Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON APPEAL March 20, 1896 ************************************************ 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 May 7, 2010, 12:32 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 20, 1896 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON APPEAL VOL. 1 HAMILTON,, MARION CO., ALA. FRIDAY MARCH 20, 1896 NO. 10 DIRECTORY THE COUNTY MAILS AT HAMILTON Guin – Arrives at 6 p.m. and leaves at 5 a.m. Fulton – Arrives at 6 p.m. and leaves at 6 a.m. Hackleburg – Arrives at 12 m and leaves at 1 pm Belgreen – Arrives at 11:40 am and leaves at 12 m AT WINFIELD Train at 11:59 am and 3:48 pm Pearce’s Mill – Arrives at 11:20 am and leaves at 12m Haley’s – Arrives at m and leaves at 12:30 pm on Monday and Friday Fayette – Arrives at 9 am and leaves at 9:30 am on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday AT GUIN Train at 11:45 am and 4:03 am Hamilton – Arrives at 10 am and leaves at 12 m daily except Sunday. Vernon – Arrives Monday and Friday at 5 pm leaves Tuesday and Saturday at 7 am Pharos – Arrives Wednesday and Saturday at 10 am and leaves at 1 pm same days Twin – Arrives Tuesday and Friday at 3 pm and leaves at 5 pm the same days. CIRCUIT COURT Judge – T. R. ROULBAC, of Colbert County Solicitor – A. H. CARMICHAEL, of Colbert Court meets the first Monday after the 4th Monday in January and second Monday in August CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – W. H. SIMPSON of Decatur Court meets on Thursday after the third Monday in April and October. COMMISSIONER’S COURT JASON P. FORD, chairman; A M CANTRELL, J. C. NORTHINGTON, A F M HOWELL and JOHN F. LOWE, members Meets on the 2nd Monday in February and August and the first Monday in April and November COUNTY OFFICERS Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Register – W. B. RIGGAN, Hamilton Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS – Bexar Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER – Guin Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton Superintendent of Education – W. A. DUNN PROBATE COURT Judge – JASON P. FORD Meets the second Monday in each month. CHURCH NOTICE M. E. CHURCH SOUTH - Hamilton – Services first Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 p.m.; fourth Sunday at 7 p.m. and every fifth Sunday at 11 a.m. Rev. S. P. SMITH, pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. W. R. WHITE, Superintendent. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 – G. N. STOKES, WM.; A. J. THORN, SW; A. H. BURLESON, JW ; G. B. MIXON, Treas.; R. W. CLARK, Sec’y Guin Lodge No. 478 – T. J. SPRINGFIELD, WM; WATSON BROWN, SW; W. H. MATTHEWS, JW; M T AKERS, Treas. ; J. H. RILEY, Sec’y Winfield Lodge No. 304 – E. VICKERY, WM; J. F. EARNEST, SW; J. M. SPANN, JW. ; J. C. EGAN, Treas. W. T. MUSGROVE, Sec’y Hackleburg Lodge No. 526 – A. M. CANTRELL, WM; W. W. FREDERICK, SW; P. N. GREEN, JW; E. A. MIXON, Treas.; JOHN A. GREEN, Sec’y Bexar Lodge No. 280 – JOHN ARNOLD, WM; W. L. WHITEHEAD, SW ; W. A. BALLARD, JW; A. L. MOORMAN, Treas.; T. J. YOUNG, Sec’y Pleasant Hill Lodge No. 321 – W. H. FLIPPO, WM; PORTER DUBOISE, SW.; SETH BOTTOMS, JW; A. RANDOLPH, Treas., J. J. COATES, Sec’y THE 54TH CONGRESS TAILORS OUT ON A STRIKE – Union Tailors Organizations at Chicago Quit Work EXPORT OF SOUTHERN CORN Ad for The Weekly Detroit Free Press Ad for The American Farmer Ad for Crabtree’s Farmer PAGE 2 THE APPEAL J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Proprietor Subscription Rates One year, 50 cents, Six Months 25 cts. -----(Political news and commentary)----- Correspondents will please bear in mind that what we want is the county news. We are not running a courting school department and when we are hard pressed for editorial matter we can call on the “devil” to help us out. Give us the news, friends, and if you have not news save your paper and postage until you can find something of interest to write about. Tell us about your schools, churches, the births, deaths and marriages in your community; let us know how farm work is progressing in your neighborhood and so forth, but please don’t expect us to run in a column of love-sick stuff about Philander Jones’ going to meeting with Miss Blushing Beauty. Give us NEWS. Ad for The Great Enquirer $65.00 Top buggy for $45.00 (picture of buggy). Buy good goods and buy them from headquarters where you will always get the right kind of prices. Here we are agian! Offering our usual inducements for year 1896. Fifty-five dollars ($55.00) sewing machine fro Twenty Dollars. A full jewel top buggy, worth Sixty-five dollars, for $45.00. Besides above