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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
5
A long list of friends and relatives visiting Columbia and nearby towns. Names include A. G. Hall D. Whitson and many others from Nashville Du plex Louisville Birmingham and Gallatin. Travel to Gallatin Dixon Springs Chattanooga and St. Louis is noted along with illness recovery and a wedding watch.
A digest of residents and visitors from Fayetteville Nashville Guthrie Ky and Louisville with trips to Marion Alabama and St Louis. Includes Mrs. Barab Steele Mr William Moses and family and more. Local officials and doctors travel for meetings in New Orleans Hot Springs and Union City. Weather unusually cold for weeks and a sale ad for a second hand phaeton.
Steve Poring and Jax Lewis depart in a note of travel as the phosphate city braces for a mayoral race. The contest pits former mayor Ketwean J. Mitt Hanter against George W. Killebrew with European trips and local ally talk shaping the tense campaign dynamic.
An ad touts Clifton towels as a better buy than visiting a dry goods store for Texela. It claims Clifton products resist moisture, are sturdy, and that buying in bulk adds value, finishing with a nod to AFI and ROS.
A crowd filled town Monday as shops did brisk business. Local liveryman John Johnson lost the tip of a finger to a horse. Miss Libbie Wood resumes duties after nail injury. Doc Merrill signed as catcher for upcoming season. A P P’s visiting Columbia lodge held a body of candidates. Second hand surreys and phaetons offered for sale. Knights of Pythias carpet installed with symbols. John Trotwood Moore may judge Birmingham Horse Show. Gen John B Castleman and a Baltimore acquaintance named as other judges. Robt H Guest W J Goad and Mel Butts return from Union City after a damage suit.
Readable fragments indicate a lease sale of 950 acres of pasture land with fields and running water. The property to be rented until November at the Claweou sale near Kittrell.
The South Columbia Methodist Church is undergoing repairs with no services Friday night or Sunday. The revival at the Christian Church continues with unabated interest. Three new converts were baptized.
Classified line reads a brief want to buy notice for eating items from A Sloan & Co, with contact implied by the listed phone numbers. The fragment indicates a purchase request rather than sale details.
Invitations from Mr and Mrs James Sanders Neapolis announce the marriage of their daughter Frances Irvine Sanders to Mr Brest Jones of Franklin. The ceremony will take place at the bride’s parents home on Wednesday afternoon May 13 at 3 o clock. Frances Sanders is a popular local figure and active in church and social circles. Mr Jones is a well known young man from Franklin and former citizen of Columbia.
Mrs. Julia Thompson wife of the late Samuel Thompson died Saturday night at Hampshire and was buried Sunday at Pisgah. She was 42 and lived in Maury County. Survived by five children and several grandchildren, with siblings Col. Nat Jones and Mrs. Dr. Leftwich, among others.
Mrs Eliza Calhoun aged sixty dies at her relative John Davis home in Ewell Station after kidney trouble. She lived in Metropolis TL.
A two year old African American boy, son of Joe Patterson, was killed near Mt. Pleasant when a wagon ran over him at noon Monday. He played in the road unaware of an approaching wagon and died instantly as wheels passed over his body.
The Lawrence Iron Company will hold its annual meeting of stockholders at 11 a.m. on Wednesday May 20, 1903, at the Maxwell House in Nashville Tennessee for election of directors and other business. Secretary J. H. Eakin signs the notice.
Judge Gordon held criminal court Wednesday hearing many mia lomeanor cases, most of which were dismissed, according to the report.
Traveling through the South for health, a family visit with Reg. Davis’s kin preceded a funeral held at 8 PM at Spring Hill. Rev. J. M. Harrell led the service and the interment followed at Spring Hill Cemetery.
Daniel White aged 67 died at his Gosteo home Monday night funeral services led by Rev Whittaker Tuesday afternoon with burial at the local burying ground. Joanne Carter Hill aged 55 died at her Leiper's Creek home Friday evening.
The Winnie Davis Chapter of the Confederacy will hold its regular monthly meeting next Monday after noon at 4 o'clock with Misa Lucey Williamson.
A sale at the Kittrell farm in Clawson ante on Saturday features fancy driving horses offered to buyers. Local buyers and horse enthusiasts attend to bid on the driving stock and related equipment.
Mr John Gant of R Gant and Bro has resumed business in the same square location once occupied by R Gant and Bro. The firm recently assigned has shifted back into the rowery and produce trade.
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