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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1901
Page
8
An August change will convert BR KE Forbes Montgomery Alabama operation into a corporation. All pianos and organs will be sold at deep discounts to turn stock into cash by August 15. Catalogues with instrument prices will be mailed on request.
Saturday visit by North Carolina Railroad Commissioner Rogers highlighted timber sale talk in the mountains where a single walnut tree sold for $1000 and a wagonload of logs shipped to New York sparked debate over timber exports. The issue led to a push to spend money at home and support local economies. A local ad column urged DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and White’s Cream Vermifuge for common ailments, with booster notes from merchants emphasizing self reliance and health.
Local religious listings show Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal South churches with pastors J G Johnson and John K Turner offering Sunday school at 9 45 or 10 and worship at 11 am and 7 30 pm. Presbyterian and Baptist churches present service times, prayer meetings, and society activities. Catholic St Catherine’s notes masses and first Sunday events.
Under a Jefferson County probate order guardian Mary Copeland will sell at public outcry in front of the Heat City post office for cash on Monday August 12 1901 between 2 p m and 4 p m the estate lands described in several plats including NE Sec 30 Twp 17 Range 3 W Isaac Parker survey and McCary Howell surveys with undivided interests and other parcels, all for the estate of Leola Mellie and Eveline Fike.
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