Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-12-18
MoMINNVILLE, TENNESSEE SATURDAY, DEC. 3, 1886
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Judge M. d. Smallman was in
Nashville q few days of this week.
Mr.. w. A. Moore, of Rock Is.
land, was on our streets Thursday.
MIR. J. w. Norwood, of Sparta,
was mingling with his friends and
acquaintance here Wednesday.
Are you going to the Band Con-
cert at the College tonight? They
will have an interesting program.
John joss has been in Nashville
several days Of this week, replenish-
ing his stock for the holidays. e5
IS. M. Griswold has moved out
on his farm south of town, a little
beyond the cotton factory.
--Ourcarrier will call on his patrons
with neat address on Christmas
morning and requests kindly re-
membrance from them all. $500 a4.
The Bank of Sparta will be made
a National Bank the first of the year,
and the capital stock increased from
$40, 900 to $4,000.
The end of the year being now
close at hand, Morford & Bilesrequest
all indebted to them to call and settle
their accounts.
Mr.. ]. G. Martin, Secretary of
the Peoples Mutual Life Insurance
Order, spent several days of this week
in Nashville.
MIR. j. T. Potts has sold his two
saloons at this place to Messrs. Ed.
Nunnelly and Reed Gribble. The
transfer took place last Saturday.
Our space is rather crowded with
advertising this week, but we think
our readers will cheerfully indulge us
this little bit of Christmas pie, as it
comes but once year.
The thermometer dropped down
in the neighbornood of the freezing
point early Wednesday morning, and
about an inch of snow fell during the
day.
BY special order of Judge Small
man, the time for opening the De-
ccmber term of the Grundy county
Circuit Court has been changed from
Friday, Dec. oath, to Monday, Dec.
9th.
VIM. Eastwood returned to his
home in this place from Chattanooga
last Tuesday, and has been confined
to his room with sickness most of the
| time since. We wish him a speedy
recovery.
| National Review: Judge M. d.
Smallman and Attorney General w.
V. Whitson, of McMinnville, both
recently elected, are winning golden
opinions of good people in the dis
charge of their official duties.
w. II. Fleming has a large line
of the handsomest Christmas Goods
in town, embracing a number OF
novelties never shown here before.
Go to see him if you want something
new for Christmas presents.
Mr.. Robt. M. Argo died at his
home in this place last Monday night,
His death was very sudden and un.
expected, as he was on the streets en-.
joying his accustomed good health
the day before his death. He was
our jailor for many years.
We are requested to announce
that the colored people of the Smart
neighborhood will have a Christina;
tree at Fingers Chapel on Christmas
night, Dec. 25th, to be followed by {
festival. They say they "expect t.
have Santa Clause and his wife there
On the first of January Drs. Black
> & Ramsey will move their Office t.
the two rooms in the new Pott
block over the Peoples Nationa
Bank. This will give them a mor'
l central location than they have a
present, to say nothing of much hand
3 somer rooms.
The Pope Mfg. Co., Of Boston
I have our thanks for one of their hand
3 some and convenient Columbia By
I, cicle Calendars for 1887. 1t is hand
1 some ornament for any Office. A
e each day of the year appears upon
separate slip, it presents "somethinl
: new" every day in the year.
f January 18th to 22d there will b
s held in Atlanta, Ga, the annual eX
!, hibitiOn of poultry, dogs, and pc
j stock, under the auspices of the Ma
t tional Poultry and Bench AssOcis
t ton. We are just in receipt of
copy of the rules, regulations an,