Marion County AlArchives News.....GAZETTE APPEAL December 24, 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 4, 2010, 8:42 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 24, 1897 FMicrofilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE GAZETTE-APPEAL Vol. II GUIN, ALA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1897 NO. 6 PAGE 1 SWEET CHRISTMAS TIME – [Poem by Mrs. M. A. Kidder] SMALL PERTATERS’ CHRISTMAS PARTY – by Margaret Eytinge – (short story- with pictures) LEATHER UNLUCKY AT CHRISTMAS Christmas being the period in which gifts are numerous it seems rather curious that it should be thought unlucky to bring shoes or leather articles into the house at this period, but such things are forbidden in an English county. In another it is counted unlucky to bring any holly into the house before Christmas Eve, and in London it must all be burned on Twelfth Day morning.. THE CHRISTMAS TREE – (poem) PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS – PAGE 2 THE GAZETTE-APPEAL – Published Weekly WILDES AND JONES, EDITORS E. L. JONES, Manager and Publisher Entered at post office at Guin, Ala – A second-class matter Subscription rates One year $1 Six months 50 c Three months 25 c Guin, Ala. Dec. 24, 1897 ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements for County officer will be made for $5 in advance PROBATE JUDGE I am a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic party. T. J. FARIS REPRESENTATIVE We are authorized to announce JOHN W. INGLE as a candidate to represent Marion County in the Lower House of the next general assembly, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. ---------(political news items)----------- JOHN W. INGLE We call the attention of our readers to the announcement in this issue of our friend and fellow townsman JOHN W. INGLE. Mr. Ingle was born and reared in the eastern part of Marion county, and has bee a citizen of the same during his entire life. He was raised a farmer, but has spent the last ten or twelve years in the mercantile business. Friend INGLE has always been a Democrat without prefix or affix, not only true to the principles of Democracy, but an enthusiastic and untiring worker; the best interests of his party always at heart. He now asks the support of his many friends in the nomination for Representative of Marion County, and if elected, we know he will dignify the place with honor to himself and constituents. It is useless for us to say more as he is universally known throughout the county, and we trust his many friends will give him the support he merits. PRODUCING EGGS AS A BUSINESS WASHINGTON LETTER – Washington, Dec. 17, 1897 ONE PRICE TO ALL Geo. Fox’s Gloss Starch 4 c Ladies Fast Black Cassimere Gloves 15 c Oil finish cloth window shades each 45 c Silk Handkerchiefs 35 c Amber Tipped dress, stays doz 5 c Gents working gloves, per pair 20 c Padlocks 5 c Good shoe blacking, 3 boxes for 5 c David’s black ink, 2 bottles for 5 c Best lead pencils, per doz 10 and 20 c Com note paper, 120 sheets for 10 c Large size com note, 120 sheets 20 c Fancy box paper, per box 8, 9 and 10 c Nice pen holders, each 1 c Hook and Eyes, 2 doz for 1 c Ladies and men’s silk ties 15 c Ladies and men’s handkerchiefs 5 c Large bath towels, per pair 30 c Spool thread 200 yards, on spool, 2 for 5 c Toilet soap 3 c a cake or 2 cakes for 5 c Ladies leather belts 10 c Corsets, good quality 37 to 65 c Turkey Red Embroidery 3 spools for 5 c Nice Pillow shams, per pair 25 to 30 c Kid hair curlers, per doz 5 c Suspenders per pair 5 to 35 c Sewing Machine Oil 6 oz, bottle for 5 c All the above goods are first class, no shoddy articles among them. W. T. SLOAN, Guin, Ala. E. L. JONES, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. Collections a specialty W. C. DAVIS Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Ala. will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi T. J. SPRINGFIELD, MD., Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Guin and surrounding country. Special attention given to diseases of women. All calls promptly attended day or night. Men of Good Judgment are taking advantage of our good goods at the low prices we offer them. We don’t claim to sell the cheapest in the city, but I do sell as cheap. Quality of goods considered. E. W. BROCK New model Crandall typewriter (picture of typewriter) – only 28 key characters. Writing in plain sight alignment can’t change. Most simple, durable and perfect Typewriter extant. Lowest Factory price $50. STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, Florence, Ala. A training school for teachers. Enrollment