Marion County AlArchives News.....The Guin Gazette April 16, 1897 ************************************************ 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 December 17, 2007, 12:15 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 16, 1897 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE GUIN GAZETTE Vol. 1 GUIN, ALA. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1897 NO. 9 PAGE 1 HUNTERITES ARE HOT - They Claim That There Is A Plot To Ruin The Doctor DISPENSARY WHISKEY – Kills a South Carina Negro – Quantity and Quality PRISONER RELEASED – Havana, Cuba – Jose Gonzales Gurberlo, a naturalized American, who has been imprisoned at Guanajay, on a charge of conspiracy, has been liberated. Joseph Bofill, an Englishman, who has been imprisoned at Santiago de Cuba, has been granted an order of release and will be turned over to the British Consul on the understanding that he is to leave the island by the first steamer. ANOTHER DANGER AHEAD – Memphis, Tenn. A fear now entertained by the large planters is that gaps in the levee may not be closed in time to prevent the drowning out of crops by the June rise. NEW ALABAMA RAILROADS – Several Important Lines Projected For The State This Year PHILIPINE REBLES (sic) SURRENDER AT FULL SPEED – Two Trains On the Southern Railroad Come Together – Charlotte, N. C. VERY SENSATIONAL SPEECH – Member of a Methodist Conference Scares His Churchmen OFF FOR THE FRONTIER – London, Engl - An Observer dispatch from Athens says 8,000 troops have just started for the frontier. Official news has been received of outrages committed on Greeks off Smyrna by sailors connected with the French warships. No blockade of Greece has been declared yet, according to the latest advices received by the Observer. A COLLISION AT SEA – Plant Steamer Strikes a Barkentine and Five are Drowned FIENDS AROUND GADSDEN - The Queen City Of The Coosa Excited Over Development Gadsden, Ala – Following upon the destruction Saturday morning with dynamite of the house occupied by the Jones girls, the big hoisting engine of the Christopher Coal Mines was blown to pieces by the same explosive Sunday morning. Everything attached to the machinery was shattered and an entirely new outfit will be necessary. The owner estimates his loss at $2,500. Charles Johnson, who was arrested for dynamiting the Jones house claims that he can easily prove an alibi. Will Flood and John Jones, two well known white boys are being looked for by the Sheriff and police, there being warrants for their arrest on the same charge. Sunday afternoon a bomb was found under a house in the eastern part of the city and it caused a regular stampede of women to the police for protection. Extra officers have been put on duty; the Sheriff and his deputies are on guard, while a deputation of citizens is guarding isolated houses. There is no cause or theory advanced for the vandalism, nor is it generally believed that those for whom warrants are issued are guilty. DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS LETTER FROM KNOXVILLE, TENN. PAGE 2 STATE NEWS DEPARTMENT --- (not typing most) Major MORRIS CAIN, of Fayette County walked the streets of Birmingham one night last week in his sleep, barefoot with nothing on except scant underwear. It was the first case of somnambulism reported in sometime. -- From present indications, Greenville will soon have electric lights. The movement is backed up by home people with ample capital and all that is needed is closing a proper contract with the city. A committee has been appointed by the city council to confer with the parties who propose to put in the lights. W. C. DAVIS, Attorney-At-Law, Hamilton, Alabama will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi.’ P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. W. T. MORGAN, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Alabama. Dr. T. J. SPRINGFIELD, Guin, Ala. offers his professional services to the citizens of Guin and surrounding community. Calls filled at all hours night or day. Special attention given to the diseases of women. PAGE 3 THE GAZETTE W. T. MORGAN, Editor (advertising prices) We welcome to our table the Tribune published at Dunlap, Tenn. A bright newsy sheet and O. K. in politics. The Hanceville Hustler has made a good many improvements. It is a little wrong in politics but we are sure they will want back ere long. It is like most of the gold bug press – haven’t done much damage, and is sorry for what it has done. We are in receipt of the first number of the Alabama Leader, a Populist paper published at Russellville, Ala. While the Gazette and the Leader do not agree politically, yet we do not fall out with them because of their waywardness. The paper is well gotten up. We wish them success. ----- NOTICE I have now gotten my new Grist Mill in fine working order. I am prepared to do all your grinding and will make you good meal I use the celebrated Blalock rocks. Bring me your grinding. Will grind Tuesdays and Saturdays. JOHN