we have many more special bargains too numerous to mention. We are still headquarters for hardware, agricultural implements and machinery of all kinds. Furniture, carpets, rugs, wallpaper. Window shades from 20 cts. up. Buggies, hacks, road carts and the old reliable gestring wagons. McCormick Mowers, Hay rakes, harnesses, bridles, saddles, & c. We ask that you call or write us. We can and will save you money if you will give us an opportunity. We are general agents for the Foos Scientific grinding mills. LANN & CARTER Hardware Co, Aberdeen, Miss. PAGE 3 THE APPEAL Issued Every Friday Hamilton, March 20, 1896 ANNOUNCEMENTS For Beat Offices, $3; County, $5, District $10. FOR STATE SENATOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate to represent the Thirty-first Senatorial District composed of the counties of Marion, Franklin, and Colbert in the Senate of the State of Alabama, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. J. T. YOUNG FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Marion County at the next election, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. W. B. RIGGAN I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. PERRY W. STIDHAM FOR TAX COLLECTOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. Respectfully, R. N. TERRELL FOR TAX ASSESSOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for tax Assessor of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. J. R. JONES I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. T. V. BISHOP FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Treasurer of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. JOHN B. WOOD FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION I herby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Superintendent of Education of Marion County subject to the action of the Democratic Party. C. E. MITCHELL FOR CONSTABLE I hereby announce myself a candidate for Constable of Beat NO. 1, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. JAMES A. HAMILTON CLUB RATES Let everybody turn out and hear the candidates next Monday. CLEVELAND NORTHINGTON, of Bexar entered school here this week. H. E. MIXON is having some work done on his store building. Judge D. N. COOPER went to Jasper on business the first of the week. Miss VIRGINIA GOGGANS visited her parents near Bexar last Saturday. Photographer M. J. EDMONDS of Detroit was here on business the first of the week. ABE RUBEL, a leading merchant of Aberdeen Miss., was in town this week. Deputy Marshal JIM SHAW, of Jasper, is in town and will remain here for some time. The man who raises his own bacon is meat ahead, says the Sheffield Reaper. And it may be added that the man who raises four-cent cotton to buy meat is in a fair way to do without. Snow fell yesterday. Early gardeners may do their work over again If you are in need of St. Joseph’s medicine, save money by buying of Mrs. CLEMENTS Beautify your complexion by suing oatmeal and buttermilk soaps. For sale by Mrs. CLEMENTS Messrs. C. E. SHOTTS and J. R. COFIELD visited friends and relatives at Shottsville on Sunday last. Mrs. VICTORIA STANFORD has been quite sick for several days but we are glad to learn that she is improving. J. B. CAUDLE has withdrawn from the race for Sheriff. This leaves four democratic candidates for that office. ALVIS HAMILTON has just received a new set of shoe tools and will soon be ready to patch up the soles of men. Chairman MATTHEWS has issued a call for a meeting of Democratic Executive Committee to be held at Hamilton on the 23rd inst. GUIN LOCALS We have had some vice nice weather this week, with a little rain last night. Farmers say that they are getting behind with their work on account of so much rain. We think from all indications that there is going to be more cotton planted this year than for several years past and we predict that it will bring a lower price than it has in several years. We are sorry to think that this is going to be the case, but mark our predications MACK MAYS, from Wood’s Creek, was in town yesterday and this morning doing some trading. A. H. CADDELL is out in the country this week buying cattle for the Mobile market, Mr. AKER’S family are improving slowly, so we are informed. Mrs. AKERS has had a very bad time of it with measles owing probably to her advanced age. There is some improvement going on in town. Dr. J. T. STONE and brother are putting a new front on their building in the north end of town which adds greatly to its appearance, and we think it will add greatly to Buck’s comfort during the summer. N. W. HULSEY is having a new stairway built to his hotel, which