Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS December 6, 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, 9:48 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 6, 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 DECEMBER 6, 1894 NO. 7 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, 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. 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 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. Ad for a new $900 Steinway Piano Free – for selling Christy Knives GOV. OATES – The Inauguration of Democracy’s Choice OUR LEGISLATURE BACON – HOW TO CURE The Southern Farm says: Kill as soon as the weather gets fairly cold, about the 1st of December, if hogs are in proper condition. It is well to kill the moment the wind gets in the northeast after a rain. Begin early in the morning, clean and hang up in the afternoon take down and cut up and lay the meat skin side down on the grassy place in the open air, rubbing in the salt freely,. The following day take up, rub in more salt, to which add a little salt petre and a little sugar to add to the flavor. Then pack away the meat compactly in boxes or hogsheads. Then cover all over with salt several inches. Any time after a week it can be smoked, using green hickory wood to produce the smoke. Before fly time, that is just before March 1st, then rub the meat over with molasses and sprinkle or rub in freely black pepper, ‘ground’ cayenne pepper will do. The hams and shoulders should be put into paper bags and the ends twisted and firmly tied. They should be hung up. The sides can be serve din like manner, or packed away in clean wheat bran. For a small quantity for home use, it is well to cut the sides into pieces small enough to go into large paper bags, such as are used to put flour in. The meat can be kept for some time in bulk in a dry salted condition if so desire, and smoked later on in the winter or early spring. The thing is to use plenty of salt when first killed, exposing the meat for one night or two to the cold air. Joint meat can be sacked away in ashes to advantage oftentimes. REDUCING THE COTTON ACREAGE ------(political news) 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 news and commentary)------ Foot ball is now played according to prize ring rules, and the college youth who can excel in slugging is the hero of the day. The more broken heads resulting from a game the more the interest attached to the playing. It is simply a brutal sport and deserves no more respect than a dog fight. JASPER DISTRICT The North Alabama Conference has made the following appointments for the Jasper District: Presiding Elder P. K. BRINDLEY, Jasper Station, J. J. WILLIAMS, Cordova Circuit S. B. SMITH, Coalburg W. L. RICE, Corona W. L. HENDRICKS, Fayette Station D. A. BURNS, Fayette Circuit W. J. GREGORY, Luxapalila D. W. BOULTER, Fernbank W. L. MILES, Vernon H. B. RAWLS, Sulligent and Guin D. W. WARD, Detroit ROBERT WILSON, Hamilton W. A. BIVEUS, Beaver Creek W. P. MCGLAWN, Carbon Hill G. L. HEWITT, Alta Mission R. A. HARRIS, Gamble Mines W. W. DAVIS, Double Springs G. C. HARRIS, Winston Mission M. C. RIVERS Ad for Commercial Appeal 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) 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. 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 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. PAGE 3 THE FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. Crops have been gathered. Plenty of corn, peas, potatoes and sorghum. Several teachers in town last Saturday. Thanksgiving Day was not observed at Hamilton. W. Q. NORTHINGTON was in town the first of the week. Judge D. N. COOPER was in town last week on business. Prof. C. E. MITCHELL of Thorn Hill was in town last week. Our friend YOUNG AKERS of Guin spent Saturday last with Hamilton friends. W. B. MIXON of Hackleburgh was on our streets one day last week. Easily pleased and always happy – the man who is satisfied with himself. There are 79 pupils in the school at this place, and still they come. Christmas is coming and the children will soon be on the tiptoe of expectancy. T. M. SANDERS, of Shannon, Miss., visited relatives near town last week. LEE WEATHERFORD, of Savoy, was on our streets one day last week. Fire destroyed about one hundred panels of fence for Capt. HAMILTON last week. The young people were given a sociable at the residence of W. B. RIGGAN on last Saturday night. The telephone line from Crews, via Sulligent, Vernon and Kennedy to Millport is now completed and ready for business says the Courier W. R. SELF, formerly a citizen of this county, but now residing at Greenway, Ark., has been spending a few days with old friends in the eastern portion of the county. HUGH L. HUGHES, one of Pikeville’s best citizens was in to see us Tuesday and left a dollar for the Free Press. Representative MCCLUSKEY of Lamar County has introduced a bill to encourage the cultivation of the grape and other fruits in Alabama. J. W. HOLLOWAY has moved his family to town. Mr. HOLLOWAY is one who thinks a man never gets too old to learn, and is now in school. Representative DAVIS has introduced a bill to amend Sections 340 and 341 of the Code, so as to change the time of electing State and county officers. JOHN WHITT, of near town, is preparing to move to Mississippi and he made it convenient to call at this office on last Monday and subscribe for the Free Press. Success to you John. J. C. WEATHLERY, of near Knowle gave us a call last Saturday and paid his subscription. It would consume too mush space to give the names of all those who have not paid. Dr. M. C. MARTIN believes in helping his home paper. He called on us one day last week and after renewing his subscription ordered two copies of the Free Pres sent to relatives in Texas. The old saying that “fools learn by their own experience,” still holds good. We have learned that the man who does not want to pay for his county paper can invent a thousand excuses for not doing so. J. C. GARRARD, of Haleys, was in town last week and called to se us. Mr. G. is one of the many citizens of Marion who have discovered that Horace Greeley was mistaken when he said: “Go west, young man.” Hon. W. C. DAVIS has introduced a bill to amend Section of the Code relating to the fees of court officers. The bill provides for a uniform reduction of about twenty per cent, except in the case of sheriffs, which is not so much. W. H. FLIPPO, section foreman on the B. S. & T. R. railroad at Bear Creek, was in town last Saturday and honored our sanctum with his presence. Before leaving he did what every citizen of the county should o – subscribed for the Free Press. There are lots of people in the world, and some of them don’t live many miles from Hamilton, who are always ready to oppose any movement which does not originate with themselves. Some members of our local societies should remember this and quit pulling against each other. Be more liberal or it will not be long until there will not be enough to constitute a quorum in either house. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Educational Board will meet at Hamilton on January 5th 1895, for the purpose of examining teacher. C. E. MITHCELL, Secretary Ad for Columbus Business College 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. Ad for Home and Farm 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 Brown’s Iron Bitters PAGE 4 GOV. OATS – continued from first page Ad for New Home sewing machine (picture) Ad for Silurian Spring Water 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1696gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 18.8 Kb