The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-04-08
over The STATE.

NdSnVilIe, enn.-IDe only fea
hook worm ever in captivity in Ten
nessee was received by DR.. j. A. Al
bright, secretary Of the state board
of health. The specimen is about a
half inch long and was sent to Dr.
Albright by DR., w. M. Breeding, coun
ty health officer of Overton county
DR.. Breeding took the hook wCrm
from a male citizen of Overton coun
ty twenty-five years of age.
Bristol, Tenn.-Efforts are being
made to have the city of Bristol, Va.
reduce the license tax on saloons tc
$4,000, instead of $4,000, to equalize
the license, the state having advanc.
ed it $3.50. The total license now is
$3,575 for each saloon, while for sa
looms with mail order departments
beer agencies, ETC., the rate is higher
However, it is hardly likely that there
will be any reduction as Bristol vot
ed wet" on a basis of the $1,000 Ii
cense and there is not much probable
ity of a reduction until the people
may be given the opportunity of vot
ing for either low or high license
The contest was won, it is claimed
with the high license argument, but
it is now proposed to make a reduc.
ton.
Next month the city will get in
nearly $4,000 in cash from whiskey
licenses.
Nashville, Tenn.-Miss Belle Kin.
ney of this city has signed contract
by which she is to receive $4,000
from the confederate veterans for her
design for monument to the womeA
of the confederacy.
johnson City, Tenn.-Senator w.
Flynn and associates of Pittsburg
Pa, have purchased eight thousand
acres of virgin forest lands near
Hampton, Carter county. A band
saw mill will be installed at once,
and the timber will be prepared for
the market. The mill will cut fifty
thousand feet per day The boundary
is said to contain one hundred million
feet Of marketable lumber
A branch line of the e. T. and w.
n. c. railway will be constructed
from Hampton to the timber, dis
tancc of eight miles.
SWectWater, Tenn.-The board o.
education of the Holston Conference
M. f.. church met to consider the OF.
fer recently made to them OF tht
school property here which was va
Gated by the T. NJ. |. when that in.
stitution moved to the new building
north of town, for the purpose of con
Quoting in it a girls school.
After canvassing the conditions it
ic 81 10 iS
ed, as it would in measure conflict
with other interests of the board.
Bristol Tenn.-At a meeting OF
farmers from Sullivan county, Ten
nessee, and Washington county, Vir-
ginia, here, an organization was form
ed with view to reviving the old
Border City" fair and giving annual
agricultural exhibits in Bristol. l.. II,
Copenhaver was elected president
and James A. Willard secretary o.
the organization. A committee was
nameu to make recommendations as
to the name of the organization ana
to submit plans, and another meeting
will be held Saturday, April 8.
Washington, D. Ex-senator Frazier
appeared before the senate commit
tee and asked for larger appropria-
ton for the upper Cumberland, at
least meeting the sum recommended
as necessary to eXpediate the i'm
provements.
Nashville, Tenn. - Congressman
Hull has written pension attorney
of this city an important letter con-
corning the ruling of the interiar de-
al ~
Hezekiah Sloan to the pension roll.
Sloan enlisted in the confederate
army and was captured and sent to
a northern prison. He later took the
oath of allegiance and enlisted in the
federal army, as did a number of 9th
er confederate prisoners in order rC
get out of prison. Sloan some years
ago applied for and received a pen
sion, but later because OF previous
service, he was dropped
Recently the department has re-
versed it's previous ruling and restor-
ed Sloan. The letter will be of i'll
lerest to other soldiers and their
widows who were dropped for the
same reason because they are now
subject to restoration.
Bristol, Tenn.-In meeting held
at Jonesboro, Tenn, the board of
trustees of Washington and Tuscu-
lum college, tne well-knoWn PresDy
terrain institution of East Tennessee,
voted to accept $4,000 from Andrew
Carnegie to be devoted to new build
ings. The money is now on deposit
to the credit of the institution
Eenton, Tenn.-The board of health
of Polk county was called to Daiiro
to investigate some cases supposed to
be smallpox. DE j. D. Nichols, Os-
car Pack and James Williamson d.
agnosed the cases as straight small
pox" The patients are in the en-
ploy of the Louisville and Nashville
no ;lroa1 ap6 ara in how parc on a side.