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JIM: The Adair County News made the news 110 years ago today Seven years after Adair County News began publication, the city had transfored itself from a place not inviting and a place of indifference to one where new life and new leadership ambition had swept aside old poke-easy style and there was rejoicing, by the news, about the rapid improvements being made, no doubt because of the inspiring nature of the News By JIM The News edition of 110 years ago today--November 16, 1904--marked the inaugural issue of the eighth year of publication, and an opinion piece remarked on the difference in Columbia in the fall of 1897 when publication began and conditions seven years later: "At that time the prospects of Columbia were not inviting and indifference in many avenues of business existed throughout this entire section, but conditions have changed, new life, new enterprise and invigorate ambition have swept aside the old poke-easy and to-day we rejoice over the rapid improvements made and being made both in town and county." The News itself, self-described as "closely allied with home interests and ready to do all within its power to advance the moral, industrial, and educational features of this section," was on the brink of improvement. Another article stated, "Columbia is growing, our patrons and our businesses demand a larger paper and we propose to meet the requirements." At no small expense, the News office was "almost new in every particular...and within a short time other improvements will be added." Before year's end, the News expanded from a single sheet, four page paper to a two-sheet, eight page publication. A Fairbanks Morse 'Jack-of-All-Trades' engine powered newspaper press One vast improvement was the acquisition of a Fairbanks-Morse "Jack-of-All-Trades" engine to power the presses. An ad for "Jack," placed in the paper by local agent Jeffries & Son Hardware, stated the engine could saw wood, pump water, shell corn, grind feed, and churn butter, and run cider mills, ice cream freezers, printing presses and other machinery. Touted the ad, "It costs nothing to keep when not working. It costs from 1 to 2 cents per hour when working." Columbia Post office was open from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p. m., weekdays Elsewhere around the Square that long-ago November, Postmaster J.M. Russell, Jr. kept the post office open from 7:30 a.m until 9:30 p.m. weekdays. Down on Water Street, the multi-talented Wade Eubank offered his services for tinwork, woodwork, horse-shoeing, buggy repairs and pump fixing. Not many doors removed, brothers J.C. & R.P. Browning, Liverymen (entrance off Water Street) appealed to the traveling public, offering "splendid vehicles, first-class teams, and safe drivers," not to mention stables "well stocked with provender" at all times. C.A. Coy's grocery store was taking produce in exchange for goods C.A. Coy solicited trade at his grocery store on the south side of the Square and informed readers he would take produce in exchange for goods and promised he would "sell as cheap as any man." Two firms, Walker & Morrison and the Hurt Brothers (the Messrs. Edwin & L.C. Hurt, south side of the Square, phone 43), had rough and dressed lumber available for sale. On the corner of the Square and Greensburg Street the proprietor of the Marcum Hotel proclaimed the establishment to be "a brick building of modern architecture, containing 35 new, neat and well vented rooms...the best hotel in Southern Kentucky." (Curiously, the ad stated M.H. Marcum was the hotel proprietor. Mr. Marcum had taken over management of the establishment a few years earlier but had passed almost seven months earlier and his widow, Martha, had taken over the day-to-day operation.) Medicine was state of art, wih Osteopath and Electro-Therapeutists practices Dr. James Menzines, Osteopath, offered free consultation and examination at his home office, phone 35. The doctors Richards & Hancock (Room 6, Jeffries building) billed themselves as "Electro-Theropeutists and Drs. of Optics, Eye Specialists," and solemnly warned that eye strain could lead to brain irritation, nervous debility, and other maladies. News man J.E. Murrell maintained side business as insurance agent News man J.E. Murrell maintained his side business as an agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the firm of Reed & Miller retained the local agency for the Lebanon Steam Laundry, "one of the best and most reliable laundries in the state." New Russell Springs Baptist Church was commodious and handsomely finished Two items from Russell County each drew several lines of ink. In Russell Springs, the new Baptist church building had been dedicated with a crowd estimated at five to six hundred people in attendance. Columbians Horace Jeffries and his sister, Miss Mollie, made an appearance, and the former pronounced the new edifice as "commodious and very handsomely finished." The News opined, "This church building adds greatly to the appearance of Russell Springs." An announcement made before the dedicatory sermon informed those present that a debt of some two hundred dollars remained. Any number of wallets immediately opened, "and the amount was quickly raised." Word came from Jametown of an important impending wedding From down Jamestown way came word of the impending wedding of a well-known couple. The groom, William Shelby Hart, was a lawyer and young man "of exemplary habits, attentive to business and [with] bright prospects before him." The bride, twenty-three year-old Miss Corinne Jones, described as "a young lady possessing many noble traits of character," was well-remembered in Columbia from her days as a student at the Male & Female High School. And too, Miss Jones was a close cousin of Columbia's own Miss Katie Murrell, the latter having been selected to play the wedding march. Death parted newly weds after one year and two weeks The closing line of the wedding announcement wished the young couple "happiness and prosperity until separated by death." Sadly, that separation came all too soon. Just a few months into the marriage, Mr. Hart's health began to fail, and on November 31, 1905, exactly one year and two weeks after he and Corrine were joined in wedlock, he passed beyond this sphere, age thirty years. In the spring of 1911, four months before her thirtieth birthday, the young widow's clothing caught fire. She was so badly burned she died from heart failure, and her remains were laid beside those of her beloved Shelby in the Jamestown City Cemetery, where together they "sleep in peace eternal." Compiled by JIM This story was posted on 2014-11-16 15:23:11
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