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Frank Thomas, 77, voting dug 8,000 graves in more than 30 counties over a begins 52-year career. He dug the majority NASHVILLE - Early vot- of them by himself ing for the Nov. 8 general using a shovel and election is now underway. a pick. The 7-foot- Secretary of State Tre Har- tall, retired grave- gett and Coordinator of digger stands in Elections Mark Goins are Salem Cemetery in encouraging Tennesseans Liberty, Tennessee. to take advantage of this “For about 30 years, opportunity to avoid lines I buried almost ev- on Election Day. erybody here,” said Voting will continue Thomas, who plans Mondays through Satur- to be laid to rest in days and end Thursday, this graveyard. Nov. 3. This comes after a very successful National Voter Photos by Registration Month where more than 7,000 students Ken Beck from 47 colleges and uni- versities registered as a part of the “I’m registered. Are you?” campaign in September. This is an increase of over 3,000 forms from 2015. “Tennesseans have broken records this election cycle and Nov. 8 will be an The Gravedigger’s Tales incredibly busy day across this state and nation,” said Frank Thomas dug 8,000 graves but never buried a soul Secretary of State Tre Har- gett . “Early voting off ers KEN BECK voters a convenient oppor- The Cannon Courier tunity to cast their ballots instead of waiting until LIBERTY, TENN. — Few peo- Election Day.” ple have lowered more dead bod- The easiest way for vot- ies down into the good Tennes- ers to fi nd their early vot- see earth than gentle giant Frank ing and Election Day poll- Thomas. ing locations, view and Throughout his 45-year career, mark sample ballots, see this 7-foot-tall Liberty native paid their elected offi cials, dis- passionate att ention to the details tricts and county election of carving out a perfect rectangle commission information as in the ground, a hole that would well as access online state be the fi nal resting place for a and federal election results loved one. is through the GoVoteTN “Anybody can dig a hole in the app. Voters can download ground, but not anybody can dig a the free app in the App grave. It’s a sacred place. I would Store or Google Play to say I’ve dug 8,000 graves. The fi rst view voter specifi c infor- 35 years all by hand, most of the mation time me only,” said Thomas, 77, Tennesseans voting early who hung up his pick and shovel or on Election Day should 12 years ago. remember to bring valid “I dug graves for all the funer- photo identifi cation. Photo al homes in DeKalb and Wilson IDs issued by Tennessee County over the years. Sometimes Proud of his long career as a professional gravedigger, Frank Thomas, who retired on his 65th birthday in state government, includ- I dug four a day, and they never 2004, had these words emblazoned on his truck’s back window: Retired Gravedigger. I Dug Graves For 45 ing driver’s licenses, or the did have to wait on me, but it was Years, But Never Did I Bury One Soul. Below, Thomas dug and then fi lled thousands of graves during his federal government are hard. I’ve dug a many a grave lengthy career. He said, “You might think these fellows done this every day, your heart would harden, but acceptable even if they are with a pick and shovel and didn’t my heart never hardened. I’ve cried at many a funeral and didn’t even know the people.” See EARLY, Page 9 ever stop to get a drink of water, had my back bent until I fi nished, a low-class clown or trash, as if I and then I’d go dig another.” couldn’t fi nd a living. But I saw The gravedigger labored in Early voting I could make a good living at it. hundreds of cemeteries across 37 Now I know undertakers that has procedures Middle Tennessee counties. quit being undertakers to start Fired up about the “Cannon, Smith, Rutherford, digging graves.” presidential elec- Davidson, Williamson, White, The gravedigger can spin tales tion? Here’s your Putnam, Bedford. I could just of his calling for hours on end. He chance to vote early keep on naming them,” he said, possesses a phenomenal memory, before election day ticking off a partial list. and if you gave him the name of on November 8. Among a handful of the busi- one of the departed he laid to rest, The Cannon Co. nesses that requested his talents he likely could tell you the cem- Election Commis- were Partlow, Ligon & Bobo and etery where he or she reposes in sion will conduct Nave funeral homes in Wilson the sleep of the ages. early voting for any County, Bass and Sanderson in Thomas has a few mementoes. eligible voter to cast Smith County, and Woodbury “I’ve got dirt out of the fi rst grave a ballot by personal and Smith in Cannon County. appearance at the I ever dug in one bott le, and in another bott le is the dirt from the last Election Offi ce at 301 He wept over graves grave. The fi rst one was in Liber- West Main St. Thomas tells on himself, saying, ty and the last at Shop Springs in Early voting, “You might think these fellows regardless of who they was, how get nobody to dig graves. Nobody Bryan Cemetery,” he recollected. which began Oc- done this every day, your heart poor they was, as nice and kind wanted to. They begged people Thomas’s fi nal job was on Oct. tober 19, continues would harden, but my heart nev- as I could be and showed ’em the to do it. When I began I didn’t 11, 2004, his 65th birthday. through November er hardened. I’ve cried at many a respect they deserved. know nobody who dug graves “I sat there after everybody left 3. Hours are: funeral and didn’t even know the “I been quit 12 years. When I as a profession. People looked See VOTING, Page 9 people. I always treated people, fi rst started, undertakers couldn’t down on me and acted like I was See GRAVEDIGGER, Page 9

See Cannon Blast on Page 7 PAGE 2 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25 2016 CANNON COURIER OBITUARIES

Rachel B Kirby Alice Juanita Burnett Sue Barrett Hollandsworth

Rachel B. Kirby, 87, died Oct. 13, 2016 in Bangor. She was McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Sue Barrett Hollandsworth, age 63 of Murfreesboro, born Apr. 30, 1929 in Franklin, the daughter of Frank and Alice Juanita Burnett , age 70, was born October 18, 1945 passed away Monday, October 17, 2016 at Alive Hospice Ruby (Jordan) Bragdon. and died October 13, 2016 at St. Thomas River Park of Nashville. She was a native of Cannon County. Hospital following a sudden illness. Rachel graduated from Portland High School in 1948. Survivors include her husband of 38 years, Danny She was a longtime resident of Brewer and worked for Retired and a member of Clark’s Chapel Baptist Church, Hollandsworth of Murfreesboro; Sons, Derrick several years at the Air Guard Base Exchange, Bangor she was the daughter of the late Herbert Basham, Sr. and Hollandsworth & John Hollandsworth of Murfreesboro; as a sales associate. She enjoyed time spent with her Beatrice Basham Christian. She was married to Flable Mother, Ruby Smith Barrett of Readyville; Brother, family especially following her grandson’s schooling and Burnett who preceded her in death in 1986. In addition to Dewey Barrett of Woodbury; Sister, Joyce Barrett Tilford sporting events. her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by an of Murfreesboro. Also surviving are several nieces and infant daughter, Melissa Gail Burnett . nephews. Surviving are three children, Joe Francis and his wife, Joann of Woodbury, Tennessee, Jeff rey Francis of Brewer She is survived by three children and spouses, Randy She was preceded in death by her father, Pearson Barrett ; and Greg Kirby and his wife, Amanda of Readfi eld; and Tammy Burnett of Woodbury, TN, Tony and Melissa and Brothers, Jack Barrett & Ronnie “Goose” Barrett . three grandchildren, Misty Powell and her husband, Burnett of Woodbury, TN, and Priscilla and Amanda Johnny and Stacie Bryson and her husbnad, Michael Burnett of Bradyville, TN; four grandchildren and Ms. Hollandsworth was a member of the church of Christ all of Woodbury, TN and Miles Kirby of Readfi eld; fi ve spouses, Brandy and Derrick Mullins of Woodbury, TN, and was a Bookkeeper in the Finance Department at great grandchildren, Lane, Cullen, Jonathan, Charles and Thomas and Amber Burnett of Murfreesboro, TN, Amber Rutherford County Court House. She graduated from Carson. She was predeceased by six brothers and sisters. and Anthony Williams of Woodbury, TN, and Brandon Woodbury Central High School Class of 1971. Burnett of Bradyville, TN; two great-grandchildren, Family and friends may visit 5 – 7 PM Tuesday, Oct. 18, Bradyn Mullins and Raylynn Mullins, and expecting Funeral services will be 1 PM Friday, October 21, 2016 in 2016 at Kiley & Foley Funeral Service, 69 State St., Brewer. Kimber Williams; very special friend, Donnie Hill; and the Chapel of Woodbury Funeral Home with Bro. Charlie Private burial will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, Brewer. six siblings and spouses, Herbert and Dean Basham, Jr., Gunter offi ciating. Interment will follow at Coleman Messages and memories may be shared with her family John and Paulett e Basham, Margie and John King, Linda Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 4 to 8 at kileyandfoley.com This obituary is submitt ed by Smith Cripps, Carolyn Blish, and Freddy and Pam Basham all of PM Thursday, October 20, 2016 at the funeral home. Funeral Home for local interest, 615-563-5337 McMinnville. Woodbury Funeral Home, www.woodburyfuneralhome. Cannon Courier, October 25 2016 Funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, October net, 615-563-2311. Woodbury, Tennesee 17, 2016 in High’s Chapel with Tony Burnett offi ciating. Burial will follow in Bethany Cemetery, Warren County, Cannon Courier, October 25 2016 TN. Visitation will be Sunday from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 Woodbury, Tennesee p.m. and from 10:00 a.m. until time of service Monday at Invest in your family’s future High’s. GIRL SCOUTS CELEBRATES Arrangements by HIGH FUNERAL HOME, McMinnville, 100 YEARS OF THE GIRL SCOUT COOKIE TN (931)473-2137. PROGRAM VOTE & ELECT Cannon Courier, October 25 2016 Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee (GSMIDTN) celebrates Woodbury, Tennesee the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scout Cookie Program Andy Duggin with this year’s cookie season, beginning Dec. 26. as the next In recognition of the centennial, this year’s Gospel Singing cookie sale will feature the MAYOR OF WOODBURY inclusion of a new cookie – the Girl Scout S’mores cookie. The commemorative treat Sanders Fork Baptist Church as well as the traditional favorites will be available October 30, 2016 through pre-order taking starting Dec. 26 and will beginning at 1:30 pm be purchasable from booth featured singers sales beginning Feb. 5. For more information on how you can be involved in Girl By Faith Scouts www.gsmidtn.org. of Manchester Bro. Dennis Ham, Pastor

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It’s been 15 years since my so called friends left me to be alone, in the dark, cold, hard ground. Five years ago I asked you, do you remember me? Now I ask you, how many times you heard the thunder roll and saw the lighten- ing fl ash? Rain drops splashing on your cheek or snowfl akes melting on your tongue? Heard the sound of the rain on a tin roof? Enjoyed the laughter of family and friends; hugged and told them I Love You? Stared in awe at the star fi lled sky? Patrick John McKean 1/26/69 - 10/25/2001 Many times you thanked the God above for these gifts that were stolen from me. Saluting our Veterans .... Past and Present EXAMPLE On November 11, 2016 our nation will once again honor the brave men and Photo and women who have sacrifi ced so much 50 words to protect and serve this wonderful country we live in, and have given so $20 freely to defend the freedoms we hold so dear. Deadline to be included Tuesday On November 8 the Cannon Courier Lt. David Ronald will have a special page designated Jones November 1st for you to honor special family mem- WWII Veteran 1940-1944 bers and friends for their military ser- CANNON COURIER vice. Thank you PaPa for 113 West Main St fi ghting to keep Woodbury TN 37190 Come by our offi ce with your pho- us free. 615-563-2512 We love you so much! to and information and include your Kathy, Lisa, Matt special salute. and all the family. OCTOBER 25, 2016 CANNON COURIER PAGE 3

6th Annual Pet Halloween Costume Contest Saturday October 29th Located at Cannon County Animal Clinic 124 Masey Drive in Woodbury 615-563-4022 Registration @ Noon Judging @ 12:30 pm All dogs are required to be on leashes and current on rabies vaccinations Prizes will be awarded. FREE HALLOWEEN CANDY..... BUT NO DENTAL PLAN !!

the ghoulies, ghosts or monsters I fear...It’s the 10 pounds of candy that will go to my rear !

Ever notice that the Dentist oﬃ ce posts a sign over his Halloween candy each year that reads: Take ALL the candy you want !! Speaking of signs: what about the latest thing... where kids post signs on their costumes such as: I ONLY ACCEPT gluten free, non GMO, locally sourced candy ! Then, the kid with the baseball bat: Put THE CANDY in THE BAG! Then: NO FUN SIZE candy bars.... they are smaller than my vitamins I take every morning !

