Baptist Church Organized Here
The revival conducted by Elder SUMMERS resulted in the
organization of a Baptist Church here with eleven members. The
congregation will use the Cumberland Presbyterian church until
one is provided for. Brother SUMMERS will preach one Sunday
a month.This devout man of God deserves great credit. Four
years ago, he did not even know the multiplication table; but he
felt it his duty to enter the ministry and the result was that he
entered the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson. His
work here the past two weeks tells how well he has succeeded.
His meeting was a profound success and the citizens' of this town
all love him and feel they owe him a debt that can never be paid.

Rude Conduct By Rude Boys - 11th District, July 10, 1906
Last Saturday night, a number young boys who live in this district
and just across the line in Henry County, went to an unoccupied
house on J. A. COLE's farm; tied their horses to the fence and
shade trees, opened the gate and left it open, allowing the hogs to
destroy a lot of corn. They drank rot-gut whiskey heavily until
morning. About day they all got in their buggies and started down
the road in search of more fun, leaving the field gate open. At Mr.
COLE's house, one of them ya(n)ked out his pistol, shooting four
or five times right in front of his door and remarked "How is that
for fun?" Mr. COLE was standing right close to him, but the boys
did not see him. They are all known and some of them belong to
good families. It is regretted very much that boys will conduct
themselves so badly. These boys will be made to appear before
Judge MAIDEN, and the sooner the better for them. One heavy
fine and a jail sentence ought to make men of them. This is fair
warning - the law will be enforced. I hope that when they get out
of this, these boys will never again be guilty of such conduct.

Alvis COLE

The Correspondents' Picnic
The correspondents' fourth annual picnic, given last Saturday by
The Enterprise to it's thirty-odd correspondents, was a success
from every standpoint. The crowd in attendance was estimated
to be 2,500. The welcome address was delivered by Elder J. L.
THOMAS and the response by Mr. John W. ELDER. John
JOLLEY's singers entertained and State Superintendent
MYNDERS delivered an interesting speech on education. Hon.
Finis GARRETT delivered his famous lecture "Stonewall Jackson"
which delighted the audience.
The correspondents in attendance were: Geo. F. HENDRICKS,
B. O. POWELL, Cleveland STEVENSON, S. M. LOCKHART,
H. E. PENTECOST, Mrs. Lizzie FULLERTON, Mrs. John Wess
SMITH, Miss Tommie LANIER, Mrs. Sophia DAVIS, Miss
Jessie and Lela VAUGHAN, Mr. Jim HESTER, Prof. T. C.
MILES, G. T. ERWIN, John W. ELDER and Miss Lennie PRINCE.

Fair Warning
The people of Dresden are hereby notified to clean up their premises
at once. There are some closets in town that are being neglected and
in bad condition and are producing offensive odors. Unless the
owners clean them up and keep them clean, we will have to take
legal steps against the parties owning and controlling them. I hope
that this will be attended to by every citizen in town at once. It is
essential to the health of the town that this be attended to at once.
Do not put it off any longer. Respectfully, F. P. HALL,
Ch'm'n., Sanitary Committee

Agent RAULSTON
Last Saturday, George RAULSTON, who represents a Chicago
grocery house, came to Dresden and was delivering a lot of goods
which he had taken orders for the week before. Complaint was
made to the town authorities that he was doing a retail business
without license and a warrant was issued for his arrest, the same
being placed in the hands of Marshal Jim TAYLOR, who notified
Mr. RAULSTON of his liability. All the goods were taken charge
of by the officer and the defendant replevied them. It was found
that Raulston had also been delivering a liquid labeled "Blackberry
Brandy," and it was found that quite a quantity of this had been
sold by him in this vicinity. A warrant was also issued charging
him with selling intoxicating liquoirs in the corporation of Dresden.
The case was taken up by Recorder IRVINE's court Tuesday
at 1:30 o'clock, City Attorney Frank HALL representing the
corporation and L. E. HOLLADAY appearing for RAULSTON.
After one witness had been examined and the proof seemed to
show that the brandy was not of an intoxicting nature, Mr HALL
proposed to the defendant that a bottle of the brandy be opened,
that the court appoint two reputable men to test it and if they said
it was not intoxicating he would dismiss the suit; but the defendant
would neither consent or refuse to open same and the court
ordered the bottle, which was one sold to Babe STACKS opened
and asked Messrs. Joe DAVIS and Bob OVERTON to sample
the contents of the bottle which each did. The court awaited
developments and after due season Mr. HALL asked Mr.
OVERTON his judgement concerning it; OVERTON said it had
not affected him and when asked if in his judgement it was
intoxicating, said that he could not say. Mr. DAVIS said that it
made him dizzy and that the sweat was popping out on him in
great drops and that in his judgement it would intoxicate
if a sufficient quantity was consumed. Messrs. STACKS,
TERRELL, PARHAM, and THOMPSON were placed on the
stand and all testified that it had no intoxicating effect on them;
TERRELL said that he had drank a pint at one setting and did
not feel it. RAULSTON was put on the stand and said that it
was not intoxicating and that he did not take orders for whiskey.
The court held that Mr. Raulston had violated the corporation
ordinance and fined him $10. and costs.
Mr. RAULSTON also lost his replevlin suit and was made to take
out privilege license to retail goods, the cost of the cause being
assessed against him. Defendant prayed an appeal which was
granted.

