PISTAL RECEIPTS W/ SHOW BIG GAIN AR CURRENT YEAR
Post office receipts rise sharply in the current year with expected totals not less than 20,600 for July. The Columbia post office anticipates a fiscal year reaching about 320,000 as salaries adjust with department schedules. The quarter ending Sept 20 nears 5,000,000 in receipts, compared with 4,986,058 last year and 4, something in 1908. Portmaster Jackson installs a typewriter for tariff and laboring work to improve quarterly reports.
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Columbia Post Office
Washington
Portmaster Jackson
Mrs Pilcher Mourned Here In Confederate Tributes
The death of Mrs Judith Winston Micher occurred Tuesday in Nashville, mourned by local Daughters of the Confederacy chapters and many friends. She had been elected president of the state organization in May 1907 at Columbia after a notable contest. Local chapters sent floral tributes from Winnie Davis and Mowry Chapters, featuring magnolia leaves and white car nations with red ribbons.
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Judith Winston Micher
Nashville
Daughters of the Confederacy
Pilcher
Columbia
Hume
Spring Hill
National Purity Congress Aims to End White Slave Traffic
Burlington Iowa October session of the National Purity Congress approved Ernest Bell's resolutions after Clifford Roe urged action against the white slave traffic. The group praised national and state efforts, called for government protection, and condemned the traffic as civilization’s worst disgrace while advocating stricter safeguards in education and wages to curb vice. It also discussed expanding the organization’s reach into Ontario and Canada and proposed forming the American Purity Federation.
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Burlington
National Purity Congress
Congress
Clifford G. Roe
Chicago
Ernest P. Bell
Trafic
Proreg
Ovico
Canada
Innis Brown Takes Over Cadets Coaching Duties
Cedarville reports Innis Brown will temporarily assume cadet coaching duties as Captain Stone relinquishes the role. Brown, with Edgerton and Stone's support, is expected to steady the team after a 0-3 start. He has a Vanderbilt background and has coached at multiple colleges. He will remain in position indefinitely.
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A. Stone
Fey
Innis Brown
Stone
Ume
Brown
Edgerton
Inala Brown
Pleskip Knight
Dixie
Vanderbilt
McGugin
Alice
Alice Big College Days Has Coached 3. W. P. U
BG. A
New City Regime in Chattanooga Forms Administration
Chattanooga Tenn Oct 20 Officials of the new administration assume office. Capt T C Thompson new mayor is a son of the late Gov Hugh S Thompson of South Carolina and a friend of ex President Roosevelt. He is liberal in politics and acceptable to both parties. Victor Emanuel DeGorgi re elected president of the council J A Cash elected board of aldermen. Col W R Crabtree retires to devote to business and is praised for honesty courage and efficiency. If Thompson upholds Crabtree standards there will be no complaint.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
T. c. Thompson
South Carolina
Hugh 8. Thompson
Roosevelt
Thompson
Victor Emanuel DeGorgi
J. A. Cash
W. R. Crabtree
Col. Crabtree
Crabtree
Sells the Gold in His Teeth on Way to San Francisco
Dr George Severs a Chicago dentist traveled to Kansas City to Denver and on to San Francisco after selling gold from his teeth to fund travel. He aims to reach his sick mother Inesa before she dies. He has a Denver ticket and one gold bridge plus two gold crowns left.
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Kansas City
Chicago
George Severs
Denver
San Francisco
Severs
Sever
New York
Ben Leonard Fined for Assaulting Bus Driver
Ben Leonard, a colored man, was arrested Sunday by Officer Lancaster and arraigned Tuesday in police court. Recorder Erwin assessed him a fine of 23.20 dollars for assaulting Leon ard Banks, a bus driver, with a shotgun.
