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nearly twenty-five dollars.
Miss Addie Henderson of Win
chester, formerly member of our
City School faculty, is here on visit
to friends, and is the guest of Mrs.
II. HI. Faulkner.
Mr.. f. e. Jones has sold his
meat business in this place to Mr..
Levi Jones, and removed to Chatta-
nooga, where he is engaged in the
hotel business with Mr.. M. N.
Thompson.
Mr.. j. M. Holman and wife, of
Bowling Green, KY, who have been
spending several weeks in Southern
Georgia, arrived Tuesday, and will
remain here for week or more yet
with Mrs. HIS parents, Mr..and Mrs.
]. G. NJ. Ross.
Mr.. H. G. Hudson, of Horse Shoe
Falls, announces in our columns this
week as a candidate for Circuit Court
Clerk. Mr.. Hudson is a young man,
has lived most of his life in Warren
county, and if elected will make a
competent official.
Mr.. d. O. Jenkins, the Main
Street Grocer, has just received a nice
lot of Candies, Ito make you sweet, J
Lemons, Ito make your souri, and
Oranges and Bananas Ito make the
thing about event. Full line Of fresh
family groceries,
Rev. F. l.. Leeper and Mr.. #. C.
Lind left on the afternoon train
Thursday for Shelbyville, to attend
the spring meeting of Nashville Pres
bytery. Unless Mr.. Leeper can get
back today, there will be no preach-
ing in the Presbyterian Church Sun
day.
Mrs. j. G.. Meadors started Tues
day for Louisiana, to attend the bed
side of her mother, who was danger
ously i'll. On reaching Nashville
Mrs. Meadors learned the sad intel
ligence of her mothers death,
consequently she returned home
Thursday.
MIR. r. B. Higgins, living about
1! miles west of town, has been
confined to his room with sickness
for eight or nine weeks. He was
well enough to get around the yard
one day this week. His numerous
friends hope soon to see him about
town again, in the enjoyment of his
usual good health.
The grass in the park has been
given liberal top dressing of ma
nure, and the barren places forked up
and re,seeded. The fence, well
house and pavilion are to be repain-
ted soon, rustic seats put in, and the
grass plots protected by wire netting.
This will add much to the beauty of
the park, but will be tough ON the
town hog.
We have not yet heard Of a single
complaint or objection over the bridge
tax levy, but on the other hand have
heard many concentrations OF the
Court for the step. There is generally
good feeling over the prospect of the
county having bridges, and many
citizens express a willingness to SUPP
plement the public funds with private
subscriptions.
The construction train and a
large gang of men are at work here
this week leveling the ground and
making fill at the depot for new
side track. The depot building crew
has been sent to Fosterville to put a
new depot there in place of the one
destroyed by the storm, and it will
probably be three or four weeks yet
before work is commenced on the
new depot here.
Hon. H. G. Snodgrass, of Sparta,
was here a few hours Wednesday.
His nomination for congress by the
Democratic convention of this Dis
trict is now an assured fact. He al
ready has six of the fourteen coun-
ties instructed for him, and five or
six others will follow suite as soon as
their conventions are held. The
convention will be held at Chattanoo.
ga, probably between the LIST and 10th
of June.
Willie, the little son of Mr.. VIM,
White, while turning a job press in
the STANDARD Office last Friday, ac-
cidently caught his left hand in the
machinery, and had it crushed in a
most painful manner. Several of the
| small homes in the hand were hrolzan