The Messenger staff invites you to join us as we take a look
back through the pages of this newspaper that has been serving
local read-ers for 95 years.
50 years agoMay 11, 1970 — Mrs. Iris
Evans was honored with a birthday supper in the home of Madge
Griffin. Attending were Pearl Ring, Mrs. Dessie Pugh, Mrs. Ira
Tuck, Mrs. Norman Caldwell and Mrs. Griffin’s mother, Mrs.
Hudson.
May 13, 1970 — Junior Girl Scout Troop 88 met at Pleasant Valley
Methodist Church. Among those attend-ing were Candy Searcy, Jan
Ulm, Lynn Odom, Jerri Litzelfelner, Darlene Morris, Virginia
Tanner, Claudette Burnett, Stella Miles and Gina Campbell.
May 14, 1970 — Winners in the citizenship essay con-test,
sponsored by the Union City Civitan Club, were Joe Haynes, Anita
Cloar and Debbie Corum.
May 15, 1970 — Teenage girls of the Troy Church of Christ
entertained the grandmothers and great-grandmothers of the church.
Those honored were Mrs. Maybelle Stover, Mrs. Althea Wilkerson,
Mrs. Bessie King, Mrs. Cora Albritton, Mrs. Edna Huey, Mrs. Gladys
Tune, Lottie Hayes, Myrtle Allen, Mrs. Jim Bob Robertson and Mrs.
Thelma White.
May 16, 1970 — New offi-cers of the Union City Lodge No. 1178,
Loyal Order of Moose, were installed. They were George Johnson,
Willie Maddox, Danny Hardin, Bill King, Max Hardin, George Overall,
Thomas Canaday, Jerry White, Ed Allman, Joe Thomas, Lionel Wheeler,
Bill Dement, Royce Barker and Earl B. Carter.
40 years agoMay 10, 1980 — Mrs.
Forrest McMurry host-ed a meeting of the Oak Grove Homemakers
Club. Attending were Linda Dunn, Jane Harmon, Hazel Burcham, Mignon
McMurry, Grace Bradley, Gertrude Naylor, Evelyn McClanahan, Mary
Emma Adams, Lucille Threlkeld.
May 12, 1980 — Union City Middle School stu-dents participating
in the West Tennessee Industrial Arts Fair were Chad Long, Richard
Neal, Dave Frankum, Michael Hubble, Dan Frankum, Brent Nichols,
Tommy Stanford, Billy Smith, Mark Ring, Tony Jackson and Rodney
Henson,
May 14, 1980 — Exam-ining materials to be used in a new pilot
program in the Obion County School sys-tem for textbook testing and
evaluations were Debbie Cannon, Sandra Bagwell, Dorothy Jean
Vaughn, Janet Wilbanks, Woodland Mills principal Gary Houston and
Rives principal Clifford Wright.
May 15, 1980 — Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harrison of Union City
announced the engage-ment and forthcoming mar-riage of their
daughter, Carmen Patrice Harrison, to Claud BIllingsley, son of Mr.
and Ms. James D. Billingsley.
May 16, 1980 — The Seekers Class of the Second Baptist Church
met at Shoney’s. Those attend-ing were Mrs. Fay Bryant, Doris
Vaughn, Shirley Edwards, Pat Essary, Kay Fields, Frances
Kuykendall, Carolyn Searcy and Kay Smith.
30 years agoMay 10, 1990 — The
Messenger congratulated Mr. and Mrs. William Lutts Townes of
Union City on the birth of a son, William Cary Townes, born May 4
at Union City Baptist Hospital.
May 11, 1990 — The Lael Sunday School Class at Second Baptist
Church in Union City met. Attending were Dorothy Janes, Mrs. Jessie
White, Ula Mai Elam, Edna McIntosh, Lena Mai Pruitt, Louise Arnold,
Nell Craig, June McCord, Dorothy Raspberry and Idella Young.
