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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING.
Or. WILKES TALK GIVEN
CLOSE AND EAGER AT
ATTENTION.

County Historical Society was held
Tuesday night at the County Court
room. with a goodly attendance OF
members and visitors Pres. VIM. s.
Fleming requested Rev. DR.. T. A.
Wharton to open the exercises with
prayer. The committee on securing
a larger monument TO Gen. Richard
VIM reported, showing from cores
pondence that it was now impractical
BILE to obtain from Congress the neces-
sary appropriation.
The thanks of the Society were re-
turned for the following donations:
Mr.. David F. Watkins: A copy of
the proposed Secession Act by the
Tennessee Legislature, printed in cir
cular form.
Mr.. VIM. S. Fleming: Autograph
letter of Rev. DIR. John Hall to Judge
VIM. S. Fleming in reference to the
First Scotch-Irish Congress held in
Columbia in 1889.
Mrs. ]. Clark Taylor: Two slave
deeds. A copy of the Daily Amy Ar
gus and Crisis, printed at Gainesville,
Alabama, April 2S, 1865; two pages,
eight by twelve inches. Although Lee
and Johnston had surrendered, this
little Confederate paper was still de-
fiant.
DR.. VIM. A. Smith Copy of the cpl
taph on monument of Gen. John COT
fee, written by President Andrew
Jackson.
DR.. ID. P. Robbins: History and Di-
rectory of Maury County, new edition
OF 1897.
Miss Clara Thompson: Inscriptions
on the tombs of the Galloway grave
yard, near Theta, Maury County.
Mr.. Merritt B. Tomlinson: Pam
phlet on Reconstruction and the ku
Klux Khan, prepared by Hon. I. W.
Gregory, of Austin, Texas.
Judge S. Quitman Weatherly: His
torical and Genealogical Notes OF the
Cooper and Kittrell families of Mid
die Tennessee.
VIM. P. Boyd: Notes with auto
graphs of John Hodge. ]. w. P. Nc
Ginsey, VIM. Bradshaw, BENJAMIN
Thomas, Joseph Brown, Walker and
Harris, May, 1924.
The address for the evening was
bv DR.. James H. Wilkes, giving the
sequel to his ghost story and former
address. The Doctor was in his usual
happy mood, and every one was SO
pleased that by special request he also
gave his impressions of Generals For
rest and Cleburne at the battle OF
Chickamauga 1t was about four
O'Clock on that terrible Saturday ar
ternoon. In the lull of the battle For
rest was sitting on his horse reading
a novel the Doctor asked: General
] is the fighting over for today For
rest pointed to the distance anu lo
piled: DO you see that large body OF
infantry marching this way in col
umns of tours? That is General Pa'
Cleburne's division; hell will break
loose in Georgia in about fifteen
minutes" With the precision OF vet
Grams on dress parade the column
halted, faced left, and with the reDe
veil. moved through skirt OF woods
and Hell broke loose in Georgia" IL
about five minutes. Cleburne routed
the Federals and captured battery OF
six pieces, before it could reload. The
Doctor said one of the shells passed
a few feet above Forests head, but
he (the General, not the Doctor paic
no attention to it.
BY unanimous request, DR.. Wilkes
will give his personal recollectlons
of the Battle of Resaca at the nex'
meeting of the Historical Society IN
April.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15

