The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-07-25
SMALL CHANGE.
A fine rain fell here last Wednes.


The L. q N. pay car passed thro
here Tuesday. Our railroad men are
flush.
Mr.. John S. Thomas has our thanks
for basket full of the finest peaches
of the season. He has shipped hum
dred of boxes to the north this week.
The VIM. Shepherd town property
is advertised for sale in this paper.
1t consists of some of the best business
lots in town, besides the residence and
another lot.
There have been quite a number of
cases of dysentery and diarrhea in
town this week, hut we believe all
have yielded to treatment, and no one
is seriously i'll.
A gay party of eleven fishermen
went to Shades bridge last Tuesday
and stayed until Thursday They
caught all the fish they wanted, and
had a big time camping out.
The Trenton Recorder Office came
near being burned on Tuesday night
of last week. 1t seems that lot OF
paper was burned in the office, but
the fire died out without burning the
house.
We have monster corn stalk in
this office, which is as big around as
a young tree. 1t was grown on the
farm of L. E. Fly, two miles south
east of Gibson, and is seven inche;
around.
Look out for something nice at the
college next Monday or Tuesday
night A nice entertainment will be
given. Watch for the program; read
-itand go to the college and spend a
pleasant evening.
flour editorial and local columns
show some neglect this week, We
hope the reader will pardon US. W.
have been hard pushed with job work
and have not had time to do the pa
per full justice.
A most excellent communication
headed "Fire Fighters, will be founC
on our fourth page. We call the E
pecial attention of our city. father
and property owners to it, as we be
lieve the plan suggested is the cheap
. est and most feasible we have hear,
, OF. Milan needs something of tn
kind very badly.
We were not furnished with tn
full proceedings Of the Board of May
or and Aldermen last week ,and henc
. failed to note the fact that tax {
/ forty cents was levied for school pur
= poses. Milan is hound to keep at tn
head Of the procession of school town
and it will pay her to do. 50. W
know of no other town around |
which does So well.
d Mrs. Helen Coleman, the wonde
ful electric woman, gave an entertain
/ ment at the CollegoIla Tuesday nigl
r which pleased and mystifed the larg
. audience. Doctors, preachers al
q college professors unite in the opir
Is ion that her power is phenomena
:, and all are unable to explain it. ]
|; addition to the remarkable feats d
= scribed in these columns last week, 81
!. wrecked a table on the stage. L
d merely placing her hands on it,
/. danced across the stage aud again
.e the wall, shiveriug it to pieces. A
,t open umbrella was held up by geI
10 tleman, when she placed her hant
IF on the staff, and it Immediately beg,
s. to sway about as if in gale Of win
" =, finally breaking to pieces as if lightnil
: had struck it. Mr., jim Clark was
], "doubting Thomas" but after he tri
IN to hold chair and danced all ov
b. the stage awhile, he was willing
/ rest. She will 90 to Humboldt, Trel
lr ton and Union City next week, whe
e. we trust she will meet full house
e, She emphatically does everything s
t. advertises to do.