Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS January 10, 1895 ************************************************ 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 June 4, 2010, 8:54 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History January 10, 1895 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON NEWS-PRESS VOL. 1 HAMILTON, ALABAMA THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1895 NO. 2 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. 844 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. 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 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. 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. C. E. MITCHELL, Attorney-at-Law, Hamilton, Ala. will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. Ad for a New $900 Steinway Piano Ad for Weekly Commercial Appeal $5,000 for 50 cents CONTINUED OUTRAGES BY THE KURDS Boston, Mass., Jan 1 – Letter have been received by well known parties in this city from reliable sources in Turkey, giving still further testimony regarding the outrages in Eastern Turkey. The following letters come from a city not a great distance from the scene of the outrages. The writer is a man in whom the highest confidence may be placed, who has spent more than a third of a century in that region and knows the country and people perfectly. This testimony is from a source which is entirely independent of any which has been given before. Later accounts increase, if possible, the horrors that have taken place. The letter just received is as follows: The Armenians, oppressed by Kurds and Turks said they could not pay taxes to both Kurds and the Government. Plundered and oppressed by the Kurds, they resisted them and there were some killed. Then false reports were sent to Constantinople that Armenians were in arms in rebellion and orders were sent to the Mushire at Eizeroum agian to exterminate them, root and branch. The order read before the army called in haste from the chief cities of Eastern Turkey: “Whosoever spares man, woman or child dies,” The region was surrounded by soldiers of the army and 20,000 Kurds were also said to have been massed there. Then they advanced upon the center, driving in the people like a flock of sheep and continued thus to advance for days. No quarters were given’ no mercy shown. Men, women, and children were shot down and butchered like sheep. The most probable estimates are 15,000 killed, thirty-five villages plundered and burned. Women were outraged, and then butchered. A priest was taken to the roof of his church, hacked to pieces and set on fire. A large number of women and girls were collected in a church, kept for days, violated by the brutal soldiers and then murdered. It is said the murders were so large that the blood flowed out of the church doors. The soldiers contended over a beautiful girl. They wanted to preserve her, but she, too, was killed. Every effort is being made to falsify the facts and pull the wool over the eyes of the European Governments. But the bloody tale will finally be known, the most horrible, it seems to me, that the nineteenth century has known. As a confirmation of the report, the other day several hundred soldiers were returning from the seat of war and at a village near us one was heard to say that be alone, with his own hands, had killed thirty pregnant women;. Some seemed to be ashamed of their deeds, but as a rule, they were not. Have your cotton weighed at Littleton’s yard by J. W. INGLE. Go to Littleton’s of Guin for all kinds of dry goods, boots and shoes. The Cotton Belt Route to Arkansas and Texas. The only line with Through Car Service from Memphis to Texas. No change of cars to San Antonio, Austin, Hearne, Ft. Worth, or intermediate points. The daily trains carrying through coaches, chair cars, and sleepers traversing the finest farming , grazing and timber lands and reaching the most prosperous town and cities in the Great Southwest. FARMING LANDS – Yielding abundantly all the cereals, corn and cotton, and especially adapted to the cultivation of small fruits and early vegetables. GRAZING LANDS – Affording excellent pasturage during almost the entire year, and comparatively close to the great markets TIMBER LANDS – Covered with almost inexhaustible forest of yellow pine, cypress, and the hard woods common to Arkansas and eastern Texas. Can be Procured on Reasonable and Advantageous Terms. All persons contemplating a trip to Texas should purchase tickets viz: the Cotton belt Route and avoid vexatious changes and transfers of baggage. It is the only line running through trains from Memphis to Texas. Parties emigrating to Texas will find it to their interest to see a Cotton Belt Route Agent before making arrangements elsewhere. All lines connect with and have tickets on sale via the Cotton belt Route. Ask your nearest ticket agent for maps, time tables, etc., and write to any fo the following for all the information you may desire concerning a trip to the Great Southwest. C. P. RECTER HOWARD JOLLY, Gen. Agent, City Pass & Tkt agt. 308 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. B. McCullar, Trav. Pass. Agent, Tupelo, Miss. A. S. Doge, R. W. LeBeaume, Gen. traffic age’t, Gen. Pss & Tkt agent, St. Louis, Mo. THE ORANGE CROP A TOTAL LOSS Mr. James Banks, of Atlanta, is at Lake City, Florida, where he has been looking after his orange grove and one belonging to Mr. Charles K. Maddox of this city, and a letter received from him by Mr. Maddox, yesterday said “The worse blizzard on record, the orange crop is a total loss – frozen on the trees. At 3 o’clock the thermometer registered 22 at 4 o’clock a.m. it registered 19. I am afraid our items are killed as well as the tree. The oranges are frozen sure. Solid ice. It is terrible. Later Mr. Maddox received this letter from Mr. Banks………………….. France is not the silver country that many suppose. It has been twenty-one years since France coined any silver of full legal tender……………………. Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. BEXAR SCHOOL will open on Monday November the 5th 1894 and continue eight months. Tuition Reasonable. For further information address the principal. J. B. HOLLEY, Bexar, Ala. 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. SWEPT AWAY – Duty all gone! Such is the ASE at Mrs. E. H. CLEMENT’S STORE 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 5 cts each Now you have seen my very low prices come and see my goods and be convinced of their merit. I am here to please you in my line. E. H. CLEMENTS, Post office building, corner Military and Aberdeen Streets, Hamilton, Alabama -----(REST OF PAGE CUT OFF – TORN)------- PAGE 2 HAMILTON NEWS PRESS LOCAL HAPPENINGS The school has resumed from the holidays with several more students added to the roll. Mr. JAMES BOSTIC and family of Goldmine visited relatives in Hamilton Saturday and Sunday last. EVAN W. CANTRELL was in town last Saturday on business. We are sorry to learn of the illness of Mrs. MARY A. ----AN. We hope for her a speedy recovery. W. C. DAVIS, Esq. made a business trip to Tuscumbia the first of the week. We were glad to have our friend, ROBERT CLARK, give us a call last Monday. Come again, BOB. The members of the Hamilton Literary Society are requested to be present next Monday night as it is the time to elect new officers. We have learned that Mr. ----- MARTIN bought two tickets when he started to move to Alabama. He was ---- ting to carry his wife --- with him but when he -- --ere he found that his ---- had gone back on him. ----see he will not need ---- -one ticket going back--- (PAGE TORN) WALLER APPLING is one of the most fortunate young ---- we know of. While he is spending the holidays at home with his father gave him a horse, saddle, and bridle. He saddled his horse ---- ning and started for -----. After getting about twelve miles from Jasper --- thought of something he had failed to tell his --- brown-eyed girl and ---- turn and go back --------- (PAGE TORN) ------ said that Marion county is about to lose one of its --- in the persons of WESLEY STIDHAM,. While --- regrets to give up ---- we feel safe in saying -- -- if charity abounds we --- gain our citizen ere 12 --- claps. Success to WESLEY. (PAGE TORN) A meeting of the Shakespeare Club of Lampasas----- the following resolutions were adopted---------- (PAGE TORN) GRAND JURY - (PAGE TORN) WHITEHEAD, J. A. CARNES, B. L. HOWEL, JOHN WINSTON, W. C. LINDSAY, G. H. HOWEL. PETIT JURY W. J. OWSLEY, J. H. HAMETT, J. L. LOVELADY, A. H. POWEL, S. OP. BIDDLE, F. M. BURLISON, J. L. MCGAHA, C. HOWEL, A. G. SEAY, J. H. MILLER, L. L. LOLLAR, G. W. KARR, G. H. HAMILTON, J. . NORTHINGOTN, W. J. HOWELL, D. PEARCE, G. G. NORTHCUTT, D. H. NIX, J. W. BACCUS, WILLIAM J. ALVIS, BOB ANTHONY, W. T. LOCKHEART, F. M. THARP, J. T. FREDERICK. Many of the leading Journals of the country for years have contended that the South was destined to become the greatest manufacturing portion of the world. Their predications are fast coming to pass. A few more years, and the south will be in the lead. She has doubled her number of plants, also in capital within the last few years. When we manufacture all of our raw materials at home money will be among us. This will forever silence the demand for currency legislation. Our people will be the happiest on earth, and the beauty of it is, that we believe the time is very short when all this will come to pass. The Opelika Post makes the point that the Southern farmer should remember that it is the result of Democratic legislation that a bale of cotton will buy as much today as it would ten years ago. The action of the Democratic Congress in putting so many necessaries on the free list and greatly reducing the duties on others has increased the purchasing power of cotton by reducing the cost of other things. Bad as is the condition of the farmer today, it is incalculably better than it would be if the McKinley tariff law were still in force. A low tariff is necessary to the welfare of the South. POINTERS ON FOOT BALL (Second Paper) In my last article, I gave some general notes on the “football bill” now in the legislature. In this paper I hope to give more specific reasons for my opposition to that bill, and I hope to prove with all its faults (for I do not deny that it has come what has not?) that football is one of the best if not the best forms of athletic sport in existence. By no other game or exercise practiced by young are the players themselves so much benefited. Therefore colleges ought to be as much interested in keeping it up as the most enthusiastic players and the public who have boys to educate, ought to acquaint themselves with the game. Do not condemn the game because sensational writers who inveigh against it; either because they know nothing of the game of have determined to know nothing