Corinth and New Salem Column -
Mr. Lee ROBERTS, the great wheat man, made 1,750 bushels
of wheat on 80 acres.
Miss Zula THOMPSON has been right sick.

District No. 23 Column -
Next Saturday is the singing contest in Pillowville.
Mrs. Pearl HOLLEY, from Cumberland City, is visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. PARHAM.
Messrs. John McCALEB and Alton RICHIE traded farms last
week, McCALEB paying RICHIE paying RITCHIE $300.
to boot.

Hall's Branch Budget Column -
Brother JENKINS filled his regular appointment at West Union
Sunday.
Prof. W. F. BEVIL and class will sing at Jolley Springs Sunday
afternoon at 3. Also Prof. Tommy WOODROUGH and
class will sing at Antioch church, near Dresden at the same
hour Sunday afternoon.
W. E. BARKER has been quite sick for the past two weeks.
Hite FINCH is erecting a new building on his farm at a point
near J. G. TODD's store, on "Chicken Road" street.

>From No. 6 Column -
Uncle Brit SIMMONS is very low; he seems to be just
gradually weakening away.
Mrs. Stella POWERS is very low and not expected to live.
Uncle Dave OWENS has been quite sick but was thought a little
better, Sunday.
Great crowds of people are going to see the Indians camped
near Cutler's levee. There are three Indian doctors in the
camp and they are doing a rushing business. Some say
they are doing a lot of good. Milton BEVILL, who has
been afflicted so long, is taking treatment from them.
Mr. and Mrs. John ALLMAN are the proud parents of a little
miss, who arrived a few days ago.
Flossie D., the little seven months old girl of Mr. and Mrs. S. S.
SUMMERS, quietly passed away after four month's of
intense suffering. Flossie was a bright smiling little darling
and loved by all who knew her. It seems hard to think that
she had to suffer so long and so much. She was laid to rest
by loving hands at Jolley Springs Saturday afternoon.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. H. JACKSON,
who made a splendid talk.

Ralston Report Column -
Miss Ruth HOUSE has been suffering severly with a bad bone
felon.
Miss Emma WILLIAMS' friends will be glad to learn that she
is better, but she is still very sick.
Miss Pearl BROOKS returned home Friday from the Institue at
McKenzie and gives McKenzie the honor of having had
the best and largest Institute in the state.
Sam WILLIAMS, of Kansas, is here at the bedside of his sister.
Jim EAVES has sold his crop to Mr. John MOSS and the
former will leave at once for Oklahoma where he will
make his home.
Mrs. J. B. THOMPSON, formerly of Ralston, has a fine baby
girl.
Jeff UNDERWOOD, of Martin, is getting up a camp of
W. O. W. here. About twenty persons have already joined.
King WEBB will carry his school children and patrons of this
place picnicing next Saturday.
The W. O. W. unveiling of Will ADAMS' (deceased) tomb
was something new to a great many of us. The brotherly
love and kindness shown by this lodge, we believe, will
cause an increase in the Ralston camp.

Peck's Pickings Column -
Henry HOLT says he wishes the farmer's union would have a
big dinner three times a week.
The Sunday at Pleasant Grove is progressing nicely under the
management of J. L. BROWNING.
School started today (Monday) with Miss Laura SHAW teacher.
The moonlight party at Tobe SCATES' last Saturday night was
a grand success.
Lonnie PEECE tells me he is going to Obion to work on the
railroad.
Mr. Billie JOHNSON who has been down so long, is better.
Mr. Jim WADE has a very sick child.
The farmers will have a big day at Rinda on the 22nd of August.
Gov. Bob TAYLOR will deliver a speech.
Mrs. Monroe PRIEST remains very low and not expected to live.

News From No. 12 Column -
Mr. Ed DILLINGER is sick nigh unto death. The doctors say
his case is quite a complicated one.
Mrs. Sue BLACK gave the young people a moonlight picnic
at her home two miles northwest of McKenzie last
Wednesday night.
About twenty five young ladies who were attending the Institute
at McKenzie were carried out to attend the same.

