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Jan 26, 1900 - Old Town: We are sorry to say
that Mrs. George Hosey is no better. They think there is no chance
for her. Her mother, Mrs. Godwin died Jan 13th and she requested
her to be brought to her house as she was not able to go to the grave.
They carried her to her bed and opened the casket and raised Mrs. Hosey
up
and she bid her mother her last farewell, but said it would not be long
before she would meet her where parting was no more. After singing
Elder
Milam prayed and then her body was laid away in the Camp Ground grave
yard, instead of Big Hill grave yard as was stated in last weeks paper.
} Sam McDougal Is Dead: Sam McDougal, the buggyhorse of
Mrs. Mattie McDougal, at the age of 20 years, died Tuesday
evening with old age complicated with a brain trouble. Old Sam was a faithful horse, was gentle, good disposed, and when hitched in harness was always ready and willing to go.
We extend sympathy to Mrs. McDougal
in her loss, but to be consoled with the fact that Old Sam had reached
the age seldom reached by the average horse.
} We Will Have It: The Telephone Exchange that has been talked
of for the last few months is now an assured fact. There is
no end to conveniences that can be derived from a telephone
in your home, and we should show our appreciation by a liberal patronage. The success of this enterprise, is due to Dr. J. K. Barlow, who will put in the plant, and also to Chas. W. Will-iams for his earnest effort to secure the interest of the people at large. Mr. Williams will be electrician and local manager of the plant.
Feb 2, 1900: Shiloh Park Commission: Last week
the Shiloh Park Commission held a meeting in Chattanooga, with the following
present, Colonel Cornelius Cadle, of Cincinnati, Maj. J. H. Ashcraft,
of Paducah, Ky., Hon. Josiah Patterson, of Memphis, Maj. D. W.
Reed, of Chicago and Albert Thompson, the chief engineer. The
meeting was for the purpose of mapping out the work to be done this year,
and the engineer received instruc-tions to push the work of marking the
battle lines and Camps with iron tablets. The commission has already spent
$150,000 on the battlefield, and it is expected that it will be ready for
dedication in two years time.
} In Memory of The Labor of The late M.
R. Abernathy, editor of the Selmer Symposium, a move is on foot by
McNairy Countans to erect a nice monument to his grave.
} A move is on foot at Selmer to organize a
camp of Confed-erate Veterans. A meeting for that purpose will be held
there next Monday night.
} The Shiloh Park Commission, which was in
session at Chat-tanooga last week let the contract for supplying the memorial
tablets and battle line markers to the Chattanooga Car & Foundry C.,
of which pension Commissioner H. Clay Evans Is proprietor, the bid
of that concern being the lowest.
} Old Town: Mrs. Hosey died last Monday morning at 8 o'clock. We extend to her many friends and relatives our sincere sym-pathy. She will be buried Wednesday at the Camp Ground grave yard.
Feb 9, 1900 - The telephone exchange for Savannah
will be a thing in reality in less than two months. Posts have been contracted
for and the plant ordered. Every business firm and residence in the town
should have a 'phone. It is a great convenience, and you can have a 'phone
in your home for $1.00 a month.
Feb 16, 1900 - In less than thirty days Savannah will be connected with Memphis, Jackson, Nashville, Corinth and other points by Long Distance Telephone. The line will be put in from Corinth, Miss., to Savannah by the Stantonville Telephone Company, and Welch Bros. will have charge of the office in their store at this place. We have printed a nice lot of stationery for the company this week.
Feb 23, 1900 - Memorial: From Mt. Zion Lodge - In the memory of
H. L. Yancy, who was made a Master Mason
at Adamsville Lodge, McNairy County, Tennessee, thirty years ago or more,
and was made a Royal Arch Mason in Savannah Hardin County, Tennessee. He
was born Mar 14, 1836 and died Jan 11, 1900 in a saw mill explosion.
