Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON APPEAL May 8, 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, 1:30 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 8, 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 MAY 8, 1896 NO. 17 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 Ad for The Detroit Free Press EVENTS IN ALABAMA SHOOTING AT ISHKOODA – (Alonzo Cook shot SUSIE SPENCER) CORONER APPOINTED (Jefferson county)– (R. E. Jones, of Birmingham) INDUSTRIAL MOVEMENT STRUCK BY LIGHTNING – (the depot of the Southern Railway at Cordova) APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOLS – (Tuskegee Normal School and the Girls Industrial School at Montevallo) SHOT AT OXMOOR – (Clabe Tolbert shot – John Frank and George Morrison jailed) MOBILE REJOICING – (Mobile and Jackson railroad to be built) ROBBERY ON THE STREET – (Tom Williams charged – Birmingham) ITEMS NOTED – (small news items) SOUTHERN INDUSTIRAL PROGRESS – Birmingham Enterprises Hold a Prominent Place CONDITIONS OF TRADE – Business Increased, but Less than Was Expected TWO SHIPS COLLIDE – Shanghai, Chine – steamer Onwo and Newch wang……The drowned include the captain, five English officers, and 300 Chinese. US warships Olympia, Boston, Yorktown and Detroit sent boats to the assistance of the Onwo and saved many lives. CUBANS WIN A VICTORY – Munoz Maneuvers To Force A Fight – Garcia Accommodates Him The Cincinnati Tribune thinks that the hen, which adds $133,333,333 a year to the wealth of the country, would be a better bird for the flag than the useless eagle. 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. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET -----(Political news and commentary)----- Ad for Southern Music Co. $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 again! 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, May 8, 1896 CLUB RATES 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 Register today. W. B. CRANE of near Bexar was on our streets last Monday. Miss ADA GRAY of Desotoville is visiting relatives in town. P. W. STIDHAM and family visited relatives at Hackleburgh last week. Mrs. W. W. OZBIRN is visiting her sister Mrs. COLEMAN of Hackleburgh who is seriously ill. C. E. MITCHELL, Esq. returned on last Sunday from a visit to his father’s home at Thorn Hill. Little MAGGIE, daughter of W. R. WHITE, is, we regret to say, quite sick with bilious fever. Rev. S. B. SMITH occupied the pulpit here on last Sunday night and delivered a most excellent sermon. Z. B. PALMER, of near Bexar, who was injured by a runaway horse some weeks ago is able to be out on crutches. Mrs. R. V. GLASSCOCK spent last Saturday and Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. A. J. HAMILTON, Jr. of near town. Rev. J. W. WHITE, of Belgreen, was in town last week, and preached an interesting sermon at the Methodist church on Sunday at 11 am. Mormon Elders are becoming quite numerous in this section and new ones are dropping in every few weeks. What success they are having in the way of converts we are unable to say. We learn that some of them preached at the residence of A. J. ADAMS about a mile from Hamilton on last Tuesday night. The Agricultural School closes on June 1. Too much praise can not be given Prof. ALEXANDER and the entire faculty for their excellent management. Though laboring under much embarrassment and for some time not knowing whether he would receive a dollar for his services, Prof. ALEXANDER has worked as only a man who is interested in the cause of education can work. He has given his time and his money to establish an institution of learning that would reflect credit upon Marion County and the state and that he has succeeded in accomplishing his purposed none can deny. We trust that the board of control will show a proper appreciation of his zealous efforts and able management by retaining him for another term, and we believe they will do so in spite of the opposition that has been manifesting itself in certain quarters for some time. He is the right man in the right place and the sooner it is realized that Alabama is furnishing the money for a district school and not a local school to be controlled by the people of Hamilton the better it will be for the school. Deputy Marshal J. A. DAVIS is in town. CHARLES and GEORGE COCKRELL are quite sick with measles this week. Registration books were opened last Monday. Have you registered? If not, do so without delay and preserve your registration certificate. Our Sunday school was never in a more flourishing condition than at present and both teachers and pupils seem very much interested in the good work. Our friend BROWN MIXON has been on the sick list for the past few days. At first it was thought he had a case of small pox or itch but BROWN says it was roseola. CHARLES OWEN, who lives a few miles southeast of town, is very sick with fever. His many friends will regret to lean of this illness and we hope he may soon recover. A Texas pony attracted considerable attention on the streets of Hamilton last Sunday evening. He went through with the regular order of buckling, pitching and tumbling but MARCELLUS JOHNSTON was still on his back at the close of the performance. H. W. PALMER was here last Saturday in answer to a summons from the revenue authorities to give a stronger bond for his appearance at the next term of the federal court. The new bond was fixed at one thousand dollars, which was promptly given. The hailstorm last week was the heaviest that has ever passed through this section of the county. A few miles north of Hamilton the trees were stripped of their leaves and green limbs a half inch in diameter were torn off. Fruit was badly damaged, and in some places crops suffered severally. reliable persons say that many of the hailstones were as large as ordinary apples. The Board of Equalization met last Monday to compare the tax assessment. The board consists of E. VICKERY, C. E. MITHCELL and Tax Assessor FARIS and by close work the business on hand was completed Wednesday evening and the board adjourned. Assessor FARIS kindly furnished us with a statement showing the total assessment for 1896, which is as follows: Real and personal