The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-16
AROUND TOWN.

Our subscription list is still boom
| ing. Our books show that we get
! twenty new subscribers where We
lose one, and we book forty renewals
where we lose one old subscriber.
The teachers at Beechcroft and
the young men at Ewells, assisted by
Columbia talent, will give an enter
tainment at Spring Hill about the
first of the month for the benefit OF
the Episcopal church at that place.
1t is approaching the time when
our merchants will be making their
yearly contracts for advertising. We
wish to deal perfectly fair and frank
with them. We claim that we now
have more subscribers in this county
tnan any paper that circulates in 1t.
We further claim that we are adding
from five to fifteen 9leGO subscribers
every day, and we throw open our
books to our advertisers that they
may examine and count for them
selves. The HERALD is on boom
and advertisers should take advan-
| tage of it. II.
Go and bear the Harvard Quar-
tette at the Opera House next Mon
day night. You will be pleased and
| gratified. Musin is coming.
policeman John A. Collier was
reinstated by the Board of Aldermen
last Friday, and is On active duty
again.
The negroes ought to subscribe for
The HERALD. They can save ten
cents for every dollars worth of goods
they purchase, and they need these
dimes. II
The Emma Warren Dramatic
Company will fill five nights en-
gagenent at the Opera House next
week, commencing tuesday. POpu-
lar prices.
The fire bell is to be put on the
Court House. IL the authorities don't
mind 1t will weight the old shell
down.
Ia still below the Guest House
on South Main street where L eX-
pect to stay, with a full line of canned
goods, candies, fruit, tobacco and
cigars. MARION HAM.
dec 25 At.
R. III. Guest is the new Coroner
and will make good one.
The County Court this week
elected H. l.. Hendley and A. B. Nc
Claim, Notaries Public.
-IHE HERALD telephone IS No
10. Our friends can assist US greatly
If they will telephone us anything OF
interest they may run across. Ar
rival and departure of visitors, small
entertainments we might overlook,
any little thing you would be enter
tanned by reading or you think would
interest somebody else. These little
things make up newspaper, like lit
tie deeds make up life. Telephone
us, and you will earn our everlasting
thanks. This will apply to town or
country, wherever there is tele-
phone, and We hope our friends will
remember it. tt.
The young ladies of the Institute
and Athenaum will attend the enter
tainment at the Opera House next
Monday night. The Harvard Quar-
tette will be the drawing card.
The date of Prof. Merrill's reading
at the Institute has been changed
from the 10Th to the 23d of this month.
The Guild of st. Mary will give
rainbow tea Thursday, Jan. p, at the
residence of J. y. Craik, from 4 to II
o'clock p. NJ.
Mr.. w. N. WiIcoxson of Farmers
vile, Tex, former Maury countian,
was married to Miss Lula West of
Enterprise at the Guest House in this
city Monday. Esquire w. IL. Nelson
OBLIGATED.
We are indebted to Col. E. Shee-
COG for several Florida papers re-
ceived this week.
If you wish to enjoy a pleasant
evening, attend the musical enter
tainment to be given next Monday
night by the Harvard Quartet at the
Opera House.
john H. Hagey, on High Street
near the depot keeps the neatest shop
in the city and has all kinds OF the
best and freshest meats. Telephone
81 and he will bring you whatever
you want.
dec. 1t.