} G. W. Shipman: (This is an interesting sketch on a man who
was born in Hardin County and at that time
was in the Postoffice Department in Washington, DC)
} Mrs. Lizzie Sturgeon Brown, born in
this world without the use of arms or hands, has been exhibiting in the
store building vacated by Walkers and Williams this
week. This remarkable lady with her toes, performs needlework and penmanship
skillfully and with as much speed as one with their hands. She plays well
on the harp or a piano. If you have not called to see her you will miss
a treat. The exhibition will continue until Saturday night.
} Now that our County Jail has been declared a public work house, the fifteen or twenty men incarcerated therein the past two weeks with sentences aggregating from six months to two years, should be put to work on the public thoroughfares on the county. This can be done with little expense to the county, and will have a tendency to check the men from indulging further in the violation of the law when their present sentences expire.
The plan works like a charm in other counties, why not in Hardin county.
Mar 2, 1900 - Gen. Luke E. Wright, of
Memphis, was on last Saturday appointed by President McKinley, a
member of the new Phillipine Comm-ission. Gen Wright is a lawyer
of considerable note.
Mar 30, 1900 - Shiloh Chapter: Daughters of
the Confederacy: (Chapter was organized, members and office holders are
listed)
} Riley Rinks formerly a citizen of this place died at Mineral Springs, Ark,on the 26 of this month.
Apr 6, 1900 - The town telephone exchange is
complete and it is "hello" all over town. The exchange is giving excellent
service.
} The proprietors of the ice factory are making preparations to
put the factory in operation next week.
Apr 13, 1900 - Republicans of McNairy County:
Hold Their Convention (Long article)
} Local Items: Meeting of citizens interested in erecting a
college building in Savannah and a move to secure funds for
a $10,000 building.
} A site on which the college is to be erected has been
purchased by the committee appointed for that purpose. The
building is to be of modern date. The building will cost not
less than $7000.
Apr 27, 1900 - The telephone exchange is in every respect giving satisfaction, and messages are flashing along the wires so vividly that one hardly needs a receiver to hold to the ear to catch the messages, but, just merely by hanging round the wires you can hear 'um playing plain. A message was delivered far out into the river to one of the boats Sunday morning, as it passed down, direct from the phone.
May 4, 1900 - Prof. H. J. Cox, of Adamsville has just closed a successful school at that place, and contracted to teach another year, and was in the city the latter part of last week. During vacation, the Professor will engage in the newspaper business at Adams-ville, his first issue is to appear about the 10th inst.
Adamsville needs a paper, and with Prof.Cox to edit it, we predict will make his sheet an exponent of education.
Jun 1, 1900 - George Davis, the Hardin County moonshiner, who served a sentence of four years in the penitentiary for
wildcatting whiskey,received a sentence from
Federal Court at Jackson, last week to serve a term of ten years in the
penitentiary and a $5000 fine, for complicity in the murder of Garner,
several years ago.
} While the dull season is now on, wouldn't it be a good idea for our town people to join together in a general cleaning up of the filth of the town? Talk will not accomplish the work, but pick and shovels and wheelbarrows and wagons put into use will accomplish wonders in a weeks time. And this done, would no doubt add materially to the healthfulness of the town in general.
Jul 13, 1900 - Proposed Railroad For Hardin County:F. L. Bates of Memphis, was in Savannah a few days ago, having recorded right-away deeds for the Greenville, Nashville & Chattanooga Railway Company. The road, if built, will be a direct line from Greenville, Mississippi to the Tennessee River at a point between Hamburg and Pittsburg Landing. Mr. Bates feels confident that the road will be built, and said work will begin on it at an early date.
} The foundation for the new college structure, and the
manufacture of brick for its building, are being pushed
rapidly this week.
Jul 20, 1900 - Three Young Ladies Drowned:
In Snake Creek, Near Pittsburg, While in Bathing. The sad intelligence
was telephoned to Savannah Tuesday morning from Pittsburg Landing, that
a Miss. Clack and two Misses Townes of that section while
in bathing in Snake Creek, came in contact with deep water, and were drowned.
The young ladies, it is stated, were of respec-table families. The sad
occurrence is indeed a lamentable one.
