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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
5
Straw hat season is here after heavy rain delayed sales. Prices cut to 2.00, 1.50, 1.00, 65, and 50 cents. Watkins, Harlan & Evans advertise in the Williamson's Millinery establishment located at the rear of their store.
A long list of society visitors and residents traveling or staying in town. Names include Besnice Johnson Laura Fariss Mrs Z C Petri Mrs F Abrahame Misa Mary Dale Craige Anne Fleming Sallie Friel J M Wester R C Fansworth J W Brown A C Floyd Genin Grives Augusta Rather Margaret Eubanks W B Turner Brigis McLemore Mollie Baird Wilkes Miss May Hall Phillips Mary Mosby Gordon Erskine Willie Figuers Annie Fleming Eunice Farnsworth M E Williamson Tom Williams Irene M Mrs A E Williams Mrs John Turner T McFerrin Anser B Yeager Newton White Pearl Parise Huston Barton Jessie Crutcher Lillian Lena Smith Bertha Byron May Steel Huntville Mattie Breast Anne Fleming Willie Figuers Duck River trip party members Proctor Polk Miran Cecil McDaniel J P Baugh Mamie Phillips Henrietta Lazarus Joseph Howard Williams Dinwiddie Dinwiddie sermonists Voorhies family and local church notices.
The notice lists multiple deaths and funeral details including infants and adults. Highlights include the infant child of Will Lovett dying at seven months and funeral at 10 AM with Elder Anthony Derryberry. Alfred Tucker dying at 67 on South Embargo Street with a 4 PM funeral at the residence and burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Miss Bessie Gee of Madison Station dying after illness while visiting Nashville. Mrs Green Hutcherson dying near Columbia with services at Reed's Chapel. Dave Workman dying at Ashwood at age 70 with burial in Hunter Graveyard. an infant of Walter Wood buried at Rose Hill after a brief illness. Clarence E Matthews dying of consumption at 24 near the city with services at McCains. Bazil H Sharp’s infant death at Lasea and burial in the family graveyard. and another infant death of Wea Lofton with burial on Eleventh Street.
The fragment hints at an election for sheriff with a misspelled prompt stating Ampust and Phæ ton as possible targets. No clear names, dates, or jurisdictions are readable to confirm a concrete event or outcome.
To reduce stock the firm offers a twenty percent discount on all grades of wall paper above toc until August 9. The notice urges customers to take this opportunity to refresh interiors with up-to-date patterns and prices.
Landreth's turnip seeds arrive direct from seed farms. Each seed stock is fresh and genuine and offered at wholesale and retail prices.
Oscar Buford colored sues Mt Pleas ant Southern Railway before Judge Holding. Mrs Ed Church and her daughter travel to Baltimore to join Mr Church. Ida Lipscomb accompanies to Nashville for a week. Killis Wood leaves for duty with Harris Cole Bros in Metropolis City Ill. Mother escorts him to Nashville for weeks. Ellia returns to Colombia to visit many friends.
An old contest promotes a Phaeton prize for the closest guess to the Sheriff vote total in the upcoming August election. It cites past totals: 1896 4,920 votes and 1898 6,691 votes, inviting readers to estimate for 1900.
Directos school censue and annual report listed for July 10 with examinations at Andrews School for Peabody Scholarship University of Knoxville Tennessee entrance certificates and primary and secondary certificates. Beging at o clock sharp P. W. Dopson County Supt.
James H. Parrish files an option in the register’s office to sell his 600 acre farm in the 20th district to the Tennessee Chemical Co for 50 000 with the option to hold good until November 1, 1900. The parcel was recently prospectively examined for phosphate, though earlier surveys found no valuable deposits.
A local ad announces new furniture and garage items in the newest styles across a large stock. The notice invites readers to visit to see assortments and prices at Sarrxerixio and Dopson.
Green and Allen sold hogs to Stone Porter and White to ship to Cuba. Anderson and Thomas sent a load of sheep and cattle to Louisville. Houston Thomas shipped a load of sheep and cattle.
Mrs Wilkens house on South Garden street is being slowly repainted. Mr and Mrs N P Catlett are proud parents of a son. Mrs W L Davis is seriously ill. Several local notices, movements, and small items list moves, illnesses, new businesses, and local events from the area, including church work, a new lumber shed, and a fishing trip. A number of names appear with various minor updates and notices.
To the trade we handle feed in quantities and guarantee goods. We will endeavor to make it to your interest to buy from us. We are a general store offering drain merchandise and storage. We plan to store 60,000 bushels of wheat this year. See us before making other arrangements. Care House near depot.
Robert Campbell and Izora Campbell sue Louisville and Nashville Railroad in circuit court seeking 8000 damages. They allege Izora was knocked from the track at the Hampshire crossing last November and seriously injured. Attorney W C Whitthorne represents the complainants.
Advertises pure recleaned seeds including 1809 German Millet 1808 Hungarian Millet 1999 Sorgham seed 1809 Large White Seed Corn 180 White Wabash Corn 1898 Yellow Warbash Corn. Offers garden seed and groceries intended to move sales.
A local ad proclaims Barr and Oakes will supply a wide range of goods for all budgets. It stresses careful, prompt service and personal attention, inviting telephone orders day or night through Citizens' Telephone No. 120 and Cheers Telephone No. 58.
South Columbia notes social visits from Miss Nolin Holden in Lewisburg to the Cottage Hotel, and Misses Maryalin Snelbyville as attendants to City Marshall Jackson. A Methodist Sunday School picnic at Dark's Mill was postponed to July 19. A Sunday wind storm downed trees. several residents recover from illness. Various local people travel, visit Nashville, or nearby towns. Mill & Elevator Co. opens new wheat operation. One boy nearly injured by a fall on Twelfth Street. Allen Powell jokes about bowing.
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