If a Teenager is at your door WEARING A COSTUME please give them candy. They are still in the spirit and excited about Halloween. Don’t tell them they are too old to trick or treat. They are HALLOWEEN is right around the corner not taking advantage just joining in the fun now. WE have talked about GHOSTS, !! Football players always like the Butt er SPIRITS, WITCHES, TRICK OR TREAT Fingers !! EXPERIENCES....so what’s on the menu for this week’s CHAT? COSTUMES and The latest proﬁ t making scam is people HALLOWEEN CANDY !! placing gumball or vending machines on their porch with a sign: I have BILLS to Actually, Halloween is the best time to pay!! That’s as bad as folks who post a try a new hair color .... so if you look sign: come back tomorrow night....’cause like a pumpkin with ORANGE hair it is Halloween candy goes on half price sale... acceptable at this time !! and I will give you some then...!

Believe it or not....some people resemble a The newest candy recipe that Aunt Patsy Halloween costume all year long: Like the uses for treats is: Boil up loads of brussel BOOGIE MAN who passes his time at a sprouts and cover with chocolate. Wrap stoplight picking his nose. in gold foil and hand out. (Wonder how many kids will return next year ?) Also, a While the FULL MOON costume is what good place to hide your candy from your your plumber reveals when he bends over family is to put it under some apples in to ﬁ x your sinks. I’m sure there are plenty the counter fruit bowl, Not so many prefer more we can think of..but for now let’s apples over candy....a safe place for awhile move on. anyway !!

This year some of the New costumes are: My dog, Max likes the full moon on Whoopie Cushion, A Cheeto, Slice of Pizza, Halloween...it’s the only night of the year Fire Hydrant with stuﬀ ed dog att ached, that HIS HOWLING is accepted by the Junk Mail, A Skeen of Yarn, Bucket of neighbors. KFC , Trash Can, Tube of Toothpaste and holding one’s baby dressed as Dental Floss, One more caution note is : DON’T Singing Billy Bass Wall Plaque, A Poached go dressed as a CAT in a yard full of Egg, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and rott weillers !! the Most Recent: Kenneth Bone in his Red Sweater. Well, I want ALL of you...young to old.... to have a fantastic and fun Halloween. This year Uncle Festus is going as the Grim Just be careful of traﬃ c and please check Reaper at the local Nursing Home and then candy before eating. Pack an extra pair of goes home and as usual pretends to be the underwear if you are going to a Haunted same thing: Not At Home. He’s always House. Don’t forget the map when going been the black SHEET of the family !! through a corn maze or at least take several friends with you, so they can get lost too. There is the elderly couple where She Beware of pumpkin chucking...stand at the is dressed as a Playboy bunny and he is chucking line not in front of it ! And, Don’t Superman !! (Wishful thinking Mister !!). take your mother’s LAST roll of toilet The group of college boys that were the paper to t.p. your neighbor’s tree. Baywatch Girls and the Cereal Killer with Cheerios boxes stapled all over him. Otherwise....we shall chat next week... Have a Booootiful trick or treat !! Uncle Pete is going to his Halloween party dressed up as the neighborhood drunk. Forget the candy...just give him a beer !! HUGS ,

My 90-year-old aunt is going as a Hooters SAVANNAH waitress. The costume was comprised of fake boobs, cut oﬀ shorts (shrunk 3 times) and no brains. Bett er than her Poached Egg costume last year ! My nephew went as a Monkey wearing an Obama t-shirt.

Hey, what about the Pet Costumes !! There’s a Yoda Pug, a Mexican dancer with sombrero Chiquiqua, a Ballerina Boxer, a Zebra collie, a pit bull covered in yarn spaghett i with meat balls tacked onto his shirt, a spider cocker spaniel, a frog or chicken CAT, a pumpkin hampster, a bird in a clown outﬁ t, a black pony with a white skeleton painted on it, a Fairy or a Muppet rabbit and those chickens dressed as raccoons still trying to successfully cross the road !

Clarence conﬁ scates all the Halloween candy and won’t part from a bit of it. I mean, even if Big Foot came to the door he might just give him one piece. That way he could get a for sure shot of THE Big Foot that so far no one has ever seen one so close!! Great shot for his pizza parlor !

Aunt Martha is just curious if someone could recommend a WINE that goes well while eating her grandkid’s Halloween candy. She made up a clever ditt y: Hip Hip Hooray...Halloween is near...It’s not PAGE 4 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25, 2016 Courier columnist Do ‘blue words’ qualify William R. Fryar, Publisher Mike West, Editor one for the Presidency? Cindy Haley, Production Sharon Patrick, Advertising As a second grader at my rural off Earl school, I beat out an older “town “Eagle- boy” in a “cussin’ contest.” eye” Published each Tuesday at 113 West Main St., Woodbury, TN 37190 Does that qualify me to run for Jones’ big Phone: (615) 563-2512 Fax: (615) 563-2519 U.S. President? yellow [email protected] [email protected] That’s my grown-up question school OFFICE HOURS: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays as the strange 2016 political bus. campaign got down in the gutt er Since U.S.P.S. No. 088-480 early and has stayed there on tele- Periodical Postage Paid at Woodbury, TN up near the Nov. 8 voting day. phones The latest presidential debate were yet Subscription Rates: underscores my dilemma. to arrive Back to ‘52 in the school yard … in our Words of Wisdom Advertising: The publisher reserves the right to Dan Whittle reject or to cancel at any time any advertisement Drama had been building swampy or any other material submitt ed for publication. about the impending school yard neck “cussin’ contest” between me and of the woods there by the third grader Larry D. Taul, who Mississippi River, I’ve always carried the title for two years as wondered how Mother found out “champion cusser” of our farm my mischief before I got home school of advanced thinking and from town. higher ciphering. I still judge it Second grade cruel and unusual prett y litt le foxes I don’t remember punishment when Brenda Harlan, Momma Whitt le Rosemary Hopper, the actual “cuss required me to cut Ellen Campbell word” that took the switch she was and Gladys Johns about to admin- formed a cheer- out my third grade ister to my already leading squad competitor, but I do black and blue for me, patt erned (there’s that word after big girl cheer- recall with painful again) bruised leaders Margie behind. That’s the Latham, Renda emphatic clarity the day I under-stood Chaney and Joann hard paddling I got why we named Summers, who it the “weeping cheered our high that afternoon from willow tree.” Courier Editor school Yellow We didn’t know Jackets’ basketball our second grade the words as team to stinging teacher. “curse words,’ but Are you really ready and glorious as “blue words,” victories. as branded by “Do you know my brothers’ for trick or treating? about tomorrow grandmother, morning’s cussin’ Granny Grunt, and Few Halloweens slip by without teens just contest during her generation. me thinking about my younger days bang on the and my fi rst - and only - costume door and recess?” my cheerleaders I’ve always guessed the label back in the 1950s. hold out advertised through the halls of “blue words” came from the It was a red devils outfi t complete those big our litt le rural school. phrase to “cuss a blue streak.” with a mask. bags then “Litt le Danny Whitt le can ‘cuss a How did a 7-year-old country I was horrifi ed by it ... much to dash to the blue streak,’” bragged cheerleader boy learn all those “old blue the delight of everyone except my next house Rosemary. words?” brother Van, who was scared silly by and once the “Yes, but my third grade Mostly from two sources: First, his own black cat costume. neighbor- friend, Larry D., being older I learned a lot of those biggo bad Both costumes came from Texas or hood is clear and knowing more curse words while sitt ing on Daddy’s at least I thought they did. You see, just roll on to words as a town boy, he’s been knee when he gambled in the my father had just returned from an the next. endlessly long drive to Texas to visit Because of My Take champion cusser for two years,” backroom of Nath Hewitt ’s farm his brother in the hospital there and that, trunk Mike West championed third grader Bonnie town barber shop. he brought all sorts of presents for or treating Jean Barnes, destined to be Litt le “Litt le Danny, don’t say a word his sons. There were cool Mexican has emerged Danny’s fi rst “older woman” while I’m playing poker, and sombreos and those durn costumes. as many folks favorite Halloween girlfriend when I was in fi fth don’t tell you Momma where My mother got a beautiful Alamo event. I’m sure you are familiar with grade and she was in sixth. we’ve been,” was Daddy’s fi rm collectors plate. the term. Never will I forget my second instruction. I proudly kept both Well anyway, fi nally a compromise Such events are perfect for litt le grade cheerleaders’ chant: instructions. was worked out over those scary kids. The danger presented by “Danny, Danny, he’s our man, if First cousin Robert Terry outfi ts. After all, I was afraid to even dashing around a neighborhood is he can’t cuss, nobody can.” “Goodboy” Reed and I learned be in the same room with mine. That eliminated and so is the potential for scary mask was just too much. We unsavory characters. I don’t remember the actual some of the bluest of the blue could wear a litt le black mask if we Fortunately, Halloween along “cuss word” that took out my “curse” words when farm would just pose for a photo along High and College Streets is much third grade competitor, but I neighbor men would band with our scary Texas jack ‘o’ lantern. like a big Trunk ‘N Treat on do recall with painful emphatic together and conduct organized Tears were streaming, but we Halloween evening. Those streets clarity the hard paddling I got rat-killing days up along the did it. There’s still a photo around are blocked and vehicular traffi c is that afternoon from our second railroad tracks that sat up above to prove it. At least it wasn’t a prohibited. Throngs of kids and their grade teacher. the swamp water. horrifying clown get-up. I wouldn’t parents make their way down the “Litt le Danny, I have it on good We may not have known what advise even considering anything two streets, collecting candy along evidence that you knew the worst all those “blue words” meant, but that looks like a clown this year the way. It’s a fun, joyful experience of the bad old blue words this we knew the words at an early given all the “scary clown” tales with homeowners sharing treats and covering the Southeast. the American Legion and the folks at morning out on the school yard,” age. Yes, Halloween has certainly Adams Memorial Library adding to Mrs. Cox crowed between the Why did cousin Terry carry the changed since those years of my the fun. board of education “whacks” title of “Good Boy?” youth. As for my own Halloween across my butt ocks. He was smarter than me by Especially trick or treating ... it has experience... Dang it, I’m just too , I didn’t mind that paddling as never lett ing our parents hear him really changed. uh, old, uh “not young enough” to bad as the one I knew I would “jar down” on a big mouthful of Back when I was a boy, we would go collect candy. Besides my poor get at home that afternoon from “blue words.” walk for miles fi lling our (relatively) teeth just aren’t cut out to handle Momma Whitt le when I stepped big bags full of candy, popcorn balls my favorites. But, can you even fi nd and shiny, red apples. Kraft caramels any more? Probably Heck, some people even handed not. out money usually in the form of But the candy issue won’t stop me dimes. Others would off er you a from wearing my usual costume this real candy bar not the tiny replicas year. How to contact your legislators available today. Of course, you Expect to see me as a bearded, could get a “real” candy bar for a bald-headed journalist complete nickel or a dime in those days. with comfortable walking shoes and In more recent years, things really a camera. Maybe I should wear a began to get out of control with fedora hat with a press card stuck cars full of teenagers hitt ing every behind the hatband? neighborhood. Dressed in normal Reckon not! I’ll leave that to street clothes, they carried pillow oldtimers like Dandy Dan Whitt le. cases bulging with candy. Those Talk about a serious spookster!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lett ers are welcome on any subject printed in the pages of this newspaper. All lett ers must be under 250 words and are subject to editing for improper language and MAE BEAVERS MARK PODY will be veriﬁ ed by either address or phone number. 301 6th Ave. North 301 6th Ave. North Lett ers may be sent online to [email protected] Suite 6 Suite 203 or by mail to Legislative Plaza War Memorial Building Lett ers, Cannon Courier, Nashville, TN 37143 Nashville, TN 37143 113 West Main St. Phone 615-741-2421 Phone 615-741-7086 Woodbury, TN 37190 [email protected] [email protected] OCTOBER 25 2016 CANNON COURIER PAGE 5 News from ABSOLUTE ESTATE Saturday Nov. 5th the Mountain AUCTION 10:00 AM BY CAROL GUNTER

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Invest in your family’s future VOTE & ELECT Meat ‘N’ Potatoes Andy Duggin Mike Vinson as the next MAYOR OF WOODBURY CANNON COURIER

