Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-03-31
llMr. Frank r. Jones and familv.

Va aihO ~ A.s dIlNCu HcIC ldot
Saturday to remain for some time,
and probably to locate permanently.
Mr.. Jones is stopping at the Warren
House with his family at present, but
will 60 to housekeeping as soon as a
house can be secured. " do9n 'son"
With the quarterly session Of
county court and the county Demo-
cratic convention next Monday, there
will be large crowd in town, pro-
vided the waters are not too high.
Every family in the county should
have the STANDARD, especially, this
year, so if you have a neighbor who
does not take it, advise him to coine
in and subscribe Monday. @ -
Read the card of Fleming's stock
of beautiful wall papers on 9th page,
but don't judge the size of his stock
by the size of the advertisement, for
he has beyond all question the largest
stock Of wall paper ever shown in
\ McMinnville. TWAS bought before
| the recent rise in prices, and conse-
! quently he will sell it to you cheaper
than you can possibly buy it else
4 Wnear'e'nt OH bng .I4iu baG 19bilOd
,-Weare still on Main Street with
house. full of new. goods.a People
! are saying that we have the largest
and prettiest stock. in the city, Will
4 you just call around and see for your
self You may be doing the wrong
d thing when you fail to see what we
have. We want you to. encourage us
q in keeping tirstclass stock, so we
can keep it up in the future BOD ad.
Gaa .hmyl .H Yours Truly, 4rl
\ .1s9I 20, M. THURMAN & Sons. oo
The following party of prospect
ors reached McMinnville Thursday,
and will spend week, or more look
ing over our county in search of new
homes: Jacob Finkbinder, Geo. Sci
bert, B. w. Eby, n. X. Eby, Gale
donia, Mich; Chas.i w. Kelly, Eu-
gene Reynolds, Corinth, Mich; ST.
neon Snyder, Dutton, Mich; w. F,
"A Erb, Newport, Ky.;l ;lJ..C. Stedham.
Fountain City, Ind; Sain'l Sloan,
/, Cleveland, Ohio; G.. B. Keefer,
Grand Rapids, Mich !d2'hV ,9%.s :ii .
: The Board of Education, at a
meeting held last Monday night,
/. unanimously elected Prof. w. z. Bel
as Superintendent of the City Schools
q for another year, without solicitation
D on his part This was a well merit
/ ed compliment to Prof. Bell for his
0 excellent organization and manage.
v ment of the schools for the last two
9 years. Prof. Bell took charge of the
n schools on their establishment two
q years ago, and Notwithstanding the
! many Disadvantages under which he
q has had to labor, he has brought the
!, schools up toa standard notsurpassed
o by any city schools in the State. Nc.
Minnville, has abundant cause to
: fell proud Of her City Schools and tC
: Prof. Bell'sable management is large
n ily. due the credit for their success,
II 1.-THE memory Off the oldest in
\ habitant, Dretc., ''runneth not back Il
the time,p ETC., when a harder rair
: fell than that of last Sunday night. Al
q times during the night it was a veri
. table deluge. Throughout nearly al
: portions of the South and in various
I, other sections of the United States
: unusually heavy rains fell at the same
% time We understand that exposed
vessels showed afall of four and one
IL half inches ofrain here between darl
u Sunday highland daylight Monda.
Z morning. This, in addition to tn,
x steady rains which fell Throughout
n Sunday with but Slight interinissions
a. raised the streams everywhere to fiooC
height. Barren Fork rose rapidly al
e, day Monday, and at o'clock in tn
re afternoon was fuller than it had beel
or known for thirteen years. .Larg
:, numbers of people visited the bank
L. of the river near the railroad bridg
is Monday afternoon and night to watcl
r. the angry flood. 1t rained steadil,
all day again Wednesday. ih'
W Esq. l. B. Neal, Chairman of tn
IS Warren County Court, was in tow
~ Thursday making settlements wit
y. county officers, and getting ready fc
ig Quarterly Court Monday. The a
IS, sessment will not be quite complrt
er by that time, but will be far enOug
advanced to make an estimate upO
which to base tax levy. We hope tf
Court will pursue a liberal policy i
-, making the levy, and thereby brin