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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
10
Unprecedented Christmas rush at Columbia post office with nearly 300 pouches of packages handled daily and over $5,500 in three days receipts. Clerks logged long hours, stamp sales soared, money order business broke records, and rural carriers prepared to deliver tomorrow while city delivery pauses.
A homeless stranger who died after a night near the Columbia Military Academy was buried Tuesday afternoon at Rose Hill. The man, once with a home and loved ones, said he had fallen on evil times and left with no money or work. Dr. T. A. Wharton led the simple service as a few flowers were laid on the grave.
A charter for the Jenking Building of Mt. Pleasant has been filed for registration. The capital stock is 0000 and the incorporators are J. Jenkins, George W. Killebrew, J. Wheeler, E. Dan Smith and W. Kittel.
Charles E. Morrell Jr arrives from Washington to assume duties as superintendent of construction for the new post office building. He comes from Stanford Connecticut where he supervised a $48,000 school project and recently directed construction of a twelve story skyscraper in New York. He will push the government building work with all possible dispatch.
In Nashville Tennessee Judge Hart of the Criminal Court took the Coopers bail request under advisement after the State’s strong proof left little room for rebuttal. The court postponed any opinion, with a decision possibly by Monday as the trio, the Coopers and Sharpe, remain in jail.
Christmas Eve in Columbia Tennessee shows shoppers in town and buying, though crowds are smaller than some years. Louisville markets report cattle and hog receipts with varied prices, and flour, bacon, lard, produce, wool, hides, ginseng, and wholesale groceries priced by local firms.
The Chestnut School Law of 1907 boosts Maury county school funding by ten percent next year. State apportionment rises to seventy-five cents per child, totaling about 9,660 dollars and over 3,000 more than this year. The county gains roughly 33,000 dollars including last year’s Chestnut funds, enabling higher teacher salaries and longer school terms. Judge S. L. Chestnut, reelected, will push for statewide prohibition and further support for children.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes Congress will take a break from December 19 to January 4. Champ Clark backs tariff reductions on millinery. The year shows about a ten percent drop in marriages, seen as a cautious year.
O Thomas sold a 40 acre farm on Williamsport pike to Mr Letsinger for 32400. John Howell Thomas resold a Mt Pleasant pike farm to Alexander for 1040 profit. Mrs RC Exkew and son Cleave visited in Chattanooga. Deputy Harris arrested four on fallen indictments. Mary Graham, nine pounds, visiting Graham home for years. Officers Whitley and Butts broke up a nap game, 96 fled. Sam Hughes of Texas visiting Glendale. Arch Ladd of York Alabama visiting Leiper's Creek for holidays.
Geo S Harris weds Nellie Bly Thomas and Geo Brady weds Annie Stanfield. Emmett Derryberry to Mary Winchester. D B Sharp to Elsie Littlejown. Clyde Harper to Ollie Walters. H B Meador to Margaret Booker. T Lentz to Carrie Fray. James McNeal to Sallie Hickman. Lon Staggs to Ruth Hastings.
Clerk and Master orders Allen Denham and Mary Lewis alias Mary Clagett non-residents to appear within three days of the next April 1909 term in Columbia Tennessee and plead or demur to the bill. If they fail, the bill will be confessed as to them and set for ex parte bearing. Publication mandated for four consecutive weeks in The Columbia Herald.
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