Marion County AlArchives News.....GUIN GAZETTE July 2, 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 8, 2010, 11:18 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History July 2, 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, JULY 2, 1897 NO. 20 PAGE 1 TWENTY KILLED – The St. Louis Express Plunged through a Trestle – Missouri City, MO RUSSIA WILL NOT PROTEST The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says: Russia will not join in Japan’s protest against annexation of Hawaii by the United States, but she regards the measure as a dangerous precedent. WORK OF ANARCHISTS- Report that the Bazaar Fire was Planned by them – (burning of French capitol) MCKINLEY’S LETTER – Fills Britishers with Pride and Satisfaction WIND AND RAIN STORM – St. Louis FIRST CUBAN ELECTION – Patriots in the United States to be permitted to vote TERRIBLE HAIL STORM - people injured by hailstones – Kansas THREE KANSANS ARE DEAD – Salina – (Geesy family ) Talk is cheap. Some people do nothing but talk. I do not talk myself, but prefer to let my customers talk for me. Buy your dry goods, boots, shoes, clothing, dress goods or fancy or staple groceries, tobacco, snuff, or in fact anything you may need from me. Then you will be willing to talk for me. S. J. BAIRD. L. D. LITTLETON carries a full stock of dry goods, shoes, hats, and all kinds fo fine notions also a full line of all kinds of staple and fancy groceries at prices to suit the times. Get my prices before buying elsewhere. I can please you. Guin and Sulligent. W. C. DAVIS, Attorney at Law. Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. O. C. LING, Guin, Ala. Blacksmith, wagon maker and gunsmith. Wagons made to order and ready filled wheels always on hand. Horse-shoeing a specialty. All work done cheaper than the cheapest for cash. W. T. MORGAN, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Alabama. PAGE 2 CELEBRATING THE FOURTH – How Fireworks are made in the World’s Biggest manufactory JULY 4 AT JUNIUS’S – (anecdote) AN ASSISTED CELEBRATION – How Indians in Idaho “Held Up” a Fourth of July Expedition – (anecdote told by Edward Ray in Chicago Record) PAGE 3 FARM AND GARDEN BANISH THE SCRUBS THINNING FRUIT EVERGREEN FOR WINDBREAKS THE AQUILEGIA CARE OF HORSES THE VALUE OF COW MANURE PRUNING GRAPE VINES PRESERVING EGGS FOR HIGHER PRICES PENNROYAL POISONING PAGE 4 THE GAZETTE W. T. MORGAN, Editor (subscription prices and offers) HON. E. B. ALMON – (political statement) NOTICE – The speaking by W. T. MORGAN and A. E. TIDWELL has been called in indefinitely Ad for Confederate Veteran Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui FOR SALE – One saw mill, one grist mill, one cotton gin, also 170 acres on farm land, 50 acres open. Terms reasonable. P. M. CAUDLE, Executor, Guin, Ala PAGE 5 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 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 J. PEARCE & Co are having their store repainted. Messrs. ADD PRATT and JIM SMITH are Quarantine officers Mr. WILL STOKES, of Hamilton was in town Sunday. There is a great deal of painting being done in our town. Rev. WM. WRIGHT of Vernon preached at the Baptist church Friday night. Several of our citizens are talking of leaving for the country on account of small pox. Miss CLEMMIE CADDLE has returned home after a few weeks visit to the country. Miss LULA PEARCE, of Mantachie, Miss. who has been visiting relative here went to Pearce’s Mills, Ala Monday. Mrs. BROCK and daughters, Misses MAMIE and LILLIE are visiting in Vernon Prof. CHAS. FRANKS of Twin was in to see us Tuesday. Messrs J. A . SMITH and J. T. WHITE are night Quarantine officers. The long long hoped for and much needed rain came Tuesday. The picnic at the Sulphur Spring is called in on account of small pox. Our friend Mr. R. A. BAIRD has, we are sorry to say, four cases of slow fever in his family. Rev. D. W. WARD filled his regular appointment at the Methodist church on Sunday morning and night. We call special attention to the newsy letter from Hamilton this week. Can’t we have an Epworth League? If the League is conducted in the manner proposed by its rules and regulations it will be a great success. We are so crowded this week that two important items are left out, but they will appear next week. At a meeting of citizens Tuesday it was thought best