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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
5
We are authorized to announce Georges Hughes a candidate for Tax Collector at the ensuing election in Morgan County August 2000. We are authorized to announce Mike Holland candidate for Sheriff of Morgan County at the ensuing August election.
Guy Echols is home from college at Marion. Robert Roberts plans to spend the heated term at home. Miss Annie Leigh Harris has returned from Birmingham. Visit W Ti Long’s drug store for soda and milk shakes. Mr and Mrs B H Coumper will spend the summer in Marietta Ohio. Take your veterinary work to Dr Thil lis at Malone’s Livery Stable in New Decatur. Rev John D Simpson was called to Huntsville last Saturday for a funeral. Rev Ollie Gregory was in town Tuesday. he is the Methodist pastor at Hilsborn. Mes n James J T Tilman and Z Trimble leave today for a protracted visit to West Tennessee. Dr Thompson will be almost as much a stranger next November as he was in 1973.
Small town items report beverage orders at Lonas drugstore and a stag picnic near Trinity. Local figures Wallace Richardson Harris Huggins and others attend. County Democratic executive committee member Henry T Lile resigns. Smith Coughlin plans to move to New Decatur. Fishing trips depart Mobile with Skeggs Bibb Eyster Simpson Skeggs. Weather includes nearly two weeks of rain hindering farming. Reverend Dr John P McFerrin of Birmingham to preach at Central Methodist Church. Judge Richardson emerges as Lauderdale county delegate favorite amid local politics.
Rev Dr Thompson suggests Dr Lee Whitten and Texas correspondent Mr Travwick jointly present an old version Bible to the paper. A Catholic girl obtained a Bible from local American Bible Society depot, read and converted. Rev A Parker later provided Bibles to five neighboring families, now Protestants.
Dr M A Simmons Liver Regulator praised for appetite, stomach support, and health. A reader notes Herman Gerstman on Vine Street brought three leather horse collars and references pure blood and vigor to body organs.
The board of mayor and council met in a monthly session with most members present except I W Collier who was absent due to illness. Mayor Skeggs began a second term. new councilmen were sworn in. officers were elected by unanimous vote and standing committees appointed. Adjourned to meet June 12.
The Rev Dr Urquehart editor of the Alabama Christian Advocate preached at the Methodist Church in the morning and evening. He was returning from Waterloo where the Florence District Conference met and while in town was a guest of Rev Jne D Simpson. He is described as a genial companionable gentleman.
An elderly Philadelphia woman testifies that Pe runa keeps her well through girlhood, motherhood and menopause. Another testimonial from Mrs Griffith of Cambridge Nebraska credits Pe runa with curing catarrh and enabling childbirth after years of infertility. Address Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio for more information.
In a 1900 notice Servucs & Ecio.s defend their ice business against claims of selling out or being temporary. They pledge lasting operation, report a 100 ton ice house, and say they store ice for days while sourcing from Klondike. They promise low prices and prompt deliveries, inviting customer support.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy. It cites testimonials from West & Truax and Walding, Kinnan, & Marvin druggists in Toledo Ohio. The ad claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces with price 75 cents per bottle.
E Hartgerink of Overisel Michigan recommends Kedol Dyspepsia Cure calling it immediate relief and a dyspeptic’s best friend. The claim says it digests what you eat and cannot fail to cure.
An advertisement touts Rheumacide as a specific remedy for rheumatism, claiming it purifies the blood and acts as a laxative, while noting it does not cure every illness.
In a reminiscence from a 19th century church parishioner, Rev. Thompson, longtime Methodist pastor of Athens, recalls his arrival in December 1975 and reflects on twenty seven years of service and changes in the congregation and community.
Will G. McKinney known as Nicodemus reports in the Montgomery Journal about a hermit living twenty years in the swamps near Mobile. The recluse, surviving on frogs fish and snakes, says he would rather be a Sunday School Scholar than a hermit.
The couple married on June 5 with Rev J H McCoy performing the ceremony. Branscomb formerly of Decatur and Miss McGee of Birmingham were the joining partners in a simple rites.
A June census enumeration in Decatur and New Decatur invites all residents to guess the combined town population. A prize of 310 in gold goes to the closest guess, with the final count set by census enumerators. Eligible entrants include debtors paying in full by the next payday and customers making purchases between June 1 and 25, each 1.0 of value counted as one guess.
A Des Moines woman expresses lasting gratitude to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for helping her family through coughs lung troubles and whooping cough. She thanks the manufacturers and notes it has given perfect satisfaction and asks the public to accept her heartfelt regards. For sale by O B Cartwright Jim Des Moines Iowa.
After Dr Urquehart announced his text a small olive dog trotted along aisles sniffing faces and whining. Attempts to remove him failed until two English choir members escorted the animal outside. The pastor asked if the dog belonged to the congregation, but he was not a member. Mrs S A K Jackson from Hartsboro Alabama endorses Dr Simmons Liver Medicine for digestion and constipation relief.
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