& Re-Elect REMINDS Will Halloween 2016 V Lois O Larimer YOU be the scariest ever! ALDERMAN Editor Mike West wrote a fi ne T Thank you in To column titled, “Scary clown advance for your vote & confi dence. stories pure bunk,” which E VOTE appeared in the Sept. 27, 2016 Paid Pol Ad by L Larimer issue of the “Cannon Courier” newspaper. I’m going to use VOTE For on West’s column as a launching pad for this week’s column, with and a totally diff erent target in sight. Election *** Re-Elect Clown: a fool, jester, or comedian in an entertainment Jo Ann Davis Day (as a play); a grotesquely dressed Adlerman comedy performer in a circus November (Merriam Webster’s Dictionary). Pol Ad Paid for by Jo Ann Davis The roots of “clowns” and “clowning,” as we’ve come to A path into the woods led 8th know them can be traced to down into a shaded hollow, at Vote For & Re-Elect ancient Greece where strolling the bott om of which was a small clowns were seen in Sparta as pond. Beside it sat a house that Adam Melton early as the seventh century seemed abandoned. Someone City Alderman B.C. These clowns were called had boarded up the windows, “deikeliktas,” or “those who put and the balcony sagged. New “I appreciate your support on plays.” bags of pott ing soil sat near the and vote of confi dence.” Throughout the Middle Ages, basement door, though. And a jesters /fools sustained the art modern security system looked Ad paid for by Adam Melton of clowning in the palaces and recently installed. courts of kings and other nobles. After sunset a car approached Jesters played an important role the house, a gleaming white, in the social culture of Medieval new-model Mercedes that looked Europe by serving as emissaries as out of place as any clown car. between peasantry and nobility: The driver stepped out and said Jesters could answer back to she had recently bought the old kings, queens, and bishops with house as an investment because it unbridled authority. By making sits on fi ve acres in an otherwise fun of anyone and mocking densely populated area. “You standard social customs, it could think it looks bad now, you be argued that jesters, via their should have seen it before I came performances, inspired elite in,” she said. rulers to lighten up a bit on the While we talked she wore an in- common man. ear headset, so it wasn’t always Over the centuries, the clown clear whether she was speaking became, and remains, an integral to me or someone on her phone. Paid Pol Ad by Charlie Harrell part of the traveling circus. It has “No,” she didn’t want to give her been writt en Emmett Kelly is the name, she said. “Yes,” she had Remember the last time you looked at your insurance policy? most famous clown ever. In 1942, heard about the clown sightings. Do you know where it is? Kelley joined Ringling Brothers She gestured toward the Do you have enough to take care of your funeral? and Barnum & Bailey Circus, apartment complex through the Who is your benefi ciary? possibly the most popular circus trees. “Every one of them has a Take time now to see if you have enough..... in the U.S. at the time. phone, and can work it bett er Some other famous clowns are: than I can,” she said. “And yet *Red Skelton (famous for his there’s not a single video of a television show)… clown?” *Bozo the Clown (played by I followed the path back to many diff erent men over the deliver the good news to Donna years)… Arnold. The clowns weren’t real. *Ronald McDonald (also played “Ha!” she said. “Come around by diff erent men over the years) to the back.” Her apartment and backed up to the same patch of *Pennywise the horrifi cally overgrown woods where the frightening clown from horror clowns had appeared. writer Stephen King’s novel “IT” From this patch of woods, the Planning ahead is easy. Let us help you fi nd answers. and the TV miniseries of the same word of prowling clowns began Free evaluation of your policy, planning guide and help fi lling out insurance forms. Just mention this ad. name. to spread…. (Reference: “The Moving right along, readers Guardian,” October 8, 2016). Smith Funeral Home are aware of the “Clown Scare” Many contend the Clown 303 Murfreesboro Rd that, in merely a few months, Scare began as a pure hoax that, Woodbury TN 37190 has managed to instill a degree inevitably, evolved into a reality 615-563-5337 of fear in practically every of sorts. Regardless the actual www.smithfuneralhomewoodbury.net state in the entire Continental truth, the Clown Scare will have United States. What sparked this law enforcement on high alert troubling phenomenon? come this Halloween night, The fi rst person to spot a clown, because a clown costume has the patient zero in the current been popular Halloween att ire epidemic of threatening clowns for many generations. Still, isn’t it sightings spreading across the your right to dress up as a clown US, was a litt le boy at a low- and go to a Halloween party? The income apartment complex in answer is “yes”… however do so Greenville, South Carolina. at the risk of spending Halloween He ran to his mother, Donna inside a jail cell. Arnold, and told her what he However, readers, I must let had seen: two clowns in the you in on an alarming secret: woods both brightly dressed and This year, Halloween has been made up. One with a red fright moved from October 31, 2016 to wig and the other with a black November 8, 2016! For on that star painted on his face. They day, the truly sinister clowns will whispered something to the boy. reveal themselves, and it might “They were trying to lure him prove to be the scariest day in the to the house,” his mother told me history of mankind! [reporter], pointing toward the Trick or treat? Just a trick! woods. OCTOBER 25, 2016 CANNON COURIER PAGE 7 THE CANNON BLAST

You can submit items for The Blast by email at [email protected] Chitt y Chitt y Bang Bang is the story of a an eccentric inventor named Caractacus Pott s who, with the help of his children Jeremy and Jemima, sets about restoring an *** old race car from a scrap heap. Soon, they discover the car has magical properties including the ability to fl oat and take fl ight. However, trouble occurs when the evil Alcoholics Anonymous Baron Bomburst desires the magic car for himself. Performances run November 4, 5, If you drink alot that’s your business. If you want to stop that’s ours. 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 7:30 p.m. November 6 & 13 at 2 p.m. and November 5 at 10:30 a.m. Call 615-653-7914. *** *** Cannon County Commission Meeting Celebrate Recovery November 3 @ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Celebrate Recovery from hurts, habits and hang-ups meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. At the Cannon County Courthouse. at First Baptist Church. *** *** Woodbury City Council Meeting Flags for Sale November 8, 2016 @ 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. The American Legion Post 279 in Woodbury is selling fl ags and at Woodbury City Hall at 101 W. Water St. accessories. The monies raised from the sale of these fl ags goes 100% back to our *** Community, our Youth and our Veterans, in Cannon County. This is an on-going Gobble Up the Last Good Weather for Golf project. We have available an assortment of all sizes and all types of fl ags - United Saturday, November 5 States Flags, State Flags, Military Service Flags; and all sizes of fl ag poles. MURFREESBORO — Buy a mulligan, test your putt ing skills, have your team’s The United States Flag 3’x 5’ nylon is $25 (best price picture taken, and outdrive the competition. The Child Advocacy Center invites anywhere). This is our most popular fl ag. The United States Flag 4”x 6” is .50 each or golfers to the 6th Annual Turkey Tee Off Saturday, November 5. The event will $5 a dozen for special occasions. The military services/branches fl ags are $30 each. For be held at Cedar Crest Golf Course where players will enjoy breakfast at 8 a.m., that special display. We can get you any State Flag, diff erent size fl ags and diff erent followed by a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to top qualifying size fl ag poles, (small house fl ag poles to large business fl ag poles.) WE ALSO HAVE teams. Opportunities to sponsor the tournament are still available. Contact the Child INDOOR FLAG SETS. FLAGS FOR ALL OCASSIONS. If you need to make a special Advocacy Center by phone at 615-867-9000, or email [email protected] to order, call and we have a catalogue available to make your selections. sign up for the tournament. All money raised supports the Child Advocacy Center’s CONTACT A MEMBER OF AMERICAN LEGION POST 279 OR CALL mission to provide safety, justice, and healing for child abuse victims and their non- CHARLIE HARRELL 615-542-1289, OR JIM STONE 615-563-6111, OR BRENT BUSH off ending family members. For more information about the 6th Annual Turkey Tee 615-563-2691, OR BRITT KNOX 615-904-5644, OR PENNY DANIELS 615-563-6729. Off , visit the Child Advocacy Center of Rutherford County’s Facebook page at www. We will be glad to take your order, deliver your order, and all with a facebook.com/CACRutherford. smile and a big thank you, for Supporting the American Legion Post 279, *** AND OUR YOUTH, OUR COMMUNITY, AND OUR VETERANS, OF CANNON Cannon County Health Council COUNTY. Thursday, November 3 *** The Cannon County Health Council will meet at noon in the Saint Thomas/Stones Music Night on Thursdays River Hospital Board Room, 324 Doolitt le Road. The Pocahontas Community Center, located near Ivy Bluff , will be having a music *** night every Thursday at 5 p.m. We welcome all musicians who would like to come Cannon County Historical Society and play with our group, beginners or pros. If you like to sing our band will play Tuesday, November 8 your song and let you sing along! Spectators and dancers are welcome. For more info The Cannon County Historical Society will meet Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 6:30 call Ray, 615-765-7835 p.m. at the Cannon County Senior Center, 309 Lehman Street, Woodbury in the small *** dining area. ARE YOU RAISING A RELATIVE CHILD OR NEED HOUSING ASSISTANCE? Cannon-Rutherford Counties’ Public Defender Gerald Melton will gave an account For more information on assistance and support, please contact Melissa Allison at the of “Pomp” Kersey and his Confederate band which was massacred at Half-Acre on Upper Cumberland Developments District toll free at 1-877-275-8233. Short Mountain on July 24, 1864 by a Union force operating out of Liberty. A support group meeting will be held for relatives that are caring for relative The story of Hiram Taylor “Pomp” Kersey is one of the major Civil War encounters children. This meeting will be held at the Adams Memorial Library, Woodbury, TN/ taking place in Cannon County. Monday, October 17, 2016, 1:00-2:00 pm. Gerald and Marsha Melton reside at Half-Acre or Mechanicsville in the Short For housing assistance while caring for minor child, contact Myra Walker at 931-432- Mountain area. Their home is about one mile from the massacre scene and about a 4111. half-mile in the other direction from the Melton Cemetery where Pomp was buried. Mr. Melton is a long-time student of the War Between the States, with particular *** interest in the Pomp Kersey story. His presentation will be of much interest to all Lions Club Pecan sale begins Cannon Countians and Civil War buff s. The Woodbury Lions Club will kick off their annual Pecan Sale on November 3, 2016. “We will meet at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments. The program will begin at 7 p.m. Come For sale this year will be pecan halves, walnuts, fruit and nut mix and cashews. and bring your favorite “goodies” and snacks,” said Joe Davenport, president. All of these products will be available at the following locations: Jennings Jewelers, “Bring someone with you! Every one is welcome, and please consider yourself a Vance Bros. Car lot, Farmers Co-op, the County Court Clerk’s offi ce, Cannon Senior “special guest.” Center, Dr. Trea Wessel’s offi ce, First Bank, Paul Reed’s Furniture Store, First National I am looking forward to seeing you on November 8th,” Davenport said. Bank, Regions Bank, Woodbury Funeral Home, Woodson’s Pharmacy, Cutt ing Edge Salon and from any Lions Club member. **** Profi ts from this fund-raiser goes toward purchasing eye glasses, eye exam, eye Cannon Country Christmas surgeries, special equipment for the sight impaired, hearing exams, and hearing aids Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 19 for local residents who cannot aff ord for pay for such on their own or with the help of Enjoy A Cannon Merchants Country Christmas, Santa arrives on the square at 5 pm their insurance. on Friday, enjoy wagon rides, sales, door prizes, goodies and more. Contact 615-563- For more information call Clyde Bush at 615-563-2102 or Mark Vance at 563-6800. 2222 for further information *** *** Short Mountain Haunted Woods Free Medicare Counseling At Short Mountain Distillery SHIP/SMP representatives from the Upper Cumberland Area Agency on Aging & Four nights of terror benefi ting the Short Mountain Volunteer Fire Department and Disability are off ering free Medicare counseling throughout the Upper Cumberland. the Cannon County Rescue Squad. Admission to the woods is $10. Hours are 7 p.m. Representatives are available to help counsel on any Medicare questions, abuse or to midnight on October 21, 22, 28 & 29. On October 29th Short Mountain Distillery is concerns. They will also screen Medicare benefi ciaries for Extra Help with Part D. hosting a FREE HALLOWEEN PARTY/ROCK CONCERT (featuring Burning Years) Please contact SHIP at 1-877-801-0044 or 931-432-4150 for an appointment. AND DANCE PARTY from 7 a.m. to midnight. Camp sites will be available. 8280 SHIP (State Health Insurance Program) and SMP (Empowering Seniors to Short Mountain Road, Woodbury. Prevent Healthcare Fraud) cover all 14 Upper Cumberland counties. *** Cannon County Walking Horse Halloween Ride *** Saturday October 29th; Ride from Campground at 11am; Meal from 4pm-6pm; 23th Annual Art Studio Tour Trick or Treat at 6pm; Band/Dance 8pm with Thunder Hill of Shelbyville November 19-20 $10 per person; camping for the weekend welcome. With 39 artists located across 11 studio sites, the annual tour, sponsored by the Stones For more information 615-653-7156 River Craft Association, has more artists lined up than ever before. *** Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. For more information go Gilley Reunion to the website at www.ArtStudioTour.org for a map and more details. The descendants of Tolbert and Rhoda Cope Gilley will have their annual reunion Saturday, October 29 at the Pleasant View School building. Doors will open at 10 a.m. *** with covered dish lunch at noon. Make plans to att end and call others who might not 5th Holiday Bazaar see this. Call 615-765-5318. See you there. Saturday, November 26 @ 9 a.m.-4 p.m. *** Find that special something for everyone on your list! ATTENTION ALL GHOSTS AND GOBLINS Skip the mall and shop one-of-a-kind gifts from eighteen of Middle Tennessee’s You are invited to the Woodbury Health and Rehab Center on Monday, October 31 at fi nest craft artists. This event is located inside The Arts Center of Cannon County the bewitching hours of 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for tricks and treats. Popcorn will be served! and admission is free. The White Oak Craft & Gift Shop will also be open during the Your ghostly hosts: Residents of the Woodbury Health and Rehab. No dogs allowed event. A limited number of spots are still available for qualifi ed craft artists. For more inside the building. information please contact Neal at 615-563-2787. *** REALITY HOUSE *** Pleasant View Baptist Church is holding a free reality house, “School Is Out,” on Christmas Gala October 29th from 7-10 p.m. A walk through play, the subject this year is bullying. December 9 @ 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. It takes the audience through the last day of a teenager’s life. It shows how they die, Friday December 9th—The Cannon County Senior Center presents the “Christmas judgment and the heaven or hell depending on the decision they made with Jesus. Gala.” Enjoy a great meal served at lavishly decorated tables, silent auction, Last year approx-imately 400 people completed the tour with 35 decisions for entertainment and much more. Contact the Senior Center at 615-563-5304 for Christ. Groups of 10 or more are recommended. Call for a reservation to ensure information. shorter wait times. Pleasant View Baptist is located at 2355 Lonnie Smith Road. For reservations or more information, call 615-796-1570 or 931-314-2754. What’s Happening in Cannon County Schools *** START YOUR HALLOWEEN Oct. 24-26—LEAD Conference, Nashville, TN OFF RIGHT Oct. 28—Cannon Co. Lions Football vs. Dekalb Co. at CCHS fi eld Stop by the Woodbury Farmer’s Co-op Store for free candy, coff ee and hot Nov. 2—Principals’ meeting at CCBOE at 8:30 a.m. chocolate. Nov. 4-7—Tennessee School Boards Association Annual Leadership Conference, Nashville, TN *** Nov. 8—Professional Development Day for teachers and staff , 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Board policy workshop, 5:30 p.m. at CCBOE PET HALLOWEEN Board meeting workshop, 6:30 p.m. at CCBOE COSTUME CONTEST Saturday, October 29 at Cannon County Animal Clinic, 124 Masey Drive in Nov. 10—School Board meeting, 6: 30 p.m. at WGS Cafeteria Woodbury. Registration at noon, judging at 12:30 p.m. All dogs required to be on leashes and must be current on rabies vaccinations. Nov. 11—Veterans’ Day Program at CCHS Nov. 14—Homeland Security Drill at West Side Fire Dept. @ 3 p.m. *** TRUNK ‘N TREAT Do you have one hour per month to help students in your community transition FAMILY FUN NIGHT from high school to college? tnAchieves, local partnering organization to Gov. Saturday, October 29 at 5 to 8 p.m. at Woodbury Church of Christ. Planned are Haslam’s TN Promise, needs 9,000 mentors to work with high school students games, treats, chilli, hot dogs, snacks, costumes and more. In the event of rain, the from the Class of 2017. Mentors remind students of important deadlines, serve as a festivities will be held in the church’s Fellowship Hall. trusted college resource and, most importantly, encourage students to reach their full potential. The time commitment is small, but the impact can be life changing for a *** fi rst generation college student trying to navigate the college going process. Learn Senior Center Music Night more or register at htt ps://tnachieves.org/mentors/requirements/. For the class of Friday, November 4 2017, Cannon County needs 22 mentors; currently only 6 adults have registered to be Rode West will perform at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. A soup supper is planned. mentors for these seniors. Our students need you; please consider being a mentor Admission is $5. No age limit. and register today. *** Chitt y Chitt y Bang Bang November 4 - 19 Arts Center of Cannon County PAGE 8 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25 2016 Reduction in Blood Pressure with Chiropractic - Study Shows

