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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1905
Page
5
Market reports show Good Middling 101 See 8, Middling 97 8, Low 93 4. Local visitors include W Sellers of Ashford and B A Forrester of Cowarts. Notices warn against shelter or work for Arty Guilford, and a plan to build a Presbyterian Manse in town. For sale listed a Hall’s burglar safe and a 31 acre farm near Dothan with mules and cattle. a congregational meeting set after church services.
The Advertiser cites the Rome Tribune noting a dollar fare out of Birmingham and 50 cents through Columbia for passage. A Health Board note advertises health certificates at Columbia, Ala. A Clapp shoe ad extols comfort style and durability. The county superintendent reports June error of $25.00, balances and receipts totaling $946.37 with August balance $862.13 and commissions $34.48, balance on hand $49.80.
Miss Annie Maund Bartlett and Mr Ambrose Osbourn Wright wed at North Atlanta church with Rev William Bell presiding. The bride recently arrived from Columbus and joins Mr Wright at 93 Mangum St Atlanta. The notice includes legal matters from Houston County and Dothan Eagle legal ads referencing tax and land matters and a chancery decree sale set for October 1905.
In 1905 Dothan secured the Enterprise Lumber Co railroad site with $25,000 donation and tax and license relief plus free water. The town later donated 2500 for mill site work and the county granted a tax release two months after location. Meanwhile German emigrants faced cholera quarantine arriving in New York aboard Graf Waldersee.
Seoul reports Admiral Arai refloated the Russian cruiser Variag and received an audience with the emperor before sailing for Japan. He is likely recalled to raise the Japanese battleship Mikasa sunk at Sasebo. The Variag and the Korietz were sunk by the Japanese fleet on February 19 near Chemulpo.
Traffic officials from the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific report that 29 000 cars of oranges were sent east during the just closed season. The shipments cover Butte county and the San Joaquin area as well as southern California with the bulk from the latter region.
Four men were injured here today, three fatally, when the center corridor floor of the old county courthouse gave way during demolition. Rescue workers pulled the injured to safety and rushed them to a hospital, as the building is torn down for a new structure.
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