The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
VOLUME XXXV1il
GREAT BIG DAY AT
CRAWFORD SPRINGS.

Last Sunday, the first Sunday of the
1921 meet of the Forked Deer Red
Fox Club at Crawford Springs, half
way between Lexington and jackson
and located in our own county, was a
great day, one that will long be re-
membered with unalloyed pleasure by
the two thousand or more people
men, women and children, who spent
the day there
One attraction of the day was the
Medina Quartette, composed of Mes
srs Archie Dunnivan, Super Fuzzell
and Eugene McLemore and Mrs. Mat
tie Seat. The quartette sang before
and after each of the speeches of the
day, morning and afternoon-and all
the while Uncle Sam Amis hung to
the corner Of the platform and imbib-
ed enough music to keep his musical
battery charged for weeks to come.
Mr.. McLemore is a bass singer Of eX-
ceptional ability and is brother of
of our toWnswoman, Mrs. VIII Con-
molly.
The speech of Governor Alf Taylor
was the stella attraction of the morn
ing and was enjoyed very much by the
large crowd which drew up as near as
possible to the speaking stand to lis
ten to the States Chief Executive,
Tom King, Of Memphis, who takes
to himself nearly all the privileges
and prerogatives of Methodist
preacher, except tying the nuptual
knot, is secretary of the Forked Deer
Fox Club, is Master Of Ceremonies
from the opening to tha closing Of the
annual meet Of the club and actually
wallows and "sloches" in the enjoy
ment he gets out of the privilege OF
talking as much as he pleases-and
saying what may come to his mind.
Tom King introduced Federal
Judge Ross. President of the Forked
Deer Fox Club, and Judge Ross took
the stand to say q word about the
speech of Governor Taylor needing
no introduction to a Tennessee audi
nece. Judge Ross said that Gov. Tay-
lor, himself, honored member of the
club, was attending the annual met
for relaxation from the cares of
State, and that so far as was neces-
sary the office of Governor of Ten
nessee was functioning for the time
being from Crawford Springs, Hen
derson county.
Governor Taylor's talk was infor-
nal, devoted considerably to Tennes-
see ,and not once did the Executive
fail to hold the attention of the crowd.
He paid a glowing humorous tribute
to fox hunters as class, declaring
that he had never seen real fox
hunter who was not royal good fel-
low, good citizen and Christian gen
tleman. Governor Taylor said he had
gone the United States over, on the
speaking platform, and that he had
been over Texas six times, that when
a young man he had spent five years
in New Jersey and had lived in and
gone to school in New York-and af-
ter it all they had come to the conclu-
sion that there is no better place to
live than Tennessee and that he has
just as much right as anybody to
make his home in the Volunteer State.
He showed that Tennessee troops had
turned the tide of battle in all wars
in which they engaged-the battle
on Kings mountain, during the revo-
luton, the war of 1912 and last and
greatest, in the World war, in which
the Both Division, with So per cent. of
Tennesseans, broke the Hindenburg
Line at its most impregnable point.
His reference to the World war put
into the mind of Governor Taylor to
make an appeal for Alvin York, the
greatest one hero Of the World war
whose farm given him by apprecia
tive Tennesseans is about to be lost
to him by foreclosure of mortgage,
and SO effective did he state the case
with the fact that York refused to
commrcialiZa what he did for his
country and thereby lost untold thoUs-
ards Of dollars, that the neat sum Of
more than $500 was reported and col
la,ted ON the grounds in the space Of
few minutes. Governor Taylor is
looking fine and during his stay at
Crawford has been able to keep late
hours at night, 90 on chase of the H.