A study published on August 11, 2014, in In the control group, the instrument was set to make the scientiﬁ c periodical the Journal of Upper Cervical sound but not deliver a thrust, therefore simulating a Chiropractic Research, added further evidence showing real adjustment. After either the real adjustment or the that chiropractic care has a positive eﬀ ect on blood simulated procedure, all patients were asked to lay on pressure. Numerous prior studies showed that people from the desk of the table for one minute. Afterward, standard post- with high blood pressure who received chiropractic care adjustment procedures were performed to verify that experienced a blood pressure reduction. One study even spinal changes occurred in the group that got the real showed that people who had low blood pressure had Dr. Trea Wessel adjustment, while no spinal changes occurred in those their pressure return to normal. who got the simulated adjustment.

In the opening of the study, the author points The results of the study showed that those who out, “According to the American Heart Association, received the real adjustment had a signifi cant reduction hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases in both their systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The continue to be a leading cause of death in the United control group, who received the simulated adjustment, States eff ecting approximately 77.9 million adults.” He did not show any statistical change in blood pressure. The continues by noting, “The American Heart Association eff ects from the single real adjustment given in this study reports high blood pressure was listed as the cause of lasted approximately one month. death or contributed to over 348,000 American deaths in 2009.” In the conclusion of the study, the author states, “In this investigation the correction of Atlas subluxation In this study, twenty people were randomly in the experimental group signifi cantly decreased systolic divided into two groups. One group, the control group, and diastolic values for up to one month with only one received a simulated adjustment that sounded real but therapeutic intervention.” He concludes by suggesting, no movement of the spinal bones occurred. The second “The results of this study would suggest there would be group received a real chiropractic adjustment. Follow-up a signifi cant benefi t in evaluating for and correcting any data was taken from all subjects at nearly the same times Atlas subluxation or malposition found in patients that so as to make the collection of results consistent. The suff er from ABP, (arterial blood pressure).” adjustments given to the subjects were for correction of detected Atlas (top bone in neck) subluxations. For more information please contact: Cannon County Chiropractic To give both groups in the study the same 824 McMinnville Hwy. experience, an instrument was used to render an Woodbury, TN 37190 adjustment to the group that was gett ing a real adjustment. 615-563-3320 USDA Rural Development ENCOURAGES Rural Small Businesses to APPLY USDA Rural Development State Director Bobby 31, 2016, for the fi rst funding cycle and March 31, 2017, local governments; institutions of higher education; and Goode encourages rural small businesses to apply for for the second funding cycle. Applications for renewable rural electric cooperatives and public power entities. loans and grants to support renewable energy and energy energy system and energy effi ciency grants of greater Congress created the REAP program in the 2002 effi ciency projects. than $20,000 and all combination grants and guaranteed Farm Bill and reauthorized it in the 2014 Farm Bill with “Investing in renewable energy and energy loans are due by March 31, 2017. USDA will set aside 20 guaranteed funding of no less than $50 million annually effi ciency helps farmers, ranchers, and rural small percent of the funds for grants of $20,000 or less. for the duration of the fi ve-year bill. businesses save money and strengthen their bott om line,” Applications for renewable energy system and Nationwide, USDA has helped fi nance more Goode said. “It also provides jobs, creates economic energy effi ciency grants or for loan/grant combinations than 12,000 REAP projects since 2009. When fully opportunity, and leads to a more secure energy future.” that are received after March 31, 2017, will be considered operational, these projects will generate or save enough USDA is accepting Rural Energy for America in Fiscal Year 2018, which starts Oct. 1, 2017. Guaranteed energy to power more than 750,000 homes annually, and Program (REAP) applications for: 1) energy audit and loan applications will be reviewed and processed when replace more than 36 million barrels of oil annually. renewable energy development assistance grants, and received, with periodic competitions. For additional USDA Rural Development is moving 2) renewable energy system and energy effi ciency information, contact the USDA energy coordinator for investments to rural America with housing, business guaranteed loans and grants. your state, or see page 71689 of the October 18 Federal and infrastructure loans and grants to create jobs and The application deadline for energy audit and Register. strengthen rural economies with an emphasis to assist renewable energy development assistance grants is Jan. Eligible applicants for renewable energy system areas of persistent poverty. Since 2009, the agency 31, 2017. Applications for renewable energy system and and energy effi ciency loans and grants include agricultural has assisted more than 1.5 million Tennessee families energy effi ciency grants of $20,000 or less are due by Oct. producers and rural small businesses, which may include and businesses in 230 communities in all 95 counties tribal business entities, rural electric cooperatives and of Tennessee, investing more than $6.6 billion through public power entities. Renewable energy sources include aff ordable loans, loan guarantees, and grants. Woodbury Livestock wind, solar, renewable biomass (including anaerobic For more information on USDA Rural digesters), small hydro-electric, ocean, geothermal or Development programs available in Tennessee visit us 10/18/16 hydrogen derived from these renewable resources. online at www.rd.usda.gov/TN; or to speak to a Business * w/v = wean/vaccinated Eligible applicants for energy audit and renewable energy Program Specialist regarding REAP, call 615.783.1300. development assistance grants include State, tribal or Hfrs 415-475 94.00-103.00 Hfrs 510-585 84.50-92.50 COMPREHENSIVE MAP OF EAST TENNESSEE OUTDOOR Hfrs 668-670 81.50-84.75 Hfrs 626-714 92.50 w/v RECREATION HOTSPOTS NOW AVAILABLE Bulls 382 117.50 More than 2 million acres of public forests, parks and in areas where mobile device signals cannot reach. 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The 113 West Main St, Woodbury TN 37190 map will be periodically updated. To view and 615-563-2512 53&& download the map online, visit htt p://recreationlinks. www.cannoncourier.com TF-Aug. 6-C org/. OCTOBER 25, 2016 CANNON COURIER PAGE 9 GRAVEDIGGER ... and cried like a baby because I knew it was my last one. I enjoyed it. I didn’t enjoy everybody dying. I won’t get out of that myself,” he said.

Started career as teenager Thomas began assisting a neighbor in digging graves for Evans Funeral Home in Liberty in the early 1950s. He was 13, and the chore allowed him to skip classes in high school. By the early 1960s, he had teamed with his father, Noble Thomas. At that time, the task paid a meager fee. “Me and Daddy, we got $25 a grave, 12½ for him, 12½ for me. Mr. Jewell Nave [who operated funeral homes in Lebanon and Watertown] volunteered and gave me $35. Every year or two, I’d go up a litt le bit. Later on I had to furnish the lowering device, the tent, chairs and artifi cial turf. When I quit, I was gett ing $500. Now most are gett ing $800 or $900,” he said. “All that 45 years, I don’t reckon but one grave I didn’t have ready out of 8,000. It was solid rock, top to bott om. I take my work very, very seriously.” Thomas gave himself half a day to dig a grave if he didn’t have a heavy load. If he were digging in soft soil clear of rock, he could cut it out in two hours or less. He was on call from funeral home directors 24/7. “Never had a vacation in my life. I can’t think of but one or two Christmas days I spent with my wife and family,” he said of digging across six decades. He and his wife, Bett y, have been married 54 years. He met her on the Woodbury town square, as she hails from the Cannon County community of Ivy Bluff . Bett y is a quilter and stands 5-feet-tall to Frank’s 7-feet. The couple raised a son and daughter and have four grandchildren. Frank Thomas has saved in jars a handful of dirt from the fi rst and the last graves that he helped dig. He began his They own a home in Liberty and a small farm in the 52-year career in 1952 and called it a day in 2004. DeKalb County countryside a few miles from where the Wilson, Cannon and DeKalb boundary lines meet. get ’em dug. Thomas also owns three acres of hallow ground on the “Seventy-fi ve percent of the time I was digging, they back side of Salem Cemetery in Liberty where he sells would bury ’em that day. I’d get up by daylight, drive my burial plots. When his time comes, this is where he plans car to the cemetery and look for the tombstone with a cig- to be laid to rest. arett e lighter.”

