Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS October 11, 1894 ************************************************ 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 April 24, 2010, 9:25 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History October 11, 1894 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON FREE PRESS VOL. 1 HAMILTON, MARION CO.,ALA. , THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1894 NO. 52 TWO FOR ONE – Home and Farm with The Free Press for One Dollar Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters SWEPT AWAY – McKinley High Prices are Dead and Mrs. ELLA CLEMENTS is selling stationery and school supplies at astonishingly low prices. School crayon per box 15 cts Composition books 7 cts Composition books 15 cts Good note paper at from 5 to 7 cents per quire Fools cap paper 10 cts quire Envelopes 5 cents a package Ink 5 cts per bottle Pen points 5 cts per dozen Slates 5 x 9 inches 6 cts Slates 7 x 11 inches 10 cts Rubber tip pencils 10 cts dozen Pen holders 10 cts each School books – a new lot of school books just received all of which will be sold as cheap as they can be bought any where. LADIES HATS – A nice assortment of ladies hats latest styles and guaranteed to give satisfaction. Come and examine goods, compare prices, and be convinced. Respectfully, Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS, Hamilton, Ala. (Post office Building) BEXAR SCHOOL will open on Monday November 5th 1894 and continue eight months. Tuition reasonable. For further information, call on or address the principal. J. B. HOLLEY, Bexar, Ala. Ad for a new $900 upright Grand Steinway piano Free GUIN TIME TABLE – K. C. M. & B. R. R. West bound arrives at 11:02 a.m. East bound arrives at 5:02 p.m. DIRECTORY CIRCUIT COURT Judge – H. C. SPEAKE, of Madison County Solicitor – W. H. SAWTELLE, of Colbert Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Court meets on the 3rd Monday after the 4th Monday in March and September COUNTY COURT Judge – J. P. FORD, Hamilton Court meets on the 1st Monday in each month. Probate court meets on the 2nd Monday in each month. CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – THOMAS COBB, Birmingham Register – W. B. RIGGAN, Hamilton Court meets on Thursday after the 7th Monday after the 4th Monday in February and August. COMMISSIONER’S COURT Meets on the 2nd Monday in February and August and the 1st Monday in April and November COUNTY OFFICERS Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS, Bexar Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER, Hamilton SOCIETIES MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 meets at Hamilton on the 4th Saturday in each month, at 1 am (sic). A. J. STANFORD, W. M. CHURCH DIRECTORY M. E. CHURCH SOUTH – Services 1st Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 pm and every 4th Sunday at 7 pm – Rev. W. L. HENDRICKS, Pastor SUNDAY SCHOOL Sunday School at 9:30 am – W. R. WHITE, Supt. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. PROFESSIONAL CARDS – LEGAL WM. C. DAVIS A. J. STANFORD DAVIS & STANFORD, Attorneys at Law, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. B. R. FITE, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties, in the federal courts at Huntsville and the Supreme Court of the State. Special attention given to the collection of claims. GEO. C. ALMON W. I. BULLOCK, ALMON & BULLOCK, Attorneys at Law, Russellville Ala. will practice in Franklin and adjoining counties ,and especially in Marion; also in the Federal court at Huntsville and in the Supreme Court at Montgomery. W. H. KEY A. S. HESTER KEY & HESTER, Attorneys at Law - Russellville, Ala will practice in Franklin and adjoining counties, in the Supreme Court and the Federal court at Huntsville. Mr. Key will be in Hamilton on the first Monday in each month. S. J. SHIELDS, Attorney at Law, Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in Lamar and adjoining counties. ROBERT L. WINDHAM, Attorney at Law, Fayette Alabama. I will practice in the circuit, county, and Justice courts of Lamar and Marion counties. Any business placed in my hands will receive my immediate attention at any and all times. Office near Court house. W. R. APPLING, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. All business entrusted to my care will receive prompt attention HON. WILLIAM. L. WILSON – Gives a synopsis of the Principles of Republicanism MOVEMENT ON FOOT – To Make Birmingham the Capital of Alabama Montgomery, Oct. 6 – It is stated upon good authority that a bill is being prepared providing for the removal of the state capital from this city to Birmingham. It will be presented to the lower House of Representatives. Its champion has discovered that the capital property will not revert to the grantor in the deed to the state in the event the seat of government is removed. The impression that it would so revert has existed for some time, but a careful examination of the records prove the fact that the state has an indefeasible title to the property, the deed being without qualifications or reservations. The gentleman who is pushing the matter has talked with some influential members of the house and is greatly encouraged. He facetiously suggests that the present capital can be used for the