Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-07-20
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the University of Tennessee.
There are 1928 voters registere
in Memphis for the August election
This is several thousand short Of tn
registration in 1914.
The Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girl
OF Clarksville, held their annual en-
campment on REQ river. They mum
bered about fifty.
Mrs. Ann Nicks, Waverly, killed
rattlesnake measuring four feet Ion,
and seven inches around the middl,
Of its body.
The Manchester Times has an
nounced that it will publish an edition
OF the paper for Morrison, a thrivin,
railroad town, fourteen miles north O
Manchester.
A modified quarantine against New
York and st. Louis and all place,
where infantile paralysis is known t.
exist has been ordered by the Mem
phis Board of Health
Knoxville is shown to rank second
In the number of applicants for enlist
ment In the navy, according to dis
trict report Atlanta and Birmingham
lead the cities in the south.
The Knoxville Chamber of Com
merce decided not to make a bid fol-
the $20,0O0,000 government nitrate
plant but to unite their activity in the
interest Of securing it for Mussel
Shoals.
The Roane county court has appro.
priated $4,000 for pike roads. giving
$4,000 to each of the five districts,
which will complete the Dixie highway
or Memphis-to- Bristol highway, and
grade pixies throughout the county.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis Railway Board of Directors in
session in Nashville, restored the semi
annual dividend of 3h per cent, the
dividend paid prior to the European
war.
Preliminary steps have been taken
in Gibson county for the organization
Of company Of soldiers. Cards, the
signers of which express themselves
as willing to enlist, have been dis
tributed among the boys of Dyer and
Trenton.
The electric chair at the state prison
In Nashville was used for the first
time when julius Morgan, a negro,
convicted of criminal assault commit
ted near Dyersburg, was electrocuted.
The negro confessed his guilt and met
death with composure.
Miss South, of Knoxville, gave sew
eral solo selections to the national
convention of $4,000 Elks convened in
Baltimore. Since her debut as an
operatic singer, she has won praise in
the East and Canada. Miss South is a
daughter of an Elk and her two uncles
and several cousins are Elks.
"He was such dear little fellow
that loved him the moment / set
eyes on him." tearfully declared Miss
Bette Bartlett Of Chicago, after the
grand jury at Memphis. on her testi-
mony, had indicted Sigmund Weiner,
actor, ON a charge of taking $4,000
worth of diamonds belonging to her.
After being in the water for twenty
eight days and floating more than
miles, during which time
It passed over the Caney Creek dam
and floated through mountain gorge
fourteen miles In length, the body Of
Miss Mabel Porter, of Ducktown, was
Hundreds of Memphis people saw .
dirigible pass over Memphis, travelling
from southwest to northeast. 1t was
about $50 feet along with big car
carrying three passengers.
Several watched 1t through field
glasses. 1t was travelling very fast
at height Of 5000 feet.
Twenty-one men were arrested in
The vicinity Of Sweetwater on federal
charging violation Of the
revenue laws. IT is alleged the men
have been selling whiskey without |
government licenses. This is said to
be the largest raid in the history of
The federal authorities at Knoxville
ofice.
Magistrate W. A. Ray. Of Bristol.
formerly for number Of years resi-.
lent of Nashville. met in Bristol for
he first time since childhood, sister
with whom he parted in Ashe county.
North Carolina, nearly sixty years ago.
He did not know whether she was
living, until she called him on the
telephone from Bristol hotel. His
lister Is Mrs Julia Mcconnell, wife Of
! wealthy farmer at Warsaw. Ill.
Judge Sanford, of the United States
District court, Knoxville, has appointed
oscar G. Ericsson receiver OF the Ala
.ulsey Lumber Company in the case Of
he Security Trust Company and
charles o. Patch VS.. the company. The
umber company operates In both
Tennessee and Georgia Mr.. Ericsson
lready has been appointed receiver
or the company in Georgia.
Indictments against several drug
torres in Memphis were included in
he report of the grand jury, which
eturned forty-seven true bills.
ecord number. This Is said to be
he result of Attorney General Hunter
vi,son and Mayor Ashcroft's campaign
, oust liquor violators. Fifty injunc.