The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-07-09
AROUND TOWN.

The fourth of July, as usual,
brought rain.
Mr.. J. H. Digger is keeping books
for Craig q Fisher.
Deputy Clerk Ed Wilson and G. A.
Bennett are working on the tax
books for 1897.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Everett have
moved into their new residence, on
West Sixth street.
The corporation is doing a COM
mendable act in having the old
Greenwood Cemetery cleaned up.
The first katydid was heard on the
second night in July. According to
that sign we will have an early frost.
The banks in Columbia did not
close on the Fourth. The wheat and
potato trade was too brisk to permit
a holiday.
Messrs. Riley Butler and c. c..
Morgan will open up a grocery in
the store-hOuse next to Dave
Bogatzky's.
1t looked like old times in Column
bia Monday. 1t was too wet for the
farmers to work and many of them
spent the day in the city.
The firm of Shuneman & Tuck
BARRIERS, has dissolved and Mr.. Tuck
has opened up a new shop in the
Bethel Block on Garden street.
The Columbia Mill & Elevator
Company put the wheels of their
mill in motion Monday, and are
now running both day and night.
The rain last Sunday was general,
at least over this county. 1t was
the first general rain in more than a
month. Another one is needed right
now.
The Second Presbyterian Church
Will have an ice-cream supper in
Mrs. Martins grove, corner 18th and
Garden streets, Saturday night
July II.
Charley Rankin (colored) vas ar.
rested Monday for whipping his
father, and was sent to the county
work house in default of payment O
a $3.50 fine.
Harris & Cole Bros. and the Co
lumbia Cotton Mill Company gave
their employees holiday last Satur
day, in order that they might cele
brate the Fourth.
At the meeting of Columbia Lodge
L. O. o. +. Tuesday night, Ben Lag
arus was elected delegate to the
Grand Lodge, which meets in Nash
vile in October.
Ashton Bros. have finished re
pairing their dam, which was badl,
damaged by the spring floods, ant
are now ready for business. Not
their card, to be found elsewhere il
the HERALD.
The cigarette suckers are abou
beginning to feel the effects of tn
anti-cigarette law passed by the lat
legislature, as many Of them hav
run out of the supplies they laid il
while the old law was in force.
j. p. Street & Co., have begun tn
erection of their new warehouse o
East Seventh street, The buildin
will be of brick, and will be muc
) superior to the old one, recently de
stroyed by fire.
Jim Brown (colored), was trie
before Judge Coleburn last Frida
and bound over to the Circuit Coul
: on the charge of robbing the clothC
I Of Ratlist Parson colored of 60 cent
while he (Parson) was in the rive
swimming.
1t is estimated that the wheat an
potato crop of Maury county will /
worth half million dollars. 1t
one place that is decidedly in az
e vance of the republican advanC
= agent of prosperity.-Chattano
e News.
e Ollie Watson, a 17-year-old viii
e boy in South Columbia, was arreste
= Wednesday for assault and batter
e upon Willie Robertson. He VIZ
tried before Judge Coleburn yeste
' day and bound over to the Circu
q Court. In default Of bond, he WI
/. lodged in jail.
y If you want fine cut Granite mon,
e meuts, call on S. p. Payne. If yc
{ want "cheap john work" buy fro
the other fellow. | refer you to ii
Granite jobs / have erected in Ro,
Hill and many other cemeteries f,
the proof. Yours to serve,
S. p. PAYNE,