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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
7
Desperate move by regulars as the assembly adjourns to tomorrow despite independents protests. Senate action triggers bitter fight with a bill to extend terms of election commissioners, deemed unconstitutional by opponents. A therapeutic ad promotes Kidney Bitters amid the political turmoil.
A Sunday school organization for the Sixth district was perfected at a Sunday meeting at McCains with eleven schools represented. Officers elected include John W. Matthews president Luther Wiley vice president G P Howell second vice president B H Atkerson third vice president Thomas Carden secretary pro tem. The district will join the county group and aim to organize schools lacking them.
Consolidated chancery court session heard Wheeler Realty Company of Nashville against John T. Mitchell. The case was joined with Blocker Co in the same hearing and proceeding.
Dr and Mrs Charles A Forgery return from Florida where he spent the winter and is very much improved in health friends glad to know he is on the road to complete recovery
An 1856 Maury County fair premium list was found by Mrs. William Scott. Gen Gideon J Pillow served as president with John Baird and Nash Burt as secretaries and James Akin as treasurer. The list details premiums for home made jeans and linsey among other items, and notes judges led by Mrs. Pillow and other prominent Southern matrons. The fair was to be held October 24 to 26 on the Central Turnpike near Columbia at George M. Martin's grounds.
Roberts faces a chancery court injunction restraining him from disposing of personal property and from interfering with his two children, who are in the custody of his wife. The order was granted yesterday afternoon by Judge Tearden in the chancery court in a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Amanda Roberts.
Edward Ahearns forty five vice president of the Continental Bolt and Ira Works shot himself at his Chicago home in the presence of his wife and niece. He leaves a widow and four children the eldest twelve.
Specials for Saturday and Monday and all next work. Ladies tailored suits in grey and tan for 7.75 and 18 to 20 dollar suits for 10. Short spring coats in black covered cloth for 4.75. Skirts in various fabrics and colors from 2.50 to 7.75. Linen wash skirts in white blue tan and checks priced from 1 to 2.
Local department advertises boys knee suits in latest materials with savings on multiple price points. Sizes range from 6 to 16 with bundles priced from under five dollars and under two dollars for selected items.
A $750 diamond brooch with seven diamonds, owned by Mrs. Walter Daly of Spring Hill, was found four miles from Spring Air by mail carrier J. J. Underwood after a buggy struck it, two diamonds were knocked loose and one later found. Sim Lochridge was fined $25 for selling whisky in city limits.
Moses Loeb aged seventy six, a prominent local Jew, died at 4 20 a m at his daughter Mrs Matilda Rosenthals home on Tenth Street. Funeral in Nashville tomorrow with services at the Cemetery Chapel led by Rabbi Sadore Lewinthal, pallbearers named in Columbia and Nashville. Survived by wife Bettie and children Mrs Moses Lazarus, Mrs Matilda Rosenthal, Laula Loeb of Columbia, and Mrs A Cohn of Americus Ga. Mov ed to the county about fifteen years ago from Georgia and previously in Mt Pleasant. Renowned by friends and associates despite blindness.
Nearly all the convicts in the county work house escaped last night after a prisoner was allowed to carry a pick into the cage and break the lock. Most of the escapees were long term inmates.
An advertisement from Brooks Latham Drug Co promotes Foley Kidney Pills as the right kind of help to neutralize poisons causing back ache headache nervousness and other kidney and bladder ailments. The copy stresses cleansing effects and relief.
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