The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-14
AROUND TOWN.


White Bros. are out with a new
ice wagon.
Hammar Paint Is the best. tt
A good-sized crowd was in town
last Monday.
The street sprinkler will be started
in few days.
Mrs. e. d. Looney has been on the
sick list this week.
Drink Phospho at Alcorn's. If
Mr.. w. p. Woodbridge has been on
the sick list this week.
Mrs. f. +. Wood, who has been i'll
with pneumonia, is improving.
Mrs. Kuykendall is i'll with fever
at her home on West Sixth street.
Take your prescription to Alcorn's.
Fariss' cake-walk troup will give
performance at Mt. Pleasant to-
night.
A number of maddOgs, or sup
posed. to-5e maddogs, have been ex-
terminated during the past week.
Mr.. Meade Frierson is improving
the appearance of his residence on
Eighth street by building a new
front porch.
Rubber tired surveys, phetons,
and buggies, the finest line ever
brought to the city.
If J.P. STREET & Co.
Henry Edmondson, colored, an
employee at w. j. Cakes factory, had
his hand badly mashed one day this
week while at work
Mr.. Sam Cook is tearing away the
storebouse at the corner of South
Main and Tenth streets, and will
build a new residence.
Hannah Paint $l.l0 per gallon. If
The Maury County Exchange of
the Cumberland Telephone Com
pany has just issued new list, con-
tanning more than 500 subscribers.
The stomach is our best friend and
the next best is the Perfect" bakin~
powder. 1t is chemically pure and
assists digestion. l.20 3m
Mrs. Josie Harlan is having her
yard greatly improved by filling it
in with dirt taken from the cellars
for the new buildings on West
Seventh street.
Hammar Paint is the best. tt
{ Las Monday some of the many
, visitors in the HERALD office left a
pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.
The owner can recover same by
calling for them.
Mr.. Geo. S. Alcorn, the up-to- date
druggist, has greatly beautified his
store by having it newly papered
8 and otherwise improved. The work
= was done by Gus White and his as
: sistant, Street Jenkins.
Use Alcorn's Worm Syrup. If
o The old Whitthorne building on
a West Seventh street will soon be g
thing of the past. Work has begun
y on the excavation for the cellars foI
-, the new building. The work is being
. superintendent by Mr.. Il. S. Sweet.
: I am prepared to clean monu
n ments and head stones; also to reset
and set them on stone foundations
as we'll as furnish any new worl
> desired in granite or marble. Salts
:; faction guaranteed. s. 7 PAYNE
VI Columbia, Tenn. tt
+. 1t showed and sleeted little las
h Saturday. Monday, however, tn,
weather opened up nicely, and i
now seems that gentle Spring is her,
70 to stay until Summer comes, which
q from present appearances, is not ia
10 off.
~ A swarm of insects commonly
II known as electric light bugs,
n struck town last Wednesday night
If and yesterday morning they coult
be seen in large numbers lynn
around on the ground. The hog
- made a feast of them for awhile.
az Alcorn's Dyspepsia Tablets cur
20 all forms of indigestion. If
ID Mr.. A. B. Rains, the druggist, ha
I'd just received nice assortment G
he amber colored bottles, which h
le uses in filling prescriptions. Thes
r bottles protect the contents fror
the light, and are said to be yer
. superior to the kind in general us'
A negro by the name of Ere
Smith, from AshwoOd, came to tow
last Monday and partook quit
ry freely of corn-juice. He becam
ne very disorderly when starting t
~ leave town in the afternoon, an
We was taken in tow by the police o
West Seventh street. He submit
ted his case in the city court an
was fined $6.40.
he. We have purchasd the celebrate
pure baking powders named "Pe
feet" and desire our customers
use it, for health sake. M. ID. Kim
ng G. w. Nichols, Frierson & Embr
al w. ID. Cameron.
10, l-20 3m
n of A travelling show of very low d
ks gree struck town this week, al
his gave one or two performances in tt
Brown building on South Main 81
charging 10 cents for piece of chey
ing gum and presenting the perform
ance free" When the authoriti
notified the showmen that tn,
would have to pay full license f
re. such performances, notwithstandiI
. their gum scheme, they fold
their tents like the Arab, and silen
ly stole away"