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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
5
Harriman calls for large crowds as a $7000 cordon of scribes forms long queues to quit premises. Prospective purchasers arrive well before dawn, with Bays arriving early to secure fair boxes.
Aug 31 dispatch reports E. H. Harriman denying serious illness after European treatment. Written by Harriman and signed, the note via his daughter Mary Harriman states rest is needed, calls for reporters to withdraw, and promises disclosure if warranted. Reporters were thanked for their interest.
A crowd packed Woldridge's drug store Wednesday for a box sale tied to the fall fair. Competition, chants, and early morning lines built up as customers waited at the rear of the store for openings. Boxes fetched cash for the fair, with Sam Harlan drawing box thirteen and several others listed as buyers in the day’s sale, though one box remained unsold.
Through the State Department Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop reports Panama has paid 14000 to repair damage from mistreatment of American sailors. Four thousand indemnity relates to the cruiser Columbia incident in which officers were arrested in Cotom on June 1, 1906. Eight thousand goes to the relatives of Charles Rand of the Buffalo’s crew who died in Panama in 1908, and one thousand to Joseph Cleck, another Buffalo sailor stabbed during the same episode.
An ad-like fragment touts Burdock Blood Bitters as building up sound health and keeping one well. It contrasts a healthy man as a king in his own frame with an unhealthy man as an unhappy slave.
On first Monday in September Matthews' stable will sell 500 high grade sheep, 100 calves and 20 fine bucks, 100 Hereford and Short Horn calves, and a few young bulls in tote size lots. Terms are 12 months. Sale begins at 2 o'clock. Hansen Co. Sid4awhly.
A meeting of the Maury County Farmers and Stock Breeders Association is called for 1 PM Monday September 6 at the Court House. Representatives are urged to finalize exhibits for the Maury and State Fairs, emphasize social picnic aspects, and discuss a county agricultural exhibit at the State Fair. Despite a tough season, cooperation and existing premiums funds are expected to cover expenses and achieve a creditable display. J N Meroney Dark's Mill Tenn. Accidents will happen but the best regulated families keep Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for emergencies.
A Monterey dispatch reports about 200 bodies found near an iron foundry and about 1,000 recovered to date, with a possible total around 2,000. River quicksands and food shortages worsen Monterey’s crisis as the Federal Government sends aid and Mexican relief efforts mobilize. Citizens donate heavily in Mexico City and nationwide, while railroad disruptions complicate relief.
The St. Paul A. M. E. B. church, built in 1870 and rebuilt in 1887, resumes after three years under Rev. ib. L. Howard adding 200 members. A 11am Sunday dedication by Bishop H. B. Parks, 3pm city pastors platform talks, 8pm closing address. Special access for white friends and Tennessee Annual Conference on Oct. 27 with bishops presiding.
A dramatic ad claims the pills prevent appendicitis by stimulating stomach, liver, and bowels. It asserts prevention of constipation and related ailments, listing a range of conditions supposedly cured, with a price of 25 cents at all druggists.
Dr W G Merrill buys dental outfit and offices in Talledega Alabama and will move there this week. A young prominent dentist from Columbia, he graduated first in the Vanderbilt class of 1906 and married Mina Elizabeth Joseph of Nashville in March 1905.
County Criminal Court convened Wednesday with Acting Judge W C Salmon presiding. Docket includes State vs Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co for obstructing public road, plus cases of Andrew Allen, Robert Jones, Tom McCarrel, Will Harville, Floyd Thompson, and Will Polk. McCarrel and Hartville were fined ten dollars and costs. others continued. Motion to adjourn passed after funding bond interest instruction. council split on a fifty thousand dollar appropriation.
Sam Jones stood as the sole mourner at Judge Erwie's Wednesday morning prayer gathering. He claimed no relation to the immortal Sam and received $6.00, then departed rejoicing as the Judge returned to thoughts of his thriving tomato crop.
IT SAVED HIS LEG. A Watertown reader recalls relief after ten years of wezema from 16 doctors, cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The ad touts the salve for skin eruptions boile r fever sores burns cuts and piles and claims infallible results. Sold by all druggists.
Dr Lin Cave has accepted an invitation from Leones Polk Bryon to be a guest at next Saturday’s Cullooka county Confederate Veterans reunion. He will deliver an address on the occasion along with other speakers.
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