Marion County AlArchives News.....THE GUIN GAZETTE May 14, 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 May 7, 2010, 12:16 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 14, 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, MAY 14, 1897 NO. 13 PAGE 1 BRADSTREETS – WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE REPORTS A BETTER DEMAND FOR STAPLES A Chicago girl fell from her bicycle not long ago, and the man who helped her to remount has since become her husband. The tumbling habit may now be expected to spread with great rapidly. BURYING THE VICTIMS – Twenty Funerals in Paris Last Friday – Deepest Sympathy Displayed. (Paris fire) WARRANTS SWORN OUT – Result of Investigation of Dispensary Officials Conduct REQUIEM MASS – At Notre Dame for the Dead of the Recent Paris Bazaar Horror REPORTED CONFIRMATION – Of Rumored Negotiations for Settlement of the Cuban Question A special from Havana says: Your correspondent is able upon high authority to confirm the recent Washington reports as to negotiations pending there between Secretary of State Sherman and Deputy de Lome, and Eutrada Palina, looking to a peaceful solution, by purchase or otherwise of the Cuban question. The story is the topic of conversation in all the clubs. ElDiario de La Marina, the reformist organ here, in a leader sounds an anxious note of warning by intimating that the so-called reforms that premier Canovas has offered to the island will be little more than a farce should Cuba be left to pay the cost of the war. Spain must pay it. El Diario declares, otherwise, the paper adds, she cannot hope to keep the colony and continue to monopolize its trade. HUNT FOR AN ISLAND – Will Be Claimed for Uncle Sam IF These Voyagers Are Successful (New Baldayo Island) EXPECT PROSPERITY – In View of it Texas Railroads will spend millions A MURDERER’S CONFESSION – Committed Murders at Jacksonville, Fla., Savannah, Ga., and Indianapolis. (Henry Jones) THE ENGLISH ARE MAD – Because the Senate Rejected the Arbitration Treaty JUDGE HARALSON – Re-elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT A LARGE ATTENDENCE (Tennessee Centennial Exposition) PAGE 2 (subscription prices and special offers) The Greco-Turkish war is about over. The cowardice of the Crown Prince causing the Greeks to retreat in utter disorder, is thought to have been the turning point in the war. It is said that Turkey was about to sue for peace, but when the Greek army was so utterly put to flight, the Sultan saw victory and pushed on. --- (political news and small advertisements) 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. 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. Ad for book about Sam Jones PAGE 3 STATE NEWS DEPARTMENT The annual State Convention of Epworth League of Alabama convened in the city of Montgomery on Tuesday, May 11, for a session of two days. --- A movement is on foot to build a bicycle coliseum in Birmingham such as they have in Nashville, Montgomery and some other Southern cities. ----- The long distance telephone is becoming a powerful competitor of the Western Union telegraph, and the managers claim that many leasers of private wires between the great cities have given up the telegraph and adopting telephone, claiming that its use best serves the demands for absolute secrecy and privacy. Greece has withdrawn her troops from the field and peace negations will begin at once. The London markets and the continental Houses are buoyant upon the news. ------ 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. W. C. DAVIS, Attorney-At-Law, Hamilton, Alabama will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. W. T. MORGAN, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Alabama. W. L. MAY Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala calls promptly attended to day or night. P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. 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 4 TALMAGE’S SERMON – The Ravens of God that Brought Bread and Flesh PAGE 5 BILL ARP’S WEEKLY LETTER – Bartow Sage Makes A Visit To South Carolina RAM’S HORN BLASTS – Warning Notes Calling the Wicked To Repentance VIRTUE AND MORALITY In Italy they dry tomatoes for market. When ripe they are pressed and the skins and seeds strained out. The juicy pulp is spread out to dry and then broken and ground. That we allow thousands of bushels to go to waste may be or may not be a reproach. The chief reason for rotation of crops is that land may recuperate; but one serious objection to planning the same ground year after year to the same crop is that the insects and diseased affecting crop attack it each succeeding year with increased force. Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Hires Rootbeer Ad for Lyon & Co’s Smoking Tobacco PAGE 6 GENERAL NEWS ------- According to private advices F. M. B. Lichtenburg, a young Englishman, who arrived in Astoria, Ore., about two years ago and left a year later, has net a horrible fate at the hands of the cannibals in the South Sea Islands. He with another man was taken prisoner, killed and eaten by the tribes of the island. The story of their capture and death gained circulation through a half- civilized native, who witnessed the awful feast. ---------- Over fifteen hundred homeless people, who lost everything by the terrible could burst (sic) and overflow of the Crimmaron, Cotton Wood Rivers, in Oklahoma, are being cared for by the citizens of Guthrie. The loss of life and stock has been frightful. A special to the New York Herald from Panama states that revolution has broken out in Ecuador. Rufus P. Vassar, a grandson of the founder of Vassar College, is under arrest in San Francisco charged with embezzlement. Ad for Muelree’s Wine of Cardui 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. 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. Ad for Parry Mfg – wagons (picture of wagon) Ad for Confederate Veteran Ad for Scientific American PAGE 7 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 2:44 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 Hot weather. It is raining. Crops are growing nicely. Bugs and cutworms are gardening. Practice for Children’s Day is progressing nicely. Sheriff RIGGAN passed through town with three prisoners en route to Hamilton Monday. Unconditional surrender is the only terms those famous little pills known as De Witt’s little Early Risers will make with constipation, sick headache, and stomach troubles. Dr. SHELTON, Agt. Dr. T. J. SPRINGFIELD made a professional trip to Birmingham Wednesday. Mrs. J. T. CARPENTER returned from Hamilton Monday where she has been visiting for some time. --------- Personal – The gentleman who annoyed the congregation last Sunday by continually coughing will find instant relief by using One Minute Cough Cure, a speedy and harmless remedy for throat and lung troubles. Dr. SHELTON, Agt. Mrs. Z. ANDERSON has been very sick this week, but at present is much better. Mr. J. L. FOUTS, traveling for COLLINS & Co, Birmingham, was in town Tuesday. It is many school boy fights we remember having with LOUIE, he being so long, could pound us genteely, (sic) but the hatchet is buried and we were glad to see him. We are informed that the Ladies Prayer Meting is progressing nicely. This is a good work and the good women are making it a success. Captain STONE, of Sulligent, was in town Monday. FOR SALE One saw mill, one grist mill, one cotton gin, also 170 acres of farm land, 50 acres pen. Terms reasonable. P. M. CAUDLE, Executor, Guin, Ala. Mrs. BOOKER, of Hamilton, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. JAS. SPRINGFIELD, returned home Monday. Miss LILLIE BROCK who has been visiting returned Saturday. H. J. MCCLAIN of Pikeville was in town Wednesday. LITTLE ROCK Anther good rain. It seems that mad dogs are the question now. One came to MR. ESTILL’S last week and tried to bite Mrs. ESTILL but she seized a club and kept it away till she could get help. They killed it at once. Mr. NAT MILLER, of Millport, is visiting friends and relatives in this neighborhood this week. W. T. CAUDLE and Miss ZINA ESTILL went to Oak Grove last Saturday. E. N. STANFORD and family are visiting relatives at Henson Springs. Mr. I. ESILL went to Crews Saturday. Prof. A. M. STANFORD will sing at Little Rock fourth Sunday at 1:30 pm. Everybody is invited to come and bring their books. [GUM BOW] CHILDREN’S DAY Below we give a revised program of the entertainment given by the children at the Methodist Church Sunday May 16 , 7:30 p.m. Children’s Day is a day set apart by the Methodist church especially for the children. Come out and encourage them by your presence. SUNDAY May 16, 7:30 p.m. 1st - Opening Song “He Loves Me” by the children. 2nd – Remarks by the Pastor 3rd – “Marching to Zion” 4th - Prayer 5th – Song – “We are Marching on the Way” 6th – Recitation by Miss MARY SMITH. 7th – Song – “Jesus Lives” 8th – Concert Reading of Scripture 9th - Recitation “Have your heard of Jesus” by five little girls 10th - Address on Sunday Schools by C. W. SPRINGFIELD. 11th - Song – “Sweet Story” 12th – Forty questions Answered. 13th – Song – “We’ll be Right Instead of Wrong” 14th – Recitation – “The Children Crusade” by Miss GEM FRAZIER 15th – Address on Missions by Mrs. W. T. MORGAN 16th – Song- “Go Tell the World of His Love” 17th – Address on Epworth Leagues by J. P. RILEY 18th – Address on Education by A. C. SPRINGFIELD 19th – Song – “Blessed by the Name’ 20TH – Sunday School Acrostic by twelve children 21st – “Where Shall We Find God” by four girls. 22nd – Collection 23rd – Recitations by three little girls 24th – Closing Song – “When the roll is called up yonder” 25th – Benediction YOUR WINTER CLOTHES – [Aberdeen Examiner] [Lebanon Enterprise] – (article about Rev. William May of Perryville.) Ad for Liver Pills PAGE 8 Small advertisements A MUSKRAT “FARM” EUROPEAN RAILWAY MILEAGE Ad for Walter Baker & Co’s Breakfast Cocoa Ad for Asbestos Roofing Ad for Canmdy Cathartic Cascarets Ad for Ripans Tabules File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/theguing1704gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 14.2 Kb