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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
MERCHANT MAKES
AN ASSIGNMENT
n. HINES, At TERRY, FILES
DEED OF TRUSTS FOR 5ENE-
FIT OF CREDITORS.

J. H. Hines, merchant at Terry, a
few miles below Mt Pleasant, filed
deed of trust Saturday, naming
w. F. Chapman, trustee. The assets
consist of the stock of goods, fixtures
and accounts. The liabilities amount
to about $525, distributed as follows:
Webster-Locke Milling Co., $37; J. A.
Sloan Grocery Co. of Columbia, 1924;
Coleman Tcmpkins & Co., 5000;
Walker G. Jones, Ashwood, $500;
Craig & Shofner $3.50
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
FALSE FIRE ALARM
AT BAPTIST CHURCH

The attendance at the Baptist
church Sunday night was the largest
any church in town has had for many
months. There was an alarm of fire
caused by fue burning out, just as
the congregation assembled and in
few moments 1t looked as if half the
people of town had surrounded the
The fire company answered
the alarm promptly, but their services
were not needed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
CIRCUIT COURT
TAKES RECESS
AoJoURNs FOR THE DAY THAT
LAWYERS MAY PAY TRIBUTE
TO JUDGE WILKES.
MISTRIAL IN THE DOYLE CASE
Judge Holding Polls The Jury.-Ten
To Two For Conviction,
The Result.

Circuit Court adjourned Friday tina
the members of the Columbia bal
might attend the meeting of the State
Bar Association in Nashville Saturday
nj honor of the late Judge Wilkes.
Messrs. E. Fl. and C. P. Hatcher. G. T.
Hughes, w. S. Fleming, Judge Sam
Holding and perhaps other members
of the local bar went Saturday to
Nashville to take part in the meeting
and exercises.
The John Doyle liquor case, which
was on trial Friday in the Circuit
Court, resulted in mistrial. Judge
Holding polled the jury after they had
finally reported that they could not
agree, this being the first instance of
the kind in the history of the court.
The jury stood ten for conviction to
two for acquittal One of the men,
bers of the jury was released from
service. This is the fifth trial Of this
noted case.
Lige Lawrence, colored, who made
the assault on Walter Forgey at Mt. |
Pleasant some months since, pied !
guilty to assault with intent to COM
NIT voluntary manslaughter and was
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
larry Jesse Cartwright, colored, also |
,led guilty to assault with intent to
commit voluntary manslaughter and
vas sentenced to two years to the
'enitentiary. The two were taken to
he pen Friday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
GREAT VALUE
OF Eco INDUSTRY
MORE THAN 10000 DOZEN WERE
SHIPPED FROM COLUMBIA
DURING WEEK.
POULTRY WORTH ten THOUSAND
VIM. Barker, Leading Dealer, Leaves
Saturday For Havana And
other Cuban Points.

Maury county has long since gained
the reputation as being the best poul-
try and egg county in the State and
probably the best locality in the
South, and Columbia is the head for
all of this market.
There were handled through Column
bia this week more than 10000 dozen
eggs, and in addition to that several
car loads of poultry have been
shipped. The price paid FOR these
eggs averaged about 15k cents per
dozen, making total of $22,250.00
this does not include the money paid
out for poultry, which will aggregate
about $4,000 These eggs were sold
in the east and northeast at an aver
age of TN cents per dozen, making a
total of $26,25OOO, a net profit of
100000 to the dealers.
William Barker, one of the largest
dealers in poultry and eggs left
Saturday morning for Havana, and
otiitl Cuban cities, where he will
place or the Cuban markets several
car loads of American eggs. Mr..
Barker has opened up a considerable
egg and poultry business in Cuba and
ships from two to three car loads of
eggs per week to Havana.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
COLUMBIANS IN
FLORIDA WRECK

Attorneys Salmon and Turner are
in receipt Of letter from w. t.
Wilkes sating that he and Mrs.
Wilkes, who left here a short time
ago for visit to Florida, were in
the wreck on the East Coast line
near Plant City, Florida about forty
miles from Tampa. Mr.. Wilkes sus-
tanned serious injuries and has been
confined to her room since the acct
dent.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
HALF MISSOURI
NOW PROHIBITION
MANY COUNTRIES JOIN "DRY"
COLUMN AT THE RECENT
ELECTIONS.

