Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-05-26
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about $4,000.000 in and around Chatta-
nooga. In addition to the Stevenson
extension and the tunnel through
Lookout Mountain, 1t is announced
that the Southern has purchased thir-
ty acres adjoining its yard at Citico,
and that these would be shortly en-
larged and Chattanooga made one of
the chief points on the system. With
the completion of the new extension
both the Memphis division of the
Southern and the Alabama Great
Southern will have for the first time
its own entry into the city, and it will
be necessary to build shops and en-
tirely new terminals. 1t is also I'M
derstood that Chattanooga would be
new division of the Southern, which
will embrace parts of the present At
lanta, Knoxville and Memphis divi-
sions.
The ninth annual State convention,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
at Knoxville, closed with an historic
evening, the principal feature of which
was an address by Gen. Harvey II.
Hannah on the Life and Deeds of
Gen. Zollicoffer." Memphis was Sc
lected as the next place Of meeting,
and the following officers were elect
ed: President, Mrs. A. e. White, of
Paris; first vice president. Mrs. Met
calf, of Fayetteville; second vice pres
ident, Mrs. M. S. Cockrill. of Nash
vile; recording secretary, Mrs. John
P. Hickman of Nashville; treasurer,
Mrs. Hatcher. of Columbia; State his
torian, Mrs. Leland Hume, of Nash
vile. 1t was decided in future to hold
all elections by ballot, to avoid confu-
SIGN and embarrassment.
N. B. Bradley & Sons, of Bay City,
Mich, composed of N. B. Bradley, F.
w. Bradley and E. E. Bradley, filed a
bill in the Chancery Court at Eliza
bethton, praying Chancellor Hal H.
Hayes to appoint a receiver for the
Whiting Lumber Company, corpora
ton organized and doing business un-
der the laws of the State of North
Carolina, with sites at Elizabethton,
Carter county, Tenn. The bill charges
that the company is insolvent, approx
mating it's assets of $168,000 and its
total liabilities at 1851, 900, or total
insolvency of $165, 1000 All of the liza
bilities of the company are to the firm
of N. B. Bradley & Sons, of Bay City,
Mich, and e. E. Bradley, of that firm,
has been president of the Whiting
Lumber Company for about year and
a half.
At the meeting of the Sovereign
Camp, Woodmen of the World, held
at Chattanooga last week, very
important amendment to the con-
stitution of the order was adopted,
when the sovereign commander was
given authority to appoint or remove
general, special and local organizers,
lecturers and assistants. and to estab.
lish their compensation on recommen-
dalton of majority of the head of
ficers of the Jurisdiction"
William Burley, one Of the three ne
groes alleged to have been connected
with the assassination of William
Flat, young farmer in Dyer county
October 16, 1903, and the only one of
the three to escape the fury of the
mob, is prisoner in the Shelby coun
ty Jail. For fear that he would be
summarily dealt with were he taken
back to Dyersburg, he will be left at
Memphis for time at least.
At McMlnnville, last week, NJ B
Locke was found guilty of murder in
the first degree, with mitigating cir
cumstances, and Judge Higgins gave
him life sentence. Locke killed No
BILE Rowan, son of former Trustee
Rowan, on the streets of McMinnvillt
| with pocketknife.
A decree was entered at Nashville
last week in the cause Of the Nashville
Trust Company, administrator of AL
bert d. Marks, against Gen. w. H
Jackson and others, confirming the
sale of the Marks one-third interest il
Belle Meade to Goodloe Lindsey
agent, the consideration being $45,
900, of which amount $4,000 was pai(
and the remainder is to be paid in one
two and three years.
The assessed property tax valuation
of Lauderdale county is $41, 74S16. o
this amount Trustee j. B. Mitchell ha
collected SAL ,650.26, leaving on the de
linquent tax list only 1890, and it il
thought that most of this can be ant
will be collected before the sale of tn,
real estate to satisfy the tax thereon
which is to take place on the frs
Monday in June This is splendi,
record.
Mrs. ]. P. Drouillard, of Nashville
who for many years has been a prom
inent social figure in Tennessee, die
last week. She was the mother of tn
Countess Bernard de Pourtales, O
Paris.
The ladies of Leonidas Polk Char
ter, Daughters Of the Confederacy, @
Union City, gave most delightful er
tertainment, "Trip Around tn
World" for the purpose of securin
funds to help the INDECENT wearers c
the gray attend the Louisville reunion
and SIS was realized
Gov. John I. Cox visited the Wester
Hospital for the Insane at Bolivar las
| week and EXPRESSED himself as holm