.__________________________________________________________ THE COURIER-CHRONICLE VOLUME XXII No.13. HUMBOLDT,TENNESSEE FRIDAY 26th MARCH,1920. .__________________________________________________________. ---TRAGIC DEATH OF L.W.HASTE---At Troy,Ala.,on last Thursday night,L.W.HASTE,traveling salesman of Nashville,was foully murdered.The car was stuck up in the road about dark and the salesman was compelled to spend the night at a near by farm house.The farmer,who it turned out was a moonshiner and desperate character,mistook Mr.HASTE for a revenue man and struck him with a hammer while he was sleeping,afterward shooting him through the side of the head with a derringer pistol twice. ---THE REMAINS---of Mr.L.W.CHASE,whose death occurred last week at Troy.Ala.,were brought here to this city Monday over the M.and O. road and taken to the home of Dr.R.O.WILLIAMS.After services,interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery.He is survived by his wife,formerly Miss Elizabeth HILL; daughter,Elizabeth; brother, Dr.D.M.HASTE,of Memphis; sisters, Mrs.J.W.MEEK, Mrs.J.L.CAIL, Mrs.C.P.PYPASS,all of Trenton; Mrs.Maude WILLIAMS and Mrs.C.A.DOUGLAS,both of this city. ---LIVE NOTES OF NEWS FROM FRUITLAND---Mrs.W.T.SCRUGGS was called Tuesday to the bedside of her daughter,Miss Florence HUNT,who is ill at Eaton. ---CROCKETT COUNTY NEWS FROM ALAMO---Real Estate Transfer--J.H. PERMENTER and wife to J.W.EVANS; 90 acres in 6th District;$325. BORN to Mr.& Mrs.Roger JERMAN on Monday,the 22nd,a fine girl. Mrs.Lena Mai WATSON,of Memphis,attended the funeral of her uncle,Mr.Ed ROE, Monday. Grandma STRAUCHN,whose serious illness has been recorded from week to week,quietly,peacefully--like a babe going to sleep on its mother’s breast--breathed her last,in the home of her daughter,Mrs.J.P.NEAL,last Wednesday night,surrounded by her children and relatives.Services at the home was followed by burial in Alamo Cemetery. The community is sorrowing over the death of Mr.Ed ROE,which sad event occurred at his home in north Alamo,after two weeks suffering with flu and bronchitis.He leaves a sorrowing wife; two children; a mother and many relatives and friends to mourn him.Mr.ROE’s grave makes the 8th new grave since January 1st,when Mrs.SKELTON was buried. Bro.U.S.McCASLIN was called back from Obion Thursday to preach the funeral of T.N. LOWERY of District #7,whose serious illness of pneumonia was mentioned in last week’s issue. ---WEEK’S DOINGS OF MEDINA PEOPLE---The marriage of Miss Minnie HAWKES of this city to Mr.Clyde SIMPSON,of St.Charles,Mo. on Wednesday evening at Jackson. The funeral service of Ewell EVANS was conducted Tuesday at Hopewell.He was a son of Mr.& Mrs.J.EVANS,living near Medina,and was in his 16th year.He was a victim of influenzia,after which pneumonia developed. -----------------------end of 26th March 1920 issue.----------------------.