers Elected. Mt Pleasant Degree Team Invited

Columbia Lodge No 1 0 0 F elects James Allen as noble grand W E McKinney vice grand S R Armstrong secretary and E E Norgrass treasurer for six months. They will confer first and second degrees for Mt Pleasant Lodge on December 14 in autos with refreshments. A Detroit Marine recruit depot incident describes a father seeking pills for his ailing son. the sergeant declines stating Uncle Sam provides medical care.

Columbia Lodge James Allen Noble Grand W. E. McKinney S. R. Armstrong E. E. Norgrass Mt. Pleasant Lodge

Royal Arcanum Names Officers for Columbia Year

Officers of the Royal Arcanum of Columbia for the coming year have been elected. H. C. Fulton serves as regent, Dr. Richard Smith as vice regent, Alna H. Foster as orator, O. P. Rutledge as senior past regent, J. Sykes Orman as secretary, William Oakes as collector, Robert L. Vaughan as treasurer, William H. Lipscomb as chaplain, William W. Evans as guide, Charles A. Wright as warden, Angy Samuels as sentry, W. F. Embry, J. EB. Littlefield and William Wilson as trustees, J. S. Orman as representative to the grand council.

Royal Arcanum of Columbia H. C. Fulton Richard Smith Alna H. Foster O. P. Rutledge J. Sykes Orman William Oakes Robert L. Vaughan William H. Lipscomb William W. Evans Charles A. Wright Angy Samuels W. F. Embry J. EB. Littlefield William ¥. Wilson J. S. Orman Grand Council

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