County Road Officials Hear Law Explanations in Session
County highway commissioners district road officials and the county attorney convened in the circuit court room near 11 o clock to review the 1917 road act and its provisions. Chairman John JH Murphy presided with Highland Crowe and the county superintendent present. Absent district commissioners phoned in their inability to attend while others asked for explanations leading to clarifications on funding and maintenance for the year.
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Cir‘ait Court Room
John ‘Jh. Murphy
County Road Board
Highland Crowe
Kinnard
Fitzgerald
McKibbon
Holt
Brown
Kirkpatrick
Hugh Todd Shelton
Butler
Coal gifts from Kentucky firms to King's Daughters Hospital
Two car loads of coal totaling over eighty tons were donated to the King's Daughters Hospital this week. The shipments came from St. Bernard Coal & Mining Company and Rose Creek Coal Company of Kentucky, arranged through local supporters Mr and Mrs William F Anderson.
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King's Daughters’ Hospital
King's Daughters Hospital
Institution R
St. Bernard Coal & Mining Company
Rose Creek Coal Company
Kentucky
Hospital
Kentucky Corpo
Sugar price inching up on local market
Sugar made a slight advance on the local market today though not reaching the gains seen elsewhere. A big dealer reduced the usual nine percent pounds for the dollar to nine pounds while a 100 pound bag rose from 10.25 to 10.50. Sugar remains scarce and dealers fear meeting the current heavy demand.
Recovery Sought For Duroc Bear Killed By Train
Through his attorney Thomas J. Peebles a suit has been filed in the circuit court by James R. Williams of Old Homestead Farm against Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Walker D. Hines director general of railroads for the killing of a prize boar. The claim seeks 1250 dollars and notes the animal was loaned to the Middle Tennessee Experiment Station before straying from its enclosure and wandering onto the railroad track where it was struck by a passing train.
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Thomas J. Peebles
James R. Williamson
Old Hontstead Farm
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Walker D. Hines
Old Hometead Heard
Middle Tennessee Experiment Station
Licensing Dealers In Wheat Under Federal Proclamation
Julius Barnes announced a presidential proclamation placing dealers in wheat and wheat products under license beginning July 15. The measure covers storage distribution and baking from wheat flour, with farmers and small bakers exempted. Public filing via zone grain corp offices and submission to Washington follows.
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New York
Julius Barnes
United States Wheat Director
Wilson
Barnes
Grain Corporation
Baltimore
Chicago
Galvexton
Minneapolis
Kansas City
New Orleans
Omaha
Philadelphia
Portland
Ore
St. Louis
San Francisco
Buffalo
Duluth
Division of Licensed
Washington
License Language and Penalties in Suspension or Revocation
Fragmentary OCR text notes that any license entering suspension or after revocation will incur penalties prescribed by law. No clear names, dates, or places are readable, but the clause references liability under statutory penalties for license status changes.
Busy week for county agent Shadow with village events
Miss Sophia May Shadow, county home demonstration agent, schedules a busy sequence of engagements across communities. Highlights include an ice cream supper Saturday for the Cullooka school fund, a Friday Hampshire club meeting with UT health expert Mrs Loos Warner, and visits to Cross Bridges Darks Mill Aryant Station Ferndale Spring Hill.
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Daily Herald
Sophia May Shadow
Cullooka
Hampshire
Loos Warner
University of Tennessee
Gulleoka Pig Club Doing Splendid Work
Twentieth Daily Herald reports Professor McLean county agent visited Cullooka pig club Saturday and praised progress. Ten members all but one have pure bred Duran Jersey gilts. pigs thriving. Officers are William Calvert president Raby Reaves vice president Paul Akin secretary treasurer. Club prepared to exhibit at Coffees community fair and county fair in August.
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Twenday
Daily Herald
McLean
Cullooka
Wiliam Calvert
Raby Reaves
Paul Akin
Coffecks
Co. Aumutte
Local contracts awarded for city construction projects
Tom Simpson wins foundation contract for a 3000 barrel gasoline tank at Standard Oil station west of the city. Eugene Alford secures the addition contract for A. D. Sloan Grocery Co on South Main, a two story rear extension adding about 2 000 square feet. Completion cost estimates range from eight to ten thousand dollars and more.
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Tom Simpson
Standard Oil Tank
Eugene Alford
A. D. Sloan & Company
Standard Oil
Sta Hon
A.D. Sloan Grocery Co
Standard
William
A. D. Sloan
Cream Station at Gulleoka Assured
Bresont and farmers of the Culleoka section met to secure a cream station at that place. About sixty gallons daily have been pledged with expectations of reaching under one hundred gallons. The initiative would bring substantial revenue to local farmers as cream shipments already move from Glendale and other county stations along the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis line, with strong support from the extension division.
Ford fleet to be driven back from Cincinnati to Columbus
Keith Detham TC Hotchinson and Eddie Matthews travel to Cincinnati for Fry Bros to drive back a fleet of Ford sedans and treks for rapid delivery. The convoy will include three sedans and two trucks.
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Keith Detham
TC. Hotchinson
Eddie Matthews
Cincinnati
Fry Bros
Columbia
Farmers of Maury County Set Wheat Price At 2.05
Maury County wheat growers will receive about 2.06 dollars per bushel for No. 2 grade wheat under a new plan by the Director of Wheat and the United States Food Administration. Licensees and local millers must pay fixed prices with a government guarantee against loss if resale prices fall. New Orleans remains the favored export port. netColumn price estimates for No. 2 wheat at Columbia are around 2.45 after freight and carrying charges.
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Varmers
Maury County
Jalus Barnes
United States Food Administration Grain Corporation
The
Food Administration
Gral Corporation
Joss
Lcensees
Gran Corporation
Grain Corporation
New Orleans
Columbia
Mrs. W. K. Boardman Dies After Illness in Columbia
Mrs. William K. Boardman died Tuesday morning at 8 at the Biddle home on West Eighth Street after an eighteen month heart illness. The 42 year old, formerly Kate Biddle, was the eldest daughter of Dr and Mrs William Biddle. Survived by two sisters Miss Willie Biddle and Mrs L L Neal, one brother Tay J Biddle, and three sons W K Boardman Jr Douglas and Francis. Her husband, head of a Nashville company, was called to Columbia Monday night. funeral Wednesday at 11 from St Peter’s with pallbearers listed as W H Wilkon Aanniels Husewe Anderson S Walker Le and Hine and O A Ba.
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Daily Herald
William K. Boardman
Biddle
West Eighth Street
Sftar AR
Ro Boardmen, Jr
Mit
Willian Biddle
William Biddle
Columbia
Tennessee
Hare
Miss Willie Biddle
Mia. LL. Neal
Mayland
Tay J. Biddle
W. K. Boardman, Jr
Douglas
Francis
Nashville
Boustern Mell Telephony Co
Boardman Wee
Episcopal Church
Bt Petary
George O. Watts
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H. P
John H. Murphy
C. E. Hight
J. A. Crowe
Maury County Road Commission
William F. Anderson
Kentucky Coal
Nelds
Anderson
Herat
Merald
Duroc
Harald
Cerial
United States
Wheat—Common Carriers
Gulleoka Pig Club
Gulleoka
FORD
Shropshire Bucks
Moore & Sons Stables
Canada
Moore & Sons
CC. Haley
Nashville, Tenn
Stratton Avenue
J. F. Moore
W. K. Boardman
Ilness
Liberty and Victory
Federal Bank
Maury National. Bank
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