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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
LAURA LEWIS FUNERAL
RITES HELD WEDNESDAY,

Funeral services for Mrs Laura
Lewis. COZ 9Th Ave No, we're
held wednesday 81 81 Marks
Catholic church. woodsrs FunsT-
81 Home had charge Of burial a..
rsnEernents
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
Wallace, Truman and Dewey
Will Come to Minnesota
To Bake Presidential Bun

BY MAMIE RUTH BUTLER

Talk about voters not knowing much about whom they
vote nor studying candidates cloSey-Si Paul and Mime.
apo won't have even tina, to kick about concerning the
coming presidential elections,
They will have chance 10 throw tomatoes al each one
OF these honorrd fcllows-Waace Truman and Dewsyor
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08

lace or Thumond. makes me .
Communist, then I am willing 10
let the law take ita course
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
speaks At TiymSsth
Chnrsh seminar

Church Seminar
Speaker 81 . Minneapolis Ply.
mouth Congregational Church
seminar On The Church ard
Rare RsIstiOns" "wednesday night
Eas Cecil Newman. Spokesman
and Recorder editor.
Gideoa Seymour. editor Of tbs
Star ard Tribune hsvEspspsrs.
Usa seminar diFertoT for Inst Ssc-
ti0n Of . Eve w@sk SERIES bsing
c0nductsd 81 ths church.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
Montgomery Case
Still Up In Airj
Awsits Mayor

against desk sergeant George
Montgomery, Minneapolis police
officer whom four citizens al
legged refused 60 do hia duty and
was abusive 10 them arc still up
In the air.
Police Superintendent GIsn
MacLeaR said Tuesday he had not
had Q chance 10 report 90 Mayor
Hubert Humphrey on the case.
-Four Minneapolitans, Donald
MCMOore, Robert Wallace and
Mr. and Mrs, Eddie Varnado,
charge Montgomery was abusive
and made u TRADE against Ne.
Rrncs In general when they went
10 headquarters 10 seek police ~.
sistance Ia Investigation Of an al
legged case 81 discrimination
The Civil Rights Committee
Irene PAUL, executive secretary.
has carried on an investigation Of
the case and has represented the
citizens Tho mayor and the chief
have been asked 10 dismiss Mont,
EomeTy
Monday the matter was 70,
terred 20 the Mayors Council on
Human Relations for invrstiEa
ton The case was originally ~.
trrred Ia the MACE.
Albert Allen. NAACP prasl.
dent, said Tuesday that before
the branch had an opportunity 90
launch an investigation the CiviI
y '''- s~"u" - The ease ~ ~
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
Presidential Candidates Coming Here
Barley Confident
of Demo. Victory,
Hits SOth Congress

Observation-Disclosures Alben
W. Barkley Of Kentucky, Demo.
cratic candidate for vice preSi.
dent, told an enthusiastic group OF
Negro and white Democratic
leaders here that Those in Am.
erica who have defended demo
cracy In It's most critical hour are
entitled without regard 60 any na.
tional or racial distinction TO
share the full benefits Of citiEen-
ship In our nation"
Equality Ii Keynote
Speaking at a campaign get.
IS-Newman 2087S aW
together at the william Penn Ho-
tel on the eve Of q monster mass
meeting at Syria Mosque, Senator
Barkley said, I'VE can defend de-
mocracy best by defending equal.
ity Of representation, equality OF
treatment, equality OF voice In
government and equality Of part.
Cipation In government for all Of
our citizens"
The meeting was attended by
Congressman william I. Dawson
Of Illinois, Assistant TO the Chair
man. Democratic National Com.
mIttee, and senator Francis J.
Meyer Of Pennsylvania.
The leadership group Of some
20 persons representing Allie
gheny and WestmorelRnd counties
in Pennsylvania assured the vice
presidential candidate that more
than sO% Of the Negro vote would
support the Truman Barklsy ma.
tionRl ticket and the State Demo
cratic slate.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08

have misifeRted Allie n. Glenn,
several months ago.
The Civil Rights group plans Ia
hold . mass meeting on the case
this week
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
How to be
Called a "Red"
In One Lesson
BY d. Hall In the AIro. American.

