The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-24
AROUND TOWN.
Hot weather this week.

snoNco mere friday ana Saturuay
nights to fair audiences.
Vote for tbe "School Tax" next
Saturday, and thus educate your chill
dren ut less than half price.
A gay party OF young ladies and
gentlemen we're out serenading on
Wednesday night of last week.
Baird has placed our better half un-
der obligations several times lately
for treats of his superior soda water.
Mrs. Burns has our thanks for a
nice lot of gooseberries. Tarts made
of them are the very thing at this
season.
Our new sign is so large and plain
"that he may run ION the trains that
readeth it." Mr.. Laval and Frank
Smith did the job.
A bronzed typo from the Black
Hills (whcre find We not the ubiqui-
tous tramp-printer ?'') was with us a
day or two this week.
DR. Crawford is holding forth at
the Milan Hotel this wetk. Go and
have your teeth worked n W lile you
have a frst~class opportunity.
The editor is again on duty, and
hopes by close attention TO business to
make the local columns of the Ex>
CHANGE more attractive than ever.
Now we need a canning establish
ment to save the vast quantities of
Strawberries which it will not pay to
ship. In the meantime, make wine
of them.
Our old friend, Rev. Acton Young,
has taken charge of the Franklin
House, 81 Adams street, Memphis,
where he invites his friends to call on
him.
Mr. Beeler, of Philadelphia, is in
our town for the purpose of making
a survey for a new map of the county,
which he proposes to publish at an
early day.
About three hundred hands have
been kept busy picking Strawberries
here the past week. This will scatter
4 considerable sum of money where it
is needed most.
Hale & Vanhook are doing tre-
mendous business with the Champion
Reaper and Mower, selling them forty
and fifty miles around. Another car
loa1 received this week.
The Dresden Democrat says that
the Rev. G. Y. Rankin, formerly of
this place, is conducting very inter-
esting revival meeting in that town.
A large number have been converted.
Major Hallstrom is always first with
cherries. He takes great pride in his
cherries and grapes, and justly, too.
We thank him for fine bunch of de-
licious cherries, sent to us last Thurs
day.
Mr.. n. A. Holt, of Pickettville,
and Miss Nancy Hill, of this place,
were married at the residence of Mr..
James Ridings last Thursday. Our
Jolly friend, NJ. T. Parker, Esq, Off
ciated.
Miss Bette Parrish, by presenting
us with a magnificent boquet last
Tuesday, diffused our Office with
heavenly incense, and made every
one who came in happy. For which
she has our thanks.
Mr.. w. c. Turner, who is never
satisfied to be behind, brought us
some of the biggest, richest straw>
herries last Monday that we ever
They were not quite as large as a hen
egg. but they did not miss it very
far.
The weather the past week has
made the average young man don his
most ethereal apparel, and when you
see one sweltering along in winter
garb you witness the agoiies of a
mute sufferer by the stringency in the
money ma. ket.
Mr.. w. II. H. Lane, the popular
Southern travelling agent of G.. G.
Green, the wreat " Medicine Man."
called on us last week and renewed
lis advertising contract. The medi>
zines put up by Mr.. Green have be-
,ome very popular here.
Mr. John Shepherd, cur talented
,x-fellow citizen, now of Macon City,
No., delivered an address to the |
Templar in that city on the
9th inst, copy of which we fnd
n the Macon Democrat. Itwas pub
ished by request of the Sir Knights,
md is an able, beautiful effort. We
both him and the order. |