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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
5
W D Antley and A B Bush visited the city this week while Jim Bowden and Geo L Hall attended court and the Times Herald staff from Hartford was here. Excavation work started for M Cherry store and Mrs E C Hall visited relatives. Hall's Safe Co advertised burglars safes for sale. Jury completed in Trammell case and Judge Pearce dismissed witnesses as the murder week neared end.
John G Harris pressed for votes for Associate Railroad Commissioner in town Thursday. Albert King recovering from a appendicitis attack in Augusta with operation unnecessary. Will Christmas granted bail of 7500 for murder charges. Mrs. Lawson mother of a Coast Line cashier died of paralysis near Troy. T J Floyd returned from Tulane Medical College. Miss Jewell and Jessie Hughes back from Baldwin Seminary in Staunton. J J Crary represented Dothan Odd Fellows in Birmingham and possibly Chattanooga. Grand jury urged jail enlargement and a surrounding fence to deter contraband. No Baptist sermon tomorrow due to pastor Anderson at Chattanooga. Express wagon rebuilt by J E Helms seeking workers despite good pay. Prof J W Brown of Abbeville elected city Schools superintendent succeeding Prof Griggs with nine years at Abbeville.
Emma Dowling mother and guardian petitions to remove disability of a non age sale for Pat Poyner Rice. Hearing set before Hon. W L Parks Chancellor in chambers at Troy on May 28 1906. Notice dated May 3 1906 signed by J M Cony Register.
Little Molly Mack of Wewahitchka Florida visits relatives here. A fire yesterday afternoon at four o clock damaged only the cook house of Dr R D Blackshear and was extinguished with no damage. Mr J B Grant reports bad luck with horses. another one died this week near Dothan Lumber Co plant. Wewahitchka news from Abbeville Times.
Mr J A Coe died this morning at four o clock at his home on South Oates street after months of illness from complications. The funeral will be held this evening at four o'clock. he leaves a large grown family.
The jury found Trammell not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing of RR J Barnes last June after deliberating from yesterday evening to this morning. The verdict marked a highly contested legal battle in Houston county and was received calmly by Trammell.
Dothan chapter A M No 113 meets 2nd and 4th Friday nights with D Carmichael H P and W T Jones secretary Dothan Lodge A F and A M No 466 meets 2nd Tuesday nights and 4th Saturday afternoons led by J J Crary W M and J C Hardy secretary
The Benevolence Lodge No. 122 meets on the second and fourth Thursday nights. D. D. Stephens is acting as C C and G. C Batchelor serves as K R.
In the Thomas Elijah Miller case Kate Miller, a non resident of Alabama, is ordered to plead answer or demur to the bill of complaint in four weekly issues of the Dothan Eagle by May 12, 1906, or a decree pro confesso may be entered. The notice is dated April 17, 1906, in Dothan.
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