Marion County AlArchives News.....The Guin Dispatch February 16, 1889 ************************************************ 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 March 27, 2010, 11:17 pm AL Dept Of Archives And History February 16, 1889 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE GUIN DISPATCH VOL. 1 GUIN, MARION CO. ALA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1889 NO. 12 PROFESSIONALS W. H. KEY, Attorney-At-Law, Hamilton, Ala. J. L. CUNNINGHAM, Attorney-At-Law, Jasper, Ala. A. E. STRATTON, H. E. CARR STRATTON & CARR, Attorney-At-Law, Jasper, Ala. A. J. STANFORD, Attorney-At-Law, Hamilton, Ala. M. C. MARTIN, M. D. Hamilton, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Hamilton and surrounding country. Calls promptly responded to at all hours. R. L. MORTON, Physician and surgeon. Guin, Ala. Offers his professional service to the citizens of Guin and the surrounding country. W. F. ELLIOTT, Physician and Surgeon, Beaverton, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Beaverton and surrounding country. J. B. GUIN, Physician and surgeon, Guin, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Guin and the surround country. TOM KIRK, The Barber. Guin, Ala. is now prepared to serve the public in his line. If you want a good shave give him a call. Shop on Main Street THE DISPATCH Issued Every Saturday J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the post office at Guin, Ala as second-class mail matter. Subscription Terms, Cash One Year………..$1.00 6 mos…………… .50 3 mos…………… .25 ….(state and national news items)…. We are in receipt of Vol. 1 No. 2 of the Normal Gem, published at Florence, by the student of the Florence Normal School. The Gem is published monthly and a bright little gem it is indeed. It is devoted to the cause of education on this state and should meet with much success. We note with pride that a Marion county boy in the person of Mr. W. T. MITCHELL is occupying a position on the editorial staff. Unlimited success to him and the paper. MANUFACTURERS RECORDS THE GUIN DISPATCH The above is the name of a newspaper just started at Guin, Marion County, Alabama. J. S. CLEMENTS, formerly of Somerville is its editor and publisher. The paper is well edited and neatly published and is worthy of success. Mr. Clements was born and raised in Morgan County. We welcome the Dispatch to our exchange list and wish its editor success. {Hartselle Index] We make our politest bow to the esteemed Index in acknowledgement of the above compliment and trust that to our worthy contemporary may continue to point the index finger toward progress and advancement for the good people of Morgan County for ay years to come. There are several good newspapers in the county but none more deserving than the old reliable Index. OUR HAMILTON LETTER – Hamilton, Feb. 14, 1889 Business is on a boom at this place, money or no money. D. N. COOPER, U. S. Commissioner has moved to the NEAL storehouse which he will use for his office. We learn that M. G. MIXON, living a short distance from this place, is quite ill, though not dangerously. We wish him an early recovery ED COCHRAN and his charming sister, Miss LENORAH, who have been attending school at this place left for their home near Pearce’s Mills, on the 10th inst. Their many friends at this place regret very much to give them up especially some of the young men. Commissioner’s Court convened Monday, the 11th inst. The all prevailing bridge question was taken up, and after a long discussion, it was decided to build, and the contract will be let to the lowest bidder at the next term of the court, which convenes in April. TOM SHELTON, of near Detroit, entered school at this place on the 12th inst, with a “resolution like a saw mill.” We think others would do well, if they wish an education, to enter this school at once and prepare for the duties of life. Messrs. NANCE and NEELY of Nashville, Tenn. were in town this week. LAMAR COUNTY ITEMS Fernbank, Ala. Feb 12, 1889 Editor Dispatch: While your newsy paper comes to its many reader, we fail to see anything from our city, and we have decided to knock at your door for admission. We are in the midst of quite a boom, the two saw-mills are kept running to supply the demand for lumber, and the wagoner’s which echoes throughout our streets continually delivering lumber. A ginnery and planning mill are going up rapidly and will soon be at work. A steam-tannery will soon be under construction. The new-comers continue to move to our city to make this their home. Trade and business in general is good at this time. The farmer is now preparing for a crop and not seen on our streets only when business brings him to town. Fearing that the waste basket will be may be my fate, I must bid adieu this time. W. A. ALABAMA NEWS – Paragraphs Gleaned from State Exchanges PAGE 2 THE DISPATCH J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Prop. Subscription One Dollar a Year …..