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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1913
Page
12
Extra Specials for Saturday First Monday and All Next Week at Garbers. Bargains on ladies suits skirts dresses and undergarments with many items priced under a dollar per yard for fabrics and low priced shoes and hats. Warner corsets offer durability and style with prices from one to three dollars.
A piano fund benefit at McDowell school features the Liliputian Minstrels directed by Mrs. John P. McCaw. Admission is 15 and 22 cents. The program includes songs, solos, dances, and comic pieces with many listed performers and characters in two acts.
Thomas Whiteside won the medal for the best grade in mathematics at the closing of the Hampshire school.
In Nashville on May 1 the Tennessee Senate waited with four members present and the House with eleven as both chambers adjourned until later to fish. Cox and McFarland warned the public fusionists that regulars would hold the fort until the next general assembly if needed, while Cox delivered a lengthy defense of the rump house proceedings.
An amendment to the Columbia charter by the recent legislature adds a second polling site for municipal elections. Previously, since 1907, only the court house was used. The new location is at the Louisville and Nashville depot, with voting hours unchanged from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Secretary McAdoo announced a sweeping change in treasury deposits, requiring all government depositaries to pay 2 percent interest starting June. The move widens eligible banks beyond gilt edged institutions, increasing total government deposits in national banks to about 52.65 million and expected annual interest earnings of roughly 1.05 million.
Real estate transfers for April totaled 93810 dollars, signaling a solid month. Despite May’s usual weakness, several large deals are negotiating which could push May’s aggregate well above average if completed.
County Surveyor McKissick is the proud possessor of a brand new typewriter and is doing all his writing on the machine now.
Big interest surrounds the Redpath Chautauquas this season as Gov. Joseph W. Folk of Missouri is due to speak on The Fight for a State. He will address chambers of commerce at lunches and be met by many automobiles on arrival in various cities. Folk is praised as a leading public figure and reformer who helped end gambling in Missouri.
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