After this if you wish to talk
to Birmingham or intermediate points,
you can turn to your Citizens phone.
call up long distance and get excellent
connection and service over the wires
OF the Home Long Distance Telephone
Company. Within six weeks you can
talk to Nashville. Chicago. st. Louis.
OF almost any point of importance east
and north.
After a fight OF more than a year
and a half, surrounding almost impos-
sable difficulties thrown in the way by
the Bell Telephone Co, the wires OK
the Home Long Distance Telephone
Company reached Columbia this MORN
ing. and the monopoly of the Bell Tel
ephone Company as long distance
factor, is at an end. This fact means
a great deal to the citizens OF this
section. 1t means reasonable rates at
all times and better service even over
the lines of the Bell company.
The force of men, numbering about
twenty. reached here this morning.
and connected the wires of the new
company up as far as the of1ce OF the
Citizens Telephone Company, though
the wires have not yet been cut IN
Three complete copper wire circuits
are being run, but only two OF these
will be cut in here, one running direct
from Birmingham to Nashville without
break. The new wires are unusual
" large and will afford an excellent
connection. They were brought IN
over poles of the Home Company TO
the corporate limits and are beng car
ried through the city over the pores
of the Citizens Company Pay sta-
tions have already been established
at Lvnnville, Pulaski and other polhls
between Columbia and Birmingham
nv the new company and pay statlon'
will he established here at once. TINS
will require two additional operators
at the Citizens ONCE.
The Home Long Distance Company
already has a pay station IN opera
ton in Nashville, giving connexions
with all points north and east and con-
rectpq with the hundreds of thous-
| ands of independent phones IN thaC
section. The line between Nashville
and birmingham is only part OF the
break TO be filled to the south, as the
line will be extended south from BIZ
ningham as rapidly as possible to MO-
bile where the Independent exchange
numbers about ten thousands phones.
! Satisfactory traffic arrangements
have been made between the HONS
one Distance and the Citizens COM
panies at this place, and it is SAID tnaI
the new conner has offered to enter
into almost any arrangement inc
stockholders of the Citizens company
wish looking to the Improvement anu
/ extension of the Citizens exchange
Or O. J. Porter. the superintendent
of tbe Citizens Company, will have
communication for the stockholders Oh
! the Citizens Company in the Herald
at an early date, setting forth IN de-
tail the present telephone SITUATION
locally and throughout the Union MS
conclusions relative to two-system
service versus monopoly, and recon-
mendations looking to the establish
ment of local independent system
on a basis that will assure the staoli-
ity of the system, and will guarantee
just rates.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
CARD OF THANKS.

We hereby wish to express our most
sincere thanks for the many kind
deeds and words OF sympathy extend
ed BY our many friends in our recent
bereavement, and take this opportu-
nifty to express our gratitude for
same Their deeds will never be for
gotten. May God bless and prosper
each and every one. is the prayer OF
VIM BLOUNT AND FAMILY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
DEATH IN WRECK
Fireman Loses Life in Collision North
Of Nashvilie-other Trainmen
injured.

Special to the Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. March ID
Two freight trains collided at Rock
land, fifteen miles north OF Nash
vile, this morning. r. M. Harper,
fireman, was killed. He lives atSouth-
side. Tenn. r. f. Lynch, engineer, anG
f. b. Reimayer, fireman, both OF Bowl
ing Green, KY, were injured.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
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SUBSCRIBERS

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
sss.O22.s5 s4,s77.44

School district No. and Road DIS
trict No. 8 have several thousand dol
lars registered warrants.
On March 9Th, $26,554OO School
money and s3,616,6s Road money was
prorated to the various districts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
Clover Hay Wanted

We want 10 to 80 cars Of Glover
HAY Immediately Will pay highest
market price. Both phones 66.
oo.+f CITY GRAIN & FEED co.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15

Regulates the bowels, promotes
easy natural movements, cures consti-
pation-Doan's Reguiets. Ask your
druggist for them. 25 cents a box.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
SCHOOL AND
ROAD BALANCES

Following were the School and Road
balances of the various districts OF
Maury County, Tennessee, March 10,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15
HELLO!
BIRMINGHAM!
MAGIC CITY AND COLUMBIA CON-
NEcTED BY WIRES or HOME
LONG DISTANCE TELE-
PHONE COMPANY.

In Six Weeks All Points North and
East Will be Connected, and the
Monopoly Of the Bell Company as .
Long Distance Factor, viii be 5rok-
en-.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Death Of hugh G. Holmes.

