1866-05-19: Sidewalks and Crossings a Mess

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We call the attention of our worthy Mayor to the miserable condition of the sidewalk and crossings along the east side of the street that runs in front of the residences of R. G. CRAWFORD, Mrs. HODGES and others. We dare say that the sidewalk referred to is as much frequented by pedestrians as any other in the city, and it certainly is in a very bad condition. Our city fathers would receive the hearty thanks of a large portion of the citizens if they would take a little of the corporate fund and repair the sidewalk referred to.

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 19 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-19: Bolivar Needs a Hotel

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Bolivar and its surroundings needs a first class Hotel. No one can gainsay it. Will not some of our citizens who are “possessed of this world’s goods” build a hotel in Bolivar? There is no doubt but what money thus invested would pay a handsome percentage.

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 19 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-19: Honoring the Confederate Dead

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Sir
All over the South a laudable effort is being made to collect and inter the remains of Confederate dead, in every county societies are in existence for the purpose of erecting marble monuments in honor of our fallen brace, we have such a society in our midst, and every feeling I have is heartily in their favor, and I sincerely trust that their success may equal their most sanguine desire. But let me call the attention of the society and all the town, to the face (the shame of us all) that one mile west of the town lies buried, north and south, the body of a brave Confederate soldier, killed in the vain effort to drive STURGIS and his burning menials from our town. This brave soldier’s last resting place is marked by two stakes and just on enough land unmarked by the plow for his poor shot body to lie in. Comment is unnecessary, only raise no marble shaft whilst the body of the poor friendless boy moulders in Mr. Mont JONES‘s field, desecrated by every furrow of the plow.

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 19 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-12: Dunlap Springs

02. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: 1866, NewsExtract

Just two miles southeast of Bolivar there is one of the finest sites for a summer resort to be found in the Western District. We allude to the “Dunlap Spring;” the medical properties of these springs are beyond question, and in former years were extensively patronized. In view of the fact that large numbers of the citizens of Southern cities will leave their places of abode on the first approach of the coming summer, would it not be well to thoroughly repair and otherwise improve the buildings at the Springs? ‘There is no doubt of their being extensively patronized if proper accommodations are offered to those who will seek a temporary abiding place away from the sickly air of Hardeman! and catch some of the fleeing birds when dread king cholera shakes the bush of frail mortality. Wake up! and “put money in thy purse.”

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 12 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-12: Episcopal Church Assembles

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Our reads will bear in mind the important fact that the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church assembles at St. James’ in this place on the 16th inst. St. James’ church has been recently repaired and considerable change has been made, by which several more seats were added, the front partition cut away, and the interior of the building otherwise handsomely improved.

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 12 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-12: Organization of the Monumental Society

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A number of citizens of Hardeman met at the residence of Mrs. ROPER, in Bolivar, for the purpose of organizing a “Monumental Society,” the object and aims of which are to devise measures and means for erecting a shaft to the memory of the sons of Hardeman who lost their lives in the late unhappy war. We have been handed the following Preamble, etc., of the organization by A. T. MCNEAL, Esq., with the request to publish the same, which we cheerfully do:

Preamble

Inasmuch as we deem it a sacred duty of the living to pay some respect to the memory of those who fell in the late struggle, giving up their lives in a cause which was ours as well as their own; and as many of the purest and best citizens of our county perished at the post of duty, and now rest in graves unknown and unmarked, we believe it due from us to each and every one of them to hand down to posterity some testimonial of our appreciation of their sacrifice, therefore –

Resolved, That we, the undersigned, agree to form ourselves into an organization for the purpose of bringing this object to the attention of the people of our county, and pledge each other that we will use our best energies to have erected, in Court Square in the town of Bolivar, or some other suitable place, a monument commemorative of the Confederate dead of Hardeman county.

signed: Mrs. R. P. NEELY, Pres, A. T. MCNEAL, Sec’y, R. S. HARDY, Treas., and members Mrs. E. P. MCNEAL, Mrs. R. G. CRAWFORD, Mrs. Pitser MILLER, Mrs. H. HARKINS, Mrs. R. S. HARDY, Mrs. M. P. ROBERTS, Mrs. A. ROPER

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 12 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-01-27: Bolivar Male Academy

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The Spring session of this excellent school will commence on the 5th of February next.  Parties who contemplate patronising this school, would do well to read the advertisement of the Principal, which we print in another column.  The Board of Directors are R.H. WOOD, President; J.C. FLEMING, Secretary; Hugh HARKINS, Treasurer; J.H. NEILSON and Dr. A.A. COLEMAN; and the exercises of the school will be presided over by J. Milton HUBBARD, Principal, and Austin M. STATLER, assistant.  It will be seen from this arrangement that the Bolivar Male Academ yis in a floursighing condition, and there is no doubt but what it will be well attended by the youths of Hardeman and adjoining counties.

 

Source:  Bolivar Bulletin, January 27 1866, pg. 3. 

1866-01-20: Clinton Lodge Masonic Chapter Officers

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The following is a list of the officers of Clinton Lodge No. 54, Bolivar, Tenn., for the ensing Masonic year:

  • L.B. ADAMS, W.M.
  • Baily MACON, S.W.
  • James FENTRESS, J.W.
  • John H. BILLS, Treasurer
  • W.C. DORION, Secretary
  • W.H. THOMPSON, S.D.
  • Isaac BAKER, J.D.
  • John T. GRAHAM, Tyler
  • John KENNEDY and J.R. BYNUM, Stewards

Source: Bolivar Bulletin, January 20, 1866, pg. 3

1866-01-20: Bolivar Chapter Masonic Officers

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The following is a list of the officers of Bolivar Chapter No. 34 for the ensuing Masonic year:

  • William H. THOMPSON, M.E.H.P.
  • L.B. ADAMS, E.K.
  • D.J. WELLS, E.S.
  • B. MACON, C. of H.
  • W.O. GRAY, P.S.
  • J.M. RICHARDSON, R.A.C.
  • W.C. DORION, M. of 3d. V.
  • J.C. FLEMING, M. of 2d. V.
  • James FENTRESS, M. of 1st. V.
  • R.S. HARDY, Secretary
  • J.H. BILLS, Treasurer
  • John T. GRAHAM, Sentinel

Source: Bolivar Bulletin, January 20, 1866, pg. 3.

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