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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
4
Dr. Gro. B. White, president and veterinary director, formerly Tennessee state veterinarian, heads White Serum Company in Nashville. The firm manufacturers and distributes patented anti cholera serum and virus products, with Adams Street address in Nashville, Tennessee.
An enthusiastic meeting in the Maury county courthouse organized a company to join the First Tennessee regiment for service in the Mexican border region. Captain Austin Cabler urged duty and sacrifice while speakers noted the national stakes and the need to complete enlistments by Saturday. Names of 24 who signed Friday night are listed, with more expected at a 10 am Saturday meeting.
Mrs. Mary tos Marie from High Point North Carolina states kidney trouble kept her awake five to seven times nightly. After using Foley Kidney Pills she no longer wakes at night and considers her condition normal. She attributes improvement to the medicine.
The Herald announces Walter McCandless Jesse Overton Webb Williams Ben G Hill and others as Tax Assessor candidates for Maury County. Also notes Walter Griffin seeks reelection as Sheriff Trustee John W Adkerson for re election and R L Dalton for Constable in the first district in the August 3 1916 election.
The Junior Order United American Mechanics held a regular session voting on a long list of applicants from the recent campaign. Eight new members were admitted and the barbecu e was postponed until initiations proceed. The committee will pick a site and date. A moonlight picnic on Judge McKnight's Hampshire pike property may be discussed at next meeting with an Indies invitation.
An ad promises a trial package from Foley & Co in Chicago with Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, Kidney Pills, and Catarrh Tablets for bronchial coughs and colds. It urges readers to cut out the notice and send name and address to receive the sample. Also promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a cure for impure blood with a price of $1.00.
A Maury county review covers May 1 1915 to May 1 1916 showing 159 true bills, about one per 250 residents in a 40 000 population. Over half the indictments were liquor related. other offenses included housebreaking larceny murder and assault. Abstracts detail counts by crime with 69 liquor cases 20 larceny cases and seven for ar* rest for not finishing.
Senator Andrew L. Todd of Murfreesboro visited Columbia on Friday to discuss opening a branch office. A long-time figure in state politics, he has served as county superintendent and assistant state superintendent, and for four years in the legislature. He is not on the impeachment court due to his brother in law Hunter Wilson filling the vacancy left by the defendant’s impeachment.
Notice offers loans on improved Minate Tennessee farms from one to ten years at 5 percent with early repayment and on city property at low rates. Attorney W. C. Salmon handles the matter. Also an advert for Foley Cathartic Tablets claiming quick relief from indigestion and sour stomach with one evening dose.
An advertisement from Gainesville Georgia promotes Foley Kidney Pile as a cure for sleeplessness and various ailments. It claims improvement after taking the product, recounting personal relief, and urges readers to take two pills with water after meals and at bedtime.
Col. Mora B. Fariss, clerk and master, has returned from Oroca where he attended the Knights of Pythias grand lodge. He was re-elected a trustee for six years. Other Maury county delegates included Clarence Calvert W Harris Puryear Robert Akin and Thomas B Forgey.
In a wary exchange a speaker questions a deed of trust as lawyers discuss its drafting. The remark suggests distrust between parties amid the careful wording observed by both sides.
An old advertisement from The Smiser Drug Co. touts Adiert-ka as a universal laxative. It claims one spoonful of buckthorn bark and glycerine mixture relieves constipation and stomach gas quickly and safely without griping, even in appendicitis cases.
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