Hugh G. Holmes, eighty-six years
old, of Beileville, died of injuries re-
ceived from fall. He sustained a
fractured rib and received internal
injuries, pneumonia developing. Mr..
Holmes was known as the first and
only Mayor of Belleville. In 1874,
after lively contention over the
local form of government, Mr.. Holmes
and others succeeded in obtaining
legislation changing the town to a
city, and he was elected Mayor. Two
years later the city charter was with
of the eaoin nun ununu nunun
drawn. In the fifties he was secre-
tary of the Belleville Steamboat
Company, which went out of business
In 1859. In 1860 Holmes bought a
steamboat, and besides carrying pas
sengers and freight transported the
members of the Bellville Military So
ciety in war times to its parade
grounds. After the war closed he
forwarded his bill to the Government
for this service, but he never sue
ceeded in collecting it. Mr.. Holmes
was large property owner in Belle
Vile, and always took keen interest
in it's local affairs. He was charter
member of Belleyille Lodge, F. and
A. M, which was organized half g
century ago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
In All Parts of the STATE.

Harry Madden, of Woodbury., lost
valuable dog last March, and found
it near Clarksboro.
Salem is to have another tomato
cannery, Benjamin F. Knight having
rented the old Salem Brass and Iron
Company's plant.
A gathering of Knights of Mystic
Chain from all sections of Cunber.
land County took place in the home
of Irene Castle, Millville. The meet.
ing was held for the purpose of adj
vancing the order.
Choir boys in charge of Choirmas.
ter Arthur l.. Collins, of st. Mary's
P. e. Church, Burlington, took an
annual summer camping outing along
the seashore at Beach Haven.
From dose of poison taken at
the home of DR.. E. G. Bullock, OF
Columbus, William Blanch, colored.
died at a Trenton hospital.
Charged with attempting to stab
his wife, Manassa Alexander was hello
in $500 bail by Mayor Lincoln, OF
Gloucester City.
At Salem potatoes reached the
highest price so far this season, SPAS
per barrel, many farmers realizing
from $35 to $40 per load.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
The 5AI n IN Law.
Question Now Before a California
Court for Decision

Court TOR Decision
What constitutes bath?
This is a peculiar question with
which a California court is now wrest-
ling. An anxious world impatiently
awaits the decision.
A California householder is being
sued for the price of heater that was
guaranteed to heat sufficient water for
a bath, and the defendant has proved
that it supplied only IS gallons of hot
water, which he alleged to be INSULT
cient for bath.
The plaintiff insisted that 35 gallons
is ample, declaring that "a man could
get wet first on one side and then on
the other" and that cit is not neces.
sary that he should take a plunge in
a swimming pool"
On this question the issue is joined.
The court has the matter under ad-
visement.
The decision will, of course, be of
great Importance, no matter on which
side it is rendered. The legal quantity
of water necessary to a legal bath
ought to be clearly defined, for the
protection of the public against people
who evidently regard pint or so sufi.
cient.
Bible students will recall the fact
that among the ancient Hebrews the
bath" was regular liquid measure
and scholars have agreed on eight and
one-half gallons as it's modern equiva
lent. 1t would seem, therefore, that
If eight and one-half gallons was the
regulation amount for bodily additions
in the days of Solomon, then SO gal
Ions ought to be ample at the present
time.
This important fact is cited, moi
from any desire To unduly influence
the court, but merely to substantiate
the point that the bath ought to be
legally defined now as it was in the
time of Solomon.
Ard when the requirements have
been fixed, even Chicago professors
ought to be made to conform to them
Worcester Gazette.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
The London Lancet in an editorial

The London Lancet in an editorial
on "Reticence to Patients" discusses
the old and much vexed question as
to- whether or not it is the duty OF
the physician to inform his patient of
the approach of death. The excep-
tions to the rule are so few as scarce
ly to be taken into account. They
are mainly summed up in the follow
ing: "The duty and business of the
physician is to preserve or to prolong
life, and to the discharge of this duty
every other consideration should give
way. If manifest mental anxiety
were present as a cause of depression
it should. IL possible, be relieved,
whether it weredependent upon mum
dane or ultramundane cares, and the
sick man. if strong enough and intel
ligent enough. might be advised
either, in the words of the liturgy, to
send for some discreet and learned
minister of Gods word and to open
his grief or to send for some judi
cious lay adviser, by whom his world
ly affairs could be placed in the best
train and reduced to the best order
that time and circumstances might
permit. And either advice might bo
given, generally speaking, without
risk or injury, not as a sentence OF
death, but on the sufficient ground
of the always uncertain issue of Sc
Tious illness, and in order. as meas
ure likely to contribute toward rccov-
cry, to relieve 50 far as possible any
nlssrcFs Of mind to which the sufferer
might be prey.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
Train Kills Letter Carrier.

