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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
EXCURSION TICKETS
SHERfFFS LAND SALE.
d. A. Kellar VS.. w. N. Middleton
and wife, Hattie E. Middleton.

d. A. Kellar VS.. w. N. Middleton
and wife, Hattie E. Middleton.
By virtue of writ of fieri facias
to me issued, as Sheriff of Hardeman
County, Tennessee, from the Su-
preme Court of Tennessee, in the
above stated cause, I will on Satur-
day, the 3rd day of April, 1897, at
the courthouse door, in the town of
Bolivar, proceed to sell by public
outcry, to the highest bidder, for
cash, the undivided 1-6 interest of
Hattie E. Middleton, defendant, in
and to 65 acres of land, conveyed by
D. A. Kellar to Ollie Kellar, on the
18th of October, 1890, lying in civ
il district No. Is, of Hardeman
County, bounded as follows: Begin
ming at the northwest corner of a
SO acre tract, owned by James Lam
bert, running north 80 poles to a
stake; thence east 10 poles to a
hickory; thence north ga poles to a
stake; thence east 80 poles to stake:
thence south 100 poles to stake:
thence west 1888 poles to the begin
ming. Said sale will be made with.
in lawful hours, to satisfy the above
execution VS.. w. n. Middleton and
wife, Hattie E. Middleton.
w. B. SAMMONS,
Sheriff Hardeman County.
March, 8, 1897.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Heard His DUN Funeral.

Chattanooga, Tenn, March 21.-
Sydney Smith, of Argo, Ca, who
died a few days since, was the oldest
and probably the most eccentric man
in the South. He was 119 years of
age at his death. He realized sew
eral days before his demise that his
end was near, and at his request his
pastor, Rev. WV. Bryan, a Method
list minister, preached his funeral, to
which he listened attentively
throughout, interpreting it with oc-
casional amens.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
White House State Dinners.

Admirers of President Mckinley
are already enjoying anticipating
some of the state entertainments that
will be given after he has assumed
the responsibilities of his new posi-
ton.
The cost of a state dinner at the
White House runs from $500 to ST.,
600, according to the price of wines
furnished.
State dinners, as a rule, are unin.
teresting aside from their pictur-
sequences. The scene, however, is
one of beauty and sumptuousness in
effect.
The walls of the large dining-room
are banked with tropical flowers and
plants,
The table is gorgeous with gold
and silver plate.
The center of the table, which &C
commodities thirty-eight persons, is
adorned by large mirror, represent
ing miniature lake, which is sur
rounded by bank of flowers.
The mirror has a golden frame
and was purchased by DollyMadison.
At either-end of the board are
golden candelabra.
With additions, the table accom-.
modates sixty persons.
The Presidents plate is at the
center of the north side, the length
of which extends from east to west.
The wife of the Chief Executive
of the nation is seated opposite he1
husband, upon these occasions.
The wives of recent Presidents
have obtained large grants from Con
gress for the purchase of costly table
furnishings.
The spoons and the forks are of
pure gold, and some of the china is
almost priceless.
The cups, for instance, could not
be duplicated for 800 each.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
MIDDLETON MATTERS.
BY EVERGREEN.

