Jealous Negro Stabs Man and Woman
Stabs Man and Woman Jealous Negro Stabs Man and Woman: Manny Small, a crippled negro, waylaid Eliza Taylor, colored, and her companion, a negro named John Wealey, known as Brunswick Stew on Tipton street about 12 o’clock Saturday night and cut the woman’s and the man’s throats with a knife. Both of the negroes were ...
Jo. J. Weatherly Visiting
Our young friend Jo. J. Weatherly, formerly of Jackson, but now of Tipton county, is spending several days in the city this week, among his old friends.
Joking Between Two Old Friends in Tipton County Ends in Bloodshed
Joking Between Two Old Friends in Tipton County Ends in Bloodshed: What started out as friendly bantering about taking the oath of allegiance ended tragically in Tipton County in the fall of 1863. According to newspaper accounts in the Memphis Bulletin and the Nashville Union, two of the county’s oldest and most respectable citizens – ...
Just Who is the Bozo Anyway
Larry Harmon, the original Bozo the Clown, is shown in his Los Angeles office. Harmon has sued Bozo’s Hot Bit-B-Q over rights to the name and hopes for a Supreme Court hearing. Just who is the Bozo anyway? Clown battles Weststate barbecue restaurant over rights to name. Mason, Tenn. – Over the years, ...
Lemmon, James Wilson
JAMES WILSON LEMMON | Covington’s Fire-Fighting Test. COVINGTON, Tenn., June 8. – (Special.) – An alarm of fire was sounded a little after 6 o’clock this evening, at two places simultaneously. One proved to be the residence of J. W. Lemmon, on Church street, the other the Bernard building, which is the office of ...
Letter from Young Farmers at Knoxville
Letter from Young Farmers at Knoxville: Knoxville, Tenn., January 16, 1920. Mr. J. L. TaylorCare Dunlap OrphanageBrighton, Tenn, Route 1. Dear Friend – We received your letter and were glad to hear from everyone. We are well, but we miss you all. We have written to Mr. Fyfe and when we return we are ...
Local News Happenings 17 Jun 1898
LOCAL NEWS HAPPENINGS. Mrs. J. L. Adams, of Munford, was reported quite sick Tuesday. Buy your ice cream freezers at Covington Hardware Co’s. Fallin & Paine are now employed in building a new porch at Mr. John T. Jacock’s dwelling. White Mountain and Arctic ice cream freezers at Covington Hardware Co’s. The pupils of Miss Georgia Mason, of Mason, will ...
Local News Happenings June 17, 1898
The Covington Leader Covington, Tenn., June 17, 1898 LOCAL NEWS HAPPENINGS Mrs. J. L. Adams, of Munford, was reported quite sick Tuesday. Buy your ice cream freezers at Covington Hardware Co’s. Fallin & Paine are now employed in building a new porch at Mr. John T. Jacock’s dwelling. White Mountain and Arctic ice cream freezers at Covington Hardware ...
Local News Happenings June 17, 1898 (cont.)
Mr. Henry Bradley, while returning(?) from Covington to his home at Bride Tuesday evening, had a very painful accident to befall him. He had a spring seat on a meat box in the wagon and the seat slipped and fell with him and one of his arms was dislocated. The little child of Mr. H. ...
Local News Happenings June 17, 1898 (cont.)
Clarence White is sick with fever. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Eckford, a girl. Hon. John A. Tipton is confined to his bed with a spell of fever. The telephone line will soon be extended to Randolph. The little son of Mr. James R. Gee, near here, is dangerously ill. Carey Boals, son of Mr. J. C. Boals, has ...
Luttrell, James Lafayette “Fate”
Sweat of Brow is Key to Longevity – J L Luttrell JAMES LAFAYETTE “FATE” LUTTRELL | “Some say work will kill you, but it won’t” J. L. Luttrell, the man who spoke those words, ought to know. Up until about four years ago he was still breaking ground on his farm on the Garland Road. He ...
Lynching in Tennessee
Tennessee Negro Lynched by Six Sheriff’s Car Crowded to Pavement; Body is Found Hanging From Bridge Lynched Near Covington | Covington, Tenn., Aug. 17 (AP) — Six masked men, shouting “to hell with the law,” seized a terror stricken negro accused of slaying a white officer from Sheriff W. J. Vaughan today and left his body ...
Man by the Name of Fisher Killed by Falling Limb
Memphis Avalanche: A man by the name of Fisher while riding along the old Covington and Randolph road, during a wind storm, last Sunday morning, was struck by a falling limb and instantly killed. His horse escaped uninjured. Fisher had been working during the past year on the farm of Mr. James ...
Many Hands Employed by Illinois Central Railroad
The contractors in Tipton county who have in charge the double tracking of the Illinois Central railroad are rapidly completing their work. There are thousands of hands busily engaged in doing this work. So many are employed that it is difficult for farmers to get labor with which to work their crops. [Bolivar Bulletin, ...
Mason is a Mouthwatering Culinary Epicenter
Like Willie Nelson sings, “On the road again,” and this time we wound our way through Brownsville, down Highway 70 to Mason in the corner of Tipton County. I’m here to tell you that this little sleepy haven of a few more than 1,600 people is a culinary destination. For over ninety years, beginning when ...
Mason Notes Nashville Globe 6 Jan 1911
Mason Notes 6 Jan 1911 – The annual sermon of the Palestine Masonic Lodge No. 35 which was preached by Rev. A. N. Stephens, presiding elder of the Grownsville district, was grand. It was filled with vim, hypothesis, benevolence and verification. He also gave the origin of Masonry. Rev. Stephens is a ...
Meet centenarian Jessie Lawson
Jessie Lawson recently turned 100 years old. Christi Davis On Oct. 9, Jessie Lawson turned 100. Born in Millington near the close of World War I, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nickleberry. His mother passed away shortly after he was born and his father had to work out of town to provide baby formula ...
Mercury Takes Tumble to Fifteen Below Zero
WAS COLDEST WEATHER EVER KNOWN IN COUNTY Mercury Takes Tumble to Fifteen Below Zero: Blizzard Continues During Greater Part of Night and Day – Ten Inches of Snowfall – Other Low Temperature Record on February 12, 1899, When Mercury Went to 12 Degrees Below Zero. This has been a record-breaking winter for snow and low temperature. ...
Michael Roane, Richard Kelley, Brad Williams
Burlison, Tennessee (Tipton County) Brad Williams, age 42, grew up on a cotton farm and as a child had always said he would never farm. However, during his senior year in college, he learned the art of identifying and differentiating all of cotton fiber’s quality intricacies, also known as classing cotton. Brad then realized that being ...
Miss Willie Armour Accidentally Shot
Garland: We are glad to learn that Miss Willie Armour, the young lady who was accidentally shot by a young man named Thurman Billings on the afternoon of the 4th instant at Bethel church, near Tipton, is improving and she will now recover.