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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-04-20
MEMPHI-T BRISTOL HIGHWAY
Contract Has Been Let for Building
Up Mountain in White County
to Cumberland County Line

A contract has bee nlet ito Bir-
mingham parties for the construction
of the I3 miles of the Memphis-to-
Bristol Highway from Sparta, White
county, up thhe mountain to the Cum
berland county line. The bid was
$347,oI2.62. Work is expected 10 be-
gin in few weeks and it is estima ared
that almost year will be re luired to
complete the work.
This stretch of road has been the
most serious obstruction anywhere
in the state to the final completion OF
the Memphis -to-Bristol Highway
Now that it is to be completed our
people will look more hopefully for
aid to enable thhis county to put its
as miles of the Memphis
Highway in first class condition.
This county has spent considerably
over $4,000 on this line and most OF
the distance in this county the road
has been fairly passable for several
years, especially during the summer
and fall months.
This county has surveyed and
graded the line for the entire dis
tance through the county, but the
survey that was made few ysa4sago
showed that some deviation would
be necessary in few instances to
place the road in the class it was sup
posed to occupy. Repeated efforts
have been made to secure the expen-
diture of funds sufficient to finally
establish the grades as desired and,
further, to secure proper surfacing.
In every instance the effort has pro-
ven a failure. However, now that
the seriuos obstacle Of THE mountain
~, our west is to be overcome, our
people have reason to expect work IN
this county at no distant date that
will very materially benefit the high
way.
With the putting of the Memphis
to-Bristol Highway in passable shape
from one side of the mountain to tine
other. much traffic may reasonably
)be expected and larger volume OF
business for this section as a whole.
Next should come the completion OF
the Dixie Short Route, which runs
north from Chattanooga to Lulsville,
KY. without going I2o miles out OF
the way, as is thhe case when either
branch of the socalled Dixie High
wav is followed via Knoxville or
Nashville. A Tremendous How OF
traffic accompanied by a large IN
crease in business will inevitably
follow when these Two lires are
completed.
Work is going on in Fentress coun-
tv now and steps are being taken to
bridge the Cumberland river in Ken
tucky. all of which brings closer the
day when the Dixie Short Route Will
be opened and heavy stream OF
travel and business will follow.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-04-20
MURDERED WITH knife
Floyd Wilson Stabbed Art Hall in
Neck and Death Results
in Few Minutes

Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock Floyd
Wilson killed Art Hall.
The facts, as we get them, are about
as follows.
Monday night about o'clock Floyd
Wilson, Ed Hall, Art Hall and Wyatt
Elmore met at the little store being
run by Floyd Wilson and Ed. Hall,
at Sutton Ford about two m les from
Linary, and engaged in drinking
whiskey. They drank whiskey, ate
canned goods, sang and had what
they called a general good time until
after monight-
Some one suggested that they play
a joke on d. c. Patton, who lives
only snort distance away, and
they sent for him to come down to
the store, saying that Floyd Wilson
was very sick and about to die Mr..
Patton went down and found Wilson
lying in the floor groaning and taxi
ing on as if in great pain.
After some time Wilson sat up
and began to laugh at Patton and he
soon saw that they had just played a
Joke on him and he too joined IN the
levity and stayed with them until
about three o'clock In the morning
when they decided it was time for
them to disperse and all arose to GO
home.
Wilson is said to have told Hall to
get out of his house and as Hall did
not go Immediately Wilson told him
second time, using an oath, and
struck at Hall aand knocked his hat
off and kicked it out into the road.
Hall went on the outside and pick
ed his hat up and Wilson is said to
have followed him out and the cut
ting took place. Hall was cut three
times, once at the right and in the
back of the head, once in the back OF
the neck and once on the left side
of the neck, severing the jugular vein.
The wound on the left side of the
neck was the one that caused death
within two or three minutes.
Coroner J. S. Garrison summoned
a jury and went to the scene of the
killing Tuesday morning and held an
iquest on the body. The jury is said
to have returned a verdict that Hall
came to his death by knife wound
inflicted by Floyd Wilson.
A warrant was issued and placed
in the hands Of Deputy Sheriff En-
NETT Handy for thhe arrest of Mr..
Wilson, but he could not be found
although he was at the place of the
killing until short time before the
coroner arrived with the jury. 1t is
thought that he will come in and give
himself up later.
Mr.. Wilson is son OF Ex-senator
T. f. Wilson and is young man
about thirty years of age and un-
married. Mr.. Hall is a son of John
Hall of Peavine and was about forty
yeats of age, was married and had
large family.
The whole trouble seems to have
resulted from the excessive use OF
wildcat whiskey which is said to be
easily gotten hold of in that commu-
nity.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-04-20

and respected by all who knew them.
Thew came here from Lafayette, to
which place they returned about two
years ago.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-04-20