by ID. Hall In the AlTO. American.
The word COMMUNIST has
developed into the nations No. !
curse word" II person wants
10 put you in the dozens. com.
pare your forcfatheTs with lower
animals, use Gods name IN vain
in describing you, he does II all
simply by calling q 'd---n COM.
MUNIST"
You are deep red II you stand
against racial segregation
You can kiss the feet ~ Stain,
wear . red-rAG around your head.
have . sickle and hammer en-
Ersved on your teeth, oppose the
Marshall plan, take trips 10 Mos
COW -- and you will only be q
inspected Communist You will
be investigated before you're con
demned
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
No JvdEs or Jury


But the moment you reveal that
YOU hate Jim croW. that you real
~ stand for the equality % ell
mankind before the isce % God
that the color Of = mans skin has
nothing 20 do with quality u his
mind OF the goodness d his heart.
you immediately become . On
RED"
There is no trial no Judge. no
jury. A pais-fsoe mob stands up
10 your face and gives you .
verbal lynching
Maybe there are eoI0red per-
sons In America who like Jim
crow. Q do not, never I'D, and
pray 10 Cod that neither .. mar
my ssa. ever viii.
hats Jim crow with all the
breath and bones IN my body. and
II possible. I NiII dsapise 4 even
after death.
I kn1w why hate jim crow II
ross souls ~ beauty tAkss away
self and creates moral
towards
When I arm legally plsC0d IN
TIE bark a bllsssS frvnt - trains
buzzaTd -rooata ~ ihsstsTE. kept
oJi u HrhoplA. churches. and ell
The better plsrss beCsuSs sm
rplorsd. 4 certainly doea nj ere.
ate within mo . iDys f0r i'm crow
I have ~ rep telling myself, i
an a. Fol,d ~ that white man IN
( front u NJ ~ psFsona eating
o. The Dthsr SIDE u ths curtain
ere NJ GsFtsr than ! hscsuss they
are whittier.
The peSpis WIS have al The
better things. hsvs them bstsBss
thsy are biEGsF than : am. mi ~
sasse they are sspsTtOS,-
n M deep -fOOtsd bei.sf n hu.
man Iibsrty Whjch lashss dgrh
ssgTsEstian. WbsthsT Il 10 prse.
tired b. D,sWey, 81 Truman Wal
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08
Wheatley Football
Scores

GAMEs SUNDAY. OCT !
Bsrmsns ~. Phyllis WhsstlSy o
Whsstisy Cubs n 81 Phillips o
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-10-08

n ny dsep-fo0tsd bsi.sf n hB-
man Liberty WhIch Iashss dgNn
ESgTsEstion. WHISTLER Il 10 prse-
tired By D~Wsy, a. Truman. Wal.
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Evening star., 1948-06-20

WOMAN ORDNANCE WORKERS once more are
w familiar sight at the Naval Ordnance Plant in
Alexandria.
At the peak Of production, during World War H.
approximately 1900 women worked at the plant When
production was draScaly curtaied at the end of the
war their employment was terminated During the
last few months however, 81 Of them have been re-
employed.
The Alexandria plant was established as q torpedo
station In 1920 and, until the end of the war; manu-
factured torpedoes exclusively produces mines
depth charges rocket motors and other articles for
the Bureau OF Ordnance, under whose direction It
operates The woman ordnance workers-WOWS for
short-earn the same wages men for similar work
and have equal opportunities for promotion.
women fit in admirably for certain types of work"
says Production supt E. NJ sefert s2es Arcadia place
NV "They are particularly adept in operations re-
curing nimbeness of fingers, and they work with
greater speed than men on those Jobs"
The vows were originally drawn from many occu-
patfons-beauty operators, mattresses, saleswomen
seamstresses. Office workers and teachers Now they
WORK on rocket motors and the intricate clockwork
mecnanisms, winding machines and cable assem-
ones IN the shops which manufacture mines The
intensive training they received during their employ
ment at the plant In the period has given them
tne know-how" for the meticuous work they are
called upon to do.
More than half of the women are between the ages
OF 10 and S. The oldest Is Mrs Vennie B. Powell liz
South Fairfax avenue. Alexandria BY q coincidence
anotner Powell (no relative) Mrs Mary Frances Pow
ell IS Chinquapin Village. Alexandria, is one Of the
youngest She met her husband, Rivers A. Powell q
chemist In the inspection laboratory at the plant
wnen she was taken on as a WOW during the war
All the women are homemakers as well as ordnance
workers Twenty -four are mothers of minor children;
rev are the sole support of their families
Navai ordnance work Is a family affair with the
Fletcners who live at IS East Linden street. Alexan-
dria Mrs. Pearl Fletcher was employed at the plant
1or four years during the and was one of the rst
women 70 oe taken back. Her husband, Robert E.
Fletcher worked there for 2s years unt his death th
past year Two sons, Nathaniel and John. left the
plant to Join the Navy and came back to their Jobs
aleer demobilization. Mrs. Fletcher has three other
children, the youngest being 49,
Evening star., 1948-07-06

