Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-04-14

at the residence OF Capt. Z. Coffee, on
Rebel Hill, next Thursday night,
April 10Th. All the members are re-
quested to notify the host of their in
tention to be present or not, and to as
semble by 7 o'clock.
Our Trousdale correspondent sends
us three new subscribers this week,
and our Cane Ridge correspondent one;
in addition to these we have received
some six or eight others at the Office.
One gentleman offered his sister
the choice of new dress or the STAN
DARD a year. She took the STAN
DARD.
Mr.. G. w. johnson, mine host of
the Warren House, is receiving appli-
cations for rooms from the South for
the coming season. Mr.. j. is getting
everything in readiness, and we hope
to see the house filled to overlooking
this summer.
j. B. Lock, an enterprising young
farmer of this county, has 16 acres of
corn planted March 1916 and II,
which was up and looking well last
Monday. Mr.. Lock has found by
actual experiment that corn planted in
checks 8 feet apart each way, one stalk
to the hill, will make more corn than
the ordinary way of planting.
Gen. Beall, of st. Louis, has
rented the property of Mr.. John RAM
sey, on Smithville street, and moved
into it with his family. Gen. Beall is
an invalid, and we understand it is his
purpose to buy property and settle
here should our climate prove favorable
for him.
Compliments of a certain young
gentleman friend of certain young
lady who graduated at G. F. College
last summer and he regrets to say that
when certain other friend of hers
called last week the fool.killer was out
of town. Send him around again /:
our f. k. dotes on kid gloves and "sich
like
-Shelbyville had another very de-
structive fire last week, which destroyed
nearly 100000 worth of property.
Among the losses were DIR. Roane's
drug store, the telegraph and express
Offices, and many other buildings and
stocks ofvalue. Shelbyvllle, Murfrees'
boro and Lebonon have suffered by fire.
'-McMinnville Presbytery will meet
at New Hope church, in Cannon county
on Friday at II o'clock a. M, before
the first Sunday in May. The examin
ing committee will meet the probation
ers at the same place on the day before
at 10 o'clock a. m.
J. j. MOORE, S. G.
Bravo! We are going to have ;
town hall at last. The lumber is OF
the ground and the work has com
menced in real earnest. The old franz
structure on the corner of West mair
and Chancery streets will give way t.
a handsome two.story building witt
two store rooms below and large hal
above. Col. John H. French is tn
moving spirit of the enterprise, Mr.. d
g L. Brown is the architect, and Messrs
Lafayette and Frank Brown are tn
, builders. We sincerely hope the worl
may be pushed to an early completion
-Messrs. Turpin q Elkins, of thi
!. place, are turning out some of tn
, handsomest work in the way of momu
q ments, tombstones etc., we have eve
seen from any place. The superiC
quality of the work is attracting quit
la arge patronage from abroad, an
they are shipping monuments an,
tombstones every week, Mr.. j. "
Robertson, their principal workman,
quite an artist in his line, and some
d his designs cannot be excelled by Il
T best city work.
h Editors, like other folks, SOM
10 times find themselves in Miss Flol
McFlimsey's fix, and are considerab
puzzled about something to wear, ar
where and how to get it-particularl
!, the how. While bordering this m
mentous question one evening this wee
- with soft glow of thespring sun pou
ing in at our sanctum door, we pass
into dreamland, and beautiful lit
d" fairy appeared before us, to whom v
confded our troubles. This brig