Partnered with his father Neither snow nor rain nor heat Born the son of a sharecropper, Thomas grew up with Just like a farmer, the gravedigger found that his work three brothers and graduated from Liberty High School in terra fi rma could turn into torment caused due to ex- in 1958. The sole survivor of his siblings, he dug two of treme weather and rocky ground. their graves. “It didn’t matt er how hot or how cold it was. I even He says his father gave up farming to become a grave- dug one in a tornado. It come a tornado, blowed my tent digger. plumb down. So much water turned into the grave, we “Daddy couldn’t drive a vehicle. There were two oth- had to wait two or three hours to bury the body,” he said. er guys. One of them couldn’t drive. The third guy had a “One year we had an inch of ice and six inches of snow pickup truck. They would dig graves for Walker Funer- on the ground, and me and my boy was asked to bury a al Home in Smithville. That’s where we all started,” said lady on Jones Hill. It was coldest day on record for that Thomas. day, 18 degrees below zero. The grave was at the back end, “Then they started digging for two litt le funeral homes and me and my boy put all our stuff in a litt le red wagon in Alexandria: Avant and Anderson. The old fellow who and pulled it up that hill like a mule. While we were in had the truck quit. After that the other guy quit too. So the grave, icicles formed on our caps. Later that afternoon, that left Daddy without a job. they salted the road for the folks coming to the funeral.” “Daddy said, ‘I reckon I’ll quit too.’ I was working then So what did the gravedigger do when his shovel struck as a bricklayer’s helper. I said, ‘No, Daddy, don’t quit. I’ll limestone? help.’” “We’d take a sledgehammer and bust our brains out,” A second funeral home in Smithville, Love-Cantrell, answered Thomas. “If we couldn’t get it, we’d call back to came calling, which allowed Frank and his father to work the funeral home and have them call a contactor to drill or side by side in graveyards for six or seven years before the dynamite it. elder Thomas retired. “People out of McMinnville came out with a grave-dig- “I started it as my regular job in making a living in 1965. ging machine in the mid-1970s. Awfullest-looking thing My son, Donald, started helping me when he was 8 years you ever seen but dug prett iest graves you ever seen. So I old and helped me in the summertime until he fi nished Frank Thomas has saved in jars a handful of dirt from the go to buy me one, a litt le ole Terrmite backhoe that had a high school,” said Thomas. fi rst and the last graves that he helped dig. He began his 14-horsepower Briggs & Stratt on engine, and I hated that 52-year career in 1952 and called it a day in 2004. thing. I’d take it to the graveyard a many a time and leave The myth of 6 feet under it on the driveway and dig the grave by hand. So I sold Gett ing down to basics, he reported, “You’ve always he then began gett ing calls from Wilson County funeral that thing.” heard a grave is 6 feet deep. That’s not true. They’re only homes. Thomas’s tools of the trade were his trusty shovel and 4½ feet deep, and 3 feet wide and 8 feet long. That is the “I was digging a grave one day in Alexandria at New pick. He also carried an ax to cut out tree roots, a claw standard around these parts. I always carried a 3-foot Hope Cemetery. Mike Hunter [of Hunter Funeral Home hammer to nail down the top of wood coffi ns and a hand yardstick to make sure the grave is 3 feet wide, and I car- in Watertown] drove up in front of the church, and he broom to sweep the bott om of the grave clean. ried a 4-foot stick, fl ipped it twice to make sure it was long said, ‘Can you dig a grave for us tomorrow?’ I said, ‘Why, “I guess I went through 20 to 25 shovels. You wouldn’t enough. I always wanted to be sure that the vault didn’t yes, I reckon I can.’ think a man would wear out a pick. Some of them I wore hang [on its way down]. “That body was coming out of Nashville, going to Jones out to the nub,” he said. “Now there are gravediggers that don’t never get in the Hill [cemetery]. I dug that one and next day had anoth- grave,” said the man who carefully inspected the bott om er to dig. Mr. Nave [Hunter’s father-in-law, who owned Ghosts in the cemetery? of every grave he made. Nave Funeral Home in Lebanon] called. I guess he buried While not a man who believes in haunts, he confessed “Back when I dug a grave by hand, you got to haul out 80 percent of the people in Wilson County. that he was spooked so badly one night that he fl ed a about half the dirt. It would take 20 wheelbarrows full. “He had two men who dug graves. He said, ‘If I call graveyard. Around the graveyard were peoples’ graves that was sunk them, half the time they won’t answer the phone.’ He “The scariest thing, I’m digging one at Horton Springs down, so I’d take that extra dirt and put it on those graves asked me, ‘Will you dig my graves?’ I said, ‘It looks like I in Smith County, one of the times had to get it done that and take my rake and smooth it down. They don’t do that got a prett y heavy load, but yes, I will.’” day. I was digging by hand at night in the bott om by truck now. They take a backhoe and take the dirt off behind the After preparing graves for Nave a couple of years, Ligon light. Them lights was shining on tombstones. All of a sud- cemetery and dump it. & Bobo Funeral called upon Thomas to do the same for den I heard a woman hollering. I raised up and looked “I enjoyed it. The reason I enjoyed it so much is that them. And a few years later, Jackie Partlow, owner of Part- around the graveyard. I didn’t see a soul. most people, 95 percent of the families, were nice. Every- low Funeral Home, also requested his services. “She hollered again. I loaded my stuff and shovel in one treated me nice even though I was a nobody. After I “I remember one night, way after dark, Mr. Nave called the back and got in my truck and went home. I came back got done, I’d go sit down on the back of the property and and said, ‘Frank, I’ve got one to bury in Greenvale.’ I had next morning to fi nish it. I never saw nobody,” he said get out of the way till it comes my time to do things. There another grave to dig the next day over in Jackson County. with a laugh. was a lot of times the family would go over and thank me “About midnight I got out of bed and told my wife, for how I did it, not leaving a mess. Make me feel good. ‘I’m going to dig that grave.’ I carried a coal oil lamp and Editor’s note: Part two continues next week But it’s not that way now.” got up there with that lamp and went over that graveyard hunting that tombstone, and I lit into it. When undertakers Expanding his boundaries set the time for a funeral, they’re not gonna change it. I had With his business fi rmly planted in DeKalb County, as high as a fi ve graves a day. I really had to move dirt to EARLY... REGIONAL HALLOWEEN EVENTS expired. College student IDs are not acceptable. NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s Memphis – Free Halloween Costumes are optional. For questions about voting, what types of ID are accept- upcoming tourism news is activities include the classic Oct. 28-29 able or the GoVoteTN app visitGoVoteTN.com. Anyone consolidated for your convenience Peanuts® characters, Charlie Chatt anooga – The Harvest Moon with concerns about voter fraud should call the Division of below. For a complete list of Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Sally and Storyland Maze is the Hamilton Elections toll free at 1-877-850-4959. Tennessee events, visit tnvacation. Lucy, crafts for kids, a Halloween County Maze with characters com/calendar. costume parade, trick-or-treating, from fairytales and stories, bouncy Ongoing free 4x6 photos with the Peanuts houses, Bagby’s Critt er Corral, and or by mail, request an Chatt anooga – See costumed gang and much more at Bass Pro the Storyland Cow Train 6-8:30 p.m. VOTING... application for an absentee SCUBA divers carve pumpkins Shops locations. ET at the Tennessee Riverpark. Early voting, which ballot. among the paddlefi sh and turtles Oct. 25 Murfreesboro – Flashlight Night began October 19, continues The voter must make 11 a.m. ET through October at Covington – A free Yoga class is takes place Oct. 28 as visitors explore through November 3. the request in writing and Tennessee Aquarium. taking place, surrounded by the unusual mourning customs and Hours are: include their name (as Oct. 25 and 29 beauty of the Garden noon to 1 p.m. creepy superstitions of the Victorian registered), social security Knoxville – Join the spirits for CT at the Tipton County Museum. era 7-10 p.m. CT while Tours of Monday, Wednesday, number, date of birth, a two-hour tour of downtown Oct. 27 Evergreen Cemetery take place Oct. Friday - 8 a.m.- 1 p.m. residence address (911 Knoxville’s scariest landmarks Murfreesboro – The Great 29 all at Oaklands Mansion. Tuesday, Thursday - 4 address), mailing address as part of James White’s Fort: Pumpkin Festival explores the Oct. 29 p.m.- 7 p.m. (if diff erent from residence HearthScares Tours 7 p.m. ET science behind Stars Wars and Henning – “Trunk of Treat” and Saturdays– 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. address), the election(s) they beginning and ending at James includes a costume contest, Jedi Pumpkin Painting Contest is for November 3rd – 8 a.m. to wish to vote in, the legal White’s Fort. training course, space-themed children in grades kindergarten 7 p.m. reason they are requesting Oct. 28-29 artwork and more 4-7 p.m. CT at the through 6th grade with pumpkins to vote an absentee ballot Covington – The Rocky Horror Discovery Center. provided 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. CT State law requires a and their signature. Picture Show has a midnight Oct. 28 at the Alex Haley Museum. Tennessee state or federally The last day to request an showing and is recommended for Chatt anooga – Aquascarium is a Lewisburg – A Ghostly Gathering issued government photo absentee ballot is November mature audiences 7 p.m. CT with Halloween-themed celebration and includes candy, prizes, a trunk ID to vote. 1st. Requests can be mailed a midnight showing Oct. 29 at The includes costumed SCUBA divers, or treat around the Exploration You, if eligible, can also to The Cannon County Historic Ruffi n Theater. a Monster Mash Dance Party, trick- Station and more 6 p.m. CT until vote by mail. Certain legal Election Commission offi ce, Oct. 22-29 or-treat stations and more 4-8:30 candy runs out at the Lewisburg qualifi cations must be met 301 W Main St., Woodbury, Rugby – The annual Ghostly p.m. ET at the Tennessee Aquarium. Recreation Center. in order to vote this way. TN 37190 or emailed to Gathering includes stories, a ghost Jackson – Mike Super performs Livingston – Fall-O-Ween has a A voter desiring to vote [email protected]. If you movie, chili dinner and candle and magic and illusion at The NED. Gravedigger’s Pit where kids can absentee by mail, shall in request by email, you must oil lamp tours of several historic Memphis – Live music, an open dig for prizes and money, candy writing over his signature include a separate att ached buildings dating back to the 1880s 6 bar with heavy hors d’oeuvres are booths, games, costume contests, either in person at the document with a scanned p.m. ET in downtown Rugby. on tap for The Pink Palace Boo! hay/wagon rides, ghost stories Election Commission offi ce signature. Oct. 24-31 Ball 7 p.m. CT at the Pink Palace. music and more noon to 4 p.m. CT PAGE 10 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25 2016

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Auburn High Doug, Jann and Dwight the City Café Diner goods. the 28th. Joyce Coe’s is School 1965-1966 class were all 1966 att endees. Sunday, Ernest the 29th. Winding up the members met for their Special guest was “Miss” and Rita Davis with month of October are annual reunion Saturday, Bess Finley and Mack Allen Auburntown News Kim and Callie Francis, Debbie Cheatham and the 8th. Att ending the event Finley. Donna Gaither Brooklyn and Londyn Hallean Tate. The 1st day held in the Recreation Nichols was on hand for Francis, Angie, and Hannah of November is when Ruth Center of Auburn Baptist picture taking. By ANNA PATRICK and Justin Whited were in Davenport turns 82 and Church were – Jimmy Phillip and Linda Dunlap where they enjoyed Kay Hale Mayo hits the 56 dad, Shannon and Kyle, that city which included Mingle, Millie King, Hayes travelled to East watching the Tennessee mark. Happy birthday to and Kullon was the “tour Rock City. And of course Paulett e Crook and James Lansing, Michigan, to enjoy Treetoppers hang glide. all of you. guide”. they just had to eat at the Gilley, Bobby and Melba the beautiful wedding of This was followed by a Happy The weekend of City Café Diner. Pitt s. Jimmy, Paulett e and their daughter, Ashley, stop in at Ketner’s Mill for anniversary to Doug fall break began with our They weren’t the Bobby were 1965 members. to Matt Ellsworth. Ashley a litt le blue grass music. and Cheyerl Pursell who annual trip to Bell Buckle only ones enjoying the good Janice Vance and Charles became Mrs. Ellsworth Gatlinburg and celebrate the 27th. Ed and for the craft fair. We saw eats there that day. Todd Ritchey, Jean Ferrell and Saturday the 15th. surrounding area is also Kathryn Faille celebrate lots of Cannon County and Tracy Hollandsworth William Edmonds, Joann It was a short stay another popular place theirs on the 28th. Happy folks enjoying the beautiful were also enjoying the Jones and Windol Tate, in the hospital last week for for the “fall breakers”. anniversary to both day. enormous amount of good Ernest and Rita Tate Davis, Bobby Fletcher. Seems he Tonya, Alyssa and Alana couples. Derrick and C.J. food and great desserts. Gary Don and Judy Pitt s, overworked himself with Whited were there as were FYI: I send the news Hughes and girls, Kiley Monday night, Lynn and Kathy O’Neal, all that weed eating. Brad and Stefanie Leach, in each Wednesday afternoon. and Lily, enjoyed fall break Ppa and I picked up my J.C. and Joan Hughes, Thursday it was Samantha and Madison If you have any you would like camping at Rock Island sister, Wanda Yule of Rabon Brandon, Carolyn off to Lucky Ladd Farms Gaither. to see in the A’town column, State Park. Peculia, MO, from the Witfi eld, Doug Gaither, for a good time with Kullon It’s a birthday please get it to me by noon Tim, DeAnna, airport. Tuesday, we were Jann Kennedy-Beasley and and Shiloh Patrick, Janna celebration for Lynne each Wednesday. I will be Alayna and Adrianna Reed off to Tunnell Hill, GA for Dwight Saddler enjoyed Womack, Adrianna Reed Jackson on the 26th with happy to put it here. Please took off Sunday afternoon a visit with Jewell Dale and the reunion. Janice, Jean, and Ppa and me. The litt le Paula Saddler celebrating e-mail me at apatrick@dtccom. for an overnight trip to Brian. Of course that took Joann, Ernest, Rita, Gary Patricks were returned the following day. Kathy net, or call 464-4310 and leave Chatt anooga to enjoy the us through Chatt anooga Don, Lynn, J.C., Rabon, Saturday with mom and O’Neal gets to celebrate a message. sights and sounds around and we, too, had to take in Countdown to open SCORE Releases Recommendations for Teacher enrollment Preparation Improvement Report Identifi es Eight Priorities Linked to Student Achievement Needs Visit the Cannon County Health Department to receive free, face-to-face assistance with applying for health insurance! 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The Woodbury Lions products available. Jewelers, Vance Bros. Car Pharmacy, Cutt ing Edge Club will kick off their Lion Clyde Bush, lot, Farmers Co-op, the Salon and from any Lions annual Pecan Sale on chairman of the sale, said County Court Clerk's offi ce, Club member. November 3, 2016. For he was able to secure this Cannon Senior Center, Dr. Profi ts from this fund- sale this year will be pecan year's crop of pecans, which Trea Wessel's offi ce, First raiser goes toward halves, walnuts, fruit and is the best in several years. Bank, Paul Reed's Furniture purchasing eye glasses, nut mix and cashews. All of these products will Store, First National Bank, eye exam, eye surgeries, Again this year, the Lions be available at the following Regions Bank, Woodbury special equipment for the have found the very best locations: Jennings Funeral Home, Woodson's sight impaired, hearing

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO MEET

The Cannon County Historical Society will meet Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cannon County Senior Center, 309 Lehman Street, Woodbury in the small dining area.