Mrs. Richard Brady is with home
folks Monterey, while her mother
is nIndiana, where sh ewas called
by the death of her father.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-04-20

On March 23 there were reported
to be 4so,784 idle freight cars, the arg
est number ever knowa.
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02

tidewater at the mouth of the river.
unless the LOrd'll gil us lot more
water in the river" the wOOds-boss
McTavish complained, 81 dinna see
how I'm to keep the mill runnin'."
He was taking John Cardigan up the
river bank and explaining the sttua-
ton. 1.-THE heavy butt-logS haze sunk
to the bottom" he continued. "Wie
normal head O. water, the lads'll move
them, but wi the drappie we have the
nee" He threw up his hamlike
hands despairingly.
Three days later a 'cloud-burst filled
the river to the brim; it came at night
and swept the river clean of Cardi-
gan's clear logs. An army of jug
gernauts, they swept down on the
boiling torrent to tidewater, reaching
the bay shortly after the tide had
commenced to ebb,
Now, chain is only as strong as
its weakest link, and a log-boom Is
chaplet of small logs, linked end to
end by means of short chains; hence
when the vanguard of logs on the
lip of that food reached the log
boom, the impetus of the charge was
too great to be resisted. Straight
through the weakest link in this boom
the huge saw-lOgs crashed and out
over Humboldt bar to the broad Pa
cific. With the ebb tide some of them
came back, while others. caught in
cross-Currents, bobbed about the bay
all night and finally beached at widely
scattered points Out of the fifteen
million feet of logs less than three
million were salvaged, and this task
in itself was an expensive operation.
John Cardigan received the news
calmly. He turned from the manager
and walked away through his logged
over lands, across the little divide
and down into the quarter-section of
green timber he had told McTavish
not to cut. Once in the Valley of the
Giants, he followed well-worn foot
path to the little amphftheater, and
where the sunlight filtered through
like a halo and fell on plain little
white marble monument he paused
and sat down on the now almost de-
eayed sugar-pine windfall.
ave come for little comfort,
sweetheart" he murmured to her who
slept beneath the stone. Then he
leaned back against redwood tree.
removed his hat, and closed>his eyes.
holding his great gray head the while
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02
CHAPTER w.

1t was on the day that John Cardi-
gan received the telegram from Bryce
saying that. following four years at
Princeton and two years of travel
abroad, he was returning to SeQuOia to
take over his redwood heritage
he discovered that stranger and not
the flesh of his flesh and the blood Of
his blood was to reap the reward of
his fifty years of endeavor
For long time he sat there lethar
gle with misery. Eventually he
reused himself, reached for the desk
telephone, and pressed button on
the office exchange-station. His man
ager, one Thomas Sinclair, answered.
Thomas" he said calmly, ''yOu
know, of course, that Bryce is com
ing home. Tell George to take the
big car and go over to Red Bluff for
him."
George Sea Otter, son of Bryce
Cardigan's old half-breed nurse, was
person in whose nature struggled
the whites prediction for advertise
ment and civic pride and the red
mans instinct for adornment. For
three years he had been old man
Cardigan's chauffeur and man-Of-all-
work about the latter's old-fashioned
home, and in the former capacity he
drove John Cardigan's> single evidence
of extravaganza Napier car, which
was very justly regarded by George
Sea Otter as the king of automobiles,
since it was the only imported car In
the county. Upon receipt Of orders,
therefore. from Sinclair, to drive the
Napier over to Red Bluff and meet
his future boss and one-time play
fellow, George Sea Otter arrayed him
self In pair Of new black corduroy
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02
Continued from Page 2.