from Boston. Beethovens "Egmont"
overture, Mozart's Concerto Rondo
in D Major" and the suite from
Kabalevsky's "The Comedians" are
featured works.
1890, WTOP - Claude Rains Is
the star Of "Topaze." tn Marcel
Pagnol- -Benn Levy comedy.
TeleyisiOn.
100, WMAL-Songs by Gabrielle,
French song stylist.
Evening star., 1948-07-06

OTHER AN STATIONS.
| WQ0W-570 Kt.-7 am. to $50 pm.
WpK-730 Kc,-s an. to $50 pm.
WARL-7S0 KC-e Am. to $40 pm.
WeAY-1,o50 Ke.-e an. to $50 pm.
WBcc-t,t70 Kc.-e:45 am to $50 pm.
WEAM-t,3e0 Ks am. to $50 pm.
WoOK-i 500 Kt.-6 an. to $50 pm.
Evening star., 1948-07-06

7:45, WTTG - Hazel Markets
guests are Mrs. Kenneth Royal,
Madame Van Kleffans and Senator
Joseph O'Mahoney.
500, WNBW William Gaxton
emcees an hour long vaudeville
show.
900, WMAL-Dale Carnegie and
Explorer Hassoldt Davis appear on
I'VE, the People"
1000, WMAL-Boxing bouts from
Macarthur Stadium In New York.
Evening star., 1948-07-06
HIGHLIGHTS TONIGHT.
Radio,

Radio.
6:45, WRC-Ray Henle and Ned
Brooks interview DR.. Chen Chin
Mai, counselor of the Chinese En-
bassy, on U. S. aid to China.
500, WRC-Crooner Tel Torme is
the star of a situation comedy series.
$3.50, WMAL What Is Ameri-
canism?" Speakers include Film
Star Ilona Massey, Representative
Karl Mundt and DR.. Max Radin.
9:30, WMAL-Arthur Fielder con-
ducts a series of Esplanade concerts
Evening star., 1948-07-06

Experienced Advertisers
Prefer The Star
Evening star., 1948-07-06

TELEvisIok TODAY.
4:45.
Attractions.
500.
and Music.
WNBW-Puppet Playhouse.
$50.
Film.
WTTG-Concert Hall.
600.
WMAL-Dinner Music.
WNBW-Film Featurettes.
WTTG-Small Fry Club.
$3.50.
WTTG-Russ Hodges.
GAS.
WMAL-Film Features.
Attractions.
WTTG-Walter Compton.
IN STATIONS.
WINx.FM-o63 Me-, Channel 242.
8 an. to 1:05 Am.
WRt .fM-e3.9 Me-. Channel 230.
$50 am. to l am.
WAsH.FM-97.t Me-. Channel 24b.
1853 to IL pm.
WHDc.FM-t0t.t Me-, Channel 266.
7.3O an. to IL pm.
WGAYFM-i02.3 Me-, Channel III.
8 am. to 8 Pm.
WBUz.FM-o6.7 Mt., Channel IA.
am. to IL midnight.
WMAl .Fh-t07.3 Me-, Channel 297.
q Am. to midnight.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