} The Adamsville Times, suspended for several
months will make its appearance again this week with J. F. Houser,
its founder, as editor. We wish for the sheet better success this time.
} The boundary line dispute between Tennessee and North
Carolina that has been pending in Unites State circuit court of appeals has been decided in favor of the former.
Jul 27, 1900 - The Election: Before another
issue of the Courier greets its 1000 readers the election will have been
a thing of the past. A Sheriff, Trustee, Magistrates, constables and Tax-assessors
for the various districts of the county will have been elected.
} The deadly pistol continues to do its work
throughout this land. A shot is fired, the life of an innocent man is put
out, and the assassin goes loose. But such are the laws of the land.
} Hardin county is the best county in West Tennessee, and every office in it should be filled by competent, sober, trustworthy men.
Aug 3, 1900 - J. C. Harris of Lake county
is the largest land owner in Tennessee. He has recently undertaken the
colossal scheme of draining Reelfoot Lake, and every creek and bayou along
the Tennessee side of the Mississippi River,if the project proves successful,
it will add some hundreds thousands of acres of lands to his holdings.
The lands of Lake County are the richest in the State, the soil being ten
and twelve feet deep. One idea of their value is conveyed from the fact
that the annual rent per acre is $5, and often more than a bale of cotton
can be obtained to the acre.
} County Institute for Hardin County: A farmers institute for
this county, it is likely, will be held in the course of a
few weeks. (There is more to this article)
Aug 10, 1900 - Our School Interest Bright: (This article is about the new college being built in Savannah)
Aug 17, 1900 - A statistician has estimated
that a man 50 years old has worked 6,500 days, has slept 6,000, has amused
himself 4,000, had eaten 15,000 pounds of meat and 4,000 of fish, eggs
and vegetables, and drunk 7,000 gallons of fluid.
} County Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Prof.
Z. T. Thompson, has been employed to teach the next term of school
at Adamsville, and went to that place Monday to complete arrange-ments.
The patrons of the school at that place will find him a man experienced
in teaching, and a model, Christian gentleman. The citizens of Adamsville
are to be heartily congratulated on securing him as their teacher.
} Olive Hill: (This is an interesting article on the events, churches and industry in that community)
Aug 24, 1900 - Sam Hawkins Wins:The Republican Congressional Convention held at Lexington, Tenn., Wednesday of last week nominated, Hon. Sam W.Hawkins,of Huntington, Tennessee, as their congressional standard bearer, by acclamation. Hawkins was backed by the Evans faction, and his nomination over
P. H. Thrasher, representing the Brownlow
faction, was a decisive victory,(There is more to this article)
} That Explosion: (This is about Amos Hardins
steam mill boiler exploding. It was estimated to have been the most complete
and destructive in the county to that time. One was killed,one died a few
days later and two other were not expected to live much longer)
} Wanted In Savannah: (This was the editor's
thoughts as to what would make the town better and more progressive)
} Gus Thomas made another escape from the penitentiary one day last week enjoying about thirty minutes freedom, when he was recaptured.
Sep 14, 1900 - The storm that swept over Texas Saturday was one of the severest that or any other state has ever experienced. The estimates on life and property run high in figures. In the city of Galveston alone, it is estimated that over two thousand lives were lost; the property loses it is thought, will exceed $10,000,000.
Sep 21, 1900 - The very best thing the new
county court can do will be to build a new court house. Certainly no one
can say that the one we now have is either good enough or in keeping with
its surroundings.
} The relief fund for the storm-swept city
of Galveston exceeds $2,000,000. This shows what generosity exists in the
American heart.
} Mr. James Williams: Mr. Jas Williams was born 1842 and died
September 15, 1900. (There is more to this
obituary)
} The James Williams Insurance Agency will be continued under
the firm name of C. W. Williams & Co., representing the same
line of companies. This agency has been writing fire insurance in Hardin county for twenty years and thousands of dollars have been paid in losses. The new firm solicits your business in all branches of insurance.
