Tennessee Republican Huntingdon, October 17,1889
Contributed by unknown person Rootsweb Carroll County List

The school at Clarksburg begins October 28, 1889. We begin a week earlier than we expected. The cotton crop having been cut short, we make considerable deduction in prices. Spelling, reading, 1st part arithmetic, $1.25 per month. English grammar, geology, history, rhetoric, logic English literature, arithmetic (Ray’s New Practical), algebra, geometry, and other studies not necessary to mention, $2.00 per month. There will nbe no trouble in getting board, WILLIAM BELEW, WILLIAM GROGAN, JO. GROGAN and BUD ODOM will take boarders at $7.00 per month. JOHN LAWRENCE will take boarders after Christmas at $7.00. JOHN W. JOHNSON.

We, the teachers and pupils of the McKenzie public school, beg leave to summit the resolutions…in memory of J. L. THOMAS who died… we tender our sympathy to the bereaved family and especially to the twin brother of J. B. …

DORSEY BRYANT had the misfortune Monday of striking his leg just below the knee with the keen edge of an adze, inflicting a wound about four inches long that went to the bone.

On the sick lists: HORACE HAWKINS, MRS. H. O. HOOD, EMERSON DILL with typhoid, MRS. HAYWOOD HILLIARD, WILL BRANNON with mumps, WES BELEW’S children with mumps.

SUSSIE OWNBY is wearing breeches.
JOHN WILDER is having his house repaired.
JAMES JEFFREY of Camden was here.
PRIEST CLARK of Clarksburg was here.
SID BREVARD left to attend the Dyersburg fair.
MUNROE PHILLIPS of Hollow Rock was in town.
SAMMY GAMBLE of Erin was in town.
MISS REBECCA MCNEILL is visiting at Paris.
W. T. SIMPSON’s family is visiting relatives in Henderson County.
WADE CONKLIN and J. M. PHILLIPS of Hollow Rock were here Sunday.
MITCH WRINKLE and RUFE CHANDLER of McKenzie were in town.
PROF. J. H. KNIGHT and sister-in-law of Grovewood were here.
DR. ENOCHS is still very ill with typho-malarial fever.

DR. MCCALL and GEORGE MCCALL are attending JOHN E. MCCALL of Lexington who is reported very ill.

PROF. L. S. MITCHELL and J. C. MCKINNEY were here from McLemoresville.
MISS ANNIE MEEK of Kentucky entered school this week.
BEN JAMISON and GUS CARLTON left for Milan to attend the fair. MILT CRIDER started yesterday.

IKE MOORE has a ten pound girl and as consequence, will sell goods cheaper than usual for the next 30 days.

ELLIS JOHNSON’s baby is quite sick.

M. D. CARNALL of Clarksburg is the bluest man in the county. The frost hurt him nearly as bad as it did the cotton.

WILL MCCRACKEN has resigned his position at Sommerville and is back home. He contemplates going into business here.

DAVD KORNMAN, brother of our genial friend and a member of the HERMAN Bros. of Nashville, is visiting relatives here.

The band was out for a drill Sunday, but BOB TAYLOR did not know it.

MISS JENNIE PLANT of Plant, Tennessee arrived and will be the guest of MISS LENA BRYANT.

S. N. WILLIAMS returned from Cedar Grove. He reports business is god and says his gin is turning out six bales of cotton per day.

MRS. J. S. HARMON, the only surviving member of JUDGE HUMBLE’s grandfather’s family, is visiting at his house. She is in her 80th year.

GOV. HAWKINS and E. G. RIDGLEY of Huntingdon and CAL. MCKINNEY and wife of McLemoresville attended the M.E. conference this week.

AUGUST HOLLINQUEST of McKenzie returned home from a visit to his son who had congestive chills lately.

FRANK ROGERS returned from a visit to his children at Holladay. He says the school is in fine condition and they have about 50 boarders from other sections of the state.