T. CARPENTER, Guin, Ala. Do we do printing? Well, I guess we do. We print Letter-heads, Note-heads, Statements, Bill Heads, Envelopes, Circulars, Etc., Etc. Etc. Etc. Compare these prices with any others, Note heads $2 per M., Letter heads $3 per M Bill Heads $2 per M Statements $2 per M Etc, etc When you are in need of any work in our line, don’t fail to get our prices. We are first class material, give honest work. Gazette Job Office, Guin, Ala. L. D. LITTLETON is headquarters for Bargains in all kinds of dry goods, boots, shoes, hats and gents furnishing goods, also a full line of groceries, flour, meat, sugar, and coffee. Corn, hay and bran of the lowest cash prices. Price my stuff before you buy. Stores at Hamilton and Guin, Ala. J. M. SPRINGFIELD & Co. Livery Feed and Sale Stable. Good Teams, Good Buggies, and Hacks. Careful Drivers. Guin, Ala. (picture of Livery Stable- (wood cut)) Established 1888. Birmingham Business College. Birmingham, Ala. A modern, practical and progressive college of Business Sciences. Bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, penmanship, and English. Positions guaranteed under reasonable conditions. Write for particulars. We make a specialty of teaching shorthand by mail, trial lesson free. Investigate before going elsewhere, send for free catalogue and special circulars. We pay your R. R. fare. Willard J. Wheeler, President. Ad for Commercial College of Ky. University, Lexington, Ky. PAGE 4 THE DATE FOR EASTER – Poem EASTER LILLIES – (short story) PAGE 5 Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla DRESS FABRICS Ad for Kava-Kava Shrub MEANING OF THE EASTER EGG – (history lesson) Russia has the most rapidly increasing population of any country in the world. The growth of the last 100 years has been a fraction less than 1,000,000 annually. EASTER SONG – Poem THE MORAVIAN WAY OF CELEBRATING EASTER One of the most significant and picturesque celebrations of Easter is that of the Moravian Christians, of whom there are many congregations in the United States. At Bethlehem, Penn. And other towns where Moravians abound some musicians with brass instruments go at earliest dawn to the roof of the church and play music signifying the calling forth of the dead. The people immediately flock to the church and begin the service of the day, most of it being musical. At a given signal the entire congregation rise, and, proceeded by the ministers and trumpeters, leave the church and march to the cemetery. In Moravian cemeteries all the gravestones are alike – small, flat slabs laid upon the graves, “for” say the simple, literal people, “in the grave all men are equal.” The procedure of the service is so timed that the music- prayerful rejoicing reaches tits highest expression just as the sun rises. A BELGIAN EASTER TRADITION The offering of the Easter egg is also an ancient and popular tradition of the Belgians. It is customary there every Sunday for the young men to exchange bouquets of flowers with their fiancés, but at Easter time these gifts are varied by eggs colored and having inscriptions on them similar to the poetical lines one finds in cheap holiday confectionery. Among the wealthier classes in Belgium, as in Paris, eggs adorned with beautiful miniature portraits were exchanged. Flemish chronicles relate that under the reign of Maria Christina Easter eggs to the value f twenty francs were often distributed. This expensive adorning of the Easter egg has lost its popularity, and today the eggs in general are simply colored by boiling or staining. They also are to be given and exchanged by adults, but are colored for children’s amusement and pleasure. TO PREPARE EASTER EGGS A common way of preparing the eggs is to immerse them in hot water a few moments, then with the pointed end of a tallow candle write upon them names, dates or events. After this the eggs are placed in a pan of hot water containing the dyestuffs. Then the tallow is rubbed off and the inscription remains clear. Eggs colored in this way are often retained in families in England for many generations. They are as good a record of family happenings as a family Bible. To preserve them for the wear and tear of much handling they are placed in deep, long-stemmed glasses where the inscriptions can easily be read through then thin glass. Ad for Hires Rootbeer Ad for Lyon & Co Pick leaf Smoking tobacco. Smaller advertisements PAGE 6 THE GAZETTE We will be glad to receive short communications from the different towns in our county. Write on one side of paper only, and please write with a pen. Be sure to sign your name to all communications, and get them in by Tuesday evening. TIME TABLE. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham R. R. No. 1 East 12:38 p.m. No. 2 West 8:20 p.m. No. 3 East 3:44 a.m. No. 4 West 1:48 a.m. DIRECTORY MASONIC LODGE No. 478 – WATSON BROWN, W. M., JOHN W. INGLE, S. W.; M. T. AKERS, Treas.; J. B. RILEY, Secy. Mayor – J. T. CARPENTER Marshal – J. T. WHITE Aldermen – S. J. BAIRD, J. W. WILDES, J. J. POPE, E. W. BROCK, J. D. WESTBROOK. CHURCHES METHODIST – Services every third Sunday at night, fourth Sunday at 11 am Rev. D. W. WARD, Pastor Sunday School every Sunday at 3 ½ p.m. Prof. J. T. HUFFATUTTLER, Superintendent BAPTIST – Services first and third Sundays. Sunday School every Sunday morning. CHRISTIAN – Services every second Sunday 11 a.m. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. J. A. SMITH is in Huntsville this week. DIED – At his home near this place Mr. JAMES BARNES W. C. DAVIS Esqr, of Hamilton was in town Monday. Sheriff RIGGAN passed through the city Monday. Capt. STONE, of Sulligent, was moving about town Monday. DIED – Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. WEBB, Tuesday Morning. Mr. JOHN INGLE left Monday night for Huntsville as a witness before the grand jury. Mrs. D. JONES of Amory, Miss., is visiting her brother, Mr. J. W. WILDES. Mr. R. E. BRADLEY of Vernon is visiting his son, Mr. W. R. BRADLY of this place. Mrs. KEMP of Amory Miss. came to attend the funeral of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. WEBB. Mr. J. W. WILDES has purchased a new bicycle Mr. J. H. RILEY went to Sulligent Tuesday on business. Mrs. W. A. OLIVER accompanied her sister, Miss JOSIE CLARK to Russellville last week. Miss MARY GUIN, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. JAMES KIRK, returned to her home in Quincy, Miss. Saturday. Guin hares to give Miss Mary up. The pastor of the Christian Church at this place filled his regular appointments Sandy and Sunday night. Dr. SHINN of little Rock, Ark. Passed through town on his way to Hamilton where he lectured Tuesday night. Our town is getting to look nice now the shade trees are putting out fast. Verily the day of the palmetto fan is upon us. Mr. JAMES KIRK visited his mother who is sick some miles in the county Wednesday. Mr. JOHN A. SHAW of Hamilton was on our streets Wednesday. Our fellow townsman W. A. OLIVER has sold out his stock of furniture to J. PEARCE & Co. We are informed Mr. OLIVER is going to Russellville Ala. Mr. ALBERT TIDWELL went to Montgomery Monday returning Thursday. He went to attend a civil service examination for Railroad Mail Clerk. He says he thinks he made a good grade. Our friend and patron J. A. SMITH requests us to state to the public that the report that he is a bout to quit business is with out foundation. He will put in a full stock for the fall trade, and solicits the patronage of the public. Give him a call. See advertisement in another column. WEST GUIN – We are having some bad weather for the farmer. Some are done planting corn and preparing to plant cotton. The health of the people is not so good at this writing Mrs. J. A. WARREN is sick at this time. We are sorry to note the death of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. WEBB’S baby, which sad event occurred on the 13th inst. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family. There was a reunion at Caudle’s Mill on the 12 inst. There were about 35 in the group and Mr. WIDES catcheth their shadow. Capt. CAUDLE is still with us and enjoying himself very much. J. A. WARREN says he is farming now as he is done planting corn and is putting in his moonshine to make 4c cotton. NO I am not plowing an oxen. Success to the Gazette. [Old Tur] CORRESPONDENCE FROM TEXAS I read the Gazette of April 2nd, I find a good paper and wish for it much success. I see two adds (sic) in the Gazette that would seem a range to some of the Texas people. One is the Guin Immigration Agency and Real estate Exchange in which they the people to locate in Marion and adjoining counties, showing up the great advantages of that country. For happy hones; the other one proposed to sell them the important part on which to make a living (fertilizer). Now if those two concerns together with the editor of the Gazette and a few of her correspondents will come to Milam county Texas, and locate at or near Ben Arnold, and put forth the same efforts that they do there, I think they would succeed far better than they can ever hope to do there as her they have the land and fertilizer combined. I was raised in Marion County, and lived in it until I was 22 years old and know whereof I speak. Now what I mean is this, the lands around Ben Arnold is a fine rich black land with a soil from 4 to 6 feet deep and very fertile which will last for years with constant cultivation and that to without so much hard work as it takes there to cultivate a crop. This may seem as a fairy tale to some of the readers of the Gazette, but nevertheless it is a fact. Now, Mr. Editor, if you see proper to do so you can publish this in the Gazette, if not please look over it at your leisure and tell some of your friends of. Yours truly, I. H. CAUDLE FASHION – By a Reader Written for the Gazette Fashion is a subject which ought to be studied well in place of being practiced so much. There are a great many of our people who think if they can just keep up with the fashion they need not