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News from 105 years ago: May 30, 1906 What treasures hath Jim unearthed from his Elba in the Shawnee territory, up north, far beyond the clime sublime! Even suffering from 'the 'swooning wearies of the heart, mind and soul' he valiantly endeavored to persevere and send; News of - Great Uncle Paul's envelope patent, Miss Edna Lewis' career ascent, the expansion in Boomer Heights, Richard Burton's five-eyed chicken, architectural refinements in Cane Valley, J.P. Hutcheson's progress on behalf of agriculturists - even before the Chamber of Commerce invented that term and award, the lodging at Commonwealth expense following a brotherly cutting, a history making nuptial involving an Adair Co. national and a native Texan girl, and the re-badging of a great hotel, after its purchase by From-Offs from Gradyville, who disguised the foreign ownership with the innocent name "The Columbia Hotel," - all this and divers other wonderments from Jim. -EW Click on headline for full, story unimpeded by pictorial affectations. By "Jim" Miss Katie Murrell was visiting her cousin, Miss Ada May Jones, of Jamestown. The well known piano tuner, Mr. Fred Scheidler, was spending a few days in Columbia. Mr. Paul Waggener had returned to Columbia from Georgetown, where he had been in College. (It will be remembered that some years later, Mr. Waggener secured a patent for a "unique and very convenient" envelope. Oh, that the Greatest Minds of Adair County would come together to invent an envelope that can't be addressed upside down. Talk about building a better mousetrap! Mercy me, the Canadian tour busses would be log-jammed bumper to bumper from Detroit to Dirigo.) Miss Edna Lewis, the intelligent daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lewis, of Columbia, had gained employment in Louisville as stenographer for a wholesale clothing house, M.F. Shuster & Co. Ten dwelling were going up on "Boomer Heights," and a number of other residences were being put up elsewhere in town. A chick hatched recently at Richard Burton's was a marvel to behold. "It had five eyes, four wings and two necks." With all the stock paid in, a banking house in Cane Valley was assured. Dr. W.F. Cartwright and Mr. E.I. Moss had made inviting improvements -- neat fences and painting for the former, and the addition of a story, a half ell, and new veranda for the latter. J.P. Hutcheson, whose business place was back of the Marcum Hotel, advised readers he handled salt, lime, and cement, and that he bought wool, feathers, hides and country produce, of which "the buying of poultry and eggs [is] a specialty." Court was in session, and Ed Stone had been awarded a five-year stay as a guest of the state for cutting his brother's throat; James Rice benefited from a hung jury on the charge of forging a five-dollar check; and Ed Cundiff was on trial for "a difficulty" that came up the previous November in Cane Valley in which Cundiff shot a man named Bumgarner. The News was in receipt of a wedding invitation from Texas, the contracting parties being Miss Dorothy Arnold, "a popular young lady" of Hillsboro, Texas, and Adair County native and Hillsboro resident Melvin Alvah Traylor. The ceremony was to be performed on Wednesday morning, June 6th, in that city. (The bride's surname was Yerby.--Jim) Mr. R.L. Faulkner, of Coburg, by way of a "card" announced that the Griffin Spring, "the noted health resort," would open June 20th. The cost for partaking of "the finest sulphur water that flows" would barely touch the wallet, as staying at the nearby first-rate boarding house was but a dollar a day, or five dollars the week. Children stayed at half-price. Mrs. M.E. Marcum, who had been running the Marcum (originally the Conover, and later, the New Adair) Hotel since the passing of her husband in the spring of 1904, had "retired from the business" and returned to her home on Burkesville Street. J.B. Barbee, owner of the building, was to succeed Mrs. Marcum as proprietor, and he had hired Mrs. L.C. Hurt as hostess and manager. Mr. Barbee's tenure as owner was short-lived, however, as the July 16, 1906 News reported he had sold the building, land, and business -- lock, stock, and barrel -- to Messrs. Jo H. Smith and Geo. H. Nell, of Gradyville, for $10,500. Those gentlemen immediately changed the name of the establishment to the Columbia Hotel. Early that fall, they announced a number of improvements, including "...the entire building heated by furnace and steam, and will also furnish all the rooms with hot and cold water. For this latter purpose they will have a well put down in the rear of the building and will use a gasoline engine to pump the water into a tank situated high enough to give protection to the [hotel building] in case of fire." Compiled by "Jim" This story was posted on 2011-05-29 12:00:53
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