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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
5
A head on collision between two freight engines just south of Franklin halted traffic for four to five hours. The north bound train ignored orders to take a siding and the south bound train passed, causing severe engine and track damage and injuring one fireman.
Shelbyville Tenn October 21 Hon E Shepard chairman of the meeting calling for a Southern Democrat to be nominated for President issued a call for Democrats favoring a Southern man to assemble November 1 to select delegates for a Nashville meeting on November 12. Strong Shelbyville representation noted as letters of support pour in from prominent Democrats statewide.
A clipped passage shows a manager correcting a performer with sharp wit about her understanding of acting. The dialogue hints at a rehearsal scene with casual contempt and a tiny glimpse of backstage dynamics. The text remains unclear and fragmentary in this extract.
Knoxville reports the Tennessee State Baptist Association ended its convention with a temperance resolution calling for statewide prohibition in two years. Dr B E Folk condemned Governor Patterson for vetoing a local temperance bill, his remarks drawing loud applause and predicting whisky losses in Chattanooga Nashville Birmingham and Memphis on a white vote.
Rev. J. T. Cotton, pastor of the South Columbia Methodist church, is preparing to move his family to his new post at Grehdbrier, Tenn. Rev. W. A. Stroud, the incoming pastor, will fill the pulpit Sunday at South Columbia.
Mrs Susie Young and children visited father Mr Charles Robinson then returned to Augusta Georgia last Friday. Mr Robinson later traveled to Nashville with them. Mrs John McDonald of Cullooka visited daughter Mrs Myrtie Davia last Sunday. Mrs Georgie Whitens of Darke M visited relatives here Monday. Mr Wiley Douglas and family moved into the neighborhood.
The fourteenth annual session of the Rebekah Assembly of Tennessee convened in Clarksville with Mrs. Alice Edin presiding. Officers were elected for the next term, including Annie Prescott as President and Theresa Cameron as Secretary, as the assembly noted travel and discussed lodge finances and per capita tax reforms. The session featured a drill contest and will adjourn as the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows meets tomorrow. one delegate, Mrs. Adelin Maxwell, fell ill but is improving.
Judge Richardson upheld a local anti jug law in Murfreesboro Tennessee regarding liquor reception. Til Gannaway admitted to taking about sixty five gallons of whiskey and fifty six dozen bottles of beer after the law passed and was fined. The city seeks confiscation. a new trial motion was argued. the city has appealed.
The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the lower court ruling in the Allen Holt case, allowing the dismissal of charges over alleged illegal fees. Other decisions today include Webster v. Case Threshing Machine Co. and Murphy v. Cumberland Electric, with various affirmations, reversals, and remands across several Maury and Davidson counties.
A short notice from R A Wilkes of Culleoka Tennessee offers description based fruit tree and vine pricing. The fragment hints at lending a name for the description and mentions the first of the month and common misfortunes of being outplanned by a hopeless rival.
Proposals for contracts on rural mail routes in the South are announced. Public inspection of route details will occur at 4:30 p.m. next July 7 in Washington. Bids open for routes in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Puerto Rico.
At a Sunday morning congregational meeting the Second Presbyterian Church of Nashville invited Rev. A. S. Allen, currently serving in Pleasant, Tenn, to their pulpit. The church has been pastorless for several months and Allen is well known in Nashville, especially North Nashville, where he once led the Mission Church before its consolidation.
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