(World News)…… OUR NATIONS CAPITOL – What Is Being and What Has Been Done In Washington TELEGRAPH ITEMS COTTON SOUTHLAND NOTES NOTES AND COMMENTS CURING VANILLA PAGE 3 POETRY AND MISCELLANG. TAMING A BIRD …..(small advertisements) PAGE 4 THE DISPATCH Guin, Alabama Issued Every Saturday COURT DIRECTORY Circuit Court meets on the 2nd Monday after the 4th Monday in March and September County Court meets on the 1st Monday in each month. Probate court meets on the 2nd Monday in each month. Commissioner’s Court meets on the 2nd Monday in February and July and the 2nd Monday in April and November. COUNTY OFFICERS Judge – WALTER H. MATTHEWS Clerk – L. J. CLARK Sheriff – M. M. FRAZIER Treasurer – J. P. FORD Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS Coroner – J. A. SHAW GUIN TIME TABLE No. 1, East Bound………….4:26 p.m. No. 2, West bound…………10:32 a.m. TOWN AND COUNTY – Paragraphs For Dispatch Readers to Peruse Mr. EUGENE IRVIN, of Vernon was in town on Thursday last. A. J. STANFORD, Esq., of Hamilton, was on our streets last Monday. Due preparations are being made by our farmers for another crop. Ex-Sheriff W. R. H. LODEN of Winfield was in town on Monday. Mr. MARION D. TOWNLEY, of Carbon Hill, was in town on Sunday last. Mr. BROOKS PALMER, of Bexar, was in town on business the first of the week. Mr. W. H. CASH, of near Vernon, gave us a pleasant call on Monday last. Speculators now have the cotton crop and doubtless prices will advance. Mrs. SALLIE POPE visited friends at Beaverton, and returned on Sunday last. Mr. JOHN A POPE paid Sulligent a visit on Sunday last and returned Monday. Mr. H. C. FRY, of Youngs, was in town on last Monday and subscribed for the Dispatch. Mr. M. C. BURLESON, a wife-awake farmer of near Pearce’s Mills, was in town the first of the week. Mr. GEORGE WILLETT, of Pikeville, was a welcome visitor at the Dispatch office on last Tuesday. Measles and mumps continue to have things pretty much their own way in different portions of the county. Mr. WILL SHELTON, one of Winfield’s most prominent young men spent Sunday last with friends at this place. Messrs. M. A. COBB and W. A. SUMMERS, two prominent business young men of Sulligent, were in town last Sunday. Rev. R. H. THOMLIN, of Carbon Hill, was in Guin on last week soliciting orders for the World’s Type Writer, for which he is agent. Misses JALA GUIN and EUGENE SIZEMORE, two of Lamar county’s accomplished young ladies, spent Saturday and Sunday last with relatives at this place. Mr. BILL POPE killed a fine deer on last Saturday or rather looked on while the dogs did the filling act. No matter whether Bill did the killing or not, he was in the death and deserves proper credit. Our farmers are sing more guano this year than ever before in the history of the county Somebody is evidently going to make money, but whether it will be the farmers who use it or the manufacturer who makes the fertilizer, we are not prepared to say. We hope it will be both. Mr. A. T. WILLETT, of Pikeville, probably the oldest man in Marion county was on our street last Thrusday. Mr. Willett is a hatter by trade, and has follows his profession for seventy-one years. He is well preserved for one so old and to a stranger would easily pass for a man of seventy. Sow clover with your oats. JOHN M. ALLMON, of Pikeville, was in town on Tuesday last. Mr. A. H. BURLESON, of near Hamilton, was in the city this week. Mr. J. F. WHITE and family of Detroit, visited relatives in town this week. Every farmer should devote one acre of land to a good garden, make it rich and attend to it carefully. We welcome “W. A.” of Fernbank to a place in the Dispatch’s columns this week and hope he will write again soon. Mr. JAMES WALKER has resigned his position at the depot and informs us that he will leave for other parts in a short time. We regret to give Jim up. Two Italians were in town on last Wednesday and gave our citizens very poor music. They were accompanied by the ugliest specimen of monkeydom that we ever saw. Commissioner’s court convened at Hamilton on last Monday, and we understand that honorable body declared in favor of a new bridge across Buttahatchie. That settles it, a bridge we will have, and the sooner the better. The early part of last week was so warm and spring like that farmers were in the act of starting plows, and some even went so far as to talk of gardening But unfortunately the coldest weather of the season came on about the middle of the week and knocked all gardening aspirations clear into the next warm spell. People are too careless about jumping on and off moving trains. It was last week that Dr. SPRINGFIELD attempted to bard a moving train at Glen Allen and failing got a heavy fall and was pretty badly hurt. On last Monday Mr. WILLIAM STANFORD