Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS November 22, 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, 9:44 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History November 22, 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 22, 1894 NO. 5 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 KOLB’S MANIFESTO SHERMAN’S SOBER WORDS – The Mckinley Tariff Has Not Won – The Last Tariff Agitation For A Time ---(more political news items)--- At the age of 84, CASSIUS M. CLAY, editor, orator, statesman, diplomat, marries a fifteen year old girl, a domestic in his household, and forbids any of his children or kins people to come near him. He is evidently unsound mentally. Mr. Clay has a large sheep farm at White Hall, Madison County, Kentucky, a lonely spot near Richmond. He has armed men on guard all the time to protect his person from apprehended violence,. His notion is that personal and political enemies seek his life. He is wealth and erratic. Fifty years ago he was a striking figure among the notables of Kentucky. His life has been full of remarkable incidents and he loves to relate them. Politically he was in early life, after graduating from Yale in 1833, and up to the close of the war, and Abolitionist; and he published an abolition paper in Kentucky in times when it required great bravery to advocate such principles in that State. He was threatened, and he cased his office doors with iron, placed two four-pound loaded cannon in his office, pointing to the door, and kept half a dozen armed men around him. He also kept a keg of powder in his office, so arranged that he could explode it, after escaping through the roof. He has fought four duels, killing three of his antagonist, and severally wounding a fourth. Mr. Clay is over 6 feet in height and well proportioned; and even now, at the age of 84. he is straight and powerful, doing a good day’s work on his farm. He was United States Minister at the court of Russia when Alaska was transferred to this government. In 1879 he supported Greeley and the Democrats. Then he supported Mr. Blaine, and later he has acted with the Democrats. He is eccentric, and people in that region of Kentucky fear him. Years ago he furnished William Cassius Goodloe with a dirk, and instructed him how to use it. With it Goodloe killed Colonel Swope, in the Lexington post office – [Daily News} WALTER APPLING, Esq. after an absence of several weeks at Jasper returned last week to the delight of his many friends. 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. ------(political commentary)------ If you want to make final proof in support of your homestead claim, it is your privilege to name the paper in which you wish the notice to be published. Remember the Free Press will do the work as low as any other paper in the county, and if you want us to do the work make known your choice to the officer before whom you are to make proof. IN MEMORIUM It becomes our sad duty to announce the death of our friend and townsman, A. J. STANFORD. He died about 9:30 p.m. Sunday Nov. 18, 1894, at his residence in Hamilton after an illness of sixteen days. From the first his disease, erysipelas, took an alarming turn, and was soon followed by blood-poisoning. Everything possible was done to arrest the progress of the disease, but to no avail, and finally the attending physician announced that there was no hope. His aged mother, brothers and sisters were summoned to his bedside where they remained until death came. He suffered the most excruciating pain all through his illness but bore it all with much patience and was resigned to death. The deceased was born in Lamar county January 8, 1858 and came to Hamilton in 1886 to practice his profession, the law. During the eight years he lived with us he made many friends by his close attention to business and his honesty and integrity in all business relations. He leaves a wife and six little children to struggle with life’s battles and mourn their sad loss, but they grieve not as those who have no hope for when death came he was ready. He was buried last Tuesday morning in the cemetery at this place with the honors of masonry, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. J. W. WHITE, of Hackleburgh. A large concourse of sorrowing friends followed the remains to their last resting place where they will repose until the morn of the resurrection. In his death, a kind husband and loving father has been removed, and our town loses one of its best and most highly respected citizens, but his bereaved family and friends are left with the sweet hope that they can see him again in the home of the saints, for he left evidence that he was at peace with God. When asked as to how he felt concerning the future, he replied that he was not afraid to die; that he was trusting in god and would die with faith. At the trying moment no cloud hovered over his couch between him and his Savior. He suffered untold misery in the flesh, but freed from its tenement of clay his spirit winged its way to the beautiful home beyond, where sickness, and death are unknown . Peace to his memory and may the Ruler of Heaven who knows and directs all things for the best, look down and guard and protect his wife and fatherless children. The BYRD SCHOOL will open Monday Nov. 19, 1894 and continue four months. Tuition reasonable. For further information call on or address the principal. ANDREW J. ADAMS, Detroit, Ala. 