Sep 28, 1900 - Mrs. J. R. Adams came home today after a visit of ten days to her sister in Hardin County.
- Adamsville Times
} The laying of brick was begun on the Institute building Mon-day. It is confidently expected that the house will be ready for occupancy by the first of December.
Nov 2, 1900 - Albert H. Kerodle, well known to the older citizens of Hardin county, died at his home in Norcona, Texas Oct 24. He was formerly a citizen of Lowryville and a brother of Mrs. Minerva Benton of Savannah. He was born in Greenville, Tenn., April 17, 1817, and was 83 years of age.
Nov 23, 1900 - Storm Swept: (This is about a tornado that passed over the southern part of the county the previous Tuesday. There is more told about it in the Nov 30th issue. See also,Counce,in the Dec 14, 1900 issue)
Dec 7, 1900 - The Closing Century: At midnight on Dec 31, the nineteenth century will close. So far we know no one living in this town or county who saw the beginning of this century.
Jan 4, 1901 - The suit by some citizens of Obion county against J. C. Harris who thought he had acquired a title to Reelfoot lake, and was about to drain this great fish pond to convert it into cotton fields, has been sus-tained and Mr. Harris is perpetually enjoined from draining the lake. He has appealed from the Circuit to the Supreme courts.
Jan 18, 1901 - Dr. John A. Harbert: (This is his obituary.)
Jan 25, 1901 - The Dead Queen: Victoria, who became Queen of England June 20, 1837, by the death of her uncle, William IV, died at six o'clock Tuesday evening, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, after an illness of only a few days of paralysis.
(She was nearly 82 years old and had reigned for nearly
sixty-eight years. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales succeeded her. There is more to this article)
Feb 8, 1901 - Selmer will get rid of her saloons by April 1.
The Legislature abolished the old charter and
made a new one that won't hold liquor.
} The Mobile & Ohio railroad has been sold to the Southern. The
Southern is already a large system and able to operate the
M & O to great advantage.
} Institute Building: The completion of the new school building
will mark an era of advancement in the educational interest
of Savannah. This building must be seen to be fully appre-ciated. Its floor space is ample to accommodate 320 pupils, without crowding, outside of the auditorium, which could be used and would seat 200 more. The inside is finished in oil yellow pine, lighting and ventilation are both well arranged.
With this magnificent building and abundance
of material there should be no excuse for not having one of the best schools
in the State.
In War Time: J. J. Morrow of Rock House presented J. J. Wil-liams Tuesday with a copy of the Whig Banner Extra, published at Purdy, Oct 19, 1861. It is eight inches long and two columns wide. It contains some war news and advertised a runaway negro for which the printer's fee was $5.00, but the printer's name is not on the paper. Following is one of the dispatches it contained.
New Orleans: Oct 12, 1861 - The Federal vessels commenced a bombardment in the river this morning, about eighty miles below the city. We sunk one of them. The balance of the fleet went to sea. "No body hurt" on our side.
A dispatch from Baltimore says that Gen. Price's
forces and Fremont's have had a bloody engagement in Missouri, in which
the Lincolnites were totally routed and defeated.
} Monday was pensioners' day and clerk Watson kept a record of their ages and also of the amount received by each. The average age of the pensioners is sixty-two and the average amount drawn is $10.10. There are sixty who reported.
Mar 29, 1901 - Selmer will get rid of her saloons today.
May 24, 1901 - Savannah telephone service is growing fast in popularity. The new directory just printed contains
ninety-two names.
Jun 28, 1901 - Hardin County Institute: (This is an announcement of the Institute commencing classes with
Prof. A. G. Freed filling in as principal.
It also list those who had enrolled at that time. There is more to this
article.)
} Twenty thousand men, women and children are camping on the
borders of the Indian reservation in Oklahoma, waiting the
opening of that land to settlement. Half of those people are
in destitute circumstances.