last year over 300. Tuition Free, Board, $8.00 to $12.00 per month. Necessary expenses from $35.00 to $125.00. Graduate secure good position. Fall Term begins Tuesday September 14, 1897. Send for catalogue to A. C. Wilson, President P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. J. M. SPRINGFIELD & Co. Livery Feed and Sale Stable. Good Teams, Good Buggies, and Hacks. Careful Drivers. Guin, Ala. (picture of Livery Stable- (wood cut) THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, JAS. K. POWERS, L. L. D. President. New courses of Study, Classical, Scientific, Engineering. Professional Departments: law, Medicine. For announcement with details information, address the President at University P. O., Tuscaloosa County Ad for Birmingham Business College Ad for Parry Mfg Co – (picture of buggy) Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui PAGE 3 TIME TABLE. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham R. R. No. 1 East 12:38 p.m. No. 2 West 8:20 p.m. No. 3 East 2:44 a.m. No. 4 West 1:48 a.m. DIRECTORY MASONIC LODGE No. 478 – T. J. SPRINGFIELD, W. M., JOHN W. INGLE, S. W.; J. D. WESTBROOK, JW; M. T. AKERS, Treas.; J. H. RILEY, Secy. Regular meeting 7 p.m. Saturday before 3rd Sunday in each month. CITY COUCILMEN Mayor – J. T. CARPENTER Marshal – J. T. WHITE Aldermen – S. J. BAIRD, J. W. WILDES, J. J. POPE, E. W. BROCK, J. D. WESTBROOK. CHURCHES METHODIST – Services every third Sunday at night, fourth Sunday at 11 am Rev. D. W. WARD, Pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 3 ½ p.m. Prof. J. T. HUFFATUTTLER, Superintendent BAPTIST – Services first and third Sundays. Sunday School every Sunday morning. CHRISTIAN – Services every second Sunday 11 a.m. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Xmas gift! Hold your grip! Attend the Xmas tree tonight. First scene, the jug is full; second, the man is full. Tomorrow is the great anniversary of Christ. Be sober. O. T. PEARCE left yesterday for Birmingham. JAS. CLARK was in Carbon Hill Tuesday. Up-to-date Cabinet Size Photographs can be had for the next 30 days, for only $1.50 per dozen at the Art Gallery, Guin. Mrs. O. C. LING is spending Xmas with relatives near Sulligent. Mrs. Dr. J. T. SPRINGFIELD and her mother left yesterday to visit relatives in Birmingham. Capt. MARK STONE of Sulligent was in the city this week. Messrs. J. F. SHAW and WILLIS WEEKS of Quitman, Tex. arrived here yesterday morning on a visit to relatives. W. A. WILLIAMS one of Marion’s worthy farmers, was a pleasant caller at our office this week. Prof. JONES left yesterday a.m. for Bangor, to spend the Xmas vacation with the folks at home. The school vacated Wednesday for Xmas holidays and will resume Thursday Dec. 31. All who are indebted to me are here by notified to settle by Jan. 1 and save attorney’s fee. Fair warning to all. E. W. BROCK. There will be a Xmas tree tonight at the academy. Come Editor WILSON of Hamilton was in the city this week. The entertainment at the Academy Wednesday night was well attended. Every feature of the program was highly entertaining, and bore marks of great talent and skilled training. We would like to give a more detailed synopsis of the exercises but haven’t the space. To say they were will prepared and highly enjoyed is but to put it mildly. Our devil got lost one dark night this week, and while prowling around town, hunting his way back to the sanctum, he explored the muddy regions of some of the deeper ditches around town. He now joins the editor in saying there is no question of more importance than that of street lamps. Let there be light! W. T. COLEBURN will repair your shoes. Call on him, back of Gazette office. Our esteemed friend, Prof. W. P. LETSON of Glen Allen will probably be a candidate for County Superintendent of Education. Being personally acquainted with him as we are, we can conscientiously say that if he makes the race, and is elected, he will make us a proficient officer. He is a young man of good standing, and a successful educator as well as a staunch Democrat. Marshall J. T. WHITE visited Birmingham this week. Esq. P. E. CAUDLE was a pleasant caller at our office yesterday. Dr. PAUL BISHOP, of Arkansas arrived here yesterday a.m. on a visit to relatives. OUR SCHOOL In my estimation there is not a better school in the State than the “Guin High school” and I’m sure all the readers of the Gazette will agree with me, but who could doubt it under the auspices of Prof. JONES, principal and Miss TULLA TATE, assistant, two of the best teachers that can be found, not only in the state but in the United States. There are