Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-15

Mr.. John Henry Lax, OF Corlntn,
Miss, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Geo.
Chappell.
Mr.. VIM. A. Bryant, of Martin,
was on the ridge Monday.
Mr.. John Bozart, of Memphis, was
on the ridge the past week in con-
nection with the drainage business.
Mr.. Watts, Of Memphis, but for
merly Of Greenfield, was here super
intending construction work on the
south levee this week.
The very efficient drainage COM
missioners, Messrs. O. R. Beard and
Paul Brock, were on the levee and
bitches this week inspecting. They
can be depended on to conserve the
peoples rights.
Mr.. Richmond L. Bushart, the pop
ular saw mill man, is constructing
large, substantial shed over his
| forks-o-the-river saw mill. 1t is the
largest we've seen.
1t is very difficult to ascertain
who has the finest and largest salad
patch-Aunt Julia Ann Hills or
Mrs. Tom WEIGH. In all our travels
we've never seen larger or greener
ones. By their generous gifts of tur-
nip greens to neighbors they have
proven themselves genuine benefac-
tresses.
Mr. R. E. Ellis, the U. S. govern
ment's agricultural representative
for Weakley county, paid very
welcome visit to Beech Ridge this
week. He stated that the soil here
would certainly win the county and
state corn prizes this fall. He made
an examination of the ground and
said it would produce an hundred
bushels per acre, if properly worked.
The record now is SO bushels per
acre. He conscripted Masters Ray
mond and Faradene Doherty for, the
corn club.
Five thousand pounds of cotton
was hauled from the ridge to Ken
ton this week at four loads. There
remains more than $4,000 pounds in
the field. The four loads averaged
nine cents per pound.
Residents of the ridge were some
what startled on last Wednesday
night at the unexplainable phenom
enon that appeared SO reddish in the
northern skies, as though it were {
distant conflagration. Guesses raj
from the aurora borealis to the fatuS
Morgana. 1t was doubtless some
form of phosphorescent gaseous clout
as it parted at 9:45 going in oppo
site directions. 1t was the creates
siderial marvel since Haley's come
and when the stars showered in 1877
and 1888.
Mr.. J. C. Swain made bushes
trips to Trenton, Gleason, Dresden
Sharon and Kenton the past week.
Messrs. John Ramsay and Bill
Wolf have recently taken a grea
deal of interest in getting the roat
which runs by their home to Sharon
and Greenfield widened to 80 fee
and in getting it in good condition
SO as to ask for a public road con
Meeting on it's western extremit.
with the proposed Beech Ridge pub
lie road. They have already don
5000 worth Of work and richly de
serve a public road. They guaran
tee the county will not be called Of
for funds for five years.
| Col. Ed V. Sims, of Martin, TO
| 20 years the champion salesman o
the South, and now representing tn
largest coffee house in st. Louis
paid two days visit to Mr.. and Mrs
], C. Doherty the past week, here o.
Beech Ridge. Mr.. Sims espresso
great interest in Beech Ridge. A
he expressed it metaporically, sit i
the land of Egypt of Weakley coun
ty." He said he was seriously think
ing Of purchasing farm and build
ing nice bungalow here as retrea
during his vacation, where he woul
have fine fishing and hunting pre-
serves during the hot dog days o
summer, far from the maddenin
crowd. The, Col. came over in hi
} new Kindelspire car, which he say
he prefers to a Ford for an all-seaso
: car, in this country.
What came very near being a fl
: tally, occurred here last Wedne'
: day afternoon, when the elder gil