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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 36 No. 38 — Friday, September 4, 1903

BELLS —

MISS MABEL EVANS is quite sick with malarial fever.

MRS. JOE BRIDGER, nee Miss Jennie SHILCUT, of Rudolph your county, after an illness of about three weeks, died at her husband’s home near this place last Wednesday. Her remains were interred in the Bellview cemetery Thursday morning, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. Harry MARTIN, of Stanton. She leaves a husband and four little children. MRS. SHILCUT, the mother of the deceased is very low, not expected to live long.

COL. W. B. BELL of Gov. FRAZIER’s staff was confined to his home last Saturday and Sunday with a bilious attack.

MISS WILLIE KATE BOOTH, who for several days was dangerously sick with malarial fever, is able to sit up again.

EUREKATON —

JEFF GILLAM wears a blooming smile;it’s a fine new baby girl.

Our young friend, WALTER MOORE, of Hillville is very low with nervous typhoid fever.

SULPHER SPRINGS —

MRS. L. FREEMAN and daughter of Bells spent a few days last week with Mrs. FREEMAN’s father, MR. J. T. HOPKINS.

AULEY PITTMAN left Saturday for Mississippi where he will make his future home.

GED — MR. J. T. STRAUSER, who came to Haywood County, Tenn., about four years ago from Hobyville, Ind., and settled near this place and engaged in the sawmill business, was killed while sawing last Friday morning the 28th. A piece of slab dropped back on the saw while it was running at full speed and was hurled against a joint or beam which was stationary over where the sawyer had to stand, struck this a glancing lick and shot down sharp and foremost on the crown of MR. STRAUSER’s head, crushing the top of his skull which caused his death in a few hours. He never regained consciousness after the stroke. He was laid to rest in Lebanon cemetery Sunday afternoon. Funeral services conducted by Bro. THOS. B. KING, of Brownsville. He was a devoted husband, kind father and a good neighbor. Sympathy extended to wife; children; mother; brothers & sisters.
[Transcriber’s note: Mr. JAMES B. STRAUSSER, aged 30 years, another article, surname spelled different and his age given.]

REIN —

MR. J. H. COBB and MRS. MAUD FERRETER were united in marriage while sitting in a buggy in front of Esq. R. G. HERRING’s gate last Saturday about 5 p. m. The bride is a daughter of our old friend, MR. J. A. MOODY, of Chestnut Grove vicinity.

MR. JOHN W. COMPTON, of Arkansas, visited his sister, MRS. R. G. HERRING.

MR. WILEY HARWELL, of the Rudolph community, spent Saturday with his sister, MRS. L. H. BASYE. MR. JEFF ESTES sold his farm in the 9th District last week to MR. THOS. WALKER, of Durhamville, for $6,500, cash.

MR. CHARLES REED BASKERVILLE and his lovely bride left Stanton Monday for Edmond, Okla., where he will be located for the coming scholastic year, having been elected Professor of English in the college at that place.

A GOOD HONEST NEGRO — We believe in seeing the fair and right thing done at all times, believe in the innocent being turned loose and exonerated and the guilty being punished, and from our personal knowledge of you, believe you to be the same way. NOW, in your issue of August 21st, you had an account(and no doubt you thought a correct one)of the finding of the body of the CRUTCHFIELD negro who had been murdered. Now, it is seldom we find a negro whom we believe to be thoroughly honest and who attends to his own business, therefore believing and knowing this CRUTCHFIELD negro to have possessed both the above qualities, we feel it is our duty as citizens to correct the impression that might have been made regarding his death and his character. We knew this boy(for he was only 17 years old)to be quiet, good, peaceable and polite negro, who knew his place and kept it. He was foully and brutally murdered and we believe we have the killers in jail. SUBMITTED BY: G. W. SMITH, Albert POWELL, W. E. POWELL, J. H. CAMPBELL & J. B. KERR.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

MRS. L. B. EDWARDS and son of Gainesville, Texas returned home after an extended visit with parents, MR. & MRS. S. E. TAYLOR.

MRS. JOE FORREST who has been visiting her sister, MRS. JAMES BROWN, returned home to Memphis.

MR. BEAM BATTLE, son of DR. ALFRED BATTLE, a rising young railroad man of Vicksburg, Miss., is the guest of his parents.

MRS. GEO. A. BISCHOFF, visiting her mother, MRS. JAS. E. SEVIER has returned home to Memphis. MR. FRANK McCLISH and family of Cleveland, Miss., are visiting the family of his brother JOHN W. McCLISH.

MISS DAISY AMDERSON left Tuesday night for Franklin, Ky., where she has accepted a position as German, French and Art teacher of Prof. RICHARDSON’s college.