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. CARPERNET, Hamilton J. F. WHITE, Detroit J D. ARNOLD, Bexar PAGE 3 THE FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. NOTICE The free Press is opposed to cutting rates but we propose to do the legal advertising as cheap as nay other paper in the county, and if we cannot show a circulation twice that of any other paper published in the county we will do the work free of cost. Now if our county officials want the people to see and read the legal advertisement under their control we give them an opportunity to prove it. The intention of the law creating legal advertising is that the people may read such advertisements and officers who fail to place legal advertisements where they will be read by the greatest number must bear the responsibility. Remember we do the work as low as any other paper in Marion County. JACK SMITH is now carrying the mail on the Bexar route. W. W. OZBIRN of Hackleburgh spent Monday night last in town. Editor LEE of the News paid a visit to the Magic City last week. Hon. W. H. MATTHEWS of Guin was in town the first of the week. WESLEY STIDHAM and family returned yesterday from Texas. The Medical Board will meet at Hamilton on Saturday November 24th. All practicing physicians are requested to attend. A. L. MOORMAN, Pres. Prof. TATE is an inveterate worker in the cause of education and every teacher in the county should rally to his support in establishing a Library and Lyceum Circle for the benefit of teachers. Read his article in another column and see what he proposed to do. Teachers, do you part. FROM DETROIT J. R. GRADY and family left last week for Blocton, Ala. DAVIS YOUNG and Mrs. BETTIE STONE, of near Tupelo, Miss were visiting in this vicinity last week. Messrs O. H. K. DUKE and T. E. SMIT, two of our best citizens, are selling out to go to Texas. J. F. WHITE has purchased the BYRD storehouse and is filling it with corn which he buys from his customers. TESSIE LOVE DAVIDSON is quite sick. Bro. DRISKILL and family are off on a visit and then to conference. That’s right – it was “Clevelanders” that did the work and it is useless to attribute it to any thing else. Give us a western man in ’96 one whose record is in harmony with the Chicago platform, and many a good democrat who has lost his enthusiasm will be found in the spade and shovel brigade, trying to resurrect the late democratic party. CLIP, Detroit, Ala., Nov. 19 TEACHERS – WHAT WE NEED AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE Will you join and help? What is it, why is it, where will it lead us? These are questions that must be answered before any teacher is expected to join or contribute anything toward this great enterprise. When a young man decides to make a doctor of himself he at once begins to inquire for books on medicine. He knows better than to go out and begin practice without first having prepared by long and laborious study and a recognition of merit and ability from some medical college. When a young man wishes to become a lawyer, he begins the study of law and after month and years of hard study he is examined by a competent Board of his profession and admitted to the bar. When a young man or woman decides to make teaching a life profession, what should he or she do? All liberal minded people will say, get books on teaching and enter, at once, with heart, mined and soul upon the study of child- mind, child-nature, environment, heredity and how best to develop the child for citizenship in a grand and glorious Republic. It order to aid the young en and women who have been called into this, the greatest of all professions, the Lyceum Council has been organized in Birmingham, the object to d which is to form a closer organization of the teachers for better schools and more professional teachers, without cost. This Lyceum is composed of such men as J. W. McAdory, Supt of Jefferson County, Dr. J. H. Phillips, Supt of City Schools of Birmingham, Prof. Jas. K. Powers of Florence, and many other prominent men in different parts of the state. The Lyceum Council has laid out a course of reading for eight months in each year for four years. Any one completing this course of reading will be duly examined by the Lyceum Council and receive a certificate of proficiency, and upon the completion of the four years work a professional diploma will be granted. Fellow teachers this is the opportunity of a life time, and we should all join in the grand procession and make Marion County the banner county of the state. We can do it. Fortune has knocked at our doors – are you at home? If so, listen to the next proposition: The Marion County Teacher’s Library will furnish all the books needed to complete this four years course of study. But what about the Library? Well, that is the next point. The writer of this article proposed to give $25 worth of books, if the other teachers of the county will give $1 each. It is supposed that this would give us about $75 to invest in a Library. Then we will organize a Lyceum Circle to meet at Hamilton once a month, on Saturdays, to recite our lessons and then have a general handshaking – a big hurrah for our side. It is seen from the above statement that every teacher in the county can thus have access to a Library of at least 100 volumes for the small sum of $1. It is seen, also that we have opportunities of studying Pedagogy four years and obtaining a professional diploma from the Lyceum Council for the small sum of $1. Examinations are to be conducted by mail so you will not have to go out of the county. Write to me, fellow teachers, and let us have our fits meeting on the second Saturday in December, at the school house in Hamilton. Your brother in the work A. W. TATE MOONS CEASE TO SHINE Those who were in town Saturday will understand the following: One man Another man Whiskey Oysters, oh, dem oysters, oh Politics Guns Wind and blowing Monday B4 the Mayor $$$$$$$$$$$$ A terrible calm and two flabby pocketbooks – [Sulligent Eagle-Eye} Full stock of men’s boots at Littleton’s for $1.05 Good overcoats $3.50 at Littleton’s, Guin. Littleton will sell you a suit of clothes for $2.35. Try him. Best grade jeans pants $1.05 a pair. L. D. LITTLETON, Guin. Go to Littleton to buy your clothing, hats, boots, and shoes. Flour at Littleton’s, Guin, for $2.00 barrel. Guaranteed. Have your cotton weighed by J. W. INGLE at Littleton’s yard in Guin. Best accommodations at Littleton’ s cotton yard and your cotton weighed at 10 ets per bale. Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. For slates, pencils, and other school supplies call at the post office building. Envelopes 5 cents a pack. Do you want them? If so, call at the post office building. 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/hamilton1694gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 23.9 Kb