Bowl Symphony Orchestra plays
Tschaikowsky'S Romeo and Juliet
overture and Fifth Symphony"
4:30, WMAL-Milton Cross tells
stories about the operas and anec-
dotes about the stars he has known.
4:30, WINX-Herman Melville's
The Strange Mr.. Bartleby," with
Ronald Colman.
$3.50, WTOP-Brazilian Singer
Dick Farnay and the vocal group,
the AMOS do Inferno, in a program
of sambas and beguines.
$50, WRC-Starlet Marie Wind
sor is introduced to radio by Doug
las Fairbanks.
100. WRC-Celeste Holm and
Francis A. Bushman are quiz guests.
1880, WINX-A panel discussion
of the new selective service legisla-
ton.
900, WMAL-Arlene Francis gives
the latest Hollywood and Broadway
news, interviews Louis Calhern and
Playwright Ferenc Molnar.
900, WTOP - TschaikoWsky's
1872 Overture" and excerpts from
Eugene Onegin" played by the
National Symphony Orchestra.
11:05, WRC-The origin of the
Olympics and high lights of past
Evening star., 1948-07-25

an idea of the stations Larry Beck
erman, makes its debut tomorrow
the shCW, TO be written by Mr..
Beckerman, will have Lee Vickers as
master of ceremonies, playing four
different versions of tune, discus
sing the song, the composer and
each different version between
records. WGAY'S Grace Hanley
is vacationing, and during her vaca-
tion her "Homemakers' Gift Shop
Program" will be taken over by its
liteners, members of the Home
makers Gift Shop Club. >. WWDC's s
Les Sand has a new daytime show
of new recordings on Saturdays at
10 am. He's the one who's the
funniest man in Washington radio
between the hours of l am. and
6 am
Evening star., 1948-07-25
News Broodcosts Todoy
Audience Shows

The following broadcasts and tele-
casts admit the general public. For
tickets phone the station or, in the
case of WTOP, write.
WOL-Metropolitan 0012. Meet
the Press" 10 pm. Friday.
WWDC-National 1908. Teen
Time Revue 9:30 am. Saturday;
Lunch at 1850" 1915 pm. Mon
Saturday. No tickets necessary.
WARL-Owens 1900. "Georsetown
Forum" ! pm, Sunday at GEORGE
town U. No tickets necessary.
WTOP-Warner Building. Lets
Play Baseball" 10 am. Saturday;
Quiz of Two Cities" 1880 pm.
: WMAL-Tv-National 54oo. "on
Wings of Thought" $50 pm. Tues
WTTG-Republic ISIS. Arnold
Fine Show 7:45 pm. Mondap;
Winning Bridge Made Easy" pm.
Tuesday: Bob Wolff Show, s:30 pm.
WRc~Republic 1000. Man at
Grand" 80, pm; Wednesday;
Johnny Bradford, 1870 pm. Monday
Friday.
WBUZ-FM-Hillside $500. CAS-
sienment Quiz" s pm. Friday.
WASH District 1918. United
States Army Band. : pm. Wednesday
at Fort Myer. No tickets necessary.
Evening star., 1948-07-25

y y m p ] c S are
drafnatized.
TelevisiOn.
1880, WMAL
The final ses-
sion of the Third
P a r t y Conven-
ton.
1:25, WTTG-
A baseball dou-
BILE - header be-
tween the Sena
tors and the St.
Louis Browns.
500, WMAL-
"The Ghost Goes
West" starring
Pphcrt Dnnot +
Evening star., 1948-07-25

SloOSlS.
las, WEAM--
r e p resentative
Charles E a t on
discusses 20 ur
Attitude Toward
Russia.
200, WTOP-
j q m e S NJ i C h.
e n e RS 1T h e
Cave" story of
an Englishman
W no broadcast
intelligence from
behind Jap lines
during the war.
800, WTOP-
MI H1Jl,,,-o1
Evening star., 1948-07-25
High Lights Today

1900, WOL-The concluding ses-
sion of the Third Party Convention.
1889, WTOP-"The Last of the
Mohicans," James Fenimore Cooper's
Evening star., 1948-07-25

Jean Parker and Elsa Manchester.
500, WNBW-Robert Van Geld
er's new book, Important People" ,"
discussed
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
Local Boy Injured,
One Man Killed, In
Pair OF Accidents