PENNINGTON, Mo-, March RE
turns from twenty out of twenty-four
precincts of st. Francois in the local
option election today, show MAORI
ty OF 40S for prohibition. The four
missing precincts are not expected to
change the result. OF the ia coun-
ties in Missouri, 70 are now dry.
OREGON, Mo-, March I'm the To-
cal option election held today, Holt
County voted for prohibition by ma
jority of 800
PLATTE CITY, Mo-, March Tn
the local option election held today
Platte County voted against prohibit
ton 2,159 to- ,347.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
ALLEGED OCULIST
IS In TROUBLE
A. GAULSoN, OF NASHVILLE, AR
RESTED AT MT. PLEASANT ON
VERY SERIOUS CHARGE.

MT. PLEASANT. Tenn, March g.
A. Gaulson, representing himself to be
an oculist of Nashville, is in serious
trouble and Is now confined In the
city calaboose. He arrived in town
Tuesday morning and called on several
OF the leading citizens of the town,
claiming that he was a specialist Of
reputation and that he was a nephew
Of DR.. Savage of Nashville and gave
DR.. Savage as a reference as to his
ability. Yesterday he called on Mrs
c. c. Ross and sold her a pair OF
$40 glasses. collected the money and
disappeared.
Mr.. Ross claims that the glasses are
not as represented, and Immediately
notified the officers. He also called
up DR.. Savage in Nashville, VINO stated
that the man was no relative of his.
Mr.. Ross and City Marshal Parks
traced Gaulson out the Columbia
pike to Ridley Station, where ne
boarded a train. He was arrested
and brought back to Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. Ross had warrant issued for him
for obtaining money Under false pre-
lenses, when he was locked up to
await the action of the Grand Jury,
which Is now in session.
Gaulson stoutly proclaims his inno'
cence, claiming that he is in legiti-
mate business, that his family lives
In Nashville, and that DR.. Savage is a
relative of his. He says he Is re-
Gently Of St. Louis and can give
splendid reference.
Gaulson was brought to Columbia,
where he was released on bond fur
lished by friends from Nashville
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
CORFsjRATIONS
ARE ARRAIGNED
|TAKlNG LEADING HAND IN POLL
TICS OF TENNESSEE SAYS
"ouR BOB"
|TO KEEP OUT OF CAMPAIGN
Senator Tayior's Plan Unless Cor
porate Organs Force Him
To Speak.
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March THE
Banner today publishes a statement
from Senator Taylor made in Wash
ington in which he says that he has
not contemplated taking part in the
state campaign and will not do so
unless the organs of certain corpora
tons in Tennessee compel me to. l must
not be expected to sit with closed
lips when 1t is so wen known that
power is taking the leading
hand, hidden though it be, in Tonnes
see politics"
This statement was made, it is said,
because the Senator had been deluged
with letters from rartisans of Gov.
Patterson protesting against his TAX
ing part in the campaign.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
.BECKWITA BROS.
QUIT BUSINESS
WELL KNOWN SPRING HILL FIRM
or MERCHANTS DISSOLVE
PARTNERSHIP.
MAKE DEED OF ASSIGNMENT
To {. n. Ayers, Truttee, Who Ia
Charged With Payment of
creditors.-Assets $1,000.

Beckwith Brothers, the well known
merchants at Spring Hill. have dis
solved partnership and will retire
from business. The members of the
firm, John Beckwith and A. w. Beck.
with Saturday executed a deed of as
signment to E. H. Ayers, President OF
the Bank of Spring Hill, as Trustee This
was done for the purpose of winding
up the partnership business and is a
distinct course from the ordinary as
signment for the benefit or creditors.
However in the deed executed it is
first provided that the creditors are
to be paid from the amount realized
from the assets every dollar that may
be due them. If there shall be any
remainder the same shall be paid to
the members of the firm as their in
terests may appear. The trustee is
given six months in which to wind
up the business and pay the credi-
tors, but is admonished to do so soon
er if possible.
The deed of trrst or assignment not
only includes the entire stock of mer-
chandise, furniture and fixtures, but |
also the real estate, which the mem.
'ers of the firm inherited from their
ate mother. 1t is estimated that the
value of the property covred by the
Iced will be not less than $1,000 or
&, 900.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
EVANS CROWD
GETS HICKMAN

