Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-08-16
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He was a man about 80 years old
I land leaves a wife and several chill
dren. He was a clever citizen and
held in high esteem by his neigh
bors and those who knew him best.
The burial occurred at Shiloh,
after appropriate burial services.
Mart Blair has purchased the
Wilson place on Jackson street,
formerly owned by j B. Dill,
and now occupied by Asa McCol-
lam. Mr.. Blair will improve the
place and, move to it some time
this fall. He has sold the place
he now occupies E. A. Williams,
of Jackson. Mr.. Williams got
the place in a trade and will hold
it as an investment.
Quite a large number of the cit
liens of the Twenty. second district
we're here Wednesday. They were
here to give testimony in a contro-
versy arising out of the settlement
of the Dick Maxwell estate. D.
A. Burkhalter represented one
side and j. w. Murphy the other.
Some of the best citizens of the
community were here and it took
some time to take their testimony.
Lieut.. George T. Mccall, Jr.,
after spending couple of weeks
with his parents and friends here.
left Monday for New York. On
his arrival in New York he will
report to some port of embarka-
ton, and will likely embark for
France in a very short time. Lieut..
McCall's many friends here were
delighted to have him with them
for a visit before leaving for
France.
Haywood Shotfner, a disreput-
able negro of the town, was placed
under arrest Tuesday on a very
serious charge. He is charged
with an unspeakable crime and if
proven guilty, and it seems there
is no question about his guilt, he
will likely spend the remainder of
his days IN confinement. He was
placed in Jail to await his trial to-
day, and the sheriff was ordered
by Squire Hurt not to accept bail.
r. w. Spencer came down from
Nashville Monday and spent the
night with his brother. j. H.
Spencer. Mr. Spencer is working
in the powder plant, and says there
must be at least 10000 people at
work there. He thinks the aver
age price paid per day to employ
eeS of the plant must be in the
neighborhood of S., making a to-
tai of $3.50, 900 day paid out for
labor.
The returns of the official vote
in the recent state primary are
slow reaching the Office of the Sec
rotary of state. Up to Tuesday of
this week only SO counties have
made their reports. The total vote
to the credit of Shields in those
counties is 55,651, while to Rye's
credit are 45,638, giving Shields a
lead of 10.022. In the governors
contest the vote follows: Roberts,
BOTS; Peay, 41,491, and Shrop-
shire, 1862. Roberts plurality
over Peay is IL, 587.
A very peculiar condition arose
out of the election in the Twentieth
district. j. S. Browning was
candidate for justice of the peace
and received a good vote. The
election officers, by mistake, listed
him as the successful candi-
date for constable in their returns,
and be was so certified by the
county election board. So Mr..
Browning holds an Office he was
not elected to and does not want
Huntingdon has two business
concerns that are paying out vast
sum of money weekly. They are
the Hester & Morgan, timber and
stave factory north of town, where
a large number of hands are en-
ployed daily, and the Francisco &
Shannon spoke factory near the
depot. They buy a great deal of
timber and pay out big sum of
money every month. The money
these factories turn loose in this
community is a great help to the
people and is a valuable asset to
the town and neighborhood in
many ways. The amount of bust
ness these plants do would be a
surprise to most of our people.
In bis book. my Four Years
in Germany" Ambassador James
w. Gerard gave to the English
speaking world a document of
vital import and unusual interest,
primarily showing the reason why