will be quite convenient. MURRAY SPRINGFIELD is all smiles now. It is a boy and was born on the 17th inst. Dr. L. Y. POWERS spent a few days in the city of Winfield this week, returning yesterday evening. R. W. CLARK was circulating among friends at this place yesterday, electioneering of course. Among the Hamiltonians who were here at the speaking last week were W. R. WHITE, W. W. HALL, R. N. TERRELL, W. C. DAVIS, and JOHN B. WOOD. TIMOTHY BISHOP and THAD HARRIS were also in our midst last week. To our brother at Pikeville we will say that we think possibly we will become a candidate in a short time if nothing happens and we see there is no chance of anyone coming out against us. We don’t want to be defeated and fear that we could not win if there was any opposition. We agree with him that we would be with the majority. Success to the Appeal. TOM N. JERRY, Guin, March 18 ABALINE LOCALS All very quiet in this section. Farmers are hustling around preparing for planting and to meet the candidates at Reed’s on the 28th inst. Rev. J. T. HARRIS and JEFFERSON CONWAY, Primitive Baptist preachers, will preach at JOHN A. GREEN’S this evening. DICK LAWLER, Jr. and family of Franklin county, visited relatives at this place last Saturday and Sunday. Come again, we are always glad to se you. WILSON GODSEY and JOHN CARNES are said to be candidates for constable in this beat, and also JOHN A. GREEN for Justice of the Peace. BOB LINK, Abaline, March 17 DETROIT GLEANINGS Several candidates in town last Saturday and D. W. X. Y. Z. HOLLIS preached a speech at the school house. L. E. LANGSTON, a candidate , was in town last week. Trade is pretty good in Detroit now. The singing at the residence of J. T. CLARK on last week was enjoyed by all present. The debating society will meet next Friday night and discuss the old but always interesting subject of nature and art. JOHN & TOM, Detroit, March 11 ITEMS FROM TWIN Health good. Weather cold and rainy. Farmers are waiting for warm weather to plant corn. Messrs. BURLESON and ALEXANDER made a business trip to Goldmine this week. Success to them. W. C. HIGHTOWER, of Pikeville, was in town last Sunday. Good luck to him and his girl. Mr. “Dodger” of Pikeville was circulating here last Sunday. Call again, J. S. VAUGHN called on his girl last Sunday and it is said that he was so struck on her that he paid no attention to where he was placing his feet when crossing the wood yard, and tumbled over a stock of wood. Union singing at Mt. Olive church on the 28th and 29th of this month. All are invited to attend. The singing at Mt, Olive last Sunday was a success. J. F. MOBLEY was elected president and IRVIN SMITH secretary. Hurrah for Tom, if he did get left last Sunday. Take a near cut next time, old boy. W. R. JOHNSTON was here last Sunday. J. G. WILLIAMS was in our midst last Sunday. W. R. GRAHAM and wife spent Saturday and Sunday at this place. W. W. NELSON was here Monday. A. W. FRANKS and V. J. WESTBROOKS made a trip to Goldmine this week. W. R. BURLESNO, of Goldmine, will get the vote in this section for tax collector. Success to him. Best wishes for the Appeal and its readers. BIG SIX, Twin, March 18 PIKEVILLE NEWS J. F. COLEMAN of Goldmine paid a visit to his parents near here the first of the week. JOHN R. FREE is reported quite sick. He is a good citizen, and his many friends will anxiously hope for his recovery. The fall of “beautiful snow’ last Thursday made every one anxious concerning the fruit crop. Can’t say yet whether or not it was ruined. The bad weather has materially delayed farming operations. Some of the boys are expecting to attend Federal court at Huntsville in April PLOW BOY, Pikeville, March 18 F. W. CRIBBS, a citizen of Sulligent, was killed at that place yesterday by a gravel train. PARTY LAW LOST YOUTH – (poem) – (R. L. STEVENSON) W. H. KEY, Russellville, Ala. C. E. MITCHELL, Hamilton, Ala. KEY & MITCHELL, Attorneys-at-law and Solicitors in Chancery, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. Special attention given to the collection of claims. A RARE BARGAIN For Sale – a pair of the French Burr Mill Rocks – Good as new. Will take $50.00 cash. Rocks will be delivered free on board cars at Eldridge, Ala or they may be seen at Texas, Ala. Call on or address, J. P. PEARCE, Pearce’s Mills, Ala. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the name and style of MARTIN & GUYTON, has this day been dissolved by mutual content. M. C. MARTIN W. GUYTON, This February 19th, 1896 If you are in need of St. Joseph’s medicines, save money by buying of Mrs. CLEMENTS Ad for Carter Piano and Organ Good job printing. I do the best job printing you can buy. My prices are no highest than you now pay for sorry printing elsewhere. I have new material and years of experience. 