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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1910
Page
5
The article details a large alumnae gathering planned for the 75th anniversary of Columbia Institute. It lists committees, invitations accepted by numerous alumnae, and events from Friday welcoming remarks to Sunday chapel services with Bishop Gailor.
The Maury county Democratic Executive Committee votes June 4 1910 for electing district committeemen to represent each district for two years. Towler and others push for primary details while harmony efforts clash with Patterson faction adjournment follows.
A readable fragment lists residents and household names on Mayes Street including Mayes Stiwe Lacie Hofman and Mrs. McMulles along with several others such as Mrs. Barber Russell and Mrs. Gordon Dalton in an incomplete notice.
D. T. Sanders of Harrodsburg Ky recalls friends mistaking him for a doomed consumptive. He reports trying Dr King s New Discovery which stopped his cough and improved his health. The ad claims the remedy cures coughs colds lagrippe asthma croup hemorrhages whooping cough among others priced at 1.00 per bottle and guaranteed by Geo S Alcorn. Subscribe for The Herald.
A slate of Democratic candidates was named including Circuit Judge W Bruce Turner Attorney General Horace Frierson Jr County Judge J Trim McKnight County Clerk Hardin W Thomas Circuit Clerk Sam A Hayes Register Sam J Taylor Sheriff Claud Godwin and Trustee W Spence McFall.
Mrs Melvin Calvert and Misses Kate and Edna Thurman travel through the area toward Mt Pleasant. Mrs J D Barnett has been sick, Irene Baker has had chicken pox. Dr G C Douglas visited his son near McCains. Florence Garner mourns the death of her husband who died in Colorado after a health trip and typhoid spell. remains brought to Pulaski for burial. Mr T Y English Sr attended a meeting in Ebenezer. Grace and Bertha Daniels visited Giles County relatives. Elder Frank Morrow preached at Chris Church meeting in Mt Pleasant. Mr Charles Held went to Lawrenceburg for his brother John Held’s funeral. Mrs Mary B Holt has been sick but improving.
Announcement lists Hon. Lemuel P. Padgett of Maury County seeking renomination for Congress from the Seventh Tennessee District and Walter S. Bearden of Shelbyville seeking reelection as Chancellor of the Fifth Chancery Division, pending Democratic party action.
Ground was broken yesterday for a two story brick dormitory at Jane's School in Lynnville. Rev F D Daniels led the simple ceremony and cheers from the students followed for the new dormitory and for principal A C Burkholder. The building will house forty students and the Gladdish firm of Pulaski has the contract.
In London on May 8 Fransela Singen aged 64 married her longtime lover Herr Wattan also 64 after knowing each other since school days. They wed yesterday at Altdorf and planned a honeymoon to Argentina. They began engagement at 18 when Wattan left Switzerland for South America. They exchanged more than 32 000 letters and many photographs during their long separation.
The Louisiana branch of Standard Oil files a charter in Nashville signaling renewed operations in Tennessee. Local records show the company seeks to establish state presence and business activities downtown.
Jerry Foster, tried for dynamiting fish in Rutherford Creek, was acquitted by a Tennessee magistrate. Deputy Game Warden Gordon testified Foster confessed to the act but lacked eyewitnesses. A note from State Game Warden Acklen urged settlement of costs and stopping dynamiting.
Monte Christo melons and Ken tuck Wonder Pole Beans offered in large quantities by Chaffin Bros at reduced rates for country merchants. Also a health notice for Dean's Regulats indicating gentle bowel movement and stomach tone.
Reports from Kansas City indicate the Hyde murder trial hinges on University of Kansas lab tests to see if embalming fluid injected into a corpse could produce hydrocyanic acid. State scientists test to refute the defense, with potential witness cross examination by Frank P. Walsh. Also notes jurors gathered for religious services in the trial’s exercise room. In Iowa, Robert Madson’s life saved after seven weeks in hospital by Eletric Bitters, five bottles curing liver trouble and jaundice amid prior medical skepticism.
A bronze portrait statue of Samuel Spencer first president of the Southern Railway will be set on Knoxville marble pedestal on the Atlanta terminal plaza. The gift from 30 000 railroad employees will be presented at 2 PM on Saturday May 21. The statue by Daniel Chester French is praised as one of his best works.
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