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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1905
Page
5
The report lists middling prices around 101 8 to 97 8 with town names and numerous local residents visiting or in town for the week. Individuals including A Smith Slocomb W Davie Harrison Midland City Radney Ashford Byrd Coffee Springs Collins Newton Pilcher Reeves Espy and others are noted as visiting or staying in the area, with Movements to Cox College and local business activity mentioned.
Miss Claire Lee has been elected as a teacher in the City Schools of Gadsden Alabama. She is described as faithful and competent, and the superintendent’s selection is called wise.
Get into these and you'll be proud of your feet. Shoe advertisement touts fine styles at five and six dollars and the Walk Over line at three fifty to four dollars. Batchelor Bros claims a local high quality of stegompias and jokes about the yellow fever test, noting no urgent demand for an experiment.
Four year old Julius Griesham was kicked in the head by a horse in Dr Williams' lot early this week. The injury crushed the skull above one eye, and though reported as recovering the wound remains dangerous. The parents mourn for their only child.
Joe Taylor was shot and killed by Miss Laura Harris on Wednesday after allegedly pestering the Harris household. The Harris family and mother were jailed in Dothan and face a hearing before Judge Leslie. The piece also mocks John D. Rockefeller's finances and hair, contrasting wealth with practical stomach humor.
Rev Sam H Campbell tendered his resignation as pastor of the Baptist church here last Sunday and it has been accepted. He will leave about October first for Pine Bluff Arkansas to serve the church that has been making such a strong pull for him.
Rev. Campbell served in Dothan for about two and a half years after arriving from Arkansas. He connected with Pine Bluff folks, earned high regard, and was offered a months long trip to Palestine next spring. A committee will seek a pastor and Dr. Howell is to be sent on another search mission following Campbell’s return to Pine Bluff.
The British steamer Tropic of 2440 tons capt Barber arrived at Charleston after nearly three days at sea amid heavy weather. The second mate purser and 15 seamen are missing after grounding off Putu near Constitucion on June 28 while en route from Valparaiso to Chile. Earlier reports said the ship would be a total wreck but later cables indicated she was floated.
An inquiry into state dispensary affairs reveals officials backed Talbert over Heyward in a gubernatorial campaign. A Williams letter urged dispensers to support Talbert. Williams later ran for Congress and lost. Other testimony covers salaries and oddities at various dis pensaries and a warning sign in Darlington. In Lexington a Washington, DC resident, Miss Fannie Weeks, died after falling into a Yellowstone hot spring, cooked from the waist down, while touring with Eastern visitors.
Florence Alabama September 8 Florence Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy passed a unanimous resolution pledging not to buy at Wanamaker Washington store, citing Mr Wanamaker s attitude toward the negro as a menace to southern women s safety and vowing no further purchasing at the establishment
A decree of the Probate Court of Houston County Alabama directs sale of lands of Henry Jones Dec. to settle heirs. Commissioner T C Lee will offer all of Sec 6 Tp 3 R 25 south of Little Choctawhatchie Creek except SW quarter, totaling 300 acres, at public outcry for cash on October 2 1905 before the courthouse door in Dothan.
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