125 years ago: 1890

A committee of Cotton Exchange members is scouring the grocery stores on Front for the choicest spring chickens, the tenderest shoats and lambs, all similar delicacies and the rarest wines for the barbecue to be held this week end. In charge will be J.J. Shoemaker, E.C. LaHache, Emmett L. Woodson, R.S. Bowles, Charles E. Morrow, Sam Q. Hughes, Irving Massey and R.F. Tate.