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100 Years Ago: Goings-on in early September 1923 By JIM The opening days of September 1923 found Mr. Horace T. Walker roofing the First National Bank of Columbia as part of extensive changes to the twenty year old building. At the same time, Mr. Walker, a man of many talents, had "opened his picture show at Tutt Hall" for the fall and winter season. Tutt Hall, a large, fairly new building, stood facing a now long-since closed section of Jefferson Alley, roughly behind the First Baptist Church building. N.B, Kelsay wanted to sell "a good Range Stove," used only two years, "cheap if taken at once." Gum Grove School had a pie supper coming up for the benefit of the school and its library, and H.C. Feece offered a reward for the pair of bifocal rimless spectacles he'd lost in Columbia. V---- Burton faced charges of striking Luther Chapman on the hand with a mustard jar at the recently closed fair. Burton was "held in the sum of $300 to await action of the grand jury." After a delay or two, work on the water works system for the Court House had just been completed, and, stated the News, "Everything will be kept in a sanitary condition." Adair County buzzed at the prospect of a metal (i.e., hard surface) road being considered, said road to run from Frankfort to Nashville by way of Adair County, and a large contingent of locals had attended a meeting in the state capitol in recent days to agitate for same. Education occupied a fair amount of front page space. The Columbia Graded and High School opened on the tenth with 276 "Perhaps the biggest enrollment for the first day in the history of the school" in both the graded and high school components. The new classroom building, under construction for some time, was not yet ready for occupancy, so classes would be taught "in buildings on the present site." The Lindsey-Wilson also had a good start with "The largest opening...since Prof. Bennett has been the head of the school." On the first day, the tally stood at 136, including "90 high school students, 10 in the College department, 31 in the grades and 5 in the Normal," with the expectation of increases in all departments over the following few weeks. This story was posted on 2023-09-10 13:25:47
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