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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
12
Heavy rains keep business unsettled in Columbia Tennessee and at Louisville hog and sheep markets. Markets show prices slipping from one to one and a half percent with no other changes quoted.
Louisville and Columbia market reports list cattle shipping prices for various categories, plus sheep, lambs, field seed, junk and rubber, wholesale produce, flour and grain, bacon and lard, with specific prices. Notable items include best shipping cattle at 5.25 to 6.10 per cwt, heavy and medium hogs around 4.05 to 8.90, oats 50 to 66 cents per bushel, and fresh meat prices for bacon and lard.
At a West Nashville Carmack Club gathering Senator Pendleton Jordan Stokes and Professor G W Dyer of Vanderbilt spoke on temperance verity and reform. A champion appeared strong and the audience showed enthusiasm after the addresses by Dyer and Bonner.
Senator Pendleton recalls the bill's passage and governor Patterson the crowd roars in Nashville as Carmack rebukes alleged fraud in the Pendleton act exposes gubernatorial pressure and a heated exchange over Roark pardon. Thousands attend the West Tennessee tour with Carmack and Patterson factions clashing in lively debate.
L Madry of Pulaski accepted the secretary position at the Columbia Military Academy replacing John Pigg who left for Nashville to become head book keeper and secretary at Roberson & McGill Carriage Co. Pigg had served since the school opened and many friends regret his departure.
New York June 3 Charles T Muir a paying teller at the Forty second street branch of the Corn Exchange Bank shot himself after confessing a 9068 embezzlement that had run for five years. He had just been promoted to paying teller when suspicions arose and he fled to the basement to obtain a deposit ticket before confessing and dying at the hospital. Vice President Frew said the shortage was fully covered by a surety bond.
Senator Robert L. Taylor arrived in Nashville after a Washington trip and planned a Texas lecture circuit. He denounces the Nashville American and railroads, defends his Tennessee railroad valuation, and warns of party primary reforms. He claims railroads and editors target him, calls for a statewide primary law, and hopes to curb railroad influence in Tennessee politics.
New York March 3 Custome duties of 60 percent must be paid on a 240000 pearl necklace imported from France by Mrs William B Leeds after a Supreme Court decision by Judge Lacombe sustaining the Collector of the Port. The government appealed from a Board of General Appraisers ruling affirming the higher duty. The pearls were imported as a necklace but treated as individual gems for duty purposes.
William and Ella Wheatley nonresidents of Tennessee and resident unknown. An attachment sworn to satisfy a debt to B. Stephena by account. They must appear before H. F. Furles, Justice of the Peace in Columbia, Tennessee, July 11, 1908, to defend or default will hear ex parte.
In Columbia Tennessee on June 6 1908 the Clerk and Master directs Bertie Hecil Davin a non-resident to appear within three days of the next term to plead answer or be taken as confessed to Emma Davis Grigsby et al complaint. A four week publication in the Columbia Herald is ordered. Atest: A. A. Akin Clerk and Master. FB H & P Hatch er. Bol rs. for Compl.
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