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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The reported discovery of oil in CO.
lumbia is no hoax, The quantity may
or may not be there, but the signs
are at least sufficient to warrant a
further and deeper investigation. The
indications here are just rs good as
the indications were at Beaumont,
Texas, before the boring began. There
they noticed oil on the top Of water
standing in a deserted and partially
filed well. Then they began to look
about, and they found tiny stream
of it coming out of the ground. They
marvelled and wondered and talked
about it awhile until finally some fool
fellow" bored a hole into the ground,
and then it was all over except the
shouting The signs here are just as
favorable for boring for OIL as they
were at Beaumont before the boring
began. The boring here may bring
shouts of delight or groans of disap-
pointment; which, we can never know
until we bore; but if the gentlemen
who own the property do not wish
to incur all the expense of investigat-
ing they can get all the help they want
by letting others in ON the ground
floor. The beauty of the thing is,
that if the quantity is there we are
all to more or less extent in on the
ground floor; for if Columbia strikes
oil in paying quantities, the boom il
would give the town would enhance
in value every foot of ground in it,
and give every man chance to gel
rich.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

"Talk of a third term for Mckinley
is nonsense. The popularity of Grant
could not secure him nomination for
a third term and he was at least as
popular as Mckinley with his party, -
says the Nashville American. But
that was in other days. before the di-
vorcement of the flag and the consti
tuition; before the death of the repub-
lie and the birth of the empire; before
the Federal Supreme Court went into
politics; before the money devils had
corrupted the Nation and their COM
panies had choked life and hope and
liberty out of the individual 1t was
Grants manifest duty to establish
this government upon the strong foun-
dation of an indissoluble union of the
states. II was McKinley's manifest
duty" to go to the utmost parts of the
earth and wage wars of conquest upon
people of the isles of the seas, to feed
the hungry nav of soulless octopuses
who bought and paid for his election,
and who control his administration
with a rod of iron.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
THE SWEET GIRL.GRkDUATE.
written for the HERALD

written for the HERALD
Now the jocund earth rejoices and the
so called welkins ring,
With a greeting TO the summer and a
farewell to the spring;
And off in the hazy distance, flirting
Ger her fan with fate,
There lovely vision waiting; tbs
the sweet girl graduate.
She is list ming for the signal, for the
sounding of the bell,
That will start the young reporter all
her triumphs glad to tell.
How he'll talk about her talent and
her shy reluctant feet,
And he'll ring in all the changes
where the brook and river meet.
He will write such glowing columns
on her Drumming golden curls.
de VIII crown her queen triumphant
of the rosebud wreath of girls
He will chant her youth and beauty
from the dewy morn till night,
And She II wear in every instance
'some soft clinging stuff" of white.
But she doesn't mind the chatter that
he writes a little bit,
For she's certain that her crepe de
chine will surely make hit
And her essay tied with ribbon, which
will say as heretofore,
That the past she's left behind her, and
the future is before.
How She Il dimple when she courtsies
Ger her mammoth white bouquet
How she II sweetly flush and futter as
she shyly GIBBS away;
Then q tear will gem her lashes as she
nestles by her mate
What dear, delicious humbug is the
sweet girl-graduate.
Oh the poets tell the glories of the
leafy month of June,
And they sing the time of roses to an
old and wornout tune;
But the man who reads the papers,
feels thrill of helpless hate,
For there's nothing there but base
ball and the sweet girl graduate.
MAY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The Nashville American asks, why
should we not celebrate the Fourth of
July in the old way2" That depends
upon the intended meaning of the pro-
noun, we" If it stands for the peo-
pie of Nashville or Tennessee, there is
no reason why they should not But
if it refers to the Nashville American,
there is every reason why it should
not celebrate the Fourth of July In the
old way. The Fourth of July and the
Declaration of independence may be
celebrated in the old way, but it
would .be embarrassing to the Ameri-
can and the captors of Aguinaldo, to
be there.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The Teachers Normal Institute be-
gins next Monday, and the entertain
ment committee have provided feast
for them and for the public at large,
in procuring that most charming gen
tleman and prince of platform orators,
Col Geo. W. Balm, to lecture at the
Opera House on the evening of the
Goth. The teacher who hears Col.
Balm may consider that he gets the
rest of the course free; for Col. Balm
is fully worth the one dollar charge for
a teachers full course ticket. The
public at large who pay two dollars for
these course tickets would not be
cheated if they heard only this one
lecture. The lecturers who were here
last winter. when asked concerning
other lecturers, invariably mentioned
Balm first and not infrequently said,
if he don't please you, nobody can.
If the Opera House is moi crowded,
we shall be sorry for those who stayed
away.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Bar gains i'm Summer Millinery

