Elections for January Term Bring County Contests
The January term will feature fights for a seat on the County Work House Commission with three candidates—Mr Taylor, D. French Straley, and James Sanders seeking a place. Incumbent John P. Graham plans to run unopposed for County Superintendent, likely securing election by acclamation. A heated road-law debate is expected as the court considers repealing the county road law and orders members to study road statutes.
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Vollision
Vnion
James Sanders
Work House Commission
Taylor
Theta
D. French Straley
Twenty-fifth
Sanders
John P. Graham
State Board of Education
General Assembly
Maury County
November Fire Report Details Losses in Maury County
November brought high fire activity in Maury County with $17,800 paid by insurers though actual losses reached only $4. The report from Deputy Fire Marshal Love Webb submitted to the State Fire Department notes no fatalities and a low average loss per fire despite ongoing blazes during the month.
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Maury County
Love Webb
State Noufhiire Department
Superintendent of Public Building Named for Columbia Post
Edwin Morell of Washington has been appointed by the supervisor of architecture as Superintendent of work on the Columbia post office building and will arrive December 31. He seeks information from Postmaster Jackson about local churches and ministers and his faith is questioned by Jackson. Work on the building will begin soon and progress rapidly.
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Edwin Morell
Washington, D
Morell
Ornest
Co Nabik
Thield
Jackson
Boy Accused Of Murder In Accidental Shooting At Mt. Pleasant
Edward Cunningham, sixteen, sits jailed after a fatal shooting at G W Hicks's home two miles south of Mt. Pleasant. The girl died from a close range shotgun blast during a dispute while children threw gravel. Cunningham claims the gun discharged accidentally as he tried to lower the hammer. Hicks had sheltered him amid charity.
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G. W. Hicks
Mt. Pleasant
Air Hicks
Edward Cunningham
Mr. Hicks
Cunningham
Columbian
Esq. Hayes
Goad
Ed Cunningham
Herald
Hicks
Alabama
Hunteville
No Statue at Custom House Denied
A Washington telegraph says Assistant Secretary Winthrop of the Treasury denied Postmaster Wills request to place the Carmack monument on government grounds in Nashville Tennessee. He cited partisan feeling surrounding the pending trial of the late senator's slayers as improper, though he respects Senator Carmack.
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Herald
Nashville
Tenn
Alleputch
Washington
Winthrop
Treasury Department
Carmack
Senator Carmack
Train Robbers Flee With Mail After Spokane Heist
A gang attacked a Great Northern train near Hillyard Washington, forcing the engineer to stop. Three robbers seized the mail and express cars but a careful mail car man cut the train free, and the robbers fled by wagon toward Mead after abandoning the engine and baggage car with unknown loot.
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Iillward
Thin
W. Perrin
Monteia
Texto
Hillyard
Drennan
Perrin
Sret
Mead
Sudden Death of Mrs. R. C. Gant Shocks Columbia
Mrs. R C Gant of Columbia Maury county died suddenly at home on West Seventh Street Sunday night from heart neuralgia. She was a devoted wife mother church member of First Presbyterian and is survived by her husband and two children William Moses of Louisville and John Gant Jr of Columbia. Funeral held Tuesday at 10:30 AM at First Presbyterian with Dr T A Wharton and others officiating. Rose Hill burial with church deacons as active pallbearers.
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John Sargent
Miseleely
Canada
Teoneeaee
James Rk.jetton
Middle Tennessee
Jetton
Sargent
Maury County
State Revenue Agent
Dominion of Canada
Mississippi
Columbia
Tennessee
Supreme Court of
R. C. Gant
West Seventh Street
First Presbyterian
William Moses
Louisie
John Gant, Jr
First Presbyterian Church
T. A. Wharton
A. B. .Clement
A. G. Dinwiddie
Rose Hill
Bond issue up to county court faces January decision
Maury county may fund six percent debt with four percent bonds under a 1907 act. After the Bonding Commission failed to receive bids at par, Boston broker Watson proposed a 4.40 percent ban. The county court will decide in January whether to accept the offer, though strong opposition makes approval doubtful.
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Maury County
John Stuart Watson
House of Mason, Lewis and Company
Boston
Short Course in Agriculture at University of Tennessee
County Superintendent Graham urges rural readers to enroll in the University of Tennessee short course in agriculture at Knoxville beginning January 4 and running to March. He says rural education must adapt to modern agricultural needs and that teachers should join to bring this knowledge to rural schools.
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Graham
University of Tennessee At
Knoxville
Tennessee
Department of Agriculture
First Plant Opened for Phosphate Co In Maury County
Plans for the Pranco American Consolidated Phosphate Co involve a new plant at Maury on Swan Creek Branch of the L&N Railroad. Estimated cost near $160000 with bids to open soon and a spur track survey by Stephen P. Condon of Knoxville.
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Stephen P. Condon
Knoxville
Pranco- American Consolidated Phosphate Co
Condon
Swan Creek
Baptist Branch
Cox's
Pranco-American Co
Finneys Much Mixed On Dogs
The Herald clarifies confusion between J. R. Finney and J. J. Finney over a lost dog ad. It notes J. J. Finney does not own a dog while J. R. Finney has lost one and seeks its return, despite claims from residents that he owns many dogs. J. R. Finney resides at 52 South High Street.
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J. R. Finney
The
Herald
J. J. Finney
Mr. Fineney
Mr. Finney
J. I. Finney
7. Finney
J. R. Pinney
J. R Pinsney
South High Street
Three Dead Two Wounded in Memphis Saloon Rampage
In Memphis on December 10 a gunman using a 28 Colts killed three men and wounded two others inside Hammet Ashard's saloon. The victims named Rob Crater Charley Miller Clarence Allen and Leane Williams, with an unidentified woman among the wounded. Police capture Will Laturn who declined to speak.
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Memphis
Tenn
Will Laturn
Hammet Ashard
Rob Crater
Charley Miller
Clarence Allen
Leane Willams
Laura
Latora
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