about 150 pupils in regular attendance. Next we come to OUR LITERARY SOCIETY. We have a very fine society in connection with the school which meets every Friday evening. So far, it is a success. Our program consists of discussions of eminent men, and famous women. Debates, Recitations, They says, Drills, Dialogues, Essays, and etc. We haven’t an organ in our school et, though we hope to have in the near future. Our musical instruments consist of mandolins, guitars, violins, banjoes, etc. So you see our music is not a failure. The debate last Friday afternoon was quite interesting. “They say” that Mr. GREENUP is the champion debater. That Miss GENERA HUGHEY was made to be president, (not of the U. S. of course) but of a literary society or some institution of learning. That our Secretary Miss CLEMMIE CADDLE has no equal. For fear of making my sketch too long, I desist. Success to the Gazette. FANNIE SMITH, Guin, Ala., 12-21-‘97 P.S. – Among our distinguished visitors at the opening Wednesday morning, we noticed the familiar faces of Editor WILSON, of Hamilton, Editor WILDES, Senator MATTHEWS, Capt. J. D. WESTBROOK, Postmaster TIDWELL, Mayor CARPENTER, Eld. A. A. SMITH, A. T. PRATT, and S. J. BAIRD. Come again. F.S. FROM TWIN News very scarce this week. Health good in this vicinity. We are having an abundance of rain at present. It has rained 48 hours and is still raining. G. M. ALEXANDER has moved to Ur. Postmaster J. W. BURLESON has moved to the ALEXANDER place, and W. M. BURLESON has moved into the old Post Office Building. J. W. BURLESON and J. F. MOBLEY made a business trip to Goldmine this week. Mr. BURLESON says he had the pleasure of emptying two barrels of this gun at a buck while gone. The report of guns reminds us that Xmas is approaching. Trapping is the employment of several of our boys, they say furs are more valuable than cotton. W. M. BURLESON is an agent for the Gazette-Appeal. Success to the Gazette and its readers. SHILOH TRIBUTE OF RESPECT To the Worshipful Master Warden and Brethren of Guin Lodge No. 478, A. F. & A. M. Your committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the lodge as to the death of Brother WILLIAM WARREN respectfully report that he affiliated with our lodge from Pleasant Hill November 21, 1889 and on the 26th day of Aug. 1897 was called from labor in the lodge terrestrial to refreshment in the lodge celestial, having lived 3 years more than the time allotted to man in the flesh, and we are persuaded that ripe age was due to a close observance and constant practice of the lessons of the craft, and inasmuch as he had long and faithfully served the craft, the church and his fellowman, we recommend that it be by this lodge. Resolved, that in the death of Brother WARREN the fraternity has lost a faithful brother, whose virtues we should ever remember and practice. Resolved, that the lodge tender its sympathy to our brother’s relatives, and join with them in mourning the loss of one whose life was so much devoted to doing good. Resolved, that these resolutions be spread on the record of the lodge, a copy sent to The Marion County News and Gazette-Appeal with request to publish, and a copy be delivered to the family of the deceased brother. Fraternally R. A. BAIRD J. W. INGLE J. H. RILEY, Committee, Nov. 20, 1897 Ad for E. E. Forbes, Montgomery, Ala. – Pianos, organs, bicycles, typewriters, sewing machines. Ad for Hicks Almanac and paper GUIN PRODUCE MARKET – Corrected Weekly by JOHN P. RILEY Cotton 4 7-8c Wool 25 c Dry Hides 7 to 9 c Hens 16c Fry Chickens 10 to 15 c Eggs 13 c Corn 6 c Molasses (new) 25 c Pelts 50 to 75 c Peanuts per lb 2 c Chestnuts per qt 5 c Potatoes 40 c Ad for Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root REGISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County JOHN A. SHAW, Complainant vs A. B. BLACK and MARTHA A. BLACK, defendants, In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, 12th District, Northern Chancery Division By virtue of a decree rendered at the fall term, 1897 of the Chancery Court at Hamilton, Marion County Alabama in said cause, I shall proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for cash, at public auction, at the Court House door in the town of Hamilton, within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 27th day of December 1897, the following described property to wit: The N. E. ¼ of S W ¼ and S. E. ¼ of N W ¼ Section 13, Township 14, Range 13 West in Fayette County, Alabama. And S. E. ¼ of NW ¼ of Section ----Township 13 Range 13 West in Marion County, Alabama. Also Lot 2 in Block 57 and the undivided half interest