Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS November 1, 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, 9:32 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History November 1, 1894 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON FREE PRESS VOL. 2 HAMILTON,ALABAMA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1, 1894 NO. 2 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 11 am . G. N. STOKES, W. M., J. F. COOLEY, Sect. 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 LET THEM COME – Lands of all Characters can be found in Alabama We are advised by some of our papers that a party of real estate agents and hunters of timbered lands will be in the state early in November, whose object will be to establish colonies of immigrants in Alabama, provided they can get cheap land. There never was a more opportune time to encourage such an enterprise. Many of our Northwestern people are tired of drouths, floods, fires, winds, etc. and want homes in a climate more equable; where almost everything can be raised that is needed for man and beast, in great abundance. As Phillip said to Nathaniel, “Let them come and see,” and when they come let us greet them with a cordial welcome, and show them a part, at least, or the many thousands of acres of land in our state now lying idle – likely to remain idle many years, unless it is settled by foreigners. When they come, to encourage the enterprise, it will pay to sell our land at low rates. They in turn, will help us by a more rapid development of our resources and an increase ratio of church and school facilities, reduction of taxes, etc. We have large districts of timbered land that can be bought low. Much of it is on the rivers – the Alabama and Tombigbee bounding in vast quantities of oak for staves and furniture, while out from the rivers on each side in south Alabama, there are large, level plains of pine land. Higher up, min Middle Alabama, from east to west we have fine farming lands much of which is in cultivation, and a great deal that is still in the woods. In this part of Alabama you can find any kind of soil you want, sandy land, hilly or level; red clay and black clay, a mixture of sand with either forming a combination that is fine for cereals of every description, and of course, very fine for our great staple, cotton. Still further north, fruits and the cereals do well, and further north still, are the mineral regions that rival any in the Union for richness and abundance, and exceed all in the close proximity of three of the ores – coal, iron and limestone, the essentials for the manufacture of iron and steel. For a purpose I have seen many of the best states in the Union, but I have seen none to excel Alabama, when all of its advantages are carefully considered. And now that the Commissioner of Agriculture is using his influence to levy constrictions on other states, by inviting immigration to ours, for the purpose of helping develop our wonderful resources, let us second his motion by a prompt and vigorous cooperation all over the state. It will pay us handsomely to do this. I heartily join others in the wish that we may in a measure, at least, turn away from politics and give more attention to the material interests of the state. – [G. F. ELLIS, in Montgomery Advertiser] GEORGIA LAWMAKERS – Meet and Formally Organize in Both Branches 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 Down with Long radicalism and Sanford socialism. -------(political commentary)------- COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED Deputy United States Marshal J. R. PERKINS and W. I. LOVE went over into Walker county Sunday and captured tow white men who are charged with Making and passing counterfeit money. One of them, C. C. FROST, it is said, is a deputy sheriff in Walker County, and an ex- United States Deputy Marshal. The other is JAMES W. BRANTON. The spurious coin they are charged with making and passing is $10 gold piece, said to be perfect in size and external appearance but without the true ring of the precious metal. It is said that quite a number of threes coins have been put in circulation, those not frequently handling the yellow money being unable to detect its fraudulence. It is believed that a gang of counterfeiters have their headquarters in the vicinity of Cornoa, where Frost and Branton were arrested, and that they have abundant apparatus for manufacturing their product and a splendid system of distributing them. Frost and Branton will be tried in United States Commissioner Wilson’s court today – [Age Herald] Ad for Dr. Tracher’s Liver and Blood Syrup 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. PUBLIC SPEAKING – Hon. W. I. BULLOCK and Hon. E. S. MCINTYRE will address the citizens of Bear Creek on Saturday Nov. 3rd at 1 o’clock. ‘Possum hunting is now in full blast. Bro. TERRELL of the News is in Guin this week. Tax Collector FRAZIER is out on his second round. J. M. ALLMAN of Guin spent last night in town. Miss MYRA APPLING paid a visit to her parents at Jasper last week. Misses ITTIE and GEM FRAZIER visited friends at Guin last week. DIED – four miles east of Hamilton, on last Tuesday night – Mr. S. A. LANGSTON W. C. DAVIS