Special to The Herald.
CENTREVILLE, Tenn, March g.
Evans Republicans captured the Re-
publican county convention here to-
day, and delegates pledged to Rivers
and Gregory for delegates to the Ma
tional convention from this district,
were elected. Tillman was endorsed
for Governor and Taft for President
Hickman county has five votes In
the State convention.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
QUAPTERMAN ALSO
RESIGNS POSITION
SECRETARY OF REGULAR REPUB-
LIcAN CONVENTION, EVANS
MAN, QUITS THE JOB.

w. A. Quarterman, who was elected
Secretary by the R. S. Hopkins re-
publican convention Monday, has re-
signed the position Mr. Quarterman
says he is an Evans man, and did not
understand during the cofusion Mon
day that he was being elected to an
anti-Evans position That on learning
how matters stood he naturally re-
signed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
SURP ASSINC ALL
FORMER RECORDS
TAX COLLECTIONS FOR THIS
YEAR AMOUNT TO OVER $11s,-
900 TO MARCH I.
FEBRUARY BEST MONTH KNOWN
Nearly $4,000 Paid To Trustee
Thomas During The Past
Month.

That there is no financial stringency
among the people of Maury county is
evidenced by the tax collections this
year as compared with the same
period of last. Evidently prosperity,
if it ever left the county, has returned
for the people have paid their taxes
more promptly this year than ever
before in the history of the county.
With an aggregate very little larger
than that of last year the collections
to the first of this month aggregated
over $4,000 more than they did for the
same period of the previous year.
Collections of state and county tax
es up to March 1, 1907 amounted to
$94,335.S0. Up to the first of this
month the collections on the tax ag-
gregate were $1O2,43O.25, an increase
of $1,000. In addition to the above
collections on the tax aggregate Trus-
tee Thomas has collected from the
supplemental or picked up list, over
$4,000, making the total collections
on last years taxes over $118,00O.
The amount of the tax aggregate
for this year is $127,OOO so that there
yet remains to be collected, with pen
atty and interest, something like $685.
900 on the tax aggregate. However,
there are necessarily double assess
ments and errors which will be credits
against the total and the entire bal
ance of $4,000 will not therefore be
collected. But the amount of picked
up taxes always exceeds the amount
this is lost by way of errors and
double assessments. +
The amount of picked up taxes In
this county Is unusually large asl
with the amount of the tax
aggregate. This is due in part to the
act that the railroad and other cor
)oration taxes are placed on the sup
Elemental rolls. But there are too
many tax payers who are omitted
rom the assessment rolls. 1t is a
cry frequent occurrence for tax pay
RS to go to the Trustees office to pay
heir taxes and find that they have not
zen assessed. Another fact that &C 1
cunts for the large amount of picked I
ID taxes is the diligence and activity "
( the trustee and his deputy. They I,
ave ascertained the absence Of many T
ak payers from the rolls and have N
ssessed them. Fl
There was but one month since the N
objections on the 1907 taxes COM ;
FENCED in which the taxes paid wereI
,ss than for the corresponding period z
[ the previous month. Collections rs
,r November and December of last "
ear amounted to $14.997,35 as COM W
AIRED with $8,377.S5 for the same rs
onths of the previous year. jan X
ary collections this year were only N
z, 434.65 as compared with $20,311.20 W
r January of 1907. There was a big *
crease during February, the collec- M
ons for that month being co. W
1925, as compared with $65,646.75 W
r February OF last year. The past X
onth's collections were the largest N
-er made in the history of the local W
lice. and Trustee Thomas is being n
on the splendid show. W
g that was made. On Saturday he ~
mitted $4,000 to the State Treasur. "
to cover the States portion of the "
rye collections. "
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
TIFF LAW

Coming direct and imperative from
Washington, says stop sending the
Herald to delinquent subscribers"
Are you delinquent? If so, please
call or send at once and pay all ar
rears, as we do not wish to stop your
paper--THE HERALD co.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
LOST WITHOUT HERALD.
Its Weekly Visits Are Like Letters
From Home.

