Marion County AlArchives News.....GUIN GAZETTE May 7, 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 May 7, 2010, 12:14 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 7, 1897 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE GUIN GAZETTE Vol. 1 GUIN, ALA. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1897 NO. 12 PAGE 1 STATE OF TRADE – A FALLING OFF IN THE VOLUME OF TRANSACTIONS – Cotton Mills on Full Time CUBAN REFORMS The Queen regent, at a cabinet meeting, signed a decree providing for the application of the agreed-upon reforms for the island of Cuba. Her Majesty’s action was due to the receipts of a cable message from Capt. Gen. Weyler announcing that the western part of the island is completely pacified. ANOTHER GOLD BRICK ARTIST – A Georgia Planter Swallows the Bait and Takes Three HE HAD COURAGE – A Negro Loses His Life In Attempting To Prevent Robbery NOTED OUTLAW KILLED A telegram from Santa Fe, N. M. says United States Marshal Grant has received word that the outlaw Black Jack was killed last week in Arizona, eighteen miles west of Clifton, by a posse of deputy marshals. It was at first thought that the man killed was Sid Moore. The body is identified as that of Black Jack. The big rewards offered for the arrest of Black Jack will be paid to the posse. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY – Pressed the Key and set the Wheels of the Exposition in Motion SOUTHERN BAPTISTS – They Will Meet This Year In Wilmington, North Carolina. CRUSHED HIS SKULL SENTENCED TO HANG H. S. Perry, of Atlanta, who killed Rely Lanier, at Decatur, March 8th, alleging that Lanier had been guilty of an assault upon the person of Perry’s wife, was convicted of murder in the first degree last Friday morning and sentenced to hang May 21st. FAMILY EXTERMINATED TENNESSEE’S EXPOSITION – Was Opened to the World Last Saturday Morning CONFEDERATE MONUMENT – (At Dallas, Texas, Raised by Daughters of the Confederacy, Unveiled) The Confederate monument, erected in Dallas, Tex. through the efforts of the Daughters of the confederacy of Dallas, was unveiled last Thursday morning, on J. H. Reagan delivered a eulogy on Jefferson Davis. Other eulogies were pronounced as follows: “Gen. R. E. Lee” by Hon. George N. Adredge; “Gen. Stonewall Jackson” by Judge H. W. Lightfoot; on “Gen. Albert S. Johnston,” by Hon. Norman G. Kittrell; on “The Private,” by Hon. A. T. Walls. A special dispatch from Athens says that M. Ralli, the new Greek Premier, has announced his intentions of calling to arms every able-bodied man in Greece. PAGE 2 (subscription costs and offers) – (very faint and can’t read much of this page) (Various news items from around the country – very faint and can’t read) L. D. LITTLETON is headquarters for Bargains in all kinds of dry goods, boots, shoes, hats and gents furnishing goods, also a full line of groceries, flour, meat, sugar, and coffee. Corn, hay and bran of the lowest cash prices. Price my stuff before you buy. Stores at Hamilton and Guin, Ala. 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)) Established 1888. Birmingham Business College. Birmingham, Ala. A modern, practical and progressive college of Business Sciences. Bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, penmanship, and English. Positions guaranteed under reasonable conditions. Write for particulars. We make a specialty of teaching shorthand by mail, trial lesson free. Investigate before going elsewhere, send for free catalogue and special circulars. We pay your R. R. fare. Willard J. Wheeler, President. W. R. BRADLEY Guin, Ala. Dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, shoes, hats, patent medicines, tinware, crockery, snuff, and tobacco, and all articles kept in a general store. Cotton and all country produce bought for cash or trade. I buy my goods for cash, therefore, I can afford to sell cheap. Give us a call. Orders taken for tailor made clothing. Ad for book about Sam Jones PAGE 3 STATE NEWS DEPARTMENT The Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South will hold its nineteenth annual session in the First Methodist church, Birmingham June 4 to 10 next. The jury in the damage suit at Decatur of Richard Bouldin’s administratrix against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the killing of Bouldin, a switchman, by an engine at New Decatur in 1892, awarded the administratrix 32,000 damages and