The Southern Star
    Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
    Wednesday, August 29, 1888
    Page Three
  
    Mr. E.A. Trawick, of Newton spent Wednesday in town.
  
    Prof. Bowen's school numbered eighty this week.
  
    Mr. Simeon Garner of Eufaula is on a visit to relatives and friends this
    week.
  
    The family of A. B. Metcalf, Esq. left Sunday evening for Texas, their
    future
    home.
  
    Mr. J. T. Hayes made a visit to his old home at Union Springs last week.
  
    Rev. R. Deal is conducting a series of very interesting meetings at the
    Baptist church in this place.
  
    Mr. Simeon Garner can be found with the old reliable firm of Kendall & Co.
    Eufaula, ever ready to wait on his friends from Dale.
  
    Mr. E. R. Jordan has on the road 18,000 pounds of tin, which will begin to
    arrive this week. This tin will be manufactured into tin ware at this
    place.
  
    Mr. John A. Rhodes is visiting relatives and friends in Dale county. He
    writes that crops are fine in that section of the State. - Ex.
  
    Fine Chewing and Smoking Tobacco's at City Pharmacy
    Tennille, Holland & Cullens
  
    We are authorized to say that by the 13th of next month, September, the
    train will be making regular trips from here to Eufaula.
  
    Two young ladies can get board at reasonable rates at Judge Carmichael's
    during the fall term of school at Ozark.
  
    It will be to the interest of those living in the country to call and see
    Gus Hutchinson for a good haircut and shave. He will treat you right.
  
    Marshall Morgan run in Jeff Ruffin, John Lloyd and Peter Cassady Tuesday
    morning for disorderly conduct. They will attend the Mayor's matinee
    to-day.
  
    Fresh lot of groceries just received at J. W. Barnes'. Don't fail to give
    him a call when you come to town. He will sell you what you need as cheap
    as any one in town.
  
    Mr. Rob't. G. Hall, Jr., of James, Bullock County, got the appointment to
    the military school at West Point, but declined to accept. Mr. W. T.
    Feagan,
    his alternate, left immediately to enter that school.
  
    Mr. L. J. Robbins is delivering a large lot of machinery, some sometime
    ago.
    Mr. Robbins can give you prices and terms on any kind of machinery that
    cannot be excelled.
  
    J. F. Lewis, Esq., the newly elected tax assessor, was in town Thursday and
    filed his bond with the Probate Judge.
  
    Mr. James Kendall, of Eufaula, was in town Thursday in the interest of
    Kendall & Co., of Eufaula. He sold stacks of goods as usual.
  
    The Ozark Transient House as it gets older gets better. Mr. Painer has
    gone
    to a great deal of expense in fitting up his hotel, and he has now one of
    the most complete in this portion of the State.
  
    Mr. C. W. Payne has purchased the entire stock of goods belonging to Morris
    &
    Payne, of Elba, and will at once move them to Ozark. When he will have a
    select stock of goods of all kinds. He has engaged the services of Mr.
    Robert Mobley for the fall and winter and would be pleased to have his
    friends call and see him.
  
    Mr. W.W. Morris is having erected near the depot a warehouse for the
    storage
    of cotton. Mr. Morris will have his warehouse ready at an early day, and
    kindly asks a share of the patronage of the public.
  
    Messrs. Bud Beasley and A. N. Agerton passed through town Thursday, enroute
    home from a trip below the river, with five large sturgeons in the wagon,
    weighing over 100 pounds each. It was quite a curiosity to many who had
    never seen such a fish.
  
    Burglars occasionally get in their work at Brewton. Mr. Morrison lost
    $105
    and a good watch a few nights ago.
  
  
    Ozark, August 28, 1888
  
    I again urgently request each and every householder to look well to the
    sanitary condition of his premises and to remove as far as possible every
    source of nuisance about his place, clearing up frequently all decaying or
    putrid matter of whatsoever nature it may be and using lime ever morning
    to
    keep off as far as possible all diseases.
  
    Respectfully,
    J.C. Holman
    County Health Officer
  
    Lands for Sale
  
    160 acres of land for sale lying west of Skipperville, good dwelling ½
    mile
    west of Skipperville, healthy location, convenient to good schools. Any
    person wishing to purchase, call on me at Ozark. Will sell at low
    figures.
  
    James Bottoms

Note: The Bottoms family still live in the area.