of it, since it does not coincide with their “historic and traditional idea” of what a college game ought to be. Doubtless those good people who take such a pleasure in dwelling on the brutal features of football will be surprised when I say that it is decidedly an intellectual game. In a game, in which the teams are evenly matched in strength, the game is always won by the generalship of the captain and the presence of mind and thoughtful work of the men. The “brutally” of the game is more fancied than real. The rules are rigid and any violation of them results in the removal of the offending player, which is a serious blow to a team especially in a hotly contested game. Therefore the players are careful not to violate the rules, and as the rules allow no “slugging” or “kicking” where is the brutality? Prof. Richards of Yale University says “The best players Yale has ever produced were her most moral and religious men.” Is it probable that such men would engage in a brutal game? Among other advantages the healthy excitement which football furnishes with many students take the place of the excitement once derived by students in gambling, drinking, hazarding, etc. Again it breaks down the class barriers once so common in Universities and Colleges. It removes class friction which long has kept many a boy out of college. As this paper is already long I will close. One thing before conclusion, however, if the bill introduced is passed then football in Alabama will be a thing of the past, for no college will take the trouble and expense of hiring a coach and training a team when she cannot contest her “football ability” with her sister colleges. A VARISTY BOY, Nashville, Tenn. Jan 1st 1895. 20 yards calico for one dollar at Littleton’s. Men’s suits at Littleton’s from $2.65 up. Ad for Botanic Blood Balm The St. Louis printer who suicided because they put typesetting machines in the office and let him out of a job was not a student of political economy. Labor- saving machine may temporarily deprive a man of work, but not permanently. There are hundreds of machines at work now in various lines of industry, while fifty years ago there was no machinery worth mentioning. Yet there are hundred s and thousand of men at work now to ten men fifty years ago. Machinery increase production, but consumption keeps pace with it. The luxuries of life in olden times have become necessities. Far away nations are now wearing cotton cloth who once went naked. Typesetting machines result in newspapers printing more readying matter. The taste for reading grows by what it feeds on. The more reading matter the more subscribers. – [Age-Herald] Philadelphia, Jan. 3 – Director of the Mint Preston today instructed Superintendent Townsend of the Philadelphia mint to begin the coinage of $22,000,000 of gold bullion now stored in the mint and which is a part of the gold reserve. The gold will be coined into eagles and half eagles, and the work will occupy a month. The director sated that there is plenty of silver bullion in the mint to keep them busy for five years if they started to coin it at all. The metal is subject to the order of the secretary of the treasury and no statement has been made regarding it…………… Ad for Browns Iron Bitters WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL Attend the White House School Fall term begins Nov. 5th, 18794. The Principal will exert the utmost of his ability in conducting said school. Terms reasonable. Apply to C. E. MITCHELL, Principal, Haley’s, Ala. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court of said County Whereas J. W. BROCK administrator of the estate of PINKEY L. BROCK, deceased has filed his application is said court for a sale of lands described therein, belonging to the estate of said decedent, for the purpose of a division, upon the grounds that the same cannot be equally divided without a sale thereof, and the 12th day of January 1895 has been appointed a day to hear said application. This is to notify all parties in interest to appear and contest said application, on the 12th day of January 1895 if they think proper. JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate, December 5th 1894 CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville Alabama, December 11, 1894 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims, and that said proofs will be made before the probate Judge of Marion County at Hamilton Alabama on January 26th 1895 viz: JAMES J. COOK for Homestead Entry No. 17,818 for the S ½ of SW ¼ Sec 12 and N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 13 TP 10 S R 12 W He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz; JAMES N. BURLESON, DAVID M. CARR, BENJAMINE LOVELESS and BARTON LOVELESS, all of Ireland Hill, PO Ala. Also BENJAMIN LOVELESS, for Homestead Entry NO. 17,590 for the W ½ of SE ¼ NE ¼ SW ¼ Sec 8 and NW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 17 TP 10 S R 11 W He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: NEWTON N. DONALDSON, of Haleyville PO ala. JAMES J. COOK, DAVID M. CARR and JAMES N. BURLESON, all of Ireland Hill PO Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE OF SALE I will offer for sale at Hall’s Mill, Marion County, Ala. the following property. One grist mill, saw mill, gin feeder, corn sheller, threshing machinery, tools, etc. and forty acres of land on which the mill is located. Terms of sale, 1-third cash, balance on 12 mo. time