The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-05-09

sweet potato plants for sale and had
no less than dozen calls before Sat
urday night, altho it was stated plants
would not be ready before the tenth OF
the month 1t certainly pays to adver-
tise in these columns.
For SALE-A Jersey bull 8 years,
sired by Crawfords bull and out of a
Bevan COW, and too good for the
butcher. Also one bull 2 years old "a
Hereford, dandy. R. d. Griffin
Oakland. 5-17
A former prominent figure in the
affairs of Fayette county passed away
last week when j. S. Morris died at his
home in Collierville. Hewas many years
aImember of the County Court OF, Fay
cite County from the ninth district and
was one of the county's best known citi-
zens and was large land owner in the
county. He retired from active business
few'years ago and moved to Collierville
where he has since resided
The County Highway Commission
met Wednesday in their regular month
ly meeting and passed upon the work
of the past month. So pleased were
the commissioners with the work of the
two tractor outfits already bought that
thy placed an order Wednesday for a
third outfit of the same kind to be de-
livered at once at Colliervile to be used
on the roads in he southwest corner Of
the county, linking Up with routes al
ready made out to touch that part.
The tax on buggies and wagons pro-
posed some weeks ago by a mass
convention in this city was enacted in
to law and is now operative. Every
owner of buggy is subject to tax of
So. rs per annum on it and owners of
wagons tax of $1.25 annually, log
wagons SIS annually. The law was pre-
pared and sent to the Legislators
and was passed by them as was the
sentiment expressed to them, The
fund thus raised goes into the district
road fund in the district where paid.
Fsyette county loses one of her best
public school teachers in the moving of
Ms. Maude Parks Ferguson from her
former home in the fifteenth district to
Hickory Valley in Hardeman county.
Mrs. Ferguson has taught the Parks
school for number of years, and more
than year ago married Mr.. Ferguson
of Hickory Valley. He went right into
army service and she continued her
school work. He returned recently and
a few days ago they moved to Hickory
Valley where they will make their home,
The Falcon job printing department
has printed this week for County Trus-
tee ]. T. Jordon large number Of Tax
Receipts for Dog Tax to be given those
who pay this tax and dog owners are
now asked by the Trustee to pay his
office or the Assessor the tax on every
dog kept in the county. From the re-
ports we get the people generally over
the county are paying the tax promptly
or killing the dogs. 1t looks now like
the law will be more thoroughly COM
piled with than has any dog law before
enacted, and we have had several such
laws.
Miss Annie Brassfeld, County Home
Demonstration Agent, has furnished
The Falcon with the following schedule
of her visits from today thru next week:
Monday next, Warren at p. m. Boys
and Girls meeting, $3.50 Women's meet
ing: Tuesdly LAGRANGE at 200 p. m.
Wednesday Macon at coop. m. Thurs
day Glade Springs at 800 p. m. and
Women's meeting at $3.50; Friday Som
erville., The week just ending she has
visited Braden, Galloway. Williston,
Mo COW, lanyard. The clubs are full
Ter this year than they have ever been
since the work began in the county,
A number of alfalfa growers are cut.
ting their first crops this week or ar
ranging to cut next lex. The pros
poets are for heavy yied this time,
with weather conditions favorable for
the crop. Cured alfalfa hay is selling
loca ly at about $50 per ton and any
average should make off this cutting
more than ton of the cured hay, and
then three or four more cuttings will
be gotten during the summer. An av
erage acre will produce five tons of
cured hay in season, it has done it on
more than one farm in the C unity in /
past years. Can any other crop beat
this for a money crop?
The Parent Teachers association held
Their monthly meeting Wednesday af-
ternoon at the High School. A very