The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-06-13
AT TER FIFTY YEARS
COL. FOLSOM VISITS
HIS B0YHOOD HOME
SERVED AS A PRINTERS APP,
PRENTICE IN COLUMBIA BE.
FORE THE WAR.
PUBLISHER HOPE, ARK, GAZETTE
Says Laws Regarding Whisky Are
Not So Well Enforced As They Are
in Arkansas, Where License Is
Granted by Petition.

After an absence of fifty-three
years, with the exception of ono or
two days, Co. W. w. Folsom, of
Hope, Ark, visits his old home. Col.
Folsom came to this county when
quite a lad and lived here until the
year 1860 when he went to Jackson,
Tenn. In 1861 he Joined the army,
enlisting in the Sixth Tennessee reg
iment as member Of Co. l.. The
regiment was commanded by Col.
Geo. Porter, Of Nashville.
Col Folsom is practical printer,
starting out IS "1evil" in 184S in
the office of the Columbia Recorder,
then published by B. F. Buie, the pol
itics of which were democratic. He
served his apprenticeship with w. w.
Cherry, father of Polk Cherry, now
| foreman Of the M. e. Publishing
House at Nashville, and Will and
Nelson Cherry, of Columbia. Col.
Folsom after leaving Columbia work
ed on the Jackson Wing as conpos-
itor, and after seeing four years of
hard service IN the army of the Con-
| federacy he went back to Jackson
and again worked ON the Wing for a
short time, later going into Missis.
sippi where lie was first married. In
1875 he went to Arkansas and settled
lat Brinkley End published paper
there for two years and in 1880 he
purchased a PAPER in Guthrie and
published 1t unt., 1895, when he went
to Hope and took charge of the Hope
(Ark.) Gazette, which paper he is
still publishing,
Col Folsom is now about seventy
Ieight years IF age and nine years
ago he married Miss Annie VOORHEES,
of this city, whose father was w. Mil
ton VOORHEES,, commander of the 4Stf
Tennessee regiment. Col. Folsom
lstated today that he knew Col Voor
Ihies when he Folsom was a small
boy and that he knew his present
wife when she was a little girl.
In speaking of Columbia, he ex
pressed himself as being highly pleas
led with the way in which the towl
had improved but that still Their,
lwere some familiar land marks am
that his visit here this time was CIV
ling him more time to see some Of thu
lold faces he knew back before thu
war, and bringing back many remem
brances.
When asked of the situation in Al
, kansas regarding the prohibition
laws he stated that they were Twins
!, in ease, and there was not a salool
between Little Rock and Marshall
Texas The laws of the state reqGir
hat man who wants to start sa
loon must first get a majority of tn
, white people, both women and mel
to sign it and the same must be pub
ished for two weeks in the paper
when I lived in Columbia Their
was salon or nearly every corne
and many in between" said the Cole
mel, "and it looked u me that Their
was man killed regularly ever.
month, those conditions do not exis
now, still you haven't the matter I'm
der as good control as we people il
Arkansas nave it, You will readil.
see that man does not relish tn
= idea of having his name in print en-
dorsing the opening Of a saloon in |
community and IL keeps them out"
Col Folsom is in splendid healtl
and bids far to live many more year
, to engage i'll his life long profession