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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
9
A local shoe house expresses gratitude to its patrons for the past year and hopes for continued favors in the coming year. The note emphasizes appreciation and asks for ongoing support from customers.
In 1910 the store pledges to spare no pains to improve service, keep its status as the leading shoe store in the locality, attach best shoe values to reasonable prices, ensure safe purchases, and remain the preferred place to buy shoes.
Long list of local residents and out of town guests visiting Columbia for Christmas and the holidays. Many families, students, and professionals travel from Nashville, Huntsville, Nashville, Paris, Louisville, Franklin, and other towns, returning to Columba to spend time with relatives and friends.
E. P. Turner invites inquiries at his store offering a broad selection of groceries. The brief item emphasizes customer service and access to goods via direct contact with Turner.
Births, arrivals, and property news from Lewisburg to Nashville. A Christmas baby girl named Dorothy Lee Ware born to Mr and Mrs White P Ware in Lewisburg. LeRoy Reynolds and family visit Mrs Sowell in Lawrenceburg. Joe Sharber buys L G Higdon 117 acre farm near Columbia for 4250. Frank and Ira Parker Jr welcomed in Nashville. Maury relatives noted. WANTED to rent Willow Grove Plantation 350 acres on Red River near Shreveport. land productive. farm equipment also for sale. Columbia Masonic Lodge to confer two master’s degrees at a called meeting tonight. Candiate card information available in The Herald.
Obituaries report Joe Childress aged 18 buried at Mooney's graveyard from typhoid fever Will Harris 25 died of pneumonia at home on E Ninth Street funeral at Rose Hill. Arthur Carrico death noted from Jacksonville. Mrs Malinda Johnson died at Cathey's Creek interment Dunlap cemetery. A R Ledbetter 66 heart failure buried Bailey graveyard. Mrs Jane Haley 85 buried Mt Nebo. Turner Coffee ad at end.
Richard Smith is out again after an attack of grip, as R L McKinney enters the sick list.
The First Quarterly conference of the Columbia and Mt. Olivet charge will be held at the South Columbia church on Friday night. Rev. T. A. Kerley will preside as presiding elder, with a full attendance urged by Pastor Rev. T. A. Freeman.
The column notes pricing hints from Street, Martin and Vangho Co and mentions holiday plans. Guy Od! spends holidays with parents in Spring Hill while Louise Graham White returns from Nashville to Spring Hill. E P Turner advertises grocery offerings and local residents relocate to Birmingham for business.
Marriage licenses issued by County Court Clerk Hardin Thomas include Roy Demastus and Miss Efe Clarke, Burney Jones and Miss Bailly Section, J. H. Rummage and Miss Lillie John, Allie Gambill and Miss Florence Joyce, and John B. Westmoreland and Miss An Nile Price.
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