of Lots 3 and 4 in Block 57 in the town of Guin, Marion County, Alabama to satisfy said decree. This December 3, 1897 B. R. FITE, Register MARION ACADEMY Located at Guin, Marion County, on the K. C. M. & B Railroad. All things combine to make this a location well suited to school work,. Are you going off to school? Are you going to send your children off to school? Guin is the place. Look at the cost! Board $5; Tuition $1 to $2.50. Free Tuition is sometimes very dear. Things usually cost what they are worth. A class in Pedagogy will be maintained for the benefit of teachers and those who contemplate teaching. For particulars, call on or address ROBERT JONES, Principal Subscribe for the Gazette-Appeal. Only $1 a year. Here’s a sly chance. Everybody come. Traders, Farmers and everybody are invited to come to the Celebrated Trader’s Day at Guin, Alabama, on Saturday before the 4th Sunday in each month. Come and bring your old oxen, fortified mule and one-eyed horse. The Jockey will be here. Special inducements will be offered in the mercantile line on these days. Come, swap horses and get bargains that will tickle you as long as you live. You are benefited all around. See? “Small profits” is our motto. We are Headquarters for Dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, & Groceries. We carry a complete line of men’s and boy’s secondhand clothing. See. No cutting below best on one or two articles and doubling up on a dozen others to make up. Our stock is complete. Country produce taken in exchange. Call and get our prices before buying elsewhere. S. J. BAIRD, Guin, Ala. BRADLEY’S is the place for what? Bargains in everything we handle. Please call and get our prices and be convinced that we will sell you honest goods for less money than any other house in town. Come on, come all, we mean business. W. R. BRADLEY, Guin, Ala. Ad for A Piano Sent on Trial Ad for Confederate Veteran, Nashville, Tenn. PAGE 4 A Rhode Island cow died the other day from having swallowed a partially blown- up football. Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for J. Blach & Sons ALABAMA GLEANINGS CONFERENCE IN SESSION The South Alabama Conference is now in session at Union Springs, Bishop Galloway presiding. There is a full attendance of ministers. ASSESSMENT REJECTED At a special term of the commissioner’s court of Coosa County, the assessments of Tax Commissioner Walden against the ginners of the county on the toll cotton received was rejected. SCHOOL CENSUS SETTLED The school census for Lowndes County, about which there has been so much comment as to the enormous figures as compared with former years, has been retaken, and found to be 13,736 instead of 20.654 as was sent in by the county superintendent of education of that county. AN ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT At a meeting of the city council of Birmingham a resolution was adopted creating a special committee, composed of one alderman from each ward, with the mayor as ex-officio chairman, to examine into the cost of an electric light plant, with a view to the city erecting one and operating it on its own account. MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY Gilmore Edwards, lamplighter in the Louisville & Nashville yards at Boyles, four miles north of Birmingham was murdered and robbed by an unknown person. Edwards was making a tour through the yards when he was shot from the darkness. The robber failed to get $41 which Edwards had sewed up in this watch pocket. A GOOD SHOWING John case, the new tax collector of Mobile County, paid into the state treasury $20,000 collections since December 1m, state taxes, which, added to former remittances of this year’s collections, makes the sum of $32,000. Mr. E. B. LOTT, his predecessor, paid into the treasury for the same period last year $8, 497 a difference in favor of Case of $23,503. DECREE OF FORECLOSURE – Central Trust Company of New York FOUND BESIDE RAILROAD TRACK Late Friday night C. R. Hicks, a railroad man, was found bruised and unconscious beside the railroad tracks, near Montgomery. When he had been resuscitated he related that he had endeavored to catch an outgoing south bound freight on the Louisville and Nashville railroad with $395 in cash in his pockets. His money was gone and he could not account for its loss or his injury. ANOTHER CANDIDATE Prof. Edward L. Patton has announced as a candidate for state superintendent of education from Elmore County…………….. FARMER SHERIFF SHORT IN ACCOUNT Examiner of Public Account Puri---- Thursday filed his report with the governor on his investigation of the sheriff’s