Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-07-27

school. A total of 995 students en-
rolled. representing every county ir
East and some Middle Tennessee coun
ties, lat of whom graduated at the
closing exercises held in Johnson City
The fall term promises to include an
unusual attendance, many rooms hav.
ing already been secured by students
A statewide campaign to secure ~
cruits for the Tennessee National
Guards is being made, officers being
sent to all of the larger cities in search
for new material
KILLED in action" were the words
written across the face of a letter
sent to her 20-year-old son in France
last May and returned to Mrs. Mag.
gle Hathaway at Hampton, Tenn.
Young Hathaway volunteered in Can
ada August rs. 1915, was wounded in
the trenches in February. 1916, and
killed on June 9th. Mrs. Hathaway
is widow and the young man was
her sole support.
Mrs. Sarah Link, residing at Irons
burg, in Monroe County, bears the dis
tinction of Icing the Oldest inhabitant
of East Tennessee. She is 113 years
of age, having been born December
16, 1905. Mrs. Link is the mother of
13 children, her baby, Margaret Smith,
being 78 years old. Some seven years
ago Mrs. Link lost her eyesight, but
aside from this she is in reasonably
good health and is attending to most
of her domestic duties.
w. R. Manner, Sr., secretary of the
committee of a hundred selected ct
the All-South Convention in Memphis
to present to President Wilson or the
commission appointed by him the
claims that Muscle Shoals, Ala, is the
logical point for the location of the
$20,000,000 government nitrate plant,
has sent official notifications of their
selection to all the members of the
committee of a hundred and of the
various subcommittee.
In the three years since Bristol,
Tenn, has been guided by commits
sion form of government, the assets
of the city have increased $109.421 43
over the liabilities, according to the
report of the 1915-1916 audit made by
w. M. Black, a certified public &C
countant of Knoxville. The report
shows, that during the past year the
net gain of assets over liabilities
amounted to $45,159.61. During the
year 1913-1914 the gain was $4S,085.94
and during 1914-1915, 16,175.61.
w. F. Russell, editor of the Polk
County News, published at Benton,
was cleared of charge of libel
brought IN $4,000 damage suit by
five former pike commissioners whom
he had accused of misappropriating
funds, in connection with their ad-
The jury was out but a
few minutes. The judge granted a
new trial, but the defense attorneys
filed a wayside bill of exceptions
which, If sustained by the supreme
court. will establish the verdict
reached.
Secretary R. @. Lillard, of the State
Board Of Health, has written to all
county health officers in Tennessee in
structing them to watch all possible |
lnfantile paralysis cases closely Chill !
dren arriving within the state from |
cities where the disease is epidemic
are to be kept under observation for
II days. All suspected and actual
cases shall be isolated Immediately
and promptly. Reports OF all new
,ases must be made to the State Board.
The letter also contains detailed in
'tructions for the prevention and treat
nent Of the disease.
The second annual Bankers-Farm-
,rs' conference will be held in Mem
)his August Sth, participated in by
he banks of Tennessee, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Western Alabama. Fif-
cen hundred bankers have been in
'ited. The object of this conference
s to exchange experiences in farm
development work, to consider meth
IDS and plans for each individual bank
o make farming more profitable in it's
CAAAtOAyS 0hu III JOlnt CO-OPCl dtlOu VI |
II banks and of all other agencies
romoting more profitable farming in {
his district.
Gen. 2. Newton Estes, who has been
n trial in the court of impeachment,
eclared while witness in his own :
ehalf, that he was running five min :
tes ahead Of an overdraft check and Z
en- minutes behind note" practically 3
II his life. Thus he characterized his t
ntire life from the time he finished q
he University OF Virginia up to the =
resent date. Every new endorser he
ecured Ito ride on his paper" he
,rmed as "a new fountain of hope" y
nd with his "periscope trained for /
ew endorsers" he went through his
fe. He stated that at one time he q
wed $4,000, but at the present 1t was
nly between $4,000 and $4,000. i
Six thousand five hundred kilowatts !
electrical energy has been added Z,
J the Tennessee Power Co.'s motive c
nd Illuminating capacity available in g
Knoxville Nashville and