Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-05-01
County Correspondence.
North WARREN, April %, $50

In your last issue we see the name
of George Ramsey, Esq, Of Viola,
mentioned as candidate for the Low
err House of the next General Assem-
bly,. This meets our hearty endorse
ment. Mr.. Ramsey's known success
and learning as farmer and constant
devotion to the farming interests of the
country and the people make him at
once the fright man in the right place"
to represent the agricultural classes.
VOTERS.
TURNPIKE MEETING.
To the Editor of the Standard;
wish that you would call in the
pike meeting that yon announced for
the second Saturday in May. can't
be at home at that time. Call the
meeting about the first Saturday in
June. Respectfully ?. G. POTTER.
Let it be understood that the meet
ing will be the first Saturday in June.
To the Editor of the Standard:
Perhaps a line from this part fthe
ses.aa4svs-'svwfi,iss 70 yenr n'im-
erous readers. wish to state first, that
the STANDARD is welcome visitor to
us, it being so full of interesting home
reading matter, which cheers our hearts,
and serves to smooth down the path
way of life. You also give us the in
teresting news that is abroad, which
keeps us posted as to what is going on
in the world, and this affords us topics
fer conversation. How family can
, be contented without such information
when it only costs the pitiful sum OF
one dollar per year is strange to me.
NV observation is that the man who
6 does not read newspaper has poor con-
versational powers, and this rule ap
o plies even more especially to women
Visit house where a paper is not read
and what can woman talk about ex
cept her chickens and such like2 Hus
= bands, take the STANDARD for the bene
s fit of your wife and children, even i
II you do not read it yourself. Certainl.
& in no other way could a dollar be a
proftably spent as for it.
l. The late frosts have been very de'
tructive to the peach crop in our pal
i'll of the county, but from present appear
e. ances we will have an abundant appl
r. crop. Wheat is looking very fine il
e. deed at present. We are nearly a
e. done planting corn some blowing owe
Y. and we still have. Thomas Myers
view, and some of us intend to be-
him this year or be found trying.
Our neighbor Williyn Stubblefe
1 y .4I sialpssHirg. viii be out il
&C. few days. Robert Miller's wife is st
les confined to her bed. Poor woman, s
has the sympathies of all her neighbo
James Clendenon, assisted by NJ
n A. Stubblefeld, is teaching a splenc
school at Chapel Hill. They have
icy. many pupils. as they can attend to, a
of all moving forward tremendously.
uo think we have the best school in
is county.
erv We are also going to resurrect
,aif Irving College, and try to make I
Inns River the garden spot of War
in point of education.
We also expect to get up debat
'on- society, and prepare ourselves to c.
any bat with any part of the county,
ions with even Jefferson Cardwell, or ;
tues other aCeH we care not how deep.
!. With regard to the bachelors of
settlement, am glad to see Miss Il
; be come to the front. 1t seems that
10Th. has preference for James or his w
G. house, one. judge from the tt
,adv of her article that she is one Of
iron. few old maids whose only chance t.
done tend to love affairs is during leap y
N / therefore hope that the Professor
consider her case and accept her
% 'rm posal. If this proves match,
. no doubt but that there will be a 1
chev Der of new houses erected on the
before the close of leap year, no
ge' to be able to pluck Rose (Rosy
'Ae"S fore they quit blooming.
A"n- believe that it is admitted ths
proVi- the old bachelors on Collins River
ifesm good looking men but it has beer
Call e.. 49, ia wan ara vr.,, bor
This may be true in part, but
rued, who make the charge are eertainl
acquainted with G. p, w. p, al
: ' r. S. COLLINS RIvI
'ybee, All, 81 1880
, were
ny last Hon. .so Faulkner.
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