The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-10
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itives at Water Valley.
Mrs. ]. w. Cochran has returned
from a visit to Zion friends.
Miss Krembilt Dodson is visiting
Mrs. J. F. Stephenson at Primms
B. D. Joyce & Son sold this week to
B. D. Andrews . handsome black driv-
ling horse, for fancy price.
| Taxpayers have begun paying their
city taxes, and from now till Septem-
Der LIST, Recorder Erwin will be busy
issuing receipts.
Friends in this city will be interest
ed to know that Mr.. and Mrs. R. E.
Bentley, of Lawrenceburg, the latter
being remembered here as Miss Sallie
Childress. have moved to Bronte, Tex
90, Z; I'VE. ~
Horace Milan, formerly Of Column
bia, wSho Is train dispatcher at Birms
iingham, has recently been ssvea a
promotion from night to day service.
He is perhaps the youngest train dis
patcher in the south, being only 10
years old. Il
Judge w. o. Gordon began the work
today of paying of the officers who
held Thursdays election.
T. n. Figuers' two show windows
have attracted d great deal of atten-
ton. These windows are decorated in
harmony with the harvest sale that is
is being conducted at that store-two
shocks of oats being used, festooning
the entire window The work was
done by Amos Warfeld
Mr. and Mrs Frank Everett and
family were badly frightened Sunday.
While out driving down the hill on
/ the Mt Pleasant pike just this side
of Mr. John Moore's, their horse fell
and kept falling every time he would
rise to his feet. The family finally
got out of the surrey and the horse
was unhitched. He Immediately made
break for the country and did not
stop till he reached the first toll-gate.
! Magistrates blanks in any quantity
can be had at the Herald office.
J The Chicago Record has published
lengthy write up and announce
ment of an international wedding to
take place in that city this month,
which is the outcome of a very pretty
romance. THE bride is fair member
of the social world, Miss Edna Smith,
and the groom a rich, impetuous
young Mexican, one Senior Jose D.
Gonzales, of Guadalofara Mexico. And
strange to say the trousseau of the
bride of this oddly mated couple will
be made in Columbia by Mrs. Custer,
who knew her before coming to Co
lumbia
Little Miss Wilmouth Dining ar
rived Tuesday at the hime of Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Dining.
1t is said that there are about fifty
applicants for deputyships under
Sheriffelect Love Webb.
Harlan & Son bought nice horse
Monday
| ]. p Hudson was here Monday from
New Orleans buying mules.
J w. B. Burnett bought several mules
on the streets Monday.
! Genial Frank Everett was bitten by
a dog in front of the Postoffice Mon
day evening, but is feeling no i'll eff
fects from the bite and all marks Of
the CANNES teeth will have disap-
peared in a few days. Frank has a
way of telling joke and then poking
the man to whom he is talking in the
side and stepping back, giving a
hearty laugh at the same time. He
went through this performance in the
presence of crowd, but when h@s
stepped back, his foot came down on
the tail of a dog too deeply interested
in the joke to move out of the way.
His dogship was so badly surprised
that he bit Mr.. Everett In the calf of
the leg before he realized what he
was doing.
Mrs. Nora Ussery has qualified as
Administrative of the estate of the
latea.W w. w. Ussery. ..1zu4 40.
J. C. Kennedy has qualified as ad-
ministrator of the estate of the late
r.. A. Kennedy.
Through the burning out of the
Heralds dynamos we are forced to use
our gasoline engine for few days.
Mr.. Robinson of the Water & Light
Co., however, has kindly telegraphed
to Cincinnati for new dynamos, and we
hope to have them here by Monday
and put stop to the noise of the gas
oline engine.
Judge Holding, DR.. T. A. Wharton
and Sam Harlan are on fishing trip
up the river.
Prof. ]. M Hatfield, new teacher