Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS December 20, 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, 9:53 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 20, 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 20, 1894 NO. 9 (ONLY 2 PAGES – 2 PAGES MISSING) NOTE: DECEMBER 27, 1894 ISSUE OF HAMILTON FREE PRESS ALSO ONLY CONTAINED 2 PAGES – ONLY ADVERTISEMENTS AND WHAT HAD BEEN PRINTED BEFORE – CONSIDER THIS A COMBINATION OF THE 2 ISSUES. AFTER THESE 2 ISSUES (OR DURING THEM) J. S. CLEMENTS SOLD THE FREE PRESS TO R. N. TERRELL (HIS FORMER PARTNER AND NOW COMPETITION – THE EDITOR OF THE MARION COUNTY NEWS) AND IT BECAME THE HAMILTON NEWS-PRESS. THESE ARE THE LAST 2 ISSUES OF THE HAMILTON FREE PRESS 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 MCCLUSKEY & DAVIS, Attorneys at Law, Vernon and 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 Ad for Weekly Commercial Appeal 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 Ad for Columbus Business College 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 TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE – First Round I will be at the following places on the days named for the purpose of assessing the state and county taxes for the year 1895, viz:………..Tax payers, please meet me promptly and list your property. If you fail, coast may be expected. No property is exempt from taxation, unless listed, and no tax payer can make returns of the property of another, except as provided in sections 2 and 3 page 30, revenue code. T. J. FARIS, Tax Assessor Marion County, Alabama PROGRAM OF TEACHER INSTTITUE To Be Held At Glen Allen FEB 1ST AND 2ND 1895 FRIDAY 9:00 A.M. Institute Opened By Devotional Exercise Welcome Address – Dr. J. C. JOHNSON; Response, Supt. W. A. DUNN Preliminary Business Of The Institute How to Teach Geography – MACK PEARCE, W. P. LETSON, F. G. ARMSTRONG, J. A. MAYS Conducting Recitations – J. L. CONNER, C. E.MITCHELL, J. J. GIBBS and C. S. GREEN Adjournment For Noon 1:30 P.M. How to Teach Orthography – W. A. DUNN, B. SANLIN, D. W. DICKINSON, WM. TAYLOR What Prompts Us To Teach? – W. P. LETSON, MACK PEARCE, J. P. MCGAHA and A. H. POWELL The Responsibility Of The Teacher – W. T. BURLESON, Y. L. GREEN, SHERMAN GREEN and Dr. J. C. JOHNSON Adjournment SATURDY 9:00 A.M. How To Teach Primary Ready – A. W. TATE, F. G. ARMSTRONG, WHITE MCDONALD and Miss CORA GUTHRIE How To Teach Entomology – MACK PEARCE, C. E. MITCHELL, C. R. FRANKS and W. H. SELF How To Secure Order In The School Room – J. W. WHITE, J. A. WATES, J. B. HOLLEY, and E. S. GREEN Adjournment For Noon 1:30 P.M. How School And Home Help Or Hinder Each Other – Miss CORA WHITLEY, W. P. LETSON, J. C. MCDONALD, and Miss VIOLA MCDONALD. Primary Arithmetic – A W. TATE, J. J . GIBBS, W. B. KEY and JOE MCGAHA Personal Habits Of The Teacher – N. Y. AKERS, VESTER BOSTIC, MACK PEARCE and A. J. ADAMS Algebra – W. A. DUNN, C. E. MITCHELL, F. G. ARMSTRONG and A. W. TATE Subject for debate Friday night: Resolved, that the pen has been a greater factor in our civilization than the sword. J. J. GIBBS, J. P. MCGAHA, E. S. GREEN – Comm -----(political news)----- EATERS OF HUMAN FLESH – Tifli – [Russian Trans-Causaia] Dec. 16 – A letter, which appears in a paper here, states that for nineteen days the residents of Armenian villages where the outrages were perpetrated, fought against the Kurds. The Armenians lost only ten warriors, while the Kurds lost 560. When the regular troops under Zekki Pasus appeared the Armenians were compelled to succumb. After Zekki Pasha’s treachery in offering peace, sixty young Armenians men were seized and tortured horribly for three days. then all were murdered and their bodies buried in a ditch. Among the Armenian heroes who lost their lives, the writer mentions Derbedros, who with his own hand killed seven Kurds in fair fight. He was captured and flayed to the waist. Pieces of his flesh were cut off, broiled and eaten by the savage Turks while he was till alive. MORTGAGE SALE Under and by virtue of a power of sale contained in a mortgage given by W. W. OZBIRN to P. E. DUNN, dated August 12th 1892, and recorded in mortgage record No. 7, pg 288 in the office of the Judge of Probate of Marion county, Alabama, I will proceed to sell on the 2nd day of January 1895, at Hamilton in said county, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property, to wit: One planning mill with all the attachments thereto belonging. This December 20th, 1894 P. E. DUNN, Mortgagee, W. C. DAVIS, Attorney for Mortgagee PAGE 2 THE FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. Littleton is selling groceries at cotton prices. Try him. Men’s suits at Littleton’s from $2.35 up. 20 yards calico for only one dollar at Littleton’s Best full stock men’s boots at Littleton’s for $1.60 Buy your flour from Littleton of Guin at hard time prices. Go to Littleton of Guin for all kinds of dry goods, boot and shoes. Have your cotton weighed at Littleton’s yard by J. W. INGLE. 4 ¼ pounds of good coffee for one dollar at Littleton’s. Also 20 lbs of good sugar for one dollar. One dollar will buy 20 yards of cotton checks at the cheap store of Littleton, Guin. Call on him. Envelopes 5 cents a pack. Do you want them? If so, call at the post office building. -----(political news)---- We are requested to say that there will be a meeting of the County Medical Board at Hamilton on 1st Saturday in January 1895. 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. 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. 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 Home and Farm Ad for Jackson Corset Waists – (picture) 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 Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1699gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.0 Kb