"WAXAHATCHIE, Texas, March 8.
1908. Mr.. Editor:-I enclose one dol
lar to keep my paper coming. /
would be lost without The Herald 1t
is the first newspaper l ever read and
I was raised around Hampshire and
Mt. Pleasant and lived there until
four years ago. The Herald comes to
me each week and is like letters from
home. C. HUDSON"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
HUGH BLAIR GOES
OUT OF BUSINESS

Hugh BlallTnas sold his stock OF
groceries In youth Columbia to zollie
Fox. The trade was contaminated
Friday night Mr.. Blair will retire
from business for a time Mr.. Fox
formerly conducted a meat market in
South Columbia and is we'll known as
b good business man.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
ANOTHER BLOW AT
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
SALOON SEGREGATION LAW OF
NASHVILLE SUSTAINED BY
SUPREME COURT.

Special to The Herald:
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March THE
Supreme Court today handed down
an opinion that sustains the constitu-
tionality of the law segregating
Nashville saloons.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
THIEVES
MAKE CLEAN SWEEP

Chicken thieves got into Horace
Hanson's henhouse at his farm south
Of town Friday night anu made a
clean sweep. The thieves tore Off the
weater-boarding at one side of the
house and thus gained an entrance.
There Is no clue SO far to the identity
of the robbers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13

CONTINENTAL FIRE INSURANCE.
co.--when II comes 70 insurance
the Best Is the Cheapest. irrespective
Of cost. but the Continental charges No
more for its policies tAaA agents q
many less responsible companies ask
Cor theirs. Far business solicited.
FARRELL a 'rscoMs. AeeNtA
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13
Choice Fruits

Send your name for description price
list Of fruit trees. vines and plants.-
R. A. WILKES. Culleoka. Tenn. 1-S-tf
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-13

Gaulson was brought to Columbia,
where he was released on bond FUR
nished by friends from Nashville.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-19

locked herself in. Possibly she may
have lain on the berth. faint from
fright, and died there.
And so it was that this Woman's bier
f1oated no one knew where. Likely it
drifted southwestward, eventually
turning northward. possibly to the
northern end Of the Atlantic ocean.
then caught winds or currents which
bore it south again to where we found
it. The rope to the bell rotted away.
and the waves tolled with it requiem
for this bride whose happiness was so
short lived.
But: it was destined to float NO
longer. Such derelict so near the line
Of Atlantic steamers between Europe
and America was a menace to life.
Fortunately we had on board plenty
of combustibles to destroy her, and
after giving the body of the bride a
sea burial we placed large quantity
Of gunpowder in the hold, fixed slow
match, then. getting Into our boats,
pulled away, the bell still tolling its
requiem. Presently fame shot up,
the waters trembled, and the last Of
the slavers sank to the bottom.
ALEXANDER ELY,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-19

Iate THAT Is, prepare 1t In pure
state, unmixed chemically with other
substances4for the instant the COM
pound containing it was torn apart
the free fuorine attacked and combined
with whatever substance composed the
vessel containing it. It was finally
isolated by the great French chemist
Moissan.
Fluorine Is rabid gas that nothing
can resist. 1t combines with all met
ais, explosively with some, or IL they
are already combined with some other
nonmetallic element 1t mercilessly
tears them away from it and takes
them to itself
In uniting with sodium, potassium.
calcium, magnesium and aluminium
the metals become heated, even to red
ness, by the feryor of it's embrace.
Iron filings slightly warm burst into
brilliant scintillations when exposed to
it Manganese does the same. Even
the noble metals, which at melting
heat proudly resist the destinations of
oxygen, succumb to this chemical siren
at moderate temperatures.
Glass is devoured at once and water
ceases to be water by contact with this
gas, which, combined with its hydro
gen, at the same moment forms the
acrid, glass dissolving hydroiuoric acid
and nberates ozone.
Even hydrofuoric acid eats into and
destroys every known substance ex-
cept platinum and lead.-Exchange
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-19
Making Good.

