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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1906
Page
10
Miss Pantie Louise Smith entertains Thursday for the Misses Jackson with yellow decorations and maiden hair fern. Miss Towler and Miss Wooten win tied prize for highest score in a lawn quiz, a white guaze fan. Guests include Mrs. Parker and numerous local ladies and young people.
Reports of multihouse entertainments abound with Mrs Mary Hugo and Rose Barnett hosting two lively mid summer events on Eighth street plus a Tally Ho ride by William Waddy from Mt Pleasant. Progresive Scoot games, two course luncheons and floral hall planning feature among social items with several parties noted around Marmouth Cave and Bethel House.
John B. Derryberry, son of Mr. J. B. Derryberry, died Sunday at the Bear Creek pike residence. Funeral service conducted by Elder Newt Derryberry Monday at 2 p.m., burial in Derryberry graveyard. Ida May Hood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hood, died this morning at Knob Creek home. Interment in Knob Creek graveyard Wednesday at 1 p.m. John A. Stratton of Columbia died Tuesday night after bladder surgery in Louisville. funeral arrangements noted.
Mrs Joe Hagey loses a buggy mare Tuesday night in Celle. Will Thweatt relocates to Thirteenth street as he recovers from illness while his wife falls ill with fever. Braly Bros upgrade their jewelry store. Richard Buchanan of Pulaski will move his family to Eighth Street October 1 after leasing the former Brownlow property. C C Gross sells South Main street lot to Gus Watson for 1100 dollars. El Burrows travels to New York to view large passenger automobiles for A L Blocker. Maury Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy meets Friday at 3 pm with Mrs A B Wilkins. Rev W B Capers has two inquiries from Germany for Columbia Institute catalogues. State v Baxter Whitehead and Luther Harmon cruelty case continues in County Criminal Court. Many Maury Confederate veterans attend the Lynnville reunion. Sol Gross of the Bee Hive departs for Monroe Louisiana to be near his sister. Gross is a long time Columbia merchant with many well wishes. Patterson and Major lumber dealers of Lynnville advertise retail lumber and building materials to meet orders.
A county column lists residents with illnesses or improving conditions. Names include Mrs. Will Lancaster Mrs Pleas Dean Lloyd Ceell Clarice Allen Houston Thomas Trotwood Moore Walter Frasier's baby Clayton J W C Church Marguerite Wilson Mrs John Fraser Casey Pearl Roan Pete Hanson Kate Shields E F Everett John A Stratton and others with illnesses malarial fever typhoid tonailitis and hemorhages while some show steady improvement or critical conditions.
The annual report of Trustee Kan Non for the year ending September 1 1906 is featured in the Herald and should interest every tax payer in Maury County. Deputy Trustee Harris Puryear compiled the report, praised for clear financial presentation. Interment notes mention Addie Woolard Brady and Mike Brady died Wednesday near Santa Fe with service held Thursday.
The W C T U will meet Friday afternoon at 3 30 in the Methodist Sunday school room. Members are urged to attend as the group reorganizes and selects a delegate to the State Convention.
SUCCESS OR FAILURE is the problem that confronts every young life. The solution: Start right. Decide now to make your life a success and enroll with Jennings' Business College for a thorough course, which will prepare you to fill satisfactorily the profitable positions in the business world that are opening daily. Write for circular, R. W. Jennings, Nashville, Tenn.
The Columbia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church U S A held a fall meeting in Columbia. The time and place for the fall session were moved to Cullokana Maury County on Sept 19 at 7 30 p m with an opening sermon by Moderator T O Webb of Hampshire. The Women’s Missionary Union convenes at Lewisburg Sept 12 to Mth with delegates invited. A Pentecostal Mission Church on Johns Branch near Winnsborough Union Valley nears completion after a summer of revival and land donated by Sam J Brown and wife. Several hearings on land transactions and business education mention Jennings’ Business College Nashville Tenn and numerous deeds and transfers among local residents.
Hon H H Norman of Murfreesboro former Adjutant General of Tennessee died today in Woodbury where he was attending a Confederate reunion. An editor of a western exchange quipped about wings and a hat, reflecting on his passing.
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