. The Southern States. itality and re-finement. The academies and schoolsof Somerville reflect the culture of herpeople, and have an honorable historydating back almost half a are some very handsome publicand business buildings, and the wealthof foliage everywhere abounding gives considerable territory, an advantagetaken into consideration by settlerslooking for a desirable location. It ison the main line of the Nashville, Chat-tanooga & St. Louis Railroad, con-necting it with Memphis on the westand Jackson, Nashville and Chatta-nooga on the east and Paducah, Ky.,on the north. Th
. The Southern States. itality and re-finement. The academies and schoolsof Somerville reflect the culture of herpeople, and have an honorable historydating back almost half a are some very handsome publicand business buildings, and the wealthof foliage everywhere abounding gives considerable territory, an advantagetaken into consideration by settlerslooking for a desirable location. It ison the main line of the Nashville, Chat-tanooga & St. Louis Railroad, con-necting it with Memphis on the westand Jackson, Nashville and Chatta-nooga on the east and Paducah, Ky.,on the north. This is one of the fore-most roads in the South in the work ofsecuring immigration. Without anacre of land of its own, and withoutany direct interest in the sale of anylands, it has organized a comprehen-sive plan of immigration work, andhas placed at the head of this depart-ment Col. J. B. Killebrew, a wealthystock-grower and planter of Tennes-see, who by his work as a former com-missioner of agriculture for Tennes-. Memphis: PostofHce. a picturesque setting to all the housesof the town, business as well as resi-dence. Somervilles railroad facilities giveit prominence as a trading centre for a see, and as an exhaustive and scien-tific student and writer of Tennesseesresources, has achieved a distinctionwhich places him in the front rank ofauthorities on the States resources and WESTERN TENNESSEE. 415 capabilities. Colonel Killebrew is do-ing an important work among the far-mers of the Northwest, where he lec-tures and spreads information and dis-sipates misconceptions and ignoranceabout Tennessee and the territory cov-ered by the railroad he represents. Hehas made some notable tours of theNorthwest, and being careful to tellonly the truth about this section, hislabors have resulted in much practicalgood, evidenced by the settlement ofhundreds of families in the territoryreferred to, and in the dissemination ofinformation which will bear results yetbeyond those which have already
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