made a business trip to Guin the first of the week. JOHN RIGGAN had the misfortune to lose a good horse on last Tuesday. REUBEN SHIREY, a well to do farmer of near Winfield, was in town Tuesday and gave us a short call. Editor W. T. GAST and family of Russellville are visiting relatives and friends at Hamilton. The Hamilton Literary Society is moving along nicely. Let all of the young people take an interest in the good work. J. B. WOOD informs us that he was in the eastern portion of the county last week and that the democrats are thoroughly aroused and ready for Tuesday’s battle of ballots. Every democrat in Marion County can well afford to lose one day to go out and vote and work for good government when there is so much at stake. HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL One of the most potent factors in the formation and development of character is education, hence the absolute necessity of first-class schools. Time spent in mental development if properly directed, is never lost. There are many powers in the human intellect that remain dormant until touched by the gentle hand of education. Then it is that the hidden faculties begin to appear on the surface, capacity is increased and spheres of usefulness are enlarged. A successful school will turn out successful boys and girls, and such a school must have solid, intelligent material for its support and its moral atmosphere must be good. The Free Press is pleased to know that our High school meets the requirements of the day, and that it is in a flourishing condition, and that taken as a whole, our people have high conceptions of education. We all want our children to be well educated when they become men and women and no effort should be speared to assist those who are now laboring in our midst to accomplish the good work Prof. A. W. TATE, principal of our school, is a gentleman of spotless character and thoroughly competent to perform his part. He has energy, experience and ability and is unquestionably the right man in the right place. Miss MYRA APPLING, the assistant, comes to us from Walker County, a stranger to our town, but she is proving herself to be a first-class teacher in literary work, and her thorough training is instrumental music makes her a very desirable assistant. Now is the time for our boys and girls, our young men and young women, to prepare themselves of the different vocations of life. Board is quite low, tuition reasonable, health is remarkably good, and, in fact, everything is favorable for the permanent establishment at Hamilton of one of the best preparatory schools in Alabama. Fathers and mothers, now is the time to embrace the opportunity and give your sons and daughter the education they demand at your hands. J. F. HAMILTON is having a new residence erected. The Educational Board will meet at Hamilton November 10th to examine applicants to teach school. W. A. DUNN, County Supt. Ed. Sweet potatoes have been selling in Tuscumbia for 15 cents a bushel. Helen Keller has added to her accomplishments the ability to distinguish colors. She has a drawer full of hair ribbons of various colors, and she can select any desired ribbon by touch. There have been other blind persons who could do this, but they are exceedingly rare. – [Boston Record] MARION COUNTY INSTITUTE TO BE HELD AT GOLDMINE NOVEMBER 2ND AND 3RD – FRIDAY 9 AM Institute Opened By Devotional Exercise – Address Of Welcome – A. H. POWELL. Response Supt. W. A. DUNN Preliminary business of the Institute How To Teach Measuration (sic) ? - A. J. ADAMS, J. R. HOLLEY Factoring in Arithmetic – J. W. WHITE, A. W.TATE, C. E. MITCHELL How to Teach Etymology – W. A. DUNN, W. T. BURLESON, J. L. COMER ONE O’CLOCK PM The Responsibility Of The Teacher – W. H. CARPENTER, J. J. GLENN, J. J. GIBBS, T. V. HILL What Prompts Us To Teach? – A. W. TATE, Miss BELLE PHILLIPS, Prof. SANLIN Map Drawing – J. A. WATES, W. H. SELF, A. H. POWELL Importance of Teaching U. S. History – C. R. FRANKS, WM. TAYLOR, W. H. KEY SECOND DAY 8 A.M. Our Common Schools – W. A. DUNN, Prof. ARMSTRONG, Judge BOSTICK, Miss VIOLA MCDONALD Better School Houses – How Can We Get Them? – H. V. BOSTICK, S. M. WILLIAMS, R. ESTILL, MACK PEARCE How To Secure The Best Order In The School Room – W. P. LETSON, Y. L. GREEN, SHERMAN GREEN ONE O’CLOCK PM How Can We Improve Our Public Schools? – W. T. BURLESON, J. A. WATES, J. J. GIBS, J. C. MCDONALD How School And Home Help Or Hinder Each Other – Miss CORA WHITLEY, W. P. LETSON, MC PEARCE The Study Of Physiology In Its Relation To Every Day Life – Dr. J. C. JOHNSON, C. E. MITCHELL, E. G. COCHRAN MACK PEARCE, J. B. HOLLEY, C. E. MITCHELL – Comm A FATAL ROW AT YORK York, Oct. 29 – A very unfortunate row occurred here this morning about 9 o’clock, in which Marshal J. W. THOMPSON was killed while performing his duty as an officer E. F. ALLISON was shot and C. A. CAMERON was wounded in the head. Allison and Cameron are neither thought to be fatally hurt. A short fired by Cameron at Allison was the one which resulted in Thompson’s death. 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. 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/hamilton1691gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 21.9 Kb