Involved in two serious automo-
bile accidents within a few minutes,
Harold Skinner, %. of Bonneville,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Skinner,
Of Lexington, Monday received head
injuries. arm bruises, and a broken
jaw when he was knocked uncon-
scious as the result of a head-on
collision of the car which he was
driving with a loaded lumber truck,
near Corinth.
The second accident grew out of
the first, both of which occurred
shortly before noon Monday. In the
first Ross McCarley, 36, ~taxi-driver,
of Bonneville, and Mr.. Skinner,
were south bound in a cab driven
by the former. Alcorn County She
riff in reporting the accident. said
the cab went out of control, hit a
post and mailbox and ploughed
through a wire fence, throwing the
driver from the cab to the concrete
highway and striking his head.
In attempts to get Mr. McCarley
to a Corinth hospital, Mr.. Skinner,
only other rider in the taxicab at
the time of both accidents crashed
into a truck driven by Roy Colson
of Corinth, as the two met around
a curve, and was thrown from the
cab, as had happened to the cab
driver in the earlier accident. Both
men were rushed to a Corinth hos
pital. Mr.. McCarley was reported
dead upon arrival. Mr. Skinner re-
manned in an unconscious state for
several hours, but his condition
Tuesday was not thought serious.
The truck driver escaped serious
injury.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
Funeral Rites Held
For Arthur {. Cooper

Funeral services for Arthur C,
Cooper, 81, son of the late r. A
and Mrs. Fannie Smith Cooper, of
Shelby, who died August a of g
heart ailment were held Saturday
at 1890 a. m. from Lee Funeral
home by the Rev. c. T. Floyd, pas
tor of the Methodist church, assisted
by the Rev. H. N. McKibben.
Born November 2, 1887, in Holmes
county, Mr.. Cooper was married
to Miss Viola Fox.
Pallbearers were p. H. Williams
David Jordan, W. B. Kenna, c. c.
Parsons, Benny Byrd, James Byrd
Irby Ellington, w. H. Sharp.
He was buried in Odd
Fellows cemetery. Among out-of-
town persons here for the funeral
were MI. md Mrs. w. M. McRae,
Cooper and Virginia, OF jackson,
Tenn. Mrs. McRae, formerly of Lex
ington VIZ a cousin Of the deceased.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Vera {. Watson of Marks.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
Services To Be Held
For Mrs. Mcdonald
Death Occurred Here
At Daughter Home

Funeral services were scheduled
for today at 2 p. m. for Mrs. Pat
tie Burwell Mcdonald, n, former
resident of Memphis and wife of
the late DR.. J. A. Mcdonald, who
died Tuesday afternoon after seve-
raj months illness. The Rev. L. E.
Burnett, assisted by the Rev. r. G.
Valentine, will conduct the last
rites from the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Norman Weathersby,
where death occurred.
Born in 1871 at Ebenezer, Mrs.
Mcdonald was the daughter of the
late DR.. William Ball Burwell and
Mrs. Olivia Luce, formerly of Vir-
ginia. She was married to DR.. Nc
Donald who died in 1880. For a
number of years she lived in Durant
and in Memphis from 1910 to 1925.
After her husbands death she lived
with a daughter, Mrs. Patsy Nc
Donald Walsh, then of New York
City, now of Lexington. She was
a member of the Baptist church
and was a charter member of the
Woman's club in Durant.
Mrs. Mcdonald leave two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Walsh and Mrs. Weathers-
by of Lexington; one sister, Mrs. w.
o. Barrett, and two grandsons.
Burial will be in Mizpah cemetery
Durant.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
School Building Reodied
For Opening, September ;

Renovations 10 Lexington High
school building, underway for the
past month, are nearing completion,
as the opening of school, set for
September 3, draws near. School
Superintendent w. B. Kenna re-
ports that five workmen have COM
pleted repainting the inside of the
building and refinishing the floors.
Plaster patchwork will also be done
before school starts.
No new courses will be offered
this year. Last year additions to
the curriculum were made, at which
time the Grammar school building
was renovated. This year, for the
first time in several years. all OF
the previous years school faculty
are to remain for the following term.
However, Superintendent Kenna
says he is on the outlook for an
additional grade teacher. The extra
teacher is needed because of the
large number of pupils In that
grade.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
Last Rites Are Held
For Lambert Resident