1000 Note Heads for $2; 500 for $1.25; 250 for 75c; 100 for 50c; 1000 Envelopes for $2; 500 for $1.25; 250 for 65c; 100 for 35c. I do the best printing and furnish the paper. Printers kick on my low prices, but I am not starving to death at it at all. IF the work is not first-class, I buy it back. Cash must accompany all orders. I print anything you want at very low prices. Write for my price list printed in three colors. “Ask me anything about any kind of printing.” JON ERL GARRISON, Sulligent, Ala. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT The State of Alabama, Marion County In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, 12th District, Northern Chancery Division, April Term 1896 JAMES R. GODSEY, Complainant vs MARTHA E. GODSEY, Defendant, March 3, 1896 In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of C. E. MITCHELL solicitor for complainant, that the defendant, MARTHA E. GODSEY, is a non-resident of the state of Alabama, and that her place of residence is unknown to affiant, and further, that, the belief of said affiant, the defendant is over the ago of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Hamilton Appeal, a newspaper published in Marion county, Alabama, once a week of four consecutive weeks requiring her, the said MARTHA E. GODSEY to answer or demur to the same within thirty days after the 2nd day of April 1896, and failing so to do a decree pro-confesso will be taken against her in said cause. Done at office, in Hamilton, Alabama this 3rd day of March 1896 W. B. RIGGAN, Register in Chancery NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. January 29, 1896 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 Clerk of the Circuit Court at Hamilton, Alabama on March 21st 1896, viz: ZEBLON FORTNER, Homestead entry No. 19,479 for the SW ¼ OF Sec 2 T 9 South R 12 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: THOMAS HOLCOMB, W. THOMAS BAKER, W. DOSSEY MCMURRAY, ISAAC J. WADE, all of Bear Creek, Alabama., JESSE W. ELLIS, Register West Alabama Agricultural School – Hamilton, Alabama. Co-Educational. First Session opened September 2, 1895. Tuition absolutely FREE. A thorough and practical course. Expenses very low. Board five to seven dollars per month. JAS. E. ALEXANDER, President. PAGE 4 -----(small ads)----- Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla WISE WORDS – (poem) TOO MANY HORSE HIDES The hide of the horse has always been valuable for making ladies fine shoes and thongs for belt lacing. It is much finer than the hide of a beef, and when split makes a very fine and soft leather. A few years ago the market could not get enough of them. That was in the days when a horse was a horse and worth something, before the electric motor drove him from the street car service. As high as $5 was paid for a good hide, and it was a very poor one that would not bring $2.50. But as the horse got cheaper and the advocate of horse flesh as food was re-enforced by the butcher who could palm it off for beef, things slowly began to change. Prices went down steadily, until now it takes a No. 1 hide to bring $1.50, while fair ones go for fifty cents, and the pororer ones are thrown away. The consumption of horse flesh in Europe, particularly in Paris, seems to have increased wonderfully, judging from the heavy importation of hides to this country, while in this country it is said there is not a large city where the horse is not slaughtered for the market and sold either openly or secretly. The meat canning establishments are also credited with utilizing a great many broken-down animals. Thus, while the beef hide market has its fluctuations and days of glut and scarcity, the horse hide market is completely stagnated, and there does not seem to be any possible hope for a revival of it. – [St. Louis Globe-Democrat] THE KICK OF A THIRTEEN-INCH GUN NEW USE FOR ALARM BELLS – (on wheelchairs) HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS CLEANING OLD LACE To clean old lace, if not too much soiled, lay it on a paper copiously sprinkled with flour. Sprinkle more flour over the lace, then cover with a piece of paper. After a few days shake the flour from the lace. Don’t fold the lace; cover it flat with silver [paper, and roll lace and paper together. DON’T IRON HANDKERCHIEFS The mistake should never be made of ironing fine handkerchiefs. Each dainty square of linen after being carefully washed should be rinsed, wrung and spread out upon a sheet of glass or marble-topped