cation all too infrequent with the sons
of men rated as -millionairess. Bryce's
boyhood was much the same as that
OF other lads in Sequoia. saVe-that In
tie matter of toys and later guns,
ishing-rods, dogs and ponies he was
source of envy to his fellows. After
His tenth year his father placed him
oasthe mill payroll, and on payday
ne was wont to line up with the mill
crew TO receive his modest stipend of
ten dollars for carrying in kindling to
the cook in the mill kitchen each day
after school.
This otherwise needless arrangement
NaS old Cardigan's way of teaching
hi hoy financial responsibility.
When Bryce Cardigan was about
fourteen years old there occurred an
filnertant event in his life. In COM
n aldable effort to increase his income
he had laid out a small vegetable
garden in the rear of his fathers
h.use, and here on a Saturday morn
ill., while deHn on his knees wedding
G. TOts, he CHANGED to look up and
discovered young lady gazing>at him
Trough the picket fence. She was
Few years his junior, and stranger
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02
CHAPTER III.

Throughout the happy years Of
Bryce's boyhOod his father continued
TO enlarge and improve his sdwmill,
to build more schooners, and to ac-
quire more redwood timber. Lands,
the purchase of which by Cardigan a
decade before had caused his neigh
bers to impugn his judgment, now
developed strategical Importance. As
a result those lands necessary to con-
soIidate his own holdings came to
him at his own price, while his adj
verse holdings that blocked the log
cling operations of his competitors
went from him-also at his own price
In fact. all well-laid plans matured
satisfactorily with the exception of
one, and since it has a very definite
bearing on the story, the necessity for
explaining it is paramount
Contiguous to Cardigan's logging
operations to the east and north of
Sequoia, and comparatively close in,
lay a block of two thousand acres
of splendid timber, the natural, feas-
lille. and inexpensive outlet for which,
when it should be logged, was the
Valley of the Giants. For thirty
years John Cardigan had played a
waiting game with the owner of that
timber, for the latter was as fully
obsessed with the belief that he was
going to sell it to John Cardigan at a
dollar and half per thousand feet
stumpage as Cardigan was certain he
was going to buy it for dollar a
thousand-when he should be ready
to do so and not one second sooner
Eventually the time for acquiring
more timber arrived. John Cardigan,
meeting his neighbor on the street,
accosted him thus:
Look here, Bill, isn't it time we
got together on that timber of yours
You know you've been holding it to
block me and force me to buy at your
figure. I'll give you a dollar thous-
and stumpage for your timber, BILL
81 want dollar and half"
"a dollar is my absolute limit"
''Then I'll keep my timber"
"And I'll keep my money. When
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02

trousers, yellow button shoes, a blue
wooden shirt with a large scarlet silk
handkerchief tied around the neck, a
pair of beaded buckskin gloves with
fringe dependent from the gauntlet,
and a broad white beaver hat with a
rattlesnake-skin band. Across the
windshield Of the Napier he-fastened
an orange-colOred pennant bearing
in bright green letters the legend:
MY CITY-SEQUOIA. As a safety
first precaution against man and
beast en- route. ne buckled a gun
scabbard to the spare tires on the
running-bOard and slipped a rife into
the scabbard within quick and easy
reach of his hand; and arrayed thus,
George descended upon Red Bluff at
the helm of the king of automobiles.
When the overland train cOasted
into Red Bluff and slid to grinding
halt Bryce Cardigan saw that the
Highest Living Authority had de
scended from the train also. He had
elected to designate her thus in the
absence Of any information anent her
Christian and family names, and for
the further reason that quite obvious
" she was a very superior person.
Bryce could see that she was the
little daughter of some large rich
man. The sparsity of jewelry and
the rich simpllcity-of her attire proved
that, and moreover she was accom-
panied by a French maid TO whom
she spoke in French in a manner
which testified that before acquiring
the French maid she had been in the
custody of a French nurse. She pos
sessed poise. For the rest, she had
wonderful jet-black hair, violet eyes,
and milk-white skin, a correct nose
but a somewhat generous mouth.
Bryce guessed she was twenty or
twenty-one years old and that she had
a~temper susceptible of being aroused.
The fact that this remarkable
young woman had also left the train
at Red Bluff further Interested him.
for he knew Red Bluff and while CIV
ing credit to the many lovely damsels
OF that little ambitious city, Bryce
had a suspicion that no former Red
CONTINUED ON PAGE
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02
THE cord SEDAN