Mrs. Rough LASATER Dead
The subject of this brief notice was born May 4, 1827;
died July 5, 1906; aged seventy two years, two months and
one day. She made a profession of religion in her teens and
joined the Methodist church. She was married to James
Roughian LASATER July 6, 1866; took the Star Degree in the
Masonic lodge at Bethlehem at about the age of twenty five.
She leaves a husband, two boys and one girl and many relatives
and friends to mourn her death. She died as she lived - trusting
her Savior. The body was buried at Everett's Chapel. Funeral
Services were conducted by R. B. CREWS.

Southern Part of No. 20 Column -
Mr. Charlie PARRISH killed a hawk the other day which
measured four feet and five inches from tip to tip.
One of Mr. Willie WINSTEAD's babies is right sick.
Mrs. Henry HIGGS is some better than she was last week.
One of Mr. Rigg DAVIS' boys is right sick and Mr. DAVIS
thinks he is taking the fever.

News Notes From No. 14 Column -
Tomorrow (Saturday) night an ice cream supper will be given
at the residence of Mr. Steve PENICK, managed by
those hustling gentlemen, Messrs. B. E. HANNING and
John I. ROACH.
Mrs. Puss TANSIL, wife of Frank TANSIL (deceased), who
several years ago was in business at Mt. Pelia, but later
moved to Arkansas, is dead. Her death took place in
Paragould on Tuesday of last week and the body was
interred there.

Hyndsver Hits Column -
Mrs. G. A. GIBBS has been on the sick list but is now better.
Brother Joe MILES preached a fine sermon at Bible Union
Sunday.
They had an ice cream supper at Mr. Charlie BOWERS' last
Saturday and all present report a fine time.

From Route 4, Martin Column -
The death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Haynes
and claimed their little babe on the 27th of last month.
Mr. Gleason BARGER is very low of broncitis and old age.
Married, on the 4th, Mr. Hawt LANE to Miss Mary COLLINS.
We wish them a long and happy life.

Public Wells Column -
Misses Bettie BRIGHTWELL and Maggie MILES returned last
Friday from the institute at McKenzie, both of them making
good grades.
On Monday night of last week, the death angel visited Mr. Abe
UNDERWOOD and claimed his infant, only a few days
old. Interment took place at West Union Wednesday. On
the same day (Wednesday), his wife was called from this
world of sorrow and pain, and was buried by it's side
Thursday. She was a member of Mt. Pleasant church.

Cane Creek Column -
Mr. Almus HAWKS and Miss Irma McWHERTER celebrated
the Fourth of July by getting married.
Spear PARHAM, who has been quite sick, is better.
The Latter Day Saints held services at Mr. Joe SHELL's last
Saturday and Sunday night. Allen WYNIGER united with
them Sunday. Sam BURTON, that hustling saw-mill man
of Palmersille, has bought a nice lot of timber of S. P. HUNT
of this vicinity, which he is having cut and hauled out to his
mill.
There will be a debate at Austin Springs schoolhouse tomorrow
night. Debates are held there every two weeks and everyone
is cordially invited.

Town and Country Column -
Master Douglas GARRETT has typhoid fever and is quite sick.
Miss Bernice MULLINS, of Greenfield, has been the guest of
Mrs. J. E. PEERY the past two weeks.
Miss IRION, of Paris, came down last Friday to visit her brother
Rev. J. W. IRION, and attend the correspondents' picnic.
An early morning marriage was solemnized here Saturday by Esq.
Bob IRVINE, uniting R. J. KELLY and Miss Eudora
LAWRENCE, both of Rector, Ark.
The monument of Fletcher THOMAS will be unveiled at Walkers'
Chapel, three and a half miles north of Dresden, on next
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by the Dresden camp.
Strayed - one black cow. W. T. PHELPS, One and one half
miles east of Martin

Mrs. Metta May IRVINE returned Saturday from Stamford,
Texas, where she spent the spring as milliner for a very large
concern in that city. She was accompanied home by Miss
Mary Lee GARRETT, who will spend several weeks with
her mother, Mrs. Mary GARRETT, returning to Gainsville,
Texas in the early fall to enter school.
Found - A pocket book on last Monday by Mr. Claud NOWLIN,
near the home of Green STOKER. Same contains a small
amount of money and a rural mail carrier's receipt. Owner
may have same by calling at this office and describing it and
paying for this notice.
Mrs. BOUGHMAN, grandmother of Hon. Finis GARRETT has
been near death's door at the home of Mr. N. J.
GARRETT, south of Dresden, for the past ten days. She is
past eighty years of age and it can not be expected that at
her advanced age her life will be prolonged much longer.
Esq. J. W. CARNEY tells us that he has during his term of office
as magistrate had the pleasure of uniting in marriage six of
the REED brothers and one of 'em three times and that he
will perform the ceremony of another at an early date. We
do not believe there is another justice of the peace who can
say as much.

