THE LIBERTY HERALD

Editor, Will A. Vick

April 10, 1895

Cottage Home

J.B. Cothren, the painter, was seen on our streets today.

Mrs. Mollie Keaton paid Mrs. William Hayes a visit last week.

Dr. Young, J.T. Knight, and others are improving the appearance of our town with new fences, gates, etc.

Guess R.A. Caplinger and S.H.Harris have got McKinney about supplied with sweet potatoes.

Mrs. Lou Ganey died March 18th.

T.B. Williams of Weston was in our midst Sunday.

W.T. Close is going to succeed Sam Harris in the management of the Harris farm.

Little Jewel, daughter of Tom and Nettie Lee happened to get her arm dislocated a few days ago.

Dug Cantrell has taken a course of lectures on the diseases of horses and is now taking lessons in courtship under H.D. Buckley.

Turney Bros. have drilled a well for the stable and one for Dr. W.A. Barger.

M.D. Johnson is having a barn erected.

Thompson Bros. are running a produce house.

Joe Davis is clerking for Z.T. Cox.

Wade Davis and sister, Miss Era, went to Lebanon Saturday and returned yesterday.

Mr. & Mrs. W.T. Alsup have been on the sick list for some days past.

Jewell & Jennings have purchased the farm of J.S. Jennings.

M.D. Johnson purchased a saddle horse from Sam Ferrell of Murfreesboro.

Mrs. N. Oakley is not expected to live but a short time.

Wiliby Walden is some better.

There will be a constable's election in our town next Saturday. G.M. Patton having resigned, to travel for a Nashville house.

Since our last, quite a number of marriages have occurred, among which were; George Davis and Miss Nora Cox, Presley Armstrong and Miss Babe Truitt, Elijah Truitt and Miss Fannie Patton, Willie Payne and Miss Stella Talley, time and space forbids us naming the rest.

Champ Lee, who had his hand so badly mashed last week, was forced to having it amputated.

Mr. Irv. Newsom died at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning after several weeks of illness. His remains were interred today in the family graveyard at 1 o'clock. Mr. Newson was a shoemaker by trade and leaves a family to mourn his loss.

While out driving Mrs. Jno. A Lester's hors became frightened,…not serious injuries.

Capt J.W. Irwin and family left Monday for Savannah, Tenn., where they will make their home.

D.C. Spurlock left today for Lynchburg where he will locate and practice the law.

Col. A.J. Crawford, president of the N & K, was here last week.

Mrs. J.A. Phrasier, who lives three miles west of town, is very low with heart trouble.

The Quarterly County Court elected R.S. Alcorn, T.C. Holladay, D.C. Whitaker and Lee Matheny as a Board of Equalization.

A frightened team ran into the drugstore of Dr. J.P. Martin Monday, demolishing [much].

As Rev. F.A. Stella was returning home, Raleigh Quinn threw a rock at him and struck the house of Mr. Holladay, bursting a weatherboard with its force.

T.L. Lewis, who has recently recovered from a severe gunshot wound in the foot, inflicted while hunting in November, has been ordered to take charge of the warehouse at Hawthorne, Bedford county by Hon. Frank P. Bond, Collector. J. Porter of Nashville comes to Jay G. Hodges' distillery, while Capt. Burton goes to Tullahoma.

Clerk & Master Frank Dibrell left for Evansville, Ind. Monday to give evidence in Federal court.

Ten years ago, while S. Jarvis was trustee of White county he paid what seemed to be a shortage of $479. Recently he has found the vouchers for $479 for which he was never credited and will receive the money from the county.

Mrs. Elizabeth Fooshee, wife of Jonas Fooshee of the 8th district died Tuesday night April 2, having taken sick Sunday. She leaves a large family of children and a husband. She was a daughter of John Crook.

Judge W.T. Smith came in from Carthage last week and was taken quite sick Saturday.

A young son of Carl Baker of the 9th district died last week under peculiar circumstances, having been suddenly taken with a pain in his heel.

Mrs. Hannah Farris died at home in the 5th district, Monday, April 1st, aged 87 years.

Esq. Andrew Jackson Green had the pleasure of uniting in the bonds of wedlock John Hill and Miss Eva Phillips Sunday morning.

Crock England will be through assessing property this month.

Walter Baker of the Honey Grove Citizen (Texas) is visiting in Sparta.

T.K. Borum of Jennings, Wilson county, recently lost his barn and contents by fire.

Mrs. Joseph Elliotte, living in Robertson county, recently gave birth to triplets, all girls and Mrs. Buck Thauber, living near the first mentioned woman, a few days later, presented her husband with triplets, all boys. All six of the infants are reported as vigorous.

William High, son of J.H. High, living near Chestnut Mound, has been sick with measles for several days. He is not expected to live.