Cannon-Rutherford Counties' Public Defender Gerald Melton will gave an account of "Pomp” Kersey and his Confederate band which was massacred at Half-Acre on Short Mountain on July 24, 1864 by a Union force operating out of Liberty.

The story of Hiram Taylor “Pomp" Kersey is one of the major Civil War encounters taking place in Cannon County.

Gerald and Marsha Melton reside at Half-Acre or Mechanicsville in the Short Mountain area. Their home is about one mile from the massacre scene and about a half-mile in the other direction from the Melton Cemetery where Pomp was buried.

Mr. Melton is a long-time student of the War Between the States, with particular interest in the Pomp Kersey story. His presentation will be of much interest to all Cannon Countians and Civil War buﬀ s.

“We will meet at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments. The program will begin at 7 p.m. Come and bring your favorite "goodies" and snacks,” said Joe Davenport, president.

“Bring someone with you! Every one is welcome, and please consider yourself a "special guest.” I am looking forward to seeing you on November 8th,” Davenport said. OCTOBER 25, 2016 CANNON COURIER PAGE 13 HALLOWEEN R U ready to trick or treat?

HAUNTED WOODS AT SHORT MTN DISTILLERY Nights of terror benefi ting Short Mount- ain Volunteer Fire Department and the Cannon County Rescue Squad will continue at Short Mountain Distillery. Admission to the haunted woods is $10. Hours are 7 p.m. to midnight on October 28 & 29. On October 29th Short Mountain Distillery is hosting a free Halloween Party/ Rock Concert (featuring bullying. It takes the of rain, the festivities The tour includes said James Manning, Burning Years) AND audience through the will be held in the *** historical facts and Executive Director of DANCE PARTY from 7 last day of a teenager’s church’s Fellowship CEDARWOOD folklore. While there Oaklands Mansion. a.m. to midnight. life. It shows how Hall. FARMS are no jump-scares to Please park at Camp sites will be they die, judgment 2900 Old Nashville frighten litt le ones, the Oaklands Park Picnic available. and the heaven or *** Hwy., McMinnville stories do include those Pavilion at 427 Roberts The distillery is hell depending on the FRANKLIN’S 931-939-3960 of people who died in Street. You will then located at 8280 Short decision they made PUMPKINFEST underhanded ways, walk to the mansion to Mountain Road, with Jesus. Franklin’s Annual Through October 31 so parental discretion begin your tour! Woodbury, 37190 Last year approx- Pumpkinfest, from 10 Hours: Friday 8:30 a.m. is advised on this PG- imately 400 people a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, – 10 p.m., Saturday tour. ** *** completed the tour with October 27, converts the 9:30 a.m. – 10 p.m., GUIDED TOURS CANNON COUNTY 35 decisions for Christ. picturesque town into Sunday 12 – 5 p.m. ** OF EVERGREEN HALLOWEEN Groups of 10 or more a village of unearthly (Monday – Thursday CEMETERY HORSE RIDE are recommended. horrors — as well as by appointment only) FLASHLITE NIGHT Saturday, October 29. The ride is set for Call for a reservation the backdrop for a chili Admission: $10 AT OAKLANDS Tickets: $15 per person Saturday October 29th. to ensure shorter wait cook-off , live music, adults, $9 children Thursday, October 27 Tours begin at 6 p.m. Participants will ride times. dance performances, One-hundred acres of & Friday, October 28 This tour really digs from the Campground Pleasant View Baptist children’s activities, fun includes hayrides Explore the past...Did you at 11a.m. with a meal is located at 2355 Lonnie more than 75 arts and to the pumpkin patch Murfreesboro’s most know that Evergreen from 4 to 6 p.m. Smith Road. crafts vendors, the where you can pick mysterious mansion Cemetery began as a Trick or Treat will For reservations or Taste of the South tent, your own (pumpkin and experience slave burial ground for follow at 6 p.m. Thunder more information, call and guided nightt ime included in price of some of the unusual Oaklands Plantation in Hill from Shelbyville 615-796-1570 or 931- tours of the Old City admission), a corn mourning customs and the mid-1800’s? The will perform for a 314-2754. Cemetery and Rest maze, cor crib, two creepy superstitions cemetery offi cially dance at 8 p.m. $10 per Haven Cemetery. Free pett ing zoos, tire of the Victorian era at began on May 30, person; camping for the *** and open to the public swings, food and more. Oaklands Mansion. As 1872, when Dr. James weekend welcome. START YOUR until 6 p.m., though the doors creak open Maney sold a 20-acre For more information HALLOWEEN some events require *** to reveal the town’s tract encompassing 615-653-7156 OFF RIGHT separate tickets.www. spookiest historic the plantation’s slave Stop by the historicfranklin.com/ MEYERS CREEK home, guides in burial ground to the *** Woodbury Farmer’s events/pumpkinfest HAUNTED WOODS mourning att ire will be city of Murfreesboro. Co-op Store for free John Bragg Hwy, stationed through-out Intriguing tales, ATTENTION ALL candy, coff ee and hot *** near Murfreesboro. the mansion to answer historical facts and GHOSTS AND chocolate. Hours are questio good old-fashioned GOBLINS 7 to 11:30 p.m. on Friday As you explore the stories live on through You are invited to *** BATEY FARMS and Saturday. dark corners and creepy an evocative cemetery the Woodbury Health 3250 Wilkinson Pike, Admission: $18 ages cupboards, the shadows tour. and Rehab Center PET HALLOWEEN Murfreesboro 10 & older, $10 ages 9 will be hauntingly This memorable, on Monday, October COSTUME CONTEST 615-995-6682 & younger (must be dim. For your safety, mourning tour of 31 at the bewitching Saturday, October October 28, 29 & 30 accompanied by adult) please bring your own Evergreen Cemetery hours of 5:30 to 7:30 29 at Cannon Hours: Friday 4 – The woods await, and fl ashlight. These special will be off ered on p.m. for tricks and County Animal 11 p.m., Saturday 10 you never know what’s evening openings of Saturday, October 29, treats. Popcorn will be Clinic, 124 Masey a.m. – 11 p.m., Sunday crawling around them the mansion will take with tours beginning served! Your ghostly Drive in Woodbury. 1 – 8 p.m. (last tickets at night! place on Thursday, at 6:00 p.m. Cemetery hosts: Residents of Registration at noon, sold one hour prior to October 27 and Friday, tours will depart from the Woodbury Health judging at 12:30 p.m. closing) Admission: ** October 28, 2016, from 7 the entrance of the and Rehab. No dogs All dogs required to $8 ages 10 & older, SAM DAVIS HOME p.m. until 10 p.m. with cemetery on Greenland allowed inside the be on leashes and must $5 ages 4 – 9, free GHOST TOURS admission of $5 per Drive in groups with the building. be current on rabies ages 3 & younger 1399 Sam Davis Road, person. last tour leaving at 8:30 vaccinations. Hayrides, you-pick and Smyrna. “While in the p.m. Ticket cost is $15 *** pre-picked pumpkins October 28 & 29 downtown area, per person. Children *** and a 14-acre corn from 7 p.m. – midnight enjoying the fall fun, must be accompanied SCHOOL’S OUT TRUNK ‘N TREAT maze with a Charlott e’s Admission: $10 ages 12 take the opportunity by an adult. Oaklands REALITY HOUSE FAMILY FUN NIGHT Web theme. & older, $5 ages 5 – 11 to see Oaklands after is excited to welcome Pleasant View Baptist Saturday, October Fun fact: Batey Farms Explore ghost stories dark! When your the BoroTellers, a Church is holding a free 29 at 5 to 8 p.m. at is home to “Wilbur” the from Tennessee and fl ashlight tour is over, storytelling guild reality house, “School Woodbury Church of pig, who was the piglet Southern America if you dare, take a walk that promotes and Is Out,” on October Christ. Planned are on the cover of the in the 1800s with the on the dimly lit trails perpetuates the art of 29th from 7-10 p.m. games, treats, chilli, hot re-publication of E.B. theme “Dreadful of the wetlands and storytelling and will A walk through play, dogs, snacks, costumes White’s beloved book Demises: Deaths of see the dark refl ections join Oaklands at stops the subject this year is and more. In the event in 2006. Antebellum America.” of Maney Spring” along the walking tour. PAGE 14 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25, 2016 SOCIETY Stones River Mall to Close on Thanksgiving Day

Stones River Mall will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day and reopen on Black Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. “We want our retailers, employees, and shoppers to enjoy spending the Thanksgiving holiday with friends and family,” said Melinda Hudgins Noblitt , Stones River Mall’s Marketing & Events Manager. Restaurant and department store hours may vary, and shoppers are encouraged to contact them directly. Stones River Mall has a full calendar of events planned for the holiday shopping season, including Breakfast with Santa, Kids Club, shopping promotion, and more! For information on these and other special events and sales, visit www.StonesRiverMall.com.

HAVE A SAFE & SPOOKY HALLOWEEN

SALEM BAPTIST ASSOCIATION ELECTS 2017 OFFICES Members of the Salem Baptist Association elected 2017 offi cers at their 194th Annual Session held at Salem Baptist Church in Liberty, TN on Tuesday evening October 18th. There are 33 churches in Cannon, Dekalb and Coff ee Counties within the association. Those present for the election were (L to R): Jeff Crips, Asst. Treasurer, Pleasant View Baptist Church; Paul Fries, Director of Missions, Salem Association, Liberty; David Faulkner, Clerk, Woodbury First Baptist Church; Jonathan Womack, Moderator, Plainview Baptist Church; and Ken Griffi th, Treasurer, Salem Baptist Church. DONNA NICHOLS, photo Cannon County 4-H Award’s Recognition

Cannon County 4-H Award’s Reception was held Honor Club is organized statewide and provides on October 9, 2016 at the Cannon County Senior recognition, primarily within counties, of junior high Center. Almost 50 youth were recognized along with 4-H members who have demonstrated consistent Volunteer Leader of the Year - Rena House, Sponsor leadership ability and have been active members of the Year – Cannon County Catt lemen’s Association in their clubs and communities. Tennessee 4-H (accepted by Vice President, Davy Sneed), Friend Honor Club is one of three recognition levels that of 4-H – Cannon County Sheriﬀ ’s Department an outstanding 4-H member may achieve during (accepted by Chief Deputy, Anthony Young), Senior their 4-H career. 4-H Honor Club membership is Side 6th grade, Shane Hollandsworth - Short Mountain High Member of the Year – Bryson Bell and many others. granted to those 4-H'ers who have shown exceptional 4-H 7th grade and Emily Crook – Auburn 8th grade. Over 120 The following classes were recognized as the Cannon project work and a willingness to share what they have people were present and the 4-H members were excited to County 4-H Club of the Year for their speciﬁ c grade after learned with other 4-H members. We truly appreciate our receive many well deserved awards. Cannon County 4-H competing against all other classes in that grade across sponsors, volunteers, community support, school system, Honor Club also took time to initiate six new members the county: Patricia Pirtle -West Side 4th grade, Susan and many organizations that make the Cannon County (Emma Grace Hughes, Kiley Hughes, Emily McCullough, Nokes - Short Mountain 5th grade, Gay Burger - East 4-H Program a success! Will Byford, Hunter Owen, and Ian DeArmond). The 4-H

