Tragic Shooting at Carter's Creek Ends Lives of Miss Effie Wood
Neighbors recount a fatal Friday tragedy at Carter's Creek as Miss Effie Wood about 20 years old is found dead from a double barrel shot. Authorities say a prior overdose attempt and illness pressed the young woman toward self harm. The community mourns as funeral services are held at Lasting Hope Church. Judge Gordon publishes Maury County's annual disbursement report, detailing 1903 totals and county expenditures.
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Er's Creek
Effie Wood
Beta
Bert Head
Mise Woo
Pret
Sbe
Morvel
Mise Wood
R. Wood
Carter's Creek
Uae Wood
Lasting Hope Church
M. K Gabard
Lasting Hope Cauterland Presbyterian Church
Otiae Wood
W.O. Gordon
Honorable County Court
Maury County
eAuar County
Roy
Ieurt Court
Presbyterian Pastor Praises Peru Na In 1904 Ad
A Presbyterian pastor Rev G Smith and elder V E G Smith praise Peruna medicine. Greensboro Georgia merchants endorse it for catarrh and kidney issues. Dr Hartman offers free advice from Columbus Ohio in the Peruna Almanac of 1904.
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Presbyterian
Peru NA
Praca
Peruna
G. Smith
Eayth
Boro
E. G. Smith
M. J. Rossman
Greensboro
Presbyterian Church
Peruna Medicine Co
Columba
Ohio
M. 4Ossman
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Pas Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Quarterly Court Adjourns Delay Over Akio Case Ruling
The Quarterly Court met with no action then adjourned to February awaiting the Supreme Court decision in the John T. Akio case on redistricting and county court legality. A motion to adjourn failed 47 to 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Esquires
Supreme Court
Akin
John T. Akio
Gordon
New Court House Plans Await Interior Details
The new court house committee will meet again around February first to select a tract for the building and aim to let the contract within sixty days. Architect Ed Carpenter provides interior details, with prior exterior sketches already published and minor changes expected in office layouts entrances elevators and vault locations.
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Court House
Ed Carpenter
Herald
Stores to Close During Specified Periods City Firms Agree
A group of local goods shoes and clothing firms reach an agreement to close their stores at set hours through the year. Closures run from January 1 to March 1 at 4 o clock, March 1 to May 15 at 6 o clock, May 15 to October 1 at 6 o clock, and October 1 to December 1 at 6 o clock, with Saturday nights exempted. Signatories include Watkins Baklan Evans Rosenthal and others.
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Varius Civil
Distri
Henry Willis
R. H. Gueat
Ben Kouwles
Sandy
W. J. Incaieat
N_ Burnson
W. Harris
Nancy Alderson
Lamar
Charley Hadison
A. K. Derryberry
Ao Kisrun Bae, McKennon, Anderson & Puster
Margy Dry Woons Co
Vane Sans de Era En
Pitman Resigns McDowell School Post for Draughon College
Prof W P Pitman assistant principal at McDowell school resigns to join Draughon’s Business College and teach at either St Louis or Galveston branches. Mary Blackburn succeeds him at McDowell.
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W.P. Pitman
McDowell School
W. P. Pitman
Draughon
Colege 12
Bt. Loui
College
Galveston, Tex
Draughooay
Pitman
Mim Mary Blackburn
Haymarket Board Eyes Property Purchase For Court House Site
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen met Friday and approved a plan to exchange old jail property for a corner block between East Seventh Street and Embargo Street to park a new courthouse, with a Barker lot value still undetermined. The City Attorney will review titles, and a street opening from Johncone Street toward the Cotton Mill site may proceed, with a damages assessment commission due to affected landowners along South Main Street.
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Fentusta
East Seventh Street
Main Place
Gen James Longstreet Dies in Georgia at 82
Gen. James M. Longstreet long served as Confederate lieutenant general and later held multiple federal posts after the war. He died in Gainesville, Georgia, from pneumonia at age 82 after two days of illness. Born in South Carolina, he graduated from West Point in 1842 and fought in the Mexican War.
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Atlanta
James M. Longstreet
Gordon
Gainesville
Longstreet
South Carolina
West Pont Milllary Academy
Bull Run
Northern Virginia
Jen
Jackson Gore
Pope
the Wilderness
Appomattox
Geo. Longstreet
New Orleans
Kent Grant
United States
Hayes
Ander
Garfield
Marshall
Ratleds
Washington
Big Increase in Bank Deposits in Columbia
The three banks in Columbia report total deposits of 330 thousand 88 dollars as of January 1 1904, marking a substantial rise in customer balances across the local banking sector.
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Durance Vile
Banks
Columbia
Local Bank Deposits Contest Winners Named
Mrs Elizabeth Gartner of Columbia wins a five dollar prize from Columbia Mill and Elevator Co for closest guess to deposits made on Jan 2 1900 The runners up J U Scotten T N Kiguera Mary E K Loran and T N Figuers each receive prizes for near misses with figures listed in the prompts.
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Columbia
Elizabeth Gartner
Calumbia
Calumbia Mill & Elevator Co
Horgubat
Garasors
J. U. Scotten
T. N. Kiguera
Birlbi
Mary EK
Loran
T N. Figuers
M Towler
Nichols retires after selling grocery store to Cunningham Dortch
George W Nichols sells his grocery shop to Tom L Can and Oscar L Dortch and retires from the business. He plans to engage in another venture in the city but is not ready to announce plans. Cunningham, a longtime local resident, will run the new firm while Dorton remains a traveling salesman for Gray Dudley Hardware Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Nichols
Mesers
Tom L. Canaan
Oscar L. Dortch
Ja Sas
Cunningham
Dorton
Gray Dudley Hardware Co
Nashville
Conningham
Will Not Take the Office Street Overseer
Capt H L White informs Mayor elect Joe F Brownlow he cannot accept the office of Street Overseer, a position he was recently elected to in the revent conteence of the wearbere of thy new erty connell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L White
Joe F. Brownlow
Erty Connell
Caticura Remedies Promote Cures for Scrofula and Skin Hums
The advertisement touts Caticura soaps pills and ointment as highly successful in treating disfiguring humors of the skin scalp and blood. It claims cures for bad blood scrofula and inherited ailments and highlights relief for children and infants when other remedies fail.
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JUDGE
Wood
Carters’ Creek
Charity and Paoper
W. C. Gordon
Bontoo McMillin
Bethel
Feners
Saneegy Ant
Bate
Democratic Executive Committee
McMillin
Executive Committee
Peruna Almanac
First Presbyterian Church of
Green
City of
Durange Vile
Colombia
New Court House
Gofs
City Council
Gen. Longstreet
Puleaks
Columbia Bank
Oc Dan
Seo. W. Nichols
T. L. Cunningham
0. L. Dortch
H. L. White
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