May 14, 1990 — Members of the Reelfoot Retail Merchants
Association planning an arts and crafts extravaganza were Debbie
Clouse, JoAnn Smith, Rita Morgan, Dawn Garrett, Gwynn Petty,
Ellarine Moses, Kenneth Seals and Don Smith.
20 years agoMay 10, 2000 — Obion
County Central High School honored its Top Ten fresh-men. They
were Courtney Seals, Rachel Brann, Laura Beth Griffin, Tessa Wood,
Megan Woods, David Anderson, Chase Espy, Jill Konkol, Brittany
Thomas and William Smith.
May 12, 2000 — Chosen as Top Ten freshmen at Union City High
School were Stan Chivers, Beth Brown, Erica Armstrong, Lizzie Moss,
Matt Harrelson, Tom Shepperd, Adam Campbell, Matt Kendall, Nick
Readenour and Kevin Bay.
May 16, 2000 — Obion County 4-H Honor Club
member Tim Storey earned three awards from the West Tennessee
4-H Junior High Showcase Competition in Jackson.
10 years agoMay 11, 2010 — The
National Resources Con-servation Service named Glover Farming as
the Cooperator of the Year. On hand for the honor were Mike
Holeman, Mike Terry, David Glover and Bobbi Campbell, Van Glover
and Natalie Terry.
May 12, 2010 — Winners in the Junior Miss Union City category of
the Union City School pageant were first maid Carlie Little, queen
Savannah Webb, second
maid Taylor Crittendon and third maid Kate Terrell.
May 13, 2010 — Union City School system rec-ognized its tenured
teach-ers. They were Brandy Tanner, Melissa Rice, Brian Conner,
Tina Grissom, Mallory Powers and Jeremy Maddox.
May 16, 2010 — Obion County Central FFA mem-bers won numerous
awards at the 61st annual West Tennessee FFA Awards banquet.
Representing Obion County Central High School were Lynsey Butler,
Kelsey Barnes, Hadeline Blurton, Lauren Berner, Chelsie Darnell,
Mary Helen Driver, Cortney Johnson,
Jessie Robinson, Brooklyn Winstead, Jo Hamilton, Rob Berner,
Tyler Berner and Spenser Maloney.
Five years agoMay 13, 2015 — Lake
Road Elementary School honored its Terrific Kids in grades 6-8.
They were Lily Cheatham, Makayla Carroll, Stormy Medley, Mary Ivie,
Jayda Fowler, Marley Hill, Addison Clayton, James Crowell, Gavin
Argo, Parker Johnson, Lydia Molloy, Shawn Rutherford, Abigail
Pollock, Kaylee Ward, Austin Cavin, Cadon Black, Matthew Cummings,
Riley Stanford, Garrett Foster, Blake Truett, Kyle Frilling, Macy
Lynth and Raven Davidson.
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All Our Yesterdays ... from the files of The Messenger
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a
lawsuit accus-ing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off
the presidency through his lux-ury Washington hotel.
The lawsuit brought by the state of Maryland and the District of
Columbia claimed Trump has violated the emoluments clause of the
Constitution by accepting profits through foreign and domestic
officials who stay at the Trump International Hotel.
U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte refused to dismiss the
lawsuit, but his ruling was overturned in July by a three-judge
panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The
judges found that the two jurisdictions lack stand-ing to pursue
their claims against the president and granted a rare writ of
man-damus, directing Messitte to throw out the lawsuit.
But on Thursday, the panel’s ruling was over-turned by the full
court of 15 judges.
In a 9-6 ruling, a divided court found that the three-judge
panel overstepped its authority when it ordered Messitte to dismiss
the law-suit.
“We recognize that the President is no ordinary petitioner, and
we accord him great deference as the head of the Executive branch.
But Congress and the Supreme Court have severely limited our
ability to grant the extraordinary relief the President seeks,”
Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the majority in rejecting
Trump’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.
The six judges who dis-agreed wrote a scathing dis-senting
opinion, saying the lawsuit should be thrown out.
Court reinstates lawsuit over hotel profits
