Copied from the History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County, by Eddie Mikell, all rights reserved. Now available on CD and hard copy. E-mail mikell@virginia.edu for purchasing information. You can also bid for this cd on e-bay! May 29, 1890 The Board of Supervisors meet next week. Mrs. D. M Lee has been quite ill for several days. Hon. T. L. Mendenhal, of Westville, is in attendence upon Chancery Court. Dr. J. A. Rowan, of Silver Creek, was a welcome visitor to our town yesterday. Mr. J. H. Arrington, of Hooker, was in town last Monday and gave us a pleasant call. mrs. C. R. Dale has been quite ill this week, but we are glad to learn she is now improving. Mr. W. W. Williams, of Silver Creek, was in town last Tuesday and gave us a pleasant call. Col. Isaac Newton, of Mt. Carmel, was in attendence upon Chancery Court. We are indebted to him for several pleasant calls. Messrs. G. W. Garrett and Smith Maxwell are now in Jackson building a flat boat for the purpose of bringing the iron bridge material down the river to this point. The crop prospects are pretty good, as far as we can learn, and if we are not visited with rain for a week or two now, the chances are favorable for an abundant harvest, though corn is a little backward in growth. Mr. Dunkin Weathersby, or Bournham,m was in town last Saturday, and contributed to our exchequer. The firt in three months, brother. Thanks. Mr. Haley, the general manager of the Champion Pleting Machine Co., of Paris, Tenn, left last Thrusday for Alabama, after selling the right of this State to Messrs., C. E. Watts, M. A. Griffith, H. T. Griffith, B. S. Waller, Thos Braddy, T. C. Maxwell and Will C. Cannon of this county. LAWRENCE COUNTY DIRECTORY Archy Fairly, Representative D. M. Lee, Sheriff Will C. Cannon, Circuit and Chancery Clerk A. Sharp, Treasurer A. J. Armstrong, Assessor B. D. Bishop, County Superintendent Public Education Beat 1 - Z. P. Jones, Supervisor H. A. Sessions Justive of the Peace J. D. Carlisle, Constable Beat 2 C. H. Moore, Supervisor Jas F. Newsom, C. O. Nelson, Justices of Peace Beat 3 F. F. Roberts, Supervisor Jno H. Carlile, J. W. Willoughby, Justices of Peace I. M. C. Smith, Deputy Sheriff, acint Constable. Beat 4 T. H. Brinson, Supervisor H. Slater, I. N. Bass, Justices of Peace G. B. Ates, Constable Beat 5 A. W. Stringer, Supervisor J. M. Polk, Isaiah Tolar, Justices of Peace J. R. Parkman, Deputy Sheriff, acting Constable