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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 49 No. 27 — Friday, June 12, 1908

A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING — was soleminized at Methodist Church Wednesday evening when Miss Willie D. TAYLOR became the bride of Arthur Fox SMITH. Rev. Pierce DUCKWORTH assisted by Dr. HENDERSON, performed the ceremony in the presence of a large concourse of friends. The bride was given by her brother, Livingston TAYLOR.

LOCAL NEWS —

Mr. & Mrs. Walton JORDON, of Jackson, visited Dr. & Mrs. W. H. WHITELAW this week.

Miss Mary Louise ALLEN is in St. Louis, the guest of her aunt and uncle, Mr, & Mrs. Jack MANN.

Dr. J. G. PATTON went to Memphis Saturday to see his sons, James and Hugh, who are visiting there.

Attorney A. M. MARR, has been confined to his room for the past two weeks with an attack of malarial, he is improving.

Mrs. John GRAY has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. SHANKS, of Memphis, from there she will go Birmingham.

Miss Velma STWEART, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. A. G. HOWELL, returned home to Whuteville.

Miss Nell O. NEWBERN, who has been teaching in Mississippi the past term, is spending the summer with home folks.

Mrs. M. J. BRADFORD, Mrs. T. B. KING, and Mrs. Wm. KINNEY left Monday to visit Mrs. Millie BRADFORD in Birmingham, Ala.

Mrs. KLEIN and two bright sons, Henry and Warren, left Monday for McKenzie, from there they go to Memphis to join her husband.

Miss Ursula GREEN is the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. T. HARRIS at Allens.

Mrs. Frank GORIO, of Memphis, was the guest of Misses Mamie and Sarah GRAY last week.

Mrs. J. W. BYRN, who has been quite sick is well now.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

Mrs. Leland WHITTEN and little son, of Summer, Miss., are thr guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. MOORE.

Misses Pearl and Lillie WALKER, of Conway, Ark., are visiting their uncle, Mr. John MANN near Henley this week.

Miss Jennie WARREN has returned home from Holly Springs, Miss., where she teaches in the Presbyterian college.

Mr. & Mrs. L. H. HOLTOM, near Henderson, are visiting Mrs. HOLTOM’s father, Mr. W. A. BRUMMETT.

Earl KING has returned from Altanta, Ga. He was principal of Peacock High School, one of the most exclusive in Atlanta. Prof. KING will return to Atlanta this fall.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. OWENS, of Dallas, Texas, arrived Wednesday, primarily to attend the SMITH-TAYLOR wedding.

NEWS OF THE WEEK —

George BARNES, precinct chairman of the Planters Protective Association, was arrested in the circuit court chambers at Hopkinsville, Ky., on a warrant accusing him of being a night rider.

Michael EMORY, age 25, proprietor of a grocery store ay Wilmington, Del., was shot and killed instantly by John HIPOLIT, a Pole, who formerly worked for him. HIPOLIT committed suicide by shooting himself.

Near Crooked Bayou, a small stream on a plantation near Stuttgart, Ark., known as the CRAIG Place, B. R. OLIVER shot and killed his sister, Mrs. STANLEY, while she was in the garden, setting out sweet potato plants, after which he went in the house and killed her husband, who was in bed sick.

The young white girl, Dorothea NINER and Alonzo D. HOLMES, a negro, who eloped from Baltimore, were married by the Rev. M. W. D. NORMAN, a negro preacher in Washington, according to an admission made by the latter.

Fred TRACEY, a member of the constitutional convention, editor of the Beaver Herald, member of the Democratic state committee and one of the best known politicians in Okla., was indicted by the federal grand jury for robbing the post office at Beaver City.

Daniel H. McMILLIAN, district federal judge in New Mexico, died in Denver. Word to this effect was received by the judge’s son in Buffalo, N. Y.

John Rufus ALEXANDER, born in Missouri, 92 years ago, and who was the last survivor of the historic MIER expedition of 1842, died at Round Mountain, Texas. He was one of the prisoners of MIER, who drew a white bean after capture capture in 1842 and escaped death. The 17 men who drew black beans were shot to death by the Mexicans.

Frank JOHNSON, a negro who killed a married woman because she refused to elope with him and then barricaded himself in a barn near Clarksburg, W. Va., and wounded two members of the posse will be hanged.