cost. --- Dr. T. J. SPRINGFIELD, Guin, Ala. offers his professional services to the citizens of Guin and surrounding community. Calls filled at all hours night or day. Special attention given to the diseases of women. W. C. DAVIS, Attorney-At-Law, Hamilton, Alabama will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. W. T. MORGAN, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Alabama. W. L. MAY Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala calls promptly attended to day or night. P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. J. A. GAMBLE & CO. J. A. GAMBLE T. H. ROBERTSON General Merchants, Winfield, AL want you to call and see their stock of goods. No trouble to show goods, and they will make prices to suit the times. They carry a full line of Spectacles and guarantee a perfect fit. Cotton and produce bought at market prices. Their goods are all new and fresh. O. C. LING, Guin, Ala. Blacksmith, wagon maker and gunsmith. Wagons made to order and ready tilled wheels always on hand. Horse shoeing a specialty. All work done cheaper than the cheapest for cash. PAGE 4 TALMAGE’S SERMON – Helping To Fill The Ships That Are To Carry Food For The Starving People Of India NEWSY GLEANINGS PAGE 5 WOUNDED IN THE WAR – Shot In The Abdomen At Cumberland Gap TRUMPET CALLS – Poem IMPORTANT PAPERS – (about Queen Victoria) Small advertisements PAGE 6 GENERAL NEWS – (VERY faint – can’t read) J. C. TIDWELL & Son. Guin, Ala. Dealers in General Merchandise. Are now in business at this place, and will give you better bargains than you can get elsewhere. Give us a call. JAS. A. SMITH. Guin, Alabama. Dealer in dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, hardware, and glassware. Country produce taken in exchange or highest price paid in cash. Ladies and gentlemen, when in Guin be sure to call at the GREAT BARGAIN HOUSE OF E. W. BROCK. Where you can buy everything in the line of merchandise at the lowest possible price, and get the highest price for all of your country produce. Measure taken for tailor made clothing made by the leading tailors of Chicago hence a perfect fit guaranteed in every instance. Also Fertilizers kept on hand sold for cash or on time. Ad for Parry Mfg Co. covered buggy (picture of buggy) S. J. BAIRD, Guin, Ala. Dealer in dry goods, notions, hats, shoes, groceries, canned goods, tobacco, tinware, hardware, farming tools. Will buy almost any produce at market price. Give me a trial before dealing elsewhere. GUIN IMMIGRATION AGENCY and REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. Guin, Marion County, Alabama. The sole purpose of this agency is to induce settlers from the North and Northwest to locate in Marion and adjoining counties. Here we have a climate that cannot be beaten, cheap lands, good water, and every requisite that goes to make a pleasant home. For further information address with stamp as above. We can furnish homes in Georgia, Washington, Oregon, or Idaho to those who desire them. PAGE 7 THE GAZETTE We will be glad to receive short communications from the different towns in our county. Write on one side of paper only, and please write with a pen. Be sure to sign your name to all communications, and get them in by Tuesday evening. 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 – WATSON BROWN, W. M., JOHN W. INGLE, S. W.; M. T. AKERS, Treas.; J. B. RILEY, Secy. 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 ˝ 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 NOTICE Realizing the fact that at this time of the year money is scarce and desiring to double our subscription list, we make the following offer to responsible parties. Send us your name and post office address and we wills end the Gazette to you and we will for the money until--- make this offer in good --- you to pay promptly in the fall. BORN – To Mr. and Mrs. J. M. ALLMAN April 30 a girl. Mr. BUCK GANN, of Beaverton was in town Monday. The young people are preparing for Children’s day at the Methodist church. The entertainment will be Sunday May 16. What is the matter with the Epworth League. We are informed that there used to be quite a flourishing League here, why not revive it? Our readers will please overlook our mistakes this week as the editor is sick. The work has been done by LEDDIE SPRINGFIELD and LEE COOK. Mrs. W. T. MORGAN has been quite sick this week, but we are glad to say, she is much better at the