Some of our people have
moved out and left a few va
cant houses for rent.
Messls. J. J. McCarter and
Tom Rankins are again i'll
our midst, buying cattle.
The Memphis and Charles
ton ran a passenger train out
to here Sunday and returned
in the afternoon.
One of Pocahontas' young
men came over to see his
livery bestest girl" The rain
poured, the train stopped and
he just stayed. Come again,
S. N.
Rev. B. B. Thomas preach
ed Sunday morning and
night. Quarterly Conference
was postponed one week, as
Brother johnson could not
get here.
Mr.. Lee Powell has return
ned from Rossville. Lee says
he had a charming time boat
riding with the girls. Oh
course, we know he is very
handsome.
[ see our Mr.. Hodges Of the
legislature has voted for Jim
Harris, thus committing an
imposition upon our people.
We desire no more such rep
resentatives as Hodges.
Capt. r. B. Pegram, Su-
perintendent of the Memphis
and Charleston, spent severa
days here looking after the
flooded tracks. The Captain
was out in his private car.
Messrs. Dave Sauls and q
E. Davenport, of Salisbury
attended the Methodist stew
ards meeting here Saturday
Mr.. Davenport was givel
permission to eXhort in the
Methodist churches.
We thought that we wer,
lost for two days last week
Could not see a train or get
paper. What the balance o
the outside world was dom!
remained a mystery to us
Once more we are in touch.
In conversation with a gen
tleman from Pontoioc, h
stated tnat from all indica
tions the narrow gauge roa'
would be extended to Hous
ton, Miss, this summer, a
that town has agreed to rails
the amount asked for b
! President John Faulkner.
Mr.. Robert Burns, Of s
Dimas, Durango, Mexico, az
rived here Tuesday. This
Mr.. Burns old home, and h
is here on a visit to see hi
mother, brother and sister
He will return in about tire
weeks. He has extensiv
mining interests in Mexico.
Mr.. Frank Sheppard, en-
gineer on the @. and c.. sus
tanned a very painful thong
not serious accident last Sun
day. A flew in the engin
burnt out, causing steam t
come back into the engin
cab. Frank had to jun
through the window to kee
from being scalded.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

The best Salve In the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chap.
ped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and
all Skin Eruptions. and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. Il
is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction or money refunded. Fol-
sale by Cox, Savage u Co.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

Scott Jackson and Alonzo
Walling, the murderers OF
Pearl Bryan. were hanged Sat
urday in the presence of $50
people, while a crowd of 15,-
600 clamored for sight of the
gruesome spectacle. Both men
died with declarations of in
nocence on their lips.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
A minister's little son had been

A minister's little son had been
greatly interested in the preparing
and sending of missionary-box.
The following Sunday his mother
was reading his Sunday School les
son to him, and when she read the
verse, "Why do the heather rage,
and the people imagine vain thing?"
the little fellow exclaimed, 81 don't
wonder the heather rage when they
have to wear such old clothes"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

ALL human experience
teaches that when any man
by the name of Harris once
gets into Office, it is an exceed
ingly difficult matter to get
him out.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

THE Sun, a daily paper
published at Nashville, has
made an assignment to E. B.
Rucker as trustee. Liabili-
tiessuppOsed to be about $780,
600. 1t is said the trustee
will continue the publication
of the paper. B. A. Enloe
has been removed as editor.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

SENATOR HARRIS LETT Wash
ington Monday in a private
car for Biloxi, Miss accom-
panied by his son, a nurse
and a cook.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

AT last they have disposed
of Clay Evans. President
Mckinley has appointed him
Commissioner of Pensions.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
HUGH WILLIAMS. Editor

IF the high waters ever
recede, the soil will be en-
riched by the sediment.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

THE United States Govern
ment will purchase 1000
tents for the relief of the flood
sufferers.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

Commercial Appeal delivered
daily by carrier anywhere in town
at 65 cents per month.
r. 9. WILKINSON, Gen. Agt.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Tennessee Centennial and
international Exposition.
Nashville, Chattanooga b ST. Louis Railway.
Through Car Route
- 70 AND FROM

TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, GEORGIA,
ALABAMA, FLORIDA, NORTH CAROLINA,
SOUTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON CITY, BALTIMORE,
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
Through Service Both via New Hollow Rock Route
and the Mckenzie Route between Nashville and
Memphis, making connection at Memphis with all
lines to and from Arkansas, Texas and Southwest.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Between Memphis
and Nashville on Night Trains. Between Nash
vile and Chattanooga Knoxville, Asheville, Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
Between Nashville and Jacksonville, Florida, daily
year round, via Chattanooga, Atlanta Macon and
Triton. Excursion Tickets on sale during season.
EXCURSION TICKETS
On Sale at Reduced Rates from All Points on
this Line and Connections to Nashville and Return
during the Continuance of the Tennessee Centen.
NAL and International Exposition.
For further information, call upon Ticket
Agents or address =d4i
&c. COWARDIN, Western Passenger Agent,
405 Ry. Exchange Bldg, ST. Louis, Mo
A. ]. WEIGH, Div. Pass. Agt., Memphis. Tenn
". L. DANLEY, Gen'l Pass. and Tkt. Agt.,
Nashville, Tenn
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

