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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1913
Page
1
Examinations for county teachers will be held at the Athenaeum by Superintendent Graham on July 24 and 26 for those who have not finished their exams. The reading course work is scheduled for July 24, as the county superintendent lines up the teachers and assignments for fall and winter terms.
Mrs W T Frazier died at her home six miles from Columbia on the Santa Fe pike Tuesday night at 5 after months of illness. She was wife of Wm Frazier and survived by husband son Elmer daughter Miss Emma and three sisters Mrs M E Allen Mrs James Gregory and Mrs James Forgey. She belonged to the Baptist church for years. Funeral at Godwin Chapel Wednesday at 4 Rev John Hight with Rev Wolf Gilbert Santa Fe. Sulth Cunningham funeral directors.
The twenty eighth annual pharmaceutical association convened in Memphis. Secretary J T Shannon reports over fifty new members and out 200 delegates in attendance. R I Winchester of Memphis delivered the address of welcome, with a response from Kins Le Kukew of Nashville. The lands of TA Robinson of Wemvills are boasting him for the new president of the organization.
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company buys a fifty by ninety nine foot lot on South Garden Street for five thousand five hundred dollars at 110 per front foot. The deal includes aiding communications with Western Union and signals plans for a handsome offices and exchange building to be erected soon.
The Daily Herald’s Tuesday issue, the largest regular edition yet, reached 12 pages and 1086 advertising inches, about fifty four full columns. Merchants in Columbia promote big mid summer sales, and the issue will reach over 3,500 homes, with an estimated 15,000 readers by Friday.
KR B Davenport was seen on the square today with a load of split baskets, the count far beyond one hundred. This is his third successive trip. Davenport, a Cannon County resident, says he has sold many baskets in Maury County.
The Franklin County Equalisation Board faced a legal estopel when Judge Wikie granted an injunction preventing certification of a $90,000 assessment for J. W. Howard’s 1,126 Tennessee Fertilizer shares. The order, served before the board signed the report, stops copying the assessment into the county tax books and halts further action with the state board of equalization. Board members listed are Thomas B. Forgey as chairman, D. K. Minor, Sam Witherspoon, H. W. Dame, and W. D. Caskey.
The U S supreme court affirmed Charlton deportation and ordered Portes Charlton surrendered to Italy or its agents. Charlton has been in Hudson county jail for two years after being arrested on arriving in the United States for the 1918 Lake Como wife murder. He is to be taken to Italy to face trial.
Nashville July 9 A plain law governs removals and pay for incoming officers in key federal posts. Postmaster, U S marshal, internal revenue collector, district attorney and assistant district attorney face changeover with civil service rules reducing patronage. Only four arbor ets may be appointed by the new postmaster, and field deputies for the marshal earn fees, with limited lucrative positions in three counties.
Three fire alarms in 24 hours test city water conservation order. Tuesday night a store at Eighth and Helms Branch owned by Albert Wright John Webster and a teacher named Kelly burned. stock nearly lost, books saved, invoices burned. Monday night’s blaze threatened Cochran residence and nearby Presbyterian church and other buildings if water had run short.
Special to The Herald from Nashville July 9 reports experts auditing Grundy county books at Tracy City found acting back tax collector A H Woodlee short over 6000 dollars and former treasurer J B Nunley over 10000 dollars. Other former county officials were delinquent for small amounts.
Judge McKnight displayed a captured dry land terrapin on The Herald editorial table with the inscription A pace maker for all. The reptile was released and taken to more congenial quarters after the display in the heart of the city.
Groveland resident C R Denton yields fifty bushels per acre on twelve acres, totaling 614 bushels and averaging over 40 bushels an acre on twenty acres. With wheat at 90 cents per bushel, gross from twelve acres reaches $45 per acre, while total field value exceeds $35 per acre. The same land previously produced a top potato crop, netting well over $900 per acre, and maintains strong five year profitability between $500 and $700 per acre. Denton sowed New Economy wheat at one bushel one peck per acre after potato harvest last fall.
The state pension board elected W. H. Coley of Milan as president W. L. McKay of Nashville as vice president Frank A. Moses of Knoxville as special examiner and John P. Hickman of Nashville as secretary The full board met in Nashville with about 1 000 pension applicants awaiting action The session will last twenty days as officials roster charges and exceptions against pension holders are reviewed by the group chaired by Cates and Woollen.
Mayor J Harrison sent a message to the council proposing the appointment of ten women police to patrol bathing beaches and parks. An ordinance to amend police regulations for women officers accompanies the message and the Civil Service Commission will oversee physical exams and uniforms.
Columbia post office receipts for the year ending June 30 reached new highs, rising over ten percent from the previous year and showing a gain of about fifteen percent in the last quarter. The total for the year surpassed earlier records, with quarterly figures indicating continued growth and freight receipts also up over ten percent.
Misa Lucinda Pennebaker known as the midget of Washington society announced her marriage to Elbert Johnson a young lawyer yesterday. The ceremony was held at the bride’s Georgetown home with only family present. Pennebaker gained social prominence as a debutante dancing at a Southern relief ball for President Taft and led the Southern circle.
Lynnville plans a two game peries with the Lynnville ball team on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week July 15 and 16. A picked team will be formed from a thin roster that has played only four games this season and won one. Manager Cole expects an easy win against Columbia.
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