table so smoothly that not a wrinkle is visible. The drying process will be found very short and the finish upon the handkerchief quite satisfactory. – [New York World] TO RESTORE TARNISHED BRASS “Throw it out” said one. “Give it away” said another. As it seems a poor kind of giving to bestow that which is worthless to yourself, the last advice was not followed. But the rose shade was so handsome and the colored glass jewels and hanging drops all intact, it provoked sundry experiments; and the result is a restoration to beauty and usefulness of a lamp that was an eye-sore for its verdigris-covered bras work. In most stoves a very fine powder accumulates that is not ashes, yet has the essence of the wood in it. Part of this, in one saucer, was moistened well, and another saucer held the dry powder; a pan of good soap-suds stood near, and a piece of sheepskin was at hand. With a toothbrush all the brass was well scoured, then washed in the suds and dried. At this point there was not much encouragement, but now the dry powder and sheepskin were vigorously applied, and to the surprise of the skeptics, the bras shone with a soft luster very superior to even the hard brilliancy of newness. This powder will restore the brass rods when tarnished and fly specked, and an occasional rub with a woolen cloth or piece of sheepskin dipped in the dry powder will keep them in good condition. – [Woman-kind] RECIPES FRIED APPLES – Cut sound apples across without peeling or coring; fry after the tenderloins or in ham fat until light brown. FRIED GRITS – Boil one or two cups of grits the day before wanted until the consistency of Indian meal mush. Turn out in oblong pan to cool. When wanted but in one-inch slices and salt slightly. Fry quickly in boiling fat. SWISS POTATO SOUP – Pare and slice six large potatoes, three small turnips and one onion; put in five pints of water. Boil slowly until perfectly dissolved, about five or six hours. If it boils away too much add boiling water. A little piece of salt pork is an improvement. PIQUANT SAUCE – Cut two tablespoonfuls of onions in flour of vinegar for three minutes, then add a larger cupful of stock, a teaspoonful of sugar, one-fourth that quantity of cayenne and salt to taste. Boil for five minutes, put in two tablespoonfuls of chopped capers and same of chopped cucumber pickles. Boil up and serve. HOT SLAW – Take one-half of a firm white heard of cabbage, cut into fine pieces, and put in a pan with a teaspoonful of salt, about the same quantity of pepper and a piece of butter the size of an egg, adding a teacupful of vinegar and half that quantity of water. Cover and cook until the cabbage becomes tender, stirring frequently. RICE MUFFINS – One cupful of milk, one and one-half cupfuls of flour, half a cupful of cold boiled rice, two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of sugar, a heaping teaspoonful of butter and one egg. Mix the dry ingredients and rub them through a sieve into a bowl. Melt the butter and beat it into the rice. Beat the egg and add to it the milk. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients, then stir in the rice, beating all together quickly and well. Bake in gem pans twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. MOTHER’S “SURPRISE” – Take half a square loaf of baker’s bread, cut into thin slices, curst and all, and butter them. Peel, core and cup up sufficient of nice baking apples in proportion. Take a pie dish, line it with bread and butter. Next make a layer of apples at the bottom, then of sugar, then of bread, and so on till the dish is filled. Bake until the apples are perfectly soft’ then before serving turn it out into a dish. It ought to keep its shape, and eat almost like a sweetmeat, all the ingredients being thoroughly blended in baking. THE LAUGHING PLANT Among curious plants one of the most notable has been discovered recently in Arabia, where it is know by the natives as the “laughing pant’ It does not do any laughing itself, as might be inferred from its title, but it causes whosever eats its seeds to break out into fits of the most uncontrolled and immoderate mirth – [Cincinnati Tribune] Ad for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Ripan’s TAbules Ad for Mill and Mining supplies Premium No. a Chocolate. Made by Walter Baker & co.., Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. Has been celebrated for more than a century as a nutritious, delicious and flesh-forming beverage. Sold by grocers everywhere. Ad for Alabastine Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton52nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 24.3 Kb