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100 years ago: from April 19, 1911 News County population was 16,501 100 years ago. Land was being sold at public outcry. There were eight physicians in the county 100 years ago. by "Jim" News with numbers seemed to abound on the front page of the April 19, 1911 News. One article gave the just-released 1910 census information for Adair County. The Columbia precinct was the most populous of the seven with 3,097; of that number, 1,022 lived within the corporate limits of "Columbia town." (In this era, the city limits extended one-half mile from the Square.) The Gradyville and White Oak precincts were in a virtual dead heat for second place with 2,790 and 2,785 residents, respectively, while the village of Cane Valley boasted 163 citizens. Overall, the county population was 16,501, an increase of 1,416 since the previous census. Numbers played an important role in another article, this one about the Columbia Graded School. The school library had swelled to nearly two hundred books, and the school board had provided "a splendid book case that will hold over five hundred volumes." The piece also noted that attendance was much improved for the spring term of 1911 as compared to a year earlier, a statement borne out by a list of the names of nearly fifty students who had been present every day since the Christmas break, and another list, nearly as long as the first, of those students who had missed "only when too sick to attend." The former group included Payne Garvin, Shreve Davis, Julia Miller, Alvin Lewis, and the Misses Lowe, Lenora and Mary Lucy. Among the latter were Frances Reed, John Lowe, Ruth Paull, Edgar Reed, and Paul Hughes. R.O. Mulligan, of Scottsville had for sale at public outcry on May 6th, "some of the most desirable town lots in Columbia, situated a few hundred yards from the Lindsey-Wilson school, known as the Mulligan addition." The article (or ad; it's sometimes difficult to make a precise determination which is which in the olden papers) went on to quote Mr. Mulligan: I have just succeeded in getting a 30 ft. street from these lots to the Stanford Pike, thereby connecting the Jamestown Pike and the Stanford Pike, said street running through and by these lots, to and by the Lindsey-Wilson school, which connects with a street to and by the Graded School, thereby making these lots the most accessible to the Lindsey-Wilson and Graded Schools of any in Columbia. They are beautifully located on high ground, overlooking the balance of the town. Mr. Mulligan had purchased the property in two tracts in June, 1906--eight and one-half acres from J.O. Russell for $850 and ten acres from O.C. Vaughn for $750. He immediately subdivided the properties and offered building lots via public auction in late June, 1906; the sale was a total flop. The August 1, 1906, News stated that "only five [lots] were sold, ranging in price from $35 to $115...so the sale was declared off." In a striking bit of deja vu, the May 10, 1911 edition reported that "The lot sale...did not pan out to the satisfaction of the owner...The property is very desirable, but it was not an opportune time to sell..." The Adair County Medical Society was to meet on May 11th with papers to be delivered by eight Adair County physicians: Dr. William Blair, Glensfork; Drs. U.L. Taylor and C.M. Russell, Columbia; Dr. Simpson J. Simmons, Gradyville; Dr. S.A. Taylor, Montpelier; and Drs. Edmond Arthur Waggener, W.F. Cartwright, and John H. Grady, Columbia. In an indication of the prevalence of a scourge of the times, three of the eight papers dealt with "consumption," one of the many euphemisms for tuberculosis. (The following week's edition of the paper announced a forthcoming program of an anti-tuberculosis meeting to be held at the Christian church on Sunday evening, April 30th. The program featured six speakers--three physicians, Drs. Taylor, Cartwright, and Grady; a minister, Rev. B.M. Currie; an educator/administrator (and part-time preacher), Tobias Huffaker; and a well-known jurist, Judge H.C. Baker.) In other news: A brief letter, penned by Mr. M.W. Cooper, the Postmaster at Irvin's Store, Russell County, appeared under the headline, "A Complaint":I have not received my paper this week, and I don't get it much more than half the time. Why is it that Irvin's Store people can not get the Adair County News? I like your paper, but it seems like we can not get it until a week old, or may be we don't get it at all. I find that it has already come to the other post office in this part. I hope the post masters will be more careful in handling the mail, if they are to blame. The News had also received a letter from Gradyvillian Kellis N. Sparks. This letter most likely was too long to print, but a summation of it made the front page: Mr. K.N. Sparks, who is in the United States Navy, writes the News from the State of Washington. He says he has been in South America, and expects his ship to sail again in July, to what point he does not know. He is tired of the life of the soldier, and says that in 1914 he will discharged, starting immediately for Adair County, Ky. He advises young men to keep out of the army if they do not want to see a hard time. (Mr. Sparks apparently had enlisted early the previous year. When the census was taken in the spring of 1910, he was enumerated among those quartered at a military Training Station in California, and his "occupation" was given as "appr[entice] seaman.") Easter services (April 16th) at the Columbia Methodist Church were well attended. The choir presented several selections, and "the duet sang by Mr. J.D. Farris and Miss Hatcher received special praise." The minister, Rev. B.M. Currie, delivered a "strong and convincing" message on The Resurrection of Christ. ("Miss Hatcher" referred to Ethel Lee Hatcher, a native of Georgia, who had arrived in Columbia the previous summer to teach vocal and instrumental music at the Lindsey Wilson Training School. Mr. Farris, a native of western Kentucky, had arrived in town at the same time, he as a teacher in the High School Department of the Columbia Graded School. He departed Columbia at the close of term in May, 1912, to attend college.) Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Neat had hosted an Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday, April 16th, for their kids as well as almost two dozen other children of Columbia. Among the "little people" invited to join the fun were Letitia Paull, Cary & Callie Feese, Nell & Henry Hancock, Earnest Waggener, and Allen Eubank. And in sports news: The Lindsey-Wilson baseballers had crossed bats the previous Wednesday with the Columbia Graded School at the latter's home field. Quite a few witnessed the game "which terminated in favor of the Lindsey-Wilson 16-5. There was much excitement, and at the conclusion the victors gave the yell of their school." In keeping with the wont and manner of the day, "The best of humor permeated during the contest." -Compiled by "Jim" This story was posted on 2011-04-17 10:41:08
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