The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-17
SMALL CHANGE.

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Sunday evening.
Our citizens have gone into camps
out at Hope Hill.
Parson come back and shut your
doors, they are open.
B. Horner, J. Townes, I. Gordon
and n. Deshong are holding the fort.
The quarantine at this place expir-
ed on the 18th inst, and will not be
renewed.
Mr. John Grey is now here waiting
on the sick. John is one that can be
counted on.
Where is Gran Burrow and Hilliard
Williams? two good Howards. Echo
answers where.
Where is Mr. Joe Ramsey, proprie-
tor of the Michigan Central. Will
some one answer?
Baker Smith left town yesterday to
join Bro. Davie and and j. A. Cham
bers in the hills. Noble Baker.
This morning as we came into town
there were no housees open and it
looked like cold Sunday morning.
Can anyone give us any informa-
ton concerning the whereabouts of
uncle Jim Jones, a noble Howard?
Bro. Davie and j. A. Chambers,
two good Howards, left Milan yester>
day for the hills, in search of health.
There are only nine business houses
open now. Two family groceries, two
saloons, three dry goods, and two drug
stores.
Mr. Geo. NJ. Dugan, Supt. of Tele-
graph, If the c., St. L. q N. o. r.
R., spent few hours in town yester-
day evening.
The drug stores will aways be open.
You can find John Levy at one and
Bob McClaran at the other, during
the epidemic.
We extend our thanks 20 DIR Har-
rison for help in getting out the Ex>
CHANGE this week. The doctor is
very good typo.
We will state that Mayor Rankin
and Policeman Lusk are here attend. |
ing to their duty, and are not going
to leave Notwithstanding reports to
the contrary.
Send in after the EXCHANGE, and !
get thenewso of the fever in your town. |
1t Will have a big ball of disinfectant
wrapped up in it. No danger. We !
viii try and pull through.
The doctors of Milan, who have left |
to stay until the fever is over here, /
ought never to be patronized by the
people again. They are not ft to go
and see a patient Shame on them.
A team belonging to Mr. Elan, ran
away last Tuesday, they started at the
depot, and ran down Williamson street
and up Main. Doing considerable
damage to the wagon. They were
stopped by the schoolboys. Nobody |
hurt.
Billy Bigham left about daylight
yesterday morning. with a trunk on
his shoulder for the hills. The last
seen of him he was turning the corner
al the college, singing "Good bye my
Lover, Good bye" Wonder if he has
left his lover behind.
Mr. j. w. McKelvey, who lives
about 6 miles east of town, tells US he
has two boys on his farm, not over 16
years of age, and that one of them
picked last Tuesday 264 pounds of
cotton, and the other one 226 pounds.
Where is there a boy who can beat
that picking?
Hardy DeshOng was heard to re-
mark the other day, as he opened
an envelope and pulled out an anti
fat circular, that he would willingly
yea, gladly and eagerly-strangle all
his ambition could he but enjoy for two
minutes and a quarier Kearneys gift
of ready and vigorous expression.
Read the new advertisement in the
Banner Store column. They have
fixed up room over the store for
their clothing department, and its a
nice room. Dave Mills and John
Townes will always be on hand to sell
you the incest, best and cheapest cloth |
ing you have ever seen in Tennessee.
Go and see them.
Mr. Daniel Martin, who lives SIX
miles south of here, has a pear tree
that has brought forth its second
growth; it has pears on it now, he says
as large as hen eggs. He has some
cherries of the second growth, and
there are 2 cherries in each blossom
which are perfectly formed. This Is
great curiosity sure.
two of our young men went to Tren-
ton last Sunday, one of them to see
a young lady of that place, but when
they arrived in that city, the young
lady had just left for the country,
Say, my friend did she not know you
were coming? Be honest and speak
the truth, for can honest confession is
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