Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-07-20

Aboard the first freight train whic
rolled into Knoxville sixty-one yeal
ago, was Chas Baum, whose deaf
occurred in that city. He was then
carpenter sent to Knoxville by
a Charleston contractor to help eree
the city's first roundhouse and depo
The laborers from the Palmetto stat
were transported with their tools b
:! cheaper means-box cars.
The meeting of the Board of PEI
sion Examiners that was scheduled {
have been held this month at NASH
Vile has been postponed until July 1
J on account of the absence of severa
members of the board and the Hines
OF e. b. Sweeney, one of the members
who has been confined to his hom,
on account of illness.
DR.. H. q. Christenberry, mayor Of
Lonsdale, a town near Knoxville, has
announced his intention to resign his
office, and will tender his formal resig.
nation at the next meeting of the
Lonsdale council, to be held on Mon.
lay, July "a. He charges his fellow
members with violating the platform
pledges on which they were elected,
and gives this as his reason for re.
signing
One important fact not generally
Known by the public is that the medi-
cal department of the Tennessee
national guard is the most efficient,
best equipped outfit Of any sanitary
troop in the south. The official re-
port of the last inspection of the med
lcal department by an officer of the
regular army shows the Tennessee
medical department to rank first
among all southern states. a
Judgment for 100000 was given the
National Bank Of Commerce against
H. Clay Pierce, chairman of the board
Of the Pierce Oil corporation in de-
cision by Judge Kinsey. in the Circuit
court at St. Louis, Mo. The case in
volved controversy over possession
Of the entire issue Of the stock of the
Nashville Terminal company, Of Nash
vile, Tenn. the par value of which
Is $1,000,O00 The bank sued Pierce
for $1,525,000.
Towns and cities in various parts
Of Tennessee were represented at the
huge meeting held in Nashville last
Saturday in the interest of securing
the federal government nitrate plant.
which is to cost $40, ,00O, 900, for Mussel
Shoals, on the Tennessee river, in
north Alabama. The meeting was
held in the House of Representatives
of the state capital building. The
movement aroused widespread inter-
est and there are splendid indications
for securing the plant.
Robert Lindsay and Ralph Wilson,
members of the Coal Creek patrol Of
Boy Scouts, saved the life Of Orlie
Plyley, aged IA, when he was seized
with cramps while swimming in a
creek. The scouts, hearing the frantic
screams of the boys along the creek.
ran to the rescue and succeeded In
pulling the boy out as he was going
under for the last time. Heroic
measures were necessary to restore
life to the lad and the scouts induced
artificial respiration.
With his hands and feet tied with
bailing wire and his feet tied across
the railroad track, Robert Ferrell, q
Coffee county farmer was run over BY
the Sparta branch train on the NJ, c.
& st. l.. railway just east of Summit
Vile and both feet severed. Ferrell
states that he was met by an unknown
man and held up at the point of shot
gun, after which his hands were tied
together with the bailing wire and his
feet fastened in the same manner
across the railroad track.
The Boy Scouts of Coal Creek are
out invitations to all of the
Boy Scouts of East Tennessee to join
hem in Boy Scout encampment at
Coal Creek during the week Of the
Anderson and Campbell county fair.
which will be held September 1915.
The fair association has very kindly
agreed to furnish free place on their
and free admission to the
air to all the Boy Scouts who will
,itch their tents on the fair grounds.
Already Boy Scouts are accepting the
rvitation.
The Carroll County Farmers Co
operative Union has been conducting
general merchandise store at Hunt
ngdon the past ten months. A re-
,ent inventory of the business makes |
highly satisfactory showing The
ales for this period total $38,720.76. /
1t business meeting rebate of |
,er cent was made to all Farmers /
Union members who were not stock /
lolders and Is per cent rebate to
he stockholders The totals Of the
ebates on trade amounted to ST.
22.09.
The famous historical Boone tree,
ocated on Boone's Creek, near John I
IN CITY, was blown down during a
The tree was split in I
vain in falling, the words engraved
N 1t by the famous pioneer, d. Boone, |,