present. Dr. T. J. SPRINGFIELD went to Birmingham Wednesday on business. Miss EUGENIA HENDEN who has been visiting at Sulligent returned home Monday. Dr. HOWELL and wife, of Knowles, Ala. are visiting here this week. Misses GENERIA HUGHEY and BLANCHE GREGORY of Beaverton visited Mrs. JNO. RILEY the first of the week. Mrs. B. L. CANTRELL of Hamilton visited the family of Mr. J. H. RILEY Sunday. Mr. J. F. SHAW visited Hamilton Thursday. Mr. MAY, of Beaverton was in town Thursday. Mr. J. H. RILEY was in Hamilton this week on business. FOR SALE One saw mill, one grist mill, one cotton gin, one also one 170 acres of farm land. 50 acres open. Terms reasonable. P. M. CAUDLE, Executor, Guin, Ala. CORRESPONDENCE TWIN Health very good. We have been having some warm weather but had a good rain last Thursday. J. P. PEARCE passed through our town last week. J. W. BURLESON and son made a trip to Guin last week. Farmers of our section are plowing their corn, it seems that corn is growing very slowly but think it on account of hard ground. Cotton is about ready to chop. G. M. ALEXANDER is shooting chip monks this week. Fishing seems to attract many of our people’s attention. They fish with a good hope as if there were plenty of minnows. Some say where are the fish and gone gone is the answer. J. T. FLURRY accidentally got a severe kick Friday by his gun. It was loaded too heavily and he shot it and he busted his gun up and injured his shoulder and cheek to some extent. He says he don’t want to shoot another like it for $$. We had a good rain Thursday but we are all afraid that corn and cotton are going to get killed. There was a hard hail Thursday and is now very cold, but we hope it wont’ last long. J. W. BURLESON says he has got 60 bags of cotton-seed to plant if what is planted gets killed. J. W. BURLESON goes to Guin about twice a week some weeks. LITTLE ROCK Cool weather. Right large frost Sunday morning. Had a good rain and every body seem to be enjoying themselves. The health of the neighborhood is very good, not a single case of sickness of our knowing. E. --- STANFORD made a business trip to Fayette the first of last week. Prof. M. STANFORD will sing at Hepsaba Church next Sunday ERVIN CROW has returned to his home in Fayette County. Mrs. GEORGIA STANFORD has the finest garden in the neighborhood. Mr. G. E. LOWERY had a log-rolling Saturday but never got done. Call again Brother Lowery. [GUM BOW] DURANGO, TEXAS – After so long silence I will write again. News scarce, beautiful weather and the farmers are taking advantage of it. Health of the communities is very good. A murder occurred on the 25 ult. A negro called Mr. BOYD out to the gate and shot him dead. A fright hard storm occurred on the night of the 27 ult. no serious damage done. W. T. CAUDLE returned home from Guin the 26. Picnics are the order of the days just now. [ETTA CAUDLE] WORKING MEN IN PRAYER – Poem – [by WILLIAM THOMAS CAUDLE] Program of Children’s Day Services of the ME Church South at Guin, Ala for third Sunday in May, 1st - Opening Hymn “Marching to Zion” by School and Congregation. 2nd Song – “We are singing on the Day” by the School. 3rd – Opening Prayer 4th – Song “Jesus over” by School 5th – Concert Reading of Scripture by Sup’t and school. 6th – Song – “leaning on the Everlasting Arm” by school 7th – Recitation “Have your heard of Jesus” by MARY HENDON, RUBY MATTHEWS, PANSY FRAZIER, and WILLIE BAIRD. 8TH – Address on Sunday School by T. W. SPRINGFIELD. 9th – Song – “Sweet Story” Primary Department 10th – Forty questions Asked: answered by the School. 11th – Song – Welcome for Me” by school 12th – Recitation – “The Children Crusade” by Miss GEM FRAZIER 13th – Address on Missions by Mrs. MORGAN 14th – Song- “Go Tell the World of His Love” by the School 15th – Address on Epworth Leagues by JOHN P. RILEY 16th – Address on Education by Miss ETTIE FRAZIER 17th – Song – “Blessed by the Name’ by the school. 18th - Song – “When the roll is called up yonder” by all. 19th – Doxology and Benediction Reported by J. P. RILEY PAGE 8 PORPOISE HUNTING THE COCOANUT INSURING HIS NEIGHBOR’S CROPS LOCATED BY AN ECHO A decorative affair for evening wear is a short, full cape of accordion-plaited chiffon. A soft, fluffy ruche of the same plaited chiffon trims the neck, ending in two down-hanging ends at the throat, where it ties with broad satin ribbons. 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