Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-09


and sell them close and give You Just
what ] claim to. My terms are Cash.
ID. o. JENKINS.
Misses Minnie Marchbanks and
Lila Cooper, two Of Sparta's fascinat-
ing beauties, passed through this
place Wednesday morning enroute to
Cleveland, Tenn, to enter school
there.
We have just received a new lot
of Bibles from the American Bible
Society. A great many styles of both
Bibles and Testaments. Bibles given
to those who are not able to buy.
THURMAN BROS. & Co.
We have had an unusual run of
job work for several weeks. Our job
presses have made over $4,000 i'm
preSsiOns since the first of January,
and we have orders in hand now for
over 10, 900 more. This looks like our
work was giving good satisfaction.
We clip the following item from
an exchange and publish for the
special benefit of our soap syndicate:
"The New York Herald says that
more men in this country have gotten
rich out of making soap and glue
than by any other process.
Sarah Ann Bouldin, COL, wife of
Archie Bouldin, died at their home
in this place Monday evening at one
O'Clock. She was well esteemed by
her many friends and neighbors, by
whom she will he much missed. Her
sister, Mary Peeks, arrived from
Nashville after her death.
If all the pretty days we have had
this winter were weather breeders"
won't we have a fine crop Of weather
this wear? But the advocates of this
popular superstition have never told
US yet what kind Of weather these
pretty days breed.
The Electric Light Company has
received information from the con.
tractors that our lights will be put in
next week. The contract time fol
having the plant in operation expires
on the DIST. inst. and the contractors
assure the company here that we
shall have the lights by that date.
Mr.. u. X. Smith died at his
home near Faulkner's factory, or
the I'd inst. Mr.. Smith was good
citizen and enjoyed tho confidence
and esteem of all his neighbors. H'
leaves wife, one son and two
daughters. His remains were Inferred
in the family grave yard near his
home, with funeral service by Rev
j. T. Curry. a
We direct attention to the adver
tisement of Irving College, to b,
found on another page. This popula
} old educational institution promise
to take on new life 8nd vigor unde
its new management. The principal
Mr.. E. B. Etter, has been quite sue
cessful In his chosen pursuit of teach
ing, and will bring new laurels t
Irving College.
! Tributes of respect, obituaries
ETC., are always charged up to tn
parties sending them in. When no
accompanied by name of writer the
. are consigned to the waste basket
f We make no charge for short or
, noucement of death, but if we ir
| serted long obituaries and tributes {
\ respect without charge our column
would be overburdened with then
, -"S. A. c." has a descriptive art
f Gle of McMinnville and Warren cour
D ty two and half columns long in las
Y Tuesdays Nashville American. J
: contains many Inaccuracies, but upo
the whole is a very fair "write up
of the town and county. There
t not another town in the South {
9 equal population which can show Il
O rs much financial sOlidity in busine:
t firms, or as much manufacturing 6
McMinnville. The is but one disaC
n vantage in the way of McMinl
4 ville's steady growth, and thu
n is its location on a branch lir
: of railroad. Give us another railroa
and we will spread our borders an
% fill up the waste places with amazin
rapidity. However, even at presel
the Nashville & Chattanooga Raj
y road gives all of our manufacture
i' enterprises very favorable rates, an
l. they are all doing prosperous bus
Il ness, Several new enterprises are
&c the prospective for this year, r,and nc
Is Withstandinp the fact that houses n