Our esteemed young friend, Talbert FRANCIS, who has just
returned from the teacher's institute in McKenzie tells us that it
is enough to make you sick to see the number of teachers who
failed to pass the examination; that a very small percent of them
did pass and went as low as 25%. This seems to us to be a
distressing state of affairs and shows that our young teachers
need better training facilities, more hard studying , better pay for
their work and should not enter into actual teaching until
thoroughly equipped.
The Bank of Martin has been rechartered, this time under the
name of "Martin Bank" with W. L. LAWLER, G. E.
BOWDEN, J. M. GARDNER, E. F. CLEMONS, J. T.
TAYLOR and Frank SMITH incorporators.
We notice that Jim WELCH is making a powerful pull for
business at Mesquite, Texas, carrying a full half page ad in
John E. DAVIS' paper each issue.This advertisement costs
$50. per month.When it comes to politics, Jim is, like his
illustrous father, a power, and if he takes a hand out there
as he did here, things will certainly hum.
Mr. J. H. BOWLIN, of district No. 2, received from Lewis &
Moss, of Martin, a handsome rubber-tired buggy as a
prize for the best crop of tobacco brought them during
the past season; while Mr. E. N. HAZLEWOOD of No.
3, received a similar prize for the best handled crop.
Romie BODEN jumped from a moving train at Gleason on
last Friday and was considerable bruised up. He and
brother, Bonnie, were at the depot here to take the
"Dixie Flyer" to Gleason that morning; for some reason
they did not get on the first coach, but got on the sleeper
in the rear, and upon arriving at Gleason the train did not
stop, no one knowing they were aboard, and Romie
undertook to alight while the train was running at a pretty
lively speed. His foot struck a rock and he struck the
ground, head foremost, breaking a tooth and skinning his
chin, lip and both hands. The westbound train was standing
on the siding, waiting for the "Dixie Flyer" to pass and the
boys came home on that. They had gone to paint Egbert
WHITE's house.
Mrs. W. D. GIBBS, of Martin, is visiting her neice, Mrs. J. J. WHITE.
Mrs. Minnie DICKERSON and sister, Miss Ruby HOWELL, of St. Louis,
are visiting Mrs. A. E. GARDNER.
Mr J. J. WHITE has something of a curiosity in the way of a
second crop of raspberries this year, the new canes for
next year's crop having ripe fruit on them this year.
Dr. Lewis TERRELL, Dresden's gentlemanly veterinary surgeon,
is hard at work erecting a large barn on the west corner of
his lot near Golden's mill which will be used for an operating
establishment when the occasion demands.
Mrs. SMITH of Louisville, is visiting Dr. Shobe SMITH and
family.
Jas. R. WELCH, who has been winding up business affairs at his
former home at Dukedom, Tenn. returned to Mesquite,
Texas Wednesday.
Strayed - From my home, one male yearling with white spots.
Hilman PARRISH, Hyndsver, Tenn.
Mr. J. P. O'Daniel, who resides in No. 6, near the Henry County
line was here Monday and tells us that some of his neighbors
have been offered 8 cents for the 1906 tobacco crop.

North Part of No. 2 Column -
Health is good in these parts, except Miss Donie BREMER,
(Weldon), who has been very low with flux, but is
improving.Protracted meeting has begun at Jones'
schoolhouse.

Jonesboro Jots Column -
Stout Bros. have about got their stave and saw mill set down
on their farm, near Hart's mill. They will put down a pipe
well and let the engine pump the water as it needs it. They
have also bought a dust chain which carries the sawdust
away out from the mill where a fire will continually burn it.
The farmer's County Union will meet on the 22nd of August in
front of Z. W. GROOMS' brick residence at Rinda. A
fine dinner will be given by the union men and lemonade
and horse food will be furnished free for all by Z. W.
GROOMS. Bob TAYLOR will be present and deliver
an address.

Western Side of No. 15 Column -
George HORNBUCKLE is the jolliest man we know of-it's a
boy.
Luther CANTRELL's baby is dangerously ill and not expected
to live.
The schools here started Monday. Prof. MANLY will teach at
Smith's Chapel; H. C. COOPER at Dunlap's; R. H.
GALEY at Meridian and W. M. GILLIAM at Rinda.
The Meridian singing class has been invited to be at Greenhill
on the first Saturday in August to take part in annual
singing.
Mr. Almus GROOMS is rejoicing over the arrival of a girl.

End of Abstracts for July 12, 1906