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Jim: 100 years ago, June 21, 1911 By Jim An eclectic assortment of front page items vied for the reader's attention in the Wednesday, June 21st, 1911 edition of the Adair County News: a toddler's near-fatal mishap in Glensfork; the sudden illness of a well-known young lady of near Columbia; the Burkesville editor taken to task by no less a personage than the Presiding Elder; and a young couple's trip to Gretna Green, among other things. Mr. W.E. Bradshaw, an experienced salesman, had just accepted a position with "the well known Crutcher & Starks" of Louisville and was working in the Gent's Furnishings department. "[H]e will be glad to meet his Adair County friends when they are in the city and in need of anything in the way of shirts, collars, cuffs, neckwear, etc., etc." Miss Virginia Tupman, who had been assisting Miss Maud Redding in Glasgow during the millinery season, had taken suddenly, violently ill, and the Glasgow Republican reported that she was in critical condition. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Tupman, of near Columbia, had rushed to her bedside, and the latest reports received by the News stated that she was recovering, but slowly. (A late September, 1911 edition of the News reported that she had sufficiently recovered to accept "a position as a sales lady in a large millinery store in Huntsville, Alabama." Almost exactly four years later, in August, 1915, Miss Tupman married Mr. Edwin Gadberry, in Hutchison, Kansas; the News stated she was "a young woman of excellent character." Immediately prior to her marriage, she had held a position in a millinery store in Watertown, Tenn. Mrs. Gadberry passed beyond the veil in the spring of 1957, age 73 years.) One entire column and part of another was devoted to Presiding Elder T.E. Hulse taking the editor of the Burkesville Banner to the woodshed. It seems that Rev. A.J. Goodman had been rather seriously reviled and threatened by a certain Milt Smith, of Cumberland County, demon rum being the bone of contention. Mr. Smith had obtained a licence to sell whiskey in Cumberland County, and "Some of the good citizens of the county believed that his place of business was less than two miles from a school building, and his business therefore illegal..." The circuit court had appointed two surveyors to ascertain or disprove the charge, and the Rev. Mr. Goodman was one of the two men selected for the job. Ye olde Banner editor had strongly sided with Mr. Smith but had then refused to publish Eld. Hulse's rejoinder. Wrote Eld. Hulse in a stinging rebuke, "Bro. Goodman was exactly in his place both as a citizen and a minister, and had far better right there than the rabble who were encouraging Mr. Smith in his vulgar and profane abuse." A short article under a semi-sensational headline detailed how the thirteen month old son of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wilkinson of Glensfork "came very near to ending his life by hanging." The wee fellow had reached up a grabbed a knob of a dresser drawer, but then lost his footing and his sleeve caught on the knob, "resulting in his collar being drawn up and choking him. A little sister discovered him and gave the alarm. When mother reached him he had turned black in the face and was almost dead. Dr. William Blair was called, and stated that the child was rescued just in time, that it could not have lived another minute in its perilous situation..." (The little boy was Herbert, the Wilkerson's second child. His sister Ina D., then almost exactly three years old, raised the alarm.) Meanwhile, back in the outskirts of Columbia, Mr. Sam Conover had hosted a social gathering on Thursday evening, June 15th. Among those in attendance were Mr. Norman Morrison and his sweetie, young Miss Mattie Willis, the not-quite 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Willis, of Columbia. When the party broke up around midnight, the young couple broke for Tennessee. The article, headlined "Left for Gretna Green," stated that "They reached their destination some time during the day Friday and were doubtless married immediately." (Marriage records indicate the matrimonially-minded twosome became as one on June 16th in Clay County, Tennessee. The ceremony most likely occurred in Celina, a distance of some 50 miles from Columbia by current roadways. The June 23rd, 1920 News noted that "Mr. and Mrs. Norman Morrison celebrated the 9th anniversary of their marriage last Wednesday evening [June 16th]. A delightful supper was spread and a number of special friends invited." Mrs. Morrison passed in early 1960, five months before their 49th wedding anniversary. Gretna Green, Scotland, near the border of Scotland and England, long held fame as a place of "runaway marriages." Couples could wed much younger in Scotland than in England, and parental consent wasn't required. The March 5, 1905 edition of the News had quipped, "Tennessee -- the land in which lovers are united regardless of age.") Up on the Arbor Vitae hill, improvements were forthcoming. Prof. Paul D. Neilson of the Lindsey-Wilson Training School and former Lt. Gov. (and staunch Methodist) J.R. Hindman had recently attended the Board of Education meeting of the Louisville Conference. Upon their return to Columbia, those worthy gentlemen announced that "an appropriation was made for a concrete walk from the entrance to the Lindsey-Wilson campus to the building, and from the girls' dormitory to the boys' halls." The work was expected to be completed by the time school opened in early September. And finally........ the Adair County Medical Society was to meet in Columbia on July 14th. Among the presenters and their topics -- questions for the ages, it seems -- were these: "What can we do to check the social evil?" -- Dr. R.H. Perryman, Purdy."Should we require the same moral standard of men as women?" -- Dr. G.T. Simpson, Breeding. "Is the Vital Statistics law a good one?" -- Dr. W.R. Grissom, Columbia. (The Kentucky vital statistics law, requiring that all births and deaths be recorded on standardized forms and reported to the state, had gone into effect on January 1, 1911.) "How long should we wait for our patients to pay their bills?" -- E.T. Sallee, Garlin. Compiled by Jim This story was posted on 2011-06-19 07:55:16
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