Aug 2, 1901 - Although eighty-two years old this summer, Mrs. H. P. Van Cleve the first white baby born in the Northwest, is still vigorous of mind and actively interested in the world's affairs. Born Jul 1, 1819 at Fort Crawford, Wisconsin. (There is more to this article which was quoted from The Ladies Home Journal.)
Aug 9, 1901 - Covered wagons going westward
pass through our town every day.
} Reunion Of Old Schoolmates: (Seventeen invitations
were sent out for the reunion with eleven attending. There is more to this
article.)
} The Selmer & Tennessee River Valley Railway Company, first organized in 1895, has amended their charter so as to permit the road to run by Adamsville, Savannah and Waynesboro. If this road will get on a move it may get the donations now ready in Hardin county for the first road that comes along.
Sep 6, 1901 - Mrs. Jennie Jones: Who died at the res-idence of her son J. B. Jones, the evening of the 2d, was born in Guilford County, N. C., Feb 1, 1814. Her maiden name was Covey.She was married in Maury county in January 1835, and survived her husband who has now been dead 22 years.She was the mother of ten children, forty grandchildren and twenty-four great grand children.
Mrs. Jones was past eighty-seven when she died and had been a member of the C. P. Church for 50 years.
Sep 13, 1901 - President McKinley Shot: (This is a lengthy article telling about the incident. There is more to it.)
Sep 20, 1901 - William McKinley Dead: President Mckinley, who was shot at 4:09 P. M. on the 6th apparently continued to improve until 2 a. m. the 13th when he began to sink. At 2:15 a. m. the 14th he peacefully passed to the great beyond. It appeared that gangrene set up where the ball passed through the stomach and also where it passed into the fleshy part of the back, and this fast gave rise to the suspicion that a ball previously dipped in poison salution, was used by the assassin.
The President's remains were carried to Washington
City Monday and lay in State there two days. Wednesday they lay in State
at his old home, Canton, Ohio. At 10 a. m. Thursday they were buried.
} Our New President: Vice PresidentRoosevelt (This article
tells some about him.)
} Hardin County's Tribute: (This was a memorial at Graham
Chapel C. M. E. church, a negro church. The names of those
part in the memorial are named.)
Sep 27, 1901 - The remains of Abraham Lincoln were reinterred at Springfield, Ill., last week. The casket containing the remains is buried thirteen feet in the ground, beneath a tomb containing the crypts where lie the remainder of his family. A four foot layer of cement is below the casket while there are eight feet of solid masonry above it. There is no danger that the remains will ever be stolen from this vault as it would require a large force of workmen several days to ex-hume the casket under favor-able circumstances.
Oct 18, 1901 - The Tennessee River Telephone published at Adamsville by C. C. Lewter, is the latest venture in journalism in this section. We are glad to note this fact and feel sure that Mr. Lewter can succeed. The field is full of promises and, with his past experience, he can give it the necessary vim to push it through. The people will do their part.
Nov 1, 1901 - A disastrous race war was reported Tuesday on the line between Louisiana and Mississippi in which two whites and ten negroes were killed. Both States ordered militia to the scene of trouble.
Nov 22, 1901 - The Stringtown Colored Baptist church is raising funds with which to build a new church house. The old one is fast going to decay.
Nov 29, 1901 - Steamboats On The Tennessee: Some Facts About the Past and Present Conditions.(This tells when some were built and other bits of information.)
Dec 27, 1901 - Savannah's Problems: The future
of Hardin county and Savannah is a debatable question. The great exodus
the past few months has put the land owners and merchants of the county
to thinking, and right seriously too. (People were moving west which caused
concern to those who remained. There is more to this article.)
} A bill by Congressman Brownlow, providing
for the establishment of the Appalachian National Park of 4,000,000 acres
in the mountain region of North Carolina and Tennessee, should pass. The
establishment of such a park would be of much benefit to the people of
these two states and those nearby.
} R. M. Houtson has sold the plant of the Selmer Post to
J. C. Houston who will continue its publication after the
holidays.
{ The Savannah Cornet Band furnished the town with some
splendid music Christmas night. The boys are in good
practice.
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