davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Fred K Dodge Of Auburn was Z
visitor in the city Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

n NJ. Gagnon has returned to his
home in Ivefmore Falls from bus
mess trip in this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Leo F. Dunn of Augusta was in the
city Saturday on business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Elmer Davis and Arnold Davis Of
Hartland have returned after passing
. few days here with friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

F. ". Frost of Bangor is passing
a few days here on business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

s. II. Swatts and J. E. Hackett Of
Boston were in the city over the
week end
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01
Hon. Frank G. Farrinaten

The last speaker was Hon. Frank
G. harrington. who in opening his
talk congratulated the team and
students upon their successful foot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Mss Lillian Abbott Of Norwood is
passing . few days here on business
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Frank Warren Of Lynn is here fol-
a few days on business
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

John J. Ryan Of Augusta was here
On baainees Saturday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Vernon Silver Of Stonington 10 in
the city for q few days On business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

Wallace Clark was IN Augusta
over the weekend with Mrs Clark
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-01

H. ". Griffin Of Skowhegan was in
the city Saturday on business
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14

shaped territory, bounded on the
south and west by the Tombigbee
River, on the north by a line drawn
through the southern portion of the
present Itawamba County and run
ming east of the Alabama line, and
on the east by the Alabama line. Be-
tween the years 1916 and 1921 this
territory was surveyed and offered
for sale by the government.
The first settlers who occupied these
lands came from the north BY way of
the military road from Tennessee,
North Alabama, and from what are
now Marion and Lamar Counties.
From the east they came by Alabama
roads leading from Pickens and Tus-
caloosa counties. These counties had
been previously settled, the. annihila-
tion Of the Greek Indians in the war
of 1872, having brought the Alabama
lands directly under the control and
disposal of the general governments.
These settlers, from the fact that
their lands were entered and paid for
in the land offices of Tuscaloosa or
Huntsville, believed that they lived
within the bounds of Alabama, and
tradition tells US of the election or
appointment of officers under Alaba-
ma authority. When they learned that
this was not the case and that they
lived in Mississippi, they sent dele
gate to the legislature in Jackson.
The delegate was received but not
allowed to vote
In 1917, in the southeastern portion
of this unorganized territory, tln
miles west of the Alabama line and
$50 miles from the mouth of Tombig-
bee River, Columbus was located, and
in four years had acquired the pro-
portions of only little village.
In 1921 Monroe County was or
gained and included all this Chicka-
saw cession except a small strip on
the north. All these settlements and
the village Of Columbus fell within
the limits of Monroe County.
This history is limited to de-
scription of the southern part of the
original Monroe County south Of the
Buttahatehie River and includes what
was afterwards called Lowndes Coun-
ty. thus making it comply with the
title of the chapter, Early Sur
roundings Of Columbus"
These lands. taken as whole, were
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14

first class agricultural lands. Quite
a large portion would have ranked
as second class. But there was a
wide plateau of red lands with good
clay subsoil that extended through
the middle Of the entire county, that
was regarded. and proved to be ex-
tremely fertile, well drained, well
watered, and offered all the attrac-
items Of a delightful home to the inn
migrant farmer. These red lands be-
ginning north Of Columbus may be
represented by Goshen" as a center,
and running east across the Luxa-
palila they included what was called
Mulberry flat" thence running
south to the Nashville road Old
Zion will be in the very midst. In
this beautiful section of country,
tributary to Columbus, the very
earliest settlers located themselves.
some few of them before 1921, and
others among them years after to
1880, when Lowndes Couuty was or
gained and Columbus became the
county seat. Among these earliest
and very earliest settlers we note the
names Of Thomas Townsend at this
time by Mrs Virginia Smith and
John Laws; Thomas Cummings, Will
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14