Funeral services for Alex E. Fow-
Ter, SO, of Lambert, brother Of Earl
H. Fowler of Lexington, who died
at his home Thursday afternoon at
4:30, were held at 8 p. m. Sunday
at the Christian church in Lambert,
with the Rev. ]. T. Beall officiating.
Burial was in Lambert cemetery.
Surviving relatives include his
wife; a daughter, Mrs. ]. L. Nc
Lain of Great Bend, Kansas; three
sons, Weldon Fowler of Lambert,
Capt. Clyde M. Fowler of Fort Sill,
Okla, and Warrant Officers Cliff
ford j. Fowler of Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Texas. He also leaves a sister,
Mrs. j. j. Mace of Phoenix, Ariz.,
Mr.. Fowler of Lexington and
another brother, j. w. Fowler OF
Greenwood.
He had been an employ of the
Illinois Central railroad and was a
member of the Methodist church.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
The Name Of Lexington
From MISSOURI NAMES

/ called progressive pioneering" in
the expansion of our country.
Take for example one of these
"unoriginal' names most notably
represented in Missouri-the name
of Lexington. All our Is American
Lexingtons stem from a tiny Mas
sachusetts village founded during
the first days of the colony, which
like most New England towns. had
borrowed its name from the old
country. But there must have been
a spark of rebellion even among
its first settlers, for they chose to
use ar older form of the name of
Laxton in Northamptonshire,
whence some of them had come.
Hence there are no Lexingtons in
England today, and the name re-
mains exclusively American.
Lexington slept unnoticed by its
neighbors for nearly $50 years after
its founding. But in IT'S, when the
first shot of the Revolution was
fired there, the little hamlet sprang
suddenly into the hearts of all
Americans, as the cradle and SYM
boil of our liberty. That very year
a party of hunters in Kentucky, a
thousand miles away, heard the
electrifying news and decided to a.
dept the name, thus founding the
second Lexington.
The older Southern states, never
backward in their admiration for
real Yankee grit, were close behind.
Soon the name had spread to Vir-
ginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Florida, Arkansas, and
Continued on Page Eight
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
by r. L. RomsuY
professor of English. University OF
Missouri

Dissatisfaction has recently beer
expressed over what has been call
ed American lack Of originality IN
naming places. The complaint was
prompted by the discovery that we
have 81 Washingtons, 26 Manchest-
ers, and % Lincolns. AS a matter
of fact, there are in America III
cities, towns, and villages named
Washington, to say nothing OF a
State, 80 counties. and 257 town
ships-which does look like a little
too much of a good thing.
But there is another way OF look
ing at these prime favorites among
our place names Perhaps their
constant recurrence is due not SO
much to lack of originality as 70
our deep American sense OF basic
kinship and common inheritance.
These apparently commonplace
names are in a very real sense a.
mong the ties that bind us together
and make US a distinctive nation.
Some day, when we know more
exactly the circumstance and dates
of origin of each of them, we can
trace their spread across the CONT
nent and construct for each of them
a separate chart, perhaps with
little arrows running from each
successive mother town to her
brood of place-name children, that
will give us a series of vivid pictur-
es of the growth of America. Be
hind each one of them there lies
a story of what has been happily
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-12
Native Lexingtonian
Dies In Chattanooga

James Preston Hoskins, 83, OF
Lookout Mountain, Tenn, and ma
tive of Lexington, died at his home
August 2. Funeral services by the
Rev. Battle McLester, vicar of
Grace Episcopal church. C~hattanoo-
ga, were held August 3 at the resi-
dence.
Born December 2, 1864 in Lex
ington, Mr.. Hoskins attended pre-
p~aratory school in Meridian, and
Mississippi A and M in Starkville.
He moved to Chattanooga in 1887
where he worked at the Chattanoo-
ga National Bank, later reorganized,
as teller, cashier, vice president and
president. He became associated
with Signal Mountain Portland
Cement company, as director, as
well as serving as a director of
Davenport Hosiery Mills, and long
time president of the Chattanooga
Gas company.
He was the last surviving charter
member of the Mountain CITY club.
and former president. He also held
membership in the Half Century
club, Fairyland club and the Look
out Mountain Presbyterian church.
He is survived by his wife; one
sister, Mrs. Mildred White Wells of
Washington, d. c.; three great
nephews and one greatniece.
Burial was in Forest Hills Gene
terry.