Volume 30, Number 8 • February 28, 1940

 

Celina Grammar School graduation to be held Friday

Graduating exercises for Celina Grammar School will be conducted Friday night, March 7, at the High School auditorium. Tony Maxey will address the class.

 

Those graduating are: John Thomas Barlow, Lee Billingsley, Herman Reed Butler, Carmon Bowe, Hugh Blaine Clark, Bill Stone Denton, Billy Hamilton, Bobby Hunter, David Masters, Bayless Napier, Jr., Kelly Overstreet, J.C. Scott, Robert Teeples, Walter Sidwell Teeples, Paul White, Katherine Arms, Agnes Goolsby, Evelyn Reed, Faye Deane Masters, Louise Stone, Olyne Waddell, Katherine Waddell, Dora Willette Westmoreland, Robert Overstreet, and Edna Wilburn.

 

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Faced with one of the lightest dockets in several years, the February term of Clay County Criminal Court, opened Monday morning with Judge O.K. Holliday of Cookeville presiding.

 

The felony docket, released by W.F. Waddle, clerk, listed only three cases and is the lightest in years.

 

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The Willow Grove boys won the Eighteenth District Basketball tournament, held at Gainesboro last Friday and Saturday.

 

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E.J. Keen of Westmoreland, who has been taking flying instructions at Glasgow, Ky., landed his plane here in the old Fair Grounds last Friday. He exhibited great skill in handling of the plane. After landing here, he arrived at Napier’s Cafe for lunch, then took off in the direction of Kentucky.

 

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Elder D.H. Knight, 83, died at his home in the White Oak Community of Macon County, Tennessee on February 15, after an illness of several weeks. Burial was in the Driver Cemetery near the Knight home, following funeral services conducted by Elder T.H. Kennedy.

 

Elder Knight had been a minister for more than fifty years.

 

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Jack Dale, Jr. is home from a Nashville hospital where he underwent an operation for appendicitis last week.

 

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Alva Fiske of Washington, D.C. spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. W.D. Fiske and family.

 

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Maxey’s Baby Chicks $6.50 per 100

 

All Breeds

 

Delivered each Tuesday and Friday

 

Leave your orders at J.P. Dale Feed and Grocery Store.