purposed of a home for indigent and infirmed politicians when the big new capital is built on capitol square in Birmingham. PLOWMAN WINS IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT – (election results) STATE NEWS Two suicides at Mobile last week. Cholera is destroying hogs in Pickens county. The compress at Luverne weighs and store cotton free of charge. The Escambia county grand jury returned twenty-nine true bills. Bellefonte post office, Jackson County, has been discontinued. Lee McVay has been appointed deputy sheriff of Clarke County. The water works at Columbia are nearing completion. Three chairs at the Cumberland University at West Point, Miss, will be filled by Madison County people. W. R. USRY, of Etowah County, raised so much corn this year that he had to build extra cribs to house it in. “Every neighborhood in the county has its church and school houses,” says the Talladega Mountain Home. The Shelby grand jury returned 31 indictments at the late term of the circuit court. J. H. SHERROD and R. N. HARRIS, Jr. of Courtland had a narrow escape a few nights ago. They drank some coffee into which some one had put Paris Green. The steam gin and grist mill belonging to the Dorsey brothers in Covington County were burned recently. A match in the lint room did the work. A Bullock county farmer tried and experiment with Egyptian cotton. The stalks were twelve feet high with branches only at the bottom, and he says a pound to the acre could not be gathered. While ALEC ROBERTS of Anniston was crossing a bridge over the Tallapoosa River with a load of lumber the bridge fell. Mr. ROBERTS’ left leg was broken and one of the horses was instantly killed. White cappers are posting gins in Madison County. Ginners are warned that if they gin any more cotton before the Legislature settles the question as to who is Governor that their gins will be burned. There has been some considerable kicking by the anti-Bankhead men at the result of the primary and Guin convention. The antis have no one to blame but themselves. They let a motion to adjourn prevail when but a bare majority voted for it. Outside of the folly of acceding to the primary proposition, the antis simply blundered from start to finish and that Bankhead would take the nomination ought not to strike them as a novel proposition. That was what he was in the race for. – [Vernon Courier] PAGE 2 THE FREE PRESS J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Proprietor Issued Every Thursday Subscription Rates – One Year ………$1.00 6 mos…………….. .50 3 mos……………….25 In clubs of 8 or more, 80 cts each Postmaster who fail to notify publishers when subscribers remove or fail to take papers from the post office are held by the postmaster-General to be responsible for their subscriptions. For Congress, Sixth District – JOHN H. BANKHEAD, of Fayette -------(political commentary)------- IN JOINT DEBATE – BANKHEAD, LONG, AND SANFORD – Meet At Hamilton and Discuss the Political Issues of the Day LIST OF JURORS – Drawn to Serve at the October Term of the Circuit Court Grand Jurors B. F. RIGGINS, GRANK GREEN, T. L. SHOTTS, C. M. SELF, HENRY MAYS, HIRAM MCKENZIE, J. J. ERVIN, R. W. CASHION, J. A. CARNES, J. C. THOMPSON, JOHN WILSON, DANIEL STAGNER, JOHN HUGHES, M. C. GOGGANS, S. M. OWEN, W. M. PARISH Petit Jurors THOMAS FISHER, LOYD OZBIRN, GEORGE ALEXANDER, STEVE E. LINDSEY, GEORGE L. SANDERSON, R. V. GLASCOCK, WILLIAM HIGHTOWER, TIM MCGUIRE, J. H. HENSON Sr., J. W. HEARD, W. J. FREDERICK, ALBERT HAMILTON, BRIGGS FREDERICK, W. T. BURLESON, DAVID F. CLAY, JAMES CROW, W. M. BACCUS, J. A. GANN, G. W. MAXWELL, A. A. SIMS, JAMES CANTRELL, S. A. REED, HALEN THOMPSON, WM. T. BURLESON, S. W. BISHOP, W. J. JOHNSON, JACK WESTBROOKS Ad for Webster’s International Dictionary OAKLAND NORMAL INSTITUTE – The 8th Session of the O. N. will open on Sept. 11, 18954. We claim for the O. N. I. a first-class Normal, and in it we propose to give general satisfaction and if we do not we will refund all tuition that may have been paid in if a fair test has been made. Board, Washing, Fuel, and rock furnished from $5 to $7 per month. Tuition in Literary department from $1.25 to $4.00 per month. For information concerning the school, address G. A. or J. T. HOLLEY, Principals, Yale, Mississippi TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE – SECOND ROUND You will take notice that I will attend at the following places and dates for the purpose of collecting the State and County taxes for the year 1894…….. Remember that poll tax is delinquent after the 30th of November and the State and county tax after the 31st of December. Please meet me promptly and settle your taxes. You may expect cost after January 1. Comply with the law and save cost. M. M. FRAZIER, Tax Collector Marion County, Alabama Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed. Sold by T. W. CARPENTER, Hamilton J. F. WHITE, Detroit J D. ARNOLD, Bexar PAGE 3 THE FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. G. B. MIXON is in Guin on business. And didn’t Bankhead handle Sanford without gloves? Contentment is almost a priceless gem when temporal success is being considered. Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. Mr. JOHNSON of near Detroit was in town last week arranging for his son to enter school. If you have time, employ that in getting an education, for the educated man or woman always gets there. R. S. BOTTOMS was in town Monday distributing the public school fund among the teachers. Hon. J. Frost made his appearance Tuesday night and vegetation looks all the worse for his visit. If you are a friend to public institutions and interested in their success, don’t complain that everything is going wrong. Put your shoulder to the wheel of progress and make a strong push. Quite a number of our people attended the Missionary Baptist at Hall’s Mill last Sunday. All report a nice time – {Marion County News.} They did, eh? Well, who in the nation is “the Missionary Baptist,” and what was he doing at Hall’s Mill? If you have a voice, use it. Why leave all the singing to the birds of the air? There are plenty of clods to keep quiet and it is all right for them to keep still and be ran over by all creation but for a man or woman to suppress the rising volume of joy that longs for expression and that would lend a hale of sunshine to the many downcast spirits of earth, is to place one’s self on a level with the clods of earth. Life is the time to live. Prof. J. B. HOLLEY of Bexar was in to see us last week. His school will open at Bexar on Nov. 5th. See his card in another column. Young men, in preparing for the different vocations of life, make serious mistakes when they keep down that manhood which gives firmness to character. The weather for the past two weeks has been excellent for gathering the cotton crop and our farmers have been pushing their work along this line. MIXON is taking all kinds of produce in exchange for goods. W. C. DAVIS and A. J. STANFORD, attorney at law, have formed a co-partnership and will practice under the firm name of DAVIS & STANFORD. See their card elsewhere. Rev. Mr. LANTRIP, of Amory, Miss. preached at this place on last Friday night. He was on his way to attend the Association of the Missionary Baptists held at Hall’s Mill on last Saturday and Sunday. The protracted meeting closed on last Friday night. Rev. W. L. HENDRICKS, though young in years, is an able and consecrated minister. He has done a good work in our midst and has made many friends both for himself and the cause he represents. The Delineator for November, which is called the Thanksgiving Number, will be unusually interesting and every lady who desires to keep p with the latest styles in dress-making should subscribe at one. The subscription price of the Delineator is only one dollar a year. Address the Butterick Publishing Co., New York Yes, cotton is low, very low. What are you going to do about it? Is there no way out of the difficulty? It is no use to growl, kick, and complain and continue to raise it. We must make the best we can out of the present low price and try to raise it cheaper next year by raising all needed supplies at home. If hog and hominy is raised at home the cotton crop will be a surplus. County Canvassers Wanted For the Weekly Age-Herald and other publications. NO experience or capital needed. We want a live, intelligent worker in every county for the Weekly Age Herald and other publications. Ladies can do the work as well as men. No experience or capital needed. If you take only two orders a day you will clear $100 per month, but it is easy to average five or more orders daily. Our special new plans enable our agents to take an order from nearly every person canvassed. The business is exceedingly popular, and the work light. Any body can do it. Write for particulars. Canvassing Department Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO – [St. Louis Globe Democrat] Virginia contained a fifth of the whole population of the country. Dry goods were designated as “men’s stuffs” or “women’s stuffs” No large river in the United States had been spanned by a bridge. Stoves were unknown all cooing was done before an open fire place. Six days were required for a journey between New York and Boston. The houses were not numbered and many of the streets were not named. A gentleman bowing to a lady always scraped his foot on the ground. Two stage coaches bore all the travel between New York and Boston. Three-fourths of the books in every library came from beyond the Atlantic. The Mississippi valley was not as well known as the heart of Africa now is. Twenty days were required for a letter to go from New York to Charleston by land. In most families no cooking was done on Sunday; a cold Sunday dinner was the rule. Vaccination had not become popular, and smallpox was an every day disease All the population of a village assembled at the inn on “post day” to hear the news. The number of toasts drunk at a banquet equaled the number of States in the Union. Quinine was unknown; when a man had ague fits he took Peruvian bark and whisky. Beef and pork, salt fish, potatoes and hominy were the staple diet all the year round. The sorghum crop in Lamar is good, but the acreage should be increased ten fold. Molasses ought to be shipped from here by the hundreds of barrels. There is no finer soil in the world for producing a perfect article then here. The fodder and seed will almost pay for the cultivation and the molasses be a clear gain. – [Vernon Courier] NOTICE – Notice is hereby given that an application will be made to the Governor of Alabama for the pardon of J. S. CAGLE who was convicted of grand larceny at the Spring Term of the Circuit Court of Marion County 1894. – October 5th, 1894 Wanted! Wanted! 