to place a strict quarantine against all persons who cannot show a health certificate or prove satisfactorily that they have not been exposed to small pox. The citizens of Guin are determined to keep small pox out. We expect to hear a certain paper puffing about securing of printing from our town. You got it but it was because this office would not take it at the price you do work. All such jobs you are perfectly welcome to. We are here to do job printing but we will not do it for nothing. Dr. SPRINGFIELD is looking to the health of our town and is having wells cleaned out and premises cleaned off. He says if the people do not look after these matters it will be only a short time until fever will be among us. HAMILTON The long looked for and much needed rain has come at last. R. N. TERRELL has been quite sick with fever for the past few days. He is now improving. Mrs. J. D. ARNOLD is critically ill at his writing. W. W. OSBIRN and family are visiting relatives and friends at Hacklebugh this week. Miss RADA BREWSTER, of Mississippi is visiting relatives here. She is also teaching a class in garment cutting. Misses URSLEY and LETHA THORN returned Saturday from a visit from Burleson. WILL B. STOKES made a business trip to Guin yesterday. Miss TULLIA TATE, of Florence, is visiting here now. She will probably spend the summer in Hamilton Messrs DICK and BUD SMITH, with Dept. Collectors are ”pulling” moonshiners right along now. The court house is now being painted. WALLACE WILSON is doing the work. Mrs. OPHELIA ROBINSON, of Bexar, came yesterday to attend the bedside of her sister, Mrs. ARNOLD. We are glad to see a movement on foot to establish a good school at Guin. It is certainly a landable undertaking and we trust it may prove a successful one. Dr. AL. L. MOORMAN, of Bexar, visited Hamilton yesterday, professionally. Messrs IRA MARTIN and JAMES WILSON will each erect a new residence in the near future, we presume that Mr. WILSON has in vie a house-keeper. Long live the Gazette and may it at least be a bread and “lasses” winner for the editor and his wife, is the sincere wish of. GOSSIP LITTLE ROCK WE have had a good rain and every body seems to be happy. Some burglars broke into Mr. ED KNIGHT’S Monday night, they have not been caught yet. Mrs. RACHEAL GANN, aged 71, died at the home of WM. SHAW on Sunday. W. G. ADAMS will go to Detroit Friday. Mrs. W. T. CAUDLE is on the sick list this week. We hope she will soon recover. GUM BOW PREMIUM LIST PAGE 6 Ad for Hires Root Beer Ad for Lyon & Co Pick Leaf Extra Smoking Tobacco TALMAGE’S SERMON - Praises Lawyers PAGE 7 TALMAGE’S SERMON – CONTINUED Ad for Elizabeth College for Women, Charlotte, N. C. Ad for Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic Ad for Cascarets - Cure constipation Ad for Lovell Diamond bicycles PAGE 8 STATE TOPICS YOUNGEST CONFEDERATE The youngest Confederate veteran who attended the Nashville reunion was W. E. CLUTTS, of Huntsville, who entered the service in 1861 at the tender age of 13 years and 5 months, under Capt. John Cardner, Company K, Forty-ninth Alabama, and in 1865, after all was over, was paroled at Danville, Va. ----- LONDON’S POOR – Given Jubilee Dinners by the Princess of Wales BURNED AT SEA – Thirty Passengers of a Russian Steamship Seriously Burned MINISTER CALLED TO TEXAS Dr. A. W. MCGAHA, former president of Howard College at East Lake, near Birmingham has accepted a call from the First Baptist Church at Fort Worth Tex., and leaves for his new post soon. Dr. McGaha is one of the most prominent Baptist divines in North Alabama. He has been in charge of the Pratt City Baptist Church since he retired from the educational field. 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. 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. P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. 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 Spring has come. Gentle Annie so has my spring stock go goods. They are fresh, good, cheap. Give me a Call. I can please you. W. R. BRADLEY W. L. MAY Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala calls promptly attended to day or night. Ad for Birmingham Business College J. M. SPRINGFIELD & Co. Livery Feed and Sale Stable. Good Teams, Good Buggies, and Hacks. Careful Drivers. Guin, Ala. 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