Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-18
TENNESSEE NEWS
CUT TO THE QUICK
FOR BUSY READERS

Vile Dy nre Wnlcn started III indl
tress factory on the outskirts of tht
city
Mothers Day was generally observed
over Tennessee Sunday, Gov. Rye is
suing a proclamation recommending
its observance.
The Columbian Iron Works of Chat
tanooga has granted nine-houl
workday with wage. scale OF 42E
cents per hour. This is reduction o.
one hour per day.
The grand council of Tennessee
Junior Order United American Me
chanics, held their twenty-second an
nual convention in Columbia. Foul
hundred were present.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting oi
the Woman's auxiliary of the Tennes
see diocese of the Episcopal church
met at Chattanooga with large at
tendance from all over the state. 4
s. Citizens of Clarksburg and commu
nifty have perfected plans by which the
roads Of that district may be mater
tally improved Many volunteered
teams, plows and hands to do the re
Quired work on the roads.
LESS liquor is being sold in Knox
vile than at any time in the history
OF the city, in the opinion of Chief OF
Police Haynes. Many arrests have re
Gently been made and it is said that
the campaign will be continued vigor-
ously.
Only Maryville and Blount county
money, 1t is believed, will be necessary
to rebuild Carnegie hall, the boys dor
mitory recently destroyed at Mays
Vile. A committee has been named to
make a whirlwind campaign through
the county for the purpose of raising
the fund.
Acting under the advice of his ply
sician, Acknowledgement B. j. How
ard OF Jackson, left for Hot Springs.
Ark, where he will rest for two weeks,
Hu C. Anderson was sworn in as at
torney-general yesterday in Howard's
place. Gen. Howard has suffered a
breakdown from hard work.
The long-talked-of white way" for
the public square at Pulaski, is about
to materialize. The town of Pulaski is
moving its poles and wires of the
square and officials of the telegraph
companies and the Telephone Company
have been here to arrange for remov-
ing their poles and wires, and some
of the white way" fixtures have ar
rived.
The Continental Coal Company,
owning large properties in Kentucky,
fled voluntary bankruptcy petition
at Chattanooga. II is understood reor.
ganization Is planned. liabilities are
listed at about $3,oo0.000, with book
assets Of about the same amount A
similar petition has been filed at Lex
ington, KY.
Business In all lines in East Ten
nessee has opened up In way that is
making labor very scarce. Judging
from the advertising being done BY
various companies. It looks as though
IN organized effort will have to be
made to import labor from other
states according to dispatches from
Bristol.
The new Jewish temple. erected at a
cost Of $780, 900. was dedicated at Mem.
phis with appropriate services, in
which eleven distinguished rabbis
from all over the country participated.
Rabbi William Fineshriber, successor
to the late Rabbi Max Samfield, who
started its construction, was the princi-
pal speaker.
More than $500 farmers of East
Tennessee and distinguished visitors
from other states attended the forty
third annual East Tennessee Farmers
Convention and Institute at Knoxville
The sessions were held at o. p. Tenn
pie hall, University OF Tennessee A
stock show and sale we're features of
the meeting.
Stuart Renfro, 40 years old, killed
his brother-in-law, Orb Salyers. 22l
years old, at Elizabethton, Tenn, and
then attempted to shoot Salyers'
brother, but his revolver failed to dis
charge. Renfro is prosperous farmer,
and was said to have been intoxicated.
He escaped as the shooting occurred
before daylight.
The hrst carload Of strawberries
ever shipped from Lexington, where a
Fruit Growers Association has been |
doing active work for twelve months |
was sent north last week. The fruit
and berry industry bids fair to assume
the monster proportions in this county
that It has in Madison, Carroll, Gibson
and adjoining counties
The stockholders Of the Chattanooga