Volume 29, Number 26 • June 28, 1939

Standing Stone State Park has an historical background

Standing Stone State Park and Forest, which has been developed into one of the state’s most ideal vacation spots, has an historical background peopled with red warriors and hunters who roamed the Cumberland Plateau long before Columbus discovered America.

The name “Standing Stone” was taken from the fact that Indians placed large standing stones thirty miles apart, in an east and west line from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi River as a boundary line, provided by a treaty, to mark the hunting grounds between five Southern tribes and the nations to the north.

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Turner Netherton, funeral director of Moss, has purchased the Clayton Upton property in south Celina and will soon erect a building where he will keep a full line of burial supplies.

Mr. Netherton has been in the undertaker’s work for a number of years and will be equipped to serve the public at any time.

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Detailed plans for the annual Celina Fair to be held here August 2-5 are very near completion, according to a statement made by W.H. Mayfield, Secretary.

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Bill Marcom, 13, who died in the hospital in Livingston last Friday night of injuries received while riding a mule last Tuesday, was buried at Fellowship Sunday afternoon after funeral services at the church there.

The youth was hurt near his home at Willow Grove, 12 miles east of here.

The boy is survived by his mother, Mrs. B.C. Marcom; three sisters, Mrs. Mark Nevins, and Misses Jean and Robbie Marcom; four brothers, Thomas, J.B., Robert and Jack Marcom, all of Willow Grove.

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The new store building being erected in South Celina for Brack Willis, is to be ready for occupation by the end of the week. The store is being built by M.F. Gaw.

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E.L. Monroe, rural mail carrier, is on the job again after a brief illness.

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W.L. Brown is building a new service station on the former site of the telephone office.

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Katherine and Helen Waddell are visiting at Castallian Springs this week.

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P.J. Anderson, attorney of Gainesboro, is attending court here this week.