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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1912
Page
10
A wartime claims list presented to Congress includes hundreds of Tennesseans who had not previously been offered compensation. Among the names is a beneficiary associated with the Columbia Christian Church in Tennessee.
Capt. I F Murdock of Platte City Missouri, superintendent of the Confederate Soldiers' Home, and companions visited Franklin's battlefield on their way to the Macon reunion. Local ex Confederates escorted them and honored Murdock for his wartime 29-man assault and his contribution after the cyclone damaged McGavock Cemetery, aiding $200 for repairs.
Mina Jackson May 9. An executive ofference of the National Cotton Union will be held here with Barrett presiding. A formal conference will outline plans to broaden the cotton belt. Farmers Company Mississippi discussed bases for economic profit. Proposal favors establishing warehouse facilities and closer cooperation among cotton inds, seedmen, and warehouse interests.
State Superintendent J W Brister appeals county superintendents to investigate local illiteracy, share statistics, and plan elimination efforts. He cites 120,966 illiterate native whites aged ten plus statewide and notes only three counties have data. He urges ninety six counties and forty four cities to act and gain national notice.
Walter A. Wood binders mowers and rakes are built stronger with better material than the trust machines Our price is lower a look will convince you they are superior Street Martin I Vaughan Co
Marry county road commission members Petty Hill and Hughes spent Wednesday in the Fifth District viewing a proposed road from the Valley road to the Pulaski pike between the Tegram property and the Valley road. No decision was announced.
Miss Waggoner's Monday night program will be displayed for advance viewing. An enthusiastic audience praised her recital with Miss Collier and Mrs. Bruce McGehee at Institute hall. Birthday offerings to the Woman's Missionary Society raised $56. social events included Miss Elizabeth Moore entertaining Lynnville visitors. Vanderbilt Sigma Nu dinner honored Miss Louise Clawson in Nashville. The Young Ladies Missionary Society postponed meetings. Friday's program by Miss Mary Ashton’s pupils begins commencement week with a dance at the Century Club.
Special price reductions on voiles and white goods. 35c quality mercerized striped and plaid dress voiles 22c yard. 250 quality fancy striped voiles and fancy dotted Swiss at 86c. 36 inch white and colored dress linens 220 per yard. 85c flaxen and sheer white batistes 19c. India Linen and Printed Lawns 7c per yard. Damask 29c per yard. Ladies skirts sale from 4.95, with creams blacks and blues. Various Panama and linen skirts reduced to 3.49 or 1.50.
Bargain textile sale lists Wash Goods 12 4c and Joc quality dress suttings all colors at 9 cents per yard. Beat quality dress ginghams at 10 cents, 10 cent quality per cale at 7 1/2 cents. Sea Island Domestic at 8 cents per yard. Best brand Calico at 5 cents per yard.
Reduction offer for ladies ready-to-wear skirts in tan blue white and black serges whipcord bedford cord and all wool worsteds. Models range from trimmed to plain tailored. Regularly 8 dollars 50 cents now 6 dollars 50 cents.
Ladies furnish 36c quality ladies black silk hose for 25c good Hele hose two pair for 25c. Ladies gauze vests for 1s ladies knit union suits for 25c. Ladies long black and white silk gloves for 1.00 per pair.
A Millinery sale advertises one lot of $7.50 pattern hats including large and small sizes for $3.49. Ladies hats formerly $4.00 to $6.00 offered at $2.00 to $3.00, plus new ladies sailors priced 50c to $2.50.
The notice advertises trimmed and ready to wear children’s hats at 7.25 for 350 items, 1.50 for 250 hats, 0.75 for 1.26 hats, 0.35 for 76c hats. It also lists 300 bunches of flowers valued up to 1.00 per bunch offered at 0.85 and 0.50 per bunch.
One lot of men's and boys shoes and oxfords in gun metal vie l tan and patent offered at reduced prices. Regular 2 50 values drop to 1 98 and 3 00 values to 2 49. Men's 4 00 shift t shoes and oxfords in latest shapes priced at 3 50.
One set of Ladies Pumps and Oxfords in patent tan kid and gun metal regular 2.25 for 1.69 per pair. One lot of Ladies Pumps and Oxfords white canvas tan patent gun metal in welta and turned soles, regular 8.00 values for 2.24, 4.00 Ladies Slippers in Colonial style in Velvet tan Vici and satin for Saturday Monday and all next week for 2.98. Ladies 16 button white buckskin Boots regular 4.00 values for 2.25. One lot of 2.75 white canvas boots for 1.98.
On Wednesday night at Glendale the Ground Lodge Knights of Pythias advanced five Esquires from Pages. A fine spread followed and the lodge continues in good working order. Other applications remain on the desk for later action.
Captain W B Caperton USN assumes post as commanding officer at Newport today. His home is listed as Columbia Tennessee but he is strongly identified with Washington naval circles. He stands first in line for admiral, a likely future promotion. Captain and Mrs Caperton and Miss Caperton have been staying at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York. Caperton traveled around Cape Horn with Captain Rodley D Brana.
F W Johnson of Pierce Agricultural papers spoke in Columbia on Wednesday and toured the county from Maury to Mt Pleasant. He called Maury the finest country he ever saw, perhaps second only to Lexington Kentucky, praising its farms and overall country.
Mayor Crump and W A Percy of Memphis visit Washington to press for special government aid for the port. They meet with Senators Lea and Sanders Representatives McKellar and Garrett and will confer with engineers and other officials during their stay. The Tennessee delegation pledges full cooperation.
Clarence V. Richeson, under death sentence for Avis Linnell's murder, is described as a Mormon elder secretly connected with the church for years while preaching from a Baptist pulpit. Louie E. Brittain, a former Mormon, swears Richeson led church affairs in Boston and Providence gatherings and issued commands as a Mormon elder.
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