little to one side in listening atti-
tude. Long he sat there, a great,
time-bitten devotee at the shrine of
his comfort; and presently the har-
ried look left his strong, kind face
and was replaced by little president
smile-the soEtOf smile worn by one
who through bitter years has sought
something very, very precious and
has at length discOYered-it.
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02

fn Sequoia Ensued the following
conversation: Hello, little boy"
"Hello yourself! / amt a little
boy"
She ignored the correction. "What
are you doing?"
''Weedin' carrots. Can't you seer"
'What forT"
Bryce, highly incensed at having
beer designated little boy by this
superior damsel, saw his opportunity
TO silence her. Cats fur for kitten
brer ehes," he retorted-without any
evidence of originality, we, must con-
feSs, and for lie space of several min
utes gave all his attention to his crop.
And presently the visitor spoke again.
81 like your hair, little boy. It's
preftv red"
That settled the issue between
them. To be hailed as little boy was
bad enough, but to be reminded of his
browning misfortune was adding insult
TO injury. He rose and cautiously
APPROACHED the fence with the inten-
ton of paching the impudent strang-
er. suddenly and surreptitiously, and
sending her a"ay weeping. As his
hand crept between the palings on its
wicked mission, the little miss looked
at him in friendly fashion and queried:
"Whaf's your -name?n
Bryce's hand hesitated. bryce
: Cardigan. he answered gruffIy.
I'm Shirley Sumner" she ventured.
Lets be friends"
when did you come to live in
SequoiaT' he demanded
81 don't live here. I'm just visiting
here with my aunt and uncle We're
staying AT the hotel, and there's no.
body to play with. My uncle's name
is Pennington. Sos my aunt's. He's
Oui here buying timber, and we live
In Michigan"
Her gaze wandered past Bryce to
where his Indian pony stood with her
head out Of the window of her box
stall contemplating her master.
-Oh, what dear little horse ?"
Shirley Sumner exclaimed. whose
is he?"
"'Tain't he. It's a She And
she belongs to me-"
do you ride her?'
mot very often now. I'm getting
too heavy for her, so Dads bought me
a horse that weighs nine hundred
pounds. Midget only weighs FIVE
hundred. He considered her mo-
ment while she gazed in awe upon
this man with two horses. "Can you
ride a pony he asked, for no reason
that he was aware Of
she sighed, shaking her head re-
signedly. eve haven't any room to
keep a pony at our house in Detroit"
she explained, and added hopefully:
'But I'd love to ride Midget. sup
pose could learn to ride If somebody
taught me how"
He looked at her again. at that
period Of his life he was inclined to
regard girls as a necessary evil. For
some immutable reason they existed,
and perforce must be borne with, and
It was his hope that he would get
through life and see as little as posi-
tie of the exasperating sex. Never
fheless, as Bryce surveyed this win
some miss through the palings, he was
sensible Of sneaking desire to find
favor in her. eyes-also equally sensi-
bile of the fact that the path to that
desirable end lay between himself and
Midget.
Well suppose 4 you want a ride
The Adair County news., 1921-02-02

No man is infallible, and In plan
ming his logging operations In the San
Hedrin watershed John Cardigan
presently made the discovery that he
had erred in judgment. That season,
from May to November his woods
crew put thirty million feet of logs
into the San Hedrin river, while the
mill sawed on reserve supply of logs
taken from the last of the old chop
pings adjacent to Squaw creek. That
year, however. the rainfall in the San
Hedrin country was fifty per cent.
less than normal, and by the first of
May of the following year Cardigan's
woods-crew had succeeded in driving
slightly less than half of the cut of
the preceding year to the boom on
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-13