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Sunny Slope Church of Christ 2297 Sunny Slope Road Jesus walks on water After feeding the 5000, Jesus sends his disciples ahead of him in a boat to cross the Sea of Galilee. Several hours later in the night, the disciples encounter a storm. Jesus comes to them, walking on the water. This terrifi es the disciples who think they are seeing a ghost. Jesus tells them in verse 27, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” Peter replies, “Lord, if it’s you, tell me to come to you on the water.” So Jesus invites Peter to come. Peter gets out of the boat and begins walking on the water toward Jesus. But when Peter takes his eyes off Jesus and sees the wind and waves, he begins to sink. Peter cries out to the Lord and Jesus immediately reaches out his hand and catches Peter. As they climb into the boat together, the storm ceases. Then the disciples worship Jesus, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” Points of Interest from the Story: • Jesus sends the disciples away so he can get alone on the mountainside and pray. Even in his busy schedule, spending time with God is a priority for Jesus. • The disciples, even though they have spent much time with Jesus, don’t recognize him in the storm. Sometimes we don’t recognize the Lord when he comes to us in the middle of our “storms.” • Peter doesn’t begin to sink until he starts looking around at the wind and the waves. Taking our eyes off Jesus, and focusing on the diffi cult circumstances will cause us to get under our problems. But when we cry out to Jesus, he catches us by the hand and raises us above the seemingly impossible surroundings. • Peter starts out with good intentions, but his faith falters. This does not, however, end up in failure. Peter, even in his fear, cries out to the Lord, the only one who can help him. • When Jesus gets in the boat, the storm ceases. When we have Jesus “in our boat” the storms of life will be calmed and we can worship Him. PAGE 16 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25, 2016 PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE the fi led legal documents at of Children’s Services. If unmatured against said on the 11th day of October, the date of the creditor the Cannon Juvenile Court you fail to do so, a default estate are required to fi le 2016, lett ers of testamentary receiving an actual copy PAUL CLARK Clerk’s Offi ce, Woodbury, judgment will be taken same with the clerk of the or lett ers of administration of the Notice to Creditors, Tennessee. against you pursuant Rule above named court within with respect to the estate of if the creditor received the The State of Tennessee, 55 of the Tenn. R. of Civ. P. four months of the fi rst Joy D Fann, deceased were copy of the Notice less than Department of Children’s for the relief demanded in publication of this notice, issued to the undersigned sixty (60) days prior to the Services has fi led a Petition ****************************** the Petition. You may view otherwise their claims will by the Chancery Court date that is four (4) months against you seeking a and obtain a copy of the be forever barred. of Cannon County, from the date of the fi rst fi nding of dependency LEGAL NOTICE fi led legal documents at the Tennessee. All persons, publication (or posting) as and neglect in regards to JOHN FRANK Cannon County Juvenile This 4th day of October, resident and non-residents, described in (1)(A): or your children. It appears MCTAGGART Court Clerk’s Offi ce, 2016. having claims, matured (2) Twelve (12) months that ordinary process Woodbury, Tennessee. and unmatured against from the decedent’s date of of law cannot be served The State of Tennessee, Joseph Alan Peay Executor the estate are required to death. upon you because your Department of Children’s ****************************** of the Estate of Georgia Fay fi le same with the Clerk whereabouts are unknown. Services has fi led a Petition Tassey, deceased. of the Chancery Court on This 11th day of October, You are hereby ORDERED against you seeking a NOTICE TO CREDITORS or before the earlier of the 2016. to appear in the Juvenile fi nding of dependency BOBBY SMITH dates prescribed in (1) or Court of Cannon County at and neglect in regards Estate of Georgia Fay COUNTY CLERK (2), otherwise claims will Amy Lack, Administratrix Woodbury, Tennessee on to your child. It appears Tassey be forever barred: of the Estate of Joy Dell the 8th day of November, that ordinary process JOSEPH ALAN PEAY Fann, deceased. 2016 at 1:00 PM for the of law cannot be served Notice is hereby given ATTORNEY (1) (A) Four (4) months Hearing on the Petition upon you because your that on the 4th day of from the date of the fi rst NATHAN S NICHOLS by the State of Tennessee, whereabouts are unknown. October, 2016, lett ers of ****************************** publication (or posting, CLERK & MASTER Department of Children’s You are hereby ORDERED testamentary in respect as the case may be) of Services. If you fail to do so, to appear in the Juvenile of the estate of Georgia NOTICE TO CREDITORS this Notice if the creditor MATTHEW COWAN a default judgment will be Court of Cannon County, Fay Tassey deceased were CHANCERY COURT OF received an actual copy of ATTORNEY taken against you pursuant at Woodbury, Tennessee issued to the undersigned CANNON COUNTY, the Notice to Creditors at to Rule 55 of the Tennessee on the 22nd day of by the Chancery Court of TENNESSEE least sixty (60) before the ****************************** Rules of Civil Procedure November, 2016 at 9:00 Cannon County, Tennessee. date that is four (4) months for the relief demanded AM for the Hearing on the All persons both resident Estate of Joy Dell Fann from the date of the fi rst in the Petition. You may Petition fi led by the State and non-residents, having publication (or posted); or view and obtain a copy of of Tennessee, Department claims matured and Notice is hereby given that (B) Sixty (60) days from

Add Some Eye Candy to Your Garden This Fall By Melinda Myers

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"Early Voting" Escape foiled at Turney Center Begins in Statewide Student Mock Election ONLY- The quick att empting to conceal correctional environment. work of our Correctional himself from staff . It must These offi cers epitomized Offi cers stopped an be stressed that Milks the Department’s mission "Early voting" is offi cially excited about this program an essay contest to escape att empt at the did not escape from the to operate safe and secure underway in Tennessee's and I know students are encourage them to be Turney Center Industrial secure facility. This means prisons and their work fi rst ever statewide Student eager to participate," said actively engaged citizens. Complex. no fences were breached defi nitely enhanced public Mock Election. Teachers Secretary of State Tre Essays topics will be During a routine during this att empt and he safety last night.” from schools across the Hargett . "Our hope is their about voting and length count, yesterday, October never left the secure area Milks has an state were able to begin interest in voting continues requirements vary by grade 20, offi cers found that of the prison. extensive criminal history entering their results as they become young level. Schools may submit inmate Arthur Milks The exceptional including a 2010 escape yesterday. adults." two essays at each grade #420714 had not returned work by our offi cers att empt from a county level. Winners from each from his prison work and the adherence facility. He is currently Results must be submitt ed Students in preschool level will receive a TNStars assignment. At that time to standard security serving sentences for by 4 p.m. CDT on Mock through high school from 529 College Savings emergency procedures protocols prevented multiple charges of Election Day, Nov. 1. Mock all public and private Program scholarship were activated and the this escape. According felony theft, burglary and presidential election results schools as well as home worth $100, $250 or $500 facility was placed on to Commissioner Tony vandalism out Henderson, will be revealed Nov. 2, less school associations in in addition to a trip to the temporary lockdown. Parker, “Our team’s initial Wilson, Rutherford and than a week before the real Tennessee can participate. State Capitol. During the course response when paired with Madison Counties. The general election. Ballots lett ing students of that investigation, it was their adherence to policy Department’s Offi ce choose between Democratic The program also off ers determined that Milks was and procedures prevented of Investigation and There are currently presidential nominee lesson plans created by planning to escape from this escape. Their actions Compliance is leading more than 500 schools Hillary Clinton, Republican Tennessee teachers. The the facility. Inmate Milks should be commended. this investigation and will participating from 91 of presidential nominee goal is to off er an easy way was discovered in an area Although rare, incidents present the fi ndings to the the state's 95 counties, Donald Trump and all for teachers to incorporate near his work location such as an att empted local District Att orney for meaning an estimated qualifi ed independent civic engagement and (inmate food service area) escape do occur in the prosecution. 241,000 students are doing presidential candidates citizenship into their something most children were provided, but schools curriculum leading up to can't: vote for president of could conduct elections the Student Mock Election. the United States. locally in diff erent ways. For more information NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The essay submission on the essay contest, the "Our response has been deadline is Nov. 4. Student Mock Election A public hearing will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at overwhelming. Educators or lesson plans visit:sos. 10:00 a.m. at the Cannon County Courthouse in Woodbury, Tennessee. from all across the state are Students are also entering tn.gov/civics The purpose of said meeting is to discuss the possibility of applying for a Community Development Block Grant through the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. The hearing is open to the public and active participation is highly encouraged. No person in the United States should, on the grounds of race, religion, COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING color, or national origin be excluded from participation in, be denied The Cannon County Commission will meet in regular session: benefi ts of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal Assistance. If special need accommodations Thursday, November 3, 2016 are required, you may contact the County Executive’s Offi ce at 615-563-2320. 5:00 p.m. Cannon County Courthouse Mike Gannon, County Executive CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25 2016 PAGE 17 CRIME & COURTS ‘Caterpiller’ on the Loose

Cannon County intersection of Frank Holt Warrant Issued he was off -loading. Both Entry was through a David Waldon, hold from Road and Perkins Hollow. vehicles were damaged. door which was heavily Bledsoe County and a Sheriff 's Offi ce A leaving the scene of splintered and frame capias from Cumberland When the owner returned an accident warrant was Burglary reported broken. County. Reported Stolen to recover the skidder he issued after a tow truck discovered that it was gone driver from Copelands An air-conditioning unit Warrants Served Woodbury A Caterpiller logging from that location. The Towing of Nashville was vandalized with all Police skidder was reported machine was entered into allegedly stuck a the copper components cut Devin Gunter, violation of stolen after it caught fi re NCIC. customer’s vehicle at Beans off of it during a break-in community corrections. None Reported and left disabled near the Auto Diesel with a vehicle at a Cannon County home.

TDCI Reminds Consumers of FIRST YOUNG SPORTSMAN DEER HUNT OCT. 29-30 Cyber Security Basics The fi rst of two Tennessee Trapping Guide. The guide similar to the 2014 total young sportsman deer lists license requirements, of 5,673. All 95 Tennessee Protecting Personal Information in a Digital hunts for the 2016-17 the counties and bag limits counties reported harvests season will be held the for each of the diff erent in 2015 with Cumberland World Requires Vigilance weekend of Oct. 29-30. deer management units. County posting the highest The guides are available two-day total with 160 Youth ages 6-16 years where hunting and fi shing followed by Giles County With National Cyber Security or thumb drive. Ask yourself what a of age may participate. licenses are sold and on with 142, Henry and Awareness Month in full swing, the hacker could find out about you if they Participating youth can use the TWRA website, www. Montgomery County with Tennessee Department of Commerce accessed your stored documents. gun, muzzleloader, and tnwildlife.org. 134, and Lawrence County & Insurance’s (TDCI) Division of archery equipment. with 129. Consumer Affairs shares essential tips • Use passwords or answers to security In 2015, youth hunters to help safeguard personal information questions that only you would know. A Young sportsmen must harvested a total of 5,854 when online. little research on the Internet can help be accompanied by a deer during the fi rst hunt, thieves find the answers to common non-hunting adult, 21 or “While computers and other Internet- security questions such as your mother’s older who must remain in driven devices bring a wealth of maiden name. Make up an answer that position to take immediate convenience, they can also make us only you would know. control of the hunting vulnerable to identity theft and other device. The adult must also cybercrimes,” said TDCI Consumer • Know whom you’re dealing with. comply with the fl uorescent Protection Director Cynthia Wiel. “By Don’t click on links that are listed in an orange regulations as taking simple precautions, Tennesseans email to you. Use the web addresses and specifi ed for legal hunters. can strengthen the security of their contact information that you normally Multiple youth may be webenabled devices and help protect would. Thieves often send fraudulent accompanied by a single their personal information.” emails known as “spam” in an attempt qualifying adult. to gain your personal information. The Division of Consumer Affairs Archery season began in encourages consumers to consider the • Be cautious shopping online. the state on Sept. 24 and following basic guidelines to enhance Fraudulent sites exist for the simple the fi rst segment ends cyber security: purpose of collecting your information. Oct. 28, the day prior to Make sure you can physically locate the the opening of the young • Keep your anti-virus, anti-spyware business if you experience a problem sportsman hunt. The and firewalls current. Your security and that the business has a secure second segment of archery settings and software are critical to website. only season resumes on keeping computer hackers from gaining Monday, Oct. 31. ATTENTION ALL GHOSTS AND GOBLINS access to your computer. For more consumer resources, or to file You are invited to the Woodbury Health and Rehab a complaint, contact the TDCI Division The TWRA makes the Center on Monday, October 31 at the bewitching hours • Don’t save personal information of Consumer Affairs at 800-342-8385 or recommendation that all of 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for tricks and treats. Popcorn will be including resumes or financial records visit www.wehelpconsumers.tn.gov. hunters obtain a 2016-17 served! Your ghostly hosts: Residents of the Woodbury on your hard drive. Save them to a disk Tennessee Hunting and Health and Rehab. No dogs allowed inside the building

