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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
8
Instructions detail registration for all male citizens or aliens born between June 1816 and June 5 1897 excluding certain military personnel. Registration date June 5 with in person or provisional card options, local board office location, and penalties for failure including possible imprisonment and loss of rights.
Adams Latta Drug Co prepares to open in a newly renovated building on the West side of the square formerly occupied by Girley and Hagey. H. F Adams leads the firm with decades in Columbia and Maury County and a plan for a competent proscriptionist. The soda fountain will be run by Albert Sidney Page and Ben Wilson Jackson as the shop readies for Saturday morning opening.
Graves of Confederate soldiers in Rose Hill cemetery will be decorated next Sunday June 2 at 3 oclock under the direction of the Maury Chapter U D C Winnie Davis Chapter U D C with the Leonidas Polk Bivouac and Camp William H Trowsdale assisting Mrs J H Fussell president of the Maury chapter D C has announced committees for the ceremony Decoration of Monument Mrs W Carmack chairman Mesdames Jzora Andrews Allen Brown Anderson Craige J Dixon W B Dobbins Sue Gray Dunnington H G Ryans BN Hatcher Austin Harkin d L Hutton O C Mulvey Eva Jones mma McKinney Arnie Walker Philips PH Smith J J Wilson Annie Alderson White and Miss Linzie Tucker Flowere Mrs T M Jones chairman Misses Lucille Donnington Nehecen Hrwin Mesdames Hinton Friers on Wm S Fleming H P Figuers Fam Hayes J W Howard Hodge A J Horsley J C Wooten J R B Wilkins Alice McKay Mary Meek Edward Sheogog Alex Titeomy
Beth Warfield and Miss Mary Trousdale lead volunteers in charge of children and vehicles at the Woman's War Work building. A list of committee members includes Mrs Amiddle, Miss Rosa Harnett, and several others. The notice invites all to attend at half past 2 sharp with flowers and children present.
A newspaper notice seeks a reliable and respectful white woman to nurse a baby in Columbia, Tennessee. It offers food, home, and good wages to the right applicant and instructs responding by Box 24. The ad emphasizes settlement and suitability for the employer.
The firm hires Albert Sidney Page and Ben Wilson Jackson to run the Columbia branch promising courteous treatment and prompt service. They anticipate a store that will reflect credit on a city larger than Columbia and invite customers to visit or call Bell Phone No 11 or Citizen's Phone No 136 for orders.
The notice explains Wednesday registration days for men 20 to 45, with explicit exemptions for Regular Army Navy Marine Corps National Guard and Naval Militia in federal service and for Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps in active service. It clarifies divisions about divinity and medical students, reiterates June 5 1918 as the key date, and outlines how absent registrants may file via local boards or authorized proxies, plus penalties for noncompliance. It also notes where to obtain guidance and urges timely registration to avoid penalties or forced induction.
A Wieland style exchange shows the Gazette proprietor insisting on printing the entire paper after a correspondent question. A reader requests the complete poem portion. The brief quarrel centers on what to publish and when.
Mrs A Looney Walker received a telegram this morning announcing the death of her father M D Hitler. He died Monday night at his home in Blakeley Georgia. Funeral services were held this afternoon.
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