Ladies' and Misses black, pink md
blue, Lace and Chiffon and Straw Hats.
trimmed with flowers and crinked Chit
fon, values up to SO 90 and 50 50. Neat
SATURDAY and Monday $1-25 amt
81 90 each.
Chi'dren's brown and red, round
crown Straw Hats, trimmed with straw
braid and feather. Neat iSdturday
and Monday zoe each, from 75c.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
THE OIL DISCOVERY.

A goodly number Of people are dis
posed to treat the oil we'll discovered
here, CONTEMPORARY. New discoveries,
like prophets and poets, "are not with
out honor save in their own country.
First we were told that this spring
came from the Ice Factory or Gas
plant; but that theory was exploded by
credible witnesses who knew of the
spring before either of these plants
were established Now we are told
that it was loaded. If so, it was
loaded more than so years ago, as Maj.
w. B. Wilson remembers it very well
that many years ago. So these theories
against it are all successfully contra
dicted
On the other hand, what do we find ?
We find that this spring has been run
ming this same dark, thick sticky
fluid for more than half century
and we find, by analysis, that this
fluid makes high test in OIL We
find that it comes from some self-sup-
piled, natural reservoir in the ground.
Now then, reasoning from facts and
not from theories what are the
natural conclusions? First, the pro
duct is oil second, the well is self
supplying; third as it has been run
ming steady stream for fifty years
there certainly was in the beginning {
great quantity in the store house from
whence it proceeds, and there may be
big paying quantity there yet.
With these facts before us, why dis
courage an investigation? A few hun
bred dollars spent in intelligent in
vestigation, is worth all the theories
A few hundred dollars, if shared b.
several, will not hurt much if lost
But think of the possible gain
Think of what it will be to Colum
bia, if oil in paying quantities SHOULD
be discovered
The well proper belongs to the cor
poration. We think the corporation
could very well afford to help tn
owners of the adjacent property sin
a well 500 or 1000 feet. If the
struck gusher it would be wort
millions of dollars to Columbia.
they didn't strike anything but roc
and dirt, the loss would be but little
In short, this find is worth prob
ing. The serface indications are so en-
couraging and the possibilities s
great, that we favor going to the bot
tom Of this hole and tracing it to it
source. Stranger things have haI
pened than that great store-hous
of oil should be discovered there
There was just as much oil in Texa
before it was discovered, as there
now. We do not know but there is
much in Columbia as in Beaumont
Lets explore and find out.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
@. c. Irvine.

Mr.. c. G. Irvine died Monday morn
ing in Nashville, aged 80 years. and the
remains were brought to this place Tues
day morning and inferred in Rose Hill
Cemetery, services being conducted at
the grave by Rev. w. T. Ussery. De
ceased formerly lived in the Dark's Mill
neighborhood, and was prominent and
highly esteemed citizen. Affliction befell
him some time since, and last August
he hao to be taken to the asylum for the
insane at Nashville, where he remained
since. He leaves surviving him three
brothers and one daughter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Clothing Department.

Mems fine Worsted Pants, o. 65.
from $500, worth every cent of $500.
Nearly two dozen pairs. Good sizes,
neat effects in stripes and small checks.
Neat Saturday and Monday, &65 q
pair.
Mems $500 and $3.50 Pants, 50 65 a
pair. Mostly Wool Cassimeres, with
few Worsteds. Neat Saturday and
Monday So IS q pair.
Blue Serge Coats, Coats and Vests
and Striped Flannel Coats and Pants.
Very comfortable and moderate priced.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
McKennpn, Anderson & Foster.

