Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
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December 25, 1952 No newspaper was published this week. December 27, 1962 No newspaper was published this week. December 28, 1972 S.E. Kealhofer, Cloyd Peery, and Hershel Spears were first place winners in the annual Home Lighting Contest sponsored by the Lewis County Civic Club. A New Year’s Dance scheduled to be held at the Hohenwald Recreation and Golf Club on December 30, 1972. Music would be provided by the Atlantic Eastern, a seven-piece band from Dickson, TN. Army Privates Russell D...
December 18, 1952 Annie Mai Edwards, Doris Floyd, and Linda Hickerson appeared on the WSM radio program, “You and Your Home”. Members of the Hohenwald Volunteer Fire Department and their spouses were treated to a chicken banquet at LCHS. Musical entertainment was provided by the LCHS choir ensemble. A turkey shoot was planned for December 20 at the Flatwoods community. M.V.A. Motor Company advertised that customers need only call them and they would pick you their cars, service it as they dir...
December 11, 1952 J.H. Warf, County Superintendent of Schools, announced that he received notification from the State Department of Education that LCHS was given an A-1 rating. The A-1 rating was the highest rating a school could receive in TN; out of 350 to 400 high schools in the state, only 31 qualified for this rating. The newspaper reported that “with but 14 days until Christmas, Hohenwald has taken on the holiday atmosphere.” Members of the Hohenwald Volunteer Fire Department and the...
December 4, 1952 The Hohenwald Fire Department asked residents to donate old toys that could be re-gifted to an underprivileged girl or boy for Christmas. The Fire Department would mend and repaint toys before giving them to other children. R. K. Roney, Jr. was elected Worshipful Master of the Hohenwald Masonic Lodge. Mrs. Era Williams was named chair for the local March of Dimes campaign. Hulon Dickey was reassigned to Amarillo Air Force Base, TX for aircraft maintenance training. Mr. and Mrs....
November 27, 1952 Minnie Evans resigned as Clerk of the Lewis County Selective Service board effective December 31. Evans had served as Clerk since 1948. O.E. Marbet, local board chair, announced that applications were being accepted for a replacement. R.K. Roney was named Chairman of the Lewis County Crusade for Freedom campaign. The campaign sought to raise funds for the support of Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, privately owned networks which beamed factual material to countries...
November 20, 1952 Mayor W.C. Keaton announced the publication and release of an Annual Report which would be mailed to all city water customers. This was the first report of this type ever published by the City. Ernest Rasbury replaced Reverend Byron Webb as temporary acting postmaster at the local office until a permanent replacement was made. A resident was arrested on a whiskey charge for the third time in less than a year. The newspaper reported that evidence was difficult to obtain because...
November 13, 1952 It was reported that Armistice Day passed quietly in Hohenwald. “As has been the custom for the past several years, Armistic [sic] Day passed almost unnoticed here. Possibly within a few more years this holiday will be completely forgotten by all except the Banks and Post Office.” Radio station WDX of Lawrenceburg, AM 1370, announced that they would would inaugurate a weekly school program from the Hohenwald School building on November 13. The program would air each Thu...
November 6, 1952 The main headline for the week was “Eisenhower Our Next President.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency with a landslide national vote. In the presidential race, Adlai Stevenson received 1,308 votes and Eisenhower 540 votes from Lewis County residents. W.W. Pollock announced that after 33 years as owner and publisher of the Lewis County Herald, he was retiring and that the newspaper had been sold to his son, Ernest S. Pollock, who took active charge of the business o...
October 30, 1952 Mr. and Mrs. Sam T. Bates celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home with an open house during the afternoon and evening. The Herald colorfully reported that the LCHS football team “cut a big notch in their stick… when they gave Centerville a 18 to 0 rubbing at the new athletic field before a record crowd.” Residents donated over 1,309 pounds of clothing to the Clothing for Korea drive sponsored by the Nashville Banner. The American Legion Post 127 announced that...
October 23, 1952 The presentation of a diorama of Meriwether Lewis on the Natchez Trace would be made by S.L. von Gemmingen, District Engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads to the National Park Service at Meriwether Lewis Park on October 24. Mayor W.C. Keaton congratulated Gifford Brown for his work in organizing the Ground Observer Post in Hohenwald and recruiting 18 observers to spot and report aircraft to the government authorities. Hohenwald was one of more than 60 Middle Tennessee...
October 16, 1952 The City of Hohenwald completed its second year of side walk construction with 2,150 feet having been built under the joint cost plan with the city and property owner. The Nashville Banner was complementary of the Lewis County pasture program, pointing out that demonstration plots seeded in each community, under the sponsorship of the Hohenwald Civic Club and interested fertilizer companies, was the first of this kind in this area. The Lewis County Pasture Committee was the...
October 09, 1952 The State Highway Department supply house caught on fire. The building used to house tools and supplies was destroyed while a larger building used by the highway crew was saved. Billy Crowe was stationed with the Army at Fort Benning, GA. Howard Halfacre was serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. Betty Sue Neeley was named a Five Star General (employee of the month) at General Shoe. The Hohenwald FHA announced they would sponsor an amateur talent contest...
October 02, 1952 The Heald reported that “another old landmark of the early days of Hohenwald’s existence” had been lost when the J.B. King Blacksmith shop building on corner of Park Avenue North and Swan Avenue had been torn down. Wilson Sharp purchased the building, built 30 years prior by Sam Bates and T.C. Allison, from J.B. King. Sharp planned to build a Service Station, Garage, and Upholstery Shop on the location. An outdoor telephone booth was installed on the corner of Park Avenue and M...
