By Dorothy Brush / dcb1@frontier.net
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.
