The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-07
FaE cSTSTY.
Weather beautffuf snd the picws

are going. Also the cotton pickers.
wis Williams, of the HGrIboldt
Herald, has gone to leesuring to SdH-
day schools
Some of fhe roads between here and
Trenton need work before fhe bad
weather sets m.
Not a very hFye attendance at6ourt
Monday-un account of general SICK
ness, we presume.
Remember, the Trenton Fair comes
off next week. Let's all 60 and make
n grand success of it.
Mr. BeF Shepherd, assistant post
master at Trenton, is down with fever.
We hope soon to see him out.
Mrs Sarah Carless attempted to
cohtinit suicide Sf throwing herself
under a train in Humboldt last week.
The woods between here and Tren-
ton present tie hses of. the rainbow
now and are odorous with the fragrant
muscadine.
Our good friend ]. B. Bradberry,
of Hope Hill, was Qualified as consta-
BILE Monday. No dohbt lie will make
a good.oficer.
The Milan and Trenton "air line
county road is groSing popular. The
Court appointed IA committee to see
about. opening 1t last Monday. Let US
have it by all means.
Great preparations ,are being made
for the success of the Gibson County
Fair. Our Trenton friends assare us
all will be welcome: Many will go
from this and other neighhorhoods.
"Pull backs" have just come into
fashion in Humboldt, and the papers
are full of them. They have been
common here for a year. But you
know Humboldt is about that much
behind the age anyhow.
The following marriage licenses
were issued for the month Of septem-
Der:
w Warren and Mary Keathly.
WIZ A Thedford and l. E Conner.
BIZ Thetford and Mrs T Il wilkins.
r Gaines and G Sharp,
j Hanks and NJ Bullet.
a Finley and n A Anderson.
Neal Gaunt and Violet Ingraifi.
j H Waldrop and Tennessee Casey.
j S Terrell and NJ E Ferriss.
NJ P G Baird and NJ NJ Skies.
There are now in Milan, il Is said, 100
American girls studying singing with
a view to the opcratic Stage. But you
can take off that rev plug hat, Wade,
for it IS not Your "little. berg. but
"that other Milan acrtss the deep
Herald.
But there are in this "little berg.
one hundred and more American girls,
as lovely as spring morning, who are
preparing themselves to be useful wo-
men, not ON the operate stage, thank
God, but on the stage of real life
and we take great pleasure in doffing
"that new plug totheih. ;.,or
Cotton from the northern part of
the county is brought, to our market
for sale. Well, it ought 10 lie, for our
merchants pay the highest marked
price for II, and give better bargains.
in dry goods and groceries than can
be secured at any Other place in the
county. Sensible farmers. Hstr'b.
Herald. -.-
1t is strange, if the Humboldt met.
chants give the best prices for cotton
and sell cheaper than anybody in the
county, that cptton comes here from
the very doors bf that town. Wen
wager a good cigar that Milan shipped
three bales last seasuti fbr every one
shipped by Humboldt. Nbw Mr.
Herald man, come up to the scratch. -
Exchange last areek.
We "come to the scratch" Mr. En-
CHANGE. Deposit your cigar in re-
sponsible hands, then we'll put up"
Remember the bet is that Humboldt
merchants give the, best price fol. cot,
ton and sell cheaper than anybody in
the county.-Hefaid.
Too thin ! Why didn't you publish
our challenge? You know we have
beat you three to one, and thus dodge
the question. Put up or dry up