‘Bozo’ Lawsuit takes Pratfall at Court
‘Bozo’ Lawsuit takes Pratfall at Court | In the race for sole claim to a name, Bozo the Clown loses – by a (pig’s) nose. Bozo, also known as Larry Harmon, can’t stop Bozo’s Bar-B-Q in Mason from using the same name, the U.S. Supreme Court says. Without comment, the high court Monday refused to hear an ...
‘We Can Lose This War Unless We All Pull Together’, Says Munford Citizen
“This is True Liberty When Freeborn Men Speak Free” – EuripidesBy M. F. NicholsMunford, Tenn. WE CAN LOSE THIS WAR UNLESS WE ALL PULL TOGETHER | So few people in America who do not work, I might say we all belong t the working class. We are all working to live, and the word live ...
A Fatal Shooting
A Fatal Shooting: The sequel to a difficulty that occurred some time ago was enacted on the north side of the square, at the corner of North Main street and East Liberty avenue, Saturday night about 10 o’clock, when Mr. James McCullough shot and fatally wounded Geo. Garland, colored. In a difficulty some months ago, ...
A Forger Caught in Slip-Up, Tipton county
J. R. Wells Slips Into Jail from Slip Up, Tennessee.He is Wanted at Clarendon, Arkansas, For Crookedness. A FORGER CAUGHT IN SLIP-UP, TIPTON COUNTY | Some days ago Sheriff Cannon received a letter from the firm of B. F. & G. F. Johnson, merchants of Clarenden, Ark., asking him to look out for and arrest a ...
A Secretly Gotten Up Meeting
A secretly gotten up meeting came off at Covington, Tipton Co., about ten days since. It was appointed for a Saturday – Democrats were notified by word of mouth to attend and hear “the Southern question” debated by Gen. Coe and Col. Topp, of Memphis. The whigs found out what was going on ...
A Warning Voice from J. B. Carne
An extract from a funeral oration delivered by the Rev. J. B. Carne, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Covington, Tenn., on the death of Capt. J. L. Cooper, who was killed in that place the 19th of November, by Jas. A. Slaughter. Let the people heed the warning voice and let them see ...
Ahead of the Hounds – 20 Jul 1867
Ahead of the Hounds: The Nashville Press and Times, Brownlow’s official organ, of the 15th, declares that militia will be sent into this county. Here is what Mr. Mercer says: We hear from the counties of Hardeman, Tipton, and Fayette, that the colored people are registering very slowly. They are intimidated by ...
All for Love
Suicide Yesterday of Christian Witzel, at Widow McEwen’s, on the Raleigh Road. A Case of Unrequited Affection and Desperate Love – “O, ‘Twas Love, ‘Twas Love that Set the World on Fire” Yesterday morning a negro, almost breathless with excitement rushed into the office of Justice J. M. Holst and informed him that a man had committed ...
Almyra Gleanings – 14 Nov 1918
Almyra Gleanings – 14 Nov 1918: Last week’s gleanings contained a notice of much sickness in Dunlap Orphanage, and especially that of Mrs. Wellons, the matron of the home. Later occurred the death of Mrs. Wellons. She died about noon on Wednesday, death being due to pneumonia superinduced by influenza. Mrs. ...
Almyra Gleanings – 21 Nov 1918
Almyra Gleanings: There are still a few cases of sickness in the Dunlap Orphanage; and some of them are very sick. Mrs. Sweaney, the trained nurse, has been there two weeks last Monday, and it has been two weeks of most faithful service. Besides nursing the sick, she has filled well the ...
Almyra Gleanings – 22 Jan 1920
Almyra Gleanings: This is the third week of the new year season with its manifold blessings. it makes one willing to forget and forgive and expect the same from his fellow creatures. So let us start the new month, the second month of the new year, right and keep it going right ...
Almyra Gleanings – 27 Nov 1919
Almyra Gleanings – 27 Nov 1919: Farmers have made good use of the past two weeks of beautiful weather in gathering crops, especially cotton. Another week of such weather and farmers will all be about through gathering this year’s crop. The Almyra and Orphanage schools opened up last Monday for the winter term, after ...
Almyra Gleanings – 30 Sep 1920
Almyra Gleanings – 30 Sep 1920: The many friends of Miss Maggie Gladney, who is teaching in Madison county, are glad to welcome her home for a three-week’s vacation. We are glad to note that Mrs. J. L. Taylor, of Dunlap Orphanage, who has been on the sick list for several weeks, seems to be ...
Almyra Gleanings – 7 Mar 1918
Almyra Gleanings: Mr. D. B. Harrover and wife, of Louisville, Ky., were at the Dunlap Orphanage last Sabbath. They came over the L. & N. railroad to Arlington, and drove out from Arlington in a buggy. Mr. Harrover is a substantial friend of the Orphanage, and always leaves some substantial remembrance on ...
Almyra Gleanings – 8 Jan 1920
ALMYRA GLEANINGS: Miss Myrtie Hughes, who spent the holidays with her parents of this community from the 24th to the 2d inst., returned to Luxora, Ark., to resume her work in the city schools of that place. Mrs. S. T. Copeland and little son, Talmadge, of Lebanon, Tenn., are visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. ...
Almyra Gleanings 13 Jun 1918
Almyra Gleanings: Misses Montie Hughes and Maggie Gladney, of the Almyra community, who have been attending the West Tennessee Normal the past year, returned home last week. Miss Thelma Sage left last Monday morning for the West Tennessee Normal, where she will take the summer teachers’ course in that institution. She was accompanied to ...
An Explanation in Regard to Dunlap Orphanage
An Explanation in Regard to Dunlap Orphanage: Since the beginning of the epidemic of Spanish influenza at the Dunlap Orphanage, a number of the Covington people have visited that institution. Some of these who have gone have not only shown their interest by their presence, but have taken with them many things that ...
Bad Negro Shot Resisting Arrest
City Marshal Dumas Forced to Shoot “Bear” Lewis Officer Called to Quell Disturbance in Colored Cafe – Lewis Opens Fire on Marshal, Who Brings Gun Into Action and Shots Lewis Twice, Who Dies From Wounds – Stray Bullets Hit Three Bystandards. Bad Negro Shot Resisting Arrest: John Lewis, alias “Bear” Lewis, colored, died at the county ...
Barbecue Fans Rallied for Battle
By Ron TaylorJackson, Tenn., Bureau Barbecue Fans Rallied for Battle | MASON, Tenn., – Lawyer Larry Banks wants to know who has enjoyed eating at Bozo’s Barbecue, and he isn’t clowning around. As the attorney for Helen Williams, owner of the 96-seat restaurant here about 40 miles northeast of Memphis, Banks is trying to find people from ...
Basketball Proceeds Go to Goodfellows
BASKETBALL PROCEEDS GO TO GOODFELLOWS | The girls’ and boys’ basket ball teams of the Epworth League and Christian Endeavor, respectively, will play a double-header Tuesday night under the auspices of the Goodfellows Santa Claus Club. The first game will be called at 7:30 o’clock in the gymnasium building of the Byars Hall High ...
