The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-05-10
AROUND TOWN.


Home grown strawberries are now on
the market.
Duplex 2:l7i4 will make the season at
South Side Park. II
Mrs. Jesse Powell, who has been on
the SICK list, is improving.
Mrs. fowler is having her house on
North Main street reprinted
Miss Rebecca Mayes, who has been i'll
with pneumonia, is improving.
Little Miss Lucille BaugLss has been
very sick for week past with fever.
The grand jury adjourned Saturday,
after being in session for several days,
Mrs Susan Wilson, who has been
quite i'll for several weeks, is some bet
ter.
Miss Martha Gibson, who has been
sick with fever at the Institute, is i'm
proving.
The May term of the Circuit Court
will convene the last Monday in May,
the 9th.
! Columbia merchants enjoyed big
business Saturday and Monday, the
stores being crowded with shoppers.
Mr.. John Martin and family will
move to Columbia from Nashville in a
few days, to make this place their home.
Barker & Co., both phones, want old
scrap iron, bones, metals, old and new
feathers and everything in produce
( line. If
Phinteas Lodge, X of P, had an in
! terestng meeting Friday night. Fred
Kelsey was passed through the first and
second ranks.
Allen Campbell has qualified in the
. County Court as administrator of the
estate of his brother, George w. Camp
bell, deceased, under bond of $1,000.
Mr.. H. F. Alexander is shipping on
an average of about thirty car loads of
phosphate per week now. About half
of the amount is shipped from Columbia.
=, Tom Frierson has begun suit in the
' Circuit court, seeking to recover 1000
damages from the corporation of Colum-
bia for injuries sustained by falling
y from culvert on Eighth street,
: A party of about twenty young men
= took an excursion Sunday to Saltpetre
) Cave, Giles county, and spent the day
Y very eGjoyably in exploring the cave and
t enjoying the fresh country air.
The residents on North Garden street
$ between Fifth and Sixth, were greatly
1 disturbed Saturday night by some mis-
: creants throwing rocks. The police
t were telephoned for, but the parties got
a away.
WANTED:-3 more good, reliable men
: to sell first class drop head Singer Sew
y ing Machines in Columbia and MaurA
= Co. Apply to the Singer Mfg. Co.,
> Office No. %, Public square, Columbia,
= Tenn. 9-6t-w1t
Good-sized crowds were in attendance
Il at the performances of the Sells & Gray
k circus Tuesday afternoon and night
g At the evening exhibition the rain
# broke into the performance, which haC
a to be curtaied
IS A passing train on the Nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad SCI
!. the dry grass fire in Rose Hill Gene
!. terry Monday morning. However, the
blaze was extinguished before much
damage was done.
Pure Brown Leghorn eggs for sale
Inquire at the HERALD Office. d&wtf
= Miss Rosa Cherry. the successful con
q testant for the HERALD's Premium
v Phaton, desires to extend her sincer
Y thanks to her friends who so kindly re
le membered her. She says they will hea
70 from her later on.
Q r. G. BATES, the South Main stree
~ blacksmith and horseshoer, wants you
is to read his advertisements. From tim
/ to time he will put before you thing
needful in keeping your horse shoe
right, thus contributing to- your comfort
" Prof j. A. Bostick and about twenty
or five pupils from Howard Institute pass
v ed through Columbia Saturday on thei
n way to Nashville to attend the annua
at track game at Vanderbilt Miss Char
If. otte Fariss joined the party at thi
ry place.
WANTED-Men to learn wire drawing
fence and nail making. Fair wage
while learning. Good trade. Quick
at learned. Only steady men wanted
ar Both white and black. Address Ala
ok bama Steel & Wire Co., Birmingham
ne Ala. 102t
J. Mr.. George S. Alcorn. the druggist
has recently improved his facilities fo
dispensing soda water by putting in a
automatic carbonater, which keeps hi
fountain supplied all the time. He ha
y, also put in some nice porcelain line
us ice cream cans
ar
ne The Commercial Appeal, of Memphis
be states that Memphis society is delighte
elk to know that the officers of the hors
in show have secured the services of NJ
John Trotwood Moore to Judge at tn
big horse how May 14-17 This sho
4 will be held at night in the large huilC
il. ing prepared for the Confederate Vetel
nt ans, and will be the event of Memph
- society next week. The selection of NJ
no Moore is quite a compliment to him.
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