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Paragraphs   Personal   Pertinent         --------   Miss Sallie Smith is visiting relatives in Kansas City, Mo.   Miss Imogene Gaines spend yesterday in Hopkinsville.   Misses Mary and Sara Payne have returned from Pembroke.   Miss Edith Grady is spending the week with relatives at  Guthrie.   Miss Harvie Banks has return -ed from an extended visit to  Nashville.   Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bellamy visited relatives at Newstead Sunday.   Mrs. R. F. Bass and son are visiting their old home at Kirk- mansville.   Miss Ruth Grady returned from Hopkinsville Thursday accom- panied by Miss Lois Buck.   Miss Olivia Gower has returned from Hopkinsville accompained by Miss Elizabeth Daniel.   Miss Eloise Hamill, of Guthrie, visited Misses Virginia and Bessie Ware this week.   Miss Isabelle Hogan visited the camp meeting and Elkton rela- timves this week.   Mrs. Nellie Evans and daugh- ter, Miss Robb, spent the week with relatives at Guthrie.   Miss Bess Lawler, of Florence, Ala., spent the past week with Mrs. C. E. Carmack.   Capt. N. B. Riley, of Allens- bille, spent Saturday with his son, Dr. E. T. Riley.   Miss Margaret Jackson of Guthrie, is visiting the family of C. H. Graves.   Master James Horde, Jr., of Clarksville is visinting his grand- mother, Mrs. Bennett.   Mrs. Bernice Page and daugh- ter, Miss Helen, are visiting in Springfield, Tenn.   Mrs. W. H. Miller and Chil- dren of Louisville, are guest of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Dickinson.   Mr. Sam Mimms will leave Mondy for Dallas, Texas, where  he has accepted a position on the police force of that city.   Misses Sadie, Gladys, Lucile Garth, Imogene Gaines and Mr.  A. N. Moore attended the camp meeting Tuesday.   Telegraph Operator W. P. Winstead visited relatives at Clay, Ky., and during this ab- sence R. W. Darke of Adams,  Tenn., filled his place.   Misses Mary Dickinson and Lucy Burnett Wilson have re- turned from an extended visit to relatives and friends in Chat- tanooga, Tenn.   Misses Louise Wood, Lucy Fair- ley and Kathleen Thompson who attended the mid-summer Nor- mal University, at Bowling Green, have returned home. ___________________ Killed By Lightning George B. Wilds, between 35 and 40 years of age, a prominent farmer, was instantly killed by lightning shortly afternoon Tues- day.  Mr. Wilds was a brother- in-law of R. E. Meriwether, and it was upon the farm of the latter's mother that the fatal ac- cident occurred.  The farm is situated just within the edge of Todd county, in the neighborhood of Mt. Zion church. ----------------------------

A Splendid Wheat Yield   Planter Geo. Mimms raised on his farm a few miles from town this year 700 bushels of wheat on 35 acres, an average of 20 bushels to the acre. This was on the field in front of the residence and a find (sic) yield for this season. --------------------------------- Mill Improvements   Messrs. Chesnut & Orr are having some neat improvements made at the Trenton City Mills. Among them a 20 x 64 cooperage building wherein they manufac- ture their own barrels. There are other improvements about the mill representing consideralbe putlay. The mill boys are clever and enterprising. -----------------------------  A 20 Bushel Average   Planter J. P. Russell threshed off his farm on the Clarksville pike near town 1800 bushels from 90 acres, an average of 20 bushels per acre. This wheat also weighed up from 58 to 60 pounds. This for the season is a splendid yield. -------------- Champion Tomato Raiser   Those who are fortunate enough to be his nearby neigh- bors say that Prof. J. W. Taylor is the champion early tomato grower and they have been the recipients of his courtesies. Prof. Taylor secured an early plant variety from Tennessee and he has had the vegetable early and in abundance. ----------------------- Champion Fisherman   Capt. W. M. Hirshfeld, of this city is entitled to the homor of champion hot weather fisherman. Thursday morning Mr. Hirshfeld went out to Plant C. B. Crutchfield's pond and came back with  a bucket well filled with nice trout. ________________________

Transcibed by Karen Combs  © 2001.
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