liam Butler, Peter Nail. William III.
Craven, Benjamin Franklin Beckwith
(l81s), represented by Mrs. William
Muslin and Mrs. John Smell, John
MCGOWAN, Wesley Ross, A. Cook,
James Brownlee, John Portwood,
Thomas Kingcaid, Ezekiel Nash, VIII
liam Weaver (1s1s), grandfather to
Blanche and Walter Weaver, John
Halbert (ls17), perhaps the very first
man that opuled a farm in Lowndes
county, grandfather to DR.. A. G. Hal
bert and father to Mrs. William
Barksdale, who is probably the old
est native living citizen; James Nc
Clanahan, grandfather to our ex-
mayor, Hon. w. D. HUMPHREYS; John
Davis, grandfather to Mrs. Leila Syk-
es and DR.. John Davis and great
grandfather to Mrs. Claude Ayres,
Nimrod Davis and Macajah Brooks.
On the east we find Silas McBee,
Ephriam Leech, father to Rev. A. p.
Leech and grandfather to Mrs. Nc
Williams and Mrs. Lizzie Leech;
Reuben Sanders, uncle to George
Sanders; Larkin Nash t1S2D grand
father to S. NJ. Nash, Superintend-
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14

still cutting the road through tht
whole length Of the State of Missis
sippi and arrived in New Orleans just
in time to take part in the memorable
battle Under General Andrew Jack.
son, before the beleaguered city OF
New Orleans. Some writers say thi.
was on the return from New Orleans
Thus in the long ago, with Intervening
centuries of time, the flags Of three
great nations, Spain, France and
America, foated over their armies, as
they amid growing bears, bowling
wolves and the astonished gaze OF
naked savages, passed over the site
of the beautiful city of Columbus.
But the chapter is not yet closed.
When the general government ordered
the wilderness and prairies of Missis-
sippi to be checked off into townships
and sections, the surveyors compass
and chain made the lines of a six
teenth sections were set apart by the
general government for the establish
ment and maintenance of schools, and
the survey Of 1920 made it possible
for the town of Columbus to accomp-
lish the great historical fact of the
Franklin Academy, the first free pub
lie school in the State of Mississippi,
established in 1921, and continuing
without break in its increasing useful
ness and prosperity to the present
time.
When in 1880, the County of Lown-
des, the distinguished Congressman
and Governor Of South Carolina, and
for whom the writer of these chap
tiers, in 1928, had been previously
named, was organized, the little vii
lage of Columbus still in the eye of
Fortune was chosen as the county
seat.
Surely more than three centuries
of time and the nations of the earth
have contributed much to give to this
romantic site history and name,
and our fathers chose wisely and
well, when they called the town Col
umbus. 1t deserved one Of the earl
lest and most distinguished names in
American history.
In the early years Of the century,
the Tombigbee Bluff was certainly a
marvel Of virgin beauty ard charm
ing interest. Standing on its highest
cliff, you look down one hundred feet
to the river below. On the waters
edge hLlg the willows, sweeping lhe
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14
CHAPTER l.
ii Its Site.

Columbus, Mississippi is situated ca
theeast bank of the Tombigbee River
on perpendicular bluff, about three
Fights of a mile in width and three
hundred feet above the sea level. The
bluff recedes with a gradual ascent
for two miles, where it connects with
a range of hills running northwest
about one hundred and twenty miles,
where, they connect with the noun
famous regions of northern Alabama I;
these mountains in their turn connect
ing with the Blue Ridge and Alleg-
hany mountains of Virginia, thus
making the Tombigbee bluff, on which
Columbus is situated, the terminus of
the great Appalachian range of North
American mountains. To this preten-
tious claim to an ancient and elevated
pedigree we desire to add some 70
mantle and noted historical facts
The site of the town of Columbus
is the very earliest place mentioned
in the records of the history of Mis-
sissippi.
In the year, 1910, before the Pill
grim Fathers or the Virginia settlers,
Heunando DeSoto, the great Spanish
cavalier and American explorer, with
his army of mail-elad knights, froek-
cd priests and trained soldiers enter
ed the State Of Mississippi near the
s;te ~ ~. town ef Colurnbus He
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14

