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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 40 No. 38 — Friday, August 28, 1908

CARD OF THANKS — We wish to extend to our numerous friends our heartfelt thanks for their many kindness and sympathy to us in our sorrow. Mr. & Mrs. N. W. BARTON.

CONWAY, ARKANSAS — Wm. R. JAMES, aged 88, and Mrs. Edna P. JONES, aged 50, were married at a protracted meeting near here to-day.

NEWS OF THE WEEK —

WALKER DUNCAN, of Shelby County, Ky., who killed Newton HAZLETT, an alleged night rider several weeks ago, received a letter from Gov. WILLSON announcing that he would grant him a pardon for killing HAZLETT, if he preferred this to vindication in court. The government said he had looked into the circumstances and was satisfied DUNCAN acted in defense of his home.

IGNORANT that the husband, who braved leprosy for her sake, is dead of cancer. Mrs. Isabelle WARDWELL, wife of the late Gen. David C. WARDWELL, is raving in the the contagious ward of the county hospital at Los Angeles, Calif., crying piteously for him. [Transcriber’s note: surname spelled different in last issue.]  WITHIN the past sixty days, twenty-five negroes have been lynched in different parts of the United States for alleged assaults on white women.

ON A CHARGE of ambushing and shooting their cousin, R. L. CRADDOCK, Ladd COLLINSWORTH, a lawyer of Humboldt, Tenn., and his brother, Frank COLLINSWORTH, have been arrested. The arrest was made following the trailing of blood to the home of Frank COLLINSWORTH.

LOCAL NEWS —

MR. GILBRIG KENDIL, aged 72 years, died near Rudolph on Monday and was buried at Zion on Tuesday. He formerly lived at Forked Deer.

J. W. McCLEISH Jr leaves Tuesday for San Angelo, TX, where he will reside in the future. This fall he will engage in the cotton classing business.

CHRLES T. MOORE, an old Brownsville boy who has been located in Memphis for several years, has accepted a position as general manager of the chain of grocery stores Mr. BOWERS is opening in New Orleans.

MRS. HARRIS EVANS died at her home near Ged on the 24th and was buried at Lebanon on the following day. She was 45 yrs. old, and from childhood a member of the Methodist church. Rev. R. L. NORMAN conducted the funeral services. She was a daughter of Wesley DAVIS, an old resident of the county, and was widely known and very popular. Her walk in life was marked by all the womanly virtues and her demise is a distinct loss to the community.

RYAN WILLIAMS, the 2-month-old child of Mr. & Mrs. N. W. BARTON died at the residence of Mrs. BARTON’s father, John RYAN, last Monday. Their many friends sympathise with them in their sorrow.

SAM M. TAYLOR, who has for the past year been connected with the Covington Record has severed that connection and will this week take charge of the Marianna (Ark) Index.

THE MANY FRIENDS here and over the entire south of Maj. Marcus V. CRUMP will regret to learn that he is in the hospital at Vicksburg, has been very sick, but is better now.

MRS. J. W. KIRKPATRICK died at her home in Ripley Monday night after a brief illness. She is survived by two sons and four brothers. As a girl and young lady in the old days, she was a frequent visitor in Brownsville.

THE FRIENDS OF Mr. & Mrs. G. A. ANTHONY, of the Durhamville neighborhood will learn with sorrow of the death of their son, Pickett, aged 18 years which occurred on Monday last at their home. About a year since he developed tuberculosis and in the course of the illness all that science and devoted attention could give failed to render relief. He was a splendid youth and gave promise of a life full of worth and usefulness and leaves a memory which will always be a consolation to his loved ones.

SHERIFF HENDERSON and several deputies, of Crockett county, arrived in Brownsville Wednesday afternoon with four negroes charged with murdering a white man named BOWERS, and wounding three other white men. The trouble occurred at a negro festival about four miles from Bells Monday night. The presence of four white men led to a difficulty with the negroes and guns were brought into play with the above result. The negroes were captured Tuesday, and taken to jail at Alamo. The sheriff got wind of a mob Tuesday afternoon, so he and his deputies took the negroes from the jail and laid out in the woods with them until Wednesday morning when he brought them to Brownsville and turned them over to Sheriff KING, who took them to Memphis for safe keeping.

A JAMBOREE among some of the negro workers at the canning factory Tuesday created a great deal of excitment for a short time. The parties involved were John KING, wife and sister-in-law; John BOND Sr & John BOND Jr. The junior BOND slapped KING’s sister-in-law. She slashed him with a knife with which she was peeling tomatoes. KING’s wife and the senior BOND took a hand in the affair. The senior BOND ran to his coat, got his pistol and fired at KING’s sister-in-law, but struck a young negro girl in the hand. He then turned on KING and fired twice at him as the latter was running out of the room. The whole crowd was arrested and taken before Recorder MANN. The younger BOND was fined $10 and the elder BOND $50 and put under $1500.00 bond for his appearance at circuit court on the charge of assault with intent to kill.

SOCIAL & PERSONAL —

MR. & MRS. JOHN FLETCHER COPPEDGE announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Mabel to George Farris FREELAND, the ceremony to take place at the Stanton Methodist church September 16th at 4 p. m. No cards.

MISS MOLLY YOUNG, of Ripley, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. A. TALLEY. MISS MAY HEFLEY left Friday for Muskogee, Okla., where she will teach school. THE MANY FRIENDS of Mrs. Len Ryan BARTON are grieved to know of her illness with typhoid fever.

MISS VAN METRE, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. S. S. THOMAS, has returned to her home in Kentucky.

MRS. L. C. SMITH and Frank TAYLOR, of Covington, have returned home after a visit to their mother, Mrs. Mollie TAYLOR. MRS. J. D. BROWN and two little children, of Houston, Texas are the guests of Mrs. BROWN’s brother, John L. FORREST, east of town.

MR. & MRS. W. W. O’MAHONEY, of Memphis, are visiting their parents, Mr. & Mrs. C. F. NEELEY and their sister, Mrs. S. J. SMITH.