property $973,461, showing an increase over last year of $36,816. The assessment of railroads is $9,117 less than last year, which makes an increase in the total assessment over last year, outside of railroads, of $45,933. Poll tax $2,189, a gain over last year of $22.50 NOTICE In order to close out a large stock of shoes now on hand I will sell from now until fall at 25 per cent discount from present prices. Come one and all, now is the time to secure your fall and winter shoes. H. E. MIXON REPORT OF COL. R. H. DAWSON, STATE BOARD OF CONVICT INSPECTORS FROM GOLDMINE Rain in abundance. Measles has broken out again. Several new cases in this neighborhood R. H. STOKES has his cotton chopped out. Got done in April. JOHN HUGLEY’S family have had a wearisome siege of measles. LEE BEAUCHAMP says it is a hard task to walk down a turkey even after your rifle has impaired his wings and leaves his legs to use in self defense, for he has tried it. A. H. POWELL killed a very fine buck last Saturday. R. L. UDNERWOOD has sold his harp and how JAMES JOHNSON must depend entirely on banjo picking to keep up his spirits. This is leap year and we think some of the fair sex would do well to call on J. J. GIBBS. Success to the Appeal. DEMOCRAT, Goldmine, May 6 BEAR CREEK LOCALS The weather continues fine and every one seems busy and happy. Some of the farmers are behind with their wok on account of the rain several days last week. They caught pretty well up with their fishing however, judging from the large numbers, who bordered the streams. Yes, fishing is the order of the day and we seldom come home “empty handed.” Mrs. J. E. ISBELL and family, of Isbell, with some persons from Tuscumbia are out on a fish. Everyone loves “the mountains” in summer. Mrs. MARY WILLIAMS has just returned from a visit to Hackleburgh. Mr. Dr. MARTIN and little granddaughter have been visiting Mrs. J. C. SRYGLEY Elder I. B. BRADLEY, of Russellville, spent a few days in our place this week. A number of our citizens attended church services and “all day singing” at Shady Grove Sunday. We are glad to say that Mrs. SOLLEY, who has been very low with consumption, is improving some at the present writing. BERYL, Bear Creek, May 6 BEAT REGISTRARS The following is a list of the Beat Registrars for Marion County: Hamilton – C. L. LAWRENCE Rye’s – J. C. NORTHINGTON Camps – J. W. MCKENZIE Bexar – J. D. ARNOLD Shottsville – U. M. SHOTTS Reid’s – I. L. LOYD Hackleburgh – P. N. GREEN Goddard – W. E. GODDARD Kimbrough – C. F. DONALDSON Howell’s – J. C. WEATHERLY Pearces – J. A . WATES Clarks – A. H. POWELL Baccus – J. W. BACCUS Winfield – W. A. BLAKENEY Guin – L. V. POWERS Pikeville – J. N. HIGHTOWER LIGHTNING LOCALS A young man from Guin was in Sulligent last week. It is an easy matter to recognize a Guin boy by the thick half-sole on this trousers, even if people here had not known BUCK STONE, anyhow. Mrs. FLYNN was sick at her mother’s here part of the by-gone week, but has sufficiently recovered to be able to lead her husband around by his nose as usual. Her friends will be glad to learn this. PERRY LAMPKIN and wife visited the latter’s parents last week. They live several miles in the country and came to town to get rid of the odor of hay, the same as town people to got their country kin to get something to eat. W. C. PRIDDY and wife went to Beaverton Saturday to fish for eels. This time last year PRIDDY was fishing for Miss LULA, and she was fishing for PRIDDY. So it seems strange for them both to be now fishing for little things like else. R. W. CLARK, of Hamilton was in Sulligent recently. He is one of the ugliest persons ever seen in this place, and immense crowds collect about him discussing the subject. – [Sulligent Lightning] FUSION VS CO-OPERATION TO VOTERS I will be at the courthouse on Saturday May 16th, 1896 for the purpose of registering voters of Beat No. 1, who have not registered prior to above date. Respectfully, C. L. LAWRENCE, Registrar Beat No. 1 HEARS WITH HER FINGERS Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl, whose education has been followed with so much interest, is attending a school for giving oral instruction to the deaf, where last winter she made such progress that she is looking forward to the time when she can enter college. She has not only improved in her enunciation, but she has also reached a state where those who talk to her speak as they would to any one else. She hears them through her fingers. When she goes to college she will probably have to be accompanied by someone who will repeat to her what is said in class and lecture rooms. For her studies, text books with raised letters will be necessary in some subjects, but in others she will be able to absorb the ideas through repetition, aided by her marvelous mental acuteness. Miss Keller hears through her fingers by placing them on the lips, face and throat of the person speaking to her. – [National Record] MRS. LYONS GIVES BIRTH TO 5 HEALTHY BOY BABIES – Mayfield KY 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. 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. Buy your stationery from Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS. A good supply always on hand at the very lowest prices. If you are in need of St. Joseph’s medicines, save money by buying of Mrs. CLEMENTS 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. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Probate Court, Marion County, Alabama WM. H. HAMILTON, Deceased, Estate of Letter of administration upon the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 3rd day of April, 1896, 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. W. B. CRANE, Administrator Ad for T. L. Carter Piano and Organ PAGE 4 -----(small ads)----- Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY --------- At Pottsville, Pa, CHARLES FISHER was killed by the train. He pushed a girl from off the track and saved her life at the sacrifice of his own. --------- UNFORTUNATE CRIPPLE CREEK – disastrous fire Ad for Syrup of Figs Ad for Potash Ad for Ripan’s Tabules Ad for Tuerk Water Motor Ad for Walter Baker & Co Ad for Pearline Ad for Alabastine Co. 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