thought that he could jump off a freight train while running, which he did but failing to drop on his feet was badly bruised though not dangerously hurt. Plenty of rain. Mr. J. C. CAMP, of near Bexar was in town on yesterday and gave us a short call. Messrs. NANCE and NEELY two well known Nashville drummers were on our streets this week. Editor WILLIAMS, of the Marion Herald was in the city yesterday en route for Birmingham to visit relatives in that city. Mr. S. E. MORGAN, the photographer informs us that he will leave for Hamilton on next Monday. Mr. Morgan is a splendid artist, to say the least, and also a courteous a clever gentleman. We regret to give him up but wish him much success. No farmer can save money by cultivating a large acreage without fertilizers. Half the acreage well fertilized will reproduce as much or more. The profit is what should be sought by our farmers and the latter plan pays best. Complaints are numerous about the imperfect and irregular mail service, and the Dispatch is frequently the recipient of these favors. Subscribers from different offices throughout the county write us that for some reason they “cannot get their paper.” There is something dead up the branch, either the postmasters are too careless or just too confounded lazy to see after the mails and we don’t know which. TRADE LOCALS 25 yards first-class calico for $1 at J. PEARCE & Co. For seed Irish potatoes call on P. M. CAUDLE For best guano go to CLARK, WHITE, & Co. For best California hams go to P. M. CAUDLE Prize snuff at JONES, LANGSTON, & Co. Apple cider at P. M. CAUDLE, only 5 cents a glass. A full line of hard and queensware at P. M. CAUDLE 5 ½ pounds good coffee for one dollar at J. PEARCE & Co. Go to JONES, LANGSTON & Co. for best fertilizers You can get the best high grade phosphates at JONES, LANGSTON & Co. $5.50 gets a barrel of best Roller Process Flour; none better, at J. PEARCE & Co, A new and complete stock of ladies and gents shoe at the cheap store of BURLESON & WESLEY A full line of plows just received and will be sold cheap for cash. J. PEARCE & Co. A large lot of dry goods just received at CLARK, WHITE & Co. A big lot of ladies hats, in latest styles at the cheap store of BURLESON & WESLEY We have all styles of ladies hats and will take pleasure in showing our stock to the public. BURLESON & WESLEY For plows and all other kinds of farming implements, go to CLARK, WHITE & Co. They keep the single and double toot plow stocks and will sell them cheap. Flour, meat, lard, sugar, coffee and in fact all other kinds of groceries usually kept in a first-class house can be found at the store of CLARK, WHITE & Co. J. F. COLLINS J. A. SHAW. COLLINS & SHAW, Contractors and Builders, Guin, Ala. All work entrusted to our care will receive prompt attention. P. M. CAUDLE, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Guin, Ala. A full line of canned goods always on hand. J. W. BAIN & CO. Guin, Alabama. Livery and Feed Stable. Propose to keep a First-Class Livery, Feed, and Sale Stable - horses, buggies, hacks, wagons, etc for the public at reasonable rates. Drivers furnished. The Protectionist, A large 8 page Republican newspaper, published weekly at Jasper, Alabama. A bold and fearless advocate of the true principles of the Republican Party. It invites the support of all Republicans, and promises to give them a clean, bright, and newsy paper, and one that is neither afraid nor ashamed to stand up for its principles. Subscription one dollar a year. Sample copies free. Agents wanted. Address – The Protectionist, Jasper, Ala. Note. W. F. GREEN, late of Marion County is the editor of the Protectionist, and will appreciate the support of his friends in Marion County and everywhere else. THE PALACE CAR LINE CLARK, WHITE, & CO., Dealers in General Merchandise. Dry goods, prints, muslins, flannels, yarns, hats, caps, crash notions, etc. coffee, sugar, flour, and a full line of canned goods, tobacco an cigars. Guin, Ala JONES, LANGSTON & Co. Guin, Alabama Dealers in General Merchandise. Dry goods, dress goods, prints, flannels, hats, caps, boots, shoes, etc. Groceries, sugar, coffee, syrup, canned goods, Tobacco and cigars. Our motto is quick sales and small profits. Give us a call and learn prices before making your purchase elsewhere. Ad for Detroit Free Press The Guin Dispatch. Subscribe now and keep posted on the affairs of your count. JIM PEARCE, will keep during the season a good stock of merman, homestead, pacific and bones dust Guanos, at Guin, Pearce’s Mill, and Texas, Ala. Carload lots will be sold at carload prices to any party of club wanting them, and will be delivered at any station along the line of the K. C. M. & B. R. R. or at any point on the S. & B. Road. It pays to buy that you know to be the best, and take no risks. 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