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April 23, 2009

By Dorothy Brush / dcb1@frontier.net The Crossville Chronicle Thu Apr 23, 2009, 07:54 PM CDT

April 1903

Among other novel feats of the St. Louis Exposition will be reunions of the Smith and Lewis families which all the Smiths and Lewises in the country will attend. The Smiths are erecting a $10,000 building to be used.

Charles Andrews is very sick at his home near Lantana with an attack of hemorrhage of the bowels. He is an honorable and respected citizen and his numerous friends will be glad to learn he is a little improved.

April 1929

Aviators have a new term for leaving their ships by parachute. They call it, “walking out on the back porch and opening an umbrella.”

Steps are being taken by towns along U.S. Highway 80 east of Dallas to Vicksburg, MS, to Chattanooga to secure the designation Broadway of America.

Shortly before dark April 21, an unusually severe hail storm visited some sections of the county. The fall was worse at Pleasant Hill than Crossville and after 15 minutes the highway was completely covered. Motorists coming up the mountain from Sparta next morning said piles of hail were still on the mountain in many places.

April 1993

Crossville Rubber Products, Inc. and Local 811 of United Rubber Workers reached an early agreement on their labor contract due to expire June 7.

Plans are underway for a 50th anniversary celebration for the University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station. It was Feb. 22, 1943, members of county court met in special session to appropriate funds to purchase land that would become the Plateau Experiment Station on US 70 N between Crossville and Mayland.

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Plane has rough landing
No one was injured when a pilot veered off a runway to avoid a deer that was in the path of his light airplane as he landed the craft.

May 25, 2012
Lemert grave site rededication set Monday
The restoration of the gravesite of 1st Sgt. Milo Lemert, Cumberland County's only WWI Medal of Honor recipient, is finally complete after months of repair and rebuilding. A special dedication will be held May 28 at the City Cemetery at Sgt. Lemert's gravesite. The dedication will immediately follow the 11 a.m. annual Memorial Day Ceremony for Cumberland County in downtown Crossville. The public is invited to both events.

May 25, 2012
County to use new district boundaries to fill vacancy
The Cumberland County Commission approved a resolution to use new district boundary lines in the August County General Election in order to fill the vacancy created by the death of 9th District Commissioner Clyde Cramer.

May 25, 2012
THP to enforce seat belt usage this Memorial Day weekend
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is planning to step up efforts to enforce seat belt usage over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. State Troopers along with other state and local law enforcement agencies are participating in the national seat belt enforcement campaign, Click it or Ticket, May 21 through June 3.

May 25, 2012
Shooting victim identified; accomplice jailed
A burglar who fled from a home invasion after his partner was shot by a resident may be held responsible for his friend's death, sources close to the investigation of Tuesday's fatal shooting have told the Chronicle.

May 25, 2012
Healthy eating, activity earn CO honors
Students at Crab Orchard Elementary have been eating better and getting more activity during the past school year. Those efforts have been recognized with prestigious awards for school health.

May 24, 2012
Defendant pleads guilty to avoid jail
A Crossville area man told a Criminal Court judge earlier this month he was entering a plea of guilty to fraud to keep from going to jail.

May 24, 2012
Man sentenced in sexual battery, statutory rape cases
A Crossville man charged with raping one woman and with having sexual relations with an underaged teen in a separate incident has pleaded guilty to related charges and was sentenced to jail.

May 24, 2012
County to build, operate Big South Fork Visitor's Center
The Big South Fork Visitor's Center may become a reality after the county commission narrowly approved building and operating the facility once the project is completed.

May 24, 2012
One dead in shooting near PH
One person is dead, a homeowner slightly injured, and at least a third person is in custody following a fatal shooting that may have been sparked by a home invasion near the Pleasant Hill community. And a fourth person might be connected with the incident.

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