Born, to the wife of Herschel Janes on the 14th of April, twin girls.

Miss Bessie Epperson is now a clerk in Melvin Petty's store at Picnic.

J. Owen White, the census enumerator in the Harmony precinct, was here last Friday.

Last Wednesday night someone enter the smoke house of Mose Wooten and helped themselves to two fine hams. [The piece goes on to state that the intrepid Mr. Wooten "struck a trail at his gate which he followed and finally located the parties" somewhere beyond Sparksville. He then notified the law, and the perpetrators of the Great Ham Heist were duly escorted to the Graybar Hotel in Columbia.]

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Absher #1

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Mr. W.H. Cave and daughters, Arva and Cleo, left Monday for Franklin, Ind., where they will make their future home.

The river overflowed the low bottoms of this place and damaged some corn.

Several rafts of logs from Neatsville went down with the tide last week.

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Absher #2

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Dr. Z.T. Gabbert and his daughter, Miss Grace, of Roley, were in Columbia Monday and Tuesday.

Judge Moss was out to receive the bridge last Saturday morning which Mr. W.H. Cave had just finished.

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Cray Craft

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The rainy weather has dishearted the farmers and their occupation is setting by the fire smoking their pipe of clay.

Mr. Otha Bryant is very low with rheumatism at present.

On Saturday the 23rd, of April, the Roy base ball team crossed bats with the Lindsey-Wilson ball team on the L.W.T.S. campus, the results was 12 to 10 in favor of the latter.

Rev. J.H. Hood preached a very interesting sermon at Clear Spring last Sunday.

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Gadberry

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John Lowe, of Columbia, the shoe drummer, was at this place last Saturday.

Misses Dora and Mary Young, of Joppa, were at this place shopping last Thursday.

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Basil

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A telephone line will run from Mr. Lis Coomer's to Sparksville. There are 20 boxes from Mr. Coomer's to Sparksville.

Bro. Stayton preached the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Payne's little boy, Ernest Lee, last Sunday.

Mr. Wolford Page of Sparksville and Mrs. Dee Compton of Basil, were married the 14th, of August.

The writer is invited to a log rolling and quilting tomorrow at Mr. C. Moss'es.

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Pyrus

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Mrs. Ellis Coffey is on the sick list at this writing.

We had a very good game of base ball at School Spring last Saturday afternoon.

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Breeding

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Richard Dillon of L.W.T.S. was at home last week to visit his parents and attend the meeting at this place.

The greatest revival this community has ever had closed last Saturday with 30 conversions and 21 additions to the M.E. church. It was conducted by Revs. Tally, Tarter and Pace.

Our little town is simply coming to the front and is becoming a trade center. Two stores, a blacksmith shop, a fine dwelling and grist mill, have been completed since last Christmas.

Robert Janes, little son of J.H. Janes, and Claude England, having heard of the Wild West, decided to cast their lot there, and last Sunday without asking counsel of any one started, but were overtaken at Campbellsville by relatives, and the "prodigals" were forced to give up their wild fancy notions and return to the "dark and bloody ground" until a more mature age.

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Holmes

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We are having a few winter days in April after such a beautiful March.

Three children of Tom Hardwick's, near this place, have measles.

Miss Mary Jane Jones, a daughter of J.T. Jones, near Plum Point, was married on the 5th inst. [April 5th], to Mr. Franklin Weathington, of Clementsville.

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Gradyville

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J.A. Diddle was in Columbia last week.

Rev. J.W Sexton, who has been confined to his room for several weeks with a complication of diseases, is improving at this time.

We hear a great deal of complaint about the scarcity of tobacco plants in this community.

The citizens along the line from Sparksville to Basil have the spirit of improvement and are now running a telephone line. We understand that the line will be something like ten miles long and we will have twenty phones at reach.

Strong Hill would like awfully well to know who burnt the canvas off his tobacco bed.

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Milltown

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The lumber for flooring the bridge across Russell creek at this place is coming in rapidly and Mr. Tine [Valentine] Leftwich, the contractor, will floor it at once.

Mr. J.C. Townsend had very fine luck fishing last week. He reports that he caught one cat fish weighing 38 pounds, near the slick rock ford on Russell creek.

Mr. Biggs reports he is about through taking the census in this precinct.

Wheat is looking fine in this section.

Messrs. Albert Mercer, Cager Rodgers, Jim Tutt, Booker Leftwich and Cassius Cheatham, all of this place, attended the entertainment at the L.W.T.S. last Friday night. [The entertainment mentioned was "Maids, Manners, and Modes," a play presented at the Lindsey Wilson Training School on Friday, April 22nd. The April 27th News noted that "All who saw it say that it was a very clever and pleasing entertainment."]

Note to author: Thanks for the news of the Old Leftwiches. I was looking for items on the Turners, but this is just as good. Mom was really pleased, too.- Linda Waggener.

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