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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
6
A quiet Christmas day in Columbia with abundant charity from churches and benevolent groups. Families enjoyed warmth at home as stores closed and streets resembled a Sunday. Inmates of local jails and asylums shared meals, while overall drinking was restrained and prohibition noted as effective.
A case seeks to set aside the will of Mrs Lavoula Sowell, wife of Thomas Sowell, alleging lack of competence when written. The couple, residing in Neapolis, died within hours of each other, leaving differing heirs. Mrs Sowell’s will left all to her husband, who had a will leaving everything to her.
Description of fruit trees vines and plants offered by K A Wilkes Cullooka Tennessee. Includes prices and range of varieties available for download or inquiry. Contact details implied for ordering.
A large statewide Prohibition Democrat meeting at the Maxwell House issued an address signed by many leaders including Robert Burrow John H Coldwell Jerome Templeton Geo P Lindsley R B Mountcastle F M Thompson Pryor Walker Luke Lea N H White J J Bean Jonas Amis Geo H Armistead James Smiser A Embrey R J Riddle Wm T Smith J R Mitchell John D Fletcher L B Tigert H H Graper Everett Seth Waddell KE England D M Watson C Barton Joe L Holbrook Bate Bond Geo D Ferrell Ernest Rice A P Craig EB L Bullock W V Barry. The address calls for eliminating liquor traffic and the county unit rule primary, urging the legislature represent the sovereign will of constituents not the machine. It argues Tennesseans should turn toward light and reject political fetters to lead the state to a happier destiny.
Twelve members of the House Foreign and Interstate Commerce Committee will depart Charleston for Colon to study conditions under the Panama Canal Zone government. The trip aims to gather information for future use, with no planned changes to civil government this session. The delegation includes Representatives Adamson, Richardson, Barrett, and Lee, and returns January 14 after arriving January 2.
Wireless messages place the U S cruiser North Carolina a hundred miles from Curacao bound for LaGuaira with Special Commissioner W L Buchanan aboard. The Maine trailed at about 200 miles. Exiles return to Caracas as Gomez clears prisons in Venezuela. former prisoners sail for La Guaira from Curacao amid public praise. In Stearns Kentucky quiet belies fear as miners and guards hold tense standoff. army troops guard Seaburn Coal and Lumber. leader Berry Simpson elusive after sighting near Oneida Tennessee.
A Sunday night service at the First Methodist Church featured a beautifully rendered program. Highlights included solos by Mrs Ella Kelley and Miss Haley, the Handel Welthnacht, and the anthem Let Heaven and Nature Ring. The choir, led by Harrington, performed Merceuse and To Victory with various soloists and a scripture lesson.
Six people were injured when a special freight train on the Southern Railway derailed near Lumber City Georgia just before daybreak. The locomotive and cars plunged down a high embankment by the Ocmulgee River, creating a mass of wreckage but causing no fatalities.
Public notice stating the author will not be responsible for any bills or contracts made by his wife on and after October 18, 1908. Dated by J A Sedberry.
An elderly groom Ed Sedberry, about fifty, married a sixteen year old in Columbia and took her to Memphis. After a quiet marriage, she left, returning to Maury. She drifted into vice and was jailed Friday night in East Columbia along with another woman. The husband, though grieving, seeks her rehabilitation and plans to send her to the Epis copal home for fallen women in Memphis, offering full support, but she resists.
Miss Willie Baltzell, niece of Mrs. John Barrow of Columbia, died Monday at the Guest House after a long battle with consumption. Once living in Mt Pleasant, she sought a Denver climate two years earlier for relief but returned home in failing health. She traveled toward Mt Pleasant when she could not notify relatives, was carried to Columbia, then to the Guest House where she died. Funeral services were held at 11:30 Tuesday at the Mt Pleasant cemetery conducted by Rev. John B. Cannon.
Toledo Ohio December 26 Congressman Theodore Burton of Cleveland arrived to address the Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers Board of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. He predicted good chances and votes to win the Ohio Senate race to succeed Joseph B Foraker, and planned to travel to Columbus as the contest nears a decision after the legislature convenes January 11. He avoided pledges but spoke of bosses and political influence with measured caution.
The 1908 Christmas festivities in Columbia brought joy to rich and poor alike through Sunday schools and church missions. Kids received trees, cantatas, and gifts. orphanage support and ladder-delivered presents brightened many homes. Mrs Santa Claus aided by Daddy Jim distributed treats and toys.
The First C P Church holds a Sunday night stereopticon sermon themed by the Nativity. Images from past and present masters show Holy Land scenes as part of a Christmas season program inviting all to attend.
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