NEWS FROM LONG AGO OCTOBER 5, 1900 FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 29 The Relief Fund to the Galveston storm sufferers on October 1st amounts to $881,043.88 from all sources. LOCAL AND PERSONALS: School opened Monday with a good attendance. - Mr. Phillip Cramer and wife are visiting relatives in town this week. - That brilliant young lawyer of Louisville, Mr. Z. A. Brantley, was in town Monday. - Mr. Andrew Amason of Bessemer visited his sister, Mrs. S. R. Hughston this week. - J. Russie Davis wears a contented look these days, it is a girl is the rest of the story. - Mr. Jesse Hughes reports that his family are all well for the first time since the first part of the summer. - The election commissioners, W. W. Riley, Chas. A. Hemphill, and E. E. Buck, were in session here this week. - The Board of Supervisors have been in session here all week. Most of their time was taken up by stock law petitions. - Messrs. W. T. Webb, Floyd Bruce, and Wily Tomlinson are the new clerks at Blumenfeld and Fried’s since Oct. 1st. - Supervisor W. H. Adams tells us that there were on the petitions for stock law in Township 1?7? - Range 10, 114 petitioners for the law and 48 against. - Messrs. Henry Coleman, F. G. Coleman, C. C. Crawford, G. A. Eddleman, Mayor J. M. Irving are among the representatives of Weir and vicinity in town this week. FOR SALE: A desirable house and lot on the corporate limits of Ackerman. Apply to the RECORD editor. – FOR SALE – We have an acre lot on which there is a five room house in the suburbs of town for sale cheap. Call at once. 10-5. - The Crown Bargain House is the only place you can buy one yard wide brown domestic @ 5 cents. Prints from 4 to 4 ½. Misses Virgie Carter and Bertha Irving, two charming young ladies of Weir, visited Misses Cora and Mallie Hunt last Sunday. - We were glad to have a call on Monday from our friend Mr. Hugh Shaw of Bankston. Mr. Shaw was in town selling cotton at ten cents per pound. He tells us he will have a fine yield of cotton this year. - Dr. R. K. Prewitt has purchased the A. L. Weeks stock of goods and rented the same house recently occupied by Weeks on the corner of Main and Chester streets and will carry a full line of Drugs and General merchandise and invites his friends to call and see him. List of letters remaining in the post office, uncalled for, for September: Miss Carrie Bridges, Buster Cresper, N. C. Patterson, J. W. Smith, D. F. Brown, Tom Robinson, Simon William, Boyd Robinson. The following boarding pupils entered Ackerman High School Monday morning: Charlie Buck, Sam Pollard, Pleamon Bruce, Victor Moss, John Tipton, Robert Gordon, Felix Long, Annabelle McAlister, Bessie Buck, Virgie Davis, Esther Henderson, Kittie Sides, Emma Hammon, Frank Sides, Henry Sies, Peal Long .