Buy your Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, etc., from w. j.
Cox. He sells the Cham
pion Ready Mixed Paints
best on the market.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
TEE DREADED CONSUMPTION
Can Be Cured

T. A. Siocum, M. c. the Great
Chemist and Scientist, Will Send
Free, to the Afflicted, Three
Bottles of His Newly Discov-
cred Remedies to Cure
Consumption and all
Lung Troubles
Confident that he has discovered a
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions of wasting,
and to make its great merits known,
he will send, free, three bottles to
any reader of the BULLETIN who
may be suffering.
Already this ssnew scientific course of medicine
has permanently cured thousands OF apparently
hopeless cases.
The Doctor considerssit his religious duty-a duty
which he owes to humanity-to donate his infalli-
BILE cure.
He has proved the dreaded consumption to be a
durable disease beyond any doubt, and has on file
in his American and European laboratories testi-
monials of experience from those benefited and
cured. in all parts OF the world.
Don't delay until it is too late. Consumption,
uninterrupted, means speedy and certain death
Address T. A. Slocum, NJ. c., SO Pine street, New
York, and when writing the doctor, please give
express and postofice address, and also mention
reading this article in the BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

Go to Hudson S for new
and pretty Wall Paper.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Mall Mall You Orders DIRECT 70
The ]. S. Menken co.
MEMPHIS, TENN.

MLmI ITO, l. Elm IN.
The largest store in the South
equal to 80 stores under one roof.
Livery Article Of wearing apparel for men.
women and children, ready to wear as well
as the material to make them.
Every Article for the household. from kitchen
to garret-Furniture, Carpets, Curtains and
Chinaware
You Take No Risk. We stand behind our
goods-they must be represented we
take them back. Same price to all-every-
thing marked in plain figures.
Send For Catalogue. If you leave selection
to guarantee satisfaction-nnot, send
for samples.
Should You Visit the City, make our store
your headquarters. We have lavatories,
reading rooms, writing desks, and parlors for
the accommodation of visitors. We have
for all and all welcome. Mail all
orders direct to the firm.
The j. S. Menken Co..
371 to $40 Main Street,
Memphis. Tenn.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

FIRST class service. Travelling
men receive special attention. Por-
tiers meet all trains. Rates reason
able. Public patronage solicited.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
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We will send all three to you one
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scented in Demorest's. There is in fact no pub
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Judges Library is monthly magazine of fun,
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Funny Pictures is another humorous monthly;
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For the inclosed 81. 90 please send me Demorest's
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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
BuckIeH'S AYnieQ SQIUe.

March, 8, 1897.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-02


men nal 10 the mixture the Fool KiIlel
amt in Z o danger Of losin his job.
There WIS the trouble with Dunk.
He went on maxim that terrible mixtry
till at lad he bore the name and fame Of
q naturaI -born fool. But by and by be
took and married Miss Dixie Standen.
mire vi ich she was about the most
handsom est young woman in the set.
Element and presently she fetched him
to law. bliss Dixie was tail and buxom
and high strung, as well as good lookin.
Her arm was white as milk, but big as
q bed pos [, and she had the keenest, prit.
test blu4 eyes you ever looked into per
haps.
Along at first Miss Dixie she would
cry everF time Dunk come up drunk.
but that was such a reglar thing till she
had to it use to il, and / reckon her
stock Of tears run out. She tried and
tried in her tender, womanly way to
break ID link from his fool ways. But
Dunk he didn't do d blessed thing but
make grR Eat promises and then went
right on drinkin and rowdyin to beat
six bits.
One br light and beautiful spring
mornin ome IS years ago, Miss Dixie
she calleH for a new deal and give it.
out that she would now play a differ.
ent game with Dunk. So when he
started tp town that mornin she went
out to tho front gate with him and read
the law ih his heaTin.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-02
Unique works nf A.