NOTICE OF DELINQUENT PROPERTY TAX SALE

CHANCERY COURT OF CANNON COUNTY, TN TAKE NOTICE THAT, pursuant to a decree of the Chancery Court of Cannon County, Tennessee in Civil Action Number 16-62 (Cannon County & Woodbury, Tennessee vs. Delinquent Taxpayers for 2014), I will sell the following properties to the highest bidder at public auction in the Courtroom of the Cannon County Courthouse at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, October 31, 2016 to satisfy certain delinquent property taxes, interests and court costs accrued as of the time of sale. OWNER(S) MAP PARCEL ADDRESS Cummings, James Morgan 047 050.00 3040 McMinnville Hwy. Dzierzynski, Duane 086 019.00 10497 Hollow Springs Rd. Ford, Clifton 054 003.00 383 Billy West Rd. Jocelyn, Jeanett e T. 065 119.00 204 Pett y Gap Rd. Rich, James R & Linda 047 034.00 Vance Rd Sissom, Slade 039 053.00 202 Main St Thomas, Robin 009 041.00 4263 Sycamore Creek Rd Toombs, Johnny Ray 007 018.00 46 Cooper Av

TERMS OF SALE

-WINNING BIDDERS MUST PAY THE BALANCE DUE IN FULL BY CASH, MONEY ORDER OR CASHIER’S CHECK NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 7, 2016 AT 4:30 P.M. OR THEIR PURCHASE WILL BE VOID. PERSONAL AND BUSINESS CHECKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!; -ALL SALES ARE SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF EQUITY REDEMPTION; -PAST DUE TAXES TO BE PAID FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE WITH THE 2016 PROPERTY TAXES TO BE PRORATED; -THIS AUCTION IS SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE CHANCERY COURT; -BIDS WHICH DO NOT COVER ALL CURRENT AND PAST DUE TAXES, PENALTIES, INTEREST, COURT COSTS AND AUCTION EXPENSES WILL BE REJECTED; NATHAN S. NICHOLS CLERK & MASTER OF CANNON COUNTY PAGE 18 CANNON COURIER OCTOBER 25, 2016 CLASSIFIEDS

LAWN CARE - TREE SERVICE - FLEA MARKET HOUSE FOR RENT NOTICE 307 Greenbriar STUMP REMOVAL 3 bedroom/ 1 bath NOTICE FLEA MARKET ROOTED AND GROUND Carport & Garage GOFF’S TREE If rent is not paid by OPEN EVERY LAWN CARE - Deposit of $650, SERVICE - Complete October 28, 2016, 12:00 WEEKEND Locally owned and operated, references and work tree service, free noon, contents will be Woodbury Flea Market open insured. 17 years experience. history required. estimates. We remove shown by appointment every weekend. If you have Dependable, aff ordable, quality $650 per month trees and climb those only and disposed of too much stuff and not enough service for commercial and Call Pam impossible ones. by sealed bid. space, sell it at the Flea Market. residential clients. We mow, 615-504-4716 Licensed and insured. Estate sales welcome. Great weedeat, trim hedges, mulch, r10/25 615-943-TREE (8733). #48 Rhonda Workman place to buy and sell. Rentals TF- seed, prune, etc. Visa, MC, #80 April Hawkins by the week or month. Call AmerExp accepted. 615-318-6093. (615) 563-2159 for booth space TFN Hibdon's Storage or information. Open rain or 615-563-4285 shine. TF Church Building for rent / sale. Seating capacity 200+ in auditorium MOBILE HOMES lr10/25 4 classrooms, 3 restrooms, nursery, 1 offi ce & storage room, 1 fellowship hall NOTICE OF 615-848-3580 tfn FINISHED SHEETROCK THE HERITAGE UNCLAIMED VEHICLE DOUBLEWIDE only Just arrived, must see. Triple The following vehicles $39,900. Pick your paint Dormers, ceiling beams, are in our possession and FOR RENT colors, set up and delivered. built-ins with stone accents, being held by Woodbury 203 Lee Avenue TN’s largest independent movable island, spa master Auto Express, 615-563- bath. Customize yours to a Super Clean 3 bedroom, 1& dealer. 5320 until amount owed 3, 4 or even 5 bedroom. TVA 1/2 bath home. Carport, is paid in full. If payment Meadows Homes free heatpump upgrade. concrete drive 4651 Manchester Hwy Exclusively available at is not made in full by No Pets McMinnville Meadows Homes November 1 2016 the $900 month (931) 668-7300 4651 Manchester Hwy owner/ or lien holder $900 deposit relinquishes all rights to FOR SALE www.meadowshomes.com McMinnville owner/agent 615-207-4555 (931) 668-7300 vehicle under T.C.A. 55- Hot Point 17 cu ft tfn www.meadowshomes.com 16-105 Refrigerator / Freezer DUPLEX FOR LEASE THE BIG BANG 3 bedroom, TF 1994 Pontiac VIN Like New No connection fees, electric 2 baths, 16’ wide, free 1G2HX52LDR4273887 Only $200 obo and water included heatpump upgrade! $29,900. 615-563-9206 3 Bedroom - 1 Bath NEW ENERGY STAR More bang for your bucks! HOME 2x6 walls, tfn 1175 sq feet Greatest Home Show on Thermopane windows, black 7486 McMinnville Hwy Earth now in progress at appliance package, only $795 per month All real estate advertised $23,900. SCRAP PRICES Large new selection of herein is subject to the Meadows Homes plus deposit Meadows Homes used like new washers- Federal Fair Housing 4651 Manchester Hwy 615-585-7929 Act, which makes it McMinnville 4651 Manchester Hwy dryers-refrigerators-range/ McMinnville SMITH’S TRUCK illegal to advertise ‘any (931) 668-7300 ovens-yard equip. & (931) 668-7300 SALVAGE - preference, limitation, or www.meadowshomes.com furniture. One Bedroom for Rent discrimination because of www.meadowshomes.com Let us bid on your scrap Plus many other items. Professional single. New, race, color,religion, sex, TF-C vehicle. Extra driver on handicap, familial status, Call Tom @ L&S SALES large upscale one bedroom, Special Limited Time Only, New Doublewide, Energy weekends. 615-563-4343. 615-318-4599 or or national origin, or extra large bathwith intention to make any suck Star Qualifi ed, 2x6 ext walls and free heat pump set up TF- Mark @ 615-849-6274. oversized closet and mini preference, limitation or and delivered with concrete footers for $39,900. Davis lr11/22 kitchen area. Tile/laminet discrimination’. We will Homes, Inc. 2598 Smithville Hwy, McMinnville, TN 37110, SERVICES fl ooring. Upscale, private not knowingly accept any davishomesinc.net entry. Walkable to City advertising for real estate which is in violation of the BIG SELECTION of used Center. Washer/Dryer. like new washers-dryers- law. All persons are hereby ABUNDANCE ALL Ample package. Utilities informed that all dwellings refrigerators-stoves-yard included. New refrigerator advertised are available on SERVICE equip. & furniture. / microwave $590 month an equal opportunity basis. STATEWIDE Remodels, Decks, New Plus many other items. 615-585-2272 Construction, Electrical, 5701 McMinnnville Hwy., lr 10/25 Plumbing, Free Estimates. Woodbury. CLASSIFIEDS JOSH STANSBURY Home Call Tom @ L&S SALES (615) 563-1914 615-318-4599 or Cell (615) 416-9009 Mark @ 615-849-6274. TF- HELP WANTED Auctions Provided. File/Pay Fuel lr 11/22 Taxes. Owner Operators REAL ESTATE AUCTION, Lease Today! CDL-A, PATTERSON’S For Sale. 75 lots in Fairfi eld Glade, 25 yrs., 2 years OTR HANDYMAN SERVICE Two Ford Expeditions, Crossville, TN., Nov 9 experience 870-336-9051 Painting - Plumbing - Minor 2000 and 2002, at 5 PM. Fairfi eld Glade (TnScan) Electrical - Carpentry - with V-8 motors, was rated as one of the Roofi ng - Vinyl Siding - new tires and in good “Top 50 Places To Retire” CLASS A CDL Flatbed Deck Building - Pressure mechanical shape. in 2013 and off ers 5 golf Drivers *NEW PAY SCALE* Washing - and more. No job Available in Centertown. courses, 11 lakes, a dog NEW 389 Pete’s/Trucks set too small. Free estimates. Call 865-310-5333 or park, shopping and dining. @ 70MPH/Starting Pay up Home 563-5057 or cell 464- 865-310-4773. This is your chance to to .52cpm/Health Ins./401K/ 8177. TF- lr11/8 buy a reasonably priced Per Diem Pay/Home lot in a wonderful active Weekends/800-648-9915 or WRECKER lifestyle community! Call www.boydandsons.com PUPPIES FOR SALE for free bidder information (TnScan) $50 each packet 800-551-3588. Woltz SMITH’S WRECKER Mixbreed & Associates, Inc. (TN RECRUITING SERVICE 6 weeks old and ready for #2752) Auction Information HEADACHES? WE CAN is running 24 hour wrecker their forever homes. session Oct 30 from 1 to 4 Help! Advertise your job service. Towing for 29 years Contact Mark PM. (TnScan) opening in this newspaper Day is 615-563-4343 615-809-6012 + 99 newspapers across the Night is 615-653-5643. GUNS & ESTATE state - One Call/Email for TF- AUCTION - Kubota All! Contact our classifi ed ESTATE YARD SALE Tractor - Boat - Hunting. dept. or email belliott @ YARD SALE Estate Yard Sale of the See Guns - TennesseeBid. tnpress.com (TnScan) late Nora P Cook on 107 com - Piney River - 110 ESTATE YARD SALE Lehman Street, Woodbury acs - Scenic Auction Sat. Mobile Homes for Sale Estate Yard Sale of the Friday Oct 28 Nov. 5th - 10am www. late Nora P Cook on 107 Saturday Oct 29 HudginsAuctions.com - MOVE IN READY Drivers: JOB FAIR!! Class A Yard Jockeys! Company Lehman Street, Woodbury 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM 931-994-7144 (FL#5232) Live MOBILE HOMES. Owner Drivers! Full Time - All Shifts! Benefi ts, PTO, Bonuses! Friday Oct 28 Antique bedroom suite, Auction in Centerville. fi nancing on select homes Clarion Hotel: 2227 Old Fort Parkway, Murfreesboro, Saturday Oct 29 Couch, sleeper-couch, Details at - TennesseeBid. with approved credit. No TN. 11/3-11/4 (8-5p) 11/5 (9a-3p) 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM slider rocker, chairs, dining com (TnScan) rent option, but buying More Info: 586-871-6821 Antique bedroom room table and 6 chairs, could be cheaper than rent! lr11/1 suite, Couch, sleeper- 2 wooden rockers, 2 TV’s, Cable/Satellite TV 865-291-0506 (TnScan) couch, slider rocker, refrigerator, washer, chairs, dining room dryer, buff et, sewing DISH Network -NEW FLEX Sporting Goods table and 6 chairs, 2 machine, dishes, Star PACK- Select the Channels wooden rockers, 2 TV’s, of David dishes, lamps, You Want. Free Installation. GUN SHOW OCT. 29- refrigerator, washer, lots of ceramic birds, Free Streaming. $39.99/24 30 Sat. 9-5 & Sun. 9-4 dryer, buff et, sewing Christmas decoration, months. Add Internet for Knoxville Expo Center machine, dishes, Star curtains, cabinets, 3 large $14.95 a month. CALL (6441 Clinton Highway) of David dishes, lamps, rugs, small appliances 1-800-423-6015 (TnScan) Exit 108 Off I-75N. Buy- lots of ceramic birds, and lots of miscellaneous Sell-Trade Info: (563) 927- Christmas decoration, household goods. Divorce Services 8176 (TnScan) curtains, cabinets, 3 large Sale will be held Rain or rugs, small appliances Shine. DIVORCE WITH OR Tourism/Travel WITHOUT children and lots of miscellaneous $125.00. Includes name RIVERARTVILLAGE. household goods. change and property HOMESTEAD.COM - Sale will be held Rain or sett lement agreement. Stage, Flea Market (Open Shine. SAVE hundreds. Fast and Thurs, Fri, Sat) Musicians, easy. 1-888-733-7165, call us Artists $, Employment BEE a Subscriber Toll Free 24/7 (TnScan) $. Land, Houses, Cabins, Camping. 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