Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-08-16

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school money for the various districts
has been made, and the money is
now ready for the teachers. Supt.
Mitchell has promised us the appor-
tiOnment for next weeks issue.
"A party of camp hunters from
Rutherford and Bedford counties
passed through here last Tuesday
morning for Cumberland Mountain,
and were joined here by Messrs. Z.
G. Mead and John B. Biles. lgl
DR.. Thos. Black desires to wind
up his professional business at once,
and therefore requests every one in
debted to him to call and make set
Element. If you are on the list this
notice applies to you.
We print another table of the
August election today, revised and
corrected from the official returns.
We believe every figure in the table
will be found absolutely correct, and
our county subscribers should clip
it out and file away for reference.
Hon. Harvey M. Watterson ar
rived Thursday to spend a few weeks
with the family of his son, Hon.
Henry Watterson. Mr.. w. was a
resident of McMinnville back in the
fifties, and not great many of his
old friends of those days are now left.
Mr.. Chas. Frierson, of Columbus,
Miss, who had been visiting here for
two or three weeks, left Thursday
morning for Monteagle, accompan-
led by Miss Maria Lou Stainback who
will spend week or two there visit
ing Mr.. Atkinson's family.
--Messrs. Finney and Paschal, who
have been in Arkansas and Texas tor
several weeks soliciting pupils for G..
F. College, came home last Saturday
and remained until Thursday, when
they left again to gather up the girls
for the school. They report the
prospect favorable for the largest
opening the school has exer had.
-Thos. Conner, Jr., left last Tues
day morning for Nashville, Neb.
Tom has taken Horace Greeley's adj
vice early in life, and gone West to
grow up with the country. He is
full of pluck and energy, of pleasant
address, straightforward and manly
in all of his actions, and his many
friends in McMinnville hope and be-
lieve that he will succeed wherever
he may cast his lot.
Warren County had quite large
delegation in attendance upon the
Senatorial Convention at Woodbury.
last Tuesday, among them were
Messrs. w. T. Murray, Henry Row.
en-, S. r. O.'Neal, P. S. Wallace, w.
w. Wallace, w. w. Fairbanks,
Aaron Higginbotham, VIM. Sanders,
A. N. Robinson, S. M. WOmack, A
j. Newman, A. r. Hammer, VIM
Redman, j. B. Locke, ]. L. Garnett
J M. G. Green, and Louis Stroud, col.
Judge l.. II. Estes Of Memphis
delivered a lecture on the Sunday
School lesson at the Methodist Church
last Sunday morning at the hour o
! the morning service, Mr.. Curry, thu
: pastor, being too sick to fill his pull
pit. Judge Estes also delivered an
other very interesting lecture on Sun
day School work at the G.. P. Churcl
Sunday night. All who heard hin
in either lecture were very much edi
fed, He is an eloquent and f1uen
talker, and one to listen to him wOult
l not think he occupied the judicia
bench for eight months in the year
I and in the wicked city of Memphis
He seems so familiar with Sunda.
1 School work, and so earnest in his ei
: forts to promote the cause, you woul
a think his whole time was given t
e the work. What a grand thing
would be if all of our judges and pub
lie mon were such characters.