The fire loss at Guayaquil. the sra
port of Ecuador, by its destruction az
the principal church, has wiped ont
two of the most unique works Of art in
the whole of South America. If not IN
the world. There were a couple Of large
frescoes thanking the altar. On one side
was shown the Return of the ProdiraI
Son. The prodigal was attired in The
battered remnants of a ~fuIl-dress suif
of the days Of the Regency, gilt-but-
toned ~dress-coat, black satin breeehek.
silk stockings, frilled shirt and chapean
Bolivar. He was being welcomed bv
his father in like array. and by his
mother and sisters in. khort-waisted.
short-skirted gowns Of embroidered
muslin and sandaled slippers, to 4
mansion richly furnished in empire
style. The subject on the opposite
side was the Sacrifice of Isaac. who
CARRIED as n medieval page. while
Abraham, in a furred gown and plu.ned
hat, was preparing to take his life, not
with a sacrificial knife, but with !
gigantic b~lunderbuss, a genuine ira
buco. 1t is to be hoped that photor-
has preserved the memory AZ
these matchless art treasures, which.
Notwithstanding their eccentric:tv.
were by no badly drawn, though
somewhat crudely colored. - Buffalo
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-02

he saw Louis coming into his store. he
said Is himself.
There is the thiefl Unjust took out
for himlo
@Medsin-faderln said Louis.
what is thatgs queried Mr.. Loomis.
speaking rather harshly, as people gem
orally do in talking to a thief.
"AIedsin-faderi"
"Do you mean that your father s.
sick and wants some medieine2 n
Louis smiled and nodded his head.
what kind Of medicine2D
@Fever got-wantee medsin.p
Gotfeyerandwants fever medicine. -
Louis smiled and nodded agair.
tHumehi" said Mr.. Loomis.
Then be turned round to a bottle.
markell FSbrifuge, that was standing
on a shelf, and began to reason with.
himself:
IF this boy has been stealing, o.
course he will lie, and I don't know
whether his father is really sick. Some
boy-ioke, probably. / know Mr.. wat
son owes Lonis' father for work, and he
has a right to get things here; but then
Louis is dishonest. and / can't trust his
word, and'-again Mr.. Loomis thought
lit is some boysjoke, probably.
Aheml" he said aloud. Il will step into
your fathers tent tonight, and see
about the medicine"
mo medsin now?'
"Noir replied Nh. Loomis, grufHy,
and decidedly, also.
Louis turned away, two big CLASSY
tears rolling down his cheeks, for his
father vas in great pain, and had found
out by experience that the "bottIe
medsin." as he called it, would SIX man
good
II don't know but that / ought I'd
have let the boy take the medicine,
said Mr.. Loomis; sbut, there, how can
one be expected to trust a thief29 and
he turned away to draw a pint of mo.
lasses for another customer.
That day, Sampson Truman was
passing near the lumber camp. People
never said Sampson" when they spoke
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-02
one aalf-nrada Ennl.

There is at least one more man III the
Rocky Greek settlement which come IN
with the general crop OF fools, and his
name is Dunk Strickland. TO some ex-
tent Dunk was raley what you mought
call q self-made fool. He did have
sense enough to squeeze through II he
had but only kept it cool and sober all
the time. But Dunk was powerful
prone to look long and loyinly upon
the early runnins Of the corn. And
moreover, a spoolful Of brains and 4
piAt Of mean whisky. mixed and shook
up together and taken before and after
eatin and between meals. via soon
make the gonebyest biggest fool in the
world. The devil couldn't beat that
prescription Il he tried day ana night
for q thousand years. and se ioag g
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-02
NO Hearts That Reat e one.


