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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
11
Old newspaper item promoting wall paper patterns and combinations, plain oat meals, borders, and binders. Also lists pricing on fly traps, fly papers, paint brushes, varnish brushes, wash brushes, and mats. Mentions velvet rugs and Jap matting rugs with terse price references.
A Columbia creamery movement gains momentum with farmers and dairymen meeting to form a cooperative or profit making corporation. Leaders include Dr Roy Hardison J B Lovell Ripley Steele and James Parish as organizers assess milk supply and secure farmer assurances for a stable operation.
Those spared from expense head to health resorts to purge impurities believed to cause rheumatism back ache and stiff joints. If you cannot go, Foley Kidney Pills are pitched to restore kidney health and relieve pain, boosting strength. Worldldgh Co. advertisement.
Gifts of eggs milk butter vegetables chickens and other dairy items support the hospital and are welcomed as a helpful contribution to the town and county institution of Good Samaritan.
Members of the grand jury enjoyed a sumptuously appointed dinner Friday hosted by Sheriff and Mrs. Walter Griffin. The event offered delightful entertainment in a formal setting.
Wiley Warfield sold his three year old filly Ada Lee W. by Walter Direct to Abé Frank of Memphis for $500. The filly has shown fast gaits at South Side Park this season. Frank saw her step and offered to trade, leading to the sale Thursday morning. She will go to Memphis to join Frank's pacer string and may race this fall in green stakes on the grand circuit.
An advertisement notes Foley Cathartic Tablets are not as endorsed by women as by men due to limited female recognition. It claims both genders suffer indigestion and constipation and promotes the product as wholesome, cleansing, and non GI upset, suitable for removing the over-full feeling.
Friends of Rutherford Brett once pastor of the First Baptist here note his success in law. Brett, who served about fifteen years ago in this city, moved on to study law and has been elected a member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. He has seven children, including a daughter named for Mary Dale and a son named for Edward W. Carmack.
The Hoosier kitchen cabinets sale at Cook Outfit Co ended Saturday night after a week highlighted by strong demand. Miles and Fred Cook said they were highly pleased and noted sales exceeded all expectations, continuing the store’s history with Hoosier cabinets.
Teachers who failed or did not take the recent exam will have another chance on July 15. The upcoming test will use the same questions as the May 1 and June 1 exams, with changes in the items.
Reports from Maury County highlight sales of quality pacing horses and promising yearlings. Napoleon Direct shows fastest workouts, Argot Hal line trains for late-season races, and multiple Direct offspring attract buyer interest and high prices.
A dialogue fragment shows a senator urged to obtain nine cannons for a park but advised against it. The responder promotes planting an olive tree instead and offers free seed to the project.
A Chrysotile fragment details Walter Vincent of Piement Hil North Carolina praising Candul the women's tonic after three summers of severe nerve headaches and prostration. The ad asserts Candul is purely vegetable, builds strength, improves appetite, steadies nerves, and rejuvenates pale cheeks. It invites readers to write to Chattanooga Medical advisory department for a paper book on treatment.
A steel drill bit broke off at 321 feet while boring a well for Columbia Ice and Cold Storage Company. Extraction requires a cast from a soap impression sent to Birmingham for special machinery. The 14 inch bore has reached 331 feet, much through solid rock, and work should resume soon after the drill is retrieved. Deafness ad unused.
Dale Fairfax grandson of world champion Perfection Fairfax arrived at Hampshire from Ohio to lead V A McClanahan's Hereford herd. McClanahan bought the young bull for $300 and officials say he ranks among the finest descendants of Perfection Fairfax, expected to improve the herd's quality.
Meade Frierson Jr., recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with high honors, will re join The Herald staff for the summer. He has been elected instructor of English at the University of Oklahoma for the coming term and earned top honors at the Columbia Military Academy. Frierson has contributed to the Vanderbilt Hustler and begins his duties this morning.
The Grand Jury returned twenty nine true bills this term, bringing total indictments to fifty eight after three prior reports. Cases covered gambling liquor offenses disorderly houses carrying weapons larceny and related crimes. Judge Turner thanked the jurors as the term closed. The panel, praised as one of the best, is expected to have most bills sustained in court.
In the circuit court today the jury in the case of Robert Castleman next friend against Oliver Bingham found a verdict for the plaintiffs for 26 dollars. In Castleman for himself against Bingham a verdict of 150 dollars was returned. George Moody of Cartera Creek was convicted of petit larceny. Lem Booker was also convicted of petit larceny.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kings New Discovery as an affordable remedy for coughs colds bronchial and lung ailments. It claims relief and cure when started promptly with one fourth to one teaspoonful as needed and urges readers to visit a druggist now.
E H Barnstein longtime Century Mines bookkeeper found dead in his bed at Will Browns residence from heart trouble. Body sent to Columbia for burial prep, then shipped to Warrenton Virginia for interment. Prominent Virginia family background, taught school at Mt Pleasant, aged about sixty, never married, Presbyterian member with scholarly attainments.
Edward Gamble longtime Columbia businessman and former alderman died at his Kipning street home after a several week illness. Born June 20 1848 in Shelby Ohio he moved to Columbia in 1864 and built the Columbia Ice Company from a three ton plant to a major local employer. He served on the board of aldermen and the city board of education and was a loyal Presbyterian and Knight of Pythias member. Survivors include two sons Charles and Fred R. Gamble. Funeral services will be held at his residence tomorrow at 1 oclock conducted by Rev L Logan. Funeral director Oakes & Nichols assisted.
A train struck and killed two horses at the M A crossing near the Colm tary Academy. One horse belonged to Mrs Jasrif and the other to So! M. The exact train involved was not determined, and the incident occurred sometime during Thursday.
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