Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-28


to their fair which opens Oct. 9th.
Rev. Alfred Martin, COL, of In
crease, will preach a baptismal SER
mon at Finger Chapel tomorrow, and
will also attend to the ordinance of
baptism near Nicholson Springs.
Capt. J. H. Harris, the genial
and popular conductor, has been
transferred to the main line again
and Mr.. Dan Searcy is now the con-
ductor of the mixed train.
Mr.. P. S. Wallace, who has po-
sition in the government printing
Office at Washington, came home
last Saturday to spend months
leave of absence.
"A little child of Mr.. VIM. Boldly
died Thursday afternoon. Funeral
services will be held at his home, one
mile south of town, at two O'Clock
this (Friday) afternoon, by Rev.
F. L. Leeper.
Geo. w. Mayo, of this county, is
among the jurors drawn to serve at
the term of the U. S. District Court
which cOnvenes in Nashville the
third Monday in October.
Mr.. M. M. Mason, who has been
in Mexico for several months, has re-
turned to FL Paso, Texas, and en-
barked in the mercantile business.
We wish him abundant success in his
new venture.
The annual Conference of the
Methodist Church will meet in Muir
freesboro Oct. 9th. The congregation
of that city have just completed a
very handsome new church, which
will be dedicated tomorrow.
DIR. G. r. Grain, dentist, left
Wednesday afternoon for Texas to
visit relatives and recuperate his
health for two or three weeks. He
will return just as soon as his health
is sufficiently recovered to attend to
the duties of his office.
The usual services will be held in
the Presbyterian Church tomorrow,
at II O'Clock in the morning and 1896
in the afternoon. The pastor, Mr.
Leeper will not leave as announced
last Sunday, until sometime next
week.
The store of d. O. Jenkins was
entered by sneak thieves through the
back window on last Saturday night
and robbed of four or five dollars
worth of goods and a small amount
of punched coin. This is the second
robbery of the kind which has oc
cured here recently.
-Messrs. John Walters and G. r
Davies, who have been living on 4
farm four miles north Of town for two
or three years, sold out their personal
effects at auction last Wednesday and
will leave in few days for Cincin
natl, Ohio, where they expect to 10
cate permanently. They are steady
industrious young men, and we re-
greet to loose them from the county.
: Mrs. Mary Argo, wife of Mr.
O. E. Argo, city marshal, died at the
: home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie
| Brown, in this place at one O'Clock
Thursday afternoon. She had beer
a long and patient sufferer from con
t Esumption; the angel of death hat
hovered over the frail earthly tene
ment for many weeks, and sht
welcomed the hour when he bore he
: spirit to the realms of peace
Funeral services will be held in thu
Methodist Church this Friday
> afternoon, at o'clock.
-Scribner's Magazine for Octobe
j.. contains an exciting exploration ar
ticle, in which Joseph Thomson des
cribes his remarkable and famous
journey through equatorial Africa
a very practical paper on the hes
= way to improve the common roads
: of the United States an end paper by
SIX Marvel" the author of "Rever
) les of Bachelors" one of the most at
e tractive electric articles, showing
o modren applications Of electricity tt
war, on land and sea an unconven
# tional travel article on Iceland; tn,
}. second instalment of Harold Freder
/ les romance of Colonial New York
with other interesting fiction an(
{ poems. Most of these articles ar,
q richly illustrated. This is also
= most welcome number from the fac
that it contains the end of Rober
Louis Stevenson's long-spun 70
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