N. J. KELLON and W. M. DUNNAWAY, brother of the Dunnaway wanted for murdering his uncle in Rutherford County, passed through going to Gibson in Gibson County.

MRS. JERRY WHITE, mother-in-law of JOE JOHNSON who recently moved here from Clarksburg, died at her home in Henderson County last Sunday. Her daughter was sent for, but Mrs.White died before she arrived. The death was very sudden.

JEFF HALL and NELSON SHERROD, two colored men, were arraigned before Esq. MCEWEN, last Monday on a charge of using profane language on the street. Fined $2.50 and cost each.

There has been a covey of partridges scattered through town this week. Four were caught on the square Tuesday and five the next day. They had become frightened and flew into stores, against houses, etc.

A telegram reached here Tuesday evening announcing the serious illness of SAM HAWKINS at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. HUGH left on the first train and telegraphed that his father is better.

BURK, the young man who arose in the middle of the night several months ago and left a loving wife and baby sleeping, mounted his steed and left, recently returned; of course, he was welcomed and he and his wife will go to keeping house again.

NEWT WILLIAMS and UNCLE BILLY KEY gave SID NESBITT a fine very rat and tan dog last week. Sid being of a speculative turn of mind and knowing the dog’s strong proclivities for running away ever chance that is offered, sold to a fellow citizen for fifteen cents. The pup is back in town and if the purchaser does not want Sid to pocket more money on it, he had better come and get it.

JNO. MEBANE’s team ran away Tuesday and tore things up a bit. They were standing in MR. CANNON’S back yard and became frightened. In stead of going through the gate, which was open in front of them, they made a turn around the house, wagon striking the fence, throwing both horses…

A Tribute of Respect… teachers and pupils of Huntingdon High School…in memory of EDDIE, son GEN. W. W. MURRAY… by teachers T. A. MITCHELL, MISS MAGGIE BROWN, MISS MARY PORTER.

I.O.O.F. members meet at the courthouse, Saturday night, Oct. 19, 1889. F. S BURROW, D.D.G.M.

The heirs of JOHN M. DALTON, who died last spring, have decided to have the land left them divided by arbitration. WILLIAM JOHNSON of Clarksburg, A. R. TUCKER and R. P. CHAMBERS have been selected to make the division. Mr. Dalton left 1981 acres in Carroll County and 28 acres in Gibson County.

SUSAN HILLIARD vs J. N. ROGERS, administrator…ninth interest of W. W. ROGERS in estate belonging to ROBERT ROGERS, deceased… bounded by lands of MARGERY MARTIN, HARSE, W. H. GREEN, … about 20 or 70 acres…

A.A. CARTER, administrator et al vs JESSE GILES et al… land known as the L. A. WILLIAMS land 375 acres two miles west of Huntingdon…

Taken up by G. W. ROGERS, residing in the 1st district of Carroll County, one yoke of oxen… valued $16. … G.W. HUMBLE, acting ranger.

Carroll County Democrat Huntingdon, 21 December 1891
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In Trouble - WARREN BURDETT, colored, who at once time lived here, has gotten himself into a whole peck of trouble at McKenzie. Burdett likes meat better than he likes work, and at a rather late hour a few nights ago, he discovered a porker hanging outside the door of Mr. GRAY’S market shop… hog got taken… men are suspicious.. search found the pork, but did not find Burdett, who is no longer an inhabitant of McKenzie, but has absconded for parts unknown.

A Splendid Invention - JOHN D. HERRON of McKenzie has invented a harrow that promises to become a useful farming implement. It is so arranged that it can be adjusted to any width desired and is so adjustable that it may be fitted to any sized or shaped row…

Little Locals -
ELIAS SANDERS has returned from Amarillo, Texas.
MRS. H. C. TOWNES has been sick for several days.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. ALONZO HAWKINS, a fine boy last Sunday.

The passenger train last Tuesday morning killed a horse of W. F .BABER.

ETHRIDGE DILL moved Monday from the Forks of the Creek to the 12th district.