There is no way of making lasting
friends like Making Good" and Doctor
Pierce's medicines well exemplify this,
and their friends, after more than two
decades of popularity, are mum bered by
the hundreds of thousands. They have
made good" and they have not made
drunkards
A good, honest, square deal medicine OF
known composition is DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t still enjoys an i'm
mense sale, while most of the prepare
tions that have come into prominence in
the earlier period of it's popularity have
gone by the board and are never more
heard of. There must be some reason for
this long time popularity and that is to
De found in its superior merits. When
once given a fair trial for weak stomach,
or for liver and blood affections, its supe-
rior curative qualities are soon manifest;
hence it has survived and grown in pop
ular favor, while scores of less meritorious
articles have suddenly flashed into favor
for brief period and then been as soon
forgotten.
For torpid liver with it's attendant
indigestion, dyspepsia, headache, per-
haps dizziness, foul breath, nasty coated
tongue, with bitter taste, loss of appetite,
with distress after eating, nervousness
and debility, nothing is so good as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It's
an honest, square-deal medicine with all
its ingredients printed on bottle-wrapper
no secret, no hocus-pocus humbug,
therefore don't accept q substitute that
+ the dealer may possibly make a little big
l ger profit Insist on your right to have
pFyhat you call for
Don't buy DR.. Pierce's Favorite PresCrip-
ton expecting it to prove vcure-all." 1t
is only advised for Woman'S special all
ments. 1t makes weak women strong and
sick women we'll. Less advertised than
some preparations sold for like purposes,
its sterling curative virtues still maintain
its position in the front ranks, where it
stood over two DECADES ago. AS an in
MIGRATING tonic and strengthening nerv-
inc it is unequaled. 1t won't satisfy those
who want rbooze," for there is not drop
of alcohol in it.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the oqigi-
mol Little Liver Pills, although the first
pill of their kind in the market, still lead,
and when once tried are ever afterwards
in favor. Easy to take as candy-one to
three dose. Much initiated but neUer
sQataled.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-19
A WALPoLE ANEcDoTE.
To Save the Woman's Life She
Couldn't Recall Who Told 1t.

Couldn't Recall Who Told Ii.
81 heard very funny story the other
night about Horace Walpole," said
Mrs. Blake. 81 wish could remember
who told it. Henry, can you remem-
Der? Was it Mr.. Sellers?
NO." said Blake stif1y; sit wasn't
Sellers
Il wonder if it could have been Mr..
Windsor?''
No. repeated Blake; sit wasn't
Windsor"
Before Mr. Blake had chance to ex-
press an affirmative or negative opin-
ion of that hazard as to the source of
the Walpole anecdote Mr.. Barton came
In. Mrs. Blake, being by that time
sure Of herself, tried on him her rec
ipe for winning universal affection.
"Oh, Mr.. Barton she said, II am
very glad to see you. I have hardly
stopped laughing since saw you the
last time"
Mr.. Barton, a cadaverous man with
solemn eyes, looked rather foolish.
"Indeed?" he said. MAY T ask what
about?'
"Over that funny story you told
about Horace Walpole," said Mrs.
Blake.
"M-m-m-Horace Walpole?" STAN
mered Mr.. Barton. II am afraid you
must have got me mixed up with some
body else. don't know the first thing
about Horace Walpole, and if I did
know anything funny about him I
couldn't tell it. To tell funny story
is beyond my powers. Even if 1t was
funny to start with it wouldn't be by
the time got through with it."
Mrs. Blake's spirits were somewhat
dashed by her fasco in finding an
owner for the Walpole story, but she
bore up courageously, and later when
Mr.. Markham came in she drew him
out of earshot Of Mr.. Barton and dilat-
ed on the pleasure his story Of Horace
Walpole had given her. Mr.. Markham
was not cast in the funeral mold that
gave to Mr.. Barton his grave aspect,
but he protested himself totally inca
pable Of telling funny story about
Horace Walpole or anything else.
Presently Mrs. Blake left the room
to prepare the sandwiches. Mr.. Blake
followed her.
"For the love Of the Lord" he said,
s'don't make fool Of yourself again
BY trying to get some other idiot in
there to father that Walpole story.
told you that yarn myself
Mrs. Blake stood still, with carving
knife poised In air.
Your she said incredulously. "And
it was so clever too."-New York
! Times,