September 25, 1952 Ford Turnbow and Buford Ogg shot a bob cat that lounged at them while hunting on Swan Creek. Wanda Talley volunteered into the Waves on September 17 and would take her boot training in Bainbridge, MD. 4-H club members attended the Tennessee State Fair. G.Y. Bennett, Charles Edwards, and Murray Johnston placed 11th in a field of 26 in crops judging. Wylie Carroll, Glen Floyd, Gayther Hinson, Jr., and Wayne Tharpe placed 17 out of 31 in livestock. Gene Nafa, Bobby Voorhies, and...
September 18, 1952 James Bromley, U.S. Army, completed his basic training at the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center, Ft. Lee, VA. Robert Massey, U.S. Navy, arrived in Hawaii with duty with the Navy Air Transport Squadron. The following Genesco Shoe employees receive pins in honor of ten years of service: Grady Baker, Ollie Kimble, Marguerite Pollock, and Thomas Turnbow, Jr. Kittrell Motor Company advertised that they had best grade Western Kentucky size 6x3 nut coal available at the price...
September 11, 1952 A Shetland pony and saddle were scheduled to be given away at the Stand Theatre on September 18, 1952. Children were encouraged to attend the theatre often to increase their odds of winning, and would need to be present at the drawing to win. The Order of the Eastern Star announced the starting of a cake service for the public in Hohenwald. Orders for cakes for all occasions would need to be placed with Mrs. Horace Whitehead at Whitehead Plumbing and Electric. Mr. and Mrs. J....
September 4, 1952 A construction of an annex to City Hall was completed. The new space would be used as a municipal jail. Space formerly used by the jail would be used as a garage for an additional fire truck. The LCHS band would debut their new marching band uniforms at the season opening game on September 05. Joe Dudley and Earl Stutts, USN, both were serving aboard the USS Sigourney and participated in the Royal Canadian Navy Day celebration held in Halifx, Nova Scotia. Arthur Hardwood, U.S....
August 26, 1982 Governor Lamar Alexander announced the approval of a $498,330 Community Development block grant for industrial park improvements in Hohenwald. Local law enforcement confiscated 17 marijuana plants found growing on the old railroad bed near Hwy 48 South. The Rural Fire Department of Lewis County announced that it had entered into an agreement with Loretta Lynn’s Dude Ranch and Jamboree Music Productions to sponsor a fund raising benefit to help purchase another fire truck to r...
August 21, 1952 A diorama depicting Meriwether Lewis approaching Grinder’s Stand was on exhibit in the replica cabin at Meriwether Lewis National Monument. The diorama was created by artists employed by the Bureau of Public Roads and donated to the National Park Service. A delayed report was received on the annual Hohenwald Old Timers Picnic held in Dixon, IL. A total of 81 persons attended. Vocational Agriculture Teacher, A. O. Ramy wrote an article about the E. B. Dyer farm and how the s...
August 14, 1952 The City of Hohenwald completed construction of a new parking lot on Main Street beside Kittrell Motor Company. All citizens who planned to be in the city all day or for several hours were asked to park their vehicles in the parking lot. “This would provide parking space for shoppers who plan to be in the city only a short time. If the people will cooperate and use this parking lot, this would eliminate a lot of our parking and traffic problems.” The City of Hohenwald not...
August 7, 1952 This issue of the Lewis County Herald was published one day earlier “in order that final appeals from the various candidates might reach the voters of the county in time for election day.” City Ordinance number 240 was passed prohibiting the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages of not more than 5% content by weight, between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm, or on any day upon which a general or primary election is held. A Tennessee Fish and Game Commission survey crew was working alo...
July 31, 1952 The Lewis County Herald announced that it would run one day early on its next issue so that voters could receive the most up-to-date election information in order to make an informed decision prior to casting their vote on August 7. R. K. Roney was elected 7th District Commander of the Tennessee American Legion. Ward Clayton arrived in Korea and was serving with the 1st Division, U. S. Marine Corps. Funeral services were held for Bessie Scheiwiller, 34. Mary’s Flower Shop, o...
July 24, 1952 A new heat record was set in Lewis County. Fred Roush, Superintendent at Meriwether Lewis National Park, reported that a high temperature of 105 was set on Tuesday, July 22. Attorney Thomas Fox who was running unopposed for State Senate for Lewis, Perry, and Maury Counties in the Democratic primary received orders from the Marine Corps to report for recalled duty at Camp Lejune, NC as a legal officer for a minimum of two years active duty. The “Old Folks” (Jerry Fite, Boyd Hum...
July 17, 1952 Mayor W.C. Keaton proclaimed July 14-19 at “Tennessee Constitution Revision Week” and urged residents to inform themselves on the question of the Limited Constitutional Convention that would appear on the general election ballot on August 7, 1952; and that all groups holding meetings before the election should schedule at least one program about the convention so that all residents could vote intelligently. An editorial was reprinted from the Nashville Tennessean that compared Lewi...
July 10, 1952 The State of Tennessee asked the Lewis and Maury County to buy right-of-way on the uncompleted section of Hwy. 99 (slightly less than 7 miles with just a little over half if the distance in Lewis County). The LCH reported that the State did not propose to pay any part of the cost of the right-of-way at that time. A new pest called a bag worm arrived in the county, easily destroying evergreens. O.R. Holly, formerly associated with the Department of Extension work in cooperation...
