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Columbia and Adair Co.: buzzing and booming, September 1902 By JIM When September 1902 turned the corner of mid-month and began the march toward October, commerce boomed in town, and Columbia and Adair County buzzed with excitement a-plenty. An ordinance in the September 24 News announced that on October 9th, the city of Columbia would sell franchise rights "to construct, maintain, and operate an electric light plant" within the city limits. (Mr. W.R. Myers installed Columbia's first electric plant in 1904.) Another ordinance announced that also on that date, franchise rights would also be sold for the much-discussed, much ballyhooed electric interurban train line. At the same time, Mr. James T. Page was having a room in his Campbellsville Street building [possibly referring to the Campbellsville Street-facing side of the Creel Building on the exit corner of the square] fitted up as office for Rev. W.K. Azbill, the promoter of and the prime moving force behind the interurban proposal. And, to round out the trifecta, the annual meeting of the Louisville Conference, M.E.C., S. would start in about a week, with the Educational Board to meet on September 30th "to determine what will be done in regard to locating a school of high grade in this district." (Almost exactly 14 months later, the Lindsey Wilson Training School opened its doors.) In addition, the fledgling Columbia Telephone was about to take the plunge and extend a line all the way to Eli Burton's store in far-off Purdy. In more mundane matters, business rivals W.L. Walker and Russell & Murrell announced the openings of their respective fall lines of merchandise, and the latter-named enterprise also offered to pay fancy prices for eggs (12-1/2c per dozen), 40c/lb for prime feathers, and 4c/qty unknown for prime dried apples. M.C. "Mike" Winfrey wanted to sell groceries and stoves "for as little money as any one in town," and Mrs. T.I. Smith, milliner, notified interested parties by way of a small ad that she was back from city market with "a handsome line of Fall and Winter millinery" and that "All country produce taken at highest cash prices." Proprietors of another millinery firm, that of Mrs. Sallie & Miss Effie Bradshaw, mere et fille, announced their season opening as well, boasting of a full line of stock "consisting of all the latest styles and novelties of the Cincinnati and Louisville markets," and invited patronage of the ladies from Adair and surrounding counties. And finally, C.R. Hoskins, well-known brickmason of Campbellsville, with a large corps of hands, was "pushing the brickwork" on the new Jeffries Building on the exit corner of Jamestown Street and the square. (The edifice was ready for use when the new year rolled in a few weeks later.) This story was posted on 2023-09-23 16:21:46
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