passing current with their pendant
branches. Next above them grew the
sycamore with white trunk and thick,
broad leaves soughing in the summer
breeze or rafting as the autumn
blasts dash them to the ground. Next
above the sycamores, were the pop
lars and elms struggling hard to raise
their tops to greet the morning sun;
and above these the evergreen cedars
and holly with their roots holding to
and holding up the crumbling earth
nearest to its summit, while on its
crest, great widespreading oaks and
gums mingled their verdue to shade
the favorite walk of our earliest cit
liens. Here lovers strolled to indulge
in sweetest sentiment at the Lovers
Leap" Here the sad heart could find
sympathy in the white stones that
marked the grave Of some early in
habitant. Here, expectant friends
gathered to see the coming steamboat
as its white and black smoke mingled
with the clouds and its noisy wheel
tlrove its Sharp prov through the
resisting current and the forms of
the captain and loved ones on the top
and deck as they return from, what
was to them, the center of the world,
the city of Mobile.
No wonder our people felt their
minds thrill with Interest and their
hearts beat with emotion when the
very air was full of echoes of the
past with such names as De Soto and
Bienville, Columbus and Franklin,
Jackson and Lowndes, mingled with
the Indian names of Tombeckbee,
Luxapalila, Buttahatchee, oktibbeha,
Mashulatubbee and Noxubee. Alas!
the bluff is crumbling away; the
great trees are gone; great ravnes
and deep gullies have gashed and
married its beautiful slope and MEM
DRY alone can recall the days Of its
halcyon glory.
CHAPTER II.
Its LOcation-Early Surroundings
Survey and Plan of the Town.
To give Columbus its proper topo-
graphic and historic setting it will be
necessary to notice further its loca-
ton. II 1917, Mississippi Territory
was divided into the State Of Mis-
sissippi and Alabama Territory with
the present dividing boundry line. In
1916 the Chiekasaws had coded to the
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14

probably crossed the Tombigbee River
at this point and proceeded on his
northwestern journey across the high
ridges of the State and after a time
arrived at Chickasaw Bluff, now the
City of Memphis, where he discover
ed the great Father of Waters" our
own Mississippi River, never before
seen by the eye of white man.
Again in 1876, a great iotilla by
paddles, oars, and poles, carrying an
army of $40 French soldiers, as neg
roes, and 600 Choctaw warriors pass
ed Immediately under the cliffs of the
Tonbigbee Bluff. They ascended the
river to Cotton Gin Port At this
place they disembarked, and under
the command of their general, Bien-
vile, Governor of Louisiana, they at
tackled the villages OF the Chickasaw
Indians with view to their annihil-
alton. After a disgraceful defeat,
with bloody remembrance of Chicka-
saw valor, they returned to their
Louisiana home.
Again in 1914, still another army,
composed of Kentucky and Tennessee
volunteers, commanded by Coils. Cof-
fee and Carroll, starting from Tus-
cumbia, Ala, cut for themselves the
military road over which they passed,
crossing the Tombigbee River at Col
umbus. The military road is at this
time one of the principal streets Of
our city These troops pushed on,
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-14
History Of Columbus in 18th Century

The Dispatch "a History in
teenth Century and will be published
entire volume is presented written Lpscomb
of Prof Dabney Lpmb Dr. W. Lpscomb
pecuaray gifted with the intelligent
events associated with his and with memory extending
the four his useful prepa
ton of his work DR. Lpscomb especially establishing
facts and his history of this city, people, institutions
S possible to makeit
The work will be of interest
but the large number who their
something of the life
it and will look forward Sunday
The volume published serial by
this when years reproduction
will of all
Dispatch indebted W. Lpscomb for copy priced
we'll TO privilege of its reproduction
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a. A.; &;zlflelJftalG,Ml,

fincas que Sc describen, y Sc orden6 su
inscription en- ell Registro.
Eafaela Baez VS.. Tomas Collazo Lau-
reano; Enriqueta NTontero, VS.. Guzman
Cordero; Josefa Sierra Fernandez VS..
Oscar Velez Perez, por divorcio. Sc
les concedi6 los demandanses ell pri-
vilegio de pcbreza para itigar. s
Vicenta Navedo, ex-parte, por auto
rizaci6n Judicial; Aracelia Urdaz Bo-
rras, ex-parte, por administration ju-
dicial; Angela Ruena vazquez, ex-par7
te, pcr autorizaci6n judicial; Juana Co
ion Martinez ex-parte, por aprobaci6n
de reconocimienso. Sc orden0 pasen al
Fiscal estos expedientes, para infor-
mes.
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TRIBUNAL DE DIsTRITo
Secci6n Segunda.