ands of children who daily used the High school building, and the thous- ands more who would enter it's DOT tals in time to come, could not help but be impressed by the constant re- hinder that they would daily see.
 Particular credit for the success of last nights celebration is due to Chief Justice Wheeler who was the moving spirit in arranging for the ceremon- ies. Although he announced that he would not attempt an estimate of the accomplishments of Dante, he spoke comprehenstvely on the work of the poet, answering the question of why so much honor should be paid to the author of the Divine Comedy. ''Is it not" said the justice, first of all be- cause he lived not for self but chiefly for othersi Is it not that the tenn pie he built was made of the un- changing materials-of faith and jus tice, truth and love"
 The justice reminded his hearers that 1t was Dante who first had the vision of united Italy, an Italy which should include the territory | along the Adriatic seaboard. the territory which Italians for so many years have claimed belonged by
 rights to their land and which has
 finally become part of it..
 1 At the end of the meeting a vote
 of thanks was given to the general Italian committee and to the com mittee in charge of last nights cere-
 monies The crowd filed out past the tablet, which had been tempor- arily placed on the platform where all might see it before it was placed | in its permanent position. Signor Ruoccolo rose from his chair in an- swer to the applause which greeted his name when the chairman of the meeting praised the sculptor of the ing In English with which he is not too familiar.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-13
NOVEL DANCE IS PLANNED
 FOR CASINO

At the Casino on State street Thurs day evening, October 18th, a unique movie dance and battle of music in terspersing novelty moonlight and spotlight numbers will be held. This will be- the first affair of It's kind ever held in Bridgeport. During the evening motion pictures will be made while dancing is at its height There will be two expert camera men and full lighting equip ment on hand.
 There will also be motion pictures projected on a specially fitted up screen showing among other subjects the following items of local interest, Oct. goth.
 Mayor Wilson opening Eastern League, Bridgeport vs. Waterbury.
 Lou Bogash training for worlds welterweight title. Orlando Riccio. Italian Ambassa- dor, visits Bridgeport. Motorcycle Club of Bridgeport. Salvaging cargo of Singer sewing
 machine parts that sunk off Middle ground light. Long Island Sound. Winners of Pleasure Beach Baby Show. PIe>0ure Beach Park, Bridge port.
 NFnter carnival given under the auspices of U. s. Volunteer Life Saw ing Corp, Bridgeport. Southern New England Te1eph hone Co. Bridgeport Branch, showing the largest switch board in one length in +l1e |. s. A. and the local girls oper- ating it.
 iirttlgeport Police Department. Bridgeport Fire Departme7lr show ing Y engine companies ard every man in the departnen
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-13

Senator Joseph E. Brown, consisting of 4.000 acres in Texas.
 Under the will Georgia Tech be- came possessed of the farm and range tract which was considered of but little value a few years ago. Recent ly, however, the famous Burk-Burnett oil fields were developed but 65 miles from the loca ton of the school lands.
 As a result of many wires, letters and< personal appeals Feet officials sent ex-Governor Harris to inVesti- gate He did so, and vigorously re- fused to lease any of the land except ing lots immediately abutting land where actual drilling was in progress
 To date oil has been discovered within two miles of the schools pos sessions and MT. Harris, with N P Pratt, chemist and m1nera1ogist, are making a scientific survey of the property with other inspections neces- sary prior to further leasing.
 In case Oil is struck, and 1t is be-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-13
PRESIDENT HAS ANNUAL
 RECEPTION

The annual reception of the Presf- dent of the Wednesday Afternoon Musical club was held yesterday after noon at the Stratfie1d hotel when Mrs. Harry c. Ives was the hostess. Dah- lies and other fall flowers were used in the attractive decorations.
 The speaker was Mrs. Frederick Wardwel1 of Stamford who represent cd the local club at the national con- vention last June and her address was followed by delightful musical pro- gram which was arranged by Mrs. Henry L. Bishop. The Philharmonic trio. Miss Dorothy M. Wall, violinist Miss Ruth Williams, cellist; and Mrs.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-13
Big Audience
 At Ceremony To Honor Dante
Chief Justice Wheeler, Wm Lyon Phelps and Prof. Cinquegrana Make
 Addresses.

Seven flags of seven local Ttslian societies banked on one side of the platform with a like number of American standards on the other were a significant indication of the nature of the ceremonies held in honor of Dante in the High school auditorium last night. The gathering was one composed largely of natives of Italy, assembled to render hom- age to one of the greatest figures in all their history. but in the enthu- ssiasll and love for one of their feI- low countrymen the land of their adoption was never for a moment forgotten.
 On the platform was dintin guish-