Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-27

ldISS SHlpulSHt Ol new SOOuS lnlS |
week.
Miss Laura Howell left for Chat
tanooga Monday to spend couplecf
weeks, and will then 90 to her old |
home in Ohio for the balance of the
vocation.
Mr.. Thos. Hughes left this (Fri-
day. morning for Missouri in re.
spouse to telegram announcing the
serious illness of his sister, Mrs. |
Blackmore.
Two little children of Mr.. Eugene
Lewis, of Sycamore Powder Mills,
arrived this week to spend the sum-
mer with their grandmother, at
River Cliff.
Mr.. j. A. Massie, of Washing
ton City, is here this week, having
arrived last Monday morning to at
tend at the bedside of his father, who
died that night.
-Messrs. Mack and Ovid Sparks
who have positions in the Read
House at Chattanooga, returned
home sick Tuesday, and have been
confined to their rooms since.
The weather is quite seasonable
for the ice cream festival in the park
tonight friday by the ladies of the
Baptist Church, and there will no
doubt be a large crowd present.
Cards have been received here by
friends ard acquaintance of the
bride-elect, announcing the marriage
of Miss Annie Lee Capshaw to Mr..
Harry Tillman, at Shelbyville, next
Tuesday.
Mrs. Kate Knox and her little
grandson, Master Fred Brown, for
merly of this place but now of Nash
vile, arrived Wednesday and will
visit relatives and friends here for
several days.
The latest arrivals of new goods
will be found at J. M. Cunningham's,
also the lowest cash prices. If you
want some big cash bargains in dry
goods, shoes, etc, there is the place
to find them.
Mr.. Cooper and wife, of Nash
vile, Mrs. Chas. Cullom and Miss
Ella Ransom, of Murfreesb0ro, ar
rived Thursday, and went out to
Faulkner's factory, where they will
spend several weeks of the heated
term.
Mr.. j. S. Burroughs is getting
lumber on the ground for the erec-
tien of handsome residence On his
beautiful Main Street lot. But we
don't think John wants anything
said about it yet, 50 don'tlet anybody
: know we told you.
Whenever any Of our correspon-
dents have an item of neUS we would
be glad for them to send it to us, but
when they have no news it is not
necessary to write a letter simply to
}, inform US of that fact. Write only
,. when you have news.
"A party of six or eight young
4 men from town ale camping out OF
s Collins River, near the mouth o.
Charles Creek. A party of young
ladies went out and spent the day
. with them Thursday, and took along
good things to eat enough to furnish
o the boys with one square meal.
e We hear continued complaints O
the bad sanitary condition OF various
+ premises around town. The Boar(
n of Mayor and Alderman should have
these places inspected, and require
q their owners to clear them, and keel
l. them clean. People get careless
about these matters, and while it il
an unpleasant duty for the Board
II yet the health of the whole tow
y is jeopordized by ncglecting it.
One of Kitselman Bros paten
- woven wire fence machines has beer
10 on exhibition on the square here 70
a couple of weeks. 1t makes a mum
Der of different styles of fence, com
u bining all the elements of strength
~ durability, and neatness of appear
IL ance, at very moderate cost. Partle
are negotiating for the county right
10 From late copies of Trinidad
NJ (Col.,) papers we learn of the death
by consumption, of Mrs. VIM. Prior
which occurred on the 18th of June
4 Will spent his boyhoOd in McMinn
u, vile, leaving here some eight or teI
IL years ago for the West. His friend
here sympathize with him in thi
he sad bereavement. They have on