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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
10
A lyrical reminiscence of Usher the tramp who tended a garden for a Baltimore mistress. Once mocked, he refined the flowers and taught children kindness, earning a quiet fame. He dies beside the garden, a faded picture bearing the words Until death do us part.
A collection of short notices: for rent a four room house in Bignyville with improvements and contact John A. Thomas in Columbia Route 9, Citizens 638-3. Sale of 400 acres near Baton Rouge at $20 per acre via Bacon & Co. Mr and Mrs Hugh Lee Webster plan light housekeeping in June after renting rooms from Miss Camille Herndon. Maury farmer J F Spencer shows a wheat sample with heads five and a half inches long and four to five grains per mesh. Stock Ewes for sale by S L Hayes, Bell phone 2200.
Nashville officials report a 25 percent drop in bad checks after a new law. The measure classifies checks under $20 as a misdemeanor with fines or workhouse penalties, higher amounts as felonies with possible extradition. Retail credit men expect further declines as publicity grows and merchants must notify writers by mail.
Mrs A J Nichols today sent to The Herald office a branch with a fine assortment of large red cherries
Live stock markets held steady in Louisville with top hogs at 7.65 dollars. Sheep and lamb prices showed strong demand as Tennessee lambs sold at 10 to 11 cents per pound. Cattle remained unchanged, led by continued demand for choice-quality animals.
The county high school board at its annual meeting approved faculties for Central High School in Columbia and Mt. Pleasant High School. Columbia will have nine teachers, an added position to handle expanded classes, while Mt. Pleasant keeps its existing staff. Appropriations: $6,750 for Columbia and $2,755 for Mt. Pleasant. Cookeville Polytechnical bill cuts county high school funding by 25 percent. Total enrollments were 231 at Columbia and 99 at Mt. Pleasant.
Infant son of Mr and Mrs G B Rees died at their Park Station home and was buried at 1 PM in Pleasant Mount cemetery Maury Undertaking Co. arranged the service. B Kerr of Park Station died at home on Friday and was laid to rest Saturday at 1 PM in Pleasant Mount cemetery.
W R Bond Esq of Mt Pleasant, aged about eighty five, lies in King's Daughters hospital after a fall that caused back injuries following a prior broken leg last February. He remains active and retains his faculties despite the prolonged illness and current ailment.
Old Sol has shown for two days as binder whirs through several fields in Maury. Barley and rye are being cut. wheat harvest started earlier due to dry spring weather. Yield estimates vary widely and will be clearer after bar is harvested.
Alfred Fleming Thomas, former trustee and Insurance man, described as not unimpeachable in veracity, is accused of sponsoring a story about a Cullooka dog that mothers a litter of young pigs. The pigs follow the dog and nurse from her, with affection described as mutual in a Morais newspaper feature.
The Tennessee State Sunday School Association will hold its convention in Knoxville from Tuesday to Thursday, June 8 to 10. About 300 delegates are expected, with speakers including John L. Alexander, national teenage department superintendent, and D W Sims, Georgia state Sunday school association general secretary, among others from Tennessee and beyond.
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