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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
9
Maury county residents attend the Murfreesboro fair with many visiting relatives and local businesspeople reporting travel. Society items include engagements, weddings, and numerous visits among families from Columbia, Nashville, Pulaski, and surrounding towns.
Maury Dry Goods promotes Queen Quality slides claiming leadership in women’s shoe sales for over a decade. Daily production surpasses demand with 10,000 pairs made each day. Prices listed at 3.00, 3.14, and 3.40 per pair in tans, gun metal, and patent colors.
The store debuts a complete dress goods line featuring plain finished weaves and new stripes and mixtures. Prices range from 40c to 2.50 per yard, with soft clinging fabrics in later shoves, yard wide taffeta silks at 1.00 per yard, nets laces and trimmings, and cotton goods suited for suits from 10c to 25c per yard.
Mr W P Woldridge elected presiding judge at the Tri State Fair in Memphis. Allen Powell sold his Mouse on Twelfth street to Clarence Fly for 900 dollars. Ed Erwin joined T Callender Co as salesman. Chicken thieves threaten Columbia poultry raisers. Ed Phillips fended off a thief with a pistol. Fire at South Side Park blamed on arc light rays shining on film, not an exposed wire.
Constable Butts arrested a Black woman at the Carters Greek mines Priday on a charge of assault with a knife. She is described as having stabbed another woman in a shocking, violent incident.
Tom Moore to Miss Meilyn Alexander and C B Grimmett to Miss Lillian Foster are listed among marriage licenses. Alex Stone to Miss Susie Dodson, WII Hayes to Vertis Pullen, and L D Lewin to Miss Frankie Stephensen are also confirmed in the same notice.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs. Sarah Jane Armstrong aged 45 at a cotton factory home with funeral at Rose Hill. Also Mrs. Ann E B Dobbins died at 87 at her daughter’s Bear Creek home. Miss Susan Brooks of Hampshire died after a long illness. funeral and interment at Pisgah with Rev C R Wade.
The sick Mrs. A B Clement remains under unfavorable conditions while A H Shields Jr recovers and is able to be up. Roberta Voss shows improvement and is staying at her parents home on Eleveld street, where friends are glad to hear of her progress.
Charley Cason wins the first heat in a 2:18 pace during this afternoon's event. Bunice vy Th (Thomas) narrowly followed, with Mary Directly placing third as the finish under the wire proved close. The Herald reports the tight finish and fast times.
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