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To The Voters of Macon County

I am announcing myself as a candidate for Senator, subject to the Democratic Primary to be held on August 1, 1946. This is part of the 14th Senatorial District, composed of Macon, Sumner and Trousdale Counties, and this is Macon’s time to nominate a Senator, the one whose name will appear on the ballot for the three counties in the General Election in November 1946.

Again let me express my sincere thanks to you older people who elected me as Sheriff of this county 20 years ago this August. As you remember, I was at that time a returned veteran of World War I. Then we did not dream that we would so soon have another horrible war. But thank God, ‘tis over. Along with the young boys, I, too, have done my part again, on frozen snowy fields, on muddy fields in foreign lands, in France while..........them part in the Pacific. I bow my head in a silent prayer as my heart bleeds in sympathy for you who gave your boys, the brave ones, who fell and now sleep so far away. They were so dear to your hearts. So costly and precious is the liberty we now enjoy.

If I am elected as your Senator, I will use the same courage in the Legislative halls as I did on the battlefields of Europe. Instead of a rifle, I will use Courage with Honesty. It matters not how poor you are, for no purer heart beats than that beneath the bib of the overalls. I do not believe in class legislation.

No man elected to office by a majority of the voters should be legislated out of office. I will not do this, regardless of politics. If you want me to do this, then vote for me and be DISAPPOINTED. If my help and influence can get better roads in any community, or if there are other ways in which I may render service to my people in an honest way, I promise I will do my best. This is your issue, voters. All I ask is an honest, fair Election which we demand. We want no dishonest vote. Thanking you again, I am ,

Very respectfully,

VIRGIL FRYE

Following a heart attack at three o’clock Wednesday morning, Dr. Fountain M. Blankenship, aged nearly 68 years, died at his home at Hartsville. He suffered an attack a year ago and apparently overcame it, only to have another attack Monday night of this week and a third that ended his life. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Tinsley Blankenship; one son, Francis W. Blankenship, a Nashville Business man; one daughter, Mrs. Louise McWasson, of Jacksonville, Fla., three grandchildren, and two brothers, J.D. L. Blankenship of Bowling Green, Kentucky; and John Blankenship, of Steedman, Mo.

Funeral services are to be conducted at ten o’clock Friday morning from the home, with the Rev. Wallace Carrier in charge. The remains will then be brought to Haysville Cemetery, eight miles north of Lafayette, where burial will be made about one o’clock Friday afternoon. He was a member of the Hartsville Baptist church, and a Mason, being a Shriner.

Dr. Blankenship was born on a farm about four miles North of Lafayette, being the son of the late S.S.M. Blankenship and Catherine White Blankenship. After completing the common school course in this county, he entered the old Nashville University of Tennessee Medical School, where he graduated in 1905. He entered at once into the active practice of medicine and for some time was located in Hillsdale of this county. Later he moved to Hartsville, where for a number of years he had a wide practice and was one of the leading physicians of the Upper Cumberland.

County Home Demonstration Clubs Have Annual Picnic

The Macon County Home Demonstration Club members went to Cedar Forest on Wednesday, June 26th, for the annual picnic. Paul Dotson, driver of one of the local school buses, carried the group of ladies to the park.

The clubs of the county were represented as follows: Pleasant Valley, 8; Russell Hill, 5; Haysville, 5; Williams, 4; Red Boiling Springs, 2; Lafayette, 2; Galen, 1.

Soon after reaching the park, Miss Yeargan had everyone engaged in some kind of sport.

At the noon hour a very bountiful picnic lunch was enjoyed. Like children out of school, we couldn’t rest long until we went back to the games and to swim in the pool.

On the returning trip everyone reported a wonderful time and a day well spent where we could relax and forget the canning and many other tasks awaiting our return home.