10,000 barrels sorghum and will sell the improved Kentucky Cane Mill with copper and galvanized steel pans, and take sorghum in payment. When you buy the Kentucky Cane Mill you get one of the oldest cane mills manufactured in the United States. We buy in carloads - is why we sell cheap. Remember we carry in stock in addition engines, boilers, saw and grist mills, cotton gins, feeders, condensers, horse and steam power presses, rubber and leather belting, agricultural implements, hay rakes, hacks, buggies, carts and the old reliable Gestring farm wagon. If you want the best mower on earth for cutting your grass, buy the McCormack. It took premium at the World’s Fair I 1893. Average draft 152 pounds. We have added to our general line of Hardware Sash, doors, and blinds. The best line of furniture carpet, rugs, wall paper, coffins, Queens and Glassware to be found in North Mississippi. If in need go anything write us for prices. We can save you money and will do it. LANN & CARTER Hardware Co., Aberdeen, Miss. (picture of sorghum mill) GUIN HIGH SCHOOL – The session for 1894 and 95 of the Guin High School will open Monday Oct. 15, with Prof. F. G. ARMSTRONG, BS Principal and Miss CORA GUTHRIE, M. E. I Assistant THE FACULTY Prof. F. G. ARMSTRONG is a graduate of one of the best Normal Colleges in the South, besides having an experience of four years in the schoolroom. This connected with the fact that Miss CORA GUTHRIE is a graduate of the East Lake Athenaeum, assureds our patrons that the training of their children will be both thorough and practical. SITUATION Guin is a thriving town, situated on the K. C. M. & B. R.R. .noted for its hospitality and Christian influences. RELIGIOUS TRAINING Each pupil will be required to attend some one of the three Sunday schools regularly, so fathers and mother may rest assured that their children will be trained both morally and mentally. BOARD Good board can be secured in Christian families for from $5.00 to $8.00 per month. INDUCEMENT Recognizing the act that money is scarce among our people, tuition has been placed so low, that an education is in the reach of all. TUITION Primary per month $1.00 Intermediate per month 1.50 Higher Grade per month 2.00 All tuition must be paid one month in advance. For further particulars apply to: J. D. GANN, J. R. GUIN R. W. CLARK, Guin, Ala HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL will open on Monday Sept 17, 1894 and continue eight months. Primary class $1.00 per month Intermediate 1.50 per month Grammar School 2.00 per month Academic Class 2.50 per month Advanced Academic 3.00 per month Music, instrumental 3.00 per month Music, vocal 1.00 per month Incidental fee .100 per month Board in families $5 to $6.50 per month Board in “Baching club” $2 to $4. Special advantages to young teachers. For further information apply to the Principal, A. W. TATE Ad for A Piano sent on Trial PAGE 4 Ad for Emil Seelig’s Kaffee Ad for the Watrous Anti-Rattler (picture) Ad for New Home sewing machine (picture) Ad for Dixie Baking Powder Ad for PPP Cures all skin and blood disease Ad for Jackson Corset Waists (picture) Listen to your truthful neighbors when they gladly exclaim: bargains, bargains, at W. R. WHITE’S, Hamilton, Ala. My motto is Quick Sales and Small profits, special inducements offered for cash. Am now receiving my fall and winter stock of merchandise, which was selected with great care, and will be sold at “Live and Let Live prices,” In fact, I will not be undersold by any merchant in West Alabama,” My stock of shoes in unusually large this season. When you are in town call and examine my goods and get prices, and be convinced that I mean business. No trouble to show goods. Ad for Silurian Spring Water Ad for Wing & Son Piano Hammers Ad for Gurney Patent Refrigerator – (picture) Ad for Japanese Oil The Hamilton Free Press for 1894 will contain the News. Do you read? Do you feel an interest in the news of your county, state, and nation? If you do, then Subscribe at once for The Free Press and keep up with the times. Subscription $1.00 per year. To Advertisers: The Free Press is the only paper published in Marion County, It has a large circulation in this and adjoining counties, and is the only medium through which the general public can be reached. Our rates are low, and we invite your patronage. Job Printing. We are prepared to ado all kinds of plain printing at low rates, and solicit the work of the business public. Communications on subjects of general interest to the people of the county are invited. Address all letters to: The Free Press, Hamilton, Ala. Ad for 50 World’s Fair Views Free The Memphis Commercial and The Free Press will be sent to any address one year for $1.30. Now is the time to subscribe and get two papers for little more than the price of one. Call on or address The Free Press, Hamilton, Ala. Ad for Lippman’s Pyrafuge – a sure cure of chills & fever, dumb ague and malaria File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1689gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 21.6 Kb