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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1901
Page
5
Obedient followers of fashion will wear summer collars in comfortable folded style from one and a half to two inches in height. Nine different styles offered. Also new neckwear in bows and narrow fourfold hands and straw hats at regular selling price. Evans.
Mrs CW Bradshaw hosted a Friday morning card gathering in honor of her sister Miss Julia Waller of Louisville with seven progressive hearts tables. Prizes went to Miss Cornelia Jones. guests included many local ladies and a few from Louisville. Lily Warfield and others hosted small gatherings with games and refreshments across several evenings and homes in Columbia and Pulaski Pike areas.
A long list of social notes and travels. Residents and visitors from Nashville Lousiana Alabama and Kentucky are mentioned including Marion Nichols Tilly Hanson George Dalwood and Mary Rainie. People go to Primms Springs Sun Valley and Denver for visits trips and holidays.
Week from a visit to relatives in Arkan as. She was accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. Erwin of Batesville Ark and Mrs. Abbie Anderton of Memphis. Frank Borum resigns from Belknap Co and will be traveling salesman for a hardware house starting August 1 in Montgomery Ala. Misses Mary Reams Della Hensley return to Franklin. Reams to assist Prof. Fred Page at County Institute. Several locals plan trips to Primm's Springs and Colum bia. Private school founder J Ed Ford moves to Columbia. Mrs. Willes and others named ill and recovering. Notice of sales, new arrivals, and city improvements plus two baseball games and a new tin shop in Nashville area.
The Opportunity showcases a liquidation sale in Millinery with trimmed hats reduced to 8 and 1 dollars, large flower bunches cut to 25 9 and 9 cents, ribbons trimmed from 2c to 10c or 5c and baby caps from 10c upward, offering shoppers a guessing game with every dollar spent.
Readers are invited to guess the total vowels in the first two columns of three papers The Columbia Journal July 24 the Maury Democrat July 26 and the Columbia Herald July 26 The prize will go to the guess closest to the exact vowel count and entries must be submitted before the deadline.
Mrs M E Williamson of Lynville Tenn and John Win married Miss Mattie Clifton of Yokely after evading her parents. The couple rode to Columbia to await forgiveness. The Herald notes the elopement and missing garden weed issue in the city.
Today and Saturday three examinations begin at o clock. The University of Tennessee entrance exam, the Peabody Scholarship exam over two days, and the County Primary and Secondary exam one day each led by P. W. Dovson, County Superintendent.
Nicholson Magruder & Co advertise as agents for the largest Tornado fire and life and accident insurers in Tennessee. They operate from Brown Block with telephone contact options.
A house inhabited by Robt Estes south of Columbia on the Campbellrike was burned Monday eight. The structure and its contents were destroyed. Estes carried a $2300 policy on the property. The fire’s origin is undetermined.
Mrs J A Molloy has gone to Lynnville to visit relatives while Mr Theo Dowell returns from Knoxville due to his daughter's illness. Miss Theora Fleming of Gainsville Fla visits Nash, Miss Kate Lattimer visits friends, Miss Lollie Sandifer travels Williamson County, Miss Lauretta Burch of Nashville visits Miss Sadie Grimes. Mr I M Powell improves from jaundice as others remain ill. Rev J A Molloy went to Lynnville Wednesday evening.
Rev A S Pettie preached at First Baptist Sunday night drawing Retail Clerks Association members. Glendale Methodists began a protracted meeting. Rev Carden assists Rev A P Walker. Rev Webb gave his final sermon at First Presbyterian and preached at First Methodist. Mrs Jones of Franklin leads open door Sunday program at Santa Fe Methodist. Rev Clavelnod preaches at Zion. Rev Hawes to speak at First Presbyterian on Morning: How to Concord and Foot Washing at 2:30.
Obituary notices report the deaths of John Marshall Allen and several others in Maury County. Allen, a respected local citizen, died Friday at his home on the Santa Re Pike at age 68. Funeral services were held Saturday at night with burial in the local cemetery. Additional notices recount the sudden death of Edward J. Stone, the passing of Mrs Mary Amis, and the burial of Annie, a six week old child, all within the same community.
Mrs J H Chesser and Mrs J A Chesser died Sunday at McCains. Funeral held Monday at 3 pm, burial in McCains cemetery. Mr Chesser and family moved from Lewis County. Also an infant Wilburo Cheek died at 11 months, buried Friday at Morton graveyard near Park Station.
John Brown died Tuesday at his home near Groveland aged 35. Funeral services were held there Wednesday and burial followed in Hill graveyard. His wife and four children survive. Lynnville Tenn July 15 Hugh Tois of the Buford neighborhood died this afternoon, death attributed to intense heat and heart failure.
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