with good security. Also 200 acres of land known as the K. T. BROWN place ½ miles west of mill. Terms ½ on Dec. 25 1895, balance Dec 25 1896 all with good securities. All being about four miles south east of Hamilton. Date of sale, January 8, 1895. W. A. HALL, Dec. 12, 1894 ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Probate Court, Marion County DAVID MAY, Deceased, Estate of Letters of Administration upon the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 26th day of November 1894 by the Hon. JASON P. FORD, judge of the probate Court of Marion County, notice is hereby given that all parties having claims against said estate will be required to present the same within the time allowed by law or that the same will be barred. This Dec 10th 1894 JAMES T. MAYS NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court 29 day of Dec., 1894 ANDREW MOTES, Deceased, Estate of This day came WM. C. DAVIS, the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 17th day of January 1895 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all parties interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate, Marion County NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, 29th day of Dec 1894 JAMES VAUGHN, Deceased, Estate of This day came WM. C. DAVIS, the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 17th day of January 1895 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement at which time all parties interested can appear and contest said settlement, if they think proper. JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate Marion County NOTICE All parties who are indebted to A. J. STANFORD, deceased will please call and settle with me or his widow, Mrs. VICTORIA STANFORD. Before Mr. STANFORD died he conveyed all his property, both legal and personal to his said wife, she is compelled to raise some money to pay Mr. STANFORD’S debts, and must have what is due her. All who do not come and settle before Christmas will find their notes or accounts in the hands of an office for collection. JASON P. FORD, Ag’t for Mrs. VICTORIA STANFORD. Dec. 3rd 1894 NOTICE As long as this notice appears we will publish Land Proof Notices at the following rates: Single Notices…………$4.00 Consolidated Notice….$3.50 We have money to loan at 6 percent on farm or city property in any section of country where property has a fixed market value. Money ready for immediate loans where security and title is good. No commission. We solicit applications. Blanks furnished upon request. Allen & Co, New York PAGE 3 HAMILTON NEWS PRESS R. N. TERRELL, Editor and Proprietor Issued Every Thursday Entered at the post office at Hamilton, Ala, as second class matter Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 A man living not far from town is giving a receipt for the supply of cover during cold weather. Rise at the hours of 11, 1, and 2 o’clock and give each child a whipping. Why not take produce now, for old debts at the price the produce was when the debts were made. The money you can realize with it will buy as much as it would when the debt was contracted. We for one propose to give our debtors such prices on old accounts. The papers as usual are full of accounts of blood shed during the Christmas holidays. Fortunately for this community not even a quarrel has occurred with the town or vicinity of Hamilton. All over the state the reports show plenty of “hog and hominy”. Can any section on earth beat this? We are truly blessed. Lets every one pull together as one family and give our pastor a liberal support in his work here and make this a memorable year in the face of our Supreme Ruler. The paper, while its politics are Democratic, will not be too aggressive. We expect to advocate the principals of democracy but we want it distinctly understood that we will not be big--ed by any individual or set of individuals. Governor Oats has returned from a trip to Washington and expresses his doubts of this congress doing anything of importance. ….. Fayette County is liberal enough now to offer back to us the little strip she got from us in bygone years. We have all to gain and nothing to lose, so ---- in Marion County express himself so that our representative may know if the people want the strip back. Write to him while he is at home. By getting it back it will add to our taxes which is ---- needed. Don’t be biased b ---- thought of ----- (VERY HARD TO READ). The seeds of corruption are being thickly sown over this and adjoining counties by the servants of the devil in the form of whiskey receipts. We have not seen any of the “stuff” which is made by them, but we have seen the formula, and have been reliably informed that the mixture will kill a dog at long range. We as one who loves this county and looks upon its youths as the coming sinews of this grand government, have bitterly and uncompromisingly denounced any such unlawful course, and say that we are sorry to know that we ------ in a land among men who --- fully grown and who have the responsibility of raising children that will resort to such a corrupt and unbecoming course to abstain money. If it is not a violation of the statue of Alabama it should be, and we know it is a grave offense against morality. If men will not be governed by a sense of right they should be punished by the laws of the country. ----(political news and commentary)---- Ad for Columbus Business College 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. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court of said County Whereas T. W. HARRIS, administrator of the estate of R. M. HARRIS deceased, has filed his application in said court for a sale of the lands described therein, belonging to the estate of said decedent, for the purpose of paying the debts of said estate upon the ground that the personal property is insufficient and the 11th day of December 1894 has been appointed a day to hear said application. This is to notify J. B. HARRIS and all other parties in interest that he or they can appear before said court on the said 11th day of December 1894, to contest said application if they think proper. JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate, November 27th 1894 CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama, December 3, 1894 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims and that said proofs will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion Co. at Hamilton, Ala. on January 19th 1895. Viz: GARDNER K. DAVIS, for Homestead Entry No. 17,907 for the S ½ of SW ¼ and NE ¼ of SW ¼ and SE ¼ of N W ¼ Sec 4 TP 9 R 13 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: BENJAMIN S. HODGES, JAMES W. HODGES, MADISON M. OZBIRN, and LAFAYETTE L. LAWLER, all of Hodges PO Ala., Also GEORGE W. DUKE, for Homestead Entry No. 19,419 for E ½ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 25 TP 11 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JAMES R. JEFFREYS, JOHN B. LEWIS, JACOB JEFFREYS and HENRY RYE, all of Barnesville P O Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville Alabama, November 24th 1894 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the probate Judge of Marion County at Hamilton Alabama on January 5th 1895 viz: JAMES M. HOLLINGSHEAD for Homestead Entry No. 22,008 for W ½ of SW ¼ and W ½ of NW ¼ Sec 2 TP 9 S R 13 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz; JAMES H. FREDERICK and JASPER P. JONES, of Hackleburgh P O Alabama, JAMES M. HODGES and LAFAYETTE L. LAWLER of Hodges PO Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama, December 20th, 1894 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County at Hamilton, Alabama on February 6th 1895, viz: JAMES T. HARRIS for Homestead Entry NO. 23,550, for the NW ¼ Sec 20 T 9 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JOSEPH A. BISHOP, THOMAS R. H. BISHOP, WILLIAM D. PURSER, and PERRY CANTRELL all of Hamilton PO Alabama. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register 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) Ad for Plantation Chill Cure – Sold by T. W. CARPENTER, Hamilton, J. F. WHITE, Detroit, J. D. ARNOLD, Bexar 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 players, please meet me promptly and list your property. If you fail, cost 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. FALLIS, Tax Assessor Marion County, Alabama Ad for Patents PAGE 4 Ad for PPP Ad for Artesian Export Beer A TALE OF THE SNOW – Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec 31 A girl will do a great many things for love, but not many would tramp through six miles of 2 feet snow, with the thermometer at zero, in order not to disappoint the man who was willing to marry her. This, however, is what Miss Anna Barker, now Mrs. Samuel Callenback, did, and the story has just become known. She was to have been married at 8 o’clock in Parson’s on last Thursday night to Samuel Callenback, a young miner of that place. For two days previous she had been staying with relatives in Nanticoke, getting her wedding ferments ready, and on Wednesday evening she left here and came to this city to take a car to Parsons. This was the night of the big storm and the electric car was blocked. She could not get upon the car and went to the Jersey Central depot, but the last train was gone. She was in a sad plight. There was no way of communicating with Parsons, and she had not money enough to engage a carriage. Ti was 7 o’clock and she was to be married at eight, and Parsons was six miles away. The severe weather, however, was not to keep her from the man she loved, and she resolutely started to walk, first intrusting her bundles to the car of the station agent. There was nearly two feet of snow on the ground and it was bitter cold, but she plodded a long as best she could. After extreme exertion and suffering intensely from the cold, she reached Parsons at ten o’clock. The church was closed, as she expected, but she walked on to the house of her lover, and there found it full of invited guests doing their best to console Callenback, who was almost heartbroken over what he considered the faithlessness of his intended bride. Soon she told the story and the happy young man insisted on the marriage taking place at once. Miss Barker, of course was willing, and after she had put on some borrowed clothes, her own being cold and wet, the whole party went to the church, Rev. Father Keinan was aroused and Miss Barker became Mrs. Callenback. Today communications was restored with Parsons, and among the first car load of passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Callenback who came down to get the happy bride’s trousseau, left in the hands of the station agent last Wednesday night. – [Ex.} In making up our resolutions to the new year, let’s include the Golden Rule by all means. 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