Marion County AlArchives News.....THE GUIN GAZETTE June 4, 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, 12:18 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History June 4, 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, JUNE 4, 1897 NO. 16 PAGE 1 BLOOMERS IN SCHOOL – Are Not Approved by Milwaukee Dress Reform Alderman APPEALED IN VAIN – Russell Sage Neglects to Aid a Dying Relative REBELLIOUS CONVICTS = California Prisoners Attack Guards But are Repulsed IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW CHICAGO’S POPULATION NEW ORLEANS SELECTED – As the Next Meeting Place of the Southern Presbyterians DENOUNCED CHRIST – A Free thinker Denounced Christ On Atlanta’s Streets PULLMAN WINS – Chicago’s Suburb is the World’s Most Perfect Town A GOVERNOR’S SON INDICTED WANT HIS BLOOD “TOO UNWIELDY” – Atlanta’s City Council Abolishes the Board of Education OPPOSES SECRET SOCIETEIES HE HAS SIX WIVES A SMOOTH SWINDLER (Article about Cuba) (Article about Credit System) PAGE 2 (subscription prices and offers) -------- If you want to see Guin on the upward road don’t fail to talk up the school question. With a first class college here our town will begin a growth that will be phenomenal If you have any interest in the advancement of your town don’t fail to come out the Educational Rally June 11. The improvement and advancement of Guin should be the watchword of every citizen. A COLLEGE AT GUIN To those who may not have thought of it, such a thing may sound ridiculous. The purpose of this article is to prove to the people of Guin and surrounding country the advisability of such a thing. In the first place it will require a man at its head that has a sound education, plenty of push and energy and above all a man that is not easily discouraged. He must be a well educated man, a man that has been thoroughly trained in his profession, a man that teaches because he loves it, a man that places his whole time and concentrates all his energy and attention to the school. Now that we have shown what it will require of the teacher, we will now show what will be required of our people. We should work with the teacher, help him and above all do not say he is not a Methodist, or Baptist, or a member of the Christian Church. Let church matters be kept in the church and not in the school. More schools are ruined by letting church matters get into them than any thing else. If a man will not patronize a school just because the teacher does not belong to his church there is something wrong with his religion. Education is next to religion. The person who tries to pull down education is, in our opinion, not very religious. Let Guin forget these little differences these prejudices and all pull with a might and success will crown our efforts. Some may say we cannot do it because in our county we have a school that gives free tuition. In north Alabama we know of eight colleges that are with in adjoining counties to two free tuition schools. If each of these eight schools can compete with the other seven and two free tuition schools, can not we, who have not the other seven and but one free tuition school to compete with, have a college here? Besides we do not want a high school here, what we want is a high grade college, a college that will rank with the best colleges of the state of Alabama. TRUTH General Pettus is proving that Alabama did not make any mistake when she disregarded his seventy-six years of well spent life in selecting him for senator. His colleague, General Morgan, is seventy-three. Two grand men. – [Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner] AN INDEPENDENT EDITOR The Warrior Breeze is now printed on a press invented and constructed by the editor at home. We also have a paper knife just completed which was also constructed at home. Both machines do excellent work. We have not yet tried our hand on making type and hardly think we shall, but when we need anything in the printing office, why we just make it. – [Breeze] Ad for Stratton Guitars and Mandolins Ad for Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root 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)) Thought trainers, Profit producers. Ninth Year. BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS COLLEGE. Potter Building. First Ave. Birmingham, Alabama. Telephone 1119. Willard J. Wheeler, Prest. Brain Builders, Mind moulders. Ad for book about Sam Jones PAGE 3 STATE NEWS DEPARTMENT Mrs. A. J. Austin has died at Troy. Members of the Church of Christ will organize an independent congregation at Oxford. Ned Green, colored attempted to beat his wife at Anniston and was badly cut by the woman. H. L. Jones, of Union Springs and Miss Clara Belle Parham were married at the bride’s home in Midway. The latest for Birmingham is a Fertilizer factory to cost $60,000. It will be in operation by Aug. 1. In the Criminal Court Thursday afternoon the case against Jim Perkins, Lige Talley, Ed Brown, and Frank Nealey, colored, charged with the murder of John Franklin near Warrior, in February came to an end. The case against two of the defendants, Nealey and Talley, was not pressed. The jury rendered a verdict acquitting Perkins, while Ed Brown was given one year in the penitentiary. – [Birm. News] ¬¬¬-------- STAND BY THE CHICAGO PLATFORM – (Political viewpoint) New model Crandall typewriter (picture of typewriter) – only 28 key characters. Writing in plain sight alignment can’t change. Most simple, durable and perfect Typewriter extant. Lowest Factory price $50. The Currency Question PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. T. MORGAN, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Alabama. W. C. DAVIS, Attorney at Law. Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. W. L. MAY Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala calls promptly attended to day or night. 