Manuel del Vale VS.. Benigna Me
lender; Ceferino Rivera VS.. GARNER
CRUZ Dolores Serraiio VS.. Aurelio Ca
-rambot; Marcelino Cruz Diepa VS.. Joa
quina Figueroa saldsna; Jose Candida
rio Tah6n, VS.. Estefania Rosa Rivera;
Merida otero VS.. Epifanio Sanchez
Martinez; Catalina Gonzalez Melendez
VS.. Eladia Lebr6n Ramos, por divor
cioS- S-Se decres6 ell divorcio en- todos
los casos anteriores, con las costas q
los deinandados.
Tomasa Rodriguez VS.. Domingo Mo
nelly; Salvador Larregui VS.. Cruz Abril
por divorcio. Sc suspendieron estos dos
casos.
Antoaia Ramirez Berries, ex-parte
por dominic; Gabino Mercado, ex-par.
te, por dominic. Sc orden6 pasen al
Fiscal estos expedientes con ell ere
cord' taquigrafico, para informe.
Emiliano Cortes Hernandez, VS.. Ma.
nuela zavala Lebr6n por dominic. Sc
decret6 con las costas la demandada
Juana Quifones Escobar, ex-parte;
Santos Gutierrez, ex-parte; Gregorio
Aponte. Sc declare justifcado favor
de los promoventes al dominic de las
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De SABANA GRANDE

Don Herm;nio Garcia Rodriguez fue
nombrado Comisionado de Instruction
y Hacienda y no de servicio P0bhco,
como err6neanente ilform6 en- pasa-
das notas.
Ell doctor Lasise, Comisionado de
Sanidad, ha nombrado ayudante don
Magin Moyes y con Jesus III. Vaz-
cuez, escribiente dc IA nicma oficina.
Don Francisco Panaini, principal
de las escuelas, tiene el prop6sito de
celebrar una fiesta hteraria en- el tea
tro "Patria'.
-Siguen algunos jovencitos promo
viendo escandalos ca la ofcina de CO.
rreos. GQue hace la. policia7
Ell Investigator. de Rentas Inter
mas, en- union del policia Jose Antonio
Accsta, denunciaron al comerciante Ra-
fael Veles, por infracci6n Ia ley de
arbitrios.
Ell, CORRESPOESAT,
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ARRoLLo A UN NINo

En- la carretera que conduce de Are
cibo Hatillo, el automovil de Blanca
Medina, guiado por Bautista vazquez
arrOll6 al ninO carpelO Irizarry, de once
aass de edad, causandole contusiones
en- diversas parties del cuerpo. La po
licia informa que no ha fabido cul-
pabilidad de parte del chauffeur ;
quien, por tai motive, no ha sido de-
nunciado.
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Ell JEFE DE LOS "TRoLLEYS"
&. LLEGARA EsTA sEMANA

De acuerdo con ell contenide del Ca
blegrama recibido .llltinamsnte per Mr.
Fred C. clarck, EN- ell vapGr iaanoJuan
regresara Puerto Rico, despues dc
una ausencia de tres mes ss, Mr.. O. NJ
sewell superintendent de La "Porto
Rico Railway Light and Power Co.
Con toda probabilidad el San Juan
atracara al muells ell martes el mier
coles por la maiiana.
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NoMBRAMIENTo

Durante el receso del Scnado, ell Go
bernador ha hecho los siguientes nom
bramientos: Para miembro de la Jun
ia de Administration del mueIle dc
Ponce, Guillermo vivas valdivieso;
juez de paz de Isabella, Gerardo Con
zalez; iues de paa de Cayey, Ramon
Collazo; juez de psz de Aibonito, Err
meiindo Eseaiera.
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Ell DOCTOR RALDIRIS

Va esta bien de sus dolencias nuss-
tro buen amigo Ell conocido doctor Raj
diris. Ell estimado facultativo ha vuel-
to de nuevo a ejercer su profession, por
No cue esta de placenes su nunerosa
clientela.
Nos alegramos del restablecimiento
del buen amigo, quien traslado va su
residencia a Catafio.
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TRIBUNAL MUNICIPAL.

