Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
MCKENZIE HAPPENINGS
By Our SpeeiaI corregpondent

IMAM LDeN nave ever Nau UelOte,
Deposits of the Citizens State Bank
are steadiiv climbing. as we'll as
those ofthe Bank OF Mckenzie, the
older of the two institutions. This
bank now has on deposit more than
100000, a sum greater than any
bank in Che county has ever bad
on deposit at one time. This
amount of money in the commun.
ity at this season is due largely TO
the raising of sweet potatoes,
crop which is proving to be the
greatest money-maker the farmers
have ever raised. The greater por.
tion of this seasons crop is still 10
storage houses here. However,
shipments are being made more
frequent now. After the sale OF
the seasons crop deposits here
should near the million dollar mark.
An effort is again being made
by Mckenzie citizens, as we'll as
citizens of most other towns be-
tween Hollow Rock and Hickman,
to secure a night train between
Hickman and Nashville. AS it is.
lit takes a good portion of three
DAYS to leave here and spend a day
lin Nashville. We can see no.
treason why a train could not be run
| from Hickman to Hollow Rock
! junction, making connection with
! the night train between Memphis
and Nashville. There is certainly
enough business between these
points to justify night train or
the service we once had would
have been discontinued long before
the war. We have always liked to
travel over the N. G. & St. L. road
because it afforded such good SER
vice, but now, so far as passenger
service on this end of the line is
concerned, if there ever was a
Jerk-water road, this division is it.
We would like to suggest to the
local commercial club that they
petition the Birmingham & North
western or the Chicago, Memphis
| Il Gulf, better known as Cotton
wood, Maple and Gum, to extend
a spur from their main line into
Mckenzie so we can get some
passenger accommodation.
Deaths of Mckenzie boys Oh the
battleields of France and in mill
tary hospitals in this country have
been so numerous that our losses
have become a matter of general
comment from people everywhere,
who look over the casualty list.
For a while from one to three tel
egrams a day were received here,
announcing the death of some of
our boys. We, no doubt, have
suffered more heavily than our
| neighboring towns. However, the
following, from Percival Allen,
which is reproduced from recent
issue of the Literary Digest. en-
titled They Lie in France, Where
Lilies Bloom" can be truthfully
said of our boys from all sections
of the county, who gave their life's
blood in the cause of freedom:
They lie in France
Where lilies bloom
Those flowers pale
That guard each tomb
Are sanity souls
That smiling stand
Close by them in
That martyred land.
And mutely there the long night
Shadows creep from quiet hills to
Mourn for them who sleeep, while
lO'er them through the dusk go
Silently the grieving clouds
That slowly drift to sea, and
Lately round them moaned the
Winter wind whose voice,
Lamenting, sounds so coIdly kind,
Yet in their faith those waiting
Hearts abide the time when
Turns forever that false tide.
In France they lie
! Where lilies bloom
Those flowers fair
For them made room.
Not vainly placed
The crosses stand
] Within the brave
And stricken land;
Their honor lives
Their love endures,
Their noble death
The right assures.
For they shall have their
Hearts desire, they who,
Unfinching, braved the fire,
Across the fields their eyes at
Last shall see through clouds
And mist the hosts of victory.
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