• Maury
1930
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Jan 31 – The Automobile Radio Corp announced that Willard's Service Stations nationwide will sell, service and install Transitone radio’s in motor cars. The Columbia Auto Supply company, agents for Willard's in Columbia will sell and install the radio’s.
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Feb 3 – Fire destroyed all the Jenkins block in Mt Pleasant, $75,000 damages in 5 buildings, 3 offices including the Dixie theatre, new City Drug Store, Electric Power company, W.W. Owen Barber Shop and the Model Shoe company.
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Feb 7 – Columbia was selected as one of 8 district Hdqtrs. For the Tennessee State Highway Patrol. (Maury, Giles, Lawrence, Hickman, Wayne, Perry and Lewis Counties) Jerry Holt Jr. of Culleoka is taking training and will certainly be on patrol here.
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Feb 13 – The Tennessee Gas company is remodeling its office on the public square and announced plans for a gas pipeline loop to convert homes between 11th street and the L & N underpass.
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Feb 13 – Maury County dairy products set a new record in 1929 with a $600,000 value, an increase of 40 percent. The largest buyer was Borden’s and Dimple creamery.
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Feb 27 – The Columbia Cotton Mills will close. The mill has 7000 spindles and 210 looms and manufactures cotton sheets. It will move to Shelbyville. The mill started in 1890 and employed 150 people with a weekly payroll of $2200.
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March 6 – 10 Gold Star mother’s of 48 (white) Maury County boys killed in the World War are eligible for a trip to Europe to visit their sons grave sponsored by the US Govt. Among the 60 Maury Countians losing their lives in the war were 12 “colored.” The following is a list of boys from Maury County buried on foreign soil: Joe Baker Warren 23, E.F. Fouragere, Leslie O Crane 34, Osey Jones 27, Thomas A Mitchell of Glendale 22, James W Wilson 30, Lon (dick) Brown 23, Tom Workman 27, Robert a Hayes 24, Lester Allen Barnet 24, and Earl Flowers 28.
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March 20 – Two wolves were killed near McCain’s, only 5 miles from Columbia. (Coyotes) The wolves have been in Eugene Thomas woods for several years.
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April 3 – Columbia Military Academy closed with a graduation of 140 Cadets and marks 25 years of existence here. Financial difficulties being the reason for the closing. The remaining students will transfer to Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon.
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April 19 – Henry Carlisle opens store in Betal on banks of Liepers Creek. Operated over 50 years with Mrs. Merle Carlicle operating after her husbands death in 1975.
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April 24 – The Columbia Brick company started operation to turn out 25,000 brick per day at the old Simpson brick yard in Riverside, managed by Dixon Sowell.
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April 24 – Mt Pleasant population at 2,010; Spring Hill at 416; Maury County at 31,776, compared to 35,405 in 1920.
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Feb 6 – The governors of Tennessee and North Carolina presented 150,000 acres of the Great Smokey mountains to Secretary of Interior, Ray L Wilber to Est. a National Park.
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March 3 – 12 Vanderbilt “Agrarians” published, “I’ll take my Stand,” a series of essays condemning Industrial progress.
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May 12 – Franklin C Mars, founder of Mars Candies, purchased 2800 acres in Giles county. He is constructing a Tudor revival style house, “Milky Way Farms”. Later “Gallihadion” winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1940 was born here. 395
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