The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-08-17
AROUND TOWN.

.NN'h huBneS 10 dDle To be out
again after spell OF sickness.
Miss Annie White, of this CITY. opened
school at Beechland Monday morning.
~. Z. Blackburn, we regret TO report.
continues quite i'll with typhoid feyor.
A large ass ortment Of hammocks. NJ
COST at AID. FR1ERsoN q Son. 1925.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Harlan are happv
over the advent of little daughter into
their home. w. NV
The office of the Citizens Telenhone
Exchange has been nicely repdnered
and reprinted. ''''0'0N
Jim jackson is taking weeks vaca.
tlon and spending part of the time on
the Duck, fishing.
A letter from Mr.. Ed Turner. who ia
now visiting in Athens, Ala, states
that he is improving. '"' $500
Messrs. w. Ii. Wilson and Conner
1Esasley left yesterday for visit to
Forest Springs, Ky.
Porter Erwin is attending 10 the
business at the City Hall during the Ala.
sence of Judge Erwin. -
See Payne g. Britain II Won ex.
pect to buy monument, head stone
or any cemetery work II
Dick Fariss has been i'll for several
DAYS at the home of his brother, Car
rick Fariss, on South Garden street.
Misses MAJ tina Bowling and Tennie
Sowell have returned to GAINESVILLE.
aiter visit to friends in the country.
hnaf laot ,aI,A
oppressive, and many persons state that
they never experienced such hot night.
Mrs. j. A. Ketchum, we are sorry TO
report, continues quite sick, and her
friends fear she will develop case of
typhoid fever.
The management of the Columbia
Cotton Mill are giving their employees a
vacation" this week. This is an arnu
al custom with this mill.
Judge Sam Holding, Messrs. w. H.
Wilson, Frank Swansberg and Charley
Sharp Tuesday bagged 70 doves.
Hunters say fine shooting is the order
of the day.
Mr.; II. IL. Ogilvie is in very feeble
health at his home on West Sixth
street. He suffers greatly from extreme
nervousness, and gets very little sleep or
resG, night or day.
Mr.. Lloyd Cecil brought to town Mon
lay sample of his peaches, which
weighed 1O12 ounces and measured 1Osl
inches In Gil conference. He has five
trees of the same variety.
Mr.. J. P. Street has presented Mr..
and Mrs. Lee Vaughan with one of the
prettlest baby carriages ever seen in the
CITY: Inc buggy is a double seated
aifalr, and will carry the twins nicely.
About two car loads of phosphate are
being shipped daily from Columbia by
ID. +. Alexander and the company who
work the Howell mines. Mr. Alexander
also ships about two cars daily from Mt.
Pleasant.
A thermometer was placed in the sun
at Rains drug store recently, in order
to see how high the mercury would 90.
1t assembled to the 40 mark right away,
and would have kept on rising if the
tube had been longer.
The horse attached to Tom fuckers
grocery wagon ran away Monday morn
ing, going lively clip fora block or two
and distributing the contents of the
vehicle in all directions. Both horse
and wagon were slightly damaged, but
nothing serious resulted.
The family of City Marshall jackson.
Miss Ruth Hayes, Mrs. Watson. Lonnie
Cook and wife, and Messrs. #. j.
Stewart and Will Craft, who have been
spending week on Big Bigby, fishing
ana camping, returned Tuesday even
ing, They report a delightful time
The HERALD offers handsome set of
furniture to the subscriber who will
guess the closest to the number of votes
that will be cast in this county for
Governor at the ensuing November eec-
ton. Read the article elsewhere in this
issue, headed Another Guessing Con
test.'
Mr.. Jim Grow White is our authority
for the statement that Tuesday after
noon about 4 o'clock, during the shower,
number of small frogs were rained
IN his neighborhood, the metal roof on
w. j. Cakes mill furnishing fried frog
legs by the bushel Jim says the
hops" were saved, and will be disposed
of to some brewery.
Ing NASHVILLE american says: miss
Flora Kuhn, formerly of Columbia, but
now of this city, has announced her
candidacy for reelection as engrossing
clerk of the Senate. She served the
Fifty first Assembly and aspires to
second term. Miss Kuhn gave entire
satisfaction two years ago and will make
a formidable candidate, because she Is
popular and has many warm personal
friends who will look after her race"