What makes me stop and tell you
that? Well, mostly from the fact that
we had one of the most proper and
loveliest weddin matches you ever
heard tell of perhaps fixed up in the
settlement this fall, and everything
was comm right on across in nice shape
till old nan Dave Bowen took up one
of his fool notions and gummed up the
cards and busted the game.
AS everybody knows, old man Dave
Bowen is one of the best-fxed men
for miles and miles around. He lives
on the old Bowen plantation down
there on Deer Creek, where he was
born and bred and brung up. The old
stock of Bowen people passed away
in the fulIness Of time, and then Dawes
brothers and sisters died up one by one
till finally at last he is the onlyest
one Left. Consequentially the whole
plantation and everything on it belongs
TO him in his full name. He had went
on for two or three long and weary
years livin. there all alone by himself
with no better company than the mig
gers and his mules. And naturally of
cours everybody was glad when he
lit out and put in visitin and courtin
around Miss Mary Willingham-which
I do know she is one OF the best and
most smartest women in the round ere
ated world. Miss Mary is like old man
Dave in one regards-hcr people have all
died up and left her alone in the world.
But they left her without any home
that she can call her own, or lands,
or mules, or cattle, or anything. She
is also way yonder different from old
man Dave intregards to sense. She has
got q gracious plenty of it, whilst he
is a monstrous poor mar in that way.
But anyhow it did look to me like
the very best thing for them to do, IN
der all the surroundin circumference,
was TO 60 and git married. Dave had
The money and the home, whilst Miss
Mary had everything else. He was
,ome the oldest, but she had also shed
her colts teeth as it were, and 1t would
seem like they had been pre-
lestinated to marry from the founda-
Of the world. Everybody in the
settlement thought so. And at one
old man Dave and Miss Mary
thought the same way. After a right
smart fumblin and foolin and visitin
and courtin and carryin on. at last they
give out the news and set the day
evenin before the last Third
Sunday.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-01-02

TO the little colOred boy, but said
'tSamp."
Jest as good" he declared, rolling up
his eyes and letting q lot Of sparkles out
Of them. "Dat word Samp hits de right
man well as toder name"
The fright man. Samp, was now on
on a berrying excursion
sDere's de camplr he exclaimed, as
he saw the stout low log house.
"HhrkE what's dat noise2'
He stopped twirling the pail he car
ried IN his hand.
What's dat2 A t'ief insidei My,
dat's huis, and me catch him, sure.
He's done gone fur now dat scampl
I'll take a peep in at dat winder an
s'prise him. Yes. I wilt"
Here Samp gave a loud chuckle.
This window had been insecurelv
fastened, and some one had here forced
an entrance. At times, the previous
winters supplies that were not wholly
exhausted would remain in the camp
through the summer-articles like
beans or molasses-and these might
tempt a thief.
So Samp hung his chin over the edge
of the low window sill, and thrust his
big eyes IN as far as possible.
Samp had a whole volley of epithets
all ready to let of, thick as the dis
charge from q mitrailleuse gun: sole
t'ief," "reskel,'' 'sscoundrel,'' vilTin.s
"scallurwag." and he now began TO
shoot.
"Ole t'ief!v "Resk- Ughi Ugh!"
And here Samp let Off some terrific
wells, let go his hold on the Window
sill, rolled backward upon the ground,
rolled over on his legs grooming, sigh
ing, crying, and away he ran.
What had became of his pail he never
knew, and he did not care, for the great
question with him was, what would be-
come Of him? Now and then he turned
and looked round. Such eyesl
II was not on his eyes that Samp CON
graduated himself, but on his legs, for
Samp had seen a bear in the lumber
camp. He had actually put his chin
within three inches of the snout of a
bear, who had heard the noise made by
Samp at the window, and felt that It
was only right to look out and see who
was there.
Samp had planned a Hs'prise," and he
succeeded beyond his expectations.
Who was the more excitedly as'prisedr
Of the two will never be known.
The bear shared in the excitement.
evidently, for he sprang out Of the win
dow as 500 as possible, he hurryinr
in one direction and Samp in the other.
How many bears samp awpeople could
not find out.
Zone, sartin sure" he declared. nans
nuf eyes an mouf to stock a heaD
more. Ughi"
sThere," said Pierre's grannv II
didn't believe that Indian boy was the
thief Bears are apt to cut ND such
capers round some camps, and If Pierre
had looked twice he could have told the
dinerenee between a bears foot and 4
boys. when he saw those tracks. I
am ashamed Of him."
Not 50 ashamed as he was Of himself.
Il taught him . m~uch-needed lesson
not 70 cry &thiefn until he was sure 81
his man.
It is needless to say that Louis father
had his medicine speedily.
Elk ne good" be said. = Golden
Days