James E. Sherman, letter carrier
on rural free delivery route of the
Somerville postoffice, was instantly
killed at the Roycefield crossing on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad by a fast
eastbound express. When Sherman
reached the Roycefield crossing,
where there are no gates, on his daily
ride of twenty-four miles. he waited
for freight train to pass, and then
drove onto the tracks directly in
front of the express, which struck his
rig broadside. The horse was killed
and hurled to one side, and the wagon
and Sherman were carried along on
the front of the engine for nearly half
mile before the engineer could stop
the train. The body was taken to
Somerville. The wagon was wrecked
and the mail strewn along the track.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Last Interview.


For weeks, of late, Adair had been
scarcely ever at home. He break
tasted early by himself, and left the
house only to return to it after its in
mates had retired to rest. Sometimes
he sent telegram from his Office:
''Shall bring friend this evening
who will dine alone with me-" Upon
the first occasion Sophy had under
stood this to mean that, though her
husband did not wish to see her at
table. he meant her to welcome their
guest in the drawing room. An un-
pleasant task enough, but one which,
however, she did not shrink from;
not from any notion of pleasing her
husband--for such an illusion had
long vanished-nor from any sense
of duty, nor even from fear of him,
but from a mere mechanical impulse
on which she now always acted ex-
cept in matters which concerned her
child.
One morning, instead of leaving
home as usual, directly he had swal-
lowed his early meal, Adair sent for
Sophy to the breakfast room. She
had not seen him for some days, and
even to her eyes Tin which there was
no wifely interest) the change in him
was very remarkable. His face was
thinner and more haggard than she
| had ever seen it; 1t looked pale and
anxious, but with certain deter
mined ferocity about 1t like that of
some hunted wolf that listens for the
cry of the hounds. He had tele-
gram in his hand which he had Just
received, and which he was turning
and twisting neryously. He glanced
up at her white. steadfast face as she
entered the room, and then walked
to the window, keeping his back to
her.
"How is the child?' he said. in
hoarse, quick tones.
Better; I trust certainly better,
though she gains strength very slow
! ly."
That's well" he said, with an un-
mistakable sigh of relief; 1--WE must
leave home to-day.
Leave home! You have surely not
the doctors sanction for that?"
81 have" he answered, positively;
"and if / had not, still we must leave
home. Please to give me your best
attention, madam, instead of asking
questions or making objections.
Something has gone wrong in the
city: it is useless to attempt to ex-
plain it-women know nothing of
lsuch things--but it has become neces-
sary for me to go abroad until the
thing has blown over. You need not
fear for the child, for she Will travel
with the utmost comfort. Here is
some money He thrust his hand
into his breast pocket. and pulling
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
Seized on Forgery Charge.

Charged with forging two promis-
sorry notes, one for $4,000 and the
other for $4,000, George M. Lanning.
fifty-three years old, president of the
Board of Education of the Borough
of Florham Park, was prisoner in
Police Headquarters, at Newark.
Both notes were discounted about two
years ago by the Federal Trust Com
pany, of Newark. Lanning is ac-
cused Of having forged on the papers
the names of Carmot P. Meeker,
president of the borough, and How
ard Young, the borough clerk, and
also to have used the seal of the
municipality without authorization
1t is said he raised the money with
the understanding it was to be used
for new schools and for general work
of the Board of Education Officers
of the trust company recently on
looking over their securities decided
to investigate the two notes. The ar
rest was the result.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
Living on Air.

A very distinct advantage about
motoring is that it does not give one
an appetite. Most open-air exercise
sends one home as hungry as hunt
er; and if one eats largely in these
days of strict regime and restricted
diet, all sorts of terrible things are
sure to happen-at least are prom
ised by the doctor. 1t is pointed out
in a daily contemporary that while
all the good effects of working up
an appetite are produced by long
drive in motor, yet the amount of
food required to satisfy what seems
to be ones huge hunger is actually
very small. The air itself feeds one,
and air neither upsets ones digestive
apparatus nor does it supply one
with adipose tissue.--London World.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
AS IN RoccAccio's TIME.
People of His Native Town Have Free
and-Easy Manners.

