“Skits and Bits” – Little Bits of News and History – Some you may remember, some you may have forgotten and some you may have never heard of before; but all of which took place somewhere, sometime, throughout the years.
March 25, 1910- A fire caused by a kerosene lamp exploding caused a $10,000 fire on the corner of College and Main Street, in Dickson, at 4:00 o’clock in the morning. The fire stared in the store of Hooper and Mitchell Meat Market, then spread to the Eldridge and McElya Barber Shop, then to the Taylor and Mullins Restaurant, then to Lunn’s Shoe Shop, then to Miss Tennie Alexander’s Millinery Shop and finally to the J. T. Moore Photo Gallery.
March 25, 1936- The town of Dickson was connected to the hydro-electric dam at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The Tennessee Electric Power Company closed down the power plant at Burns, Tennessee, at 1:00 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon and instantly pushed the switch to connect the Tennessee Power Company sub-station on the Charlotte Road to the generator at Muscle Shoals at the dam.
March 25, 1959- A 500 acre fire raged through timber and crop lands near Tennessee City. The fire was reported to be set by a L&N freight train traveling east. The fire was whipped by a March wind. It reached from the Humphreys County line to a point beyond Tennessee City…