But little than two weeks left for you to decide
which two teachers you will send the great Pan-Amer
Exposition, Niagara Falls, New York City, Washington
D. c. etc. We don't know any than you do about
who ahead but have idea that good work BY
some of the teachers from would change what
would be the result if the vote counted now.
You know the trip to Paris last year was won by an
"eyeash" patry of about orty-one
thousand the winners majority her closest COM
petor. Ioteearly and often tor the next tzvO veeks
What will be the total vote ofa the lady teachers in
our PanAmercan Exposition contest? Well give $500
in gold to the who guesses and S. gold
the who guessing ticket with every dol
lar you spend here.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
DEATHS HARVEST.
Wesley Smith.

Mr.. Wesley Smith died last Thursday
night at the home of his broher-in-
law, Mr.. w. H. Davis, on South High
street. Deceased was 80 years of age,
and his death was the result of com
plication of diseases. He leaves sur
viving him three children-Miss Irene
Smith, and Messrs. Cannon and Felix
Smith, the latter of whom is at present
serving with the army in the Phil
ippines. The funeral services were
conducted Friday afternoon..at the resi-
dence by Rev. A. p. McFerrin, burial
in Rose Hill cemetery.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
More of those Ladies'
Silk Serge [ mbrellas,
S1.0O in Mace of s.

SI00 10 place of 81 80.
Ladies' Black Kid Oxford Ties, heel
and spring heel, $100 pair.
Kid, one strap Sandals, S1.00 pair.
Perhaps the equal of any 81 so low
shoes you've seen. Sizes 21a to in the
Sandals and 212 to s in the Oxfords.
Neat Saturday and Monday 81 90 a
pair.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

Our FIVE dollar premium offer for
the best essay on divorce" was not
sufficient to overcome the modesty of
some and the fear of others when they
approach this dangerous and subtle
question, so that we have only Five
contestants for the prize. The first
paper. received appears in our issues to-
day; the others will follow in our
next
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

New York, June 15.-According to
special to the Herald from Washing
ton, stringent regulations defining
and prohibiting hazing have been is
sued by the war department. These
regulations are the direct result of
the recent mutinous proceedings at
the military academy. Hazing is thus
defined
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

More than one person who was liv-
ing in Columbia before the gas works
or the ice factoy either were estab-
lished, say they knew of this oil well
or spring in their boyhood, and that
it has been running there constantly
for years and years. So that disposes
of the waste theory.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

DR.. Tubbs. Professor Of Natural
Science in the Kansas Wesleyan Uni
versity. has been indulging in some
higher criticisms" Of the Bible; 50
the trustees have said. DR. Tubbs you
may stand on your own bottom. and
we viii elect another to the chair Of
Natural Science.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The Citizens Committee anent the
depot question are not at all unani-
nous. They do not seem to be able
to agree in detail upon any PROPOSE
ton. But if they should, their report
would be only advisory, and would be
a poor excuse for the Board of Alder
men to offer to the people for doing
what nearly every member of the
Board has declared he would not to.
The trouble with this Board is that
they daily too long with questions.
They meet and talk. without doing
much. They have all been against
this railroad proposition from the be-
ginning. They have talked about it
for hours and hours. They have made
motions galore, and talked them all to
death. They have offered amendments
and suggestions without number. but
have never brought one of them to
a vote. In the name of common sense
and business why don't they do some
thing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The farm known as the Sharber
place. Well improved and watered.
AdjOins Spring Hill on the north and
contains ll5 acres. Land and location
considered the most desirable little
farm in Maury county. For price and
terms. address.
". ". PORTER.
6-2t Stamford. Texas
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The Nashville American seems de
termined to reverse the usual order of
things. Instead of working six days in
the week and resting on Sunday, it gets
out a good paper on Sunday and rests
six days in the week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
James Holmea

WEST PoIST, Tenn, June Thames
Holmes, the little lS-months-old son Of
Rev. j. X. Holmes, Jr., died Saturday.
the sth, at the parsonage in West Point,
4 enn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

If the oil gusher gushes, the corpora
tion, we take it, will erect tanks for
the Standard Oil Company, and build
tracks for the l.. & N. R. r. Co., to
it, In that way we might induce the
heads of these benevolent associations
to become interested in Columbia.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
15c a Yard for 25c
Irish DimitieS.