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Ben Leonard
Lancaster
Erwin
Leonard
Leonard Banks
Dinwiddie Returns to First Church at Columbia
Special to The Herald Franklin Tenn Oct 18 the Tennessee Annual Conference closes with Bishop Hogs appointing Dinwiddie to Columbia First Church along with Freeman at South Columbia and Mt Olivet Harrell at Mt Pleasant and Wright to Culleoka noting the era of steady pastor changes and expected moves by week’s end Dinwiddie is praised as a popular preacher and the conference reports strong growth in membership and baptisms across the region
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M. Harrell
MT. Pleasant
P. D. Freeman
South Columbia
J. R. Wright
Culleoka
Tennessee
Herald
Franklin, Tenn
Hogs
Columbia District
T. A
Diana
J. B. Cheek
Elkton
Bee Springs
T. F. Kellum
Lynnville
Elk Valley
W. H. Lovell
Cuba
J. T. Redman
Columbia Methodists
Bishop Hoss
A. G. Dinwiddie
Dr. Dinwiddie
Giles County
B. M. Harrell
Cullooka
Burkes
E. W. Brown
Hampshire
Eral
Sparta
Manchester
Dinwiddie
Methodiat Prrsonage
Board of Stewards
Lst
Tulip
McKenfree
West End
West Nashville
Elm Street
McFerrin Memorial
Nashville
Pulaski
Murfreesboro
Bell Buckle
Clarksville
Franklin
Columbia
W. Weakley
Winchester
Springfield
R. N. Lowry
Gallatin
A. C. Coney
Weakley
Maury County
Savannah
J. T. Blackwood
Cross Bridges
H. W. Brown
Williamsport
R. M. Holland
Santa Fe
Wood Bouldin
Spring Hil
J. P. Sutton
Theta Mission
Berry J. Duncan
Retired Reverend Leaves Ministry for Health
Rev Lem R Long, longtime Joyner pastor for the Cuthoka and Burkne Methodist churches, retires from the ministry due to ill health. His license is granted at the conference in Pranilla, and he plans to move to Mexico to pursue agricultural interests. His departure is met with deep sadness by congregations Cul Wwokn and Burkes.
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Lem R Lone
Cuthoka
Burkne
Midletry
Pranilla
Tin Ois
Mexic
Long
Burkes
Bia Fries de
Meat Prices Continue High at American Cattle Assn Meet
Chicago experts on meat prices warned delegates at the fourth annual American Packers Association convention that permanent price declines are unlikely. President Michael Ryan said only a long run of higher cattle production could lower costs. otherwise prices would rebound as production shifts.
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Chicago
American Jackers’ Association
Michael Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Elopes While Father Preaches in Massillon and Pittsburg
In Canton Ohio on October 20 Reverend J R Jacobs of Fitts Methodist Church dismissed his flock to search for his missing daughter. Miss Jacobs and H L Mellwain of New York auto salesman used aliases, secured a house in Canton then went to Pittsburg where they were married by a Methodist pastor. Jacobs plans to contest the marriage.
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Canton
Ohio
J. R. Jacobs
Fitts Methodist Episcopal Church
Masaillon
Pittsburg
Mise Jacobs
Smuggling Syndicate Tied to Gloves Ring Arrests
New York dispatch reports Dr Savino de Bellis ship's physician on the Regina d Italia was arrested on accusation of aiding a smuggling syndicate. Madame Marie de Louise of Brooklyn and Senefonte Manzi were seized and charged, with Manzi a fugitive after bail forfeit. de Louise pending. Gloves worth thousands of dollars found and linked to the case. evidence implicates the doctor.
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New York
Savino de Bellis
Mner
Regina d’ Italia
United States
Loeb
Madame Marie de Louise
Brooklyn
Senefonte Manzi
Lower Manhattan
Manzi
Madame de Louise
Dr. Dé 'Belis
Mrs Basil Duke Dies in Louisville After Brief Illness
Mrs Basil Duke wife of Confederate General Basil Duke died in Louisville Kentucky after a short illness. She was among the few surviving confederate generals wives and sister of General John H Morgan. Funeral plans had not been announced and she was a cousin of Mrs W P Morgan of Cola.
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General Morgan
W. P. Morgan
Columbia
Herald
Louisville
Basil Duke
Mra. Duke
John H. Morgan
Dixie
Mrs. Duke
Mra. W. P. Morgan
Cola
Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth backs suffrage claim
Washington dispatch notes local suffrage supporters cheered by reports that Alice Roosevelt Longworth joined the Eastern women’s ranks but upon arriving in Cincinnati she declared she is not a suffragette.
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Cincinnat
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Cincinnati
H. P. Belmont
Clarence Mackay
Railroads Asked Not To Increase Freight Rates
Readers of a letter from shippers based on railroads figures argue against freight rate hikes east of the Mississippi. They claim 1907 profits rose sharply from 1897, with increased net income, surplus from operations, higher dividends, and more railroad stock paying dividends, urging accurate data to avoid misguided state laws.
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Washington
Cincinnati
Mississippi River
Fuore
Jonth
Lkely
W. C. Brown
New York Central Mnea
Oscar G. Murray
Baltimore & Ohio
James McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Cartlers
Cadets to Play B G A Saturday
The Cadets hope to end a season of struggles by facing Battle Ground Academy on foreign soil in Franklin. Coach Innis Brown brings CMA insights to the Franklin matchup, with kickoff at 3 o clock. Local fans are expected to travel as fifteen players are carried.
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Battle Ground Academy
Franklin
Innis Brown
Columbians
Jo Ukely
Pitteen
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Mrs. Pilcher
American Purity Federation
Somes
C. M. A.edgerton
First Church
T. A. Kerley
Mexico
A. P. A. Say
Father
MR. Jacobs
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