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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1902
Page
2
Maury Dry Goods promotes affordable underwear with a lively sales pitch. Choice of 75 cent night gowns chemises drawers skirts and 50 cents each. Gowns skirts priced 2.06 and 2.50 with trims, plus knit underwear including lisle vests at five cents and other items reduced in similar proportion.
New stock includes 42 inch Shark Skin Armore at 75 cents per yard and 56 cent Sturm Serge. Linens sale offers full bleached table linen at 50 cents, unbleached at 25 cents. Towel crash and cotton crash discounted, sheets priced low, domestic at 5 cents yard, bleached domestic at 7 cents. Lawns dimities and cambrics from 12 1/2 to 15 cents, carpets and mattings on ground floor with 10 to 20 percent savings. Closeout on wool carpets and China mattings at reduced rates.
Over the county many names and places appear including Mt. Pleasant Primes Santa Fe Winchester Cul jeoka and Williamsport. Officials and families travel for illness visits weddings and fairs while local events include an ice cream supper at Union Grove and Gaunt workhouse escapes.
June 2 reporting from London says King Edward shows notable improvement after operation. He drained eggs and trout and soda, with his own hands opening lamps, and doctors express cautious hope. Despite coronation eve crowds, the city’s mood is calmer than Tuesday, reflecting reduced danger fears.
Circuit Court will hear appeal cases by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen against Bailey Peyton Len Adcock Otey Dockery and Ben Lipscomb charged with violating the Sunday law and re set for today. Mayor Yoest City Attorney Towler and Aldermen Abbott Bennett Lavender Tucker and Dugger request special counsel James A. Sintger to dismiss the cases citing unequal treatment the punishment already given and the citys best interests. Simiser has not yet decided. Separate trials proceed for Taylor Vestal Wen Green and Dal Walters both colored charged with meat theft from J E Satterfield at Santa Fe and that session likely ends Saturday.
Special to the Herald from Nashville reports a woman involved in the Marks case, suggesting she may be one of his victims. It notes he tried to borrow about $4,000 from her, she is now a widow in Atlanta, formerly in Nashville, and met Marks at houses of assignation, challenging his reputed high morals.
Nashville June 24. It was disclosed today that A B Marks forged the signatures of Gen Jackson and his son Win H Jackson Jr to a note for 4500 dollars to obtain funds from W C Johnson cashier of a Hickman Kentucky bank. He also forged their names to four notes for 4000 dollars in favor of J D Hutton cashier of the other party.
The page advertises crushed rose and Verona violet talcum powder in large glass bottles at 120, Mennonite talcum powder, other powder grades, toilet rang, parasols, crepe papers, writing tablets, and stationery. It lists men and boys underwear, shirts, dresses, and a broad range of travel goods, suits, sweaters, and bags with prices and discounts, urging a larger line than before.
A local store advertises bamboo porch shade sixes Boe and BOE brands for cream freezers, White Mountain Arctic Quren items, flower pots in all sizes, hammocks and woven wire options, fly traps and sticky paper, parlor matches, steel garden hoes, toy garden sets, croquet sets, coolers, whitewash brushes, tap mats for lawns, and wall paper stock. invites customers to see the store before buying.
Drilling for oil starts today on the McRady farm near Lewisburg marking Marshall county’s first oil attempt. Indications of a possible discovery are promising as gas escapes from a nearby well, and the Duck River Valley Oil Co of Maury county funds the 1,000 foot bore. Thousands of acres in Marshall are pledged by various companies awaiting results.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen met in a called session to formally accept the conveyances and bond of Mr. J. Le Hutton. Conveyances include the Twelfth Street extension and a new street from ee to Garden. The deeds were accepted and Hutton’s $15,000 bond covers faithful performance of his city contract.
Checks totaling 6,800 issued in January payable to local financiers were diverted by Gen. Jackson and Marks. After writing Or bearer, Marks deposited them to his own credit at the bank. An unrelated ad promotes Draughon’s Practical Business Colleges with locations in Ashville, St. Louis, Atlanta, Montgomery, Little Rock, Shreveport, Ft Worth and Galveston.
Potatoes barrels advertised as made from premier ary stock by skilled coopers. References to Maury Barrel Go and Citizens' phones 810-811. Local notes mention weather, drought effects on corn, and a need for a good farming season with light showers reported and a cold afternoon thermometer reading.
Third candidate Jones A. Tate, state chairman, says temperance forces will nominate a governor candidate to challenge Republican and Democratic nominees. Possible options include Col. R. Cheves, Maj. A. D. Reynolda, and Will A. McTeer, with a wide statewide campaign planned.
Advertisement notes potato barrels made from beat ay stock by experienced coppers. Mentions Maury Marvel Co and Citizens phones. Date May 2 listing and price references appear, with unclear details and contact notes.
Franklin June 25 A meeting of citizens was held to raise subscriptions for a male academy building. Dr Howlett presided W A Roberts secretary. The committee reported 6000 raised toward a 10000 total to buy grounds and erect the building. Stock will be raised to subscribers and the building owned here. Local interest spans town and county as subscriptions grow.
A brief notice touts Satterfield and Dodson selling wire fence and encourages subscribing to the Hearld. The ad highlights their product and availability.
Ashton Bros announces full operation with flood repairs and an overhauled mill. It touts up-to-date machinery and superior flour and meal quality, inviting custom grinding and wheat supply from customers.
The Tuesday vote in Mr Pleasant elected Mr Bithal Howard over Mr H D Rohm 69 to 9 for alderman of the first ward. A prior election had tied Rohm and H H Goodloe triggering a second contest after Mr Goose declined to run again.
The Sixteenth Infantry with four companies to be stationed at the Colombia Arsenal is due in San Francisco on July 10. The regiment will rest briefly in San Francisco before being sent East or expected to reach here about August first.
Columbia Tenn firm Brittain and Abbott advertises handling granites and marble monuments tablets markers coping corner posts and other building stone. Mentioned are an enlarged shop pneumatic tools power plant and personal supervision on projects. Telephone listed with incomplete details.
A 54 year old man named O. L. Thompson was arrested on a shanty boat on the Mississippi River about twenty miles from Ripley. He is charged with poisoning his two stepchildren aged 4 and 12. A woman claiming to be his wife and mother of the children was also arrested and admits witnessing the poisoning.
A spark from a threshing engine ignited a straw stack on the farm of John M Gray on Wednesday. The stack was destroyed while the thresher was moved to safety just in time to prevent injury or further damage.
Irish farmers are busy digging potatoes with yields expected around 12 barrels per acre. Some smaller fields claim up to 20 barrels per acre, but market prices are weak with about 2 dollars per barrel delivered on car.
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