Mr. Editor – As your valuable paper is read by so many of our good County people, I presume they would like to know something of our corner. We claim to be abreast with any portion of our county, save the capital, Bolivar. We are quite sober, religious, and enthused over the amendment to the constitution, looking to prohibition in the near future, so that the yoemanry of this great State can decapitate the hydraheaded monster. I formed an alliance at Hopewell Church, this county, yesterday evening with 16 members; G. J. LEATH – President, J. C. DICKSON – Vice President, A. E. FERGUSON – Secretary, Miss Alice DICKSON – TREASURER, Solicitors for the Issue, Miss Laura SMITH, Miss Mary FERGUSON.
Enthusiastic speeches were made by D. A. FERGUSON, Prof. John WINDES, and Rev. G. J. LEATH. Ho for the termperance cause! We are not outlaws, we have a temperance alliance, a good Sunday School, a good day school, presided over by worthy and efficient teachers, Prof. John R. WINDES and Miss Fannie NORMENT, services every Sabbath at the church. Four doctors; BOSTWICK, GODDARD, J. D. and D. SAULS, and eight enterprising firms always ready to exchange goods for cash or credit. The farming interest is on a boom more thrift and improvements than usual.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 07 May 1886, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