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. P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. Ad for Wine of Cardui PAGE 4 TALMAGE’S SERMON – Plea for Earnest Christian Prudence CANADIAN IMMIGRATION A WEALTH O9F GOLD DIED IN CHURCH WHILE AT PRAYER A MYSTERY OF NATURE – Why She Provides Nectar and Fragrance in Flowers THE BASHI0BAZOUKS POTATO DIGGERS PAGE 5 ATTACHED TO HIS REGIMENT – Stories of a Regular Army Veteran who Wouldn’t Quit the Service GRANT’S EQUANIMITY SNAKE FOR A NECKTIE IRON HUNGER EXTERMINATION OF GRASSHOPPERS Small ads PAGE 6 The toll gate war in Kentucky is assuming very serious proportions. The farmers seem to have made up their minds that the toll gate must go. Enormous and practically inexhaustible coal fields have been discovered in Columbia, Central America. The estimated supply is 300,000,000 tons. The Texas Legislature adjourned on Friday and Governor Culberson issued a proclamation calling them to an extra session the next day at noon. The Illinois Battlefield Commission will erect nine monuments in Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain Battlefield Park in addition to a granite shaft one hundred feet high on the top of Missionary Ridge. The body of millionaire banker was stolen from its grave last week at Portland, Ore. with a view to levying blackmail. The job was so clumsily performed however that the body and thieves were caught. A monument given by C. B. Rouss the millionaire ex-Confederate Veterans camp of New York, was dedicated at Mount Hope Cemetery on Saturday last. It is the finest monument in the cemetery. The inscription reads: Sacred to the memory of the Heroic Dead of the Confederate Veterans camp of New York. ¬¬------- Talk is cheap. Some people do nothing but talk. I do not talk myself, but prefer to let my customers talk for me. Buy your dry goods, boots, shoes, clothing, dress goods or fancy or staple groceries, tobacco, snuff, or in fact anything you may need from me. Then you will be willing to talk for me. S. J. BAIRD. Spring has come. Gentle Annie, so has my spring stock o goods. They are fresh, good, cheap. Give me a call. I can please you. W. R. BRADLEY O. C. LING, Guin, Ala. Blacksmith, wagon maker and gunsmith. Wagons made to order and ready filled wheels always on hand. Horse-shoeing a specialty. All work done cheaper than the cheapest for cash. Ad for Confederate Veteran. Men of Good Judgment are taking advantage of our good goods at the low prices we offer them. We don’t claim to sell the cheapest in the city, but I do sell as cheap. Quality of goods considered. E. W. BROCK It does not matter whether you live to ear, eat to live or just stooping over. You want the freshest, best groceries the cheapest good goods in the market. You will find them at JAS. A. SMITH’S. L. D. LITTLETON carries a full stock of dry goods, shoes, hats, and all kinds fo fine notions also a full line of all kinds of staple and fancy groceries at prices to suit the times. Get my prices before buying elsewhere. I can please you. Guin and Sulligent. 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 Our correspondents are crowded out this week. Rev. D. W. WARD preached at the Methodist Church Sunday night. Several of our citizens spent Sunday in Beaverton. This office is informed that Mr. J. C. TIDWELL will be appointed postmaster at this place. Judge COOPER passed through town Saturday enroute to Hamilton. Professor WINDSOR, of Bangor, Ala was in town several days last week. We understand that he is an applicant for the school at this place. Mr. __ MAYS, of Hamilton, called in to see us Monday and informed us that he was sure of his appointment as postmaster at Hamilton. SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC AND EDUCATIONAL RALLY At a meeting Tuesday at the school house it was decided to have an educational rally in connection with the Sunday School picnic to be given June 11. The rally is to be given to get enthusiasm in the school question at this place, also to get some movement of foot to purchase new desks for the school building. The picnic is to be a basket affair, and each one is expected to bring a basket well filled. The following is the program for the evening exercises. Judge W. H. MATTHEWS – The Best Plan of Electing Trustees; and the Plan upon which the Trustees should Elect Teacher’s &c. Dr. T. J. SPRINGFIELD – Duty Of Patrons To The School In General J. W. WILDES – School Furnishings W. T. MORGAN, Esqr – The Possibility Of And Advisability Of Guin Having A College Rev. D. W. WARD – The Social and Religious duty of the Guin District to Educate the Rising Generations. Mr. J. J. WEEKS, of Pharos called in to see us yesterday and he reported that the “Gazette” is gaining ground at his post office. Do not fail to come out to the picnic and bring a well filled basket. Mr. J. W. WILDES and family visited Amory, Miss. Wednesday returning Friday. Mr. and Mrs. JAMES SPRINGFIELD visited Hamilton first of the week. NOTICE MASONS Guin Lodge No. 478 A F & A M will hold communications at 2 o’clock pm June 19, 1897 for purpose of electing officers and probable work on E A degree. Small ads FOR SALE One saw mill, one grist mill, one cotton gin, also 170 acres of farm land, 50 acres open. Terms reasonable. P. M. CAUDLE, Executor, Guin, Ala. Ad for U. S. Gutta Percha Paint Ad for Free Course in Shorthand Ad for Parry Mfg Company – (picture of buggy) PAGE 8 Ad for Lyon & Cos Pick Leaf Smoking Tobacco Ad for Ayer’s Pills FAIR ENOUGH – joke EXTRACTING GOLD TRUMPET CALLS – Ram’s Horn Sounds a Warning Note to the Unredeemed WILL SHOOT SIXTEEN MILES Small ads JUDICIOUS EXPENDITURES CAUSE BIG RETURNS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/theguing1706gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.4 Kb