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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
2
Advertising lists bleached vests with tape finishes and two yard wide white organdy at 35e and 450 per yard. Ladies knit pants and lace trimmed garments priced, with new commencements and graduation dresses in white chiffon, batiste, organdie, and swiveled fabrics. New laces including Val and Mechlin edges, insertions, bands, and medallions offered.
Various brief notices list visits and travel among Cullooka Franklin and Waxahachie, sales offers for surreys and farm goods, a loan advertisement, a missing day book, a horse theft hearing, and local appointments. Names include Mabel Wilkes, J.P. Street & Co, W. J. Embry, Dr. B.G. Grant, Emily Avent, James Brooks, and Kirk Loftin among others. A dark red leather day book is lost with valuables.
Knoxville May 21 The discovery of six notes on five men found dead in the Prater Ville mine at Coal Creek shows they lived several hours after the explosion. The men hid in a chamber behind a brattice of wood hoping to avoid gas until help arrived, but aid came too late. Letters to wives mothers and friends describe impending death and call for loved ones to meet them in heaven. The latest death toll is 224 including contract miners day laborers and boy helpers. The most recent find was thirteen bodies in an entry.
The circuit court docket outlines civil cases set from May 26 to June 14 involving Tennessee Phosphate Co L&.N Railroad Co Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co Central Phosphate Co Hartford Life Insurance Co and multiple parties including W F Wilson mayor alderman and various administrators with dates May 26 24 29 30 31 June 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 and 18 featuring adrmrs administrators and plaintiffs such as J R Gilliam A F Brown Joe Jones Woodruff Brown and S H Goodloe with multiple case numbers and associated parties.
The advertisement touts a vast stock of buggies and wheeled vehicles with wide selections and tempting prices. It highlights 25 Farris and Dopson as a key showroom or vendor to visit for the best deals.
Mr Daniel N McKennon fell on the porch steps at the Bailey home Sunday morning, breaking an arm and suffering a deep head gash. He is in frail health, nearly blind and hard of hearing, and has returned to his Hampshire home.
Lieut Bathiany of the Columbia Arsenal left Wednesday with Private Murphy for Ft Thomas Ky where Murphy will be court marched for a disorderly incident at the Bethel House about two weeks ago. It is alleged he cursed and abused Lieutenant Bathiany when remonstrated. Lieutenant Pond, on leave, has been appointed Battalion Adjutant at Ft Thomas. Lieutenant Gibson of Company M has been transferred to Company K and will arrive soon from San Francisco.
Readable line item notes advertise potato barrels and barrels made by experienced coopers. Mentions contact method via telephone numbers 174 and 810-311 for Maury Barrel Co Citizens. The fragment references May 2 and two businesses offering barrel services.
Death claims Miss Mina A Adkisson at home on South Main Street after long illness. Funeral held at her parents residence with Rev J A Molloy officiating, Rose Hill Cemetery. Also notices Mary Moore aged 77 dies at Rutherford Creek home. burial at Bunch Cemetery. Lyonville reports Mary Orr death at about 85. Pulaski notes Capt William Everly death four miles from town, veteran of Mexican and Civil Wars. Legal notice: money loan offers by attorney W B Greenlaw for clients.
A local shop promotes a broad catalog including Swiss insertions and Bealings, laces, lace caps and hats, ribbons, and summer wear. Men’s shirts, underwear, gloves, and shoes, plus fishing tackle and brushes, are featured. A wide wall paper range promises savings on every purchase.
Iron City Tenn May 20 Mrs Joe Creesey of Cypress Inn area Wayne County cut her throat in a failed suicide attempt yesterday afternoon. She had been an invalid for months and despondency is blamed. She survived overnight but faces a grim outlook. A $650 reward was posted for Frencher Caperton, accused of killing Wash Brewer on Holly Creek, funded by the deceased's friends at the graveside after yesterday's burial.
Potatoes barrels made from beat dry stock by experienced coopers. For inquiries call Maury Harrel Co at phones 810-811. Cullooka Nursery advertises fruit trees shrubs vines and acclimated stock from Cullooka Tennessee with delivery in May.
Mrs. Sue Higgins announces the marriage of Ma Tema Higgins to Me. Andrew Buchanan at Fayetteville Tennessee on June 4 1902. Invitations note Mary Thoreea Phillips to Ben Childers on June 4 at Liberty Hall near Pulaski. A surprise wedding of Beasie Kannon and W H Puryear occurred in Nashville after a Columbia meeting.
Misa Lola Reese and Mr Walter Witherspoon wed Sunday at the bride’s Wood Street home with Esq R H Guest officiating. The couple enter a circle of friends who wish them happiness in their new life together.
A group of merchants including Watkins Harlan Evans McKennon Adernon Foster J Rosenthal T N Figuera Maury Dry Goods Co and A J Nichols agree to daily early closing from May 21 through September 1 at 6 15 p m with Saturdays exempted.
A brief notice invites owners of milk cows to contact Columbia Mercantile Storage Co about available fodder items including cotton seed cotton seed meal bran corn oats and various hay. The ad emphasizes a phone contact option.
The Maury County Teachers Association will hold its next regular meeting at the Athenæum building on Saturday June 7. All teachers of the county are urged to attend to transact business before the State Pedagogy Institute. Jane By 16, the president, requests prompt attendance.
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