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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
9
Mt Pleasant’s T H Cantrell visits Columbia while a flurry of Nashville residents, including Mies Pearl Sulzer and Miss Gertrude Johnson, travel to Athens and return from Nashville for social visits. Many names bounce between Nashville, Cullooksi, Spring Hill, and Chattanooga for meetings, burials, and commencements with churches, farms, and families noted.
A crowded column lists visitors and travelers in Columbia during reunion week. Many arrive for family gatherings and vacations, including Mrs Brucst Rossiter Farrell of Hattiesburg and Miss Florence McLean of Nashville. Several plan trips to Nashville, Chattanooga, and Europe after commencements and a Gulfport Military Academy term.
The bay horse driven for two years by Drs Wilkes and Biddle was sold by Will Webster to Abeil Frank of Memphis, Tennessee. Smith Thomas trained the horse for just twenty five days and the horse trotted a mile in 2.25. This marks the fastest mile by a trotter in the vicinity.
A large sale in Marry county saw the Leatherwood herd of Howard and Carpenter transferred to Percy Brown of Ewell Farm. The sixty head herd includes fifty nine cows and one bull, all bred in the purple, noted for cream and milk production. Brown also secures a contract to supply Hermitage Hotel in Nashville with dairy products, ensuring a profitable market and premium quality. The herd is expected to move to Ewell Farm and be placed in the dairy there.
Mrs Clandonia Roberts wife of William Roberts of Campbell Station died Sunday at her father T N Andrews nine miles from Columbia on the Lowell Mill pike. She was twenty five and praised as a Christian woman. Funeral at Haynes graveyard today at 1 with Elder F C Sowell conducting. Survived by husband a little girl her parents and two brothers. Smith Cunningham funeral directors in charge.
Mrs. Mary E. Kincade aged 51 died at her brother W E Strong's home on McKay street Tuesday night. Funeral service at 5 pm today at the residence conducted by Rev Walter B Capers. Interment Rose Hill cemetery. She belonged to the Episcopal church and is survived by a mother, two brothers and two sisters. Next Monday egg day at rectors in charge by the Kings Daughters Hospital seeking contributions from Maury county housewives.
Landrum Dodgen has accepted a position with Anderson Bros. and Pas ter. Erwin Houser will begin erecting a residence in Riverside inn soon. C. C. Shellen has recovered and is back at Evans, Parker and Moore's.
Vice President Marshall has conditionally accepted an invitation to visit Nashville for Founders Day at the YMCA. He will deliver an address on June 6 and 15 and a half. The Herald reports the event set for Nashville, Tennessee, with special coverage noting the VP’s participation in the celebration.
The McDowell School building received a fresh coat of paint and roof trim touch up. Cleanup of rubbish around the lot will start immediately and grounds will be beautified to match the new appearance. Parent teachers association supporters deserve credit for the work. Reports suggest plans for a mates training department with the fall term opening, potentially creating another room or two.
Judge fixed next Wednesday for arraignment of L. W. Dutro postmaster charged with soliciting government employees for campaign contributions. Dutro denounced political enemies led by Newell Sanders, Harry O True and Frank O Connor, promising Sanders would be buried politically.
Wednesday afternoon visitors to the Chattanooga reunions started returning and left Pe town at Mt Lookout with more people than it could handle. The regular train will arrive soon and by Friday most countians will be home again.
Special to The Herald Nashville Tenn May 29 reports Eternal Reverus Collector Dunlap resigns effective June 20. A storm of party Democrats compete for the post with no appointment yet. Dunlap will leave Califeenia to live, and the term would have expired next May.
Nashville May 29. Frank West and a prominent Knox County marshal are expected to enter the sheriff race as a law enforcement candidate. West, in Nashville, said he is covering the proposition after 13 friends urged him to run.
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