Christmas Slippers Show Draws Visitors This Season
A Christmas slippers display tops stockings bringing foot comfort year round. The slipper show is a big seasonal event worth visiting for all ages.
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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
9
A Christmas slippers display tops stockings bringing foot comfort year round. The slipper show is a big seasonal event worth visiting for all ages.
Readable line lists various men slippers styles including Opera Everett and Romeo Nullifiers and Bath Slippers in colors Black Kid Tan Russia Patent Leather French Goats priced at 1.50 or 2.50 dollars.
House slippers offered as felt Juliets richly fur trimmed in popular colors. Prices listed as $1.00, $1.50, or $2.00.
Local families and relatives from Nashville, Cumberland University, and nearby states converge for the holidays. Visitors include Mrs. R. 8 Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner, Miss Virginia Oliver, Sheriff Love Webb, and several others visiting relatives at Columbia Military Academy, Decatur, Florence, and Memphis. Numerous residents travel or return from colleges and universities for Christmas, with plans to visit homes in Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas.
Columbia society pages detail holiday travels and returns of residents. lists include Indiana and Philadelphia Navy Yards personnel visiting family, Vanderbilt and Lehigh University affiliates home for holidays, and local marriages including Lente Gray and Chas Santa. The Cosmopolitan Club meeting and a music and art exhibit at Columbia Institute highlight cultural events amid festive season.
Le Roy Ham aged 70 dies at his Ben neighborhood home after five days of pneumonia. He had earlier been struck by a car fender in Columbia and suffered a minor injury, but recovered before falling ill again following heavy rain. Funeral and interment at Liberty, Dr. R. M. Church cites pneumonia as sole cause. Other notices include death of Mrs. Chas L. Dyer of Merkel Texas and Bartlett drowning at Milwaukee river, plus Mrs Adeline Gee aged 91 at home of F. E. Wood with service by Rev. Stroud.
Local brief items include a $1.00 per dozen cabinet photo sale at Youngs for thirty days and a candy sale by Loyal Temperance Legion at the Western Union office tomorrow. Santa arrives at McKennon Anderson Foster with children’s welcome, and Arch Lipscomb buys the W B Burmett house for 2200 moving soon. J C Allen sells Sawdust farm for 2250 via A L Blocker.
In the Court of Civil Appeals the case of N. Martin & Co. versus J. W. Shelton Maury equity was affirmed on Saturday.
Eugene Vestal remains very ill at his Riverside home while Felix Derryberry also at Riverside is ill and not expected to recover quickly. Mrs Gee of West End, mother of Mrs FM Wood, is gravely ill in her 92nd year, enduring infirmities of age with gentle patience and Christian grace.
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