The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-02-22
AROUND TOWN.
Call Dale Bros. for Burt Oats.

Sow Burt Oats-from DALE Bros II
w. H. Bell is now clerking for Laza-
rus Bros.
Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, was the
beginning of Lent.
Mr.. M. ID. King is out again after a
spell OF pneumonia.
Mr.. Newt Jones is building a cottage
near the pump factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Autman contemplate
moving to Mt. Pleasant soon.
Tax Assessor w. II. Llpscomb is bust
y engaged now, assessing taxes in the |
city.
Old papers for sale at the HERALD Of
flee; 30 for ID cents, or % cents a hun
dred.
Mr.. Geo. S. Alcorn is improving th;
interior of his drug store by having it
repalnted.
Mr.. T j. Odell, who went from here
to Birmingham, is now in business in
Sheffield, Ala.
The pay.car made its monthly trip
here Friday, gladdening the hearts of
the railroad employees.
Hooten & Beatty purchased last week
the Columbia Wood Yard, formerly con
Quoted by Freeman & Davis.
Mr.. William Moses was elected vice
President of the Retail Grocers' Associa-
ton, of Louisville, KY, last week.
Joe Hagey, of Anderson & Hagey, re-
turned the latter part of last week from
a business trip on Tennessee river.
Mrs. j. B. Wilkins received tele
gram Wednesday, stating that her
sister, Mrs. B. Hamilton Of jackson,
Tenn, was dangerously ill.
, In the Court of Chancerv Appeals
Saturday. the case of w. J. Webster VS..
, James Whitworth. from Maury county,
was affirmed and the bill dismissed.
Prof. }. E. Scobey has purchased the
Armstrong place, about two miles from
. Columbia on the Wiliamsport pike. He
will not take possession until next fall
! Mrs. Queenie w. Cochran, wife of the
: late j. 7. L. Cochran, has made bond
in the County Court in the sum of
1000 as guardian of her minor chill
: dren.
Z Mrs w. A. Ruttle recently received
from the Knights of Honor $1,000,
9 ried by her deceased husband in that
. order.
Mr.. Alfred N. Estes, agent for the
a old reliable continental" has opened
!, up his insurance Office in the Brown
block. He solcits your business, and
will treat you right.
: The pretty, spring like weather we
l. have been enjoying so much gave way
O to breeze from the artic regions last
g Tuesday night. The mercury dropped
' to twenty degrees above zero.
: The Hope Rebekah Lodge No. 81,
y have changed their night of meeting
q from Friday to Monday night. The
members will please take notice and act
= accordingly. Each one is requested to
be on hand next Monday night.
To-day (Washington's birthday, be.
ing National holiday, will be OBJ.
served as such by the postoffice at this
place. The Office will be closed as or
Sunday, and the carriers will make only
one delivery. The banks will also close
Mr.. John A. Cakes, of this city, has
received a letter from his nephew, Lieut.
Robert O. Ragsdale, who is now in Sar
Francisco, having returned from the
Philippines with the 9th regiment
Lieut.. Ragsdale will take trip through
Mexico, and visit his brother, Jane:
Ragsdale, before returning home.
WANTED-Reliable man for Manager
of Branch Office we wish to open in thi,
vicinity. If your record is 0. X. here il
an opportunity. Kindly give goo(
reference when writing.
The A. r. NORRIS WHOLESALE HOUSE
Cincinnati, Ohio
Illustrated catalogue cts. stamps.
1-11-12t
A ripple of excitement was caused Oh
Garden street Friday morning by a run
away horse, The animal became fright
ened in Houser's hitch yard, and plung
ed around wildly; knocking dow
another horse and jumping over him
He then ran down Garden street AM
into Harlan & Som livery stable, wher
he came to stop in stall.
Frank Everett returned from Yves
Virginia last Saturday. where he wen
- to sell an opening bill of hardware. Di
he sell it? OF course he did. A $500
bill Many of the big hardware con
Germs had representatives there, bu
at Columbia Frank shoN them a cea
pair of heels and landed the order fo
10 his employers, W. B. Belknap & Co., c
" Louisville, Ky.
), Col. Lucius j. Polk, General Manage
of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Raj
road, reached Columbia Tuesday morr
ne ing in his private car, accompanied b
his secretary and several prominen
in gentlemen of Texas. The party too
le- carriages at this place and drove dow
to the old Polk settlement at AshwooC
NJ and from there went 20 Mt. Pleasant
at look over the phosphate field Co
Polk and his party have been on pleas
er ure trip north, and are now on their wa
o. home.