The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-16
AROUND TOWN.
To-day is Good Friday.
Next Sunday is Easter.

Twenty-siX negroes were baptised
in the river last Sunday afternoon.
The street sprinkler was badly
needed last Monday before it got to
work.
Judge A. NJ. Hughes, who has
been seriously ill, is able to be out
again.
This is good Friday, legal holt
day, and the banks and post-ofiice
will be closed.
Mr.. d. j. Digger, of the McCains
neighborhood, is clerking at the
Trade Palace.
Mr.. w. w. Cherry has been con-
fined to his bed for the past week |
with the grip.
Mrs. Will Edsall, who has been |
sick for the last three weeks, is
slowly improving.
Mr.. Cal Fielden has been sick
with the grip for the past week, but
is now able to be out again.
TUCKER Bros, South Main street,
are headquarters for country bacon,
ham and shoulders, cheap for cash.
1t
Sheriff Stevenson, of Hickman
county, came up to Columbia this
week and returned with two prison
ers.
The Shadden place, situated on
Cemetery Avenue, was sold last
Monday to r. H. and Bailey Peyton
for 5000.
Mr.. John A. Walker, who has
been sick for some time, has about
recovered and is able to resume his
business.
The Board of Education have de-
cided to have the commencement
exercises of the Public School at the
Opera House this year.
There will be candy-pulling at
the South Columbia Methodist
Church next Thursday night for the
benefit of the parsonage fund.
Lafayette Chapter No. 4, Royal
Arch MasUns, will have called
meeting next Thursday night, April
%, for work in the Royal Arch de-
gree.
Mrs. john Latta, who has been
ill with pneumonia for several
weeks, is improving rapidly and her
many friends hope soon to see her
entirely well.
Alb Adkisson and John w. Fariss
have opened up grocery store and
lumber supply business on the
Nashville pike, about 3 miles north
of Columbia.
South-bound accommodation No
5, Capt. Kidd's train, which arrives
now at $3.50 p. M, will, after next
Sunday, be changed so as to arrive
about an hour later.
/, Chancery Court met in adjourned
S session Monday, but took another
e adjournment Tuesday and will re
!, convene next Monday. Nothing o
t general interest has been transacted
: The corner stone for the coloreC
: Baptist Church, in West Columbia
t which church was recently de
y strOyed by fire, was laid last Satur
y day with Masonic ceremonies.
The Maury County Medical Asso
. citation met in DR.. Hazsl Padgett'
- Office Tuesday morning. The sub
y iect for discussion was Eczema,
4 and was led by DR.. Sheddau, @
= WilliamspOrt.
Il The Light Company are progress
is ing rapidly in their work of repair
II ing their plant and lines and fror
e the present outlook we will not b
IT forced to grope the streets of Column
'e bia in darkness longer than the frs
is of next month.
The first of next month the En-
press office will be moved from il
r. present quarters to the vacant store
S, house on the Bethel House corne
g. and Mr. Fisher is buying new offiC
or furniture and preparing to fix up
lie style.
lie Harrison Fleming, who works fC
10 the Water & Light Co., fell from a
electric light pole, 33 feet high, O
the corner of the square, last Satu
day, but fortunately received 1
. other injuries than a few sligl
bruises.
Of Jake Harlan, who has been col
ne fined to his bed four weeks with Il
~ fever, was somewhat improved We
~, terday, and his friends hope soon
es see him well on the road to recover.
he A whale 80 feet long and 400 yea
.lv old was on exhibition in a car at I'll
,ss depot last Friday and Saturda
so Jonah was left behind somewhe
* on the road, and consequently Il
'or swallowing act had to be dispens'
tie with at this place.
/ have a number of fine mon
'er ments, tablet and headstones
he stock. These are modern and W,
cir proportional designs. Stock a.
De- finish a number one. Call or wri
is for "cut throat" prices.
If S. P. PAYNE.
NJ DR.. J. H. Wilkes horse ran aw
with his buggy down North Gard
street last Monday afternoon. Aft
disposing of the negro driver-w
no luckily struck on his head, there
escaping harm-and detaching hi
self from the buggy at House
lly, hitch-yard, he ran a block or t
ing with the shafts before he v
brought to stop. The only da
age done was to the buggy.
h. Two comets are billed by astrt
omers to appear to terrestrial
servers during the present sprt
months, and if the scientific calcu
tions are correct the first of tn
will show itself this month. 1t n
we not appear until May, but the LEI
ing astronomers of the world