Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS November 29, 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, 9:46 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History November 29, 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 29, 1894 NO. 6 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 THE SOUTH’S NEW ERA – SOUTHERN FOOD PRODUCTS TO BE SOLD TO THE WEST INDICTMENTS QUASHED – Birmingham, Nov. 23 0 In the trial of the seventy-five miners charged with the Horse Creek riot, which has been going on at Jasper, all the indictments have been quashed, and the defendants held under their old bonds to answer new indictments………… ALLEGED GOLD FINDS – Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 22 – There is still great excitement in Union county over the reported find of gold in an Indian mound. A special from Luttrell to the Journal says that another jar of the precious metal was unearthed today. It is believed now that only a small amount of gold has been found, that the woman, ANNA MCDONALD, is a confederate of “Dr.” Bear, an Indian doctor of somewhat unsavory reputation, and that the two had combined to swindle somebody out of a few thousand dollars, but were caught in the trick. THE JAPS CAPTURE PORT ARTHUR London, Nov. 23 – A dispatch from the Central News correspondent in Shanghai says that the Japanese captured Port Arthur on Wednesday evening. The fighting began on Tuesday and the Chinese made an unusually strong defense and the fighting was severe and incessant for thirty-six hours. Both sides lost heavily. DISPOSAL OF STATE LANDS 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. The Free Press has missed two issues since it was established, but it has never missed an opportunity to stand up for the people of Marion County, or lost sight of their welfare to boost ambitious and incompetent men for responsible positions of honor and trust. The Free Press does not expect any legal advertising from an official who was too busy to join a democratic club when the party was in peril last August, nor from the all wool democrats who never turned a hand to help the party in November. We know the paper has incurred the lasting hatred of a few now clothed with a little brief authority and who imagine that Marion county is theirs, but such is life, and every newspaper man who does his duty is sure to meet with such obstinacies in his career. If the News can live on the official patronage the Free Press can live without it and all we want is for the people to know that they do not have to ask the consent of the Sheriff and Probate Judge before placing their advertisements. ------(political news and commentary)------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY – A Test Vote on the Gold and Silver Question Taken A LIVELY FIST FIGHT The Sunday Morning Star office was the scene of a bloody flight yesterday morning about 10 o’clock. At this home MR. EARLE PERKINS, an insurance agent, walked into the Star office and asked MR. LEN BUTTON, editor and proprietor of the paper, if he was responsible for an editorial that appeared in Sunday’s paper. The editor replied that he was, and with this Perkins hit him a stunner, which knocked him half through a window. He then knocked Button down and began pounding him severely. Finally Button go the upper hand of Perkins and succeeded in getting in a few stunning lows. There were four or five persons in the office at the time, but kept hands off while the two combatants fought it out. The contest was a pretty lively one and blood flowed profusely from the heads of both parties. The fight ended with honors about equal, although the editor quit on top. Both parties were put under bond for their appearance in recorder’s court this morning. The cause of the fight was an editorial which questioned the democracy of Col. G. W. HEWITT. Perkins is a stepson of Colonel HEWITT – [Age-Herald] CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Ad for the Weekly Commercial Appeal 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 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 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 Columbus Business College Ad for Maryland Roaster and Baker PAGE 3 THE FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. 20 yards calico for only one dollar at Littleton’s D. M. HOLLIS, of Sulligent spent Monday last in town. The Medical Board met at Hamilton on last Saturday. M. E. GOSSETT, of Hackleburgh gave our sanctum a call while in town yesterday. J. A. ALLMAN, of Guin, has been in town the greater part of the week on business. We were pleased to shake the hand of S. A. WALKER, of Hackleburgh while in town the first of the week. It’s a fine boy and JACK SMITH is the happiest member of the great SMITH family. The young man arrives yesterday. Dr. FRANK HAUSMAN paid a visit to his kinsman, Mr. J. ROBERT LEE, at Hamilton, the first of the week – [Walker County Record] The above is a clever joke, and the Dr. is evidently a very clever fellow. Some wicked sinner has named the society recently organized by the young ladies of Hamilton “The Old Maids’ Mutual Admiration Society.” There is nothing in a name, however, and we predict for the society a bright future. Dr. WARREN GUYTON has returned from Texas thoroughly satisfied that Alabama is good enough for him. He will locate at Hamilton where a hearty welcome is in store for him and his interesting family. Hon. W. C. DAVIS has introduced a bill to abolish the county court of Marion county, and also a bill providing that all solicitors appointed by the state shall receive $2,500 salary; provided their fees amount to that much or more, but in the event they do not amount to that much, their pay shall be the amount of the fees so earned. He has also introduced a bill to repeal the familiar “red hoss” law, knowledge of which, it is said, has caused great commotion among the finny tribe of Buttahatchie. 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 of 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 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. 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 New Home sewing machine (picture) Ad for Japanese Oil Ad for PPP Cures all skin and blood disease Ad for US Gutta Percha Paint Ad for Artesian export Beer Ad for Silurian Spring Water Ad for Wing & Son Piano Hammers Ad for Gurney Patent Refrigerator – (picture) Ad for Plantation Chill Cure 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 Dr. Thacher’s Live and Blood Syrup Ad for National Sewing Machine Co. (picture of sewing machine) Ad for 50 World’s Fair Views Free Ad for Lippman’s Pyrafuge – a sure cure of chills & fever, dumb ague and malaria Ad for Watrous Anti-Rattler File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1695gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 21.6 Kb