Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-12-28

Fund Life Association. M. Tiller,
General Agent.
The City Schools were dismissed
last Friday for weeks holiday.
They will "take up books" again
Monday morning.
The Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association has paid over 100000
dollars in death claims, has nearly
p million dollars cash surplus.
Miss Jennie Waters arrived
Thursday from Wilson county,whele
she has been engaged in teaching for
sometime, on a visit to her father.
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso-
citation will give you paid up policy,
or cash settlement, at end of fifteen
years. See their General Agent, Mr..
M. Tiller.
We have heard it remarked just
thirteen hundred and seventy.five
times that this is very peculiarspell
of weather for December, or words to
that effect.
Mel. Atkinson has been here
two or three days this week. There
is probably some other attraction
here for him besides Christmas
festivities.
Several gardens around town
are yielding lettuce large
enough for table use. Old Winter
may get here yet, but he is a long
way behind schedule time this year.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Mr.. Joe. M. Lively to Miss Ellen
Gribble,at the residence of the latter's
parents Tuesday evening, Dec. 3lst,
at I: 80 o'clock.
Whether it be true or not that the
Russion enfluenza has reached this
country, a great many McMinnville
people are afflicted with old fashioned
United States bad colds.
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso-
citation of New York, M. Tiller,
General Agent, is the best company
for you to insure in. 1t is the largest
Mutual Co. in the World. See their
ad in this issue.
All persons indebted to the uns
dersigned for meat, stoves, tiuware
or work are requested to come for
ward and settle at once. The old
years business must be closed up at
once. FRANK MADDUX,
Fred Paine, who is now engaged
in business at Louisville, arrived
Wednesday on visit to his mother
and sisters. His many friends here
were glad to see him again after an
absence Of nearly two years.
"A change in the railroad schedule
went into effect last Monday by
which the passenger train passed
down to Tullahoma at ) o'clock in
the morning, being half ali hour
earlier than usual.
Charley Johnson, who has been
engaged in short hand and type
writer work for Maj. Campbell
Brown, in Maury county, for several
weeks, came home Tuesday to spend
the Christmas holidays.
-Messrs. J. C. McAfee and S.
Walkup, of Pilot Grove, Texas
reached this county Tuesday tC
spend week or two among relatives
and friends. They both made the
STANDARD a pleasant call Christmas
morning.
Pay up all of your debts as fast a
you can next year, and don't make
any new ones during the year, anC
the chances are that you will be hap
pier next Christmas than you wer,
this.
Jas. Morford returned hom,
from Knoxville last Saturday t
spend the two weeks holiday vaca
ton. Jim looks quite handsome il
military uniform, but is so modest
makes him blush to tell him so.
Hon. Henry. c. Snodgrass, O
Sparta, spent Monday night here
, enrOute home from Altamont
where he had been interviewing tn
citizens Of Grundy county in the in
terest of his candidacy for the Demo
cratic congressional nomination.
Mr.. S. j. Fusion, of the Cat
neighborhood, six miles north Of Nc
Minnville, brought to town las
Monday morning three large rip
strawberries, which were pickle,
from his garden that morning. H
says his vines are well filled wit
, blooms and green berries, and a fey