Lavender, Green, Grey Pink and
black grounds with white dots, and yell
low, red and green grounds with white
stripes, 25c a yard everywhere. Nert
Saturday and Monday, 15c a gard.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Printed Lawns and
Dimity Cords, 1 Lee a yard.

Good value at 71ac. Two thousand
yards. White grounds with colored
figures. Tinted grounds with white
figures. Neat Saturday and Mon
dan 4 Ice @ Udrd.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The report comes that Nashville is
soon to have a new afternoon daily
paper, and that it will be democratic
in politics. 'Tis contamination de-
voutly to be wished. Nashville has
no democratic daily now.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
HIS DIPLOMA HELD UP.
Graduating Naval Cadet Punished
for Not Preventing HaHing.

for Not Preventing HaHinE.
Annapolis, Md, June 13.-For be-
ing present when Naval Cadet Dortch
was hazed, last fall, Navel Cadet Mer-
lin q. Cook, of Kansas City, one OF
the first class men of the naval acade-
my, failed TO receive his diploma OF
graduation. The academy authori-
ties held that Cadet Cook, being a
member OF the first class, ought to
have interfcred and stopped the haz-
ing Of Cadet Dortch.
Cadet Cook stands % in his class OF
81 members and is one Of the young
est In il. lie viii have 10 wait until
after the summer practice cruise be-
fore he receives his diploma.
Subscribe for the HERALD.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

ces and interment took place Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock at Reece's church.
The sorrowmg parents have the sym
pathy of everyone.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Ladies' Fine White
Shirt Waists, So. so.

From $500 and 81 so. These are
very dainty creations of French Lawn,
Lace and Swiss Insertions. Very new,
swell styles. Up to now they've been
$4.O0 and 81 so each. Neat Saturday
and Monday $500 each.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Linen Suitings
For Skirts and Suits.

121ac yard in place of 1920, %
inches wide. Linen ground with
stripes, checks and plaids of blue, green,
black, pink, etc. Neat Saturday and
Monday IL Ice q gard.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Joanna Henderson.

Joanna, the six year old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henderso u. died Mon
day morning az the home OF her par.
ents at Bigbyville. The funeral seryi-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The Nashville American says: "We
trust the active temperance advocates
are not planning to nlunge the state
into another prohibition campaign"
Really. now, that would be tough on
TatOm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

Don t fail to read elsewhere in this
paper, The Sweet Girl Graduate. 3"
We are not opening another guessing
contest, but you couldn't guess in a
month who wrote it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

The surest, best and quickest way
to get the temperance laws we want,
is to enforce the temperance laws we
have. The Anti-Saloon League of Ten
nessee should not forget that.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

If the trusts can trust Mckinley for
third term, they will run him; but
if he gets tired of their bOssism and
shows any WEAKNESS in their service,
they will drop him.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14

There are oil wells and oil wells. Some
are operated through pipe lines, Others
through pipe stories.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
STRAIGHT TIP 70 HAZ[RS.
The War Department Doesn't Intend
to Have Any More Cadet
Foolishness.
DOIAGS THAT CONSTITUTE HkzING.

Nothing Incompatible With the Pc
sitiOn of the Cadet as a Gentle
man VIII be Permitted, and ViO-
Iation of the Regulations Will be
Met With Summary Dismissal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
We hardly ever do things by halves, but we
going to offer you some fine, thin Summer
Half Price next Saturday and Monday.

Bran Plumetis Sole, Silk Stripe Grenadines Silk
Mercerized Gnghams beautiful thin uf the Arstocras of
Wash Goods line very few of these oc yard them
5o:. Choice next Saturday and Monday Csc yard
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
What Constitutes Having.