office of lee county under the administration of W. B. Gibson, late sheriff of that county which shows a shortage of almost $2,000, summed up as follows: Fees for removing prisoner, collected from defendants on conviction, $85.99. For solicitors fees unaccounted for $53. For feeding prisoners in jail, and to which he was not legally entitle $1,642. Total $1,790.99. COL. WARREN S. REESE DEAD Col. Warren S. Reese, twice mayor of Montgomery, and one of that city’s most popular, most enterprising and most valuable citizens died Thursday night from the effects of heart failure. He had been in excellent health until the previous day, when he was taken sick. He drove to his home in his carriage, and Thursday morning appeared to be improved in condition, but after nightfall a relapse set in and the end came. Colonel Reese was the nominee of the populists for United States senator against John T. Morgan, and contested the seat. He was colonel of the Twelfth Alabama Cavalry during the war. THIEVES SECURED $900 One of the boldest and most sensational robberies that every occurred in that section took place eight miles below Abbeville Thursday night. At about 1 o’clock a man called at the house of Westley Bodiford and claimed that his mule had run away and severely injured his companion, and asked for some one to assist him. Oscar Etheridge, a young man living with Mr. Bodiford, responded to the call and followed the man. When about three hundred yards below the house the first one dropped behind and another man sprang out of the bushes and told him to hold Etheridge up. One placed a pistol in Etheridge’s face and the other tied his hands. They then led him back to the house, and waking old man Bodiford, told him that they wanted the money in his safe. The safe was opened and the men secured $900. COTTON GROWERS CONVENTION DR. CURRY’S REPORT – Recognizes the Ability of One of the Alabama’s Educational Lights BRIEFLY MENTIONED ----------------- NEW RAILROAD COMPNAY ORGANIZIED The Columbus, Fulton, and Northern Railroad was organized at Columbus, Miss Thursday by electing a board of directors. The intention of the company is to build a lien from Columbus to Nashville, Tenn. via Fulton, Miss., and Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. LETTER MADE PUBLIC – Concerning Seal Question Between the United States and Canada MORE WAGES REDUCED – The directors of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Machester N. H. at a meeting held at the Boston office of the company Friday voted to reduce the wages of its employees about 10 percent on January 1. The Amoskeag plant is one of the largest engaged in the manufacture of cotton in this country, and employs between 8,000 and 9,000 people. DOLLAR AND A HALF WHEAT SIGNALS FAILED, DEATH RESULTS A collision occurred on the Greenwood branch of the Missouri Pacific ten miles from Fort Smith Ark in which Mrs. E. A. Hollenback, of Jenny Lind, was instantly killed and four passengers injured. A coal train was following the passenger, and the latter was topped to cool off a hot box. The torpedo signals failed to do their work, and the engine of the coal train telescoped the rear coach of the passenger. President Frazer of the State Industrial School at Columbus, Miss., has resigned. The anti-football bill was defeated in the state senate of Virginia Friday by a vote of 21 to 12. Headed by Mrs. Hannah S. Gould, a party of fifty women left New York last week to invade the Klondike. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA – Furloughs for the Holidays – Dec 23 – Jan 2 On requests from parents or guardians, students will receive leaves of absence from Thursday afternoon December 23 though January 2 following. This will enable all who so desire to spend both Christmas and New Year at their homes. January 3 will be a good time for new students to enter, as in many departments new subjects begin on that day. Such will receive a cordial welcome to the University. For announcement with further particulars, apply to JAMES K. POWERS, President, University Alabama CAUSE OF MUCH MISERY – Of all microbes the animalenie of la grippe is the ugliest to look upon. Magnified to the size of the picture here show (drawing of microbe), this microbe has the appearance of a new kind of bug – all legs and body………… Ad for Hall’s Hair Renewer Ad for Loosely Cycle Co Ad for Kainit Ad for Dr. O. T. Dozier - Cures Ad for Montgomery Ward & Co catalogue Ad for Walter Baker & Co Breakfast Cocoa File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/gazettea1722gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 23.7 Kb