MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
KNOXVILLE – Voters in three Blount County cities are set to decide if liquor sales will be allowed in their communities. Voters in Maryville and Alcoa will decide on allowing package stores and liquor by the drink sales on Nov. 5. Residents of Louisville, just south of Knoxville, will decide if package stores will be allowed. City managers in Maryville and Alcoa say their towns could make money from taxing liquor sales. Alcoa city manager C.L. Overman said his town could boost revenues as much as $300,000. Besides those figures being misleading, the extra dollars aren’t very important, said the Rev. Richard Holden of First Baptist Church of Alcoa. ”Surely, we’re opposed to this because of moral problems,” he said. ”But when you try to oppose the liquor crowd on a moral issue, they do not see it as a morality issue.” 50 years ago — 1971
The board of directors of St. Peter Home for Children yesterday scrapped plans to close the orphanage at 1805 Poplar and building anew on a 132-acre site in Bartlett. Instead, Bishop Carroll T. Dozier said last night, $700,000 will be spent to demolish three buildings at the present site, remodel four others and build a two-story, multi-purpose building.
75 years ago — 1946
CONCORD, N.H. – Come Halloween, automobile dealer Nils Carlson expects to have the most soapscrawled windows in town — but the most artistic. He’s going to pay the kids for their handiwork Thursday night. Carlson is offering $20 in prizes for the best soap drawings by teenagers and boys and girls under 12. “My windows are bound to be soap-marked so why not attract the best talent?” said Carlson.
100 years ago — 1921
Every minister of the gospel in Memphis, no matter what church he belongs to, and every physician is expected to be at the Chamber of Commerce today at 1:30 o’clock to take up plans for National
Cancer Week, which begins Sunday.
The subject of cancer, how to treat it and how to prevent it will be preached in every home, school and college during the week.
125 years ago — 1896
Bicycle lovers of Memphis have every reason to be proud of the new bicycle coliseum, which boasts one of the best tracks in the country. Last night some 3,500 people watched the Southern Championship races there and saw some fantastic wheelmanship and several records set.