JAMES DOHERTY came from Decaturville last Monday to take Christmas with home folks.

MISS REBECCA MCNEILL returned from visiting relatives at Paris.

ANDERSON MERRITT living near town has a sifter that he claims has been in constant use for 44 years.

J. S. RUMMAGE, WILL JOHNSON and SAM ROBISON of Trezevant were here on business.

S. A. BLAKE moved this week to the community of Cedar Grove. He has lived near town the past year.

REV. T. W. SALT filled the pulpit at the M. E. Church last Sunday.

MR. LINK of Big Bottom bought a car load of cattle from some of our enterprising farmers.

MISS BETTIE BEADLES - 19th district & MISS MAUDE WILLIAMS of Humboldt are visiting MISS NORA WILDER here.

J. O. PUGH who lives in the 20th district started down the steps from the circuit court room last Monday and stumbled down the entire distance, receiving some bad bruises.

Marriage licenses: JOSEPH PORTER to IDA PRICE; NELSON SHEARD to LOU WILLIAMS; JAMES S TAYLER to ELIZABETH HODGE; E. L. FORD to E. L. PUGH; W. R. PREWETT to MATTIE PROTEET / POTEET

J. W. COLEMAN and family of the 19th district left for Piggott, Arkansas where Mr. Coleman has a ten months school awaiting him. Mr. Coleman is a good teacher, has an excellent wife and we hope their stay in Piggot will be both profitable and pleasant.

An entertainment was given at Mr. Townes near McKenzie Dec. 19th, in honor of WILLIE TOWNES’ 21st birthday.

Dead Letter List -- ROBERT BLACK, WILLIE BEAVESR, MRS. MOLLIE BAUCOM, M. G. BAMBRUGH, B. C. BLUEBOUGH, J. W. FRISTOE, KATE M. GEHEEF, A. N. GRAHAM, LUCY GAXON, MATTIE JOHNSON, H. E. LEWIS, ALICE MCCARTIN, HANNA MITT, T. J. L. MONTGOMERY, J. W. MCDOWELL, DOCK MOUIS MITTLE, MOORE, MAMIE PATTERSON, PETER PORTER, W. ROSSER, ROBERT ROGERS, FRANK RIEVES, J. L. SELLERS, J. S. SUGG, MEDIA SCOTT, LUNA THOMAS, JOHN WORK, T. L. YOUNGER.

For sale, one good brood mare, six years old… S. E. TUCKER at Huntingdon.

CHARLES WEATHERBY, a young man of Jackson, was killed on the I. C. road last Saturday. He was an engineer on that road.

Carroll County Democrat Huntingdon, 21 June 1895
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A serious accident occurred last Sunday afternoon in the 13th district near Clarksburg in which one child was lost and an entire family made a narrow escape of being drowned. Just after the rain, JOHN CHAMBERS and family undertook to cross Little Bacon Creek which was considerably swollen. The water floated his wagon, turning the family of father, mother, and three children, into the creek…. The cruel waves carried one child, a boy about nine years old, out of reach of his father and to a watery grave… found less than ½ mile from the accident.

A Word of Explanation - We wish to offer an apology for the appearance of the paper this week. The office is crowded with job work and type setting was not begun on the paper until Wednesday when ALEX BIVENS, one of our fastest type setters, was taken sick and has not been able to work any since, and yesterday, H. T MERRITT, our foreman, on account of illness, was not at the office. As a consequence, we failed to have the labor necessary to get up the usual matter, and it was only through the kindness of PROF. MCDOUGLE, who granted us the use of the Normalite matter, that we were able to come out on time.

The Reunion - There was a very pleasant gathering of young people at the university last Saturday night to attend the last reunion of this school year. After spending a short time in social conversation, a very interesting program was executed. A feature of special interest was the singing of MISS DELANY WHITE of Jackson, the accomplished daughter of A. C. WHITE, who is spending the summer here, which was very highly appreciated. She has a lovely voice with excellent control…