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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 40 No. 41 — Friday, September 18, 1908

NEWS OF THE WEEK — The color line was drawn at Highland Park College; Des Moines, Iowa, when President O. H. LANGWELL dismissed every colored student and announced that no more would be admitted.

LOCAL NEWS — A Horrible accident occurred in Ripley on Wednesday morning last by which Alexander YOUNG, a prominent young business man of that town, lost his life. He was on a flat car, superintending the unloading of gravel, when a freight train bumped the car, hurling him between the cars, and the upper part of his body was mangled beyond recognition. He was a son of the late Dr. A. H. YOUNG, who preceded him to the grave by just three months.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

J. W. and W. C. PENNELL, of Memphis, spent Sunday with their cousin, W. W. DUPREE. DR. A. B. YOUNG was called to Halls Monday on account of the serious illness of his father, Hon. J. F. YOUNG.

ALBERT THOMAS has been very sick at the home of his father, Mr. S. F. THOMAS, for several days last with malarial fever.

THE numerous friends of Mrs. C. S. WALKER will learn with regret of her illness at her home in Tulsa, Okla. Her mother, Mrs. S. F. THOMAS of this city is with her.

MRS. J. W. E. MOORE and Misses Annebel and Mary MOORE have returned from a visit to the mountains and springs of North Carolina and Virginia, and to their cousin, Dr. James ESTES, Byrdville, Va.