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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1905
Page
5
Local notes show Malone & Sons and others updating cotton quotes while residents from Midland City Slocomb Cottonwood and Hartford visit Abbeville, Montgomery and Columbia. Students from Emory College and Montevallo College return home for holidays as towns report social visits and routine business trips.
T. E. Peterman Jr and his wife from Jakin Georgia visited relatives in the city for Christmas, sharing time with family and friends during the holiday season.
Social gossip spans holidays of residents and visitors from Haleburg Judson College Brenau College and Eleanor Florida. Names include Rev E F Baker Mrs Hall Miss Wilson J D Newton Capt and Mrs R H Walker Evelyn Farmer and Dr Stephens. gun reward and stolen Winchester gun mentioned along with bank reliability on a staged promise.
Rev. Fredrick Wineman, pastor of the Dothan and Kinsey congregations of the Methodist Episcopal church, will preach in the new Court House Sunday morning at 11.00 o'clock and in the evening at 7.00 o'clock. Every body is cordially invited to attend these services.
Mr A B Steal president of Enterprise Lumber Co presents Superintendent P J Domer of this city with a fine black Kentucky thoroughbred horse named Royal Preston. Steal refused $2500 for the horse, a rare Christmas gift for this region.
Town residents are invited to call Standard Telephone & Telegraph Co. for details about the fire in town. The note emphasizes the company’s willingness to answer questions and assist subscribers with information.
The Judge of Probate in Houston County issued 281 marriage licenses up to the 26th of this month. The total may reach 390, though the marrying rush has eased.
Dr. Stephens offers a 100 dollar reward for the capture of a thief who broke into a house near Dr K BD Ste in Dothan during the circus evening of November 18. A gun valued at 25 dollars will be given to the finder who provides evidence leading to conviction, plus 25 dollars to each of the three Dothan newspapers publishing the notice. The gun may be traced to the thief, and the doctor aims to set an example and remove the culprit from the area.
Victoria reports Advices say Min Yong Whan, Korean minister, died by his own hand after treaty with Japan. He left a note blaming no intervention by America. His mother later poisoned herself. Cho Piong Sik also committed self harm. An uprising near Fusan was swiftly quelled by Japanese troops. State funeral planned and posthumous title True Patriots awarded.
Henry Harper from Galveston Texas claims a $200,600 fortune wiped out by the Galveston flood. He became a naturalized American in 1885, hid on the St Andrews to return to the United States, and was detected without proper papers and deported as a stowaway in New York.
In Lous, Dec 23 Governor Folk has instructed the police chief to raid so called clubs organized to evade the Sunday liquor law and dodge liquor license payments. The chief says raids will occur next Sunday and continue daily until violations cease.
New York dispatch reports Howard Gould's yacht Niagara cruising to the West Indies was in danger from Atlantic storms. It notes no revenue cutters had yet cleared from Norfolk, Virginia, to search for her.
Nashville December 23 Cumberland University Lebanon Tennessee the oldest law school in the south goes on record opposing football as it is presently played As a result of the decision the board of trustees will not schedule football for the year 1906
J A Peterman, Dallas, quotes President B A Calvin of the Farmers Union of America saying no change to the 11 cent minimum for cotton despite Harvie Jordan's push for 15 cents. Calvin notes 22 percent of this season's cotton remains unsold and much is still in farmers' hands.
Three railroad workers died in a collision between a milk train and a freight train at Perkiomen Junction along the Philadelphia and Heading railroad near Phoenixville. Engineer Albert Hartman and express messenger Hardy McCauley were seriously injured.
Through traffic in Union, D. C. was held up for hours after three freight cars carrying cotton mill products derailed near Carlisle, fourteen miles away. The locomotive stayed on the rails and no serious injuries were reported.
A Lehigh railroad locomotive pulling a southbound freight train exploded in a siding at Van Etten New York. The blast killed the fireman and fatally injured four other crew members. All injured men hailed from Sayre Pennsylvania.
Supreme Court of Georgia reverses Fulton County ruling to deny injunctions in a yellow fever quarantine dispute. It holds the state board of health and its members lacked standing to sue as the board is not a corporation, leaving the prior status in place. The decision centers on state regulatory authority during epidemics and does not address the merits of the quarantine regulations.
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