think of trying to keep up with anything else. But let me tell you my friends, that is not all, we ought to live as to be beneficial to our community and let it be a help to us. Fashion may carry us through this world, but it will never carry us to the world we are all striving to go to. Fashion rules the world and a most tyrannical mistress she is – compelling people to submit to the most inconvenient things. She pinches our feet with tight shoes or squeezes the breath our bodies by tight lacing. She compels people dress gaily whether upon their own property or that of others, whether agreeable with the word of God or the dictates of Pride. Ladies consult the fashion plate ore than they do their Bible; they visit the dry goods ship more than thy do the church and follow the fashion more than they do their Savior. Abused women generally live longer than fashionable ones. All honor to the boy and girl who has the independence and moral courage to follow the dictates of wisdom than that of fashion. Reader if you love happiness more than misery never bow your knew to the “goddess fashion.” Ad for The Atlanta Constitution J. A. GAMBLE & CO. J. A. GAMBLE T. H. ROBERTSON General Merchants, Winfield, AL want you to call and see their stock of goods. No trouble to show goods, and they will make prices to suit the times. They carry a full line of Spectacles and guarantee a perfect fit. Cotton and produce bought at market prices. Their goods are all new and fresh. O. C. LING, Guin, Ala. Blacksmith, wagon maker and gunsmith. Wagons made to order and ready tilled wheels always on hand. Horse shoeing a specialty. All work done cheaper than the cheapest for cash. PAGE 7 GENERAL NEWS Over a thousand miles of railway is under water. Many reports are arriving of persons drowned. Dr. Hunter, who was within one vote of the election of Senator in Kentucky, has charged bribery. Clark Howell has become editor of the Atlanta Constitution, and the Evening Constitution has been discontinued. Morgan County Teachers Institute will be held at Decatur April 23. At a recent meeting of the directors of the canning factory at Eufaula a dividend of 10 per cent was declared. --- Governor Jones, of Ark. Has received a letter from people in island 73, White River, in which it is said that the people there are in imminent danger of perishing. The inhabitants are on house tops, on rafts and all manner of floats, and are entirely out of food. There are said to be thirty-five families around the island and the letter says that unless they receive immediate succor they will certainly die. GUIN IMMIGRATION AGENCY and REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. Guin, Marion County, Alabama. The sole purpose of this agency is to induce settlers from the North and Northwest to locate in Marion and adjoining counties. Here we have a climate that cannot be beaten, cheap lands, good water, and every requisite that goes to make a pleasant home. For further information address with stamp as above. We can furnish homes in Georgia, Washington, Oregon, or Idaho to those who desire them. J. C. TIDWELL & Son. Guin, Ala. Dealers in General Merchandise. Are now in business at this place, and will give you better bargains than you can get elsewhere. Give us a call. JAS. A. SMITH. Guin, Alabama. Dealer in dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, hardware, and glassware. Country produce taken in exchange or highest price paid in cash. Ladies and gentlemen, when in Guin be sure to call at the GREAT BARGAIN HOUSE OF E. W. BROCK. Where you can buy everything in the line of merchandise at the lowest possible price, and get the highest price for all of your country produce. Measure taken for tailor made clothing made by the leading tailors of Chicago hence a perfect fit guaranteed in every instance. Also Fertilizers kept on hand sold for cash or on time. W. R. BRADLEY Guin, Ala. Dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, shoes, hats, patent medicines, tinware, crockery, snuff, and tobacco, and all articles kept in a general store. Cotton and all country produce bought for cash or trade. I buy my goods for cash, therefore, I can afford to sell cheap. Give us a call. Orders taken for tailor made clothing. S. J. BAIRD, Guin, Ala. Dealer in dry goods, notions, hats, shoes, groceries, canned goods, tobacco, tinware, hardware, farming tools. Will buy almost any produce at market price. Give me a trial before dealing elsewhere. PAGE 8 MR. SYME’S GREAT VOICE – AND SOME OTHER LARGE VOICES THAT HAVE BEEN HEARD IN CONGRESS 37,000 PINS DAILY – Anecdote Ad for Glory Scotch Snuff Ad for Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer Ad for Walter Baker & Co’s Breakfast Cocoa Ad for Candy Cathartic Cascarets – Cure Constipation and regulate the liver Ad for H. W. John’s Asbestos Liquid Paints Ad for Lovell Diamonds Ad for Potash Ad for W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/theguing1557gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 20.5 Kb