S.H. Malone of Carthage, brother of the sheriff, yesterday morning took Peter Petrosss and Isaac Lyles, colored, to Lebanon where he turned them over to a state officer, who will convey them to the penitentiary.

Harrison Johnson, who was arrested last summer for robbery, also implicated in the shooting of Sheriff Lamberson, was tried in Carthage last Tuesday before U.S. Commissioner B.F.C. Smith for tampering with the post office at Monoville at the time John B. Haynie's store was broken into. He was bound over to Federal court.

N.B. Kittrell of Monoville lost a fine Poland China sow last week.

Dr. and Mrs. W.W. Jones returned from Alexandria Saturday where they went to attend the death-bed and funeral of Mrs. Jones' mother, Mrs. Baird.

W.C. Frost has been unwell this week.

Last Saturday morning the store of R.N. Ransom, corner of Main street and Maney avenue, was discovered on fire. The building was owned by W.T. Gum.

Mrs. Bradley and daughter visited her sister, Mrs. Ike Eaton, near town last week.

Mrs. Jack Malone is much worse and not expected to live but a few days.

Marion Marler has left for Texas and California.

Sam Marler went to Nashville last week.

Mrs. Etta Lee is visiting in Nashville.

Mrs. Mattie McNelly, who has been quite sick is much better.

Miss Alice Cullom of Nashville has taken charge of Liv Tubb's millinery department.

C.A. Bailiff was in town Saturday. He has been sick for several weeks.

Hon. Sam Wauford left for Nashville Wednesday.

Stella Bethel has been quite sick since Sunday.

J.F. Roy will go to Nashville Tuesday.

John D. Smith of Watertown has been in this community lately, tuning pianos and organs.

Miss Alma Brandon will teach a spring school at Curlees.

Part of the Cateston string band met to practice Tursday night. The following are the members: Miss Leona Cates, pianist; Miss Lue Nichol, guitar; Misses Sallie and Lizzie Gaither, banjos; Miss Ervin Dunn, W.D. Cates and C.T. Cates, violinists. Truly Cateston is noted for good music and fine looking young men.

A mad cat bit Tom Robinson's little girl, Bessie, sometime last week. They carried her to the mad stone at Manchester.

Houston Odom of Petersburg is visiting his father, Sam C. Odom, of this place.

Mrs. Lucy Odom, an aged lady, died a few days ago. She was buried at the Odom graveyard on Sander's Fork.

Mrs. Florence Dougherty, wife of Robert Dougherty, died Saturday morning after a lingering illness of several years. She was buried at the family graveyard near Cottage Home Sunday.

Lee Overall is counted our champion whistler in our city.

W.H. Overall returned Wednesday from a visit up in the River country trading.

Thomas Malone has killed a hog for the quarterly meeting Saturday and Sunday.

Little Clarence Hunt has quite a pastime riding his bicycle.

Willie Foutch and others have returned from Nashville where they had been with a raft of logs.

W.B. Tramel is suffering a great deal from neuralgia this week.

Old Uncle Bass Taylor had an old house with some fodder in it burn yesterday.

Dr. Samuel Walker of Hicks has been on the puny list with severe cold for several days, but is some better today.

Edgar M. Hays poetry "The Farmer" was splendid for a beardless boy. Temperance Hall should be congratulated in having such a poet as E.M. H. for her citizen.

Miss Cornelia Eastes, J.D. Phillips, Miss Ellen Phillips and B.H. Phillips went to Lascassas the fifth Saturday and returned Monday.

Shaw Officer and Mary Ann Waters (col.) were married Thursday night. As this is the fourth time for the bride, she did not even "blush" during the lengthy ceremony of one yard and a half.

If you want to know how to catch fish rapidly, ask T.M. Givan or Joe Barrett.

John Tassey is the hustling blacksmith at Haleville.

Mrs. Jos. Wright has gone to Cookeville to see her parents.

J.W. Hays, a good citizen of Auburn and his son, Claude, were here Monday.

Oliver Stanton and Dixie Floyd have got new safety bicycles.

Will T. Hale will go on the editorial staff of the Memphis Commercial.

The second son of Thomas Turner, aged 13 years, died at his father's home on Dry Creek last Friday night after an illness of several days.

Prof. J.C. and Sam Estes got in Monday night last week to see their sister who was very low. She died two days after they got here.

Prof. W.J. Gothard will not be an applicant for the fall school at this place on account of his health and the duties devolving upon him as Superintendent of Public School.

T.D. Oakley, as good a citizen as this county ever had, quietly passed away at his home on Smith Fork on Sunday, 31st.

Ike Cantrell, living near Smithville was stricken with paralysis at McMinnville last Satrurday and died within 15 minutes.

Mrs Geo. H. Edge will move to Missouri about the first of May. Her husband has been teaching out there for several lmonths.

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