Georgina Davila, por escandalo. Tres
d6lares. 1
Eduardo Monte, por escandalo. Gin
co d6lares.
Josefa Gonzalez, por idem. Absuelto
Marcos Carrasquillo, por acometimien
to y aggression. Cinco d6lares. II
Nasalia Garcia y Juana de Arce, por
escandalo. Cinco dolares a cada uno.
Rafael Mariana, por infracci6n la
ley de autos. Cinco d6lares.
Jose @. Alvarez, por infracci6n la
ley de Pesas y Medidas. Cinco d6lares.
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POR ESCANDALosOS

Natalia Garcia y Juana de krce fue-
ron uevados ante el Tribunal, por ha-
narse en- estado de enbriaguez pronun-
ciando palabras obscenss en- la calle
Gle Tadeo Rivero, de Puerta de TERRA.
FL Juez Santos .les impuso cinco d6la-
res de muka a cada una.
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MoNsERRATE GUERRA
SUICIDARSE

La polieia de 3ayam6n informa gu
la sefiora Monserratc Mulero, de vein
te y cinco amos de edad, vecina de ''E
Ccndado", trato de suicidarse, ingi
ri(ndose una fuerte dosis de sublima-
Go corrosive.
Fue asistida en- Ell. Hospital munich.
pal, y paso luego a. su residencia. La
policia practice la correspondence in
vestigaei6n, pero no Sc ha podido de-
terminar hasta ahora cual fue la eau
sa que la indujo tomar esta resolu-
ci6n eXtrema. .
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POR AGREDIRLE CON UNA
GUITARRA

Marcos Cruz fue uevado ante el Tri-
bunal parque, acometio Sgredio con
una guitarra Emilio cappastti, pro-
duci6ndole una fuerte confusion en- la
cara. Ell juez Santos lie impuso cinco do
1ares de multa.
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INSTRUCTION

Euena Opor, unidad la que Sc les pre-
senta ahora los j6venes para apren-
der practicar el Ingl6s. Las clases
nocturnas en- ell edifcio de la Y. M. G.
A, San Juan, Sc abriran el II de No
viembre.
iiNATRICULEsE ENsEGUIDAi!
Advt.
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LOS QUE v1AJAN

FL Gobernador ha expedido los 81.
guisntes pasaportes: Para Cuba, Pedro
A. Santiago, Juan N. Montalvo Luis
Palacio Davila, de Bayamon; para
Santo Domingo, Virgilia Levy de Con
zalez, de Rio Piedras.
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ESPECTACULOS

CINE RIALTo.--Harry' Carey (Ca-
yena) en- ''Un hombre de Paz" y la
comedia en- un 'reel" titulada 'Las
dos momias'', por Eddie Lyons y Lee
Moran. 9A
CINE EsLUNA.-''M Matinee" noche.
,"Amor Invencible'', prccioso drama
en- cinco actos, por Fanny Ward, "El
Coraz6n de Jabez Flint, en- dos actos.
CINE NoRNIA.--Un petalo en- la CO.
rriente''. Drama sentimental pOr la mo-
table Mary McLarsn.
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NACIMIENTOS

Teodora Roman, Damian Burguillos
Rosario, Juana Maldonado, Gloria Pi-
lsr. Barbosa, jesus Tamarity Torres y
clara Rodriguez Sosa.
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PoR- NO EsrAE AuToRIzADo

Rafael Mariana fue condenado en-, Ell
Tribunal Municipal cinco d6lares de
multa por 'guiar autom6vil sin estar au
forbade por Ia ley.p
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CINE IMPERIAL.-Paulins Freds-
rick en- la igrandiosa cinta dramatica,
de argumehto hotabilisimo, "Crimen
Misterioso.ss notari
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MUY IMPORTANTE

va puede usted obtener retratos dc
arte vssitando la Fotografia Ferreras
San Francisco 40. Ell senior Ferreras IL
atendera personalmen.e. Advt