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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
2
Maury Dry Goods announces a spring stock push as winter ends, urging shoppers to buy now while heavy goods and abundant spring styles arrive. The ad emphasizes low prices, expanded space, and a vast, stylish assortment of new spring merchandise.
A garbled ad lists fabrics including China and Smyrna mats, Brussels laces, and rug remnants. It touts sale prices per yard, with lines about 10 yard quantities, 12 percent GST, and weekend discounts, noting good quality and variety for home furnishing needs.
Daily arrivals of Spring Goods bring growing quantities and evolving selections. Customers are urged to visit repeatedly to discover new items and enjoy continual surprises as stock updates unfold.
Sae twelve yearling values and mill work near Ashwood to start. Jos Osteen of Hardison's Mill visiting kin. Maggie Green visiting Dark's Mill area. Maria Green returns to Catheys Creek after relatives visit. Poland China sows swapped for milk cow. inquiry at A J Fly's office. Nebo citizen ill. Ben B Gray of Williamson county greets friends. Phosphate forks and picks offered. inquire at Henatnoffice. Misses Bessie and Camille Gordon travel to Louisville and Hopkinsville Ky. Laura Braga attends McDowell's school living with aunt J T Butts. H Tankersley recovers from illness. Virginia Land Plots arriving mid-February. orders ahead to J P Street & Co. Horace Thomas studying medicine with Dr Perry. Dr Shaddan relocating to Payetteville. Davis Mitchell improving after St. Louis treatment. Tyne couple visit Friersons at Mt Pleasant. Pike from Theta to Columbia nearing completion. Six or seven cats of pencildimper shipped Groveland to South Witteburg. Ardola and Mackie Scott visit Elmwood then return home. Samuel R Watkins returns from Louisville sanitarium. not as improved as hoped. Mrs Latta, grandmother of Resstor Latta, gravely ill at Knol Creek. ninety-onest birthday noted. John Lottin loses ten Southdown sheep to disease. dog low referenced. Sale of notes by Thomas Barrow drawn by American Phosphate Co to W J Webster to be at National Bank this Saturday Mar.
A sale event is listed at McGaw’s stable located at the corner of North Main and Sith streets as details remain unclear and partially unreadable.
At the Tuesday Board of Education meeting Prof Jax E Scobey was elected to the faculty for the present term. He will teach fifth grade at the Public School building while Mary W Frierson moves to second grade. Scobey plans to transfer private pupils to the public school and be paid by headcount, up to 40 per month. The board weighs moving all wire to the Athenaeum and separating classes by sex, with parental input via blank forms.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society met at the First Methodist parsonage Wednesday afternoon. Officers elected include Mrs. John B. Ashton as President and Miss Lucy Floyd as Treasurer. Treasurer's report shows 1240 collected with 845 pledge to general fund and 225 to the Twentieth Century Fund. Two new members enrolled. Delegate named and alternate chosen for the annual conference. A missionary tea is planned at Mrs. G. T. Flughes' on March 25 with invitation to all church ladies. Corn Planters noted briefly in the closing item.
A call urges every South family to plant pecan trees citing hardiness and shade value. It suggests sidewalk plantings for municipal revenue, outlining potential earnings and tax relief over years. Advocates Pinebluff Grape & Pecan Co for circulars and notes related farm and fence ad content.
Members of the Rotsil Clerks Association met Wednesday night in the Royal Arcanum over the Maury National Bank to perfect the organization. Officers elected include W. T. Keaton as President, Ea lurner as first vice president, Harry Frierwan as second vice president, Fred Owen as corresponding secretary, John M. Lee as guide, Tom Blair as treasurer, WA. Willik as recording secretary. Trustees Riley Butler EH. O. Sowell Jan. McGregor were named, with several community affairs to follow.
The Ballanfant will contest in Maury County Circuit Court ended Wednesday with a verdict that the instrument claimed as the will of the late Jota Ballanfant is not valid. Costs will go to the successful side and the estate will be distributed per intestacy laws. In other Maury news, the Maury County Teachers Association met, discussed a Summer Institute, and planned future meetings. A license for Tom Carroll to marry Maggie Reed was pursued, but a confrontation with Maggie’s rival suitors interrupted the planned nuptials. Carroll remained determined to wed Maggie.
Money to Loan offers real property loans through attorney J B McLamore. Polk Miller, famed Richmond delineator of negro character, visited the Bethell on Friday morning en route to Florence Alabama to entertain audiences with stories and banjo. Louisville Courier Journal praises him as the best one man show in the United States. Also notes Hoosier Corn Planters advertise recent improvements and urges purchase.
A local sale offers huwkies and surries to clear space for spring goods. Two white men, Sarrenenin and Consox, Tom Bechanas and Ed Barks, were jailed last week and escaped Friday with help from two women. Officers later recaptured the women and the men surrendered, freeing the women. Also notes a cold remedy advertisement.
In Chancery Court yesterday a bill seeks to forfeit the company charter, revert the right of way to the county, and appoint a receiver if needed. Plaintiffs led by J. T. Petty and about twenty relators accuse the corporation of charter violations. Attorneys include Frank Boyd, Greenlaw Whitthorne, and Joe H. Fussell.
Edith Wagner of Waukesha married a Maltese cat in a March ceremony conducted by a rural Justice of the Peace in Mitwacker Wisconsin. She believes the cat houses the soul of her deceased fiancé Edward Hambiin who died of typhoid fever years earlier.
Expectant heirs in Marshall County, including LewisnearG and other relatives, are viewed as likely beneficiaries of the substantial estate of Poindelphm Js. C. Fisher of Verdi, with estimates suggesting a distribution between 12 million and 150 million dollars. Fisher is currently stationed in Springfield, Tennessee.
The W A Jackson and Company store on North Main street was closed by execution issued by Phillips Webb and Company of Neabrille for an indebtedness of 841142.
A list shows officials remaining in office through March 5 1901 including Biers Mayes Blalock Carter Manghram Crutcher Daugherty Neolee Duncan Furia Griswell Griffin Hattis Till Jones Johnson Johnson Lirtiser Marr Stewart Thompson Williams and others. Advertised letters noted as well as Nashville Bridge Bill political action. Also mentions Secretary Morton granting Tennessee Northwestern Railway charter with 85000 capital to build Wayne County to Tennessee River, and Interstate Construction Company charter with same capital. Field Seeds advertised as seed sellers.
The fragmentary news item mentions a Columbia market report and a park setting with unspecified events. No clear persons or organizations are readable. The text provides limited details about dates or outcomes. Further readable details are needed to produce a precise card.
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