ANY cadet who shall strike, lay
hands upon, treat with violence, dis
turb in his room or tent, or offer bod
lily harm to new cadet or candidate,
with intent to punish, injure, annoy,
modest or harrasS the same; or, who
shall, with the same intent, invite, or
der, compel or permit new cadet or
candidate to sweep his room or tent,
make his bed, bring water, clean his
arms, equipment or accoutrements,
or perform any other mental service
for him, or to assume any constrained
position, or to engage in any form of
physical exercise; or who shall, with
the same intent, invite, order OF com,
pei any cadet or candidate TO eat or
drink any article of food, or to take
into his month any articles whatever,
or to do for him anything incompati-
BILE with the position of cadet and
gentleman; or any cadet, whose duty
it is to enforce camp, barrack or mess
regulations, who shall permit any new
cadet or candidate to eat or drink any
article of food, or to take into his
mouth any article whatever, in vio-
lation OF said regulations, shall be
summarily dismissed from the mill
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
Fighting Also Prohibited.

'Hazing also includes any other
treatment of a harrassing, tyranical,
abusive, shameful, inuslting or hui
initiating character"
Dismissal is the penalty for viola
ton of these regulations. The prac-
tice of a duel or personal combat is
also prohibited, and the principals
and other persons involved, or any
cadet abusing or condemning anoth-
err for declining to accept a challenge,
will he dismissed.
Col. Mills has furnished the war de-
partment with an official copy of the
order setting forth the punishment
administered to the cadets, other than
those dismissed and suspended VIII"
were found guilty of participation in
the disgraceful proceeding of April
last
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-06-14
VALUABLE FARM For SALE.

Let 'er gushl
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-09-14

respect Of all. It has, moreover. added
a new bond between the vice president
and those intimately associated with
the president and the latter are warm
est in their expressions Of the manner
in which he has met every requirement
of the situation. Not for a moment
has he permitted the idea to be enter
tanned that there was need for consid-
ering the constitutional disability Of
the president and the exercise OF exec
utive functions which, this would inn
pose upon him. On the contrary, Mr..
Roosevelt has been n Of the most
positive in the conviction that the
president would recover. Twice DUR
ing the day and again last ev>aing the
vice president called at the Milburn
residence to inquire as to the presi-
dents condition. During the afternoon
call he met several of the cabinet Of
ficers and Senator Hanna, and spent
short time with them in informal dis"
cussion. On the streets Mr.. Roosevelt
has been the center of respectful at
tentions, but he has met this with dig
nifty and composure. Despite senseless
remarks that he was going about
guarded by secret service men, he has
positively declined to have anything
like a guard near him.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-09-14
soL1c1rupE FOR MRS. M'N1NLEY.
Her Frnfl Condition Causes Much
Worry.

Her Frnfl Condition Cauxcs Much
r.. Worry.
Buffalo, Sept. 11.-Second only to the
interest taken in the wounded presl-
dent is that manifested by the people
of Buffalo in his wife. Inquirers re-
garding the president fail to ask
for her and how is she standing the Or
deal which must be such a hard one.
There was a crowd at he rope bar
riers when the carriage was admitted
into the restricted area, and there were
many who recognized it as the n IN
which the presidents wife had driven
out Sunday for the first time since Fri
days shocking event. The carriage
drove into the Milburn grounds and up
to the side entrance as on the a be-
fore. Mrs. Chard and Mrs. McWtlliams
got out. Then Mrs. Mckinley came
out and went down the steps leaning
on the arm of Mrs. Milburn. She wore
a blue silk dress and hat trimmed with
violets. Mrs. McWilliams got In the
carriage with her and the two were
driven down Delaware AS the3
passed the crowd of watchers 1T was
noticed that Mrs. Mckinley looked very
pale and AS she drove by
the crowd there was a stra1nlng OF
necks in an effort to get a glimpse OF
her, but the curiosity displayed was
respectful and the looks given her were
full Of sympathy. w.