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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
5
One lot of suits priced from 17.59 to 22.50 offered as choice values. Coats listed at 15 and 17.89 with other garments such as waists and children's dresses included. A remaining lot of suits from last season features values 10 to 20 dollars and is offered at a deep discount.
Local society items list Miss Ludy Hayes returning from Nashville and visiting relatives in Memphis while Mrs. W. W. Evane visits, and several Misses and Mrs. Barbers guests from Glasgow and Batonton. Attendees include Cadet Anderson, Miss Charlotte Sminer, Dr J H Barber, Col J F Brownlow, Webb School events, and trips to Cincinnati Nashville and Mt Carmel with numerous residents attending dances and hospital visits.
Pleasant and relatives visit relatives in the city while others travel to Spokane and Charleston. J B Sharp and Clarence Fry return from Fort Oglethorpe on reserve duty awaiting orders. Elizabeth King Mary Watking prepare to travel to Charleston. W R Peagler returns home to Bristol after visiting Miss Mary Mangrom. Annie Louise Latta returns from Nashville state Club dance. Mrs Luther Frierson, Mrs D Arcy Miller, Mrs Hal Moore and baby, and the Miller sisters from Mt Pleasant shop in Columbia.
The notice states that all residents aged 21 to 80 must register on Tuesday June 5 in county precincts or face arrest and one year in prison upon conviction. Providing false information or age also carries the same penalty, with Sheriff Griffin directing registrars to compile lists of nonregistrants.
Sunday schools of the 3rd and 4th districts meet at Neapolis next Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock for their annual convention. A splendid program is planned and a large attendance is expected from all local Sunday schools in the area. Hon. W. J. Russell, president of the County Sunday School Association, will speak.
Col. Brownlow returns to town after participating prominently in the Southern Baptist convention deliberations in New Orleans He helped launch a movement expected to significantly influence the convention's future trajectory.
Amusements notice announces a two day return engagement of The Birth of a Nation at the New Grand Theatre Columbia on May 26 to 29 with matinees and nights. Seats on sale at Maury Dry Goods Co. Mail orders receive careful attention. The production features a thirty piece orchestra and a large crew with a ten by nine foot booth for projection. The piece has set records in New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and St Louis and is being duplicated abroad.
The Friday and Saturday weddings span Cullooka to Decatur and Columbia. Nancy Lou McKibbon wed R W Collier at Srulser's drug store with Hugh Lee Webster officiating as guests packed the store. Harris Blair and Ella Louise Blair wed at Dr Stein's home. Graves and Blanche Wilkes married at Rev Chenault's South Columbia residence. Wilsford and Edna Whitehead tied the knot in Greenville with plans to settle in Tuscaloosa. Community celebrations, prizes at Gitig Institute and local club events round out the social page.
Markets showed a general downward trend with wheat at 2.18 July, down 5.5 cents. Lambs reached a high at Louisville at 19.60 per hundred, hogs down 50 cents per hundred, cattle dull with large receipts, eggs steady at 30 cents, poultry unchanged.
Market rundown shows cattle dull and lower with a fifty cent drop across grades, hogs down about five to six cents, sheep steady to slightly higher on lambs, receipts sizable at 5 000 hogs and 1 100 sheep. Produce and grain quotations follow with various prices for eggs butter and seed, as listing from local elevators.
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