People of His Native Town Have Free
and-Easy Manners.
Maurice Hewlett writes of the PEG
pie of Certaldo, the Italian town where
Boccaccio was born and lived. "Their
women are handsome, as they ought
to be, with green eyes, dusky skins,
fair, tangled hair. They carry them.
selves bolt upright, like all noun.
taineers, but with better reason than
most. for their figures are remarkable.
Then men sing gay songs, are happy
and free-mannered, and If Boccaccio
is not at the bottom of it the mischief
is. saw here what have never seen
elsewhere in all long Italy--a man
stop and kiss gicl in open street
No offense, either. He was a baker,
who came-a fioury amorino-saw and
considered the bend of her industrious
head and stopped and kissed her as
she sat sewing at her door. Her Low.
ers and acquaintances about her saw
nothing amiss. nor was she at all put
out. After so fragrant an achievement
the madcap went whole progress of
gallantry down the street, none resent
ing his freedom. He danced with one
good wife. chucked anothers chin and
lifted third bodily into the air, sing.
ing all the WHILE"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20

1t is little difficult to reduce the
casualty statistics of our own and
foreign railroads to perfectly uni
form basis, but the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission publishes the ap-
palling figures of the killed and
wounded on our railroads every
three months, and the Philadelphia
Record fears that Herr CUTLERY, OF
the Prussian Railroad Bureau, has
abundant foundation for his conclu-
sion that absolutely and relatively
the railroads of the United States
are the most deadly in the world
There may be reason for this, but
there is no possible justification. The
railroads of Europe give good service.
run at high speeds and kill and in
jure few persons. If they can do it
our railroads can, and it behooves
our railroad officials to prove it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
Test of the Bishons, Law.

The first case in Trenton under the
Bishops law before the Excise Board
is that of Saloonkeeper William /.
Goodwin, who has been ordered 10
show cause why his license to sell
liquor should not Ire taken away for
Sunday selling. Goodwin pleaded
guilty to selling ON Sunday and paid
500 fine after the police had raided
his place under the leadership of the
Rev. Father Ward, of the Catholic
Church, and the Rev. F. B. Newman,
of the Presbyterian Church. Both
ministers complained that the saloon
keeper was debauching their congre-
cations, and ask that Goodwin's Ii,
cense be forfeited as provided in the
Bishops law.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
ouarternary Bears.

The excavations for the under
ground railways of Paris has yielded
a goodly array Of additions to
French archaeology, historic and
scientific. Within the past few days
the workmen came upon mass of
bones, evidently once forming the
skeleton of some huge creature, and
in an excellent state of preservation.
Experts from the National Museum
of Natural History carefully collect
ed all the fragments, and have been
able to reconstruct from them the
almost complete skeleton of the bear
of the Quarternary epoch, the direct
ancestor of the bear of our own
time, but of at least twice the stature
of the brown bears of to-day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
Divers weights and divers n

Divers weights and divers meas
ures are alike an abomination to the
Legislature of Massachusetts. 1t has
enacted a law which looks not only
to the correctness of weights in test
ing computing scales, reports the
New York Times, but has an eye also
to the indicated scale values, which
are frequently marked in such way
as Systematically to give short
weight. An amendment of the New
York code to the same effect would
be wholesome. Cheating of this sort
has become common, and poor people
are the ones who suffer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-20
sensitiveness could hardly go fur

Sensitiveness could hardly go fur
Their than in the case of the Cubans,
protests the Pittsburg Dispatch, who
assumed, because Colonel Alexander
planted cocoa palms about the for
tress of Santiago, that the Americans
would stay until the trees bore fruit.
This is not only an extreme of sensi-
tiveness but as mercenary an inter-
probation of an esthetic act as has
ever been made. The Cuban idea
must be that trees are planted only
for fruit, and that nobody could pos
sibly work merely to escape delicious
idleness. And then, "manana"